Well I only printed 50 Digipak Copies, so if you want to grab one – please send me an email.

However, you can also download the album. I’m offering it under the pay-what-you-want- scheme.

You can download it for free, or pay $1000. I won’t lie to you – a $1000 dollars would be nice, but that’s not my aim. I put alot of effort into making this cd so I want YOU to listen to it. I don’t care if you don’t want to pay for it – in fact I actually encourage you not to.

If you’re using an RSS reader or are just plain lazy – I suggest you check out Giraffe Incognito as I have just “pimped” up the website to give it a new look and feel.

Why? Because I want the website to be cohesive with my album art, which was designed with black, white and grey colours as well.

So what do you think?

Picking up the Master C.D. on monday.

Sending off to the printers next week – all album art is ready to go.

I’ll be printing off 50 copies – and also posting it up for free download online – hopefully by the end of the month but most likely November first.

Thanks for keeping up with my blog and showing interest, really looking forward to you guys having a listen.

Big things to happen in the upcoming weeks!

October is my goal, and even though it’s already hit the fabled month – I still have until November to finish it yeah?

But, because I know you guys are waiting (the whole 4 of you who check my blog!), I’ve decided to give you a nice little treat for being so patient.

It’s my whole album, every song, in just under 2 minutes and 23 seconds! I will note, that the full album is 53 minutes. So if you think about it, you’re listening to some sort of percentage…

However I am not.

So for the last few weeks, I’ve been really getting into making my songs sound as best as I possibly can. This has been quite a timely process, as I’ve been real anal and am aiming to make all my songs stand alone.

I’ve had a go at EQing all my songs. This is something that engineers take 20 years to learn. So when I dived into the deep end I’ll be honest I didn’t really know what I was doing. I hit a few forums and got some advice.

Basically, EQing is making sure that there aren’t too many instruments in your mix clashing. E.g. you want to make sure the bass drum and the bass guitar sit really well together, like in a pocket. You also want to make sure that the frequencies that the lead guitar are using aren’t clashing with the vocal track.

Doesn’t really make sense does it? Well put it this way… You have made heaps of cupcakes, but you want them to sit together nicely. So you don’t just throw them all willy nilly into the box. Otherwise when people see the box they’ll be like “OMG, there are like cupcakes on top of one another and icing is like going everywhere”.

However, if you were to place the cupcakes nice and tidily into the box, you can open the box and people can see all the cupcakes in all their glory, and know exactly what each cupcake represents and how good it will taste.

If my music was a tray of cupcakes, I’d like it to taste pretty damn good. Get it?

Ok, so for those of you who don’t know who Montgomery is, let me tell you something:

At university last year, one my subjects required me to create a flash animation using characters that had to have narrative. My idea was to create a story based on a giraffe and a bird. The giraffe was called Montgomery, and the bird was called Ferguson. The story of the animation involved Montgomery setting sail to New York City in his hot air balloon.

But, I don’t need to give you a full plot sypnosis, because the animation still exists! In fact I have a link to it right here! So why don’t you go and check it out:

Animation: The Adventures of Montgomery and Ferguson

Ok so that brings us to the second part of this story, as I’m not just going to post about an animation that’s a year old now…

I was adventuring about St Kilda town today, and found myself discovering this beauty in a shop (I can’t even remember the name of the place). It was some sort of concrete kinda thing I guess for kids to have on their room, or like on a mantlepiece. At first I didn’t see the connection of it, I just noticed the giraffe. Then on the second look, I was like “Oh shit, it’s Montgomery from my flash animation”, this was followed by a few air claps and a few hops about the joint.

So I took a picture of it, and here it is! (pretty creepy huh!)

I wonder who was first? Random giraffe on concrete slab or Montgomery?

It’s gotta be Montgomery, he’s really old and wears a really nice hat so he must have been around for a while.

Now, if I was to blog about everything I saw, this blog would turn into a sushi train of just crap that everyone has already seen.

So I’ve created a tumblr, and am basically going to post funny, interesting and random things. The latest three entries will show up on the right-hand side of the page.

I’m going to keep main blog posts on this site about my music and other more substaintal happenings in my world.

So, what do you guys all think?

First things first, how awesome is this picture! It was by a guy named Jan Oliehoek, and he’s done some really cool photo manipulation work – you can check out some more of his works here

Haven’t posted for a while. But hey – been busy getting this nasty little cd completed so you can hopefully get your dirty mits on it by the end of … september (realistically).

I’ve been awaiting feedback from several reliable sources and am now going to give my music to the mastering dudes for some more feedback, so that’s all starting to looking promising.

I’ve also started work on my album art, this is one of the main reasons I wanted to make a cd in the first place! So it’s been really fun playing around with ideas.

I don’t want to give anything away but here are some teasers – it will most likely be black and white, be a font lovers paradise and there will be hidden giraffes for you to find!

As for the title of the album – I haven’t chosen it yet – and no it will not be ‘the prototype’ (that’s what I wrote on the draft cd I gave to people!).

Have a good weekend.

This is the first time I’ve actually been waiting in anticipation for a Tarantino flick. I was too young when films such as Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown were released. As for Kill Bill, I don’t think I saw them until a few years after all the hype.

A large coke and a classic Tarantino title credit scene to start the film, things were looking good. This wasn’t classic Tarantino in the way that he cuts up the plot and throws it about randomly throughout the movie so you have no idea what timeframe you’re in. Sure there’s a little bit of it, but the film take you through chapters, which I thought was a really cool idea and was a good way to seperate some fairly intense scenes.

It starts off with quite a few accents slapping you in the face, but once you get over Brad Pitt’s ridiculous accent you get used to the fact that it’s no monotone film and that dialogue between languages gel together smoothly.

Whilst I watched the film, sure I laughed, but I was mainly caught up in the suspense, especially towards the latter half of the film. But now looking back on it, you could almost class the film as a comedy. I guess you could say it will have the same replay value as Pulp Fiction, it just grows on you humorously the more you view it.

To wrap it up, acting was great, I thought the film wasn’t too long and that it’s definitely worth seeing, even if you aren’t a typical tarantino fan. Another big win for me was the soundtrack, but that’s something you expect with a Tarantino film, he chooses great music.

One last thing, why is Diane Kruger getting so much media attention for being ‘that woman’ in the film? Yes she’s attractive, but Mélanie Laurent takes the cake in this film (pictured above). Much more interesting character too…

Those posts mentioned above really show a great collection of album art. It’s a shame how this art has died away since music has mainly been assessed online. I love going through people’s ‘vinyl’ collection and staring at the album art printed onto a nice big sleeve. Some people say album art is dead, but I still make the album art show up on my computer when I listen to tunes. I even know people who will impulse buy albums just because they like the cover, without even listening to the music! So I still think it’s important to get good album art for your cd. If your album art is average, people will think your music is average and will most likely put your cd back in the rack and move on.

I decided to go through my collection and pick out my favourite album art, just to get some inspiration before I start on my own. Although the collections of album art on smashing magazine and abduzeedo have already done excellent posts on this, it was good to go through my own collection and pick out the album covers that I never seem to get sick of.

The list is in no particular order, in fact I went through my music collection, picked them out then randomized the list!

The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow

Air – Moon Safari

Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears – Flight Of The Knife

Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards

Eels – Electro-Shock Blues

The Go! Team – Proof Of Youth

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III

Beck – Odelay

The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon

Dr. Dog – East Beat

Eric Dolphy – Out To Lunch

Man Man – Rabbit Habits

Deerhoof – The Runners Four

Zero 7 – Simple Things

Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Beirut – Gulag Orkestar

The Herbaliser – Take London

Oh No! Oh My! – Oh No! Oh My!

The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed

Elliot Smith – Figure 8

Spoon – Kill The Moonlight

The Beatles – Abbey Road

Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise!

Radiohead – OK Computer

Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Clogs – Lantern

Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline

Dappled Cities – Granddance

And last, but not least,
Spinal Tap – Smell The Glove

If you’re still eager to check out more album covers, then look no further than this website called Sleevage. It’s pretty much an awesome blog about design and music, focusing mainly on album art.

I particularly like their article on 10 Landmark Albums That Have Created Landmarks.

Have fun.