This is a shoot that turned out way better than I expected. It was Autumn and I was inspired by an image I had seen on the Deviant Art website and decided it would be a good idea to get out in the New Forest and do an Autumn themed photo shoot.
This photoshoot featuring Marieke who is a friend of Loo's took place in the same old Re:So shop location as the shoot for Blaise and Scarlet Soho. Huge thanks to Andy Wilkin for the behind the scenes video.
Blaise was doing a lot of work with me as a make up artist for some music video and photography shoots and asked if myself and long time collaborator Louise Morrell could do a shoot for her as well. Of course we did!
This photoshoot for Scarlet Soho was during a very creative time with the band where I created three music promos for their single releases. The band were doing European tours fairly regularly and it was great to see some of the images from this shoot used in the the publicity material for those.
The Tweedy Clothing team had already set up their website complete with a shopping cart on Squarespace but had ran in to some problems and needed some help to get the store functioning better and to show the extensive range of clothing products in the best way and to make the user experience for the shopper as smooth as possible.
I reconfigured the online store, made improvements to the home page as well as adding a whole load of content.
Huge thanks to the Maritime Skills Academy (MSA) for commissioning me to do a photoshoot and create a new promotional film to highlight their brand new maritime simulation centre in Portsmouth. The state of the art facilities include a full mission bridge simulator and a full mission engine room simulator.
Nostalgia Deathstar is a brand new musical project from Martin James and Sean Albiez. So far, the duo have released two tracks; Europa Dystopia and So It Went. Both tracks are available now on Spotify. A third track is planned for release in March.
I recorded Martin’s vocals for all three tracks in my home studio.
I recently had the pleasure of creating a promotional video with a difference featuring none other that President Donald Trump! It wasn’t the real U.S president of course but was in fact the brilliant impressionist Mike Osman. It was the first time I had met and worked with Mike and what a brilliant and funny experience it was.
HitsvilleUK.com is the website that showcases the research and graphic design work of Dr Russ Bestley.
Russ’s research in to punk graphic design from 1976 to 1984 is visually represented on the site alongside Russ’s portfolio of punk graphic design work. If you are a graphic designer or interested in the punk era then this is a great resource and a site that is well worth a visit. A highlight is the punk singles matrix which is a visual timeline of all the punk singles released in the punk era.
Goodbye Mr McKenzie were fronted by Martin Metcalfe and were an interesting line up with Shirley Manson, who later found worldwide fame with Garbage, and ex Exploited guitarist John Duncan who later became Nirvana’s guitar tech. The full line up was Martin Metcalfe, Big John Duncan, Derek Kelly, Shirley Manson, Rona Scobie and Fin Wilson. Their debut album Good Deeds and Dirty Rags was released in 1989 and is regarded as a classic.
Roll forward to the present and Martin, Kelly and Fin are still together and producing music as The Filthy Tongues. Brilliant music too. There are two Filthy Tongues albums, Jacob’s Ladder and Back to Hell and I can’t recommend them highly enough. If you haven’t heard of the band then you should find the albums on Spotify and give them a listen.
