2012 Lists!!!! My favourite stuff of the year

FAVOURITE SONGS!!!

1. Passion Pit- Constant Conversations
2. Icona Pop- I Love It
3. Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe
4. Bloc Party- The Healing
5. Santigold- Disparate Youth
6. AlunaGeorge- You Know You Like It
7. Solange- Losing You
8. Tommy Ill- Living Dead
9. Gorillaz/James Murphy/André 3000- DoYaThing
10. Grimes- Oblivion
11. Twin Shadow- Five Seconds
12. M.I.A- Bad Girls
13. Sky Ferreira- Everything Is Embarrassing
14. Frank Ocean- Pyramids
15. Taylor Swift- We Are Never Getting Back Together
16. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs- Tapes & Money
17. Kendrick Lamar- Swimming Pools (Drank)
18. The xx- Angels
19. Opossom- Blue Meanies
20. A$AP Rocky- Goldie

FAVOURITE MOVIES!!!!!

1. The Cabin In The Woods
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. The Dark Knight Rises
4. The Avengers
5. Shut Up and Play the Hits
6. Looper
7. The Artist
8. Attack The Block
9. Skyfall
10. The Hunger Games

FAVOURITE MUSIC VIDEOS!!!!

1. THIS
2. Psy- Gangnam Style
3. M.I.A- Bad Girls
4. Tommy Ill-Living Dead
5. Odd Future- Oldie
6. Jack White- Sixteen Saltines
7. Danny Brown- Grown Up
8. Grimes- Oblivion/Genesis (TIE)
9. Solange- Losing You
10. Opossom- Blue Meanies/Orange Caramel- Lipstick (TIE)

Just quickly, what a fantastic year for stuff this has been! Practically everything in these lists (especially in the song list) could have topped a list of a lesser year. Great job 2012, would trade again.

Life update

I live with these cool kids now

Salisbury Panoramas

Sleep posters!

So as you may know, for my final project at CPIT I focused on Sleep, clearing away misconceptions about it and making my audience see it as a priority. Here are some poster ads, featuring hand-drawn and digitally coloured typography, as well as photography of my awesome classmates. Originally printed in glorious A1.

Also I'm on Behance now, CHECK IT.

...And you can live through anything if Magic made it

I finished studying for my degree on Monday, which is equal parts exciting and terrifying. I learned and grew so much over the last three years. It was sort of a trilogy, or three-act structure, in that there was the bright exciting beginning, the difficult middle period, and triumphant ending. I wouldn't trade any of it. Now here I am, with no set in stone plans for the future for the first time ever. But I'm in the longest sustained period of happiness I've ever had lately and trying my best to stay busy. As excited by change as I am, I've always been secretly scared of it, but I feel ready to face it all now. No matter what, the future's gonna be pretty rad. Hopefully with jetpacks.

May all your dreams come true xoxo

Come to my Exhibition maybe, it will be cool and I'll give you a high-five

Come check out what my awesome classmates and I have been doing by coming to RIPE, CPIT's third year exhibition! It's at the Rakaia centre at CPIT's Madras St Campus,  9.00am - 5.00pm and it's full of cool stuff.
xoxo

Oh, Hi

Sorry about the lack of posts, I've been busy doing rad things and making rad things. You'll see these things soon, but till then here's a cat dressed as a panda eating some asparagus.

I love this quote too much

"People slap a rating on this thing that you've made!  It’s just so wild! It’s just the craziest thing. I honestly think that that’s the craziest thing in the world, and that goes for like movies and whatever, anything that you have to create something. I think it’s really insane that in how big of a world we live in, that one person would then grade it. It’s insane! That’s crazy, and I just don’t really care for it... I haven’t read a Blood Orange review ever, and I disable the comments on YouTube videos, so I actually have no idea what people are really saying. Because, I mean it’s all kind of meaningless, but if a stranger in the street came up to you and just said: "Your jacket sucks."And then walked away, you’d be like "what the fuck?", and "who are you?", and "I like this and I just put this on..." But it will still bother you. Even though it’s someone who you'll never seen again in your entire life and you never knew them before, you'll be thinking about that, and you'll just be like “Shit, I thought it was really great, but..." So that’s what I think reviews are [like]."
- Dev Hynes (Blood Orange, Lightspeed Champion, Team Perfect) on reviews

Passion Pit- Constant Conversations

I'm really into slow jams at the moment and this is my favourite song of the year so far. With it's falsetto-driven synth-pop, vintage Kanye-esque beats and heart-breaking lyrics, this whole album sounds like it was engineered to be a perfect album for me. AND IT IS.

Hey, want to see a photo of me on a motorcycle?

What am I thinking about in this photograph? MOTORCYCLE STUFF.

Best day!

FERMATA MAGAZINE

Oh hey I wrote and designed a magazine, which you can view online. Hope you like it!

AM I???

The xx- Coexist stream

Goddamn this is good.
Maybe better than their first?
I wrote a haiku.

Bloc Party

I drew Bloc Party! Their new album's pretty good, you have to skip the weird "hardcore/metal" songs, but some of the tracks are some of the best songs they've ever written.

I'm on instagram I think

Hey cool, I have instagram and I have know idea how to use it but if you want to see my photos or something search for "garefblackler" on it.

My goal is to only take filter-less photos of actual polaroids and fool the universe. Take that universe!

21st/Ultimate Party Playlist

Last week I turned twenty-one for the first and possibly last time, and threw a little party that ended up being one of my favourite parties ever. In order to prepare for this, I made an attempt at the perfect Party Playlist. I'm so proud of said playlist that I've decided to share it with all of you. Enjoy!

Azealia Banks- 212

Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe

Disasteradio- Gravy Rainbow

Ellie Goulding- Starry Eyed

Ellie Goulding- Lights

Florence + The Machine- Spectrum (Calvin Harris Remix)

Gorillaz- DoYaThing (feat. Andre 3000 and James Murphy)

Jaguar Love- Up All Night

Jay-Z- 99 Problems

Jay-Z and Kanye West- N*ggas in Paris

Jay-Z and Kanye West- Otis

Jay-Z and Kanye West- Gotta Have It

Jay-Z and Kanye West- Why I Love You (Feat. Mr. Hudson)

Justice- D.A.N.C.E.

Justin Timberlake- SexyBack

Kanye West- Stronger

Kanye West- Good Life

Kanye West- Can't Tell Me Nothing

Kanye West- Gold Digger

Kanye West- POWER

Kanye West- All Of The Lights

Kanye West- Monster (Feat. JAY-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver)

Kanye West- Lost In The World (Feat. Bon Iver)

Ke$ha- Blow

Ke$ha- We R Who We R

Ke$ha- Tik Tok

Ke$ha- Take It Off

KiD CuDi- Day N Nite (Crookers Remix)

KiD CUDi- Erase Me (Feat. Kanye West)

Klaxons- Golden Skans

Kreayshawn- Gucci Gucci

Lady GaGa- Poker Face

Late Of The Pier- The Bears Are Coming

Late Of The Pier- Focker

Late Of The Pier- Bathroom Gurgle

LCD Soundsystem- Tribulations

LCD Soundsystem- All My Friends

LCD Soundsystem- Drunk Girls

M.I.A.- Bad Girls

M.I.A.- Paper Planes

M83- Midnight City

Major Lazer- Hold The Line (feat. Mr. Lex & Santigold)

MGMT- Brian Eno

MGMT- Of Moons, Birds & Monsters (Holy Ghost remix)

MGMT- Time To Pretend

MGMT- Electric Feel

MGMT- Kids

The Naked And Famous- Young Blood

Neon Indian- Polish Girl

Rihanna- Only Girl (In The World)

Rihanna- We Found Love (ft. Calvin Harris)

Rihanna- Where Have You Been?

Santigold- Go! (feat. Karen O)

Santigold- Creator

So So Modern- Synthgasm

The Strokes- Last Nite

Tommy Ill- Missed Call (feat. Carly Rae Jepsen)

Tommy Ill- Living Dead

Tommy Ill- Come Home Mr. Ill

Toploader- Dancing In The Moonlight

toro y moi- Still Sound

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs- Tapes & Money

47 Diamantes- Armageddon Ready (feat. Tommy Ill)

(in alphabetical order)

Four Lords

The four works I made for Georgia's exhibition. So much fun to make, I hope you like them! I'm 21 tomorrow.

Die! Die! Die! are Great Great Great

I forgot how much I love these guys until I saw them live for the first time in ages on Saturday. Easily the best live band in New Zealand, can't wait to see them againn!

Also...

Do you live in Dunedin? You lucky person. My amazing friend Georgia Glass has organised this exhibition and you should go to this because it's gonna be amazing, and it features some never-before-seen works by me being exhibited!! Details!

A few Goodmans

Four portraits of John Goodman, because I recently realised how many great things he's in and how he is great in these things.

Stallion!

Second Bloguversary!

Acting Like The Summer Aint Mine (overdue mix)

Hey it's the middle of winter, so why not listen to this mix of last summer's Summer JAMS I made like six months ago but forgot to share with anyone until now! 
(If the embedded player thing doesn't work, click here to listen. (I don't have spotify.))

Acting Like The Summer Aint Mine from Garef on 8tracks.

Sleepy Age

Every time I see these guys play I found myself dancing like Thom Yorke's drunk uncle. Plus for their live-show they've just added three "sassy gurls" on backing vocals which is something every band needs.

Get their stuff on bandcamp, why not.

Oh hey I made this poster and I kinda like it.

Also I've finished my semester and I'm free and the sun is shining!

Snow Day

Worlds Still Be Colliding

Remember Team Perfect? Well Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) & Florence Welch have teamed up again, and created this AMAZING remix/cover/duet of Florence's song "Never Let Me Go". It's a gorgeous, Prince-esque slow burner and the fact it exists makes me really happy and really really jealous of my friends who are going to see both of them in Auckland on Monday...

Bon Iver, Coachella, Cover, Comma

I made my friend a bootleg of Bon Iver's Coachella show for her birthday and this is the cover I drew

!

After another aaamaazingg weekend in Dunedin, I'd been kinda unsure of whether Christchurch could still party, but then on friday night Manu and I went out to a gig and came back looking like this...

Good News!

I've finished my Nuclear Project at CPIT and got a little design studio internship thing!! Also I'm crazy excited about this weekend. This guy knows what I'm talking about.

UPDATE: I bought a trumpet icecream last night and won another trumpet icecream.

Today was awesome! 

Do y'all read my awesome friend Danica Nel's blog? You really should, it's the best.

nicanel.blogspot.com

A very important Corgi being vacuumed video

If a tree falls in a forest, and that tree is a video of a corgi being vacuumed or playing some sort of sport, I will hear it.

Jam master James

A while ago, (after we adopted Alejandro) I asked James Barron, my awesome friend and most of my blog audience, if he could give me some songs he'd think I'd enjoy. Not content with making a mere-mortal mix CD, he responded by spending a month making me an 18-track concept mix-album of awesome songs across all genres, with fully designed, interchangeable album art featuring AMAZING vector-art (James, the back cover picture is my favourite thing ever). He put more effort into it than most bands!
Here's one of my favourite tracks:


GREAT JOB WOULD TRADE AGAIN A+++

Hey everyone! Get Tommy Ill's new album, it's awesome. Also have a great Easter weekend. 

THOSE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS.

The Perfect Music Video

Since 1983, when Micheal Jackson was attacked by zombies and became a zombie but was also a werewolf or something, man has dreamed of making the perfect music video.

Today, it has happened.

You're welcome, universe.

I Can't Grow Beards

Dunedin I Love You

 

 Photos courtesy of Miss Robyn Thomas

Oh hello Alejandro

Alejandro is the 5-foot something Papier-mâché skeleton man my friends James, Manu and I adopted from the back of every grandmother's favourite arts and craft shop, Spotlight. We don't know anything about him or who made him, but my assumption is he's an immortal Aztec prince who witnessed the fall of his empire, before being rescued and raised by a voodoo priest in New Orleans during the Roaring Twenties. Pretty sure he also was at Woodstock and had something to do with the production of the film El Topo. These are some photos of him during his big day out, in which we carried him from Sydenham to Papanui, ignoring the confused glances of other Christchurch residents.

I like this artist: Hanksy

"Hanksy" is an anonymous New York based  street artist who produces parodies of Banksy's iconic works mashed-up with pictures and references to actor Tom Hanks. Best idea ever? Best idea ever.

Apparently both Tom Hanks and Banksy are aware of and enjoy Hanksy's work, and the artist has recently branched out toward different actors and pop-culture references, but still keeping the glorious love of puns that inspired the original work.

Read an interview with Hanksy by EA Hanks, who happens to be Tom Hanks' daughter, here.

Gatos y perros que usan Sombreros

No caption thing I write here will top the pictures above. Fiesta!