Billion Dollar Hippy

This documentary on Steve Jobs, that aired on BBC 2 last night, is really worth a watch. An insight into his life and, cheesy as it sounds, legacy.

Watch it on iPlayer here

Mordor

"One does not simply walk into Mordor." - Boromir

One of my favourite lines in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Decided to dig out my middle earth fonts, and then download some more, to create this. Me and a friend have been watching the extended editions, only Return of the King to go. Oh how I love Lord of the Rings.

Kev Grey

I know there's a lot of this style of illustration out there, but that doesn't make Kev Grey's images any less awesome. I love the nautical/pin-up style, and the simplicity of just black and white is great. They almost look like they should be lino prints.

My favourite. There's just something about lighthouses…

www.kevgrey.com

The Mountain: time lapse

Oh my god, this is absolutely breath-takingly stunning. I recommend watching it full screen.

The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

"This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain´s highest mountain is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories.

The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie"

– TSOPhotography

Christmas at Chy Morva

Yesterday Ellinor was busy making gingerbread. She made hearts instead of Christmas cards to give to people this year. I just ate mine, it was delicious. But even more impressive, is the gingerbread house. I had very little part in making any of this but I did stick some sweets on.

I had my biscuit with chai latte.

I also made a cardboard Christmas tree this morning.

Tomorrow we're going to have a three course meal together – at least that's the plan. A course cooked by each of us. Potentially inviting some others to Chy Morva as well. Should be nice.

Cat & Fox adventures

I do rather like this woodland animal prints. Particularly the wolf – favourite animal.

http://catandfoxadventures.bigcartel.com/product/woodland-animal-collection

A[n unconventional] history of graphic design

I think every graphic designer should have this in their life. I want.

"Graphic Design History for Rainy Days is a charming take on the medium and, as is the current vogue, the book even contains a selection of cut-out designers, your own Bauhaus diploma, and a miniature Apple Macintosh that can be assembled in about 10 minute. This is one for the Christmas list." Creative Review

http://shop.gestalten.com/a-history-of-graphic-design-for-rainy-days.html

Against Me! & Frank Turner @ Hammersmith Apollo

So I popped up to London yesterday to see Frank Turner play his largest ever headline show. To be honest, I mainly went because Against Me! (an awesome American punk band) were announced as the support act. Obviously, I love Frank dearly, but with Against Me! as well I just couldn't miss it.

I had my 5/6 hours train journey to get there, met my dad (who has seen Frank a couple of times as well) and headed to Hammersmith for a spectacular show.

We were on the balcony which means my photographs are pretty bad because of the distance. But I took some anyway, and besides, the sound was really good. I could see better than the camera makes out!

First support was Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo, a folk band from Australia.

Frank came on and sang with them.

Against Me! were incredible. And brilliantly loud.

  They played at least 10 songs with very little gaps between.

I wished I was downstairs to jump/dance around.

Really need to see them at their own show soon.

Everything was quite prompt, so we didn't have to wait long for Mr Turner!

And The Sleeping Souls!

I was very pleased that he played Redemption as I have not heard it live before.

I should point out, I have now seen Frank six times.

The Red Clay Halo girls added their strings and accordion to some songs.

And Nigel (drummer) does like to climb things.

Frank did his cover of Somebody to Love by Queen. Brilliant as at Northampton.

And boom! The logo is revealed. I did wonder where it was.

The Red Clay Halo and Against Me! join for the encore.

And then comes confetti.

I think I've worked out that I must have spent over £50 just on travel for this. I also bought a t-shirt yesterday – mens small because the ladies one sucked. So it has amounted up to an expensive venture but totally worth it.

And now me and Lindsay are booked up to see Frank & The Sleeping Souls headline Wembley Arena in April. I wasn't planning on going, but I don't think it's one that can be missed! I'm hoping for Crazy Arm as opening act.