Motion City Soundtrack was pretty influential on my teenage years. I came across them after Mark Hoppus mentioned them on his podcast because he was producing their latest album at the time, then I went down the rabbit hole and got obsessed.
As I’ve grown up, the music has matured with me, my musical taste has gone in a different direction to what it was ten years ago, but whenever I catch wind of MCS, I’m checking out whatever the news is straight away!
Read MoreI was out for my late-night walk one night, and I flicked open Twitter to get rid of whatever notification was bugging me at the time.
The first tweet I saw was this;
REST IN POWER Jordan Alexander Groggs a loving father, life partner and friend. (6/1/1988-6/29/2020)
Read MoreDan was - unintentionally - the last person I’d shot with before COVID-19 Lockdown kicked in. He was also the first person I shot with when things eased up.
Every so often, Dan creates a piece to experiment with new techniques and methods - a warm-up, if you will - and uses whatever is going on in the news at that point to create the piece.
The piece was influenced by the BlackLivesMatter movement, and Dan had found a Muhammad Ali quote to base his piece around.
Read MoreWay back in pre-COVID life, LDN Features collaborated with RAT Stands in support of the release of their product, the DrumDeck.
LDN was between series at the time - we were almost done with filming Series 03, and had just wrapped up releasing Second Press - our covers series. But the plan was to shoot this “special edition”, drop it before Series 03 as a way of introducing the changes we’d made behind the scenes.
Read MoreI met Tim, Saint Eden’s manager, whilst on tour with Sarah Darling earlier in the year. He’d got me involved with some other projects in the year for other artists, but I was pretty amped for this; a new band, looking for visuals that would help establish them as they launch themselves!
Read MoreDan hit me up about a week before we met up, he told me about his plans to create a piece of art from scratch, and put it up for auction with all of the proceeds going to the relief efforts fighting the Australian Wildfire Crisis. I always enjoy working with Dan, and I love Australia. Dan loves Australia too, so it was a plan.
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