DUSTLASH UPDATES by spaiku

WHAT? ALMOST ANOTHER YEAR HAS GONE !? 2011

These months are slipping by nonestop! I can not believe a full cycle has almost passed me by yet again! Its funny how our world keeps turning round, no matter whats happening, and time has indeed been flying !

A lot has happened since tokyo almost this time last year, and a lot is still to come!

I am currently working on a couple of comissions, finshing up my alevels, figuring out my art finals and I have a place on an art, design and media foundation course at ravensbourne starting in september! Its all very exciting stuff !

Though as I take new pathes into the future im leaving things on the lines behind me, as I have stopped my music lessons, farewell piano teacher ! and no more singing classes for me ! Though i did find my David Bowie music book and was teaching myself Life on Mars yeaterday afternoon, crammed under my desk to reach my keyboard which is hidden there... You havnt seen the last of my music yet it seems, double bass anyone ?

So, onto these comissions! Alex of the Mad Staring Eyes (check their band page out! - http://www.facebook.com/madstaringeyes) asked me to come up with potential album cover/tshirt designs, so when ive completed those I shall upload the pictures here.

Another friend of mine, Stibbe (Aginst My Own band page - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Against-My-Own/129081387158511) asked variouse people to come up with some designs for albums/posters so ill keep you posted on that front too.

Other interesting things - I have a dinosaur costume - I completed the new pokemon black game for nintendo - I cut my hair, short at the sides and back with a heavy fringe - My cat is sitting on my head - So till next time, over and out!

Useful Links

DUSTLASH THE WEBSITE

- http://www.dustlash.webs.com (will be updated/revamped soon!)

DUSTLASH AT POLYVORE

- http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?id=54775

DUSTLASH AT YOUTUBE

- http://www.youtube.com/user/mirroredwater

DUSTLASH AT TUMBIR

- http://dustlash.tumblr.com/ (just updated !)

UPDATES SEPTEMBER 2010

DUSTLASH UPDATES by spike

AUGUST 2010

In this small installment to the blog of Dustlash, i would like to briefly update you on what has been happening this August.

Though firstly i must show you this ! 

Powered by Polyvore

It is a Mini Editor, like the one i use one Polyvores main website, which enables me to create my graphics and fashion sets. Simply choose the items, drag them togeather and organise them as you wish to create your own image or set, fun eh!?

I recently traveled back from tokyo, where i had been staying on work experience for two weeks. It was an absolutely fantastic experience and now i just want to go back and live there ! I was shown some amazing place, and met many wonderful people, to be honest the time went way to quickly ! I was working in an Interior design and architectural company called KDa, and i helped make the some models for the Sony project they were working on while i was out there. I also got to have a sneak peek at the Google base camp in a huge sky scraper in the center of the city. I experienced so many wonderful things its hard to write them all down, but Tokyo is probably one of my most favourite of places in the whole world. 

On another note, I recently watched a program about what the future may have in-store for us. The point that i remember most is one i wish to share. They say that we are making robots more and more realistic and more like humans, and that also, we as human beings are becoming more and more like robots. In the future Robots will have emotions and live in the real world instead of just in our futuristic films, and mankind will be living in a virtual reality, living for longer and connected to so many gadgets that allows us as people to remember more, and be much cleverer. Its incredible to think of where both kinds will end up, but one day, we may be fairly similar to robots, and robots equally the same as us.

ALMOST A YEAR OF DUSTLASH!

ALMOST A YEAR OF DUSTLASH by spike

AUGUST 2010

HELLO ! i cant believe its been almost a whole year since i last blogged in. So much has happened since then ! I dont know if i can remember everything but ill try and cast my brain back to august last year and report back...

After working in Edinburgh last summer as work experience, where i created variouse animations, one of which was for the NHS ! and another for Road Safety in Schotland, which was very exciting, I traveled down by train to The Big Chill, which is a music festival ive attended for the last 6 years or so. I did an awsome graffiti course at the festival and made my own tshirt and did a bit of stenciling which was so fun! Thus started my craze for making my own tshirts, and cutting my clothes up to make weird inventions, such as the letters LOVE which i gave to my mum on mothers day made out of my old pair of red skinny jeans... Ive also become a little obsesed with my fashion, i came up with my own style, in a sense, so i am a neo-plasticist punk, its a pretty fun style as well. It uses Mondrians bold abstract feel with an essence of japanese style and the complete punk fashion. Im currently gathering all items up on Polyvore to exhibit the kind of things i wear and maybe set a revelution going, but we will see, here are the first two collections for the style, its fun as well because with these two collections you can slide through and match up the clothes!

I went back to school in september, and came straight into my A levels. Im doing a physics, biology and art a level, as well as an extra as level in music and an a level equivalent in IT. In which i have to complete a whole list of things and dabble my brain in databases which mindfux me but shouldnt be to bad, i also have to do something that will help the comunity, so ive become involved in the school website and i am now doing the site design which is fab !

I have finally fixed my laptop! which had been broken for various months, Ive lost most of my applications including photoshop which im really annoyed about, and so i think ill take this opportunity to completely update my mac. Thankfully my dad did some clever things by using the laptop as a hard drive and saved all my things otherwise i really would be lost by now!

Ive also done some work for a guy called Duncan Roe! not much but it was really fun, i made some little sketches for his website, and they were all movie related as he is a film producer, and he writes scripts and shoots all kinds of epic things like short movies and music videos!

I have been very productive in all manors of things, my a level revision is one, but ive also been writing a lot of songs, and ive even posted a load on youtube! 

I havnt recorded these yet as the lyrics are unfinished as of yet, but heres a little preview:

You are like a drug to me, and i cant breath
i have no idea what this mess of a life mine is at the core
i think i love you, but im to confused to be sure
i dont even know who i am, anymore
and this is the way i feel, when i think about you
theres nothing, and yet the whole universe within my soul
- http://www.youtube.com/user/spaikue?feature=mhw5

However! Above all ive been sorting my website out, i havnt got a proper domain name yet but its still mine! You can find a whole manor of things on there to! Including my music, graphics, animations, sketches, photography and more ! Its not completely finished yet, but should be within the week! Im so excited ! ive been coding the whole site myself, with a little help from my IT teacher who helped organise my coding and my friends and family who have advised me on the look and layout, especially Ilon and Beth, thank you ^ - ^ x

Well its about 1 in the morning again, i dont know where the time goes ! So i must bid you adjure and be off to bed, ill just link you to my site ... 

check out my site

http://www.dustlash.webs.com

Happy stalking! night night x ^ - ^

A MONTH OF DUSTLASH by spike

AUGUST 2009
Well really this covers more than a month, for sadly i havnt been on for a while. However ive still been active else where and im here to give you all the updates.

Firstly, there have been hundreds of new sets on polyvore. Changing slightly to cover more colourful items. You can see all new sets over to the left in the side bar.

I have also been away in scotland. As it is now the summer holidays for me and i was offered a job in a graphic design studio for two weeks. Im now at the end of my stay here and shall be retreating back south this thursday as i am off to a weekend of music. Being here has been a great experience. Acting like work experience they got me to make a few animations for them, and hopefully ill be able to post them up soon! When i do ill give you a more in depth description on what ive been up to here in Edinburgh.

I now also have flash CS3 and photoshop thanks to the people. Yet currently i have my nose in a book for dummies, hopefully ill be able to figure it all out soon though and bring you all some new and improved things such as games and flash websites perhaps.

I have now also finished My GCSEs and next year im onto A levels. I shall be studying Maths, Physics, Art and music. So you can be sure of some new stuff there in the future.

On the topic of music i have written a few new pieces and shall try to get them up here shortly. Lyrics alike.

Im currently involved in a roleplay on polyvore and i think i shall try and get some snipets of that up here to.

Anyway, lots to look forward to now the summer has hit! Ill be back as soon as i can to get everything rolling.

For a short while only. Over and out!

[X] [DUSTLASH]

The Wastelander

THE WASTELANDERS by spike
The Wastelanders is the title of a manga im currently developing, writing and drawing. based around the 7 deadly sins and the fact that heaven isnt all that it seems. 

The following pictures are the first A3 sized 13 pages. 

Enjoy! and please respect my creation and dont steal my ideas or graphics.

click to view then again to see full size:

page 1: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb263/mirroredwater/thewastelanders1.jpg
page 2: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb263/mirroredwater/thewastelanders2.jpg
page 3: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb263/mirroredwater/thewastelanders3.jpg

page 4: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb263/mirroredwater/thewastelanders4.jpg
page 5: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb263/mirroredwater/thewastelanders5.jpg

page 6: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb263/mirroredwater/thewastelanders6.jpg

page 7: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb263/mirroredwater/thewastelanders7.jpg

© copyright dustlash 2009

concluded contest

THE END OF 'DREAMS' by Spike

'Dreams', the most resent contest from my group [texture] at polyvore, finally concluded saturday 16th may [2009] and all entries were finally moderated today.

it was a hard choice but 3 winners were chosen 

THREE FINALISTS

See more on Polyvore

Thankyou to all who entered; and to all who are just looking, these three [aswell as all the rest] are worth checking out in full view !

OTHER ENTRIES 

 See more on Polyvore

click the link above to view all the entries

its well worth it! 

useful links:

polyvore home - http://www.polyvore.com/

dustlash at polyvore - http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?id=54775

the polyvore group [texture] - http://www.polyvore.com/texture/group.show?id=50380

last contest-concluded-  [dreams] - http://www.polyvore.com/dream/contest.show?id=66399

latest contest - open - [life] - http://www.polyvore.com/life/contest.show?id=68581

May 2009

A MONTH OF DUSTLASH by Spike

DUSTLASH is back and this month via blog !
To bring you up to date -  new graphics have been created on polyvore, there is a new animation on the block, some texts and an exclusive recording of the latest song ! 

So first up, Polyvore ! for those of you who do not know what polyvore is, it is a site where i have adapted to make pictures out of pictures. here is my polyvore profile - http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?id=54775.. Throughout this month my style has changed rather a lot. from the dark and mysterious to the junky painted feel of my newer sets. All the latest sets will follow. 

This new animation i speak of is not available yet as it is still ‘work in progress’ so I'm afraid you will just have to wait. For a change it is a burst of colour, all hand drawn in PhotoStudio and is a rapidly unfurling animation of movement and anime people, However i can say that it is my best yet. 

“As the sun beat on the ground, and the melodious noise of the beasts and insects hummed and whipped through the silence there came a sound unlike the nature that filled the sound”. On the writing front, this is the beginning few lines of my latest text. the full version can be found below. 

On other writing fronts there are some new lyrics hanging about. The song “ill be watching you”, is unaccompanied with any music at the time being, that shall be coming shortly, and if your lucky it may be recorded and put on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/mirroredwater - there is my account. less recent videos are permanently up there. including the not so good recording of my latest song. 

Next month brings the expectations of new songs, new texts, new sets and the the newest addition to the ever growing animation list. Thank you for reading, i am spike behind the mask of dustlash, over and out for another month. 

DUSTLASH AT POLYVORE the latest this month ...

  

Find me on Polyvore

DUSTLASH TEXT Most recent pieces this month...

 [lyrics]  - [inspired by a tune and an unknown david bowie song]

 ill be watching you 

 

oh as the sun comes up

and the stars fall out the sky

and when the clouds form white

as the days begin to shine

 

ill be there by your side

with your eyes to the skies

come away with me 

oh cant you see

ill be watching you

 

when you cross the line

and the birds fly out the sky

and when the clouds dont cry

just the loss of life to try

 

ill be there by your side

with your eyes to the skies

come away with me 

oh cant you see

ill be watching you

 

every move you make

every chance you take

ill be watching you.

[short story]

The Sound

as the sun beat on the ground, and the melodious noise of the beasts and insects hummed and whipped through the silence; there came a noise unlike the nature that filled The Sound. The Sound was a place, where all fighters came to be free. Not all found what they were looking for, but more often than not The Sound brought peace.
The unnatural noise struck again, like a drum beating its final toll. Yet it was unlike anything a living ear from The Sound had heard before. It struck from inside; and as everything came to a standstill, every creature looked in on itself. Questions filled the air, and the rumbling started again. The sound was undertaking war and the noise was the enemy.

As of yet nothing that thought for itself had entered The Sound. No one had entered and found themselves living. Yet somehow, against all odds, something catastrophic yet stunning had joined the ranks of the freedom flyers. As of yet, nothing such as the likes of Song, had gone against the power and might of nature and The Sound.

Song. She was conscious. She had a form. Yet she was magical. She had lived through all ages, and finally, had come to the end of the road. The end of life. Yet the beginning of creation.

Where Song could compliment The Sound and all that accompanied it, she also held a power unseen by the creatures and nature of the world. In The Sound, nothing and no one thought about the past, or the future

only the here and now. Yet Song put them in their place. She let them think, and in a sense she was doing The Sound a favor. She made everyone and everything feel more alive, to enjoy their freedom and made them use their senses, to see the world in all its beauty; and smell the almost intoxicating mixtures of cents; to feel in heart and soul what the world really had to offer, and to hear each other, and communicate, and to share and live truly together. To respect each others space and rights.

The Sound presented everything as beautiful and peaceful, and let everything be melodious and calm.

Yet did not the overpowering sense of nature take away all that which it strived for? did not the contagious sense of peace over rule the life's real senses? did not it let you be at rest, but stopped you living with true freedom at which it claimed ! 

The sound made everything free, yet they were all contained within the walls of existence; and Song, she didn’t mean to unsettle the peace. Maybe she came by accident, but she lingered in the minds of the living

as she passed through the walls of time.

surely she knew what it was like to be truly free.

DUSTLASH ANIMATION PREVIEW 

Fly with me, a dustlash production, to Seishun Kyosokyoku By Sambomaster

USEFUL DUSTLASH LINKS

DUSTLASH AT POLYVORE - http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?id=54775 

DUSTLASH AT YOU TUBE - http://www.youtube.com/user/mirroredwater

DUSTLASH AT DEVIAN TART - http://www.dustlash.deviantart.com

DUSTLASH AT PICZO - http://www.dustlash.piczo.com

EMAIL - dustlash@hotmail.com

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