SEA LIFE // MASSIVE MOFO WHALE

Have any of you ever wondered what it would be like to look at a whale as if it were an inch away from your face?......well now you can!

WHALE IN FACE

BLOG ROLL // DOG FORT

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MUSIC // GRANDMASTERMACK

M.P.P.L by Grandmastermack on Mixcloud

After spending all last night listening to a variety of mixes using Mixcloud, i took a great likening to some mellow down tempo dub. So for your ears I have a little pre-christmas gift.

Hope you Enjoy as much as I do!

LIGHTING // 3D BUILDING PROJECTION

The video below has not been edited in any way. These '3D building projections' are mapped out on a computer, being adapted for individual buildings and as I'm sure you'll agree, they are very impressive.

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Projection on Vimeo.

MUSIC // ALBUM OF THE YEAR?

With the countdown to 2011 on, New Year plans getting warped and scrapped every 2 days I thought I'd try and choose an album of the year to celebrate the beginning of the end for 2010. It only came to me tonight but it has to be Tame Impala's debut album Innerspeaker. This psychedelic clash of sounds that can be attributed to the beatles, hendrix and the stone roses, culminates in a crescendo of bliss. A personal favourite is the fantastically confrontational riff in "the bold arrow of time" (2m09) here. Truly spectacular stuff from the Aussie foursome.

MUSIC // GRANDMASTERMACK

Hippityhopscotch...Top Notch. by Grandmastermack on Mixcloud

Another week, another mix.

Taken it back to some old school hip-hop, let the beers flow whilst you bob your head in your finest festive Christmas knitwear.

ARCHITECTURE // DOG POO???

Certain words are often attached to English seaside towns such as traditional, quaint and charming. Upon my visit to one of these towns recently I visited a building which not only goes against the grain, it jumps out of the water and slaps the stereotypes square in the jaw.

Littlehamptons' East Beach Cafe is an example of things to come (hopefully!!) for struggling resorts the length of the coast. Striking to say the least, the Cafe has taken centre stage on the promenade of the small south coast town not exactly renown for its striking architecture, until now that is.

On a cold, wet early winters day I ventured down to see what all the fuss was about. Heatherwick Studios were commissioned to design a structure which could both help preserve the picturesque seafront from over-development and provide a new focal point that locals and tourists alike would be proud to call their own.

The striking ribboned steel outer shell certainly looks like nothing else in the town, yet it manages to seamlessly blend into the landscape by resembling something you might find washed up. Indeed its outer shell provides not only a striking façade to admire, it manages to withstand all that the English channel has to throw at it. On sunnier days, the glass front opens onto the beach to provide al-fresco drinking and dining on a par with anywhere on the English coast.

I for one found it hard to resist and had to sample its delights, not at least to regain my normal body temperature. When inside it all makes sense straight away, the harsh exterior transforms the inside into something warm and inviting with a view that dreamers yearn for. The food I hear is not that bad either.

And where is the link to the dogs I hear you cry? Well amongst some locals it is affectionately referred to as 'the dog poo'.