T.S. Abe

I randomly discovered this artist a few months ago when I was trying to find an image of one of my favourite Neo Soul singer, Erykah Badu on Deviant Art. 20 year old T.S. Abe, or QueenIndra as she calls herself on DA, is a London girl who is like a mini celebrity in Brixton. From Album covers to the sides of a bus, she's done it all. I like the way she very rarely uses colour in her works but captures every detail in whatever she draws. Colour is overrated anyway.

Most of the artwork she posts on her DA gallery is University project work which makes me want to get my pencils out and try to replicate what she does. This time next year, I'll be at university. That's almost a year to practice. Gah!

Mitchie.

Nineteen

19 years ago, a Mitchie was born! Being 19 feels exactly the same as being 18. This anti-climax was an expected one.

Today was a pretty chilled day. Sped up my computer, had a meeting with my client about the website and disposed of some Helghast on Killzone 2. I couldn't believe how many messages I got on facebook today - there was absolutely loads. I would thank each of you individually but that would take ages... so thank you as a whole (:

From the looks of it, the next interview to grace this blog will be with Tayong, which may be an audio/video one so watch out for that... should be good.

I haven't spoken about football on here in ages... Tottenham aren't doing too bad are they. Third in the league. This time last year I wouldn't even mention the Premier League so all looks well. I'll buy one of the shirts this season. Might even put my name on it for once. Sir Mitchie. I can see it now!

Back to designing coat hooks tomorrow...

Mitchie.

What a weekend

From the Red Lion, to the Litten Tree, to Saints & Sinners, to Time Out, to Matt's, back to the Red Lion Then back to Matt's. My weekend was pretty mad!

Rikki, Matt, Nathaniel & I had so many jokes. The amount of stories these guys have to tell is phenomenal. I need to get out of the house more than I do to be honest! Nathaniel is definitely tied down with his new girl - with assistance of Rikki who texted off his phone when he was sleeping haha. We met the Milky Bar kid who is also German. I saw some people who I hadn't seen in ages... if you're reading this... hello again. Time out was PACKED again. Literally couldn't dance in there, so we stayed in the garden for most of our time there. I was surprised I managed to stay out for so long with no money but I guess I'm loved! Our original plans were to go The Pad but when we got there, some girls sat in the smoking ordered to "Save yourselves!" as it was so crap in there... so we did and had jokes else where. I'm sure Nathaniel bought more rounds than he was supposed to!

You know you've had a good Sunday when you've had a combination of PlayStation, Xbox, food, beer, jokes and more jokes. I got a bit of an earful when I got home but I survived haha.

19 tomorrow... 19 on the 19th, isn't that cool

Mitchie.

Mission War Tile: COMPLETE

Yeah I deed it mayne. In and out of College before half 11 and I only broke it a little bit! Virtual DJ, Photoshop, MSN & facebook are four programs which sum up the rest of my day to be honest. Grime fans will probably know that Dot Rotten recently gave away 50 instrumentals for free as he acquired 1000 followers on his twitter. I downloaded it today and it is definitely worth the wait - it did take a while to download... and unzip.

Dot Rotten's music can go from emotional to absolute hype-fest and we are given each of those and everything in between. I decided that I was to mix my way through the whole 50. I did, and it sounded kinda sick. Should have recorded it to be honest.

I discovered that I'm one of those tidy people who have to have their iTunes looking neat and tidy and with album covers wherever possible. As Dot Rotten didn't take time out to make one for us, I dusted the cobwebs off of the old Photoshop and made one myself.

I just remembered that I was supposed to take photographs of my tile to post on here. I kinda didn't, so when I get it back on Tuesday, I'll take one of mine and of Nicola's and Ali's. I bet you're really excited. Anyway, here's some stuff:

If you want to check out the instrumentals, click here. If you don't really listen to Grime, give it a chance... you may just like it.

Mitchie.

War Tiles

We had to design and create tiles based on what we saw at the Imperial War Museum today. These tiles are basically MDF squares which we have to transform into war inspired masterpieces. I decided to take the typography route and imprinted some words into the plaster I set onto the tile. 'Fight to stop HITLER before he stops YOU.' Damn Hitler and his stopping ways... If I can actually remember to buy some batteries, I may even take a photo of this amazing tile after I hopefully finish it tomorrow and post it on here for you all to laugh at compliment me on :).

I haven't actually mentioned this but Rav-P now works where I work. He accidentally set the alarm off today and had to stay with the store manager for hours after the store closed for somebody to press four numbers on the keypad in order for them to be able to set the alarm and go home. I actually kinda feel sorry for the dude... still funny though haha.

Erm... I can't get my new ring off my middle finger. Might as well accept it as a new addition to my hand now.

Half day tomorrow - I can actually get 8+ hours sleep for once... starting from NOW.

Mitchie.

The Imperial War Museum

If you ever find yourself being too happy and feel like you want a little bit of sadness in your life... then go to the Imperial War Museum. Seriously, the place is so depressing. The ground floor isn't to bad, vehicles and memorabilia from past wars, but on the top floor was the Holocaust Exhibition.

It didn't really make things any better me not having anything to eat before I left - I was so hungry. The exhibition was full of depressing looking photographs. I remember this one giant picture of a girl crying over who I assume to be her sister, laying as if her face had been pushed into the dirt of the field. Hitler posters, swastikas, a collection of shoes which had once been owned by the people who were gassed, and even pellets which would have been used in the gassings. The only thing cool about the visit to the museum were the vehicles. Other than that... =\.

On the bright side, I had some food, and shopped around Oxford Street, bought myself a ring and even saw Tempa T! I didn't take any photographs at the museum... hopefully I'm gonna be able to get this unit done. Should be a piece of cake?

Mitchie.

Today was a good day

I had my first driving lesson today. Yeah, lookout world... I'm probably gonna be accidentally running you over soon! I actually didn't do too bad for my first lesson, if I do say so myself. Was on the main road, driving around roundabout like 'look at me, I'm driving!' whilst pressing the throttle while the clutch was still down :). More lessons to come... I wonder how long it will be 'til I pass?

If that wasn't enough excitement for one day... I went shopping in Milton Keynes with Bea, which is always good. One problem I always have when I go shopping, is that I never actually buy anything. My taste is either too expensive or i genuinely don't see anything worth buying but some monotone t-shirts. Luckily Bea was there to make me buy my brand new blue polo shirt.

Other than this one garment I bought once Bea bought a whole outfit... I bought some CD's I'd been meaning to buy for years - literally. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da corner & (watch the contrast) Linkin Park - Meteora. My Linkin Park CD collection is one CD away from being complete... yay.

Random piece of information - on the way out from HMV, I notice a PlayStation 3 with FIFA 10 running, just waiting to be played, so as expected of me... I stop Bea from stepping on the escalator while I try it out. Being a Pro Evo player, I wanted to see how FIFA was this year but i was challenged buy some random dude who had his mates around him so I say 'OK, but you'll probably beat me, I'm a Pro player'. So it was on. I chose Tottenham - naturally, and he chose AC Milan. 'I like Ronaldinho,' he explained.

After 10 FIFA minutes, I was 2-0 down. Bea gave me a look. It was time to up my game... From my third kick off, it was total football by me. Bare passing - I was not gonna let him get the ball back. To cut a long story short, the game finished 4-3 to me. I left laughing while this random dude got ripped apart by his mates.

Good times... London tomorrow. Imperial War Museum here we come. It better be good ¬_¬

Mitchie.

Branislav Kropilak

I discovered this guy's images the other day and forgot all about posting them on here... Branislav Kropilak is a Slovakian photographer who finds most of his inspiration from architecture and industrial design and has a real nack for making everyday places we take for granted pretty interesting. Makes me even more determined to save up for a DSLR tbh.

Heres a random selection:

Mitchie.

Links

kropilak.com

The producer formerly known as CaoS

Bedford boy and dubstepforum regular who now goes by the name of CASKI has kindly taken some time away from his keyboard to answer a few questions and give us a little insight to what he's all about. Not many people can say that they used to be in both N.A.S.T.Y and Macabre Unit so this guy must be doing something right...

First things first, how did you become CASKI?

My mates started calling me it on a random, kinda evolved from CaoS, was time for a change so decided to go with it

How long have you been producing for?

5 years in January... I started when I was 15

That's pretty young, what were you making back then?

I started off making grime, loved the way it sounded and I grew up listening to garage so shortly after I started making that too

Has Grime gone downhill for you?

Not necessarily downhill, but the sound has changed so much from what it used to be. I was more into it when it was darker, more underground..."rave music"

MAC or PC?

(Laughs) The thing is, I wouldn't say no to a Mac... but I currently have a PC. Although I've made music on Macs I'm happy using whatever provided the programs I use are on there!

What Programs do you use?

Reason & Acid Pro

You used to be a member of N.A.S.T.Y. back in your Grime days, what was that like?

It was good for getting my music out there definitely! Marcus & Mak10 supported a lot and being 16/17 at the time was mad because up till then I'd always seen them as some of the biggest people in the scene. Not being from London meant I couldn't do much hands on work with the crew but being able to make tracks as part of it was sick!

For anyone who doesn't know, what are some of the beats you produced for them?

Ermmmmmmmm some of the tracks I made whilst in N.A.S.T.Y. would have been "This is a riddle" (which actually still seems to get the odd play, caught a little video with it on Westwood's show a couple of months ago which is alright considering I made it in 2007), I also did a remix of "Take 'em out" in 07, "Evil Empire" which there's a little video floating on Youtube with Fumin & Diesle Powerboy on it, "Bassment" which Logan Sama hammered out for ages on Kiss (big up Logan)...there's a load more (Laughs)

Did your time with Macabre Unit make you switch to Dubstep?

I was actually in Macabre Unit at the same time I was in N.A.S.T.Y. Can't remember which I was in first but I made grime for both. Dubstep just drew me in when I realised it had everything I wanted grime to have - bass driven rave music! Made the switch slowly whilst making last grime tunes, when I was happy enough to start sending tunes to DJs, I just went with it fully.

Were you around a Ragga sound when you were younger?

my old man used to play it alot, i liked alot of music, but the sounds n the drum patterns in ragga music always kept me listening, id always listen out for the bits of ragga influence in other tunes, even in grime, the ragga style mc's were always my fav...cant beat the ragga sound!

Which one of your own releases stands out for you?

My 1st Dubstep release. It was a track called "Bun Cat" (I have no idea where the name came from... it has nothing to do with the tune). It was on the A side of a release with Monstr "Hey" on the B side. Came out on Resofantom Recordings 6th march 2009 and it's still being played by a few DJs that I'm a fan of as well so that's cool

Which producer/s are you feeling at the moment?

It's a big list, I'll try to keep it short... Kalbata, Kromestar, Tes la rok, Skream, Bar9, Luke Envoy, Kutz & loads more... imagine that was a lineup!?

Do you have any releases in the pipeline?

Yeah got a few releases on the way just finalising a few things with a couple of labels. If I had more info I'd say but nothings definite in regards to which tracks are being used etc right now so cant say too much yet!

Where can we buy your releases from?

www.digital-tunes.net

www.junodownload.com

www.addictech.com

www.beatsdigital.com

www.djtunes.com

www.chemical-records.co.uk

All my releases previous to name change will be under "CaoS"

Any shouts or links to give out?

Yeah man, big up Macabre Unit - still smashing it, N.A.S.T.Y. crew, Kalbata, Tes la rok, Darkside and anyone that supports my music!

Myspace.com/caskimusic - for anyone that wants to get in touch or just listen to some Bassweight Ragga!

P.S. big up you for the interview.

__

Here's a download for ya. This is what the transition from Caos to Caski sounds like in 20 instrumentals from 05-09.

Download

Mitchie.

Back to recording

TEXTILES!

I spent the day sewing today... bad times. I chose to work with squares & diamonds out of three groups which consisted of 1. lines and zig zags, 2. circles & the one I chose.

After I've finished experimented with the materials and I've designed something with these squares, I'll be applying them to a t-shirt... oh well, at least I'll be an artist by the end of it all.

SMS recorded most of our next video today and it contained fish & turkey but that is all I'm saying at the moment haha.

Work tomorrow. 10-6... A FULL SHIFT. With the amount of people that don't work there any more, I wont be surprised to see myself being promoted, but I doubt that will happen. More hours though. More money.

I should get to sleep

Mitchie.

I know... it's been a while...

Here are some videos, courtesy of SMS TV:

Art Student

First day of the Art course was today! I couldn't believe how hard it was to wake up this morning. From a whole summer making up to having minutes left of my morning to 7:30am is a shock to the system but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

I've been past this college so many times but its actually huge when you're actually attending it. The people on the course seem cool... looks like its town every lunch time haha. I wish I could take pics and stuff but 1. I have no batteries for my camera and 2. I've misplaced my SD Card :(. I've been wanting to post my photos up from Silverstone for ages but I kinda can't unfortunately.

Drawing naked people tomorrow morning. Life drawing.

We drew chairs today...

Mitchie.

Garage is back?

The sound I've loved for years and been sad to see go may be on a comeback! No doubt you'll have heard of So Solid Crew producer - Oxide, well Daniel Spencer and himself have teamed together to bring the sound back into our lives. I think the tunes pretty nice and hopefully, it will catch on!

This song is out tomorrow (7th September) on iTunes. Support and let him know that we want more of the same! If you like it that is...

Mitchie.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear

Bless him... he thought he was good!

Mitchie

Alyssa Monks

I've spent a lot of time looking up/researching different artists, styles and designs lately and everyday, I come across somebodies work who makes me stop stop and go 'wow'.

This time, I was stopped by a few paintings by American artist - Alyssa Monks. I just couldn't believe how realistic each and every one of her paintings were. Everything down to the water droplets and the condensation looked completely lifelike.

I thought I'd share:

Dude, they're freaking paintings!

And amazing paintings they are.

Mitchie.

Laser + Sound test 0

For some reason I found this very, very cool:



Mitchie.

Why Not?

Cannot wait

Mitchie.

Inspiration

Have you ever sat down with the intent of looking for inspiration to then find yourself stuck in a vicious cycle of discovery & awe for days on end and actually getting nothing done?

I have...

Mitchie.

Too much discovery, not enough postery... many many posts to come DEFINITELY.

Results

A bit late but Congratulations to everybody who got the grades they needed on Thursday. I hope you all celebrated. I know I did :)

Commiserations for all those who didn't get what they wanted. Pick yourself up and carry on going forward.

Not long 'til I start this art course now. Better get buying those materials!

Mitchie.

Come On You Spurs!

What a start to the season. I just realised how much I really missed football! goals galore yesterday with Ars*nal destroying Everton 6-1, Drogba's awesome fluke goal and no matches ending in a draw... good times. Even better times - Tottenham beat Liverpool! Spurs were all over them. Keane should have put his chances away but I'll give him first-match-of-the-season-benefit-of-the-doubt but Modric's plays were epic. Tottenham's defence was epic. Assou-Ekotto's goal was epic... I don't think we have much to worry about this season.

We ended last season losing to Liverpool and left a lot of people scrutinising the defence, saying that it was all Spurs needed to make them a great team. First match back and the only goal Liverpool could score against us came from a silly penalty given away by Gomes. Good times I think.

Top four anyone?

Mitchie.

Schumacher calls off Formula One comeback

Due to injury on his neck caused by a motorbike accident earlier in the week, Michael Schumacher cannot fill in for the injured Massa in the next F1 race (yaaaaaaaaaaay :D). Two injuries for Ferrari, not good. I'll admit it now Anthony, I was a little bit concerned as Schumacher is a bare-time winner of Formula 1 championships but he isn't much of a threat when his necks all hurting like that.

:)

Mitchie.

Boycott Activision?

If you've been playing games for as long as me, you'll have probably been through a period where most of your favourite games starting up saying "EA Sports - It's in the game." These were the good old days where EA cared about making original games where 100% effort was put into it. Now, Electronic Arts are evil, only care about money, and milk each one of their games with mediocre sequels. Activision came along and everyone (including myself) were like "yay Activision, their games are sick," and they were... they did what EA stopped doing and did a better job. Call of Duty 4 is an Activision game and everybody loves it apparently, but now Activision are the evil ones.

This is probably the first time you've heard about this dude, but, Robert Kotick is the CEO, President and board member for Activision Blizzard and it seems that Robert Kotick is a very greedy man. We all know that we are in recession and you've probably felt it. There's probably loads of games that you've wanted to buy but can't afford to buy anymore. Robert Kotick feels that his company are also hurting as games are costing more to develop. Now, instead of doing what other game developers do such as giving incentives like free content if you but the game new so less people buy them pre-owned, he wants to increase the price of the games.

It's not just talk either. Modern Warfare 2 is being released at an RRP of £55. This is £5 more than the current RRP for games but the price depends on where you're buying the game from, which will obviously be increased by £5. Kotick wants games to cost even more than £55 which would mean that even more people will be able to afford even less games than they can at the moment. If Kotick gets his way and Activision's games are sold at £60 or more, then other games developers are going to follow, and you don't want that!

There's been talk about different ways to show Activision that we don't want this price hike to happen and it looks like a lot of them are going to happen. DON'T BUY ANY GAMES BY ACTIVISION! If you do... it's all you're fault. Don't do it maaaan.

Back to Burnout...

Mitchie.

Oh, hello there...

This game is so addictive.

I'm officially gaming again. It took a while to get back into it since I stopped for all of my coursework, but now I can't stop! I finally got my Platinum trophy on Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and now I'm working on the Burnout one, which is gonna take a looong timeee. I wish Sony would hurry up with those PlayStation Cards because I really wanna download the Paradise Island add-on. Looks heavy.

Even though I haven't posted in a while, there's nothing really to catch up on. Half of the people who read this blog have flown off to Ibiza haha... damn.

FOOTBALL SEASON STARTS IN ONE WEEK ON SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!! Yeah I'm excited,and what!? xD

Tottenham have signed Peter Crouch. I really don't know what to think of that... I just hope he plays well! We also stole Bassong from poor Newcastle who got relegated last season haha (sorry Scott) who should help with our push towards the top four.

More football related posts to come. I'm probably gonna start designing stuff soon as well so look out for the stuff I'll have to show! Need a bit of practice before I go on my art course in September...

This post probably seems jumbled up and random but that's what hours of gaming, lack of posting and overtime at work can do to you! Anyway, I'm gonna go watch a film of something

Mitchie.

I WENT TO THE GYM TWICE TODAY...

It took half an hour to type this post :(

Mitchie.

TRON LEGACY

THIS. LOOKS. SO. SICK:

FELIPE MASSA

You all probably know by now that I'm a big Formula 1 fan who supports McLaren and doesn't really like Ferrari - at all...but...

I caught the first round of qualifying this morning before I went to work and left it with Hamilton in second position and Kovalainen in seventh. Now I could have waited 'til I finished to find out where everyone qualified but as I had to know, I asked my boss to find out for me and he did. Hamilton is in fourth and Kovalainen is in sixth... lovely... but what I didn't find out shocked me!

Anthony showed me a link and the first thing I saw was "MASSA IN 'STABLE BUT LIFE-THREATENING CONDITION.'" ...wallahell?!...

I watched the qualifying on iPlayer, saw the crash, and all I can say is I hope the dude gets well soon tbh. Even though he loves to jeopardise our chances... a fractured skull is not a nice thing to have. I hope Massa has a speedy recovery and gets back to getting on my nerves on the trach soonish.

Mitchie.

PROJECT SAINAMIKA

I'm coming to the end of my latest project which should hopefully be up and running this week and is probably the reason why I haven't got many interesting things to say about myself recently 'cause its all been a bit samey. I won't say anything about the project until it is up and running though because there will probably be a few changes and stuff but yeah, it's almost done now.

I watched (the second half of) The Bill today. I don't know why, but it's the first time I've ever given the programme a chance but it was pretty good and I'll probably lock in when the second part is on. It's all changed and its got a new look apparently but I don't watch much telly and it looked alright haha. Just thought I'd share that with you.

Mitchie.

ANDREYA TRIANA

Anyone who's listened to Mary Anne Hobbs' Experimental show on Radio 1 would have heard of the L.A. based producer, Flying Lotus. After hearing his music on her show, I decided that I would so a bit of research and listen to what I could find by him when I found this:

Not only did I think that the beat was amazing, but the vocal had me in a trance. My mind was blown and I had to find out who was singing. Where I was listening to the tune, the singer's name wasn't in the title or description so I had to do even more research and when I finally found the name - Andreya Triana, I just wanted to go and buy what ever CDs she had out but to my surprise, her debut album is yet to be released so all I could do is listen to her music on MySpace and watch her videos on Youtube.

This was all a while ago now. Since then Andreya and Bonobo (producer) have made some amazing tracks together and have just released a video for The Keeper which is out on 14th September. You probably won't like it but hey, this is just something I listen to other than Dubstep:

Mitchie.

Links

Mary Anne Hobbs

Flying Lotus

Andreya Triana

Bonobo

PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2010

I usually buy a football game every season. There's always a FIFA vs Pro argument when everyone meets up again in September and until I got my PS3, I used to be a FIFA guy. After a bit of persuasion, I chose to buy Pro Evo 08 and even though there were lag problems until Konami issued a patch... it changed me! (lol)

I said usually because I didn't get round to buying a football game this season (I wouldn't have played it much anyway - damn education) even though I was looking forward to it and eagerly awaiting new screenshots and videos so I could see all the improvements. Apparently it was a disappointment haha - BUT, from what has been shown from Pro 2010, it's gonna be goooood. The graphics have been improved (a lot), the gameplay has been realisticly slowed down and it's still months from release.

Now I didn't get all of this information from myself, I got it from a blog I follow called winningelevenblog.com which you should check out if you care because the get information before most other sources.

I miss football man. Hopefully Tottenham do a bit more next season! Here are some early screenshots and comparisons from the next installment of Pro Evolution Soccer:

Links

Winning Eleven Blog

HOW D'YA LIKE ME NOW?!

I said by the end of the week but I'm a day early! The lack of posts recently has been due to the sheer determination of me learning HTML and putting all I learned into a website which, hopefully will become official when the the owner of the company actually gets to see it haha. I really didn't stop once I got started on the whole HTML, CSS thing (which will probably explain why I missed that party... I forgot... sorry) but yay, I can now do stuff. But yeah, hope you like the new look...

These might not be the final changes and I'll most probably change more stuff when I learn more stuff but for the time being, welcome to the new look site.

Obviously the changes I made look good on my monitor but I have no idea how they look elsewhere so if there are problems, leave a comment or something please.

Mitchie.

FACT x SCRATCHA / DVA

FACT: a great magazine. SCRATCHA/DVA: a great DJ & producer. What happens when you mix the two together?

A heavy product.

Scratcha's been doing music since when Jungle music was around in the 90s but I bet that if you're not a Rinse FM listener, you've probably never heard of him. If you're one of them (even if you're not) click the image above for an hour long Funky House mix and an interview which will enlighten you about his music side. Be quick though, the mix is'nt up for long. Limited edition business.

Catch Scratcha on Rinse FM every morning from 8-11 for jokes and music that everyone should be hearing more of.

Links

RinseFM

Scratcha / DVA's Myspace

Bookings

Fact Magazine

Do Easy

Paint is evil

I woke up pretty late this morning afternoon, leaving me not much time to get the downstairs doors painted. I was at it before I even got to have any breakfast and I have developed a hatred for painting doors.

Paint gets EVERYWHERE! I'm sure this paint isn't the right paint for the job, 'cause is just drips all over the place. Even though I was careful, I still got it on the carpet and areas of the walls. Not good.

PAINT DOES NOT COME OFF SKIN. Well, until hours later. As I attempted to save the carpet from becoming polka dotted, I caught the drips with my hands - big mistake. If soap doesn't get something unwanted off yourself, then it is evil. I only managed to get one side of a door done before I gave up and run the bath as I became frustrated with the evil paint xD. Painting will resume tomorrow... :|

Enough about paint... I've begun to teach myself HTML & CSS today. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow, I'll have a nice looking mock website done. Hopefully by the end of the week, I'll get this blog looking nice and... different.

I like setting myself challenges

Mitchie.

What happened to those downloads?!

Well, erm... I forgot to upload them. Now I've remembered, here are the three latest mixes you should have heard already, (I hope I'm forgiven!):

May Mix:

Download

June Mix:

Download

Long time no post...

...oops!

I meant to get posting again as soon as I made the finishing touches to my media coursework, but... that kinda didn't happen. Instead, I had a little break, went to Silverstone, completed a few games, went to a few parties and attended a prom. No idea if i left anything out or not but yeah, I haven't been too lazy.

You've probably seen it already but here is episode 4 of SMS TV:

Gotta upload some mixes and some pics which I'll either upload tonight or tomorrow (whenever I wake up) but yeah, no more gaps in between posts, this blog is now daily again.. woop woop.

Mitchie.

I still can't believe MJ is dead =\

Rest In Peace Michael Jackson

1958 - 2009

What is the longest thing in the world?

No, it isn't the equator, its COURSEWORK =|

I wrote a ten page script today as part of one of the one assessment objective of one of the six remaining units. Even though I'm writing on here near enough everyday, making up ten pages of dialogue... THEN having to write a camera script fir it when I'm finished is kinda depressing. That's more or less my day in a paragraph really, apart from actually having jokes at work - good times.

My eyes are actually only half open as I'm writing this, I bet I fall asleep within half an hour of posting this. Grr. Five days to go... then I'm FREE... to play on my PlayStation ;).

If your on here to watch Episode 4... erm... it's not finished yet. Education = less time to do anything fun. Hopefully it will be here tomorrow but no promises. Keep watching this space though, it will be worth it.

If I wasn't so tired, I'd say up until the early hours of the morning doing C/W, chiseling away at my second A, but my eyes feel like they are gonna collapse on themselves. Bad times.

If any of this post didn't make sense, I blame coursework...

Mitchie.

Why do museums have to be closed on Mondays...

Damn museums. There's us being good and actually getting ourselves to Cecil Higgins to complete a media unit... and its CLOSED. Why close it on Mondays. What could the museum staff possible have to do that is so special that they have to close it every Monday. Monday is the start of the week!

Although there is the obvious sense of WASTE OF TIME... we did use this time of waste to randomly explore a patch of Bedford we rarely go to... that massive mound/castle thingy which overlooks the river Great Ouse. I would have posted the photos I took... but I didn't think to take them on a digital camera and played around with my new [old] toy... a SLR which goes by the name of Praktica BCA. Its pretty nice... it has a 10~ year old film inside it which I've been clicking away, hoping it will be possible to develop it when I'm done. If not... at least I've had some practice ay. Apart from that, Darren decided to nearly run Shoddy over a few times, I discovered I have at least one A for media, we recorded some footage for a future SMS TV episode and I found my phone. Good times.

Gah, 6 days to finish Media! Will it happen? Will Mitchie be the proud owner of TWO A's?!

I hope so...

Mitchie.

Let this be a lesson to you all!

Just don't!

Mitchie.

This is for Ben

You might not get it, it may be a private joke but yeah... LOL!

Mitchie.

Tomorrow didn't happen

Yeah sorry about that. After my exam I decided I would have a nap... which I didn't wake up from til 12 hours later. Confusing times tbh, dunno how that happened...

The SMS Team had its first meeting on Friday, planning away to entertain your future so more videos coming this way very soon which you may be happy to know. Anyway, I haven't really spoken about SMS TV much on this blog so let me start here.

SMS is a joint effort started by myself, Sir Mitchie and some dude named Shoddy - hence the SMS.We make videos don't you know?! As I stated earlier, we are a team, and this team is made up of 5 people who are as follows:

Sir Mitchie (Myself): I shoot the vids, regulate, take control of meetings etc & other boring things

Shoddy: Acts, regulates, helps with new ideas

Rav P: Acts, comes up with ideas and plays the UFC demo... over and over again

Ruthless: Acts, comes up with ideas and also plays UFC... over and over again, also likes nans

Lee: Also acts.

Over the summer, we will be bringing you sketches, video interviews, maybe even reviews and other stuff which you WILL find pretty nice indeed.

The content on this blog should be coming thick and fast pretty soonish seeing as revision & exams are over. I'll be taking my cameras out more, posting random stuff I find, more random reviews like the chocolate ones a lot of you liked haha and obviously, videos.

I STILL don't have the tracklists for these mixes I want to post up... I may even post them up and leave you guessing what they are soon. Some people are just long =|... XD

If you like racing games, have a PlayStation 3 and want to play something while you are waiting for Gran Turismo 5 (sigh), I recommend Ferrari Challenge =]. I don't even like Ferrari's, I never have really, but the game is actually pretty sick. Takes a while to get into - I even used the tutorial like a noob - but it's definitely worth it. I've been playing it solidly recently... only bought it a few days ago but yeah, but it, play it, and let me beat you. PSN ID: sirmitchie.

Anyway, I feel like watching a film... dunno which one but I will.

Mitchie.

Oh yeah... last night in town was kinda random... I still don't know who's party it was :|!

P.S. Thanks to everyone who watched Episode 2. We have had so many views and positive feedback, it makes all those hours worth it. =]

Right, I'm back

Just about!

Been revising for exams, doing exams, doing coursework and a load of other stuff lately and haven't had much time to write anything on the blog... not good really. Got my last exam tomorrow. FINALLY. Just a bit of coursework to go until I'm officially free for the summer.

I'm not waiting 'til then though... from tomorrow the content will be coming thick and fast. I was planning on posting up a mix today... but erm... it didn't happen. As soon as I'm given the tracklists (cough cough) you can have them. I have a backlog of mixes to post on here actually haha, oh dear. I will explain SMS TV to you lot as well. Until then, I'm gonna go back to revision.

PEACE

Mitchie.

Sir Mitchie TV: Episode 2 [Next Hype]

Last day of school. Normal people go in, say bye and go home. Shoddy decides to sit down and day dream... Strange dude.

Enjoy.

Sir Mitchie TV: Episode 2 [Next Hype] from Sir Mitchie on Vimeo.

E3 Games Expo: Sony's conference.

I'd been waiting ages for this, and I can safely say that it was absolutely awesome. 

From the off, they went straight into the announcements. OVER 300 PLAYSTATION GAMES ARE COMING OUT THIS YEAR!!!!!!11!1!!one. *clears throat* The PSP Go, which you may or may not have heard of already (they accidentally leaked it themselves, ha) which looks so good I might have to buy myself one. I gave my PSP 2000 to my dad. Kinda want it back now.

The new one is smaller than the rest of the PSP range, and it's all digital. No UMD drive for games or movies, 100% downloads. 40% lighter than the PSP 3000, its new sleek design tucks everything under itself with a sliding screen. Noice. Wi-fi, Bluetooth, 16GB of memory!, M2 external memory & just some of the things that make this thing so awesome... Comes out on October 1st. Good month.

They annouced a new motion controller which will work with the Playstation Eye (which I am a proud owner of) and looks very precise. Its kind of like the Wiimote, but very different at the same time. It uses a 'globe' on the end of it, which the Eye can 'see' and tracks it, giving us a load of different possibilities. They demonstrated how you can write, shoot, shine things with a torch & sword fight to name a few. The demonstration COULD have been pretty sick... but it was full of fail. The speaker was a but shy, bless him, his voice was stuttering all over the place, and the demonstrator dude couldnt even hit the tennis ball, after many attempts. Jokes =D.

Games I was/am excited about

Gran Turismo 5. Oh my Days

Polyphony finally game us a trailer. Albeit short, it was mind blowing and almost gave me lock-jaw. Everybody watching the stream that care about this game were caught off guard. At first, I thought it was a trailer for a new rally game, followed by a Nascar game. Very confused because i thought the graphics looked too good to be any other standalone games. Then it hit me, it was Gran Turismo. As my mouth started to open wider, I saw Le Mans cars driving at NIGHT, World Rally Championship cars with DAMAGE, over 16 cars on a single track and a whole load of beautiful scenery, I almost died tbh. NO RELEASE DATE THOUGH >.<>

DAMAGEDAMAGEDAMAGEOMGDAMAGE.

Gran Turismo Mobile (PSP)

800 cars, 35 tracks, online and a Ferrari Enzo are the main points for this game. The graphics, for a PSP game, look impressive to say the least. It runs as 60 frames per second, making is silky smooth and it includes all the standard modes you will find in Gran Turismo games. It's released in October 2009 and is another reason I need my PSP a PSP...

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

I still can't believe how stunning this game looks. The amount of detail put into this game is amazing. The scenery, the emotions in Drake's face, the interiors... everything about the way this game looks makes me want to go 'wow.' The trailer they showed is fast paced and action packed, showing drake in a one on one shoot out with... a helicopter. Cannot WAIT til release day. Number 1 was epic itself.

Final Fantasy XIV (yes FOURTEEN)

Another Playstation exclusive. More unexpectedness. Online only. Not much information given about this game either but the trailer was beautiful.

Assassin's Creed 2

DAMN this is a nice looking game. If you've played the previous game, Altair is gone and the time period is different but the game play looks WAY better. Its now set in the Italian Renaissance and the protagonist is a trainee assassin. He has TWO hidden blades under his sleeves now, one for each hand, of which both can be used at the same time! Leonardo Da Vinci invents gadgets for you, and the AI will search for you if you hide in haystacks. DEFINITELY buying this game.

I'm gonna be so poor this year =[

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP)

Yet another exclusive, this game is the link between MGS 2 & 3. Hideo Kojima (the creator) said he really cares about this game and that he will put a lot of effort into it, even though its only for a handheld console. Most of the developers behind the PS3 game Metal Gear Solid 4 are on the team and Kojima said specifically that this is not a spin off. (The one on the 360 is haha). I really want my PSP back... I have a till next year 'til i need it though.

God Of War III

Oh my days...

My mind is mush... I'm trying to think of what else I saw... may need to edit.

Every gaming website I regularly visit, crashed in the wake of this epic conference. So Sony win =]. No I'm not a fanboy. Shh

Mitchie.