CHUMBLR 07

CHUMBLR TIME!!!

CHECK OUT THIS COOL CHAIR!

This girl Derri posted this photo on Facebook. don't you think its a wicked photo?

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CHILL

from a designers point of view, this is brilliant. i can't remember who did it, but the final outcome (on the right obviously) is meant to represent 'a time and place' PRILLIANT WORK

LOVELY

this is a nice original idea isn't it? i like everything about it from the pink hand style to the logo at the top and the way the photo is translucent, a lovely piece of design.

DASALL

THOUGHTS ON THE RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL

Im going to slightly deviate from my blogs typical chronological linear nature to dip into last saturday before i publish the weekly post to bring you a special on some thoughts and photos I gathered at the riverside festival.

I was treated to one of the most pathetic annual rituals in Leicester over the course of the weekend. For those who don't know, its one of those events where all the usual parties come down and set up a little tent or picnic table to raise awareness of there cause, all the same stuff as that they have at things like the braunstone carnival. useless pointless stuff that if they didn't exist literally nothing would change in the world.

sometimes it can be ok if the sun is out, because a lot more young people show their faces and enjoy drinking in the daytime with a merrier mood. however, this year under the doom and gloom of our english weather the only people who made it were parents with young kids, all the hippies from leicester and our little group (Me, Frank, Nat, Mills and Jamie.) here are a few little things I saw during the day.

this little girl was wearing a t-shirt that read 'i love football' then 'football' was crossed out and underneath it says 'fashion'. this made me laugh. I've thought about it and i think the thing that made me laugh wasn't that this girl was wearing something so crap, because we have all been kids and wore shit stuff, i think it was the t-shirt itself. i don't get the point, like football is the base, default setting for what someone likes and the t-shirt is rebelling against that. hahaha

jetski campbell was in attendance breaking the 'no bottles or glass' policy near the music stage with a delicious european fruit drink.

I WEEEARRRR MY SUUUUUNGLASSSESSSS AT DAAAY

there were loads of market stalls selling rubbish stuff. this one was a card stall. I can't think of a time when this would ever be appropriate haha. it reminded me of when i used to work for bookers cash and carry and we got the monthly newsletter round and the big headline was that we had expanded into india, and opened our first branch there.

they went with the headline 'cash and curry'

seriously, they were out in fucking FORCE

this made me laugh. these people had a little thing where they did a weird role-play with little kids to demonstrate pollination, that involved one child strapping a massive flower to their face and the other kid fucking the flower with a giant model bee.

its shit like this that i don't get. what an odd specific thing to be teaching kids. they will pick this up along the way at school. its wicked that these people are nice enough to give up their time and dedicate it to teaching children about stuff, but seriously, thats what school is for. it was such a bizarre and specific thing to be teaching them, and done in such an odd way that i feel the message got lost and the kids were just confused.

still, without them i wouldn't have this photo of the flower heading girl. it looks like something out of garth marenghi's darkplace doesn't it haha

there was loads of stuff going on up and down the canal. like this bloke. spending his saturday on his own, paddling along in what looked like a massive upside down dustbin lid. at what point is he gonna look at himself and say 'my life is literally pointless; I define obsolete.'

unlike captain birds eye over here. It never fails to amaze me how many people fall into looking like caricatures for whatever field of work they are in. the amount of designers i know who wear checked shirts, thick rimmed glasses, well designed and practical overcoats or jackets (ie. northface) and drink strong coffee.

BRITS ON TOOOUR LALALA BRITS ON TOOOUR LALALA

on the real though we saw these genius banter boys. all the barges were pulled up to the side of the canal, and one of them was playing some oasis from this little computer speakers whilst all the white british males aboard were drinking tinnies and doing a good banter on each other. we walked by and this pissed up one remarked 'this is my fucking house! and these lot are pissed in it!' he was having such a great day.

biker mice from mars. you can't really see but he had a small motorbike model on his helmet.

and to finish off a woman got too excited and stood up on a car. the people she was with surrounded her and took pictures and laughed, no doubt quipping about how 'menkle' she was. shortly after she got down one of the women she was with just unlocked the car, got in and drove off. it was so weird and pointless.

well thats wicked-land. i really really enjoyed writing this post out. thanks for reading and shout outs to Brydee Lynch and Benjamin Summers

DUMB DUMB GUYS

Hey! i drew these yesterday with some quink ink and fine liners, and then added a little colour on photoshop. i hope you like them! ill have more tomorrow.

EURO 2012 SWEEPSTAKES DRAW

OK SO FINALLY THE EURO'S ARE UPON US! remember how great the last ones were? england were not in them, but there was so many great matches, it was a cracking tournament. I heard somebody raise an interesting point; the world cup is held in the highest regard when it comes to international tournaments because of the size of the competition and the amount of different countries involved, rightly so; it is the most coveted prize in football. The euros are often a better tournament however as there are not as many dead rubber results. no rubbish countries who slipped through under the radar. you look at the teams who make up the groups and there should be some fantastic stuff on show.

I'm really really looking forward to the tournament. we did a quick round up and drew teams for a sweepstakes between myself and 7 of my friends. check out the video here.

thanks a lot!

JUBILEEEEEAVE IT YEAH

Im currently really frustrated because I've made loads of hard copies of my last mixtape this week, and have been handing them out. I've just got round to submitting the track information to gracenote and couldn't attach the album artwork. I don't think you can add it once the CD has been burned. long story short, people are gonna put my mixtape into their computers/laptops and although the track names will come up they will have to source the album art online or just go without, how very annoying.

the rain finally came and smelt wonderful. i sat outside under a little umbrella just sniffing up the whole place. it was perfect.

To celebrate the queens jubilee most people wore those little plastic union flag hats. Im sure thats what she would want anyway.

i went to see these furrows with max and bradley. you know my mate darryl? its a band he is in and they are deffo one of my favourite bands. check them out by clicking this link (their album is due for release later this year)

something mad happened. we were walking back, and a car pulled onto the curb to park up. as it did, it slowly drove over an empty corona bottle and it smashed, bits of glass flew past our faces and all around me, max and frank and then frank looked down and he had been got in the leg! it bled so so bad, and he has a right chunky cut right now. honestly, so much blood!

oi my dog is a shower guy i swear, watch how excited he was when he finally got onto the park the other day. i feel like a prick for filming this in portrait, it really really bugs me when people do that.

quick jubilee weekend bank holiday pass through republic on sunday.

i can't believe that girls are still wearing that tiger print topshop dress. you know the one, this one...

you knooooow, as in this one!

you know the one, every single girl in leicester has it. as in this one...

ok so something weird happened. this random guy tweeted saying 'WICKED LAND' and i asked him 'wicked land? as in my blog?' and he replied 'not at all'

the following conversation ensued, pardon my typo; i meant to say have* that WL jacket too (the jacket this guy is wearing in his profile picture has a big WL on the breast) 

i had to let this guy know he was just gassing. he said he thought of wicked land about a week ago and ran with it and i told him it had been my life for the last 5 and a half years. don't just say anything and try and claim it as your own is the moral of the story.

my man in the driving seat has got one of those plastic hats on haha. proper made me laugh.

wallatight the big johns pizza though. they come through and do it wicked, even if they are dippy as fuck. me and darryl went halves on a 16 inch and it was £2.50 each. it was really really nice.

a nice little two ten the next day with jamie, darryl and max.

not only does max have chips with a fry up, he was ketchup and brown sauce on one plate. he does some mental things, can you imagine that?

hello bro, you are not bird man. cracking effort, but its not the one. better luck next time, yours sincerely, the people of leicester.

this guy in a shop was showing me about apple tv, i didn't know about it. apparently they made these little chaps that plus into your tv, and recalled and reissued them once they realised you could jailbreak them. in doing so you access a load of the downloadable content, including loads of tv series, films and music videos all in HD. as well as this, its got a 250gb hard drive built in, so you can put your own stuff on it, and watch it via your tv. he says you can still grab the jailbroken ones from ebay. I'm into that.

thanks for reading about whats been going on and that. i bet you all had a wicked jubilee weekend. extra days off and bare of you are still having a go at the queen? frank said something interesting to me. she has the national anthem sung to her all the time but never sings it herself. I've never thought of that. I wonder if she likes the tune.

WILL LAREN

I know a few guys already know about Will Laren, an Illustrator from Baltimore. I really like his style of illustration and the captions with the drawings always make me piss myself laughing. Have a look at some of his stuff.

 Here is a link to his blog, always worth a check.

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