Keep Calm – Warhol style!

In a completely random follow up to my previous Hawkwind post (see here) I decided to look at some other colour schemes. I then thought I know let me make a mini-collage in an Andy Warhol style just for fun.

Well here it is – is it fun? Well only you can judge – I think it provides a brief moment of amusement if you are a Hawkwind fan.

If not then it is just a doubly derivative attempt to be interesting!

Keep Calm!

Well everyone else has their own KEEP CALM poster so I thought the world needed a Hawkwind themed one. Having decided that I cast around for an icon for the top and found this on the excellent starfarer site. The colour was admittedly a bit arbitrary and I didn’t use the correct font (though may dig one up if anybody wants).

Finally the text – once I started thinking of alternatives to CARRY ON there was only one possibility that busking classic from the first album HURRY ON SUNDOWN!

Enjoy!

Fruit & Veg, Fat Fonts, Makey Makey and the Yeti

No this isn’t a surrealist Doctor Who adventure but this month’s selection of oddities. If you don’t know what that means well every month I make a tiny list of a few things that amused and put them out for posterity (and you may have missed them). If you want to see another example here is last months, enjoy!

Heritage fruit and veg are apparently on the way back (if they ever went away) as featured in this BBC story on the Brighstone Bean. I like the idea of people caring about what they eat, sourcing more local food and not just for air miles / carbon footprint reasons but also to make the western world less homogeneous.

Check out fatfonts.org for a great idea – a typeface whose numbers are sized proportionate to their value (and explained better on the link! The value shown in the graphic is 489 in case you were wondering as the size gives the value

Who doesn’t like a banana piano when they see one? Head on over to Makey Makey (here) if you want to read up on how to make your own and many other wacky ideas made possible by this piece of innovation which you can actually put your name down to buy if it ever takes off!

And finally the news that Yeti DNA is the subject (here) is the subject of a study that seeks to give new evidence one way or another into the existence (or not) of the fabled Abominable Snowman (and gives me another excuse to mention Doctor Who with the Yeti shown here in London Underground from the story The Web of Fear

Hawkwind Onward a review.

So like clockwork (though maybe clockwork that runs at its own speed) the Mighty Hawkwind have released a new album entitled Onward perhaps just reminding us that they are still hear more than 40 years later or maybe just reminding us the “Onward Flies the Bird“. Whatever the reason for the name this was released in May 2012 in two forms single or double CD. I suspect that like me most fans will have bought the great value double CD version and this is the one I review here. You may also like to compare with the review of their last album Blood of the Earth which I reviewed here.

Vortex Books

If you lived in Brighton in the 1970s and 80s and were into sci-fi then there was only one place to hang out – Vortex Books not far from Preston Circus. This was a shop that sold both comics and books and only sci-fi/fantasy. This was in the days before CDs / VHS /DVDs so what you had was a shop stacked high with all sorts of material, some of it imported from the states the rest the staple fare of the genre at the time – Asimov, Pohl and Moorcock being amongst my most common purchases (I won’t mention the Perry Rhodan series if you don’t mind!).