Its great to have a Muse, Hiatus Kaiyote Mural

Fancy that! they actually came to check out the mural :D

Music funnily enough is a great muse for artwork and for the past year I've listening to a lot of Hiatus Kaiyote. After hearing their album on Gilles Peterson last year it became an instant hit with me. There jazziness, funkiness and overall really well tailored contemporary sound was really refreshing and always put me in a happy mood when making work...

So I when i heard that they were coming from Melbourne Australia to do a gig Round the corner from where I HAD to do something.

?WAT! was created.

After getting turned down by the venue we had to come up with our own plan... and all I can say is that  I felt hapz to see that they liked it!

Thanks for the shout-out Nai Palm! I actually was gonna call it Mobius-Streak ha ha.

realising the importance of just creating out of love and sheer inspiration... just do it! these guys make amazing music, and it reminds me of how much i appreciate being a creative! I can just make something back!

Well done on the record deal!

Jack Petchey Award

So We Won an Award!

Adeeb all smug and Me NASHING!!!

BeddownBattini Was a creative Collective started by myself and Adeeb Warren. An artist and a Writer starting an art collective with a specific angle on strying to tell stories. Both Londoners, Both hung out in the same areas, liked the same films, introduced each other to all sorts of music, and both had stories we wanted to create.

The City was a Great influence and as well as big films and features, our most inspiring ventures were always the projects/exhibitions that people we knew and were connected to. Whether it be an exhibition at a local cafe, a pop up shop show, or Monorex Streetart Projects, It was always things that people started from ground up that really made us want to just make things happen, and get others involved.


So when we got BnB started we made sure we utilized the networks we had, and made new ones through them too. Its really a good idea to Know what all yah friends are up to if your a young person. especially in the arts. Around this time we were also in a year out and doing a lot of work with a youth empowering charity called Envision. Its always good to have worked with a charity before :) We Did designs, films, and talks with them.

So whats the Award about then???

JACK PETECHY

Jack Petchey Award for achivements in inspiring young people. :D Envision nominated us for this award and we won it :) meaning we get £200 to spend on producing a project that benefits young people! SWEEEEEET! Ive just been doing what I Love. Were always looking for fundingfor projects.


We celebrated by going to see StarTrek Into Darkness :D
awesome movie.... but it doesnt answer how were gonna spend the money :P

Duel realities

This was some work i made for someone..... wasnt what they were looking for... back to the drawing board! Sort if influenced by castle in the sky/skylanders and dragonball

Getting aquatinted with Angles and Perspectives

Im working with Perspectives. 

I happen to think Im getting pretty good at it. And colouring...

Abro Blado

Fully Enjoyed Bladerunner! to think that that was one of the last films to not use digital techniques to make the world is crazy. it looks so much more authentic then Alot of 3D films made now days, and the city had sooo much character!

Life in Nigeria prt 1

This video has a perfect rendition of my experiances in nigerian Cities.
Its full of life and culture, but tbhere is this strange clash between the sun, th atmosphere and the natural environment. Pollution mad traffic, and everyones in a rush.

Trying to capture all of this deffinetly has to do with the colours and what medium to use

Concreate Circus is WAY COOL

Err Inf you didn't know already ?x3 and Travis are Characters who Free run.

this is a great source for identifying how they get around london. I ended up watching this on the plane to nigeria.

I wish i could free run... oh well. The Landscapes in nideria are awsome for stuff like this, since the architecture is really creative.

Tennis Dicipline

Second attempt of moving image! were doing cool

A weeks worth of solid work! colour coming soon and also the development.

Black History Month exhibition

beddow ‘n’ Battini and The University of East London are collaborating on a Twist Lesson on Black History Month.

Remember the days in Primary or Secondary school? Big Letters on the Black/White Board, saying… “BLACK HISTORY MONTH”.

Underneath you’d see see the typical names: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks – The usual stuff back then.

Black History is important, but what exactly is the month dedicated to? Who put it there? And what do we actually get from it?

All we know is that Opinions are vast.. and we like to express ourselves. So take this exhibition as a eye opener to what different Story tellers feel about the Month that is BLACK HISTORY.

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For all you'll who didn't know Beddow n Battini is the collective that Im part of that do annual Exhibitions with artists and writers... for more info, check THIS OUT! :D Beddow n Battini

Little big planet - the calculator level

I want a playstation 3

Plainly because of this game!

Its probably the single most creative console game ever created, and as well as that, its a brilliant example of how a company can have a conversation with the consumers!

little big planet is a game were you basically play as a ragdoll called Sackboy - hes a dude made from what looks like a sack. its a basic physics based platforming game realised in 2008 for the playstation 3. the main enthuses of the games pretty much like super mario, but the CHARM of the game and the reason people love it so much is because of the limitless amount of things you can essentially experience from it, considering everything in the game can be designed from scratch.

its a game that lets you PLAY CREATE and SHARE. allowing you to play through the game, design your own levels and how they work and download/upload the created levels so that everyone on the network can play!

THIS GUY MADE A WORKING CALCULATOR through the Basic switches that you get in the game.

i love Super Mario Games but after seeing this, ive realised i want a playstation just to play this!

Bare in mind this game came out 2008, the Latest one Little big planet 2 came out a couple of weeks ago :) got it! dont have PS3 :(