I'm currently 3 weeks into 6 month round the world trip so forgive me if posts on this blog are few and far between. Not currently working + I've not got much time to find cool stuff on the web to share = my lack of activity...

But, I have found some cool bits and pieces on my travels – I will upload them here when I get a chance. In the mean time you can follow what I'm getting up to on my travel blog over here...

http://Goodbyelondonhelloworld.wordpress.com/

My good mate Jay manages and plays for amateur football team Bow Badgers FC, who are currently propping up the Hackney and Leyton Football League Div 2. He asked me a few months ago to design a new team badge for him and possibly a "sponsor" logo. I jumped at the chance as it all instantly came to me: I could see it perfectly in my mind, I just had to get it down. Now I'm the proud owner of my own shirt (number 99) I thought I'd share a couple of pics.

Here's the logo itself... A strong badger's head shape, grisly, lightning bolt stripes with a bull ring through it's nose. You don't mess with those badgers from Bow.

And here's a full view shot. For the sponsor logo we ended up going for a bright, bold, typographic design based on the 'E3' home postcode of the Badgers. 

For more info on the Badgers check out their site here and you can follow them on Twitter

Sometime back in July I received an email from a nice fellow who went by the name of Janko Mandic and came from Slovenia. He tells me that he's a musician (stage name: oknai) and that he's just happened to come across my blog. Anyway, he loved my photos from La Palma, taken way back in March, and asked permission to use a couple on the artwork for his forthcoming album. Of course I gave the project my blessing and now, 3 months down the line, I have 4 pristine copies sitting next to me.

The guys who designed the pack have done a great job and really made my photo sing (no pun intended), here's some nice photos that i've stolen from http://www.djfood.org/

You can find more photos and a more detailed (much more in fact) analysis of the pack over here... http://www.djfood.org/djfood/oknai-aint-a-dream-cd-packaging

You can find out more about oknai over here... http://soundcloud.com/oknai

Soft focus, major chromatic aberrations, Lens flares and strong colours. I'm learning to love this lomographic lens adapter combo more and more every day...

Did anyone else see the Lomography Groupon a while back? A £50 voucher to spend in store for £20... utter bargain! I spent mine yesterday morning down at the East London store on Commercial St, buying myself a 38mm Diana lens and an adapter that allows you to FIT IT TO A DSLR!!!! I know, mental right?

Well here's a product of my experimentations with it from yesterday afternoon. You get the nice, slightly soft focus and slightly weird chromatic abberations like with your usual Diana camera, which is great because sometimes i find that digital cameras are way too clean and crisp for my liking. You don't get any vignetting though, which I think is a shame because that's part of the charm of a lomo photo! So I added a bit in later to make it more "authentic".