music and tales
Eli Miller was a legend among the New Albion underground party circuit. For those in The Scene, who religiously spent their weekends at one of the all night, drug fueled dance parties that appeared each weekend like clockwork, the name […]
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter (1867-1953) who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective. He grew up in the Belgian town of Louvain, but when his outstanding talent became apparent went to Brussel to study at […]
As you may know, the next album i’ll be doing in between the Dieselpunk Opera and the Atompunk Opera is an album of stories involving faeries, which is indeed underway. It brings up the question of whether to use celtic […]
From, the Daily Mail no less… In 1932 a grocer in Worksop (that’s in England) died and his grief stricken sons and wife decided to leave the house exactly as it was. Well, now it’s 82 years later, the last […]
Let us return to the dieselpunk era once more to visit an institution whose name remains with us a century later: The Keystone Kops. The name is still around today, used in popular speech to denote a bunch of incompetent […]
Japanese manga is an international rage, although it really only started gaining a sizeable western following in the 90s and especially the 00s. Manga is of course japanese comic books for all intents and purposes, but much like american comics […]
This summer most of my working time is taken up with actual paying gigs. I have been hired to make music for this awesome little video game for the ipad. An adventure game with time travel and everything. It’s being […]
““The only great problem of cinema seems to be more and more, with each film, when and why to start a shot and when and why to end it.” – Jean-Luc Godard This is a pretty damn cool short vid […]
The Brazilian musician Joao Gilberto is often considered the father of Bossa Nova, cementing this new style after sequestering himself away in a bathroom in Minas Gerais for 8 months during 1955. He had up until this time had no […]
The atomic habitat. By the early 1960s almost 70% of American citizens were convinced nuclear war was imminent. Backyard bomb shelter sales and building went through the roof. Hundreds of thousands were built across the country, varying from small, claustophobic […]