TWO/THOUSAND/ELEVEN

December 22nd, 2011

Miffy Shaw – Super Tough

Wow what a year, super highs, mega lows. Quit Aperture, A drum and bass night I built from the ground up, ran for five years and has basically built the person I am today, it’s my social circle, my opportunity giver, both for myself and others. I loved it with everything, loved everyone involved but was time to move on, time for new blood. I gave it to long time friend Dan Harris to run and what a job he has done, as healthy as ever and gives me a place to act like a drunk monkey every two weeks (I still DJ there – unbelievably). Split with my fiance and best friend of seven years so that she could go follow her dreams of working/modelling for Playboy, at least it wasn’t the milkman or a DJ, dreams are super important and deserved to be chased Hard. Got sponsored by Red Bull to put artwork up in my favourite club in the world (not the biggest or most blinging) Welsh Club, produced a Shepard Fairey (an idol of mine) esqe piece that i’m super proud of. Got a phone call that made me spit orange juice over my computer, on the other end was Goldie asking me to produce a set of designs Metalheadz, I believe I smashed it, to have an artist like Goldie loving your work was the greatest feeling ever. Photographed two single covers for my best friend High Contrast, one out now, one coming in February, we also made a music video together ‘The First Note is Silent’ (see below) which was definitely my favourite project I have been involved with, roping in family and friends to produce a something so personal and beautiful was such a privilege. Started my friend James Watts up in the t-shirt game, with his project ‘So Ghetto’ big things coming from him. Worked closely with friends and controversial mad-heads Astroid Boys, loads of love for those guys, produced a collaboration with Brutality will Prevail – fucking rad!!!. At the moment i’m producing a suit to be worn by London Elektricity for early next year and just got a skateboard from Alien Worksop to work on, a few projects that I gotta keep close to my chest but will be dope, produced four new lines for DroneBoy and each new on being my favourite, stoked and Trash Talk crashed round my house.

Also need to shout my Sister (in law, but really my sister) Miffy. She been fighting in intensive care for a while, in-which she has been admitted twice this year, fuck what a fighter, toughest I know, given me a new perspective on life (not in a cheesy way). Miffy is now in her own room reading magazines and talking to my brother about the house they will develop in January, three weeks ago the doctors told us she was as good as dead, welcome home Sis, next year we will have some good times. Viva 2012 I feel it will be a smasher.

Thanks to everyone who shared the highs, everyone who helped dust me off in the lows, everyone new and old in my life – Big-ups

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MY FAVOURITE THINGS OF 2011

Cinema:-

TREE OF LIFE by Terrence Malick

MELANCHOLIA by Lars Von Trier

These films are polar opposites one made me feel like taking on the world, the other made me feel physically sick and claustrophobic in the cinema, in hindsight I loved that a piece of cinema could make me feel this way but when I was in the picture house I wanted to batter the director Lars Von Trier and shake hands with Terrence Malick. Both really good, both deserve a concentrated watch.

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TRACKS:-

HIGH CONTRAST – THE FIRST NOTE IS SILENT