From Veer’s 2007 “Activity book” catalog.

I don’t really talk about my work here, but I work as a freelance designer/animator. And while all my clients are lovely wonderful people, especially the ones reading this there are a few truths to the above image and the video below – and indeed the whole of the Clients From Hell website where these both are taken from…many hours on that website, grimly chuckling. I’ve been there…but not with YOU dear customer. You’re perfect!

Also check out this video on how private companies and corporates would redesign the stop sign…painful truths in there…

And this one on the idea that clients can pay less which wouldn’t fly in the real world:

Dragapella act Kinsey Sicks do a topical number about spills and drill baby drill (no it’s not that kind of video!).

I especially like the bit at the end that:

‘If you think the problem is just Goldman Sachs or BP,
there’s a walrus I can sell you in the Carribean Sea!’

because it’s easy to blame/bankrupt one corporate, when they are all, and indeed ourselves, to blame.

Jesus Christ I got my swagger back by Retarded Cunt

I can imagine all the web nanny corporate firewall sphincters contracting as I type the name of this mashup artist Retarded Cunt but what the fuck – crazy, uncommercial, uncompromising, messy and silly name, crazy, uncommercial, uncompromising, messy and silly mashups. I like, a lot.

Sometimes the millions of radio-friendly perfectly musically pitched ‘Pop vs Pop’ productions aren’t the point – where’s the grit? The humour? The what the fuck attitude? I worry for a lot of the more recent mashup artists, the pop is less bastard and more brand-friendly. Harummph.

And gotta love something that will never be played on radio, probably cos of the name…as everyone worries about their ‘brand’ and corporate slightly radical posturing…wonderful. You’ll probably hate it, probably think it’s terrible (hey I agree it’s wrong – even probably someone’s idea of a joke alias – but wonderfully intentionally wonkily wrong – full of YOU CAN’T DO THAT moments, some that work, some that don’t) but silly sonic terrorism (as Vicki People Like Us says ‘avant retard’) gives me hope because that’s where this whole thing came from. Silly, messy, clashy, witty, WTF bootlegs. It’s what I fell in love with in the first place.

And anything that makes jaded-old ‘heard it’ me laugh nowadays is alright with me. KInd of like Girl Talk with better drugs and a sense of humour…

Where’s my war of the worlds? by Retarded Cunt

The wonderful Hayseed Dixie covering Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody in bluegrass style. Yee-haa! (via Ad quattuor cardines mundi blog)

They made a video…for probably the most filmic (and real) hip-hop song ever? I missed this – Sage Francis’s ‘Best of Times’ (a collab with Yann Tiersen and actually lead me to check out more of his stuff, his back catalogue as well as Amelie which I knew well is sublime) has an intriguing and moving video.

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(And yes the eye candy doesn’t hurt either, but I like him for his rapping, honest)