Prey For Me

"Disturbia are ecstatic to announce the launch of 'Prey For Me'. A limited edition statuette by Godmachine.

A match made in hell, Disturbia and Godmachine have collaborated for a number of years on many of Disturbia's most iconic t-shirt creations, and so the release of 'Prey For Me' brings his beautifully dark illustration style to glorious life.

Standing at 8 inches tall, 'Prey For Me' will be available in 3 colourways; Black (£45), Bronze (£85) and D.I.Y white (£55), with a total edition of just 200 pieces. The Black variant is limited to 100 pieces, and Bronze and White limited to just 50 of each.

The bust is a hand cast, and hand painted polystone statuette (the bronze variant has been electroplated), and comes boxed in bespoke packaging.

'Prey For Me' will be available for Pre-Order on the 18th of June, exclusively from Disturbia."

John Mayers ablum.

  I have posted some of Davis stuff before as the last sign writer in the UK as he was becoming quite popular in these days of quick-fix-digital. It was great to see him pop up again in this video and John Mayer describe it so well. If you havent seen Davids work I've put the original video below this one. Do watch it because its breath taking:

The Making of John Mayer's 'Born & Raised' Artwork from Danny Cooke on Vimeo. David A Smith:

David A Smith - Sign Artist from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

Chris Cunningham rather than Aphex Twin

I wrote my University dissertation on music video directors and how they were superseding the bands/musicians that hired them. As me ol' mate once prophetically said ; "art is fashionable". If you can Find them, I really don't know if they are still available you can get box sets of videos from all diff' musicians but complied because of the director, Gondry has one, Cunningham has one and more. Either way- I am posting this due to someone saying they have never heard of Cunningham. He helped me span the gap between film and art.

Stardust

The first time I saw Sunshine by Danny Boyle I didn't like it. I don't know why, I felt rushed maybe.... and I didn't know at the time but it was to be the last film I ever saw in the cinema. For some reason years later I accidentally heard part of the score from the film and loved it, I think it was that famous piece that was later used in a thousand commercials and that Kick Ass film. But on hearing the music I decided to give it another go at home and fell in love with it. I've since bought one of those big TVs, its the first TV i have ever bought and my love of film continues with my own home cinema.
   This is a beautiful video and a great sentiment:

"PostPanic director Mischa Rozema's new short film, Stardust, is a story about Voyager 1 (the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system). The probe is the furthest man-made object from the sun and witnesses unimaginable beauty and destruction. The film was triggered by the death of Dutch graphic designer Arjan Groot, who died aged 39 on 16th July 2011 from cancer.

The entire team at PostPanic (the Amsterdam-based creative company) pushed themselves in their own creative post techniques to produce a primarily CG short film crafted with love."

Click the Vimeo link to read more. 


Stardust from PostPanic on Vimeo.

Ken Nordine

 I'd like to dedicate this to you, Everyone.

Disturbia

I keep forgetting to post the interviews so they may come in dribs drabs and spurts. Just the way you like it. Read it at DISTURBIA

Foalio

I recently did an interview with the awesome folk over at Foalio, click here for INTERVIEW

Trampt blog post

I thought this was particularly lovely form Trampt and worth reiterating:

Featured for Art Prints: Godmachine

Godmachine's intense illustrations will knock your socks off. Widely considered one of the heavy-hitters of todays ever growing print scene, his work is powerful, often gory, and heavily detailed. On top of being amazing (and having an enviable beard!) he's also extremely prolific. He was one of only a handful of artists selected to represent Gallery 1988 - Melrose in their recent Academy Awards sponsored event titled The Academy : 2013. His Zero Dark Thirty poster was an exceptional use of glow-in-the-dark ink and deserves an oscar all its own. Even more excitingly, for me anyway, was his latest for the Get A Room show at Bottleneck Gallery. I'm not ashamed to admit that The Fifth Element is my all time favorite movie and Godmachine's tribute to the true heartthrob in the movie (no, not Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, or the absolutely stunning Milla Jovovich), the robotesq intergalactic visitors called the Mondoshawan, warms my shiny metal heart. More exciting still is the news that he's already submitted some work to our buddies Warpaint Press and will be one of the first artists featured when they launch next month. Keep a close eye on his blog, or you'll inevitably miss something!

Gallery 1988 / The Academy / The Oscars

I was lucky enough to asked by Gallery 1988 to produce a poster for the Oscar nominations along with Olly Moss, Matt Kelly , Rich Owen, Mark Englert and a few more. For more info visit the Academy site and Gallery 1988.



Gallery 1988 - For Your Consideration Art Show from Gallery1988 on Vimeo.

To This Day- Shane Koyczan

This was sent to me by Widas with the message "you may like this". I did, and I hope you do too. I hate bullys.

An Unkindness

The second teaser for my upcoming personal project; "An Unkindness".

Skull King

I'm terrible for updating interviews and blog posts, book features, galleries and they all come and go without mention, I do try honest. Click the picture below:

Godmachine Teaser

I have a personal project coming up soon and will be dropping some teasers along the way. That's all I am saying. Play it big and loud.

Do what you want to do because you love it.

Everything is Incredible

Everything is Incredible from Tyler Bastian on Vimeo.

Rue Morgue Interview

Last months edition of Rue Morgue I was featured in the Morgue Gallery- go buy your copy and read the words I spoke.

Mucho Machismo gallery show

I had a chance to do a piece for an awesome show and chose Videodrome- go hassle the guys for your limited edition copy of my poster: click image for article and links to show: Buy it here: SPOKE ART SHOP

Bottleneck gallery

Was asked to do a piece (see on my portfolio) for the BottleNeck gallery- a few images of the night should surface soon but heres a cool mention: click on image for article

Poster tubes craft adventure

I buy and send out a lot of poster tubes and often wonder what people do with them after. They are strong tubes and it seems such a waste so we in the office were thinking what else you could do with them. I came up with  these two, Dan suggested using them as table legs.....let me know if you have any ideas.

I am about to embark on another gallery piece and wanted to seperate all my brushes and pens from all my biros and pencils- so, using the the free sticker that comes with most of the tubes: a pencil holder:


The guilty pens:

 I measured the sticker and the pens so it wouldn't be top heavy or anything- made sure it fitted my pens.

 I stick the sticker on before hand to help guide me. Probably a better way but there we go...

 I started off using a craft knife but the tubes were so thick and my skill so limited I ended up using Dans saw. you get a much cleaner and more straight of a cut this way.

Ta Daaaa Tony Heart eat your heart out.

Next up I thought It would make a sturdy pencil case seeing as both end caps are pretty solid and snug fitting and would double as a pencil holder too so made the other end into a longer pencil case:

Chucked a bunch of stickers on there and all that jazz:

Anti-theist

I have been releasing some mugs lately to go with my passion for coffee and had a think about what mug I would like for myself. One Idea I had was an Anti-theist mug (Check the store above) . The term 'anti-theist was coined by Christopher Hitchens some time ago and having thought more about it saw that it described me more than most descriptions. I once thought I was an atheist and if you want I will still fall in line behind that should a call go out. The term 'atheist' describes someone who doesn't believe in god..... but describing me as something that doesn't do something is like giving a name to not stamp collecting or rejecting the idea of astrology. I don't believe in a lot of things and I have no name for them, so why this? Also, all religious people don't believe in someone elses god, we just don't believe in one more. Anti-theism means to be against religion. For a better description I found this great Video of Steve Weinburg explaining his anti-theism. For more ideas on it all look up Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and enjoy learning and disappearing down that rabbit hole.

  "Putting god ahead of humanity is a terrible thing"