Mark Ronson, Mirwais, N.E.R.D, and Pepe Deluxes – mMy fave mix on 8tracks at the moment. Have a cheeky listen below or click on the stillettos 
Category: spotted
This year, I thought I’d post up who or what has inspired me each month. To start off 2010, the company I’m nominating for January is MDM Props in London. A company I first read about last year on wired.com in an article by Kate Kitamura, MDM are commissioned by artists such as Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Jake and Dinos Chapman to create and build their physical works of art, taking their ideas and ‘white labelling’ them by bringing them to life.
Why do they inspire me?
Working within digital production, we often work backstage, pulling strings, making cups of tea and trying to figure out problems from the banal to the complex. Most of the time we sit staring at the pixels working with ‘digital’, something that is abstract and not physically in front of us, there is no mass to digital, it boils down to alot of binary.
Imagine the challenges however of trying to find a shade of black paint that is ’20 times blacker than the next blackest shade’ or fighting with the laws of physics all the while managing the creative expectations of an artist.
Despite the inevitable stresses and pressures that this process must entail, imagine too the satisfaction of having completed a monumental piece of installation art.
Always being behind the eight ball, I have just come across bitly.tv and have completely fallen for the simple interface that uses a slider bar to filter video clip thumbnails so you can view what the ’world’ has been watching and is currently watching while also providing the ability to view a specific video and see associated tweets. Feels like I will be using this a lot…….
Or rather one of the Storm Troopers, the boys in the office are very excited (*eyes rolling*) about the launch of the Star Wars themed Adidas Originals collection, the ad is pretty good though not sure I’d spend hundreds on a pair of pristine white sneakers that will eventually get tatty….I hear ebay calling……
Adidas Star Trek Kicks
An eerie effect, the London scenery makes me feel homesick 
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Working as a digital producer, I have a strange fascination with retro. For craftwork Friday I am going to make a pin hole camera, who knows how it will turn out. Will post the results on Saturday, the anticipation of how the photo will develop is something that is missing from digital photography.
If you want to try it out too, Corbis has more funky templates that you can download here, I’ve picked Pablo