Exceptional live videography from the Manchester based creative team.
It’s very rare that you hear great punk/hardcore bands captured well in a live environment. It’s such a difficult thing to co-ordinate, the technical intricacies of the the guitar work and double bass drum fills, alongside the twiddling bass. Not to mention the anthemic vocals and the general passion filled atmosphere. And thats just the sound. The boys at New Speak Productions have mastered that audio black magic, and mixed it will some pretty impressive video footage to create a winning concoction.
They have filmed bands such as Propaghandi, Strike Anywhere and A Wilhelm Scream, Bouncing Souls, who we all know are as energetic and passionate in their delivery as in the musical content. Fix your beady eyes on some of their videos below.
Propagandhi perfrom ‘Supporting Caste’ live in Leeds, UK.
A Wilhelm Scream perform ‘Less Bright Eyes, More Decide’ live in Manchester, UK.
Strike Anywhere perform ‘Amplify/Blaze’ live in Leeds, UK.
The Bouncing Souls play ‘True Believers’ at the Liverpool 02 Academy.
80′s inspired music video by the metal-core champions.
I saw this video, whilst flicking through some satellite channels the other night. Brilliantly executed. Fine Tune. And has that Beastie Boy’s fight “For your right…” 80′s thing going on.
This my friends is the greatest animation I have seen for a long time. Created by relative unknown Jérémie Périn, this video is the title promo for the new Flair’s EP entitled Truckers Delight. Lionel Flairs is a cockney parisian electro popping hybrid who creates some very listenable 80′s influenced music. No wonder the video is a grotesque homage to 80′s pixel art and 8 bit gaming. It’s rather rude in a manga-esque way but works rather nicely. Check it and prepare to laugh your retro brain off. Oh and be warned it’s not for the easily offended…
Wanted to spill your friend’s brains or ram a knife in their head? Now you can!
Once in a while there is a new thing that comes along and changes how we use the internet. A new web app that completely pisses over everything else, and laughs in the face of others that stand against it. Today we have found such genius with GROSS OUT.
Developed by the Black Axe boys, Gross out is an awesome tool to turn your perfectly pleasant straight laced friends and family into the brain spilling, blood drinking zombies they were meant to be. It plays on the premise of doodling on photos for amusement – just upload a photo and cover it in eyeballs, zits, slime and tons of other gross crap!
This could change society!
It couldn’t be more apt for the halloween season too. So here’s an idea, upload all your friends, “gross them out” and create your own house of horrors photo gallery!
This is a film I’m desperate to see released in the UK. Hotly tipped as this decades’ Blair Witch Project, Oren Peli’s super low-budget supernatural is simply about a couple who set up a video camera in their room to try and capture the strange goings-on they’ve noticed during the night. Straightforward. As you can see from the trailer it’s more about what you don’t see that is frightening, which is a noticeable change from the gore fest zombie slashers we’ve seen of late.
It was released this past weekend in the US, and it absolutely destroyed other releases such as Where the Wild Things Are, Astro Boy and the mundane SAW VI, by raking in a massive $22 million. A damn good profit, considering it only cost $11,000 to make.
On the Paranormal Activity site you can read all about the 1 million fans that demanded this film be screened in their towns and watch the other trailers.
Our awesome brothers over at Thunder Chunky have teamed up with Vannen in a Halloween giveaway.
You can win the ‘Trick or treat’ design by Dirty Donny as pictured! Entries close this wednesday so you have to be quick if you want a chance to win it!
Inaugural toy and art event kicks off next month in London
London based artist Sichi dropped us a line recently to us all about his exciting new toy and art event – JOY OF TOY. He hopes it will be one of many, so he’ll need your help to make it grow!
To kick things off in this first expo, there will retrospective exhibition of some of the landmark toy designers from around the world and will feature creations by Kaws, Michael Lau, Eric So, Bounty Hunter and James Jarvis amongst many others. The exhibition will consist of toy designs and artwork by these artists. There will also be a pop-up gallery shop with special artist signings. More info will be released soon at www.eastgallery.co.uk
The exhibition opens on 6th November from 6pm – 9pm. The event runs until 12th November.
So if you’re anywhere near Brick Lane next month, pop along and be inspired!
Save the wallpaper (to your desktop), save the world! All for free!
Organic Climate Changing Wallpaper by Ben the Illustrator
Wow here’s a real treat for you all. Not only can you download a FREE brand spanking new wallpaper by Ben the Illustrator, but you can help save the world by doing so. It’s all in aid of Blog Action Day, a global activity which aims to raise awareness of climate change. You can get the wallpaper over at Vector Tuts, where Ben also explains the concept behind the imagery.
Ben O’Brien is a commercial illustrator based in Cornwall, UK, with a background including animating and directing music videos for labels including Sony Japan and Domino Records; Tshirt design; album sleeve design and illustration; editorial illustration for clients including The Guardian and Vice Magazine and advertising campaigns for clients including Smart Cars and Honda.
You lucky lucky people are in for a treat. You can see the very first glimpse of our upcoming limited edition tees right now!
Here is a glimpse of an exciting new range of limited edition tees that will be available soon on Always Thinkin’. You can’t buy them just yet, but you can vote for your favourite one below! These tees will also be available at a special reduced launch price, so keep your eyes peeled for the full announcement!
Boy oh boy, you’ll be horrified if you don’t get one of these watches this halloween!
When Vannen Watches said they were gonna give us a special treat this halloween we never knew it was going to be THIS mindblowing. For their latest special limited edition watch they summoned the magical powerful force that is Dirty Donny. For those not in the know Dirty Donny is the defacto artist when it comes to creating all things scary and monster like! He’s created a real treat of a design too – the fierce cat face has instantly made this my favourite watch in the vannen catalogue so far.
When they say limited edition they mean it too. This release is blind packed, with just 150 halloween watches altogether and just 50 of the super rare chase ‘TOXIC YELLOW’ colour, so you’ll have to grab them quick!
They’ve also gone the full way with the packaging too – each watch is shipped in the ‘Trick or Treat Orange’ stuffed full of treats! Vannen don’t do things by halves, just deliver quality time after time.
Head over to Vannen Art Watches and grab yourselves a seasonal treat and be the envy of all your scary werewolf and dracula friends.
Whisper: Stay tuned to Always Thinkin’ for an interview with Vannen Art Watches very soon!
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