David Earl Dixon

http://www.myspace.com/davidearldixon

British artist David Earl Dixon lives in colchester, where he runs a skateboard company and works as a reelance artist and illustrator. Curious characters, fantasy worlds, and the interactions between humans and animals permeate his artworks. He also brings his world of characters to the street. "Sketching helps exercise the demons!" he says. "No the truth it's just a good space to let ideas flow as freely as possible. In fact most of the time it's the stuff that to me looks the best. It has that creative spontaneity, that unsure yet somehow confidant set of strokes or lines, which is often impossible to recreate, or pursue. Its a momentary thing... the first furtive ramblings of ideas and thoughts."

Danny Danky

http://www.theroyalgrotto.blogspot.com/

http://soundcloud.com/danky

This is a mate of mine who is an illustrator he has some great designs having flicked through his sketchbooks and he also makes beats, mainly dubstep, check them out at the link above. Hes a good guy and is onboard with ideas I have for my clothing line expressing an interest out of his comfort zones. I will be forced to collaborate with him on a project at some point. Good luck to him on his course this September.

North Korea

Right, North Korea. I don't know much about this place but i've watched my share of documentries and I cannot believe what is going on there. It looks like post war Britain, the people live in poverty and fear. The whole county has one opinion, that of Kim Jong-il. There are no cars on the roads, no one goes in or comes out. The world was surprized to see them at this years FIFA World Cup, the country let a few fans go, no media we're allowed to talk to them. I think its disgraceful and something needs to be done and quickly, these people have been brainwashed to thinking Japan, South Korea and America are their bitter enemies. The government controls the media, the money and just about everything else.

I would love to link a future project to this country and their situation, maybe i'll have more to say and a better opinion on whats going on.

Check out their countries website
www.korea-dpr.com/

Body Pop

I have posted this video because of how this person looks and the crowds reaction to him before he starts dancing and when he steals the show. The slow motion move is crazy i don't know how its done, this man went on to to the car advert to the song singing in the rain, where he was dancing in the street on the pathments and around the lampost. The video speaks for itself, never judge a book by its cover.
Later George Sampson, winner of the 2008 Britains got talent won with his interpretation of this advert.

Worst Rapper

When I first saw this I had to find it online and post it, I like funny videos, I really can't believe some people are blinded by a dream and not realise that some things are just beyond their reach. This fool who is more than English raps in an American accent, straight away he's going wrong, he doesn't have the foggiest idea whats going on. Simon Cowell is ruthless anyway but if you're going to give him the ammunition, expect to get shot. Bottom line, set your dreams within your reality, don't wish something that will never happen, it's just a waste.

iPhone App Idea

I have recently scrapped my car, stupidly, and have been getting the buses a lot and I can't believe how expensive it is to travel even compared to a couple of years ago. A Megarider which entitles you to travel on Stagecoach and Magic Buses for 7 days costs £11.00! Are you joking? for the dream journey that includes tight seating spaces for a 6ft 2 man like myself, scallys showing everyone how loud the music on their phone can go aswell as lighting up a fag. Having to stand up when they are crowded and having to deal with a driver on a power trip that thinks that bit of plastic infront of him is a forcefield to treat you like s***. While my idea doesn't put a stop to all of these I can make a bad situation better. My idea is to have a Megarider App, You heard it here first patent pending. It will cost £8.00, £3.00 less than one should be, It will be all digital scrapping the card, paper, plastic and ink to make each Megarider helping the environment. You simply download the app, buy a Megarider online then the image and real identification codes (yet to be thought) downloads to your phone, so the comutter simply whips out their phone, displays the DigiRider and gets on the bus, for a cheaper price. This can also work for just buying single way tickets, train tickets etc. Dragons Den here I come.

Triangle Manchester

Open City Photography Exhibition:

Open City set up an exhibition using amateur and non photographers, gave them a quick crash course in photography and let them loose on the streets of Manchester armed with a camera. The exhibition was shown in the Triangle shopping center. I went to visit it and see what these budding photographers had done, I was actually pleasently surprised with the pictures I saw and the certain peoples perspectives upon this city. Above are some of my favourites from the exhibition. I really like the picture of the girl in the white sun glasses with her boyfriend looking back at her, you can see his face in the reflection of her glasses, He looks protective of her in a subtle way, walking slightly ahead probably holding her hand, I think it makes a nice picture, could also work in black and white with the contrasts made sharper.