Posted 1 month ago on December 20 2009
I just got this through on my Google Alert: James Blunt :: View topic - Official TwitterLatest update. James Blunt is writing with Jeymes Samuel of the Gorillaz, and wondering which cartoon figure he is.” No need to wonder. I am not part of Gorillaz, in any way, shape or form. We’re all close friends but that’s it. Gorillaz are Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlitt!
Posted 1 month ago on December 15 2009
The inimitable MIKE LAKE. Co-founder of Titan Distribution and Forbidden Planet comics.
Mike and his team at Lakesville helped me put the graphic novel together. His background in comics spans decades and his knowledge is deeper than the Valley Of Gwangi.
Posted 2 months ago on November 12 2009
THE FILM ‘BUSKERS’ HAS YET TO HAVE IT’S CAST FINALISED. BOTH JEYMES SAMUEL AND THE PRODUCTION COMPANY FILM VILLAGE TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES AND THEIR PRODUCTION FROM ANY PRESS OR ARTICLE THAT SUGGEST EITHER KEVIN SPACEY OR DAMON ALBARN ARE CAST MEMBERS. ONCE CASTING IS FINALISED, DETAILS AS TO WHO WILL STAR IN THE PRODUCTION WILL BE RELEASED TO THE PRESS.
Posted 3 months ago on November 9 2009
Michiru Morikawa and myself at the BUSKERS graphic novel signing. Really great moment.
Posted 5 months ago on August 31 2009
BICS is going to be fun this year.
BUSKERS already getting major props!
GO! GO! MICHIRU MORIKAWA!
Posted 5 months ago on August 30 2009
AND NOW…
The BUSKERS graphic novel is finally complete.
It’s being published by the wonderful INSOMNIA PUBLICATIONS.
The special convention edition of the book will be available at the BICS (Birmingham International Comics event) October 3rd/4th 2009.
I think THE BULLITTS are going to have a couple of exclusive demo songs available with this edition.
I can’t wait.
Posted 1 year ago on January 25 2009
The past few weeks I’ve been in the studio recording the BUSKERS soundtrack and spending time with with Damon Albarn recording his song for the movie.
I can’t even begin to describe how beautiful the song sounds. When I wrote the (as yet untitled) number I had my own phrasing in my head how it would sound but as Damon humorously pointed out; “Well yeah, but that’s your phrasing. I’ll do it my own way.”.
Then turns around on his organ and sings out a masterpiece.
The trick you have to employ when working with Damon is KEEP RECORDING, because the man has about a thousand instruments lying around the studio and doesn’t take 5 steps before picking up something and playing something entirely new. Case in point; after laying the HUGE wind organ for the songs, D was coming back in the booth and gingerly strolled past his Tarzan sized Timpani drum, picked up the sticks and started playing loudly… BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, then shouted out;
“And now, for you listening pleasure… (BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM) THE VOCAL TAKE!!!!!” And started laughing his head off.
It was brilliant.
I said to main man Steve (the engineer) keep recording. Suffice to say, that little piece there swiftly became the intro to the song.
Man, I so want you to hear this song already, but good things come to those who wait.
The great thing is, I filmed EVERYTHING so hopefully we’ll put the entire recording process on the special features (after I’ve made my financiers Steven Spielberg money for the theatrical release. lol)
Stay tuned…
Posted 1 year ago on November 21 2008
Woke up this morning to 10 more pages from the dynamic duo Sean Michael Wilson & Michiru Morikawa. Have completed 42 pages of the proposed 120 page Graphic Novel.
Posted 1 year ago on November 20 2008
MOS DEF is perhaps the single most talented actor/musician of his generation
The casting of MOS DEF for the role of PROFIT (the street-wise homeless BIG ISSUE magazine vendor) was an inspired one. It’s important for me to tell the story and make the movie that I would want to go and see. I wrote the role specifically for Mos and his scenes in the movie are among my favourite.
JR… PHOTOGRAPHER/ARTIST
Below is the bio for French photographer/artist JR. One of the most amazing artists on the planet right now. He is going to be doing some background shots for BUSKERS, generally bringing a whole new atmosphere and colour to the streets of London.
BIO:
As an undercover photographer, JR transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets. An acute observer of our time, as comfortable in cozy neighborhoods as in urban ghettos, he questions pedestrians with the exhibitions he mounts on their everyday commutes.
Using a camera he found once in the subway, JR finds inspiration in informal encounters he makes following his travels and his intuitions.
From 2001, he has been pointing his camera to a number of communities (writers, breakdancer, fresstylers, …), and worked with popular actors and musicians such as Vincent Cassel, IAM or the Gotan Project.
From 2004, he has been working on the 28 millimeters project, which first part - Portrait of a generation- led him up to the New York Times front page. The large size pictures of the Montfermeil and Clichy-sous-Bois youth have been notably displayed on the walls of the European Center for Photography and the square of the Hotel de Ville, in Paris.
His pictures beginning to sell at Hotel Drouot of Paris, he keeps on planning unauthorized exhibitions of large size pictures such as in Rome or in Wuppertal (Germany). He is currently working on the second and third parts of the 28 millimeters project in Middle East and Brazil.
The 3rd stage of the 28 millimeters project - Women Are Heroes - has already led him to Africa in post-conflicting zones to shoot the women with who he wishes to share painful stories and to testify of their desire to live. Their portraits were already pasted in Sierra-leone and in Liberia. In 2008-2009, JR will develop this project in India and in Asia
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