We gave in to our inner geek, and themed this show on sci-fi. Managed to transport large groups of people from a small kitchen, into a large alien space craft. Then mess with them for a bit. Electric shocks were involved.
Here’s the invite:
Photos of the show:
A bit of behind the scenes magic:
Production photos:
View photos of the Party.
And the Boober real…
Yes, you read it right, Cassette Electrik are indeed launching their first album tonight with a shiny glittering party, which is not too dis-similar to a gig, but with more bells and whistles and DJs and stuff. Talking of bells and whistle, we’ll be providing shiny pretty visuals and stuff. Yes people, there will be lasers, multiple lasers.
Hit thier MySpace site to buy your tickets and get an exclusive 4 track remix CD.
It all kicks off at about 7ish at the newly re-opened Marquee club on Upper St Martins Lane. We’ll be downstairs, playing with extension leads. See you there.
We’ve some how developed a reputation for putting on a show for the Trick or Treaters round our way, no idea how that happened … oh wait a minute… oh I see.
Now we can’t all design rockets or robot cats, somebody has to put some thought into the humble shit seat. This one (found in the Big Blue Hotel, Blackpool) has enjoyed some real TLC during the design phase. Points to note:
In other news we also took maybe more photos than we should have during our weekend in Blackpool to celebrate Auntie Chells 70th. If you’ve got a few days to spare why not have a browse?
Animated trailer and banner campaign for a consumer discussion site for The Coca-Cola Company. Animation, design and programming.
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So we finally got round to watching Children of Men last night as we taped it off the telly on our sky box thingy months ago, and oh my is it good. OK so the plot is a bit predictable, and some of the dialogue and acting could be better but the direction is sweet. A great attention to detail in the art direction (check out the 2012 Olympics jumper worn towards the end of the film by Clive and the Guantanamo Bay pastiche in the ‘fugee center) along with massive long hand held single shot action sequences make for a genuinely believable vision of the future. There are no sweeping CG aerial camera angles of cityscapes, people don’t all listen to ambient trance, America has blown up, nothing flys that shouldn’t fly, there’s no overly elaborate computer systems – ok, maybe a few odd looking computer screens, but nobody has to wear special gloves to operate anything… except that one guy on the games console, ok it’s not perfect but I liked it alright? sheesh, you people. It’s even got a dog track in it, and no, the dogs are not robots.
So I saw this watch, G said he saw it first. The predictable battle broke out. We ended up both getting the same watch again. Still, these watches speak,like they really talk. At the moment they’re not saying much. But it’s only a matter of time before they become self aware and rebel against the master race. I for one am looking forward to our new punctual overlords.
We’ve done lots of gig visuals for a friend’s techno dance band. We’ve built our own gig visual software in flash to drive the show, and we design, animate all the visuals from scratch, bespoke for each track.
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OK, here they are, about a million photos of what we’ve been up to in the garage for the last few months. All spoiler images have been removed so don’t go scouring each image for clues (that means you Stuart), we’ll add a load more extra photos after the show.
Seeing that the readership of this probably consists of me, Jas, George, Stu and maybe a few other mates if we’re lucky, the chances that you’ve not already seen the invite for this year’s Fangoria are slim to say the least. But why not view it again?
Production is well under way, we’ll post some photos of us eating, sawing, drinking tea and of course screwing in the garage soon, like *real* soon.
