Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 will be released on 29 October 2010 ! I’m a huge Star Wars Fan and I will be getting this one for sure. One of my earliest memory as a child is going to see Star Wars at the movies which was also the first film I got to see on a big screen .. I cannot explain and tell you the impact the film had on my small 7 year old brain. I basically came out and could not stop thinking about the Star Wars film for weeks and weeks (years?) and I just felt lost living on this boring planet … I just wanted to return to the galaxy far far away and become a Jedi and join the rebellion (or the dark side?) and fly on the Millenium Falcon … Through the years I really enjoyed playing Star Wars games and the first one was Dark Forces (which I got for XMAS) – a first-person shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts released in 1995 on Apple Mac. I also really loved playing Rebel Assault, Jedi Knight, X-Wing, Battlefront and even the Lego Star Wars! The last few years the quality of games are just getting so good and impressive that when I see the amazing trailers for the next upcoming Star Wars games – I just think why don’t they just make full movies like this !!!

Star Wars: The Old Republic Hope Trailer >> Click here
Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 >> Click here
Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 (BOBA FETT Cinematic) >> Click here

Dark Forces

Star Wars: The Old Republic Hope

Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2

Here is one of my latest personal artwork I finished last week and I called it Punktopus. I rarely have enough time to do personal artwork but I do manage sometimes to get into something and once I have the idea/concept in my mind and once I get started I know I must get it finished at one point. I’ll probably get this printed as a big poster and get it framed to see how it looks like on a big format and on paper.

Shihad was formed in 1988. Ignite – the eighth studio album has recently been released and I’ve been listening to it non stop as it’s just that good ! I have been a fan from the early years and always really enjoyed listening to this band from New Zealand. They have had very visual and interesting music videos and they have just done it again with the amazing crazy video “lead or follow” which you must absolutely check out NOW !! >> Click here

More Shihad videos : Wait and see >> Click here // Sleepeater >> Click here

The name Shihad was chosen after members of the band saw David Lynch‘s 1984 film, Dune, based on Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel of the same name. Incidentally, “Jihad” is also the term used by Muslims, roughly translating to “the struggle”, or as a reference to the “Holy War”.

I got to work on the design for the DVD and GUI of the new release from Zero-g who are a company totally dedicated to sampling, sound FX and music production. The ANIMATO String & Flute FX for Cinema - 4.5Gb of cinematic audio inspiration! Animato contains 3000 samples and 139 separate Kontakt instruments each with its own custom GUI created especially for this project. For more info about Animato >> Click here

The illustrations and work of Lydia Lys Selimalhigazi are a collage of mysterious, surreal, romantic and fantastic worlds which I think are totally beautiful. She works in Freelance for magazines and designs flyers, book covers, posters… You can see more of her work on her website >> Click here

This is a new remixed version of both ‘The Death and resurrection show’ and ‘Souls are Recycled’ which I adapted to a landscape format and then got into working on some new textures and new details. This is going to be available soon as Limited editions prints on a website I have recently joined – I’ll give you all the info very soon ! Exciting stuff !

Fracture’s new remix EP is out now! Enter The Machines features six remixes of songs from the debut Fracture album, Kingdom of Machines, done by Copy Paste Repeat, Toxikhate/DOSE , S133 and [We Are] The End. Hope you enjoy my remix ! I designed the artwork for the debut Fracture album and also did a song with them (which is a hidden track) – To see photos in my porftolio >> Click here

A 3-track sampler is available to download for free! >> Click here

I’ve been following Jeff Soto‘s Blog for years ! I  just love his style and themes and I just hope I will see an exhibition of his work one day. Part of the Pop-Surrealism movement, his work contains elements of nature, graffiti, street art, skulls, robots and many lovely monsters. His visuals are just amazing !

Check out his website and his blog >> Click here

Last saturday night I went to see a MetalTech gig for the second time in a pub in Edinburgh called The Banshee Labyrinth. I had bought their ALKOMATIC EP a few months ago and got into listening to their mix of electronic beats blended with distorted guitars and a voice which sometimes reminded me of Rob Zombie. They are Erik Tricity on Vox, Guitars, Programming, Synths, Drugs, Beer / The Insidious Doktor Mayhem on Guitars, Red Bull, Petrol / Lord Thrapston Flagellator on Bass and Beer and Beer and Beer and Beer!! They are a lot of fun to go and see and listen to with songs which all stick into your brain with lyrics like “Let’s burn the world … let’s burn this fuckin planet….” on Burn Your Fucking Planet or “do you want to get wasted …we are going to drink to the mornin’ light’ on Wasted. Make-up, confetti, sex dolls and blacklight! Guaranteed to make you dance, drink and chant along to the choruses! … and to want to destroy this planet ! Think Orange ! Think MetalTech ! Check them out LIVE and for more info, photos, videos and where to buy the latest EP click on links below !!!!

MetalTech Official Website >>> Click here /// Myspace >>> Click here /// Facebook >>> Click here

The incredibly popular Karnival range of playing cards reaches new heights of eye-popping design with the KARNIVAL DEAD EYES and are released on November 15 2010 !

Inspired by gothic medical imagery and the world of serial killers, the deck features 56 beautiful pieces of artwork. Every single card has been painstakingly crafted by  Sam Hayles – from the blood splattered court cards to the aged and distressed jokers.

The Karnival Dead Eyes are a beautiful yet macabre spectacle ! Click here to order

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The new LASTWINDmusic website/blog which I have recently designed is now on-line. Discover and read about all the different bands and music projects – past, present and future (from touring the US with Hawkwind in the late seventies, to recording sessions with Topper Headon drummer of The Clash in the late eighties). You can ready plenty of interesting reviews on gigs, books, movies, music albums, travels and much much more !! Each post comes with a music track to match the daily post ! GO GO GO ! Check it out now – post comments and share the info !!! >> CLICK HERE

These are some artworks I have done for various music projects with LASTWIND and Paul Hayles. (Oh yep !.. didn’t I tell you??  It is my dad!)

WHY NOT – Version 2.0 – Poster available in different formats will be available to order very soon !!!! ….

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I launched this new website a month ago and have had  so far 509 visits, 912 page views, done 38 posts in 14 categories with 81 tags and 36 comments and 11 spam ! You know it all !! – Not too bad for a first month and new born website. I’ve been enjoying this new DOSEprodBLOG a lot and like to talk and share some of my work, artwork and projects (old and new) with you and also talk and review artists, designers, bands and movies which I truly like and who inspire me in my work. I will keep updating and hope to see more and more of you joining in to follow the news and please don’t hesitate to share the posts and add some comments and promote the DOSEprodBLOG to the world ! Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers !

One month to go ! I will be going to check out this festival for the first time and to meet up with Earthtone9 with who I have worked on their latest album. I can’t wait to also see The Dillinger Escape Plan, October File, The Construct, Panic Cell, Paradise Lost and hardcore punk legends Discharge ! Damn! its going to be brutal ! Hell yeah ! Check out Damnation Festival website for last info, reviews, interviews, videos, blog and beer >> Click here

OLDIES !!! I was going through my archives and I found this video which I had forgotten about and have not seen since I made it. I worked on this trailer in early 2008 for the launch of the website Rocklifestyle (I was asked to do the editing and post-prod)… think grindhouse, Zombies and amazing fight scenes ? >> Click here
Soundtrack is ‘Switchback‘ by Celldweller.