Dj Dan-ce

It's here the first demo of Dj Dan-ce Manchester's freshest producer.This is the first of many infinite songs from the hot album 'infinite classics'.You can listen to the radio edit of 'My Limit' short play.On here or alternatively email Dj Dan-ce for extended play version.Keep your ears to the  streets its coming over and over again in 2k15.Keep on rollin rollin rollin times infinity                                                            https://djdan-ce.bandcamp.com/releases

tongue in cheek

Massive Buddha Nommin Oms

Original flyer for a gig at The Crescent Salford, 14/08/2014 

Amended flyer by Phoebe Stella Garrick Summers  

(Death to flakey poser Noise artists)                                                             

and some light music, my mates Toz and Gaz making this steamer

SVARTVIT,THIRD THUMB, NISKALA and SWINELORD

Flyer for a houseshow on the 27th October at my house.

There is an amazing harsh noise producer playing called SVARTVIT

also playing are

THIRD THUMB


SWINELORD
http://churchoffuck.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-empty-i-feel-fucked-by-swinelord

...and the mysterious NISKALA that are the best possible love child of traditional Gamelan music
sounding a bit like this...

but only with the disorientating heavy guitar and rhytms that will set you into a transcendental trance.

Hard to describe but come down if your friendly.Should be a really interesting night.Im going to decorate the house and Circus de Manc will be doing fire performance outside.Plus vegan cakes and all round free space vibes.My number is on the flyer.

LINK TO THE EVENT

A short film documenting the destruction of my degree show peice

After nearly a full year i finished editing this short film documenting the destruction of a large drawing I made over 10 days.Drawn with 0.1 mill posca marker straight onto the wall.The film depicts me sanding it all down and painting it over.The motivations during the piece of work are talked about below.

'The deterritorializing power of the multitude is the productive force that sustains Empire and at the same time the force that calls for and makes necessary its destruction.' Hardt and Negri

Inspired by the politics of the 'multitude', a loosely defined theory by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their book 'Empire'.Negri and Hardt describe 'Empire' as globalised free market capitalism how it is today.This all encompassing global megalith has parallels with previous empire's.

-To make a short example - The book offers analogies of supranational institutions like the U.N describing it as a judiciary to legitimise greedy financial persuits, wars and other atrocities.The multitude presents itself as an alternative to that. Without a banner, a slogan or a symbol.It is defined without gender, race, age, hierarchy or any of the divisions imposed on us by 'Empire'.Driven by its own plurality, without ideology, its focus is to present an alternative to this, through the individual.Through difference that it is united.

Apart from the constraint of time I had very little idea of an overall outcome.Before the starting i made experiments at home and in the studio on lining paper.It proved difficult to do anything of any size.When it came to preparing to draw on the wall it was un-even and needed to be sanded all over.I wasn't sure how much could be drawn in the allotted time, so i did the whole wall and gave it two coats of emulsion.

Everyday i set about drawing people, people drawing and drawing more people.Due to the nature of how i was representing people in a stylised way.I was driven to depict the folk as caricatures.Unfortunately caricatures pick out, over exemplify and exploit physical features that Empire tends to use to exploit people .Divisions such as race,gender,age,class are just some of the files that folk can slot nicely into.This became very contradictory because i was trying to represent something that has no defining feature in the context that things are usually defined in.The multitude doesn't have an ideal person or and ideal look or even a slogan only in individuality is it a 'thing' at all.I tried to reflect this were ever possible, whether it be a dimple or the way a character would carry themselves, or the way a character would relate to others.

I found some very interesting things about myself through doing it. The level of conditioning that i have as a 24 year old working class (although thats questionable now with a degree) white male in this world is so vast.A friend pointed out that i was prone to drawing white male's.I tried to overset the balance back again but found increasingly that characters came from my pen were very different to the ideas i thought i had.Some days i walked away from the wall feeling disgusted in myself.

I drew on... until a few hours before the degree show. I never counted the characters or measured the drawing on completion those things weren't important.I tested my politics and found out and made it very public even if it wasn't apparent.More so than anything that i went through it drew and destroyed.

Dragonball Z 666 flyer 2

                                       'Click this text to get to the Faceshit page' DB666 \m/

OLD SKIN

                                   New song of the band that I'm playing drums in OLD SKIN
                                                               
                                                                 http://oldskin.net
                                                             
Thanks to Joe from No studio, Dom from V Rev, Olivcr from Church Of Fuck and  Lawrence for the sweet logo. Can't wait to gig with this band, were playing our first show atBay Horse in Northern Quarter   April 11TH with Razoreater/ Iced Out/ Corrupt Moral Altar.Click the above link to download the track.
                             
                                  http://www.facebook.com/events/488136311242530/?fref=ts

Backwards Mermaid

Images of  large character piece -  in emulsion and spray paint  at Chorlton free wall  on the afternoon Saturday 23rd. Or as its affectionately known the 'shit muncher'.Its an image of Dog-man fucking a backwards mermaid whilst on its i-phone.I can't explain what motivated me to do it other than i need the practice of painting.I try to not think to much about what to paint and just start. Thinking about what you make before you make is daft, Jon Cage will tell you that. Backwards mermaids however are a recurring thought in my head.It'd be grand if legends, cartoons and  disney films pictured a fish's top half and female humans lower body.

test strip

A4- 12 panel drawing in 0.1and 0.3 fine liner, originaly on fluorescent yellow paper, but I couldn't get colour to digitally produce well.Thats the cool thing about fluorescent colours

This is a short strip I gave to  my girlfriend.In truth its the first strip I have ever done.I am very much new to 'sequential art' as Will Eisner would put it.Not that I would want prescribe to art, or saying what I make is art.Ive not put this up to discuss that. Drawing events in frames gave me a completely different perspective on life. Suddenly I began to see whole periods of time or moods by a singular image that may just represent a thought or a feeling. Dabbling in trying to see everything as moments in time and space in frames, makes you interpret the world in a quiet staggered way.Fluidity is something that comes across with the engagement of the viewer and that is a really powerful thing.I haven't read many graphic novels but most of it I have managed to enjoy everything. Most of witch have been leant to me by my housemate James.This assumed on the idea that James who scoffed at me for 'liking everything' has no doubt sifted through some poo to get some gems.I recently finished 'Habibi' by Craig Thompson which blew my mind he also leant me Ken Dahl's - 'Monsters' which is currently lodged in a unreachable place behind the radiator in bathroom.I'd like to say that I am opposed to the read-poo-poo-read culture it claims countless casualties.Click the links for more information about the mentioned persons.

elephants ..

I've been trying to complete a load of un-finished drawings this one of an elephant is A3 gonna, done in  0.3 fine liner.Photograph quality not all that great. Gonna place some sweet mandalas behind it .

Also check out this sweet link to medieval bestiary.

http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast77.htm

GROWTH to DECAY to GROWTH to DECAY

A few frames from my current animation .Unfortunately its not the entirety of the image.For idea of the whole image see previous post.I want it to appear like a mandala of flesh writhing an wriggling around is my intention.I thought it would be appropriate bit of animation for my new band 'OLD SKIN' we've got a song called 'Growth - Decay' which is available for free to DOWNLOAD from this website www.oldskin.net.Amazaling website layout done by Dom from Esoteric Youth & V-Revolution  associates. As a band were going for things we apreciate from  powerviolence, grind and straight up riff worship.Nothing you haven't heard before just lowsy lowsy noise.The lyrics cover the cyclical nature of the existence, the impact of humanities existence on the globe, and how the Gaia or something like it will cull our wretched species . The song is only a minute or so long so its almost perfect for a short bit of animation.I wanna get 24 frames per second but its gonna be tough but so worth it in the end.I've got ten frames down already it should be something for the winter months.If anyone has any ideas of what features to include in this mammoth task as i will need quiete a few i would love to hear from you.
                                            

'Going a Maying' in November

'Going A Maying' Nov 2012 Drawing in red fineliner, in interpretation and collaboration with Josh Horsely 

4foetus

Free Wall at Chorlton 'Super Snail'  image by Skeen 

Scabby face

A long time it has been since my last post.The amazing anti-climax of finishing my degree, the absence of any employment, combined with the internet been cut off has really halted me from been present in posting stuff.I struggle been 'one of den guys' who uses his laptop at a cafe and probably always will.So now as i sit in my parents house and use there internet without shame.I'll try and think why am here and how privileged and happy I am to be alive. Last thursday i arrived at Odder bar before it opened.I'd started a flying job the week before.It pays a pittance but its cash in hand and you get to flirt with people all day. I gauped, as many did at the BBC building been torn down by mandible jaws.Stripped from the inside out by a man operated monster.Its so engrossing to watch destruction. The fragile balance between what is considered permanent and finite inter-weaving rapidly kept people stood there all day.Talking Head's 'Once in a life time' was playing over the p.a ' Same as it ever was.. same as it ever was..'I've always enjoyed that line its something that repeats and repeats in my head a lot.David Byrne always contradicts himself in his songs it keeps things in perspective.'In the future' is good for this too.As i sat there, i can remember vividly the overwhelming feeling of content.Thinking that my life is well worth living and how i should enjoy it more.

There are two things that could of happened.I could of just lost control and my front tyre popped from the impact of me landing on top of it.Or the preferred version that keeps my masculinity intact, is that I had a blowout lost control couldn't get my feet of my straps in time. Ultimately though the outcome was the same.I went or'e the bars and bit the road with my teeth.I lost my front top tooth and made the other one into a razor sharp, paper thin stub. Luckily i must of ripped out the nerve on impact so it didn't feel to shit straight away. The scab that was and is my face, is a big scab that went down from my nose across my lips stopping briefly at my mouth and then connecting again on my chin.Like Brundell Fly Im keeping tabs on the bits of my face that are falling off.Each day a piece moves or flakes off, like the breaking up of Pangea to form the separate conjealed continents.My friend Sam sugested that I should use the pieces to make a collage of scabs depicting my own face.I think I'm going to do that. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Prints for Sale

Watson, D. 'Man-head' Watson, D. (2012) A1 'Man-head blend ' . [image online] Available at: www.defectiveobjective.blogspot.com [Accessed: 18, June 2012]. This week i will be selling my prints at cafe space at the Holden Gallery.I'm trying to raise funds for a screen printing bed and food for the energy to carry on making.If you would like to take home one of these lovely A1 fluorescent man-head prints there available for £2.The A1 'Hell' prints (Black on White and White on Black) on incredibly good paper are available for £5. Watson, D. A1 'Man-head's Watson, D. (2012) A1 'Man-head' . [image online] Available at: www.defectiveobjective.blogspot.com [Accessed: 18, June 2012]. Watson, D. 'Hell' Watson, D. (2012) A1 'Black on White and White on Black' . [image online] Available at: www.defectiveobjective.blogspot.com [Accessed: 18, June 2012].

Narcissist On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown

I got ask by a friend James Clayton to draw something for his tape release. He performs and writes music under the name of Crywank. I met him when I was in my first year of university, .I knew no one in Manchester then. The place were James lived 'Da Bunker' became a home for me as It did for many people. I loathed halls and its cellular existence. II praise the grim comfort of mong bed the desperate finiteness of pizza narnia. Thee place never really slept nor saw the light of the day. I gained a lot of firm friendships from been there and meeting the people passing through.



His second album to which these two drawings were made “Narcissist on the Verge of Mental Breakdown” covers some vast topics. Its much more intrinsic than his last album. For me in many ways better. Its not just his ability to write well crafted songs but his intellect too that really shines through on these recordings. His music is reminiscent of the evil twin of Charley Manson, accept from if he wasn't evil just plain rad.

He says about it ... “ Most of the songs are about coping with and de-constructing my sadness, some are about odd things that happened in my past, and others are just about people and scenes. They where mostly fuelled by stupid dark thoughts, and through song writing I’ve tried to get past them.”

LOANDOAD his album for free
http://www.mediafire.com/?03yoqg056ejd8dl
http://www.mediafire.com/?03yoqg056ejd8dl
LOANDOAD his album for free



These two drawings were done with 0.05- 0.3 fine liners.The first was just an idea i didn't like.I just really like the compesition.The second drawing was the one i speant alot of time with.I'm happy with the detail thers dogs, demons,dicks, naked ladies naked men,mandallas swelling forms etc.I like how informed it appears to be whilst i have little knowledge of what has made up the content until looking back later.Like for instance i don't remember drawing a little seagull, i don't know why i would.Its there and there it will stay if no one else sees it, it won't matter.

Quote taken from
http://notvoanb.tumblr.com/

Eoster

Eoster

This was drawn over the Vernal Equinox (wich signals the British spring time).This is an important time and is recognized by most religions.In the past and the present this time has been represented with the new life that comes with the change in seasons.Heirs,eggs, lambs and lets not forget the death and re-birth of Christ in Masoniac traditions.The celebration of passover in Judaism.In the pagan calender it is also a very prominent festivalThe Pagan goddess of spring and renewal is called Oestar, from the Scandinavian "Ostra"and the Teutonic "Ostern"or"Eastre" who were both Goddesses symbolizing spring and fertility. These goddesses were honoured on the vernal or spring equinox.The Phoenicians called her Astarte. The Assyrians and Babylonians called her Ishtar which is pronounced just as the Enlish word "Easter".
And in Europe she was known as Ostrara.

When looking at what may of motivated the shape of this drawing.I considered the moon.The vernal equinox also heralds in the changing of a new moon.Whilst cycling home one night.I think it was on the Friday that Uni was locked up, I looked up at the moon at this point it was at crecent.I was mulling over the idea as i looked at it.Possibly the reason why I was so anctious and not knowing whether I was coming or going, was possibly seasonal.Thinking that i could be subject to the same sturings that are aroused in nature in spring, i slept on it.The next day it was clear as I walked out in to Chorlton high street and also in town.The moon and the change in seasons have a profound effect on people.I noticed everyones behaviour was irratic, it was absolute murder cycling on the roads, cars just pulling out all over the place.

The new moon came on the 6th April and its as though there is a re-sumed calm to the world.


Thanks too
http://www.calendar-365.com/moon/moon-phases.html

Okaisional Cafe

This is work was produced at the Okaisional cafe Game Cock Inn in Hulme.It was set some fifteen years ago as a collective. "The OKasional Cafe is a squatted space which holds a daily cafe, regular vegan meals and functions as a radical space for meetings, organising actions, workshops and events. Recently we were at the ‘Gamecock Pub’ on Boundary Lane on 25th February – 18th March 2012. OKcafe usually runs for 2 – 4 weeks with several months break between each cafe."



It was gratifying to be in a space were there was a different dynamic on property.The space was anyones, to do so as they pleased.Aside from this apparent lack of structure there was one that was solid.Solid in the sense were no one had an authoritive privilidge to overide antother.Here group decisions are made on consensus.Still with me, heres a link to the 'safer spaces policy'

http://okcafe.wordpress.com/about/safer-spaces-policy/



I've never been made to feel more welcome.It was awesome to be in a situation like this.Watching the point of any heirachical sturcture just piss down the drain.I learnt that basis of any heirachy even art school.Does nothing but supress creative expression.Constrained by taste.Imprisoned by aesthetics that just copy and recipricate old values.The ideas of Post post-modernism or metamodernism topple in on itself like a deck of cards.At least with modernism out look on life was optimistic.Its seems devoid of worth to base everything on irony on,on cynacism on irony of irony.Folding in on itself quicker and quicker as it tries to envelope everything thoughts will become useless, subsequently art will become useless.


Victims of our all knowing pluratity we will see our selves as gods.Actively encouraged to have dual lives existing on interactive planes that remove ourselves from real human contact.

Am i myself, or am I comodity for people to apreciate and de-apreciate.I couldn't possibly just be me, could I.Should I asign myself to a defined era, should i approiate myself to a people or a fashion.Maybe the best option is to just merge my identity with existing themes.This seems to be an approach valued by this world, so called icons and phenomina of the present.










Its not enough to be presented with the spectacle every minute of everyday.We are encouraged to become a brand ourselves.To become a projecting part of it.The prophecy of social networking made good the use of valueing emotions as a comodity.
The utopian ideals of self governence and collective autonomy promised by the internet are falsities.A life contained within the boundaries of a screen is emblimatic of our current predicameant.In its appeal to connect the entire world is its subtlty of its oppression.Direct marketabillity to the left and too the right of your visual lives.


Even if you can ignore the pestering objects of desire encroaching on what appears to be your life on screen.Projecting a false ego on to others and onto ourselves is in fact a hard task.It takes so much time to make sure your brand stands out over the infinite plethera of others. Its cripplingly compelling human tendency to relate and to feel related too.These feelings that used to be tangible can be relfected in some type Orwelian new-speak ('like','dis-like' 'dig').

All that has come of the new freedom promised by the internet has now become an infinite plane of opression.The binery form we invented for our computers has now become our lives.Online or Offline.

The 'ACTA Laws'allowing the U.S govt, carte blanche internationaly to seize assets, shows how a ounce utopian ideal of cyber space has become forced under the constraints of the physical world.Under the guise of the never ending 'War on Terror', the U.K govt plans to extend its Anti-terror legislation for U.K national security.Under these new aplications of this despotic law we have our emails,texts and website visits monitered.Recently too the anti-squatting legislation has criminalised the occupying of residential property.




My hope is that this would lead to more sub-versive action.People re-claiming space on mass.Especially places were corporate interests are heald in higher regard than the rights of individuals.Certainly the Reclaim and the Occupy movement are testament to this.

O.k cafe and the people i met there were enlightening.On a localized level people can exist in a community of peace and freedom without fear of opression.



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