at the end of the rainbow there's...

tsykie

A few cans of the Polish stuff and with laurence away from the house me and matt got working on our latest scheme. A hideously life sized plan of that awful singing bag of orange and shit wrapped in a jumble sale of an 80s discarded wardrobe and topped off with awful backing tracks made by a 12 year old that just got garage band. Ladies and Gents. I give you. LE ROOT.

Hur var Sverige

Burno's life source

FRIENDS....!

and foe's its finally happened.
today it worked.


STG is online. its official.

forget blogspot.
The gash has a new home... AND IT WORKKKKSSSS


STG/STG/STG/STG/STG/STG?STG/STG/STG


thankyou very much.
goodnight
X

Haven't updated here in ages. Been doing loads though. Saving you up for something special.
The Gashspot is breaking up. Moving, to bigger and better places. Website still being built. More infomation to follow.

Gash for now.

Saatchi Gallery

Monday was a nice day so me and Joe pedaled our way over towards Sloane Sq. to check out the Saatchi Gallery. It's free so you might as well. Some really funny, and different art work in there at the moment. As well as some quite contemporary stuff. The gallery itself is amazing and can inspire any dull mind.
Printed ESSELLE mix sleeves today. got 100s to sort through. But will post them up later.
GASH OUT.

Front BackLot Arcade Games

W/M cont'

WHOLEMEAL is going into it's final design stages. With this pretty much decided as the overall feel and identity for the night. Next up, proposal to go with the idea, website. And hopefully venue.Stay tuned as South East gets all 'olemealed up.

'Bird Flew Again'

Who is this man? Is he a man, or is he a bird? What is this music he makes? I don't know But I like it. Does he really have no post-production..... hmmm maybe, maybe he is just THAT GOOD. Possibly. He hails from a town like many other, it's called Berkhamsted (like only that one) It's ok, pretty boring to be honest. But it does seem to give birth to a few musical, genius's? No, no wait not genius's musical People it gives birth to musical people. But that's quite good as well. Anyway that's enough chitchat. Go listen to his music on myspace. 'B F A'.
And if you like it maybe you can buy it on itunes or something I don't know.

I'll keep you secretly updated on this thing.

W/M

Getting some idea's done for the esselle boys. Wholemeal Identity.

flash.... AHHHHAAAAHHH

for some reason its not coming out straight but screw it. Its late and I should be doing some actual work. Now just to find a film to watch. Thanks today goes to Gaffen for getting CS3 to work. GASH OUT> AHHHHHAHHH
maybe this will inspire the boys and girls of thirty six to start doing some work together.... so far its just me right? O well. THANK YOU goodnight


MORE MORE MORE

bikeless

for a day. Before and after shots tomorrow though.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

watch this video though. Simple and informative Jonathan Jarvis.

TWIGGY>GETTING HIS PHUNK ON

PCC

Go on rediscover your childhood.

A night of Canadian Metal

Secret cinema was the occasion (Czech it out)
So we headed off to The shepards bush empire for the night. No idea what we were going to be watching apart from the clue that everyone was dressed as either Metal Heads/Rockers/ or sleazy promoters. Obviously we assumed Spinal Tap was going to be showing. Wrong we were.
We found our way to our seats and were rewarded with popcorn, sensations and vitaminjuice. ACE> The theater filled with rowdy metal fans and there was an old drunk rocker chatting rubbish on stage. Then all the way from Toronto came couldron. A cheesy metal trio of skinny kids blasted out a couple of tunes. Followed then by a short film and then onto the main showing. Still not having been told what it was going to be. And being informed "its not spinal tap you idiots" But actually getting to witness the UK Premiere(ish) of a film that opens friday. called ANVIL the Story of Anvil. Anvil were a metal band from the 80's that toured with Bon Jovi, white snake and the likes but never ever got big or made any more. Now 13 albums later and with a combined age of over 200 they're trying once again to make this album work. With a front man who was the spitting image of my American neighbour and some catchy vocals the film documented their lives and struggles through small tours of pubs and finally a huge gig in tokyo.



You can see why we found it hard to work it out whether it was a joke or not. But no it couldn't be they were just too genuine to be fake. Just good men who play metal. Anyway after an hour n a half or so and having been promised a star guest after the film, Being teased with the likes of sir bobby charlton or George Michaels mum, we stayed seated. Only to be greeted by spot light at the end of the film soloing on a tier to the right of the stage was 'Lips' Front man of Anvil!!!!! HOLY SHIT. The crowd erupted and he made his way down to the stage where he was joined by Robb Reiner (drums), and Ian Dickson (bass). Dave Allison (guitar) had left the band with his eastern european wife after the documentary was made. So they played a few songs whilst the whole crowd was on their feet clapping, cheering, chanting. This was Anvils biggest moment. But it was about to get even bigger. Joining them on stage for their final song. METAL ON METAL! was none other than Scott Ian from ANTHRAX. What a night they played thier final song and everyone left happy. What a night. Secret cinema goes all out. LIVE THE DREAM.

Letter-IN-pressed?

Continuing a project that M?STRY/GASH started quite a while ago now. Still needs a slight bit of touching up but is pretty much there. 'The 36 House Proud' Rules for keeping our house nice was something that came straight from the state of our home. Not wanting to just moan about the state of it. M?STRY & GASH set about on a massive clean. After that and in order to prove the seriousness of what we were doing we headed down to letter press where we typesetted 12 rules in 12 typefaces. The outcomes we're nice but the other day I developed the whole project a little further when the house (sure enough) was messy once again. Taking a few of the posters and the mess I found just downstairs I stained, messed up, and dirtied the posters with all the things that had been left around. To prove the point more than anything else. But also giving the posters a bit reason and feel. Tea bag stains, chocolate spread, and alcohol. And to top it off whilst down in the workshop today someone liked the prints so much they asked to have one. So now Gash will be taking up a wall in someones house. Signed and sealed. A very good thursday.

THE POSITIVE THINKING TIMES

One of my final briefs has been set by ISTD and *Frost. The title is ENVIRONMENT/TYPOGRAPHY/ENVIRONMENT. The basic question around this is 'Does typography shape the environment or vice versa?' My idea was to take the economic environment and the current state it is having on the area's we live in and how we live our lives. I know I can't change much about the state we're in but to get myself visualising abit more and writing a bit less I spent today in letter press. where I cut up the financial times, and tried to give it a subtle but positive feel. So that if you looked a little closer at it would make you smile. And worry slightly less about all the negative stories that cover it overwise.
Semi-transparent ink, positive quotes and san serif typeface. And together once printed on the off pink paper I think give a real nice feel. A Positive outlook that London is currently lacking. Typography shaping the environment. Two ways, One paper!
"Fear Less, Hope more" / " Talk Less, Speak more" / "think, and you will be".