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  • Fresh Meet

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    Happenstance magazine cordially invites you to sink your teeth into FRESH MEET, and see what happened when we let some of Sydney’s finest loose on a bunch of body parts.

    With delicious contributions from Ben Ong, Will Loeng, Gemma O’Brien, Jin Hien Lau, Charles Dennington, Daryl Prondoso, Del Lumanta and Rebecca Murphy, FRESH MEET promises an exciting visual feast.

    Come help us put the can back in cannibal from 6pm Thursday July 9, in the basement underneath the Marsu Homme pop-up store, 263 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. Refreshments provided.

    I’m sick as fuck with swine flu or some shit but I managed to finish this piece for a group exhibition this Thursday, featuring some amazin’ artists and friends, it should be fun times if I manage not to spew everywhere on the night, but I guess that’d be quite fitting. These are going to be hung by meat hooks in a creepy basement. Say hello.

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  • Uncategorized, booze, reflection, sex, typography, work // No Comments // 05:08 pm 07-7-09
  • 2008 - because it’s better late than never

  • This image from New Years is a good indication of what all of 2008 was like.

    Favourite Music

    Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill
    Nagisa Ni Te - Yosuga
    Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
    AMT - Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness
    Fennesz - Black Sea
    The Bug - London Bridge
    High Dependency Unit - Metamathics
    Andrew Coltrane - Gongs Of Violence
    Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
    Kazuki Tomokawa - Blue Water, Red Water
    Les Rallizes Denudes - Eve Night
    Fabulous Diamonds - S/T
    Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
    Pentemple
    Pagan Hellfire - Solidarity
    Vajra - Live
    Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Modern Life
    Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
    Soiushou No Fune - Prayer for Chibi
    Islaja - blaze mountain recordings
    Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple of Heaven
    Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
    The Drones – Havilah
    Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
    Andrew WK - The Japan Covers

    Best Gigs

    Japanese New Music Festival - Ruins / Acid Mothers Temple SWR / Akaten  @ Namba Bears, Osaka
    Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO @ Club Goodman, Tokyo
    Otomo Yoshihide @ Shinjuku Pitt Inn, Tokyo
    Joanna Newsom & Sydney Symphony Orchestra @ Sydney Opera House
    Chris Corsano @ Yvonne Ruve
    Jay Reatard @ Annandale
    Bumcreek / Chromedome / Knitted Abyss / Onani / Orodruin / Pagan Dawn / Polyfox / xNOBBQx @ Louie’s

    Best Movies

    Wall-E
    Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
    There Will Be Blood
    Fears of the Dark
    The Fall

    Favourite Fonts

    Soho - Seb Lester
    Mister K - Julia Sysmäläinen
    Serrano - Kris Sowersby
    Compendium - Ale Paul
    Museo & Museo Sans - Jos Buivenga
    Bree - TypeTogether
    BLACK SLABBATH - You Work For Them

    Other Highlights

    Going to japan and buying underwear from a vending machine
    Leaving the west & moving in with the Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys
    Creating my first typeface & graduating from b design (Visual Communication) with minimal effort
    Winning an AGDA award & National Youthweek (DesignIT)
    Passin’ out at 1 AM on New Years
    NEGLECTIN’ THIS DAMN BLOG
    GETTIN’ MY SHIT TOGETHER


  • Inspiration, Uncategorized, process, reflection, sex, visual identity, work // 2 Comments // 10:56 pm 01-27-09
  • ieyeayedentity

  • Last week I turned 22. Last week I also received my new business cards from the printers.


    Logotype set in Alejandro Paul’s ‘Affair’, body type in ‘Minion Pro’


    Eye am me.

    The moniker ‘ieyeaye’ is taken from an album by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a blind avant garde multi-instrumentalist who was known for playing 3 saxophones at once. I’ve always been a fan of jazz, especially the more improvised and experimental side of it, and Kirk’s ‘The Inflated Tear’ is probably one of my favourite records of all time. In “Bright Moments : The Life and Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk (2000)”, Kirk is quoted to have said “That’s what freedom’s all about learnin’ somethin’ then throwin’ it away.” I can’t play the sax, nor will I ever reach his amount of talent - but, like Kirk, I believe that this way of thinking also encompasses my own design process where freedom, expression, experimentation and improvisation is valued most – and anything and everything goes.

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  • booze, reflection, visual identity // 2 Comments // 06:48 pm 11-8-08