Thought I’d share some photos from my Atlantic crossing with you.

There were way too many to fit in a post, so I’ve tried to trim the herd and keep it brief.

I’ve also included barely anything from South Africa or Brazil, and nothing of St. Helena (which was a complete mind trip!). This is mostly just the sailing:

Leaving Cape town

Days and days like this

Continue reading…

Argh!

Ok, it may have taken me well over a week but I’ve made five of these and I’m pretty happy with how they’ve turned out…

Everything, even the case, was made from scratch :|

What do you think?

Final prototype of a pop up robot. Just an attempt to get a promo CD noticed by radio DJs in lieu of having an actual professional do it. Which would be better.

Now to make a background of burning buildings. And maybe equip with flickering leds.

Oh, and turn it into a CD case :/

Despite my grumbling on twitter, today’s to do list is looking mercifully fulfilled:

1. Complete tax return. Complete tax return

2. Write grovelling, pleading letter to the HMRC begging them to withdraw £100 fine for being late.

3. Get back to designing a pop up robot.

Listening to Elbow’s “Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver” and wondering. Wondering if it really is better to make what you can sell than to sell what you can make, as someone successful once told me…

Shit days are shit.

Anyone got a pick me up?

I have a week to make something really eye catching to accompany some promo cds. I was thinking pop up cases with robot Arek surrounded by burning buildings that light up and flicker when the CD is removed.

I need to make maybe 30 and I need Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens, Guy Garvey et al to get a kick out of them…

Too ambitious?

Reality, it transpires, is bitterly cold.

I returned to it in a dizzying blur of food poisoning and air transfers. Now I find myself back in my familiar box with unfamiliar feelings and absurd disorganisation (see pic) as I mentally piece back together the sequence of events that turned this place from a studio to a shit storm on New Years Eve.

Simon and I were up that night, and the nights preceding it, until sun rise trying to cobble together a video for posterity in record time (four days) with a minuscule budget (don’t even ask).

Having finally watched it for the first time, I don’t know what I think. All my hollow mind sees is what could have been, rather than what became. Literally one more day and £100 would have taken this idea to a new place. But I am coming to realise that this is always the case, regardless of the time/money allowance.

I really hope you like it – I think, looking back, I may have put energy into it than anything else in my life. What I learned: sleep is important.

Supremely grateful to Simon for all his help with the SB videos – hope we get to do our “History: a Memory” idea some day.

What should I do now, world? Tidy, write emails, or play music?

Chris

PÇÇ$$$le/#ase do not adjust yo]]ur set.

Awaiting flight from Rio De Janeiro and normality will resume presently.

Is this thing on?

*click* *click*

Hello?

We got some new T-shirts!

What’s that you say? A new blog, eh? Well, ok then. Seeing as though there is a new video up on the youtube and all that…

Here she is, in all her ambiguous but artistic splendour; another brain bending classic from my good friend Simon Harris, comprised of fan submitted footage.

Hope you like it. After all, it’s yours!