Benge Gif

And heres an annoying Benge logo animated gif:

A Memetune Logo

Sparked Lines

Wow here are the lovely line drawings of synths done by Lyn for our remix album Sparked. Don't they look nice?

Planning Placements

I have been officially planning where to place things in the Control Room today:

So Near Sofa

I've been beavering away in the new studio space trying to get the consoles and built-in furniture designed and made. What fun it is especially now the sun is out. Here are some of my vectorised ideas:

The sofa design is inspired by John Lautner's awesome 1961 Sheats Residence

Much more to follow on this subject, obvs

Shelf Life

I've put some shelves up in the live room (on my model). These will house my keyboards. Music by John Foxx and the Maths, Buddwing from The Shape of Things

Console Myself

Messing about with the scalpel again...

Interior Motifs 2

Fast-forward seven years from Captain Scarlet and you have Gerry Anderson's Space 1999, which still looks futuristic to me although it was in fact meant to be going back in time from 2068 to 1999. So thats 2068 - 1999 + 7 = 76, the year it actually debuted, if you add 1

Interior Motifs

Paul sent me a link to some screen shots from Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet series. Check out these beautiful set designs. I want to build a studio like that!

MUS_IIC Festival.01

We are hosting a mini-music-fest at the Red Gallery in Old Street. You must come! Its us (Wrangler, who just made it onto The Quietus' best albums of the year so far thing), Gazelle Twin and also Minny Pops, cool!

MORE INFO HERE

Here are Minny Pops in action in 1980:

Poster

Now this is a gig I would love to have been at. HL's very first, the poster was by M.Ware:

Forbidden House

I was watching Forbidden Planet again the other day on bluray. The design on that film is amazing, it is so beautiful! Morbius has a house which looks like it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1950 (obvs.) and its on the planet Altair IV. Its a bit like how I feel sometimes. Here is a walkthrough that someone made, along with some electronic tonalities by L&BB:

Runabout

Ive been having a really busy few weeks on a big project that involves me moving house. So I need a new (old) car to do the commute, which is now a lot longer than it used to be. I think I might get a Citroen BX because it can do 65 MPG on the motorway. And also it was designed in the late 70s / early 80s by one of my favourite designers, Bertoni. It started life as the Reliant FW11 and then turned into the Volvo Tundra but both concept cars were rejected until Citroen nicked it in 1982:

UPDATE: I bought a MK3 Golf instead

Wrangler Green

The search for the Wrangler green goes on...

Tape Worms

Speaking of Tench, he pointed me towards these really cool posters by Neil Stevens