Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010

The Singing Lesson

Yet another last minute job...

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Monday, September 27, 2010

The Melodics & [Me] Tour

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Theatrical Rock will meet Electro Hip-Hop for possibly the first time ever this November as [Me] hit the road with Melbourne compadres The Melodics...

Synths, guitars and a shit load of drums will be packed into a tour bus alongside an unlikely bunch of fellows with separate sounds and the same goal. The tour will mark a nation wide launch of their respective releases, with The Melodics “Paint Me Gold’ out October 15th and [Me]’s new single ‘Naked’ out October 29th.

Sharing the stage in more ways than one, expect vibrant drum collaborations and massive live performances as they bring together their creative sounds from opposite ends of the spectrum.

A chaotic musical explosion for your ears, [Me] have been likened to the bastard son of Muse and Queen, becoming known best for their 3 minute rock operas on a grand scale. The Melodics have captivated audiences around the country with their indie-rock and electro hip-hop, most recently with their latest single Donkey Kong Suicide, which saw them unearthed on Triple J for the One Movement showcase in early October.

Monday, September 13, 2010

The Melodics 'Paint Me Gold'

It's a lot of pressure doing album covers for The Melodics, I always feels like it's gotta be my masterpiece. I guess I put so much of myself in the music that I feel I need to do the same visually. We wrote a song a while back called 'Paint Me Gold' which is another one of those space-based love tunes I like writing. The title is from the lyric...
“Colour me in // paint me gold // I'll be your canvas if you'll be so bold // the black & the white is now colourful // my satelitte // got ya signal...”

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The idea came to me to call the new EP 'Paint Me Gold' even though it doesn't feature the song (it'll be on our next record). I instantly thought of the image of a woman with a shaved head staring at the viewer with golden paint falling on her head. From there came the vision of shooting a male as well, so I called up my uncle Pete to be the dude and my friend Arlene for the female. I knew she had had her head shaved but upon talking to her I found out it had been 8 months so her hair had grown out, but... she was keen to put one in for the team so we shaved her head on the day of the shoot ~ what a trooper! So anywho, the concept is that there is 2 alternate versions of the CD; a male and a female copy. Time will tell if we can do this, if you get the CD, chances are at this stage it will be the female copy. But we may just print some male ones down the track if it's popular enough (that was a hint to buy a copy).


It was a hectic shoot, that's for sure. We emptied our drummer's lounge room, put down a tarp and went to town! Thanks to all involved, particularly Nick Rieve (photography) Juleiaah (make-up) Petey & Arlene (the modeeels) Tuddy (the paint pourer and location loaner) and Tarko (the test dummy).

Here's the 1st part of the 'Paint Me Gold Sessions' a mini-doco put together by Nick Rieve, who shot the cover art... You can also see Rieve's photography at www.nickrieve.com





'Paint Me Gold' out through iTunes October 15th
...in the meantime, check out the songs at www.themelodicspaintmegold.com

Lift Off Festival Illustration

A Canberra festival hit me up to create an illustration for their poster, they wanted something fun, young and modern with elements representing parts of the festival, such as skating, music, B-Ball etc. The following illustrations will be used as elements of their poster, I'll upload it when it's done.

Synth-Fish

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Final Illustration

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Skating Space-Monkey

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Paris Wells Album/Single Design

'Various Small Fires' Cover/Back Cover

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'Through & Through' Single Cover

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Photography by Matthew Jensen www.mattjensenphotography.dphoto.com
'Various Small Fires' front cover art direction by T. Fitzgereld of Floatingworld www.floatingworld.com.au
Check out Paris' music at www.pariswells.com.au

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Farfar

When my wonderful grandfather was unwell, my grandmother asked me to make some photo montages to put on the wall of his hospital room so that the nurses could see that he was once a strapping young lad and a very successful, handsome, caring and devoted family man. It was nice for them to see him as a young man, and he used to gaze at the posters for hours, as did we.
The below image is made up of scanned photos from a dusty album of him in Norway where he grew up.

R.I.P Farfar

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Oceans Baroque

My fellow vocalist from The Melodics (Mr Hue Blanes aka Oceans Baroque) has a solo jazz/classical project he's been workin on. We decided to do an old school contra deal; I design his artwork and in return he gives me some bad arse classical singing lessons. Everyone wins. Well... Huey might loose out a bit as I'll be stealing the vocal spotlight with my improv Baroque rap-scats after his masterful tuition...

Check out his tunes at: www.myspace.com/oceansbaroque

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Monday, June 21, 2010

CHOP!

The rhythm section better known for their work in The Cat Empire and Jackson Jackson have yet another project up their sleeves known as The Genie. The band whips up retro fusion and backwards funk with synth jazz and well just about anything they feel like playing that day. Their debut record is about to drop and I had a hell of a lot of fun putting the artwork together for it. So, ladies and gentleman, without out further ado, I present to you ~ The Genie 'Here Come The Scissors'...


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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

DIRECT INFLUENCE ~ War In My Kitchen

Direct Influence are about to release their debut album 'War In My Kitchen'. It's a striking, vibrant record about love and war and everything in between. I went with a bold emblematic vibe... Below are some elements of the digicase design as well as the tour poster... check out DI at www.myspace.com/directinfluence1

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THE MEGAHORNS

The Megahorns are a big band full of trumpets, saxes, tubas, drums, vocalists and so on... They came from a background of busking and jamming so I wanted to capture that in the artwork. I sketched up these 'hornhead' characters and worked hard on capturing a real clean cut yet hand done and super textured vibe...

Below is the outcome for the Vol 1. out very soon..


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Sunday, February 14, 2010

THE MELODICS RESIDENCY

The Melodics are back at Miss Libertine to play Thursdays in March...
so it was time to get some new visuals happening.
I've been vibing on the hand-done non-consequential imagery
to create a mood:
Chewbucca in sunglasses, Rubick's Cubes, 3d glasses, Nintendo controller, Super 8 camera, projector etc etc.

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THE MELODICS THURSDAYS IN MARCH
"After swanning about in the sunshine and lapping up the good-time summer energy The Melodics have headed indoors to capture this feeling in song form.

Inspired by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys The Melodics have built a sandpit in their heated Headquarters to help tap into this feel good energy. Unfortunately, a week after commencement, Oceans Baroque and Fantastic Mr Fox were badly scolded in a freak spaceship accident on the way to rehearsal which brought a dark energy to the band....

This dark cloud VS sunny skies clash created a whirlwind of musical endeavors that the boys now describe as the dark-sun sounds, which has inspired brand new tunes such as Donkey Kong Suicide and Bang Bang."