Am I alone here, the only one who sees this mess we’re in? I’ve taken the time to design some postcards which I shall discreetly put ‘into stock’ at Blackburn Tourist Information shortly.
There are many, many CCTV cameras recently installed all over Blackburn. I have a couple of issues with this, one being that this is meant to be a free country, and we are being excessively monitored for unknown reasons, and secondly, assuming these cameras are in place for the good of the people and to reduce crime, that I think I’d rather my money be spent on a new prison to keep the scum off the streets, rather than taking pretty pictures of them.
Why don’t we get consulted about these things? We are the council and government’s customers, we pay for their services, NOT the other way around. Don’t give me that ‘preventative measure’ bullcrap. You want to spy on us and treat us like your subjects.
Fear my sign, outfitted with 10mm red LED powered by AAA batteries, for it shall light for weeks to come!
>> See this page for ghetto anti-surveillance technologies.
That’s what I call 5AM!
Well the last released mixtape was like 2003, so that’s 5 years ago! Rumors exist regarding a ‘retro@rob’s loft’ CD allegedly done by me late one Saturday night whilst squinting and shouting ‘we can’t turn it up anymore cos of the neighbours, right’, but thankfully one of the two copies in existance is now destroyed, and as I later discovered there was a catastrophic fault with one of the turntables which meant I was in fact not to blame for poor mixing on that occasion.
So, here’s a new mix CD in mp3 format for your listening pleasure. Some new stuff and a few tracks from recent years which I think are still cutting it:
As this is mixed, you’re gonna want it to play back with no gaps between the tracks. Information on setting this up in iTunes is here, if using Nero to burn to a CD then use the ‘no pause between tracks’ option when setting up your Audio CD project. If you don’t know what the hell any of this means, then may I recommend one of these?
If you don’t yet know about the party, which is on 21st June 2008, and you know how to contact me, then get in touch.
Parliament and local councils are packed with suit wearing nobbies who are not representative of the people! Why do we allow some profiteering wankers just out to have the easiest life they can, tossing it off with our money, creaming whatever they can off the top of what they extort from us through their 99.9% effective tax rate and generally taking the piss?
They won’t be happy until petrol is so expensive that no-one can get to work anymore. They’ll keep wasting our council tax on European parliament offices costing £250,000 per year so they can HAVE SOME FREE HOLIDAYS. They keep increasing their own ridiculous salaries for doing what is effectively ‘administration’, whilst giving the council workers who do an honest days work collecting our bins a kick in the teeth. Assholes!
There is no easy way for the average person to get their message out, share their opinions, because quite simply, they are too busy working every hour available to try and survive in our oppressive regime. We are SO CLOSE to becoming a communist state and people don’t even see it as the fat cats are flogging them so hard with their whip-of-tax that they don’t have time to enjoy life, reflect, and form opinions.
We’re providing this free public service - tell us what you think, about anything, and maybe sometime later, in the very very dark of night, we might go back and put these messages up.
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Installation has started of the electronic art originally planned for valentine’s day. See here as we baffle and astound the public, making them ponder the meaning of life and say such things as ‘Who has the time to do this crap?’. A numbered series of 10 designs total, probably nicked by kids before anyone actually saw them.
Design 1/10
Based on lyrics from Handsome Boy Modelling School’s ‘Sunshine’ and featuring a yellow LED. Installed in Lower Darwen 18.05.08:
Design 2/10
Based on lyrics from Bent’s ‘Always’ and featuring a white LED. Installed in Clitheroe 17.05.08:
Design 3/10
Based on lyrics from Handsome Boy Modelling School’s ‘Sunshine’ and featuring a green LED. Installed in Roe Lee 19.05.08:
Design 4/10
Based on lyrics from Bent’s ‘Swollen’ and featuring a green LED. Installed in Langho 22.05.08:
Guy from neighbouring Indian restaurant: “What the hell is that, is it a bomb?”
Me: “Yeah, I’m gonna blow this shit right up!!!! How long for a king prawn shashlik and a garlic naan?”
Indian Guy: “About 15 minutes, how long did you set the timer for?”
Me: “See you later”*
*In nirvana, with 760000000 virgin wives, when we can all party, yo!
Latest installment on the shitey red van of doom. Yet again parked inconsiderately by selfish tosspot owner. He’s on his arse and so I thought I’d leave him something he could at least Ebay in the future to buy a new battery for it or something, if he’s happy to part with the back door at least.
I’m not gonna let this go now, it goes against my free love ethic really, but this guy is like the Bin Laden of van parking, Van Lada’n or something.
When opening your front door, you hope to be greeted by the great outdoors, or at least your local version of ‘daylight’, but no, it seems here in the ghetto that our own little rays of sunshine greyness are to be selfishly taken away from our doorstep.
The biggest most obviously dodgy MOT’d heap of crap red van is constantly parked inconsiderately down here on west-79th street, the bronx, Blackburn, and as such we are employing a form of non-violent direct action to help the owner get the message to park this heap outside his own house.
Due to be updated daily until this selfish behaviour stops.
The living dead are everywhere amongst us, this is a proven fact. Blackburn has a high concentration, mostly seen as early-stage zombies who are wasting their lives living the same week, week-in-week-out. There is little need for concern as these people are so focused on consumerism and running up masses of credit to lead a pointless lifestyle and out-do their zombie buddies, that they have little time left over to attack.
However, it is only a matter of time once they are left feeling unfulfilled by their latest purchasing and they certainly then will turn on the rest of us! Be prepared. Have suitable zombie slaying weapons on hand, and be ready to leave your home for a safe destination at a moment’s notice. Also, read this book.
Early morning, Valentine’s Day, these devices appeared around Blackburn town centre. People were unfazed by the whole operation at first - we couldn’t stick around to see what happened due to ‘heat’ from the shopping centre management, perhaps not ready to receive the free love vibe.
>> Updated: Bus stop dispenser empty come 10pm that night - love thought to have been absorbed by ASBO drinking single mums getting the last bus home, though this is mere speculation.
If you’ve got loads, and loads, and loads of time on your hands, then why not make 1000 self adhesive vinyl love hearts to help spread the love?
Using the gayest red vinyl and Ikea scissors, model Bluntfkr I believe, we created some cheap and cheerful art for guerilla delivery on da streets of da ghetto for Valentine’s day. Peace.
Supplies from sams blackburn. Use it or lose it people.
Kelis is crap, that’s obvious. We sampled her vocals totally without permission, but at least the rest of it wasn’t by her. Listen here. NO PRESETS OR LOOPS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS MUSIC.
>> Updated: Bohannon’s ‘Start to Dance’ was nowhere like repetitive enough, so we sort that out here. Also, the Jungle Brothers are cool, but we ripped them off anyway here.
>> Updated II: The Man Like Franco (is that keyboard ever coming back?) (keyboard now back!) rare deleted limited edition one time only finished track here.
>> Updated III: Legendary track ‘Disco Nights’ by GQ, taken advantage of and fully violated, here. Michael Jackson ‘Ain’t no sunshine’ sampled here. Nothing at all sampled here, and it’s crap.
Ten years of destructive relationshipping, mixed with stolen and misquoted lyrics from some significant music, add an interest in electronics, and this is the result. 10mm diffused flashing LED’s powered by a 555 timer IC and mounted on custom artworked printed circuit boards. A series of 10 being exhibited soon.
Inspiration from graffiti research lab.
>> Update: This is how we did it!
The brief instructions here are only a rough guide of how we reproduced digital artwork onto printed circuit boards using a fairly unspecialist/cheap method. Bear in mind there are a number of risky operations involved here which could involve damage to equipment, or yourself. Therefore please make sure if you attempt this yourselves, you take as much care as possible with regards to health and safety. You are responsible for any negative side effects from creating your own circuit board artwork, not us. Do not carry out this procedure unless you understand fully what you are doing, and have all the relevant safety gear as advised by the manufacturers of the various components.
You will be needing:
- Laser printer
- An iron (like for your clothes)
- Standard acetate (NOT laser acetate)
- Wire wool
- Dual sided copper clad PCB prototyping board
- Etchant (we used ferric chloride)
- Suitable container to hold etchant (we used tupperware)
1. Create artwork in your package of choice. As everyone knows that Photoshop is just a tool for people wanting to apply lens flare effect, we use Illustrator, the ghetto-vector tool of choice. Artwork needs to be mirrored, then printed out onto normal (NOT laser) acetate using a laser printer. This is so the laser’s toner just sits on the acetate, with no real bond to the acetate at all really.
2. Get copper clad PCB boards. Scrub them using wire wool til they are shiney, then use some kind of household degreaser to clean them fully, we use multi surface anti bacterial stuff, but acetone (nail varnish remover) is also good. Using an iron on ‘hells inferno’ hotness setting, transfer toner artwork onto copper clad boards. This is the most important stage. Doing a bad job here means a lowsy end product. You want as much of the toner as possible to transfer off the acetate onto the copper clad boards. Don’t be afraid of applying heat for a number of minutes. I found the transfer worked best if you applied heat for a while, then put the whole thing under a cold tap… This cools it rapidly and usually results in a good transfer, and the acetate will probably just fall off under the weight of the torrenting water.
3. Get some etchant. We used ferric chloride I believe, which is a really nasty chemical to work with so use protective stuff. We obviously didn’t bother and just used a piece of crappy Ikea tupperware and a tea towel and took it all outside. Mix up the etchant in some kind of suitable container, then stick the circuit boards in there and leave until the excess copper is stripped. This process is NOT NICE and VERY DANGEROUS so be careful. You are left with black artwork on the green fibreglass PCB material…. So, next:
4. Use wire wool, again, to scrub off all the black toner, underneath you will find shiney copper, and your board is complete to fit with electronics of your choice.
You can download our artwork if you’re interested, split across 3 x A4 sheets ready for printing, here.