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Picture This!, the only "Live Animated Comedy Show" is BACK and bringing both coasts of artists & comedians together thorough the magic of live online streaming!! 
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Empire Pictures/Tycin Films (1986-1987) “At the time everyone was talking high concept so I said let’s do RAPISTS FROM OUTERSPACE.” Charles Band bought the film released as Breeders as well as Mutant Hunt, which Kincaid shot back-to-back. Director Tim Kincaid was rewarded with a long term, ten picture deal with Empire in which some of the films will be made under his Tycin Films banner and others under Millennium Pictures. The latter will include some bigger budget items. Make them for under $1 million each on 10-day shooting schedules, back to back. Kincaid explained that most of the Tycin features will be produced for direct-to video sales probably through Empire’s own Wizard Video. The remaining films will see a theatrical release.
Although filmed after Mutant Hunt, Breeders (1986) was the first to land on video store shelves aided by a stylish pulp-influenced poster. Though no censors could get at his script Kincaid did have a domestic overseer. “My wife is very much into making sure that women aren’t being ripped-off in these films,” he said. “We had a lot of nudity but we weren’t brutalizing women on screen. Everything is implied. Variety speculated that BREEDERS went out on video because of problems with the rating board, but we had always planned to make it an R-rated film. Nothing has been cut for the video release.”
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The climactic scenes of BREEDERS take place in the monster’s underground lair, where it has created a nest for its victims. Kincaid filmed in a series of catacombs under the Brooklyn Bridge, used by workers who built the structure. There are vast rooms with brick and stone archways, the largest of which is a prayer room used by the men before they went into the depths to work. Kincaid learned of the location from BREEDER’s makeup effects man Ed French.
The monster’s victims were to be seen immersed in a pit of translucent slime actually gelatin. But with the actresses disrobed and immersed, the jello failed to gel. Kincaid was wary of adding the chemicals necessary for fear of harming the girls.
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“The art director jumped in a van and headed for the nearest supermarket,” said Kincaid. “He brought back ten pounds of flour and we poured it into the pit. It worked, but unfortunately it turned it white and gave the scene these sexual undertones that we never meant for it to have. The girls ended up working in the stuff for four or five hours-until 4 a.m.”
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Necropolis (1986) Reincarnated “Satanic Witch” from New Amsterdam, circa 1600’s comes back to revive her cult members by sucking the life force out of people.
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Robot Holocaust (1986) Just outside New Terra (whats left of New York City), Neo, a drifter from the atomic-blasted wastelands, and his klutzy robot sidekick arrive at a factory where slaves labor to fuel the Dark One’s Power Station. He meets Deeja, a woman (Nadine Hart) who convinces him to help rescue her father. The father is a scientist (Michael Dowend) who has invented a device that can break the Dark One’s control over the factory slaves. Gathering a motley crew of allies on the way, Neo goes to the Power Station to confront the Dark One’s evil servants.
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Mutant Hunt (1987), which Kincaid calls an adventure film with a science fiction background” finds Manhattan in a state of terror as Z, a mad industrialist, alters a squad of cyborgs with a drug known as Euphoron, turning them into crazed killers. The cyborg’s original creator is imprisoned by Z, but his sister escapes and seeks the help of Matt Riker, a private operative.
Kincaid directed MUTANT HUNT in 15 days, stretching the budget to give it more value and making up the difference by cutting corners on BREEDERS, putting that film in the can in only eight days. Empire is easily the most prolific distributor of genre films and their tactic of using both theatrical and video markets to release their product should enable them to keep a constant supply of films flowing to the fans. This is fine with Tim Kincaid, who seems to get a genuine joy out of making films, even on restricted budgets.
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The location is a large industrial type complex, eight stories high and several blocks long. The Army abandoned the terminal more than a decade ago. Today, it is the home of a noisy spice factory, hundreds of dilapidated city buses, and a small, but eager film crew. “There’s nothing like a set that doesn’t move,” says Rick Gianasi. The beefcake actor plays the film’s macho hero, Matt Riker. “This place is fabulous,” he observes.
The same location, with its scores of broken windows and rusty train tracks, conjures up a nice post apocalypse scenario on this windy and cloudy morning. Despite the atmosphere, Kincaid explains that his movie is not set in the next century. “Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt is not Road Warrior or Star Wars,” he notes, but it is in the future, only about six years from now.”
Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt certainly has its share of Fango moments, so don’t get the idea that this flick is simply another science-fiction yarn. The movie’s mutants are actually diseased cyborgs, exploited by an evil genius called Z, who eventually run amuck throughout the Big Apple. Kincaid, while looking around the set and mapping out the morning’s schedule, adds that his film will not take itself too seriously, either.
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“It’s sort of-I don’t want to say tongue-in-cheek because that term’s overused-a contemporary adventure,” he explains. “There’s not much hardware, just some lasers and effects. It isn’t knockdown, fall about-funny, but Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt has a sense of humor. The heroes are a happy-go-lucky trio of mercenaries, adventurers for hire who share a kidding camaraderie with each other. It’s a comic strip.”
The first shot of the day, which Kincaid is now planning, will take place on a concrete walkway inside a spectacular atrium that bisects the terminal. Grey buttresses jut out from both sides of the enormous hangar-like structure. Sunshine streams in from a huge skylight above, reducing the need for artificial lighting. To the left of the walkway, New York-based special effects man Matt Vogel peers over the charred remnants of Z’s dummy corpse, the victim of a Vogel pyrotechnic effect from the previous night’s lensing.
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Vogel, who honed his incendiary skills on the pyromaniac horror flick Don’t Go in the House, is also contributing cyborg sparks, various fireballs and assorted gunshots. And included in his makeshift FX lab–actually his very own spot on the floor are boxes of ornaments, Christmas balls. Christmas balls?
“We have this chemical called titanium tetrochloride, ” Vogel elaborates. “When you open it up, slivers of smoke come out. It was once used for skywriting. The smoke is nice, but you can’t contain it. If I put it in a Christmas ball and seal it up, I have a titanium tetrochloride bomb. With a small explosive charge, the ball breaks and tendrils of smoke emerge. The hardest part of my job is finding Christmas balls in September!”
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A few feet from Vogel’s effects “shop” is makeup man Ed French’s cluttered work area where he and his assistants John Bisson and James Chai leisurely paint some cyborg appendages. Later, French will supply an immobile six-foot cyborg “stretcho” arm, plus the diseased facial features for a cyborg duo. French took on a multiple challenge on these dual productions. Not only is he providing the special makeup effects, but Kincaid is letting him direct most of the FX sequences as well. “In terms of directing the special effects,” French reveals, “much of it is up to me. I don’t have any designs on becoming a director, but it is something I’ll have a lot to do with on these films. My storyboards are followed very closely by the editor. They’re very practical in terms of our shooting time. We can’t compete with An American Werewolf in London, but if it’s planned intelligently, we can have a lot of fun.”
French is particularly excited about a mechanical cyborg puppet that both he and Tom Lauten built for Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt. Its enticing features include a blown-away face with missing jaw, but French resists displaying this trophy, explaining that it is so fragile that he prefers to bring it out only when the cameras are rolling. Instead, visitors to the set get to see his chicken-wire-and-foam dummy, an unfortunate body that many crew members delight in kicking.
“This is our generic, all-purpose cyborg-dummy,”French announces, pointing to the abused double. “We took him apart yesterday, and pulled his arm off and had sparking as it came out of the joint. We divide him in half for an operating table scene. He also does some falling. This is body part city. We have an action scene where a cyborg knocks another’s head off, a combination dummy-puppet. We even have industrial strength cyborg blood squirting all over. It looks like anti-freeze.”
Nearby, two of the actor-cyborgs sit patiently while their bizarre crew cut hairstyles are neatly trimmed by the set’s conventional makeup artist Laurie Aiello. With their threatening height and muscular builds, these guys seem perfect for the cloneesque cyborgs, but their haircuts make them look like demented sailor boys. “We knew what we were getting into when we were offered the roles,” jokes Beta Cyborg Mark Legan, one of this production’s chiefly unknown cast. Alpha Cyborg Warren Ulaner doesn’t mind his appearance. “I was in the East Village the other night and my haircut was, more or less, conservative.” Adds French, “The makeups and designs are very stylized and give them a punk-heavy metal look.”
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“I was looking forward to playing this kind of role,” says Legan, “because these guys are as villainous as you can get. Warren does a number of nasty things to people and gets a lamp stuck in his eye. Yesterday, I got to tear somebody’s arm off. That’s more fun than saving the girl. For me, the film’s highlight will be when I attack a couple in an alley, tear the girl’s head off and roll it down the street.”
For a production that is supposed to wrap in only 10 days, things are going very slowly on this Wednesday morning. Most of the crew point to the reason: they’re recovering from late night shooting of some extra action stuff to impress Charles Band. Band flew in earlier this morning to get an advance peek at the dailies and, according to French, liked what he saw. Today’s first shot involves a short dialogue scene with the intense Z (Bill Peterson) holding a fellow scientist (Marc Umile) at laser point. Kincaid is an atypical, laidback director who stresses the “please” when he calls, “Quiet, please” as things finally get moving.
“Maybe the pace will pick up suddenly, and it will be rat-a-tat-tat, scene after scene,” predicts the hopeful Ron (New York Ninja) Reynaldi. He plays Johnny Felix, a martial arts master and electronics expert to Riker. He also doubles as Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt’s comic relief and stunt coordinator.
Following the short dialogue scenes, Kincaid readies the next few shots in which the heroine (Mary Fahey, sister of Jeff Fahey), is chased down a dark tunnel. The crew pauses for the sun to hide behind some clouds (day for night). Despite the brief delay, the director remains confident that Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt will come in on schedule.
“I plan my films like any other feature,” he notes during a lunch break. “It’s like a jigsaw puzzle. What you have to realize is that a Magnum P.I. even though it’s 52 minutes long and they have a bigger crew and bigger budget-goes out in seven days. Everything is carefully planned out in advance and really set up so that we know where we are going. We know how long it’s going to take to shoot each thing and how much time to allow for it. That’s why we’re shooting so radically out of sequence.”
After Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt wrapped principal photography a week later-inserts will be shot soon and Band’s California-based technicians are doing the post-production opticals. Kincaid and company immediately began Breeders, a tale of lustful aliens invading Fun City with sex, sex, sex on their otherworldly minds. Some new crew members have joined this film, along with another batch of unknown performers, including makeup man Ed French. Breeders is shooting in the same underground tunnels.
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“I think Breeders is going faster, but I don’t know why,” observes French, while preparing a shot with a grotesque half-alien/half-human baby. “Maybe it’s the script. Breeders is more elementary and straightforward. The style, which is very ’50s sci-fi monsters on the loose, almost dictates what you should do. On Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt, the script kept getting rewritten and getting bigger and more complicated. It’s an action movie with a lot of special effects. We knew Matt Riker would go over schedule a bit since it’s so ambitious.”
French steps aside to talk with his assistant, James Chai, who is lying on the dusty concrete floor for his part in bringing the monstrous puppet to life. The baby alien is appropriately disgusting, with an immense, gaping mouth running vertically down its face. A big, bulging bug eye blinks blindly. French applies some gooey methyl cellulose to its row of razor sharp teeth. Meanwhile, gun toting actor Lance Lewman and stake-wielding Teresa Farley wait for French to call action so that they can battle the crippled beastie. As on Matt Riker, Kincaid lets French direct his own special FX sequences.
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Acting is another experience French is enjoying on Breeders. The occasional actor plays a doctor possessed by the aliens. Eventually, he even turns into one. “It’s really kind of exciting,” French laughs. “There was an eerie moment yesterday. I’m supposed to be hiding this little creature and then let him loose on these people. I was in the shot, so I just couldn’t step out of the scene and check out the creature. I had to stay in character and let my assistant take care of it.”
In a connecting tunnel next door, a couple of production assistants place the finishing touches on the aliens’ “nest,” a squat six-foot-square box made of foam, goo, plastic and some broken glass. The “Gigeresque” nest is where the captive women are taken. Attractive actress Francis Raines, last featured as the first victim of The Mutilator, does not mind wallowing naked in the nest for her upcoming scene as alien breeding stock.
“This stuff is like food preservative,” explains Raines referring to the buckets of methyl cellulose ooze. “It’s not like they hired 40 Ukrainian elephants to spit in there. I go through the pit and transform to become another Breeder. I can’t wait! At least, I keep away from the dirt.
“My biggest scene is where it does its transformation and chases me around this photography studio while I’m modeling swimsuits. He gets me, attacks me, and uses me. The biggest effect occurs when this stomach cord shoots out and grabs me. Its tentacles drag me away.’
French insists that Breeders is not as lewd as it sounds, while Kincaid obviously believes that sex and violence sell flicks. “I’ve always liked the lurid exploitation movies of the ’50s when I was growing up,” Kincaid remarks. “I think the time is right for them to come back, since we’re coming to the end of the wholesome-family-type science fiction that appeals to a wide range audience. Now, we have a big video market for these low-budget pictures. There hasn’t been an audience for these movies in the last 10 to 15 years… until now.”
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In addition to “tactfully” filming the alien rapes, Kincaid and French wanted an abstract look for the invaders. French based his designs on a book of insect microphotography. Most of the black-painted Breeders suit lies in sections around his ad-libbed workshop. A separate Breeders insert head is used for close-ups, and includes waving antennae. An alien hand snaps out a line like a frog’s tongue as well.
“The most challenging bit about the whole thing, and what I’m learning the most about, is integrating the monster suits into the film so that it doesn’t look like a monster suit,” explains French during a 4 p.m. lunch break. “I hate monster suits. Everytime you see this thing, we show a little more of it, like in The Elephant Man. First, you see its hand, then its shadow, a partial transformation, etc. It’s all judiciously shot and generally nightmarish. You’re not going to see a guy running around in a rubber suit.”
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Monster suits or not, everyone at Entertainment Concepts is banking that Breeders and Matt Riker: Mutant Hunt serve as the first of a succession of independent New York productions all to be released by Empire… if all goes right.
“Empire has approached us about working with them as an East Coast off-shoot of their production suppliers,” Tim Kincaid reveals. “Their films are shot all over the world, Spain, Rome, California, but they don’t have a group of people to supply them from the East Coast. They like the feel and scenic look of what they’ve seen. We’re hoping it’s the beginning of a series.”
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Waldo Warren Private Dick Without Brain (1988) (The Occultist, MAXIMUM THRUST) A cyborg private eye is hired to protect a Caribbean president visiting New York City. Unknown to him, the president’s daughter is in league with his country’s rebels who are trying to assassinate him.
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The History of Empire Films Part Four Empire Pictures/Tycin Films (1986-1987) “At the time everyone was talking high concept so I said let's do RAPISTS FROM OUTERSPACE." Charles Band bought the film released as Breeders as well as Mutant Hunt, which Kincaid shot back-to-back.
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​Innerview: Effie Lin / ​DPI Magazine (Taiwan)  
November 2009 - January 2010
Photo: DJG (2009) by Cayla Kennedy (Age 5)​
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0​1) What is your philosophy in your art world? I have to be a human first and a maker of things second. Sometimes the two court together really well. Sometimes they pick fights and choose sides. I sort of have a get up and go method and plan to always be working on my life and work, and to my best ability, given the resources at hand. It’s not that I have a complete lack of care, responsibility or feel disenfranchised or on the outskirts. Though, I do have my moments. Even in bad moments, when it’s probably not a good idea for me to be around me, I try to eventually spin a positive from that experience. They can be the most crucial moments as I learn a great deal once I get beyond their borders. I think that’s part of the process. Process is a big deal and we’re all a part of it. And there is such a thing as bad process equaling a positive in life and work. All I know is that I need to be honest and pure with how I speak inside and outside of the work I am putting on and off the table. Anyway, I’m not really a grouch or a slouch in both areas of life and art, but it is a constant work in progress. I think that thinking too much about it, or the idea of it in the larger spectrum, can become damaging, unhealthy and grow bean stocks further from the truth. Though, I might add that I understand how hard it can be to keep from big ideas and big thinking, it is. I like where it is that I’m at right now and it all stacks up to here. I just need to be making things until I move on to something else. And that something else will probably involve making things too. I love what I do. There is a bigger component to the little pictures that I’m here presenting. I just need to keep up and in the know of the tip toes and perhaps leave some behind in the only way I can try, that means being something like me. ​0​2) What is your favorite medium and why? I feel that maintaining and manhandling a single medium would be quite overwhelming. I admire those that can do it, and do it skillfully. Not that I’m a special breed, but I don’t understand how some people can milk the same cow every day, for years. Every day is a little different inside and out and that fuels my mood of operation. I think that I suppose there is a definition when one looks at the work I’m doing, and the way I go about it, to easily pin me to a favorite medium. I like to use my hands and things around me to tell my stories. But, I don’t know much other than the day-to-day as my mind and energy wanders much on the map. I wake up and see what weather we’ve got. I believe much of it comes from growing up on a farm and spending a lot of time alone. A lot of people think that time is at a stand-still on the country clock. It wasn’t for me as there wasn’t really a cap on the kind of external culture and entertainment I could in-take and fuse with country living inside and out. Everything was a big pot of soup for me and it still is. I was always doing something and I still am. I also watched my Grandma make a lot of things by hand, and although not really an “artist”, she’s been a big influence on the work I’m doing. Another thing, I can’t be as involved with my work when there is a computer screen barrier involved. I can use a computer, but it is only like a nail gun to me. In my college studies while struggling with the introductory marriage of technology and design, I almost quit completely. Funny, before even getting on a computer I naively claimed to tech-savvy peers, “I am going to take the route that doesn’t employ computers.” Anyway, computers are cool and all but it is not how I like to really play. It didn’t help that around this time in my early 20s, I also had doubts about my artistic talent and identity. I also never felt comfortable visiting the design firms of my possible “future”. Some people find a home in them, but I couldn’t and wanted to be in a sense, a stay at home mother to my art. So, these factors led me to re-learn and go back to being a kid locked up inside and/or getting that kid to come back out…becoming an adult can be crippling. I started putting my identity back in the work at this time by leaving my human elements and story behind. I was also exposed to new kinds of external stimulus with art and culture and that helped me see things better too. I eventually had a calling to do my own thing completely, dropped out of school, moved to a big city and mixed it all together. Cities are big cooking pots anyway. But, on a personal level, I’m not done cooking yet. I’m kind of “mild” right now compared to most. I’m just one more guy carving a name on the cinder block and trying to pay the bills. ​0​3) Could you talk about the exhibition post of “Showing My Sheep”? Could you talk about your creating concept? I was born and raised on a farm. We raised sheep and showed sheep at county fairs. I used to have a basketball court shared with the sheep lot. As a youngster I spent some time wanting to be a farmer and in many ways now I kind of am. I’d like to live on a farm again someday, mostly for quiet space, to have more animals and to have a big barn I can work in. I did my first retrospective art exhibition called “Showing My Sheep” after five years of working on my art odyssey. Yeah, that’s not a long time for a life or career overview, but it was important for me to show my whole flock of work together like that and up to that point. And in truth, a 5 year old sheep is middle age. The image on the exhibition poster is a quick scribble of me (or something like me) in sheep’s carcass/dress. I’ve always wondered silly about sheep walking upright and maybe a bit of my love of Gary Larson “The Far Side” comics is shining through just a bit too? But, there is more to this one as it is a tribute to my upbringing as it represents my sheepish nature and approach mixed with the “wolf in dress” image that I think we all catch and can’t catch up with, at least every now and again (notice the front legs and how they are also a wolf snout?). Another idea in this sheep image is how zombie-like an artist, anyone for that matter, slaves to their nature. I rummage a lot of thrift shops for unique papers and board game “play cards” to print on. Paper can add another dimension to something like a poster, in this case adding to the idea of the game of life and art I play. The board game this paper came from is called “Facts in Five: The Game of Knowledge”, thus adding to all the pieces of art and life that added up to the making of my 5 year retrospective. There is also the handwriting element of an anonymous other’s involvement that I find fascinating. Plus, there is the “grid” pattern that reflects a panel fence to keep the sheep in and out…breaking fences, doing my own thing, so to speak. If you squint you might even see sheep pellets, or what I used to refer to as M&M’s, as they would make for an interesting game of basketball. Did you get all that? There are lots going on in this one. Almost another 5 years after that exhibition and I wonder if I’m nearing the end…hmmm. You never know. ​0​4) Which one of your work is your favorite? Or which one made you spend the most time and effort? What’s message you would like to convey through this work?? Favorite Work: My favorite piece of personal art was stolen at an exhibition in late 2004. It is the only thing of mine that wasn’t/isn’t documented (scanned, photographed) and I can’t recreate it. It is a simple little broken pen scribble drawing of a mentally handicapped water bison. His name is Mortimer. I made him in a couple minutes while on hold on the phone with the phone company. I busted a pen and let the ink spill. I’ve tried other drawings like it, but they turn out different. I have a lot of favorite works, but that one is the winner and loser. Time & Effort: I don’t think you really need “time” or “effort” to make something stick or feel, or even get something done. In fact, once I’m in the creative moment there is no such thing as “time” and “effort”. If you do something enough and love it, then it becomes another extension and you’re a paint brush for something bigger. Though, the words do become tangible when “life” stuff is thrown into the mix. This can’t be denied. Due to my so far 8 year schedule of day jobs, night jobs, marriage and the general day-to-day, I’ve always worked fairly fast and in small slots of time and many things at once, lots of things. It’s as much mental and military discipline as it is anything else and I just go for it. If it ever starts to feel like a chore, I try to take a short break or study up in other areas. If it ever becomes a chore out of my grasp, I’ll find something else to do completely. It can be struggling at times, but there is something good about the “life” stuff that I feed from. It can add fuel to the fire and makes me realize that I’m not always first in line. Sometimes it can be rough sitting on my hands while at the day job, but I’ll make up for it. In truth, there are never enough resources for the things I’d like to leave behind before I’m called quits. But, I sure try to make the best of “time” and “effort” while I’m here. I’ve made many posters and I love the fact that the poster has a shorter shelf live than something like the CD. I like experimenting with posters because if it gets swatted down, it only lived for a couple weeks and another will come along. They are kind of like flies. At three to five sessions, I try to court CD packages a lot longer. There are instances when an image instantly clicks in my mind when I’m told of an upcoming CD and that’s the final product, but most of the time I have to make them incubate and mature. I’ve always been fascinated with productivity and the human mind and mood, at least in my path. I often look at my timeline of work, wondering how different some of the things would have turned out had I did them on another day or even a minute later than I did them. The past few years, my music design output has shrunk some. I reached a certain point after 2006 to where I realized I needed to step back. I still do a few music projects here and there, but mostly just make a lot of visual art for myself. Which, I’ve always teetered on visual art. Maybe I’m trying to make up for Mortimer? I did start something different for me and in a medium that I’d love to pursue more. It wasn’t until this year (2009) that something really consumed me and that was a music video. It has been a great thing for me to be more patient with a project. Now, that’s a whole different extra innings of “time” and “effort”. ​0​5) Which one of CD cover/album artwork is your favorite or make you really proud of? What is the concept? Could you talk about your creating process? Did you listening to the music when you working? I’ve been asked this question a lot. I always answer with: “Whatever Makes You Happy” by The Elevator Division. It’s something to feel proud when you accomplish anything, but even more when it is all done and duplicated by hand in one night. 250 CD packages were made out of hand-cut cardboard, spray paint, stencils, rubber stamps and glued inserts. The concept is a hand shooting off a missile finger. The music themes revolve around relationships on and off the battlefields of life and war and the cover image relays the idea of shooting off one’s options, as in, “Whatever Makes You Happy”. Conceptually (design-wise), it might be the best thing I’ve got in me and inspiration came at the last minute before production and during a great Midwest thunderstorm. Upon the last spray of paint in my basement (yes, I was stupid enough then to spray paint in an unventilated basement), there was a crack of lightning and I flew upstairs and out the door of my home and slid down the well-watered front lawn and into the gutter of the street with red spray paint all over me. The squatters on the porch at the supposed drug house across the street got a kick out it. It was a massive affair and I swore I wouldn’t do it again and then I did a near repeat 4 years later for another band, but not all in one night. I swore I wouldn’t do that again-again and then I kind of did it again two years later. So, I must be due up for another one soon. In the case of The Elevator Division, the band lived with me and practiced nearly every day directly outside my basement studio door at our home. There were several bands that this happened with. I usually don’t listen to albums that I’m designing very much and I rarely listen to them after they are a finished product. This is especially so when it is blasted in the flesh right next to me. ​0​6) Why is sound/music important to our life? What is the most important for designing the album/CD cover? I’m not a fan of a lot of “noise”, but I like sound and I love music and I like some noise music. I love the idea and image of the album cover and making an album “feel” on the outside and giving it an identity. I find I have a detachment from the music and the memories when it is fused in our current in-between stage right now of technology and mp3 land. Even if they have a digital image shroud, they lack a hard identity to me as they float out in space and it makes me a little sad. I prefer a physical collection/body of music, with identity. I don’t want to get too far into this topic and I’ll add that both formats have their good and bad. And I love walking to and from work with a pocket overflowing with Bruce Springsteen songs (I have the records at home too). Along the same lines, I think that the idea of “cover art” or something physical isn’t going to die 100%, at least not in my lifetime. I do hope it doesn’t get even more eclectic-expensive like it kind of is looking. I love album art and I can’t really afford it. I just remember one of my earliest memories being the apple on records by The Beatles. That was/is important to me. I bit that apple and it has been good to me for 30 years now. ​0​7) What had been the most challenging thing to you in art world, and how did you overcome it? I think I have challenges and things to overcome and then I tune into the news or watch certain documentary films. I realize there is nothing for me to complain about after that. Of course there are some personal issues that challenge me and my little world. A major one of is overcoming some of my social phobia. It’s made me who I am and probably factors to why I make the way I make, but it has kept me from getting in the ball game as much as I probably should have. Though, what is “probably should have”? Technology makes great networking devices, and is “the now”, but at the same time I always feel so exhausted and behind with it. I also don’t have resources to keep up with it (money, time and mind) but I’m trying bit by bit. Another thing I’ve always carried a heavy lump with is a day job. But, it’s the only way for me to stay afloat. Every year I spend more money than I make with art (currently, I have 24 cents in my DJG Pay Pal account). One way to overcome this is to stop entering high-cost art and design competitions, which was one way of being social with a lot of people. Well, from a global publishing stand point. Competition fees are rising so much these days. Another challenge is the business end of the art. I stink at business. Though, a lot of that has to do with not having enough time and not being the best at problem solving and math, plus always being broke. And I would rather just make more art. I’m a happy camper though and constantly doing my thing. ​0​8) What are your future goals in the art world? Naturally, anyone who feels they’re sitting on something at home is going to set their sights on doing their own thing full-time and for full-time income. But, even if I never get there, I will be punching my own time card in some form or another. I’ll find peace. I’ll always be working on something and working on myself. I could easily keep my head down all day, dragging my wagon (and I kind of do), but I love the idea of sharing my work on a larger, global scale too. It is global on the internet, yet I easily butt heads with technology as it can get quite beastly. But, I appreciate it greatly as even a decade ago you probably wouldn’t have found out about me to get an interview like this. Thank you! I’ve met a lot of my initial goals and it’s easy to sit here and think about tomorrow but I need to work out today to make it there. I’d love to eventually put out an officially published book or lots of them (any bidders?). I plan to start with some handmade ones very soon. I’ll also finally be selling things on my web site soon. I’m currently working towards a 10 year retrospective show of my time in Kansas City, MO USA. I plan to show everything. Also, I will be working on more and more visual art in the coming year. I’d love to exhibit my physical work in more nooks and crannies of the world. I’ve been fortunate to do this a little bit, but nothing on a massive scale. I love the idea of ideas and imagery inspiring people. I also love the idea of relaying an interpretation of the world, while we’re all down here in this together. It’s kind of neat to think I’m leaving a little trail behind in this way and sharing that. Though, I’m not so confident art can change the world on a large platform, I do think it can help a little bit. Even if that means muscling up a smile that you can say was honestly spent. -djg
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CHANGES TO THE PRINTED PROGRAMME
Since we printed the glossy A5 brochure for the Camden Fringe there have been a number of additions to the line-up and a couple of cancellations. Here is a list of changes. Always check https://camdenfringe.com/index.php?id=3 for the most up to date line-up information
**ALTERATIONS**
 The times for this show are different to those printed in the brochure You Have Absolutely No Sense Of Time The Black Box Theatre 2, 9-11 August at 4.30pm, 3-4 August at 6pm, Hen and Chickens https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2453
 365 S.o.S Theatre Company No longer showing 29-30 July, but will still be on 31 July at Phoenix Artist Club and 17 - 18 at The Chapel Playhouse https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2513
 Isabelle Farah: Ellipsis Now on 7.45pm on 21 August at the Albany (moved from 4 August) https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2505
 Dannie Grufferty: How Brexit sent us all slightly mad 9pm 5-7 August + 9pm 18 August at The Albany (4 August cancelled) https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2421
 **EXTRA SHOWS**
 David Mills: A More Dynamite Future 7:45pm 30 July The Albany Focus people! Shit's about to get real. Comedy for a world in crisis from a comic who’s not kidding around. A wander through our terrifying 24-hour reality television cartoon dystopia with an eye on the amazing a frightening future that awaits us. “A class act. His jokes are beautifully crafted, little sparkling middles loaded with wit." SCOTSMAN. "Hysterically funny." SF BAY GUARDIAN. "David Mills is heading for the big time. Most definitely one to watch." TIME OUT. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2416
  Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point 5.30pm 4 August The Bill Murray Joseph Parsons (as seen on Channel 4) presents his uplifting, sell-out stand up comedy show, Baggy Point. With his lovable and electric energy on stage, Joseph tells the story of discovering his sexuality as he clumsily navigates his way through social gatherings, love and living in a different country. Joseph also looks at how the perceptions of sexuality in smaller towns and homophobia in football affect younger people growing up. All proceeds to this show will go to Football v Homophobia.             https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2708
  Sea Changes Marina Jenkyns Productions 12.30pm 5-9 August Etcetera Theatre Sharon; `You know what? He was jealous. Never been outside Shepherd's Bush. Imagine fucking a man who's never flown!'Mair: `Soft on my face. Her skin, her tears. Must go on. Mustn't stop. Must do it'.Maeve: `Sally and I lay down, sun on our faces, just touching, like our hands.Understanding the past in order to create the future. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2719
  The Feminazis Curious Dispute 4.30pm 5-7 August Etcetera Theatre The Feminazis' juxtaposes a classical duo comedy format with explicit imagery, presenting the question 'how far is too far'? Frustrated with the lack of progression in modern day society regarding gender equality, Sal and Libby decide to take matters into their own hands by creating a terrorist organisation. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2716
  The Party Pilgrim Productions 9pm 5-9 August The Cockpit In September 2018, the president's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, was accused by a woman of sexual assault 36 years earlier. This revelation, broadcast worldwide at a Senate committee hearing, has since become a major cause celebre. 'The Party' by Sam J. Stewart is a 2-act play which re-lives and examines this drama. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2688
  Jet Set Go! Pump House CYT 7.30pm 9 – 10 August Theatro Technis A delightful, inventive and witty new musical about 24 hours in the ordinary working life of a transatlantic airline cabin crew; sex, romance, optimism and jaded cynicism are thrown together into a bitchy, campy but essentially tender-hearted cocktail. "A production that’s warm, funny and wonderfully scored” **** The Scotsman. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2720
 Love Is... Spitball Theatre Company 9.30pm 9-10 August at London Irish Centre Two women and one non-binary person delve into love, in all its many forms. We all remember our first love, don’t we? Have you tried to block out that painful memory? Does that fleeting eye contact still play on your mind? Featuring movement, music and true stories we take you through loves lost and won. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2698
  Fraser Gibson: Self-ish 3.45pm 10-August The Bill Murray Fraser Gibson's debut show is a wrestle with the Self-ish pursuit of being a stand-up comedian. Explained through tall tales, uncanny impressions and a good ol' song or two... A hilarious session of self-therapy! https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2711
  Matt Blair – Mattinée 3pm 11 August The Bill Murray An hour of musical comedy, jokes and references from the mind of a movie fanatic. Join Matt on his journey to find out why we love movies so much. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2556
  Ordinary Days Pump Priming Productions 7.30pm 11 August Theatro Technis A romance on the rocks, an artist's vision stalled, and a graduates thesis in peril lead four young New Yorkers through a series of humorous and touching musical, intersecting vignettes, as they search for fulfilment, happiness, love and cabs.This melodious one act musical, performed by an award winning cast, is a hidden gem. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2721
  Si Deaves - Si's Matters 8pm 11 August Camden Comedy Club Nuclear annihilation!! Brexit?! Rabies?? There are so many issues in the world today, yet Si Deaves still finds time to worry about the little things, in his own unique way. Join Si‚Äôs world as he tackles "inspiration", fears of inadequacy, *that* drunk guy at the pub and much more in his official debut stand-up hour, Si’s Matters. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2722
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Ocular Seven Productions 9pm 11-13 August The Hen and Chickens True crime, murder mystery, serial killer docs, you name it Bobby's binged it. Just like everyone else in the office, so what makes him so different? Through Bobby, we explore the public and media fascination and glorification of violence. Why do we keep watching? https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2712
 Be More Bee 12.30pm 13-14 August Etcetera Theatre Feeling broken or lost in a scary world? Looking for a Marie Kondo type, but more Home Counties? Well Bea has got just the ticket to cheer you up. It’s the bees! They’ve got the secret to happiness! Let her guide you through the honey-soaked life-hacks of the British Bee. Preposterous new comedy by Jenni Mackenzie-Jones. With a tombola. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2717
  Together For Seven BearFoot 2.30pm 13 – 15 August   Etcetera Theatre This is the last place you would expect to find yourself; a police station. You cast your mind back to the good, the bad and the ugly. Teetering on the edge of disaster, wondering whether forgiveness will find you, do you favour the truth or favour yourself? What risks would you take to protect your family when the odds are stacked against you? https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2706
  Dougie Dixon: Proper Belter 8pm 13-14 August Camden Comedy Club Meet Dougie Dixon. He's the reality TV star you didn't know you knew. Original TOWIE cast member. As seen on Tipping Point Lucky Stars, Celebs On The Farm (reserve contestant) & Embarrassing Celebrity Bodies. Series winner of The Celebrity Etch-A-Sketch Challenge. Come join Dougie as he launches his first ever debut autobiography; Proper Belter! https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2723
  Sam Mitchell: Wham Bam Thank You Sam 9.30pm 13 August The Bill Murray 45 mins of stand up comedy from one of the greats* about growing up**, committing*** and M+M World. * if you ask him ** trying to *** see above. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2707
  Faye Treacy is a Work in Progress 8pm 15-17 August Camden Comedy Club As seen on BBC Three and heard on Radio Four, Faye Treacy is back with a new work in progress show. "One of the most unique performances you'll see at the Fringe this year... simultaneously childish, genius and inescapably memorable." **** (1/2) (ShortCom)
https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2715
  Dan Horrigan's Riot to Heaven Sky or the Bird 8.30pm 16-20 August at Aces and Eights High octane stories from men who would steal the eyes of ya and you wouldn't know until you went to read the paper. Laugh, weep and laugh again as we break into heaven. Raconteuring, storytelling, and theatre of the highest calibre. Second chances are rarer than rocking horse manure so get your ticket before we're off to rob another town. Cheers. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2549
  Fatiha El-Ghorri & Katherine Atkinson: Mocking Birds Fat Kat Comedy
4.15pm 18 August at The Bill Murray Join Fatiha El-Ghorri and Katherine Atkinson (both 2017 Funny Women Awards Regional Finalists) for an hour of stand up as Fatiha smashes Muslim stereotypes and challenges you to re-think what you think you know about Islam and Muslims, and Katherine offers up an acerbic, sideways view of motherhood, if she can be bothered. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2728
 Dane Baptiste: Work in progress 9.30pm 18 August at The Bill Murray Star of Live at the Apollo (BBC Two), Tonight at the London Palladium (ITV1) and 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) - Join Baptiste as he workshops brand new material for his next tour show. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2727
  Red Richardson: Red Notice 8.15pm 21-22, 9pm 23-24 August The Taproom In 2017 Red Richardson left a building in Central London to see thousands of people running down the street screaming, for the next 35 minutes the whole of the country (Thanks to Pop star Ollie Murs tweeting from a basement in H and M) believed it was a terrorist attack. It wasn't. This is an hour of stand up about the human condition in crisis. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2390
  Nico. No Regrets. 8.30pm 23 August The Chapel Playhouse A show by and with Margherita Remotti in association with Actors East London. Directed by Alberto Barbi. Text by Fernando Coratelli and Margherita Remotti. In this one woman show, we explore the life of Nico, better known as Andy Warhol's superstar, muse and rockstar singer of the Velvet Underground. But you will discover this was only the surface. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2729
  The Golden Child William Desmond 5pm 24-25 August The Chapel Playhouse William Desmond has always considered himself the Golden Child. Today, people need to standout in a crowd of hundreds of faces. Will is a twin, and during this 60 minute show he explores what it is like to be in constant competition with his brother. With musical parody and silliness, Will explains being good at everything isn't always the answer. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2718
  Ross Drummond & Harry Monaghan: The Orb 5.30pm 25 August The Bill Murray Have you touched The Orb? Want to meet two that have? A mainstay of science, wonder and amazement since its inception in the late 80s, The Orb is science’s greatest invention. What’s its purpose? We’re not sure. Perhaps it merely exists to inspire us. Anything is possible with The Orb. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2709
  **CANCELLED**
Darius Tabai: Schrodinger's Mum
Sara Barron: Enemies Closer
Comic Quartets
Lloyd Langford: New Things (A Work in Progress)
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safrona-shadowsun · 7 years
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🕸 ⭐️ 💡 🦋 🐲 🎨 📌 💖 🖤 ♨️ ✒️ 💭 🎵 🎇 🌻 🌩 🔑 💎 🏆 🎬
{ Well then. o.o So this will be under a line for sheer length. All obviously ooc. Thanks…for reading if you do? @gwenya }
🕸 1. Who’s the oldest character of yours that you still use? Technically, it would be my Forsaken character @gravekeeper-anna​. I’ve had her for about a decade, and she started off as human, roleplayed through her fall to Undeath. She shares that trophy with Safrona here herself, as both are interconnected in a way. I think of Anna as an original feature movie, and Safrona as the remake of it and taken in a new direction or…maybe the sequel. Something like that.
⭐️ 2. Who’s the oldest character of yours, defunct or not? This is a hard one! Most of the older characters I’ve had I’ve killed off in some fashion as I can’t seem to keep up on alts very well. I believe one of the oldest characters in theory that I have is a Kaldorei rogue by the name of Serynith, which I am thinking about remaking as a Demon Huntress. She was a bit of a scamp, a trickster, a flirty little sneakthief with a good heart. I am not sure how becoming a Demon Huntress would change her, so it’s something I’m still ultimately mulling over. As I said–I’m pretty bad with keeping up on alts.
💡 3. Has creating a character ever made you realize something about yourself? Oh, it’s made me realize plenty about myself. One of the biggest things that creating a character has made me realize is that I can’t carry on with a character if I get no interaction with them. The characters I play are reactive to the people they meet, influenced by them as well as the environment and life they live, and they help to carve out their story. I could write on my own about a character, create a novel and my own world around them…but honestly that would get very boring for me, if not entirely frustrating. It’s the interaction with other writers that I enjoy about creating characters, and why Roleplaying is the theme I enjoy most to write in and learn from.
🦋 4. Any minor characters that have either taken over or branched off into their own stories? I used to have a few that acted as sort of NPC’s to my main character and an Rp partner I had for a while. The one that has probably outlasted the rest is Lady Ravona, who is Safrona’s adopted mother and can be found here on Tumblr @bloodbrew​. I don’t often play her so much these days, as again she gets little interaction and I haven’t really been that interested in writing for except as the occasional voice that pesters Saf when she visits the Baron’s manor in the Ghostlands. But she’s vain, a tempting songstress, easily riled, and probably still a bit crazy, and the Baron keeps her occupied when she gets out of line. Overall, she wants to be a Grandmother and see little baby Bloodbrews carry on a (literally) dead line, but Safrona is less than willing to provide.
🐲 5. Do you prefer to make human, animal, monster, or _____ characters? Why? I definitely try to stick with human-esque characters, though I do enjoy the interaction between a character and their pets, or when a familiar might become a focus and I have to challenge myself to write for them. Coal, @gravekeeper-anna​‘s familiar actually has quite the little backstory behind him, including being one of the few that has known the Gravekeep in the past and experienced her changes. Overall I prefer humanoid characters because in essence they can embody the animalistic, or the monstrous within their eccentricities.
🎨 6. When creating a character, do you come up with the visual concept or the written concept first? I think it’s sort of a balance between, a small starter concept and then a look I have in mind, and then I have a character. I don’t start really sketching characters until I’ve started Rping with them – that’s when they really give me a personality to work with.
📌 7. Do you have characters that you know you’ll never use, but can’t bear to get rid of/recycle? I have a few characters that are just silly ‘fluff’ characters that I find funny, like my Death Knight gnome ‘Deathdoll” that I never really do anything on, but just look and grin at. I don’t even leave the Character Load Screen in the game for these ones, and I doubt I’ll ever be leveling it very far in game.
💖 8. Is there a character that embodies your good traits, or traits you wish you had? Answered here.
🖤 9. Is there a character that embodies your bad traits? Several characters? Which ones and what traits? I….suppose if anything my ‘bad’ traits are my pull toward the macabre and creepy, which probably is embodied  slightly by my liking for the Forsaken in @gravekeeper-anna, but more graphically by my Forsaken Monk @danseindeath, who is a bit of a horror show that I don’t quite have an established RP voice for yet. I suppose it’s the aesthetic I like the most. @lay-sister-rose has some of my socializing problems injected in her personality. Saf is can seem emotionally unavailable like I can, but she is far more on the Aquarian spectrum than myself, especially now since I returned to playing her character for the past couple of years after some…changes.
♨️ 10. Is there a character that explores your interests or fetishes (orrrr is that just all of you characters)? Truthfully, I’m kinda careful about putting my characters into romances too quickly, let alone letting them explore their sexuality with anyone, because I’m probably…just picky about who I write that kind of stuff with. I don’t like that to be the central guiding force of my writing in the end, which is sort of where I’ve been before and eventually lost interest or just remember having very creepy experiences with writing partners. Though I can say that @lay-sister-rose has an artist’s soul and has…probably interesting ideas about her sensuality regarding artistry that she just doesn’t know how to convey yet. If anything, my interests run the scope of darker themes that I probably wouldn’t ever touch irl – it’s just where a character, like Safrona ended up down on her messed up road, and I find it interesting to pry into the psychology of her sensuality and desire.
✒️ 11. If you have characters that embody certain traits of yours—good or bad—has writing them changed how you view those traits? Has it affected you in any way?  Answered here.
💭 12.   Do you fantasize about being any of your characters, or are you more detached? Definitely more detached from my characters. They are creative outlets that I see as creations, and I hurt them, put them through messes, see them evolve. Sometimes I have killed them. I don’t want to be them, but I love them in my own twisted way. They are my art pieces.
🎵 13. Do you create playlists for your characters? Answered here.
🎇 14. When writing for specific characters, is there anything you have to do to get into the right mindset? Sometimes, it takes me putting on a playlist, but more often than not it’s just me reading a previous lengthy post for the character in mind or a previously written Rp post. Sometimes my character just evades me, and there’s nothing I can do to get rid of the block. When yer brain is tired it’s tired.
🌻 15. Which character is your guilty pleasure? Probably right now it’s Saraj, though I don’t play him very much ICly. I suppose I just don’t feel I’m intelligent enough to write him most of the time, but he’s a bit of casual fun when he slips in with the occasional word.
🌩 16. Is there a character of yours who’s a real struggle to write/draw? Why do you think that is? I’ve been wanting to draw up Saraj, and be proud of it, but let’s face it: Ethereal’s are complicated to draw. I also struggle with writing for Quintin @delaurac. For now, I just don’t know what I’m doing with him in writing, and I haven’t drawn him up satisfyingly yet. But I usually have a problem with male characters. One day it will be a hurdle I overcome, if I’m really inspired and really put myself to it.
🔑 17. Which character is the easiest to draw/write? Saf is definitely the easiest to draw/write, as she is the one I write and play for the most. She’s a default blood elf in looks, and having a very clear idea of what she looks like and acts like in my mind really helps writing and drawing overall. It’s probably why I have the most art done of Saf.
💎 18. Is there anything you really wish you could do, character-design-wise, that you feel is outside your current skillset? A concept that you wish you could pull off but are uncertain about? I think overall I need to just practice as far as art goes, and stay cohesive with a character’s design. I want to draw male characters better and work on more action-y poses. As far as writing goes, again just having the chance to write and pop out something decent and interesting is enough for me. I’ll like to write more for other characters perhaps, when my mind is able to handle them, or when I decide I can put Saf up on a little bit of a higher shelf to play with someone else. I want to get the design for my most played characters to a point where I am comfortable and happy with them all…but that takes time and patience and…being focused on art, and I just haven’t been lately.
🏆 19. What’s more important to you: visual design, unique personality, a trendy character aesthetic, etc? If you’re not sure, then what’s the first thing you usually nail down in a character?  For me, a character is not ‘alive’ until I have a little backstory for them and feel I can Rp, or write for them. Getting down a personality or a small base concept for a character is pretty integral for me wanting to play them, even in-game. If I do not have any sort of concept in mind, I lose interest pretty quickly in the character.
🎬 20. Do you ever plan to do anything (comic, animation, etc) with your characters? Or are you just happy to have them? Actually, Safrona /@gravekeeperanna ‘s original concept started off waaay back when I was in high school, a tragic heroine in a short ghost story I wrote that got published to the school newspaper lol. She haunted me a few years later when I discovered WoW, and she became her own character. My first warlock, and my favorite class! I drew her ALOT, and experimented with comic panels and things, and I’ve always been very inspired by comic book art since high school. While I am happy to have the characters and be able to write for them now, I imagine one day I miiiight want to create a comic if I can get motivated to actually finish a project, but only time will really tell.
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Spitlings on Stadia
Developing our debut title – from prototype to online multiplayer.
Hey, hello! We’re celebrating the ­release of our first game Spitlings releasing on Stadia – let me take you on a brief journey to tell you all about how we got here.
But first – let me introduce ourselves: We’re Massive Miniteam, a small indie game company in Cologne. Together with Robert Schneider (code), Michael Koloch (creative director) and Tim Schroeder (code), I founded the company in late 2017. We’ve been surviving on a lot of contract work in AR/VR and app development for business clients while working on prototypes and pitching publishers. We started out in a small room we rented from TH ­Cologne at the Cologne Game Lab and then moved into the newly formed Cologne Game Haus (CGH) across from gamescom – together with a dozen other small game studios. The CGH was a great place to start out from, as it provided us with a lot of contacts and resources to pool from. It enabled us to arrive where we are today: in 2019 we were able to grow to 9 team members. We’re proud to say we’ve outgrown the space available to us and have moved into our own new offices at the start of 2020. ­Incidentally, we moved one day after having to turn our submission build over to the QA department at HandyGames. It was pretty chaotic.
When starting Massive Miniteam, we wanted to gain financial stability as soon as possible. This is why we took on a lot of contract work to establish an income. Luckily, our experience in AR, VR and app development coupled with a lot of networking and some lucky contacts provided us with a financial base to rely on and hire more people.
Frantic pace and close calls – Spitlings is best played with friends you’re not afraid to scream at (lovingly)!
Origin of Spitlings Spitlings started as a student game from our creative director Michael – he took inspiration from the minimalism of classic arcade games (specifically Pang) and made his own version of it: One screen, one stick and two buttons, single player and/or local co-op. The gameplay is hard to describe in words but immediately understood in videos and GIFs: You need to pop all the bouncy bubbles on the screen. To do this, you can spit up and down with your Spitling. Spitting down lets you jump, so you can gain some height, but watch out: you have limited spit! Gotta slurp it back up from the ground… yikes! When a bubble pops, it spawns two smaller bubbles – the rest is physics, special blocks and chaos. As is common with student games, Spitlings was buried in Michael’s prototype folder.
Three programmers, two artists, a producer, a project manager and a creative director put behind bars for criminal use of puns.
Enter the woes of game development: In May 2018, we were working on a different game which we had state funding for, but due to various complications it went nowhere fast and we were frustrated and a little lost about what to do. We decided to organize a pitch session where everyone at the company pitched the others, Michael dug out his old prototype and we thought “well this looks like something we could finish in three months” (Spoiler: We didn’t.) We split up into small groups and hacked away on various prototypes. This procedure is also why we call ourselves Massive Miniteam: development on a prototype (should) start with just two or three people and only after the first stretch is it brought to the rest of the team to help out.
In just six weeks, Michael and Robert banged out the co-op level editor, most of the gameplay features and a considerable amount of polish. Without a doubt, the ­level editor was the most important feature early on. It allowed us to quickly hop bet­ween playing the game and editing – We might change something around, move a few blocks and then, at the press of one button, jump back into the game to test out the changes. This allows for an extremely quick iteration cycle and enabled us to polish the levels to a tee. It was also ­extremely weird and funny to create levels in co-op together with other players! Creating levels was so fast, I challenged our intern at the time to create a hundred levels in a day in a ­design brainstorming exercise – and he did it! Of course, at such a pace you throw away most of what you create, but a few ideas coming out of it even made it into the final game!
The style of Spitlings was heavily inspired by 90s Nickelodeon Cartoons. Our creative director is a huge fan and both the arcade gameplay as well as the slightly disgusting implications of spitting fit really well into the mold of our inspirations like Ren & Stimpy, Invader Zim or Spongebob. When deciding on the art style, we knew that we had to work with shapes and flat colors because of two reasons: Firstly, we didn’t have the time or budget to do a lot of 2D sprites and animations, so most of the artwork leans heavily into graphic design, flat shapes and lots of colors. Our creative director Michael has years of experience as a freelance graphic designer so he took to it and created a unique look for Spitlings that underscores the bouncyness of the bubbles and the squishy feel of all the surfaces.
Secondly, the strict rules concerning the visuals allowed us to clearly position every tile of the game in one of three alignments: friend, foe and neutral. The simplicity works really well to communicate what is happening on screen as well – once you have four players playing together and popping bubbles at the same time, it helps to have a very clear color scheme to rely on.
Celebrating the INDIE PRIZE from devcom – this is when we decided to turn Spitlings into a full game!
After six weeks of prototyping, we exhibited Spitlings at devcom 2018 and had such a great time with the players – and there were even some publishers voicing their interest to publish right there on the show floor! It was already a blast for us anyway – and then on top of that we were lucky enough to win both the devcom ­Audience and Jury Award! Right afterwards at gamescom we met with a lot of publishers and got more positive feedback than we had hoped for – that’s when we knew we had something on our hands.
Development uncertainty So, at this point we knew we wanted to develop Spitlings, and we wanted to release on all consoles. We were fortunate to secure dev kits for all major consoles early enough to not run into any porting problems later on. One very big plus was being able to take the game on our switch test kit and let publishers play while pitching them. After a lot of meetings at gamescom, several publishers voiced their interest, but after mountains of emails none came through.
After a few months of working more contracts for clients, we had not yet secured any deal with a publisher. Self-publishing was staring us in the face and it didn’t look too promising. Every indie studio knows how hard it is to gain attention for a debut title – doubly so for a local co-op game!
Our biggest problem with Spitling has always been that it does not look like much at first glance. The joy of the game can’t be communicated with a still frame. Screenshots do nothing for the game, GIFs and videos are better but still leave a lot of people cold – we have to get people playing to get them interested. Once you start playing, the juicy game feel, the simple mechanics and the infinitely replayable levels will make it hard for you to let go of the controller.
Luckily, we met HandyGames at Ludicious in February 2019. They immediately saw the appeal of the game and voiced their interest in partnering up. All in all it took just two months for negotiating and signing the publishing contract with them. Suddenly, things started to move really quickly! This gave us a lot of security financially – on the one hand because Handy­Games financed the rest of development, but also because we knew they had the experience to put our game in front of as many players as possible. Plus, they’re really nice people.
A photo from our visit to HandyGames in Giebelstadt. We made our team shirts easily recognizable so you can find us at the next event you go to!
Speaking of experience, they told us right away that we wouldn’t be able to finish the game by May and instead set up a deadline for September. And of course they were right. As is common with games, we created the first 80 percent of the game in a few months – and then the second 80 percent took us over a year to finish. But to be fair, this was also due to the extended vision for the game the partnership allowed us to execute. We had always felt that the world of Spitlings could be fleshed out with a story mode and proper cutscenes, but we didn’t know how to find the time and budget to create them. Now we were all in. Our small game suddenly didn’t seem so small anymore. In hindsight, we would probably not spend six months working on a fully fledged comic for the cutscenes, including programming a camera system to navigate the panels, but hey – we’re very proud of it!
Getting on Stadia After successfully delivering the first milestones, HandyGames brought us the news about possibly launching on Stadia. We were elated! For our debut game to release on the new platform was a huge deal, so we were super motivated to work on it. However, we couldn’t talk about it. None of us had worked in AAA before, so it was totally new for us to have to keep something so big a secret for such a long time. Not being able to talk to anyone about the fact that we’re developing for Stadia was quite stressful!
But apart from this, developing for ­Stadia also meant we had to tackle the big monkey on our backs: online multiplayer. Everyone knows that local co-op titles have a very hard time gaining attention on the market, let alone selling many units. Yet programming a working online multiplayer is a huge effort, especially for a physics based game like Spitlings with a lot of projectiles and constantly changing environment, including collisions. And in our game, where everyone has to restart a level if someone touches a bubble, every frame counts! Constantly losing to the ping is no fun at all! Therefore, we had to rewrite the whole architecture of the game, including rewriting the whole physics system. Alongside our contract work, this took us several additional months to accomplish, but I’m happy to say we managed it well.
The first merchandise we made was just square stickers – simple and cheap, but quite effective!
Release Window When we first started on Spitlings, we deliberately set our goals really low: Three months development, push it out the door quickly. We always knew that there was more to the game than that, but we just didn’t think we’d have the time to fully develop it. So we’re happy about the fact that our publisher allowed us to turn Spitlings into the game we always wanted it to be. We created a whole world and story for the game, including over a hundred little creatures jumping through a world map and 200+ handcrafted levels. We made a 16 page comic and were able to pay our composer Juan (from Ludopium/Vectronom) to produce a fully-fledged original soundtrack for the game with 13 banging tracks! We’ve far exceeded what we set out to do with our first game and so the whole team is proud of the results.
At the moment, we’re extremely focused on the release on Stadia. There’s a lot of features on the platform that we still have to integrate into Spitlings and turn it into a really interesting game for streamers… As I type these words, we’re also moving into a new office, so you could say there’s a lot going on right now.
Until then, we’re looking forward to seeing people all over the world get their hands on Spitlings and discover that it’s the perfect game to have a quick round with friends because it’s so easy to pick up, but hard to put down. Or as we like to say: Once you spit – you never quit.
Milan Pingel Creative Producer
Milan is one of four founding members of Massive ­Miniteam. As is common in small teams, he wears many hats at work but focuses on Narrative, UX, Interaction Design and structuring the processes for the company. Milan got his Master of Arts at Cologne Game Lab.
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RECAP: FAN EXPO VANCOUVER - FEBRUARY 15-17TH, 2020
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Fan Expo Vancouver first started in 2012. Part of the larger Fan Expo Canada brand, the event is now held over three days and attracts tens of thousands of people every year.
I have attended every single Fan Expo Vancouver since it began. In comparison to other Fan Expo events such as the one in Toronto and recently-acquired Fan Expo Calgary, I have noticed a slight decline in programming. Compared to previous line-ups and comparable guest lists at other conventions, Vancouver just does not deliver the same experience. The guests we get are great, and it’s not easy to coordinate everyone’s schedules. But having been in place for almost a decade, I would like to see this Fan Expo offer more programming, activities, and guests. Other conventions grow every year, but Vancouver’s seems to remain stagnant.
In past years, the panels at Fan Expo were held in rooms upstairs, separate from the main exhibition hall. In 2019 and this year, the panels were all held in side areas on the showroom floor. This did give the advantage of not having to travel far for each panel, and being easy to enter or leave. I was able to check out parts of different panels at the same time or wander in and out while exploring the maze of booths. However, it did create a distracting noise issue—it was hard to hear the panelists even with mics against the sound of thousands of people exploring. This was particularly an issue with the smaller panels that were very close to high-traffic areas and/or places with specific activities happening, such as the family zone. I understand there are probably financial reasons behind this change, but I was not a fan. It created more convenience, but made the panels less enjoyable.
Another noticeable disappointment was the lack of a coat check. They had one in earlier years but have stopped for some reason. This was especially irritating in the middle of February when it was cold and rainy for most of the weekend. The Expo has always been held in a cold month – November, February, March, and April – and as next year’s event has already been announced for Feb. 13-15th, 2021, I sincerely hope they bring back the amenity. It would really beat carrying around a heavy bag and/or coat all day, especially if you’re wearing a costume or just bought something large. Why discourage shopping?
I still had a really fun time exploring and checking everything out at Fan Expo. There are no other places in Vancouver where you can meet Darth Vader and Iron Man on the same day. 
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The first panel I caught was that of the iconic Brendan Fraser. Currently on Doom Patrol, Brendan is best remembered – especially if you grew up in the early 2000s – for movies like The Mummy, George of the Jungle, and of course, Looney Tunes: Back In Action. He was an unexpected and much-anticipated headlining guest this year, and his panel was the most full I saw all weekend. He brought a great deal of charisma to the Q&A portion, whether it was discussing Looney Tunes (“Bugs is great… but Daffy Duck is an asshole!”) or delivering a spot-on John Cleese impression when reminiscing on George of the Jungle. 
I next saw a small, rather interesting discussion called Ritual: Exorcism in Film and Television. As a big horror fan, this was my personal favourite panel of the weekend. I really like seeing horror as a genre represented, as well as panels that don’t revolve around specific fandoms/IP. It was hosted by Morgan Knudsen, a real-life paranormal researcher. Morgan began by discussing popular possession and demon movies like The Rite, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and of course, The Exorcist. She then told us of real-life cases that inspired these films and the facts of what really happened. We watched videos and listened to recordings of people who had undergone actual exorcisms and were allegedly possessed. Morgan emphasized studying the evidence and coming to our own conclusion on these cases. Some of the information and especially the voices I heard made me question what was real for sure.
Madelaine Petsch, who also attended last year and is best known as Cheryl Blossom on Riverdale, was another Q&A with a huge turnout. Many of her fans also enjoy her social media and vlogging. She spoke about fond moments on the show, things she enjoyed about Vancouver, and her favourite local vegan eats. Madelaine is very charming, warm, and funny in her live interviews—definitely a convention highlight for myself and I’m sure many others. 
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Christina Ricci was a surprising but very interesting addition to the lineup. As a child actress, she’s seen just about everything in Hollywood. This led to a lively discussion of her beginnings, evolution into more serious roles, and all the people she worked with along the way. Recalling her small but memorable part working with Terry Gilliam in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, she said “I had Benico del Toro whipping me with a towel and Johnny Depp’s foot in my mouth, and Terry and Johnny both telling me to bite harder… and I thought, this is my life now.” 
The final big panel of the day was a Star Trek: The Next Generation reunion with LeVar Burton and Marina Sirtis. Any Trek actors are always a draw, and this was quite a popular panel as well. Although Marina has been to Fan Expo in the past, LeVar quipped that it had been decades since he’d been to this city. “The last time I was in Vancouver, Alan Thicke was still on TV.”
Although I was unable to attend Sunday, the day was filled with activity and celebrity panels. Highlights included Q&As with Smallville’s own Superman Tom Welling, The Mandalorian’s Giancarlo Esposito, cult film legend Bruce Campbell, The X-Files’ William B. Davis and Nicholas Lea, and Oscar Nunez and Brian Baumgartner of The Office. 
On Monday, I checked out Geeks vs Nerds – a live debate where two groups square off on a particular aspect of pop culture. In this case, it was who’s cuter: Baby Yoda or Baby Groot? There was a series of arguments and rebuttals, often punctured with impressions, insults, and singing to heighten the geeky atmosphere. The winner (narrowly, Baby Groot) was decided by audience applause. This was a very lively and hilarious show that attracted a wandering crowd—who could resist the cuteness of either of those aliens?
As always, there was a large assortment of booths, with exhibitors from all over Canada and even internationally. All sorts of collector’s items were for sale – comics, action figures, clothing, artwork, and even weapons. The Artist Alley featured a variety of creators selling their own prints, commissions, jewelry, plushies, and more. Adjacent to Artist Alley were rows of comic creators – professional artists in the industry, meeting fans, selling books, and even doing sketches.
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One of the most prominent (and recurring) attractions was the Vancouver chapter of the 501st Legion – dedicated Star Wars cosplayers. Running a large charity booth, fans could get photos with stormtroopers, Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, BB-8, R2-D2, and other iconic characters. At one point they led a large, ominous march through the expo halls, as if the whole place was under invasion by the First Order. There are lots of cool costumes at this convention, but these people really commit. 
There were lots of cosplay meetups throughout the day from a variety of fandoms, and even a red carpet! It was by far the best place to get some great photos as a cosplayer or observer, and to show off and meet with like-minded fans. Everyone enjoyed this, but especially the children. My favourite part of every Expo is seeing kids get pictures and high fives from superheroes or other fun characters, especially when the kid is also dressed up. 
New to this year’s event was Podcast Alley, an area of booths and live tapings for local podcasts and their hosts. Guests this year included Warriors Bards ’n Brews, Fear of Science, Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby, Dark Poutine, Drinking and Screaming, Geeks vs Nerds, and Politicoast. There were even workshops on the nature of podcasting and how to create one yourself. I think this was a great way to bring in some local talent and introduce fans to new podcasts, or even to the medium of podcasting in general.
Also in its inaugural year was the “Family Zone.” This was a wide open space with areas for kids to play in; one place had giant cardboard blocks. The Sorting Ceremony – a Harry Potter-themed activity in which kids could find out their Hogwarts House via a talking “hat” (person in a costume) – took place here. There was also a few “Dance Parties” complete with pop music. As a young adult with no kids, I was probably not the target audience for the Family Zone. It was very popular throughout the weekend with children, and I think parents enjoyed it. But as the floor was already crowded – especially with the panels being hosted there – I did feel it took away space from potential exhibitors, stores, and artists. It’s good to give kids (and their parents!) a place to hang out, but I don’t think it did much for the majority of attendees. 
I finished the day with live improv by The Fictionals. The staging was hosted and led by Daniel Chai, who also led many of the panels throughout the weekend. Using traditional improv methods (audience suggestions and the classic “Freeze!” exercise), the group finished the convention with extremely spontaneous laughs. 
Overall, it was another successful time at Vancouver’s largest fandom convention. There are definitely aspects I’d like to see changed and improved on in the future. Still, it’s one of my favourite weekends of the year and I’m excited to see what’s in store for 2021!
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18 amazing designers to follow on Instagram
Instagram is no longer just the social platform for sharing your brunch pics or cute pet photos (like Pinterest, but with a little less wedding). Now it’s an actual tool for  anyone in the creative arts to share their portfolio and a place where anyone can find creative inspiration. Here’s your list of the hottest Instagram designers that’ll bring beauty, drama and creativity to your day.
Tania Samoshkina —
Tania Samoshkina is a New York-based professional artist and illustrator with more than six years of experience. She creates one-of-a-kind designs for clients that showcase her playful aesthetic and sense of joy.
Samoshkina specializes in character design, print design, surface patterns and logotypes—all of which you can find in her feed along with fun posts that mix her cartoon-y characters into real world settings. 
Her simple, unusual details bring her characters to life, and it’s fun to watch her feed to see what they’ll do. You’ll even spot her popping up occasionally, too!
Work with Tania on 99designs or follow Tania on Instagram
Ashwin Kandan—aka Shwin —
For a unique, colorful blend of pop art, branding, illustration, typography and editorial design, Ashwin Kandan (aka Shwin), is the person to follow.
Inspiringly bold visuals and interesting color palettes are Shwin’s MO. And his sense of humor. His portraits of people range from fun and sexy to touchingly sweet, and he’s got a way of delivering a brand concept with a single visual that hits hard.
Work with Shwin on 99designs or follow Shwin on Instagram
Neil Stevens —
Neil Stevens is an awesome follow if you’re interested in vintage, nostalgic illustrations that still retain a modern feel.
In his illustrations which are mostly flat, Stevens manages to instill depth, life, and motion. You’ll see a range of work here, from the very detailed to the very abstract.
Follow Neil Stevens on Instagram
Razvan Vezeteu—aka RazvanV —
Razvan Vezeteu’s Instagram feed reveals an artist with a respect for both the nostalgic and a modern aesthetic.
The self-taught illustrator and icon designer blends trendy design elements like flat design with just a few eye-catching colors. It all comes to life with different textures to create volume and depth. For inspiration in your logo game, this is a great feed to follow.
Work with RazvanV on 99designs or follow RazvanV on Instagram
Natalia Maca —
Natalia Maca is a UK-based digital illustrator and graphic designer. She is a storytelling artist who expresses key messages visually in her work. Natalia specializes in editorial illustration, publishing, advertising and T-shirt design.
She uses a similar color palette for most of her work, so her IG profile looks very consistent and pleasing to scroll through. Many of her illustrations are flat and often have very delicate textures.
Using a slightly more subdued color palette, Maca allows the detail in her work to tell the story with illustrations that have their own unique, surrealistic style.
Work with Natalia Maca on 99designs or follow Natalia Maca on Instagram
Eli Hyder —
You like Star Wars, right? Of course you do, who doesn’t?! Eli Hyder’s work features high comic-like style Sci-Fi concepts, including lots of Star Wars inspired designs.
These digital illustrations have a watercolor and occasionally an ink feel, which connects to the comic genre.
Follow Eli Hyder on Instagram
Zombijana Bones —
Zombijana Bones (Andrijana to her friends) is a visual artist from Montenegro full of colorful and quirky humor.
She is a traditional pen and ink illustrator with a funny, unorthodox style, which produces humorous hand-drawn illustrations that are cute and unexpected all at once. Her handwritten notes add a genuine feeling, and the overall effect of her comics is a perfect balance of sweet and dark.
Work with Zombijana Bones on 99designs or follow Zombijana Bones on Instagram
Steven Harrington —
Follow Steven Harrington for his bright and iconic style or his wacky sense of humor. Either way, you’ll be rewarded.
Harrington’s style is very psychedelic-pop, with a distinct aesthetic, cartoonish characters, and loads of humor.
Follow Steven Harrington on Instagram
Pablo Gerardo Camacho —
Surreal and hypnotic, Venezuelan graphic designer Pablo Camacho’s Instagram feed will satisfy your appetite for the unusual.
It’s easy to see that illustration is among Camacho’s main interests. But motion graphics, typography and editorial design are up there, too. In this feed, you’ll find carefully placed details in illustrations that change their meaning significantly—the work of a creative trickster.
Work with Pablo Gerardo Camacho on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
Thomas Burden —
Thomas Burden is the right IG to follow if you’re intrigued by the idea of claymation meets graphic design in a flurry of bright colors and 3D.
The work here features playful, fun, and engaging imagery influenced by toys, fairgrounds, and neon signage. Their designs have a very colorful, cheerful look and a three-dimensional feel.
Follow Thomas Burden on Instagram
Andrea Stan—aka Mky —
Romanian designer Andrea Stan (or Mky on 99designs) specializes in logo design and lettering, along with all things colorful, cute and quirky.
Stan plays with typography a lot in her work, offering up loads of flowery patterns and unusually shaped letters. Her very colorful creations will add a boost of energy to your feed.
Work with Mky on 99designs or follow her on Instagram
June Digan —
June Digan loves colorful, detailed watercolor illustrations and hand-lettering, and many of her creations feature both of those elements.
Recently June Digan has been creating a series with an illustration of a different city in the background for every letter of the alphabet. Each creation is limited to 80 minutes, which is incredible given the results.
Follow June Digan on Instagram
Dhamas Adhitya—aka Demonic —
Indonesian artist Dhamas Adhitya (aka Demonic) creates stunning brand identities, illustrations, product labels, t-shirt designs, and emblem logos.
Dhamas’ work is very detailed and typically has a vintage, yet epic feel. Although his illustrations are digital, he achieves a classical ink style with his designs.
Work with Demonic on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
Yukai Du —
Yukai Du creates both still images and animations using brilliant blocks of colors and interesting patterns.
The designs can come off as deceptively simple at first—drawing the viewer in only to slowly reveal their complexity. For a boost of inspiration on how colors and patterns can work together in a holistic way, check out this feed.
Follow Yukai Du on Instagram
Marko Matović—aka LittleFox —
Serbian graphic designer Marko Matovic (or LittleFox on 99designs) loves working on anything connected to illustrations—from simple icons to complicated infographics.
Matovic has a playful style that is bright and colorful with lots of attention to detail. His cheerful and detailed illustrations and infographics make use of the interplay between flat design and exciting colors.
Work with LittleFox on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
Maja Säfström —
For pen and ink illustrations of unique, cute characters, follow Maja Säfström.
Säfström prints many of her illustrations on fabrics as well as papers, and eventually uses watercolors to add color to some of them. These are “warm and fuzzy” illustrations without being cloying or silly, which is an art in itself.
Follow Maja Säfström on Instagram
Steven Mink —
Steven Mink, an Indonesian designer and artist, specializes in creative typography design and hand lettering.
For Mink, typography is a passion. Type isn’t something that should merely be readable. It should be beautiful and inspiring. Most of the original fonts they create have vintage and nostalgic flavors, and they overlay them onto photographs or within illustrations.
Work with Steven Mink on 99designs or follow Steven Mink on Instagram
Josh Emrich —
If Mad Men was a comedy, it would look like Josh Emrich’s work. Emrich has a vintage look and a very nostalgic late 50s and early 60s feel—with the occasional surreal nature illustration thrown in.
His detailed characters have a lot of personality. This is a great follow for anyone who simply loves art and design and wants to look at something beautiful or amazing every day.
Follow Josh Emrich on Instagram
Follow these Instagram designers for daily inspiration —
Are you itching to get back to your Instagram feed and follow some new and fantastic artists and designers? Which of these artists speaks to you? Tell us your favorites in the comments!
Wanna become part of an amazing designer community?
Sign up as a designer on 99designs!
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18 amazing designers to follow on Instagram
Instagram is no longer just the social platform for sharing your brunch pics or cute pet photos (like Pinterest, but with a little less wedding). Now it’s an actual tool for  anyone in the creative arts to share their portfolio and a place where anyone can find creative inspiration. Here’s your list of the hottest Instagram designers that’ll bring beauty, drama and creativity to your day.
Tania Samoshkina —
Tania Samoshkina is a New York-based professional artist and illustrator with more than six years of experience. She creates one-of-a-kind designs for clients that showcase her playful aesthetic and sense of joy.
Samoshkina specializes in character design, print design, surface patterns and logotypes—all of which you can find in her feed along with fun posts that mix her cartoon-y characters into real world settings. 
Her simple, unusual details bring her characters to life, and it’s fun to watch her feed to see what they’ll do. You’ll even spot her popping up occasionally, too!
Work with Tania on 99designs or follow Tania on Instagram
  Ashwin Kandan—aka Shwin —
For a unique, colorful blend of pop art, branding, illustration, typography and editorial design, Ashwin Kandan (aka Shwin), is the person to follow.
Inspiringly bold visuals and interesting color palettes are Shwin’s MO. And his sense of humor. His portraits of people range from fun and sexy to touchingly sweet, and he’s got a way of delivering a brand concept with a single visual that hits hard.
Work with Shwin on 99designs or follow Shwin on Instagram
  Neil Stevens —
Neil Stevens is an awesome follow if you’re interested in vintage, nostalgic illustrations that still retain a modern feel.
In his illustrations which are mostly flat, Stevens manages to instill depth, life, and motion. You’ll see a range of work here, from the very detailed to the very abstract.
Follow Neil Stevens on Instagram
  Razvan Vezeteu—aka RazvanV —
Razvan Vezeteu’s Instagram feed reveals an artist with a respect for both the nostalgic and a modern aesthetic.
The self-taught illustrator and icon designer blends trendy design elements like flat design with just a few eye-catching colors. It all comes to life with different textures to create volume and depth. For inspiration in your logo game, this is a great feed to follow.
Work with RazvanV on 99designs or follow RazvanV on Instagram
  Natalia Maca —
Natalia Maca is a UK-based digital illustrator and graphic designer. She is a storytelling artist who expresses key messages visually in her work. Natalia specializes in editorial illustration, publishing, advertising and T-shirt design.
She uses a similar color palette for most of her work, so her IG profile looks very consistent and pleasing to scroll through. Many of her illustrations are flat and often have very delicate textures.
Using a slightly more subdued color palette, Maca allows the detail in her work to tell the story with illustrations that have their own unique, surrealistic style.
Work with Natalia Maca on 99designs or follow Natalia Maca on Instagram
  Eli Hyder —
You like Star Wars, right? Of course you do, who doesn’t?! Eli Hyder’s work features high comic-like style Sci-Fi concepts, including lots of Star Wars inspired designs.
These digital illustrations have a watercolor and occasionally an ink feel, which connects to the comic genre.
Follow Eli Hyder on Instagram
  Zombijana Bones —
Zombijana Bones (Andrijana to her friends) is a visual artist from Montenegro full of colorful and quirky humor.
She is a traditional pen and ink illustrator with a funny, unorthodox style, which produces humorous hand-drawn illustrations that are cute and unexpected all at once. Her handwritten notes add a genuine feeling, and the overall effect of her comics is a perfect balance of sweet and dark.
Work with Zombijana Bones on 99designs or follow Zombijana Bones on Instagram
  Steven Harrington —
Follow Steven Harrington for his bright and iconic style or his wacky sense of humor. Either way, you’ll be rewarded.
Harrington’s style is very psychedelic-pop, with a distinct aesthetic, cartoonish characters, and loads of humor.
Follow Steven Harrington on Instagram
  Pablo Gerardo Camacho —
Surreal and hypnotic, Venezuelan graphic designer Pablo Camacho’s Instagram feed will satisfy your appetite for the unusual.
It’s easy to see that illustration is among Camacho’s main interests. But motion graphics, typography and editorial design are up there, too. In this feed, you’ll find carefully placed details in illustrations that change their meaning significantly—the work of a creative trickster.
Work with Pablo Gerardo Camacho on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
  Thomas Burden —
Thomas Burden is the right IG to follow if you’re intrigued by the idea of claymation meets graphic design in a flurry of bright colors and 3D.
The work here features playful, fun, and engaging imagery influenced by toys, fairgrounds, and neon signage. Their designs have a very colorful, cheerful look and a three-dimensional feel.
Follow Thomas Burden on Instagram
  Andrea Stan—aka Mky —
Romanian designer Andrea Stan (or Mky on 99designs) specializes in logo design and lettering, along with all things colorful, cute and quirky.
Stan plays with typography a lot in her work, offering up loads of flowery patterns and unusually shaped letters. Her very colorful creations will add a boost of energy to your feed.
Work with Mky on 99designs or follow her on Instagram
  June Digan —
June Digan loves colorful, detailed watercolor illustrations and hand-lettering, and many of her creations feature both of those elements.
Recently June Digan has been creating a series with an illustration of a different city in the background for every letter of the alphabet. Each creation is limited to 80 minutes, which is incredible given the results.
Follow June Digan on Instagram
  Dhamas Adhitya—aka Demonic —
Indonesian artist Dhamas Adhitya (aka Demonic) creates stunning brand identities, illustrations, product labels, t-shirt designs, and emblem logos.
Dhamas’ work is very detailed and typically has a vintage, yet epic feel. Although his illustrations are digital, he achieves a classical ink style with his designs.
Work with Demonic on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
  Yukai Du —
Yukai Du creates both still images and animations using brilliant blocks of colors and interesting patterns.
The designs can come off as deceptively simple at first—drawing the viewer in only to slowly reveal their complexity. For a boost of inspiration on how colors and patterns can work together in a holistic way, check out this feed.
Follow Yukai Du on Instagram
  Marko Matović—aka LittleFox —
Serbian graphic designer Marko Matovic (or LittleFox on 99designs) loves working on anything connected to illustrations—from simple icons to complicated infographics.
Matovic has a playful style that is bright and colorful with lots of attention to detail. His cheerful and detailed illustrations and infographics make use of the interplay between flat design and exciting colors.
Work with LittleFox on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
  Maja Säfström —
For pen and ink illustrations of unique, cute characters, follow Maja Säfström.
Säfström prints many of her illustrations on fabrics as well as papers, and eventually uses watercolors to add color to some of them. These are “warm and fuzzy” illustrations without being cloying or silly, which is an art in itself.
Follow Maja Säfström on Instagram
  Steven Mink —
Steven Mink, an Indonesian designer and artist, specializes in creative typography design and hand lettering.
For Mink, typography is a passion. Type isn’t something that should merely be readable. It should be beautiful and inspiring. Most of the original fonts they create have vintage and nostalgic flavors, and they overlay them onto photographs or within illustrations.
Work with Steven Mink on 99designs or follow Steven Mink on Instagram
  Josh Emrich —
If Mad Men was a comedy, it would look like Josh Emrich’s work. Emrich has a vintage look and a very nostalgic late 50s and early 60s feel—with the occasional surreal nature illustration thrown in.
His detailed characters have a lot of personality. This is a great follow for anyone who simply loves art and design and wants to look at something beautiful or amazing every day.
Follow Josh Emrich on Instagram
  Follow these Instagram designers for daily inspiration —
Are you itching to get back to your Instagram feed and follow some new and fantastic artists and designers? Which of these artists speaks to you? Tell us your favorites in the comments!
Wanna become part of an amazing designer community?
Sign up as a designer on 99designs!
Let's go
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18 amazing designers to follow on Instagram
Instagram is no longer just the social platform for sharing your brunch pics or cute pet photos (like Pinterest, but with a little less wedding). Now it’s an actual tool for  anyone in the creative arts to share their portfolio and a place where anyone can find creative inspiration. Here’s your list of the hottest Instagram designers that’ll bring beauty, drama and creativity to your day.
Tania Samoshkina —
Tania Samoshkina is a New York-based professional artist and illustrator with more than six years of experience. She creates one-of-a-kind designs for clients that showcase her playful aesthetic and sense of joy.
Samoshkina specializes in character design, print design, surface patterns and logotypes—all of which you can find in her feed along with fun posts that mix her cartoon-y characters into real world settings. 
Her simple, unusual details bring her characters to life, and it’s fun to watch her feed to see what they’ll do. You’ll even spot her popping up occasionally, too!
Work with Tania on 99designs or follow Tania on Instagram
 Ashwin Kandan—aka Shwin —
For a unique, colorful blend of pop art, branding, illustration, typography and editorial design, Ashwin Kandan (aka Shwin), is the person to follow.
Inspiringly bold visuals and interesting color palettes are Shwin’s MO. And his sense of humor. His portraits of people range from fun and sexy to touchingly sweet, and he’s got a way of delivering a brand concept with a single visual that hits hard.
Work with Shwin on 99designs or follow Shwin on Instagram
 Neil Stevens —
Neil Stevens is an awesome follow if you’re interested in vintage, nostalgic illustrations that still retain a modern feel.
In his illustrations which are mostly flat, Stevens manages to instill depth, life, and motion. You’ll see a range of work here, from the very detailed to the very abstract.
Follow Neil Stevens on Instagram
 Razvan Vezeteu—aka RazvanV —
Razvan Vezeteu’s Instagram feed reveals an artist with a respect for both the nostalgic and a modern aesthetic.
The self-taught illustrator and icon designer blends trendy design elements like flat design with just a few eye-catching colors. It all comes to life with different textures to create volume and depth. For inspiration in your logo game, this is a great feed to follow.
Work with RazvanV on 99designs or follow RazvanV on Instagram
 Natalia Maca —
Natalia Maca is a UK-based digital illustrator and graphic designer. She is a storytelling artist who expresses key messages visually in her work. Natalia specializes in editorial illustration, publishing, advertising and T-shirt design.
She uses a similar color palette for most of her work, so her IG profile looks very consistent and pleasing to scroll through. Many of her illustrations are flat and often have very delicate textures.
Using a slightly more subdued color palette, Maca allows the detail in her work to tell the story with illustrations that have their own unique, surrealistic style.
Work with Natalia Maca on 99designs or follow Natalia Maca on Instagram
 Eli Hyder —
You like Star Wars, right? Of course you do, who doesn’t?! Eli Hyder’s work features high comic-like style Sci-Fi concepts, including lots of Star Wars inspired designs.
These digital illustrations have a watercolor and occasionally an ink feel, which connects to the comic genre.
Follow Eli Hyder on Instagram
 Zombijana Bones —
Zombijana Bones (Andrijana to her friends) is a visual artist from Montenegro full of colorful and quirky humor.
She is a traditional pen and ink illustrator with a funny, unorthodox style, which produces humorous hand-drawn illustrations that are cute and unexpected all at once. Her handwritten notes add a genuine feeling, and the overall effect of her comics is a perfect balance of sweet and dark.
Work with Zombijana Bones on 99designs or follow Zombijana Bones on Instagram
 Steven Harrington —
Follow Steven Harrington for his bright and iconic style or his wacky sense of humor. Either way, you’ll be rewarded.
Harrington’s style is very psychedelic-pop, with a distinct aesthetic, cartoonish characters, and loads of humor.
Follow Steven Harrington on Instagram
 Pablo Gerardo Camacho —
Surreal and hypnotic, Venezuelan graphic designer Pablo Camacho’s Instagram feed will satisfy your appetite for the unusual.
It’s easy to see that illustration is among Camacho’s main interests. But motion graphics, typography and editorial design are up there, too. In this feed, you’ll find carefully placed details in illustrations that change their meaning significantly—the work of a creative trickster.
Work with Pablo Gerardo Camacho on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
 Thomas Burden —
Thomas Burden is the right IG to follow if you’re intrigued by the idea of claymation meets graphic design in a flurry of bright colors and 3D.
The work here features playful, fun, and engaging imagery influenced by toys, fairgrounds, and neon signage. Their designs have a very colorful, cheerful look and a three-dimensional feel.
Follow Thomas Burden on Instagram
 Andrea Stan—aka Mky —
Romanian designer Andrea Stan (or Mky on 99designs) specializes in logo design and lettering, along with all things colorful, cute and quirky.
Stan plays with typography a lot in her work, offering up loads of flowery patterns and unusually shaped letters. Her very colorful creations will add a boost of energy to your feed.
Work with Mky on 99designs or follow her on Instagram
 June Digan —
June Digan loves colorful, detailed watercolor illustrations and hand-lettering, and many of her creations feature both of those elements.
Recently June Digan has been creating a series with an illustration of a different city in the background for every letter of the alphabet. Each creation is limited to 80 minutes, which is incredible given the results.
Follow June Digan on Instagram
 Dhamas Adhitya—aka Demonic —
Indonesian artist Dhamas Adhitya (aka Demonic) creates stunning brand identities, illustrations, product labels, t-shirt designs, and emblem logos.
Dhamas’ work is very detailed and typically has a vintage, yet epic feel. Although his illustrations are digital, he achieves a classical ink style with his designs.
Work with Demonic on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
 Yukai Du —
Yukai Du creates both still images and animations using brilliant blocks of colors and interesting patterns.
The designs can come off as deceptively simple at first—drawing the viewer in only to slowly reveal their complexity. For a boost of inspiration on how colors and patterns can work together in a holistic way, check out this feed.
Follow Yukai Du on Instagram
 Marko Matović—aka LittleFox —
Serbian graphic designer Marko Matovic (or LittleFox on 99designs) loves working on anything connected to illustrations—from simple icons to complicated infographics.
Matovic has a playful style that is bright and colorful with lots of attention to detail. His cheerful and detailed illustrations and infographics make use of the interplay between flat design and exciting colors.
Work with LittleFox on 99designs or follow him on Instagram
 Maja Säfström —
For pen and ink illustrations of unique, cute characters, follow Maja Säfström.
Säfström prints many of her illustrations on fabrics as well as papers, and eventually uses watercolors to add color to some of them. These are “warm and fuzzy” illustrations without being cloying or silly, which is an art in itself.
Follow Maja Säfström on Instagram
 Steven Mink —
Steven Mink, an Indonesian designer and artist, specializes in creative typography design and hand lettering.
For Mink, typography is a passion. Type isn’t something that should merely be readable. It should be beautiful and inspiring. Most of the original fonts they create have vintage and nostalgic flavors, and they overlay them onto photographs or within illustrations.
Work with Steven Mink on 99designs or follow Steven Mink on Instagram
 Josh Emrich —
If Mad Men was a comedy, it would look like Josh Emrich’s work. Emrich has a vintage look and a very nostalgic late 50s and early 60s feel—with the occasional surreal nature illustration thrown in.
His detailed characters have a lot of personality. This is a great follow for anyone who simply loves art and design and wants to look at something beautiful or amazing every day.
Follow Josh Emrich on Instagram
 Follow these Instagram designers for daily inspiration —
Are you itching to get back to your Instagram feed and follow some new and fantastic artists and designers? Which of these artists speaks to you? Tell us your favorites in the comments!
Wanna become part of an amazing designer community?
Sign up as a designer on 99designs!
Let's go
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We interviewed amazing artist Jessica Chrysler!  Her work is dreamlike and has an amazing imaginative style to it, it was a pleasure learning what influenced in her youth and what keeps her creative mind going.   Let’s get into the Q&A with Jessica….
Q.  When did you first realize you had this amazing talent and that you could make it a career?
I always loved to draw and create stories as a kid, but I didn’t know I could make a career out of it until high school when I met a pair of incredibly talented artists, Brian Damitz and Ming Ong. They took me under their wing and introduced me to their friends in animation. I toured one of their studios and when I found out that a whole crew of people worked on just one of the many shows I loved as a kid, I was hooked. I wanted to do that too—I wanted to bring my stories to life and share them with others. But while I loved the idea of drawing and creating awesome worlds for the screen, I still loved books and the play between words and pictures. That’s when I was drawn to comics and graphic novels, picking up my first manga, Vampire Hunter D, and wanting to create stories people can hold in their hands.
Q.  What was it about National Geographic that inspired you?
Growing up, I’d split my time between playing sports and reading and drawing. I love exploration and adventure, so I was naturally drawn to the images and stories in National Geographic magazine. I’d cut them apart and make collages and I’d trace my favorite images and make cool scenes that my mom would hang on the fridge. I still do collaging as part of my process and when I need inspiration.
Q.  You also have a very unique style can you tell us some of your influences?
A heavy influence of mine, both visually and in storytelling, would have to be Don Bluth. The Land Before Time and The Secret of NIMH are some of my all time favorite movies. When I began studying art in college, I gravitated towards the greats of American Illustration and the Pre-Raphaelite era: J.C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell, Jean Gerome, to name a few. I also have a special fondness for illustrated manuscripts, middle-eastern architecture and French comic art.
Q.  Does working with children give you great ideas?  Do you ever pull ideas from their imaginations?
I love working with children, either by helping them read, write, or draw, and they always teach me something new. The world is so new and fresh in their minds that the mundane becomes extraordinary. They help me to remember to stop and observe the world, to enjoy the sunlight as it catches on a leaf and wonder at the night sky as it fills with its billions of stars. What I often pull from them is their character—their likes and dislikes, funny words they make-up, or a habit of using a certain color pencil. Once in a while they’ll share a cool idea with me, but their personalities are usually my inspiration.
Q.  Let’s talk about Monolithium… what is it and how did it come about?
Monolithium is a young adult, illustrated novel that I’m currently querying for publication. It’s a blending of sci-fi and fantasy, and features a strong heroine (who’s not so strong at first) that goes on an inter-galactic adventure to reclaim her throne. I’ve already had some great feedback from fans who bought my teaser last year at WonderCon, so I’m hoping I can share more with everyone soon!
Q.  What do you do to get over a creative block?
I read. Reading is my number one hobby, and when given the choice of listening to a podcast or reading the article that goes with it, I’ll usually read the article. If I really need to get out of my headspace, I’ll go for a walk or watch a movie with a friend.
Q.  What are some tips you have for young artists?
Read—no, seriously. Movies are great and so is watching tutorials on Gumroad to learn techniques in Photoshop or Maya, but when it comes down to getting inspired or getting that awesome idea no one else has, you can’t beat sinking into your favorite book. Something magical happens when we read—we experience the world through a different pair of eyes, and our brains have to conjure the images from the letters on the page. Movies and comics already have the images there for you, so it’s hard to deviate and discover something new with your own hand later. You can always use them as reference though, after you’ve done your sketching.
Which brings me to—research! Researching is your best friend. It will show what’s lurking in the sewer and what stars you’re really looking at when you look into the Australian sky. When you know the difference between a bowler and a fedora and what year they were popular, it will make your pieces stand out from someone else that just thought the funny looking hat looked cool on his futuristic Russian mobster.
Q.  How was your WonderCon?  Any highlights? Lowlights?
WonderCon is always a great time for me. I enjoy getting out and interacting with fans and seeing all the incredibly cool cosplay. This year I met a lot of great people, both at the con and outside of it, while my highlight was getting to trade sketches with some of the kids on Sunday. I just wish I drew better with crayons!
Q.  What’s one thing you wish fans knew about the Artists working at a con?
I come to shows like WonderCon so I can engage and interact with my fans directly. I love to hear their stories and latest favorites to help me get ideas for my next project. It also helps me know that I’m making stuff other people like and care about too, not just making paintings for my own little cave.
Q.  Where can our readers find you next?
I’m doing live demos of my drawing and painting process on my Facebook page every Friday from 1-2pm. You can check out some of them right now and get updates on my work and convention schedule by following me there or on Instagram and Twitter @jesschrysler. I will also be on a few panels during San Diego Comic Con this year, though I don’t have any specifics as of yet. If you prefer email, feel free to join my mailing list by visiting the contact page my website at JessicaChrysler.com
Artist Spotlight… Jessica Chrysler! We interviewed amazing artist Jessica Chrysler!  Her work is dreamlike and has an amazing imaginative style to it, it was a pleasure learning what influenced in her youth and what keeps her creative mind going.   
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Esther Stocker
After much consideration, I decided to change the artwork that I want to feature. During the consultation and discussion with my two lecturers, they mentioned that it is kind of difficult to realise the artwork that I want to feature, as I might not be able to get the texture right. So I decided to look for another artist work to feature. 
-Esther Stocker- 
Esther Stocker is a contemporary artist that creates paintings, murals and installations based on grid structures normally in neutral tones like black and white, or grey.
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Her works consistently show entanglements, interconnections, interpenetrations, both semantically and formally, for which the variable deployed grid motif functions as a symbolic logo.
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Her work consistently breaks the concept of one-dimensional order, space, and painting as contextual and relational factors and concepts. It is when an artist so concern with spatial structures and spatial experience during creating their artwork, at the same time it calls the attention to the fact that we know nothing about space, this would seem to testify Stocker doubtfulness opinion which arises from constant and systematic attempts at understanding it.
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Her inspiration comes in a very unexpected ways, like cartoon dogs and comics, “I think of comics as a very abstract medium — what’s funny is somehow between the lines, like in a painting. I love that you can tell a joke with so little. They’re so minimal that sometimes they’re not even that funny. I don’t really come from a comic culture, but I do think comics can really capture language and drawing in a beautiful way.”
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Inspiration from Gottlob Frege: “In the process though, he produced something very important for modern logic. He said something like, you can say a group of things are similar, but you can also say why they’re all different. For me, this is also like in abstract art. You can have similar forms but even if you look at them, you can never see the same form all the time. You can see it’s a grid, but you can always look at one unit and then maybe the next one looks a bit different.”
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Her work usually uses simple material, like painted woods, masking tape or cardboard. She likes the idea that when people get close and look at her work, it will come across as a very simple work that everyone can do. But when they take a step back, her work looks so fictional as if it is floating in space,  as though it has been mounted on a wall, looking magical.
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‘Based on Grid’
The arrangement of the blocks suggests a grid that's only half visible, allowing the viewer to mentally piece together the remaining elements themselves. What she wants to depict in her work is that our society is governed by all sorts of systems and structures that organise and steer life. No system, however, whether political, judicial, economic, socio-cultural or spatial, can comprise life in its entirety. Every system has gaps, leaks and ambiguities.
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CHANGES TO THE PRINTED PROGRAMME
Since we printed the gloassy A5 brochure for the Camden Fringe there have been a number of additions to the line-up and a couple of cancellations. Here is a list of changes. Always check https://camdenfringe.com/index.php?id=3 for the most up to date line-up information
CORRECTION
The times for this show are different to those printed in the brochure You Have Absolutely No Sense Of Time The Black Box Theatre 2, 9-11 August at 4.30pm, 3-4 August at 6pm, Hen and Chickens https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2453
 EXTRA SHOWS
David Mills: A More Dynamite Future 7:45pm 30 July The Albany Focus people! Shit's about to get real. Comedy for a world in crisis from a comic who’s not kidding around. A wander through our terrifying 24-hour reality television cartoon dystopia with an eye on the amazing a frightening future that awaits us. “A class act. His jokes are beautifully crafted, little sparkling middles loaded with wit." SCOTSMAN. "Hysterically funny." SF BAY GUARDIAN. "David Mills is heading for the big time. Most definitely one to watch." TIME OUT. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2416
  Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point 5.30pm 4 August The Bill Murray Joseph Parsons (as seen on Channel 4) presents his uplifting, sell-out stand up comedy show, Baggy Point. With his lovable and electric energy on stage, Joseph tells the story of discovering his sexuality as he clumsily navigates his way through social gatherings, love and living in a different country. Joseph also looks at how the perceptions of sexuality in smaller towns and homophobia in football affect younger people growing up. All proceeds to this show will go to Football v Homophobia.             https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2708
  Sea Changes Marina Jenkyns Productions 12.30pm 5-9 August Etcetera Theatre Sharon; `You know what? He was jealous. Never been outside Shepherd's Bush. Imagine fucking a man who's never flown!'Mair: `Soft on my face. Her skin, her tears. Must go on. Mustn't stop. Must do it'.Maeve: `Sally and I lay down, sun on our faces, just touching, like our hands.Understanding the past in order to create the future. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2719
  The Feminazis Curious Dispute 4.30pm 5-7 August Etcetera Theatre The Feminazis' juxtaposes a classical duo comedy format with explicit imagery, presenting the question 'how far is too far'? Frustrated with the lack of progression in modern day society regarding gender equality, Sal and Libby decide to take matters into their own hands by creating a terrorist organisation. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2716
  The Party Pilgrim Productions 9pm 5-9 August The Cockpit In September 2018, the president's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, was accused by a woman of sexual assault 36 years earlier. This revelation, broadcast worldwide at a Senate committee hearing, has since become a major cause celebre. 'The Party' by Sam J. Stewart is a 2-act play which re-lives and examines this drama. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2688
  Jet Set Go! Pump House CYT 7.30pm 9 – 10 August Theatro Technis A delightful, inventive and witty new musical about 24 hours in the ordinary working life of a transatlantic airline cabin crew; sex, romance, optimism and jaded cynicism are thrown together into a bitchy, campy but essentially tender-hearted cocktail. "A production that’s warm, funny and wonderfully scored” **** The Scotsman. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2720
 Love Is... Spitball Theatre Company 9.30pm 9-10 August at London Irish Centre Two women and one non-binary person delve into love, in all its many forms. We all remember our first love, don’t we? Have you tried to block out that painful memory? Does that fleeting eye contact still play on your mind? Featuring movement, music and true stories we take you through loves lost and won. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2698
  Fraser Gibson: Self-ish 3.45pm 10-August The Bill Murray Fraser Gibson's debut show is a wrestle with the Self-ish pursuit of being a stand-up comedian. Explained through tall tales, uncanny impressions and a good ol' song or two... A hilarious session of self-therapy! https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2711
  Matt Blair – Mattinée 3pm 11 August The Bill Murray An hour of musical comedy, jokes and references from the mind of a movie fanatic. Join Matt on his journey to find out why we love movies so much. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2556
  Ordinary Days Pump Priming Productions 7.30pm 11 August Theatro Technis A romance on the rocks, an artist's vision stalled, and a graduates thesis in peril lead four young New Yorkers through a series of humorous and touching musical, intersecting vignettes, as they search for fulfilment, happiness, love and cabs.This melodious one act musical, performed by an award winning cast, is a hidden gem. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2721
  Si Deaves - Si's Matters 8pm 11 August Camden Comedy Club Nuclear annihilation!! Brexit?! Rabies?? There are so many issues in the world today, yet Si Deaves still finds time to worry about the little things, in his own unique way. Join Si‚Äôs world as he tackles "inspiration", fears of inadequacy, *that* drunk guy at the pub and much more in his official debut stand-up hour, Si’s Matters. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2722
 G(L)ORY
Ocular Seven Productions 9pm 11-13 August The Hen and Chickens True crime, murder mystery, serial killer docs, you name it Bobby's binged it. Just like everyone else in the office, so what makes him so different? Through Bobby, we explore the public and media fascination and glorification of violence. Why do we keep watching? https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2712
 Be More Bee 12.30pm 13-14 August Etcetera Theatre Feeling broken or lost in a scary world? Looking for a Marie Kondo type, but more Home Counties? Well Bea has got just the ticket to cheer you up. It’s the bees! They’ve got the secret to happiness! Let her guide you through the honey-soaked life-hacks of the British Bee. Preposterous new comedy by Jenni Mackenzie-Jones. With a tombola. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2717
  Together For Seven BearFoot 2.30pm 13 – 15 August   Etcetera Theatre This is the last place you would expect to find yourself; a police station. You cast your mind back to the good, the bad and the ugly. Teetering on the edge of disaster, wondering whether forgiveness will find you, do you favour the truth or favour yourself? What risks would you take to protect your family when the odds are stacked against you? https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2706
  Dougie Dixon: Proper Belter 8pm 13-14 August Camden Comedy Club Meet Dougie Dixon. He's the reality TV star you didn't know you knew. Original TOWIE cast member. As seen on Tipping Point Lucky Stars, Celebs On The Farm (reserve contestant) & Embarrassing Celebrity Bodies. Series winner of The Celebrity Etch-A-Sketch Challenge. Come join Dougie as he launches his first ever debut autobiography; Proper Belter! https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2723
  Sam Mitchell: Wham Bam Thank You Sam 9.30pm 13 August The Bill Murray 45 mins of stand up comedy from one of the greats* about growing up**, committing*** and M+M World. * if you ask him ** trying to *** see above. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2707
  Faye Treacy is a Work in Progress 8pm 15-17 August Camden Comedy Club As seen on BBC Three and heard on Radio Four, Faye Treacy is back with a new work in progress show. "One of the most unique performances you'll see at the Fringe this year... simultaneously childish, genius and inescapably memorable." **** (1/2) (ShortCom) https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2715
  Dan Horrigan's Riot to Heaven Sky or the Bird 8.30pm 16-20 August at Aces and Eights High octane stories from men who would steal the eyes of ya and you wouldn't know until you went to read the paper. Laugh, weep and laugh again as we break into heaven. Raconteuring, storytelling, and theatre of the highest calibre. Second chances are rarer than rocking horse manure so get your ticket before we're off to rob another town. Cheers. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2549
  Fatiha El-Ghorri & Katherine Atkinson: Mocking Birds Fat Kat Comedy Join Fatiha El-Ghorri and Katherine Atkinson (both 2017 Funny Women Awards Regional Finalists) for an hour of stand up as Fatiha smashes Muslim stereotypes and challenges you to re-think what you think you know about Islam and Muslims, and Katherine offers up an acerbic, sideways view of motherhood, if she can be bothered. 4.15pm 18 August at The Bill Murray https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2728
  Red Richardson: Red Notice 8.15pm 21-22, 9pm 23-24 August The Taproom In 2017 Red Richardson left a building in Central London to see thousands of people running down the street screaming, for the next 35 minutes the whole of the country (Thanks to Pop star Ollie Murs tweeting from a basement in H and M) believed it was a terrorist attack. It wasn't. This is an hour of stand up about the human condition in crisis. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2390
  The Golden Child William Desmond 5pm 24-25 August The Chapel Playhouse William Desmond has always considered himself the Golden Child. Today, people need to standout in a crowd of hundreds of faces. Will is a twin, and during this 60 minute show he explores what it is like to be in constant competition with his brother. With musical parody and silliness, Will explains being good at everything isn't always the answer. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2718
  Ross Drummond & Harry Monaghan: The Orb 5.30pm 25 August The Bill Murray Have you touched The Orb? Want to meet two that have? A mainstay of science, wonder and amazement since its inception in the late 80s, The Orb is science’s greatest invention. What’s its purpose? We’re not sure. Perhaps it merely exists to inspire us. Anything is possible with The Orb. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2709
  CANCELLED
Darius Tabai: Schrodinger's Mum
Sara Barron: Enemies Closer
Comic Quartets
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CHANGES TO THE 2019 PRINTED PROGRAMME
The Camden Fringe just started Surely there can’t be any new shows? Yes there can, we’ve added one more today.
Since we printed our brochure there have been a number of additions to the line-up and a few cancellations. Here is a list of changes. Always check https://camdenfringe.com/index.php?id=3 for the most up to date line-up.
**ALTERATIONS**
The times for this show are different to those printed in the brochure You Have Absolutely No Sense Of Time The Black Box Theatre 2, 9-11 August at 4.30pm, 3-4 August at 6pm, Hen and Chickens https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2453
 Isabelle Farah: Ellipsis Now on 7.45pm on 21 August at the Albany (moved from 4 August) https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2505
 Dannie Grufferty: How Brexit sent us all slightly mad 9pm 5-7 August + 9pm 18 August at The Albany (4 August cancelled) https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2421
 **EXTRA SHOWS**
 David Mills: A More Dynamite Future 7:45pm 30 July The Albany Focus people! Shit's about to get real. Comedy for a world in crisis from a comic who’s not kidding around. A wander through our terrifying 24-hour reality television cartoon dystopia with an eye on the amazing a frightening future that awaits us. “A class act. His jokes are beautifully crafted, little sparkling middles loaded with wit." SCOTSMAN. "Hysterically funny." SF BAY GUARDIAN. "David Mills is heading for the big time. Most definitely one to watch." TIME OUT. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2416
  Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point 5.30pm 4 August The Bill Murray Joseph Parsons (as seen on Channel 4) presents his uplifting, sell-out stand up comedy show, Baggy Point. With his lovable and electric energy on stage, Joseph tells the story of discovering his sexuality as he clumsily navigates his way through social gatherings, love and living in a different country. Joseph also looks at how the perceptions of sexuality in smaller towns and homophobia in football affect younger people growing up. All proceeds to this show will go to Football v Homophobia.             https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2708
  Sea Changes Marina Jenkyns Productions 12.30pm 5-9 August Etcetera Theatre Sharon; `You know what? He was jealous. Never been outside Shepherd's Bush. Imagine fucking a man who's never flown!'Mair: `Soft on my face. Her skin, her tears. Must go on. Mustn't stop. Must do it'.Maeve: `Sally and I lay down, sun on our faces, just touching, like our hands.Understanding the past in order to create the future. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2719
  The Feminazis Curious Dispute 4.30pm 5-7 August Etcetera Theatre The Feminazis' juxtaposes a classical duo comedy format with explicit imagery, presenting the question 'how far is too far'? Frustrated with the lack of progression in modern day society regarding gender equality, Sal and Libby decide to take matters into their own hands by creating a terrorist organisation. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2716
  The Party Pilgrim Productions 9pm 5-9 August The Cockpit In September 2018, the president's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, was accused by a woman of sexual assault 36 years earlier. This revelation, broadcast worldwide at a Senate committee hearing, has since become a major cause celebre. 'The Party' by Sam J. Stewart is a 2-act play which re-lives and examines this drama. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2688
  Jet Set Go! Pump House CYT 7.30pm 9 – 10 August Theatro Technis A delightful, inventive and witty new musical about 24 hours in the ordinary working life of a transatlantic airline cabin crew; sex, romance, optimism and jaded cynicism are thrown together into a bitchy, campy but essentially tender-hearted cocktail. "A production that’s warm, funny and wonderfully scored” **** The Scotsman. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2720
 Love Is... Spitball Theatre Company 9.30pm 9-10 August at London Irish Centre Two women and one non-binary person delve into love, in all its many forms. We all remember our first love, don’t we? Have you tried to block out that painful memory? Does that fleeting eye contact still play on your mind? Featuring movement, music and true stories we take you through loves lost and won. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2698
  Fraser Gibson: Self-ish 3.45pm 10-August The Bill Murray Fraser Gibson's debut show is a wrestle with the Self-ish pursuit of being a stand-up comedian. Explained through tall tales, uncanny impressions and a good ol' song or two... A hilarious session of self-therapy! https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2711
  Matt Blair – Mattinée 3pm 11 August The Bill Murray An hour of musical comedy, jokes and references from the mind of a movie fanatic. Join Matt on his journey to find out why we love movies so much. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2556
  Ordinary Days Pump Priming Productions 7.30pm 11 August Theatro Technis A romance on the rocks, an artist's vision stalled, and a graduates thesis in peril lead four young New Yorkers through a series of humorous and touching musical, intersecting vignettes, as they search for fulfilment, happiness, love and cabs.This melodious one act musical, performed by an award winning cast, is a hidden gem. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2721
  Si Deaves - Si's Matters 8pm 11 August Camden Comedy Club Nuclear annihilation!! Brexit?! Rabies?? There are so many issues in the world today, yet Si Deaves still finds time to worry about the little things, in his own unique way. Join Si‚Äôs world as he tackles "inspiration", fears of inadequacy, *that* drunk guy at the pub and much more in his official debut stand-up hour, Si’s Matters. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2722
 G(L)ORY
Ocular Seven Productions 9pm 11-13 August The Hen and Chickens True crime, murder mystery, serial killer docs, you name it Bobby's binged it. Just like everyone else in the office, so what makes him so different? Through Bobby, we explore the public and media fascination and glorification of violence. Why do we keep watching? https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2712
 Be More Bee 12.30pm 13-14 August Etcetera Theatre Feeling broken or lost in a scary world? Looking for a Marie Kondo type, but more Home Counties? Well Bea has got just the ticket to cheer you up. It’s the bees! They’ve got the secret to happiness! Let her guide you through the honey-soaked life-hacks of the British Bee. Preposterous new comedy by Jenni Mackenzie-Jones. With a tombola. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2717
  Together For Seven BearFoot 2.30pm 13 – 15 August   Etcetera Theatre This is the last place you would expect to find yourself; a police station. You cast your mind back to the good, the bad and the ugly. Teetering on the edge of disaster, wondering whether forgiveness will find you, do you favour the truth or favour yourself? What risks would you take to protect your family when the odds are stacked against you? https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2706
  Dougie Dixon: Proper Belter 8pm 13-14 August Camden Comedy Club Meet Dougie Dixon. He's the reality TV star you didn't know you knew. Original TOWIE cast member. As seen on Tipping Point Lucky Stars, Celebs On The Farm (reserve contestant) & Embarrassing Celebrity Bodies. Series winner of The Celebrity Etch-A-Sketch Challenge. Come join Dougie as he launches his first ever debut autobiography; Proper Belter! https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2723
  Sam Mitchell: Wham Bam Thank You Sam 9.30pm 13 August The Bill Murray 45 mins of stand up comedy from one of the greats* about growing up**, committing*** and M+M World. * if you ask him ** trying to *** see above. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2707
  Faye Treacy is a Work in Progress 8pm 15-17 August Camden Comedy Club As seen on BBC Three and heard on Radio Four, Faye Treacy is back with a new work in progress show. "One of the most unique performances you'll see at the Fringe this year... simultaneously childish, genius and inescapably memorable." **** (1/2) (ShortCom)
https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2715
  Dan Horrigan's Riot to Heaven Sky or the Bird 8.30pm 16-20 August at Aces and Eights High octane stories from men who would steal the eyes of ya and you wouldn't know until you went to read the paper. Laugh, weep and laugh again as we break into heaven. Raconteuring, storytelling, and theatre of the highest calibre. Second chances are rarer than rocking horse manure so get your ticket before we're off to rob another town. Cheers. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2549
  Fatiha El-Ghorri & Katherine Atkinson: Mocking Birds Fat Kat Comedy
4.15pm 18 August at The Bill Murray Join Fatiha El-Ghorri and Katherine Atkinson (both 2017 Funny Women Awards Regional Finalists) for an hour of stand up as Fatiha smashes Muslim stereotypes and challenges you to re-think what you think you know about Islam and Muslims, and Katherine offers up an acerbic, sideways view of motherhood, if she can be bothered. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2728
 Dane Baptiste: Work in progress 9.30pm 18 August at The Bill Murray Star of Live at the Apollo (BBC Two), Tonight at the London Palladium (ITV1) and 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) - Join Baptiste as he workshops brand new material for his next tour show. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2727
  Red Richardson: Red Notice 8.15pm 21-22, 9pm 23-24 August The Taproom In 2017 Red Richardson left a building in Central London to see thousands of people running down the street screaming, for the next 35 minutes the whole of the country (Thanks to Pop star Ollie Murs tweeting from a basement in H and M) believed it was a terrorist attack. It wasn't. This is an hour of stand up about the human condition in crisis. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2390
  Leave this World Alive 9.30pm 21 August at Water Rats 'I hope the exit is joyful' - wrote Frida Kahlo, only days before she died. When was the last time YOU thought about your end? And how does it make you feel? Powerless? Awake? Does it help you appreciate the moment you live in? We will reach out for a topic which brings all these questions on the table: assisted dying - determining our own end. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2731
  Nico. No Regrets. 8.30pm 23 August The Chapel Playhouse A show by and with Margherita Remotti in association with Actors East London. Directed by Alberto Barbi. Text by Fernando Coratelli and Margherita Remotti. In this one woman show, we explore the life of Nico, better known as Andy Warhol's superstar, muse and rockstar singer of the Velvet Underground. But you will discover this was only the surface. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2729
  The Golden Child William Desmond 5pm 24-25 August The Chapel Playhouse William Desmond has always considered himself the Golden Child. Today, people need to standout in a crowd of hundreds of faces. Will is a twin, and during this 60 minute show he explores what it is like to be in constant competition with his brother. With musical parody and silliness, Will explains being good at everything isn't always the answer. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2718
  Ross Drummond & Harry Monaghan: The Orb 5.30pm 25 August The Bill Murray Have you touched The Orb? Want to meet two that have? A mainstay of science, wonder and amazement since its inception in the late 80s, The Orb is science’s greatest invention. What’s its purpose? We’re not sure. Perhaps it merely exists to inspire us. Anything is possible with The Orb. https://camdenfringe.com/show.php?acts_id=2709
  **CANCELLED**
Darius Tabai: Schrodinger's Mum
Sara Barron: Enemies Closer
Comic Quartets
Lloyd Langford: New Things (A Work in Progress)
Steve McNeil: Video Games
A Rock 'n' Roll Suicide!
365 at The Albany
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