I made a poster for an event hosted by UPOP.no this spring, thought i should share the results. I initially had loads of sketches, resulting in a mayhem of ideas. I finally went for a design based on photographing different objects i had lying around on my desk. Mind you that it’s all in the shot; nothing, save color, was added in photoshop later.
Sketch. Click to biggify.
Final version. Click to biggify.
Baah! Air! I have finally finished my newest mixtape brainchild; Summer of science. It’s all recorded live, using some fancy new gear i have just recently gotten the hang of. Available for super-free download right away, how nice!
I should mention that this mixtape is released under my DJ Lys moniker, not Totem. The difference lies in the style of music, Totem plays Hiphop and Funk related music, Dj Lys is on more of a house tip.
This mixtape is themed around my love for moody but danceable electronic music. It was made to accompany both a day in the park with a boombox and a walk in the rain with headphones, hope people agree. I’m using an absolute minimum of fancy mixing on this one, this is very straight forward. I’ve done this since it is supposed to be the first in a series of mixtapes, this one being the “moody, simple one”. The other tapes i have planned will utilize much more of my accumulated soundsystem, but you’ll just have to wait and see.
Download the whole mixtape right here, or have a listen:
Just finished up a new visual for the renown local webmag UPOP.no, espescially for a party they are throwing next saturday. It’s based around the same basic concept as the last one, but this time more refined, more fancy, more everything. I think it’s gonna be my thing from now on, putting a glow effect on everything i do. It’s like reverb, but for video. And reverb is good!
Thanks to Sebastian for the soundtrack, please don’t sue me when people think i made that too. And yes, I am indeed playing at the party. Most certainly going to spin some Sebastian.
Please comment if you have likes/dislikes!
Yeehaw! I finished soldering together my first dub siren some time ago, so now it’s time to share! I made a quick video with me playing it, and took some pictures while I made it. A heapload(nice word, no?) of thanks to Dave from superset sounds for helping me out with it, i built it based on his original schematics.
The box is an old shaving box from the early 1900’s, and yes, i soldered the whole thing myself from scratch. Thankyouverymuch.
I’m planning on streamlining the production a bit (this one took me ages to make) and making some more, with custom built wooden casings, hopefully laser engraved. Give me a holler in the comments of what you think, or if the new ones i’m making sounds worth bying. I’ll post about them too of course, when i get them made that is.
Dub siren v1.1 from Jacob Fantastisk on Vimeo.
EDIT: the complete rubdown of my dub siren project is now live, check it out here!
Håvard from UPOP.no interviewed me on some various stuff and asked me to share some vids with the world. You can see it on upop.no.
Awrite! I just uploaded some more of the stuff that I’ve been up to lately, some drawings i did for REWIND! and a couple of the front page illustrations i did for UPOP. Take a look in the portfolio section if you wanna see!
The drawings were basically a quick way for me to get rid of some of the exess energy I’ve got building up for this saturday’s gig. My dub siren is finally completed, and I can’t wait to rock out with it. I’ll post some footage and video for the sake of the dub siren project when it’s done, since I’ve been following up that project here on the blog.
I’ve been doing some writing for UPOP, a bloggish website for music/art/lifestyle stuff lately. And more importantly, I’ve been working towards getting a podcast running for them. The system has been in the works for some time now, and with the latest upgrade of their wordpress system, it’s right there! I also made the visual work around the project, represented by the graphic and the video you see here.
The podcast is gonna feature dj Mixes from all sorts of local djs, interviews with bands and such, and all sorts of other stuff you might catch on tape. Go have a look at UPOP.no and the UPOPCAST page, or just take my word that it rocks and subscribe right away. If you can’t figure it out, blame the tech guys, just not me.
UPOP Visual v1.2 from Jacob Fantastisk on Vimeo.
Ever since i first found out how to pimp my MySpace profile so many years ago, i have been tugging my hair in frustration. The cause of my woe is of course MySpace’s horrible page layout, it’s never-W3C-compliant-code, and the never ending “an error has ocurred”, among others. But it is the de facto standard for bands and a lot of other things on the web, so we just have to make due.
Don’t get me wrong though. Emo kids aside, MySpace has revolutionized the way we look at music on the web, and finding new bands to listen to is ever-increasingly fun and easy. Not being represented on the space of spaces is ridiculous, any good band knows not to say no to free advertisement.
My main DJ alias, Totem, has had a myspace page since 2005, from shitty glitter to glorious GIFs. I revamped the entire page recently, being to embarrassed to have such a horrid thing represent me professionally, trying to make it more simple and striking, but still using myspace’s usual layout to help people navigate. I wrote the whole thing in dreamweaver (with photoshop doing graphics) to control the code, and the result is a piece of HTML markup that even your grandma could read and make sense of.
Now, where am i getting at, where is the newsworthy item?
The thing is, my main club, REWIND!, has been in dire need of MySpace representation for some time, and now i finally got around to it. Since my other page was just finished, i simply took that design, snazzed the color scheme around, and there you have it. It’s not revolutionary design, but than again i’m not trying to do that. I’m just a brother trying to make something that loads fast and looks pleasing, cool?
Now that i said all that, you might want to take a look:
here’s Totem, and
here’s REWIND!
Comments and feedback is appreciated, as i haven’t tested this in every browser out there yet. Bugs should be minimal at least.
I pitied the posters for the local qualification rounds for the national barista championships (made in MS word), so i whipped up something in inDesign real quick and silk screened some new posters for them.
These are hand numbered and signed, only eleven pieces in existence, silk screened on 200grams paper that we painted brownish first. I wanted the design to look real classic and conservative, i think i achieved that pretty well, despite the hand painted brown stuff underneath. And the odd format was great to work with too. And a big thanks to Dino again, silk screening alone is a bitch. If you wanna see it bigger, you can see it on flickr
Or well, calling it a song is stretching it, i guess. It’s more of a remix/re-edit/re-fuckup. We’re releasing this as part of the promotion for REWIND! this season, you can listen to it and dowload it from this thingamajing right here:
If you like it we have tons more like this back at my page on facebook.
