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Friday, March 26th, 2010

It’s Love Maggie’s Day today, raising awareness of and money for the Maggie’s cancer charity. At work we’re having a little bit of a competition for the best photo of “London from up high.” It’s open to everyone, the best photos wins a prize, and best of all Vexed donate £5 to charity for every picture uploaded.

The competition’s on our Facebook page, so rifle through your camera, become a fan and upload a pic to donate £5 to charity with no extra effort required.

Applying a bit of creative licence (and whatever I had to hand), here’s a couple of my entries. I might see if I can climb some trees* during lunchtime.

Santa’s Wish Kingdom @ Westfield Shopping Centre, Xmas

Disney Store, Oxford Street, a busy Saturday

* Unlikely, of course.

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

This is an excellent strip which I occasionally find myself coming back to. Almost invariably it’s funnier, darker or just more bizarre than the originals themselves. Nice to know that Jim Davis approves of the idea too, rather than blindly suing the pants off the author for using his original work.

The moment of schoolboy mirth below is an excellent example of why you should read it.

(Couldn’t find the original strip, sadly.)

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Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Those moments when you crash into something that meant a lot to you a long time ago make the internet worthwhile. So it was, then, when I found some guy called Wez White waxing lyrical about some locals who were once very close to my heart – Rave In Arms.

Though no-one really knew who they were, their manic cut/paste sound set them apart from not only the smooth pop of the time but even against their clear influences in breakbeat rave.

I’ve got a bunch of well-worn dubs of their old stuff that aren’t up on the site, so maybe I’ll be able to help flesh out the site’s collection, assuming I can rescue them from the dusty corner of my mind – and my parents house – where they must be by now…

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Friday, October 23rd, 2009

As you read this, I’ll be at this:

mutate-e-flyer2 (Click for bigger version)

Hopefully I can wibble enthusiastically about it upon my return. In the meantime, have a nose at what you’re missing.

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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

They’ve sampled Roger Miller, American sex-education films and John Peel, so you can imagine my glee when I saw this fantastic Brucie Bonus as I took an occasional surf to the weird end of town. It could only be the Cuban Boys, doing their bit to beat the gloom and doom with a rousing rework of a national anthem from the 60s.

The formula’s pretty simple: Sample ancient song, add tubthumping beat, mix in some sampled guitars, stir and recover. It’s similar stuff to Every Girl Has A Volvo yet it manages to surpass even that in so-bad-it’s-good catchiness. I’ve been stabbing repeat feverishly at the player on their website for the last fifteen minutes.

I’m Backing Britain isn’t yet available from their online store, so camp out until the relevant communicon arrives. Chalk another up to the Cubans for being the silliest people in pop, or as they put it:

This is not flag-waving nationalism but tea-sipping eccentricity.

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