The Music Of James Macfadzean

The consistency of James’ seven available songs and the talent in them are amazing. My favorite is “Better Uses”, and all of them can be listened here. Enjoy.

Art Contest – Villainy Loves You

My good friend Robin LeBlanc has started a brilliant contest on her website.

So here’s the deal. I’ve always loved looking at those cheesy portraits taken usually in malls during the 1980s, if you’re friends of mine chances are you love them too. With that in mind, here’s the contest:

Draw or photograph a portrait of a villain as if they are having it done to give to family or something. They can be holding flowers, standing in front of a chair, have lasers behind them, have another picture of them on the top right corner…ANYTHING. As long as it looks like a bad portrait. It can be of just one villain, or a “family shot” made of several villains…whatever you want. The only rules are that it must look like a 1980s portrait, it must be a villain from comics/movies/television and it must be them in a nice pose.

Now what’s a contest without prizes? The winner will receive:

- A mixed CD

- Some photography prints

- A 2GB flash drive with all sorts of goodies inside

- A picture of the framed winning picture on my office desk

- Something else that I can’t think of right now.

And there will also be runner up prizes! And of course, the top…let’s say 20 will be featured on this site.

SPECIFICATIONS: All pictures must be Portrait size and in 300 dpi. Send your submission to wornoldhat@gmail.com by October 31th 2009

EDIT: FOR THOSE THAT AREN’T CONFIDENT IN THEIR DRAWING SKILLS, I WILL ALSO ACCEPT PHOTOS!

That’s it! Sound good? Awesome!

(original link)

Count me the fuck in.

Rachael Noel Fox’s Photography Book, “DAD SOLD CRACK HERE”

While I’m (yes, slowly) recovering from a truckload of shit that fell on my head on the past weeks, Rachael Fox’s photographic skills continue to amaze me. I have seen the preview pages and am itching to buy her new print-on-demand New York photography book, brilliantly titled:

I want this on my fucking living room table.

You can see a preview and buy it here.

Look, Shiny Link

My mate Ted Brandt (ten_bandits) has a blog now, where he writes fiction and displays his talented artwork. Go take a look.

This is him.

But he’s smarter than he looks. Honest.

Criticism on “Cheese”

John Muth from Whitechapel was the first one to talk about my first flash fic here:

“Andre, yeah. I like the photo you used… Nice layout. Don’t know if I could stand to read another story like Cheese though….

…

Yeah.. “

Perfect. And I’m not being sarcastic.