Coheed and Cambria - Feathers

Every now and then youtube is graced with an acoustic session from Coheed and Cambria...here is one of them...

Spinto Band - Amy+Jen

We all know about The Spinto Band..they've been creating great music for years.

New video for Amy + Jen off the new album Cool Cocoon.....

...nice video

Edison

Great quote from Thomas Edison.

Once I Was An Eagle

Laura Marling has a new album out, pretty impressive, gone is the twee folky stuff, things are a little darker now, actually this song 'I Was an Eagle' reminds me of Razor by Dave Grohl, which is posted below for your convenience.

Cayucas

It feels a little more like summer now...

California X

California X - Mummy.

Last year I visited Seattle, the birthplace of grunge, and ever since I've been rekindling my love of said rock.

California X are a bunch of American kids who are doing it today... and generally having a good time. I wish they had a video for their track Pond Rot, as it contains the lyric "I want a pond to rot in" check out their debut (I think) self titled album, it is streaming on Spotify.

In other news while i'm here, and most of you reading this probably want to hear about design/illustration work. Everything is going swell! I drew the Titanic the other day.

Video:

3 months in...

...to 2013.

13 is an odd number, literally and visually. It kinda wants to get together and become a B.

I should update with some small things. I'm currently re-designing my website, its taking a while because I have been pretty busy of late, but it is getting there.

Here is a snippet of a map that will be up on the site:

The first step in re-designing or moreover refreshing a site, any site, should be to look at what you already have, and what you want to have. I tend to update my site once every maybe 2 years with a larger refresh, and then periodically update with new work, its been a while since my last update however.

I also try to think of the site as a physical place, an art gallery, a place where people go to see the art. The overall design shouldn't fight for your attention. 

This is why I wouldn't choose to integrate a blog into the site or use it as a social platform. I think the social elements, a blog, twitter etc are best left separate, they are part of the distraction of the design of most portfolio sites in my opinion, I mean imagine if you can a blog personified as the artist within an art gallery stood around updating the gallery goers with some holiday snaps, or doodling on a napkin and trying to pin it up on the gallery wall.