AVA w/65: The Return of the beast!

A summary of the last few posts: Myself and the guys at 65 have been doing visuals for Avenge Vulture Attack, this was the last teaser we produced, directed by myself:




Myself and fellower 65-er Jon (as well as other friends too) went down to the night to take some snaps, while at the same time I was also in charge of the the set list videos we did for them as they played the gig itself (Not exactly VJing, but just making sure everything started/ended when it should).
It went down really well, the videos, the band, the people, it was a really fun night.
Below are some photos of the night, I took some short video clips too which I'm going to compose together as a separate video, but hopefully I'll grab some other footage too from some of the other photographers/videographers that were there.

 Monitors with our looped visuals.

Projection at the back on the wall too. 

Lavley!

 Band member Drew!

 Dead pigeon 1

 Dead pigeon 2

 Mister Jon

That'sa me! (In the light blue) Gig just kicing off. 

 Woop.

 Jon and Louis.

 Two very sweaty Vultures, Ben and Joss.

Local kids, they were ecstatic when I asked to take their photo. 

 Jon Von Jon!

 Drew and Joss. Nipple cripple?

 Dennis, Louis and Pique.

 The Vultures, post gig.

 Yeeeeah! Jon, Louis, Pique, Dennis and Trevor.

 Wicked photo.

 After party back at Drew's, vocalist Ella in foreground.

This doesn't need explaining really.

More to follow.

TTFN

MEANWHILE!

Few updates, I designed this website for Superfit, at my internship at CHK Design which is a fitness company as well as 406 which is the space it shares, I'm not a huge fan of website design but I'm getting more comfortable with it, check it here.


More importantly (for me, anyway) finally released Avenge Vulture Attack music video for their single 'Renew'. 





It's all hand drawn and photographed by myself, it took best part of 4/5 months to produce, really enjoyed doing it. I'm quite smug about it. 


See YA!

AVA w/65

Me and the guys at 65 have been creating some visuals for Avenge Vulture Attack. In particular for their EP launch, we've released 2 'teaser' videos for the album itself, have a look:





Directed by Masum Khan







Directed by Leo Vick


I'm directing the next one which will be released shortly, we may even have a 4th one if we have enough time. Also, the 'eagerly anticipated' music video I did for them will be released shortly, watch this space.


Jamie

Aloha!

Bit of catch up blog:


Got a part time job at 'For Art's Sake' in Ealing, a nice little art shop where we take orders for framing and mounting as well as selling prints and ceramics. It's a cool little job, I've done a couple of shifts already, I'm learning and picking things up each time, so glad to have my money worry lifted.


As well as this I started a new internship at CHK Design, near London Fields. A small team of about 6 of us in this enormous warehouse shared by other companies/freelancers. It's incredibly friendly and I feel I've settled in only after 4 days of working there.


65 is still growing, we're working on the same 2 projects at the moment, some very interesting results with the Avenge Vulture Attack Videos! Stay tuned for that. But more importantly we have a REAL website (under construction) but it exists! GO HERE


I also designed gig tickets and a poster/flyer recently for the band The Heist, for their upcoming album launch on Sunday. Check it.

(Cheers to Pique for the photo)

I also feel this video should get more exposure, it's so funny, made by Mr funny man Alex Cruden:

So yeah catch you lot soon, I'll try and do more frequent posts I promise!


Jamie

Paperfection continued. And a finding.

This is following a post I did all the way back in November, entitled 'Paperfection'. I was wanting to create a 2D digital image of a 3D piece. Sort of like a representation/optical illusion if you will. The '3D' piece is creased paper I obtained. I played around with some shades of grey and white and below is the result.

It's turned out okay in my opinion, there's a lot of potential for it but I'm finding it quite hard to fully capture it at the moment if I'm honest. One part of this I'm not convinced about is the textured marks from the paper itself that you can see in some areas, like the bottom right of the piece.
I think I don't like it.
Mainly because I don't want this to have any other aesthetic than the '3D-ish' look that I'm going for, so I'm concerned that this may go against it. But that could be me thinking too much into it. I would like to develop this further when I have some more free time. But yeah, looks alright really.


I re - found this the other day:

It's a t - shirt that my buddy Adam Grant made when we were all leaving our first ever house we lived in, in New Cross. Really funny as it brings back so many memories. It's a nice fact that myself (in the middle) Adam (with the green hair) and Mikee (with the console controller) are still friends and see each other. Haven't seen the 3 girls for a good while, think they just went their own paths, nothing personal (I hope not anyway) But yeah, nostalgia! Sigh!




Jamie