Mcfaul's flashy new website is launched...

The creative juices have been flowing a plenty over at the Mcfaul studio, so much so they decide to funnel some flavour into a huge refurb on their old site. So go check out what the illustrative genius's have been up to and have a browse at all their previous masterpieces aswell... here.


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Now playing: Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower
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New Maccabees Album...

'Wall of Arms' is the latest album release from the young Maccabees. For a preview, courtesy of XFM London, you can check out four new tracks featured on their album. Have a listen right here.
Its due to drop on 27th April so be sure to get your mittens on a copy. Photo taken by the incredibly talented Mr. Edward John Rolland Schofield.

'The Last Hit'- Art Department photos.

For the last week, I helped out in the art department for a graduation film 'The Last Hit'. The set was being built in an army hangar in Lark Hill-near Salisbury and it boaster a hench blue screen hired in from Pinewood Studios. I nailed, painted, wallpaper pasted, sawed (sp?), and drilled alot and had a hell of a lot of fun. Good crew as well, so all round success. Here are a few photos...

Skateboarding Webit.

Thought I'd put this up as some people cant watch it on facebook. The track is by Crystal Stilts.

St Marks edit.

The Guildford 5...

I recently watched a film callled 'Hunger' directed by an artist Steve Mcqueen. The film follows the last 6 weeks of the hunger strike in 1981 by republican idol Bobby Sands. Its an amazing film, with an epic scene that is 17 and a half minutes long! With only one stationary camera take, its the longest shot recorded in a feature film. Find out more about Hunger here. So, anyway, the film, alongside the current shootings in NI got me interested in the history of the IRA and the Real IRA and other such sectors and got me talking with a guy on my course-Dave Tallon. Dave is from Dublin and we discussed the recent attacks on the soldiers at Massereene Barracks and he got on to mention a film about 'The Guildford 5'.
Having gone to college in Guildford, I was shocked to think that a film of such depth had been made about an incident in the town. I may be the only one who not to hear of this sooner, but for those who never heard of the Surrey IRA attacks, you can read the BBC post of the event here. It was quite a shocking read as it was so close to home.
The film in which Dave mentioned is 'In the Name of the Father' and stars Daniel Day Lewis. You can find out about this movie here. The Guildford 5 was the title given to the 5 people falsely accused over the Guildford bombings in 1974. The 5 were bullied by British police into making a guilty plea and consequently spent 15 years in jail trying to prove their innocence. They were only released after advances in tecnology exposed vital evidence.

'I've got a spot of...'

Hello and welcome to my blog- the hub of all fun.

Earlier today at a local Subway, me, Duncan Christie and Ben Perry were just finishing up our food when a woman walked in, looking quite distressed. I noticed her sweaty face as she dashed to the toilet. Time went by for about 15 minutes or so when Duncan and Ben decided to leave. I needed to use the toilet so I said my goodbyes and waited for the dial to switch to 'Vacant'. It wasn't untill the dude behind the counter said to me, 'She's been in there too long' that it actually hit me how long she really had been. We thought it would be a good idea to go check it out so we approached the door. Literally as soon as we walked towards it we could his this painful groan, not far off birth contraptions I assume, as she wailed out 'eeuuuuurrrrrrr, eeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur, euuuuuuuuuuuuuur!!!!!!!!' I thought to myself 'What the fuck?'
So being the concerned guy most people would be in that situation, I quietly knocked on the door and said 'Hello?' the woman just managed to say"oh, hello!' back. When I asked if she was ok, I wasn't expecting the level of honesty in which she blessed myself and the assistant with, managing to state that 'It's just a spot of constapation!' Me-'?????????', she calmly replied 'I said don't worry, I wont be long, I've got constapation.' I was baffled at this point as to why she felt the need to share it, but as the assistant was Spanish and yet to learn the word constaption I took it upon myself, by squatting and screwing my face to demonstrate to him what constapation was.
We left the woman to her own devices as I walked out pissing myself. Not literally ofcourse, though I did frustratingly still need the toilet, but I was laughing at her. Very, very funny times.