it is not really popular in germany and not usual to spread valentine cards in school or so, and i never gave a valentine card to anybody in my life, but if i still were a little girl i would probably wanted to send one of those groovy valentine cards which hp offers on their activity center for free download. guess who would be my valentine: desgined were those valentine cards by curiosity. a 'new breed of marketing company' from portland (oregon). their clients are for example: apple, dreamworks, hp, disney and paramount. their work includes among others webdesign, editorial and craft.
this company actually got my attention because of a beautiful animation they did. probably with after effects? "Suicycle is a lively, multi-textured animated short created specifically for the 2007 DesignPolitics exhibition in Santiago, Chile: a forum for "visual ideologies" comprised of the best issue-driven design work from around the globe."via.
gerard moliné, a catalan designer, designed a biodegradable urn with bios seed. as for example of a tree. isn't it a nice idea to plant a urn, not to bury it, and see a tree growing out of it? for me there couldn't be a better gravestone in the world.
xmas cover party in the maze. 5 bands doin some cover songs. christmas or not. recogniseable or not. but still very nice. good christmas decoration. very nice atmosphere. here some expressions:
cuban crime wave playing again in the maze on the 5 of january. i need to go there.
evil hawk. the singer/keyboarder is such a good musician. i saw him before in the maze at the concert of howlin' rain on the 26th november. just him, the keyboard and his lovely voice..
.. says the last line of simone whites beep beep song. the song is used for the commercial of the new audi r8.
a commercial made by richard mcgrann and andy clough who are working for bartle bogle hegarty (bbh) a british advertising agency since 1982. this agency worked for global brands including audi, vodafone, levi straus, british airways, johnnie walker & axe/lynx. another well-known ad from this agency:
.. was the name of a song from a guy i saw yesterday in the bodega social club. duncan oakley. he was the support from a guy called huw costin. both artists were just a man and a guitar with songs about love and other stuff that was very thought-provoking. i liked duncan pretty much. he has a very beautifuly voice and is able to sing the high notes in a very clear and soft way. i found out that he is actually doing comdey music. which is kind of shocking cause the music yesterday was defenitely not comdey and it's hard to imagine that this guy is doin this. the main act, huw costin, did actually the same: singing with his guitar thoughtfully contents. but the whole appearence didn't convinced me so much. on the website of the social club they say: "[...] something truly special that will just break your heart!!!". no. defenitely not.
anyway. huw says that amongst others he is inspired by jeff buckley. that brings me to my actual reason for this post: jeffy the jeff. the lovely jeff. on cd. in my room. 2 times. wohooo! i went into this nice cd shop on mansfield road. the bag says: good vibrations - second hand records. i bought everything i could find from jeff buckley. just two cds. but still. first: mystery white boy: live '95~'96 second: sketches for my sweetheart the drunk the first one is a double cd with 21 songs. the second one has 12. i know pretty much all songs from the second one. but. now i can hold it in my hand. touch it. browse through the booklets. with pictures. lyrics. handwriting stuff. awesome!
but this is not all. no no. what is thin, old, black, round, has lots of rills and smells like the old attic with grandmas stuff from the 60ies? yes! records.
- pete townshend with empty glass on the sleeve cover is a quote printed from meher baba saying "desire for nothing except desirelessness, hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes, want nothing and you will have everything". the lyrics of all songs are printed on the back. so it will be very easy for this guy whos christmas parents those records are to sing along. -the who - the story of the who - dire straits i don't know much about the dire straits. but i know this great song. and it's on this record.
