Plan B / Ben Drew
Plan B is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, actor and film director. He first emerged as a hip hop artist releasing his critically-acclaimed début album 'Who Needs Actions When You Got Words' in 2006. His second studio album 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks', released in2010, was a soul based album and it went straight into the UK album chart at number 1. He has also collaborated with other artists such as well known, dubstep and drum & bass, duo Chase & Status with the song 'End credits' which got into the top 10 of the music chart. back in 2009.
As well as his successful music career, Ben Drew has also had a successful film career as an actor.he has had roles in 'Adulthood' in 2008, the 2009 film 'Harry Brown' and also '4.3.2.1' in 2010. In 2011 he will release 'Ill Manors' his first film as a director.
Plan B's music work was mainly aimed at people who listen to grime and hip hop as his first album was in that genre. He was also born in London which has a big impact as that's where those genres mainly originated from. His second album though had a big change with the audience who would listen to his music. This is because it was soul music, which has a bigger audience then hip hop and grime so there was a much bigger variety of people listening to his music.
I think Plan B has been influenced by his upbringing and where he has lived during his childhood. He was born and raised in London so he had a tough upbringing and his music lets us know this as its about hard times in hard areas. His song 'Kids' is based upon a teenage life which involves drinking alcohol, killing, committing crime, under-age sex and pregnancy and drug abuse. The mayjority of his songs are inspired by his or others life liveing and growing up in London or other rough areas in the UK.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Cross Disciplinary Artists
Plan B
Music - Plan B, also know as Ben Drew, is a singer songwriter, an actor and a film director. His first came across as a hip hop/grime artist but then on his second album he went to soul music. His second album has had many singles which reached the top 40 music charts and as well as all of this success he has had collaborations, mainly with drum and bass/dubstep duo, Chase & Status.
Films - Plan B has also had a successful film career as an actor. With roles in the 2008 film Adulthood, the 2009 film Harry Brown and his latest role in the film 4.3.2.1 in 2010. In 2011 he will release Ill Manors his first film as a director.
Bashy
Music - Bashy, known as Ashley Thomas, is a grime musician who has made his own album in 2009 titled Catch Me If You Can which was where he got noticed and from then on the fame grew. On this album, the most well known songs of his are Black Boys, Kidulthood to Adulthood, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Your Wish Is My Command. As well his album songs he has made Whenever the Sky falls ft Loick Essien which was a main song for the 2010 film Shank. Also in 2010 he made songs Fantasy and Make My Day which both had a drum and bass side to them.
Films - In 2010 Bashy played Rager in Shank. He then went on to star as Smoothy in Noel Clarke's 4321 in the same year. His next role is the demonic drug dealer Tyrone Jones in The Veteran.
Adam Deacon
Music - Adam Deacon is also another Grime musician who rose to fame after his 2006 role in the film Kidulthood. He has featured in various music videos including Bashy's "Who wants to be a millionaire" and Chipmunk's "Chip Diddy Chip". He is also a musician and musical performer most noted for his two tracks on the soundtrack to Adulthood. The tracks are: 'Adamhood' and 'On It 08', which also featured Plan B. He also contributes as a drummer and as an ambulance driver to Professor Greens music videos; Hard Night Out and Before I Die.
Film - Adam Deacon has played roles in quite a few films now. He has starred in Kidulthood and Adulthood, Shank and soon to be his new film AnuvaHood, he has also made special appearances in Ali G In Da House and 4.3.2.1. as well as this he has appeared in popular TV programmes such as The Bill, Casualty, Grownups, Phoneshop and many more.
Justin Timberlake
Music - Justin Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. His first album was titled 'Justified' which debuted in 2002. It sold more than 7 million copies. The album was a commercial success as it introduced the hits Cry Me a River and Rock Your Body. Also he was a member of the boy band 'NSync.
Film - As well as a very sucessful music carrer he has had an evenly succeessful film career, He has played rolls or starred in Alpha Dog, Shrek the 3rd, The Love Guru, The Social network and new releases, Yogi Bear, Bad teacher and Freinds With Benefits which are in post production.
Music - Plan B, also know as Ben Drew, is a singer songwriter, an actor and a film director. His first came across as a hip hop/grime artist but then on his second album he went to soul music. His second album has had many singles which reached the top 40 music charts and as well as all of this success he has had collaborations, mainly with drum and bass/dubstep duo, Chase & Status.
Films - Plan B has also had a successful film career as an actor. With roles in the 2008 film Adulthood, the 2009 film Harry Brown and his latest role in the film 4.3.2.1 in 2010. In 2011 he will release Ill Manors his first film as a director.
Bashy
Music - Bashy, known as Ashley Thomas, is a grime musician who has made his own album in 2009 titled Catch Me If You Can which was where he got noticed and from then on the fame grew. On this album, the most well known songs of his are Black Boys, Kidulthood to Adulthood, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Your Wish Is My Command. As well his album songs he has made Whenever the Sky falls ft Loick Essien which was a main song for the 2010 film Shank. Also in 2010 he made songs Fantasy and Make My Day which both had a drum and bass side to them.
Films - In 2010 Bashy played Rager in Shank. He then went on to star as Smoothy in Noel Clarke's 4321 in the same year. His next role is the demonic drug dealer Tyrone Jones in The Veteran.
Adam Deacon
Music - Adam Deacon is also another Grime musician who rose to fame after his 2006 role in the film Kidulthood. He has featured in various music videos including Bashy's "Who wants to be a millionaire" and Chipmunk's "Chip Diddy Chip". He is also a musician and musical performer most noted for his two tracks on the soundtrack to Adulthood. The tracks are: 'Adamhood' and 'On It 08', which also featured Plan B. He also contributes as a drummer and as an ambulance driver to Professor Greens music videos; Hard Night Out and Before I Die.
Film - Adam Deacon has played roles in quite a few films now. He has starred in Kidulthood and Adulthood, Shank and soon to be his new film AnuvaHood, he has also made special appearances in Ali G In Da House and 4.3.2.1. as well as this he has appeared in popular TV programmes such as The Bill, Casualty, Grownups, Phoneshop and many more.
Justin Timberlake
Music - Justin Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. His first album was titled 'Justified' which debuted in 2002. It sold more than 7 million copies. The album was a commercial success as it introduced the hits Cry Me a River and Rock Your Body. Also he was a member of the boy band 'NSync.
Film - As well as a very sucessful music carrer he has had an evenly succeessful film career, He has played rolls or starred in Alpha Dog, Shrek the 3rd, The Love Guru, The Social network and new releases, Yogi Bear, Bad teacher and Freinds With Benefits which are in post production.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Ken Paul - Photographer
Ken Paul is a photographer from Vancouver in Canada. He has a great collection of BMX and non-BMX photography.
Ken Paul has always felt that he had an keen eye for photography but he neglected what he knew and ended up with a basic point and shoot camera for far too long. Back in 1999 Ken Paul ended up being the editor of the well known BMX magazine called Chase BMXMagazine, as well as that, he became the art director for them and soon after became the photographer for Chase BMXMagazine as well. Then, not long after all of that, he was behind the camera lens as much as he was in front of his own computer. Ken Paul's photography has taken him across the globe, from Canada to Europe and Japan. He claims to love photography because of the pure excitement of capturing a moment in time and interpreting it as it was meant to be. The majority of his photography experiences and own personal work lies within in portrait photography, photographs of products (mainly BMX products), commercial photography, wedding photography and action photography.
References:
http://kenpaulphoto.com
http://nuvarun.blogspot.com/2010/01/ken-paul-photography.html
Ken Paul has always felt that he had an keen eye for photography but he neglected what he knew and ended up with a basic point and shoot camera for far too long. Back in 1999 Ken Paul ended up being the editor of the well known BMX magazine called Chase BMXMagazine, as well as that, he became the art director for them and soon after became the photographer for Chase BMXMagazine as well. Then, not long after all of that, he was behind the camera lens as much as he was in front of his own computer. Ken Paul's photography has taken him across the globe, from Canada to Europe and Japan. He claims to love photography because of the pure excitement of capturing a moment in time and interpreting it as it was meant to be. The majority of his photography experiences and own personal work lies within in portrait photography, photographs of products (mainly BMX products), commercial photography, wedding photography and action photography.
References:
http://kenpaulphoto.com
http://nuvarun.blogspot.com/2010/01/ken-paul-photography.html
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
The first comic that I have chose is the Hellboy comics by Mike Mignola. His style of his work is Mignola is particularly noted for its highly distinctive style, which was once called "German expressionism meets Jack Kirby" in an introduction to a collection of his Hellboy works. Mignola's imagery stood in stark contrast to the style of his contemporaries. Where others would draw muscular men and slim, well-endowed women, Mignola's characters were usually bulky and rough looking, and more often than not defined by large shadowed areas rather than fine details. Mignola often takes the same approach to architecture, particularly in Hellboy. Hellboy is a creature summoned in the final months of World War II on Tarmagant Island off the coast of Scotland. Having been commissioned by the Nazis to change the tide of war. He appears in a fireball in a ruined church in East Bromwich, England, on December 23, 1944. Proving not to be a devil, in the traditional sense, but a devil-like creature with red skin, horns, a tail, and a disproportionately large right hand made of red stone, he is dubbed "Hellboy" by Professor Trevor. Hellboy is taken by the United States armed forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico and is raised by the United States Army and by the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. As an adult, He becomes the primary agent alongside other human agents that include Kate Corrigan, a professor of folklore at New York University. Wednesday, 19 January 2011
maxime ducamp robert capa
Robert Capa
- Born in Budapest in 1913
- His most famous work occurred on D-day, June 6 1944 when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras attached with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film.
- On D-Day he apparently took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion.
- A staff member at Life in London made the mistake in the darkroom of setting the dryer too high and melting the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll of the images taken ion D-Day. Only eight frames in total were recovered.
- In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo known as the "Falling Soldier" which long falsely presumed to have been taken in Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba Front of a Workers' Party of Marxist Unification Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death.
- In 2009 a Spanish professor published a book titled Shadows of Photography, in which he showed that the photograph of the "Falling Soldier" could not have been taken where, when, or how Capa and his backers have alleged.
- Many of Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War were for many decades was presumed lost but surfaced in Mexico City in the late 1990s.
- While fleeing Europe in 1939, Robert Capa had lost the collection, which over time came to be dubbed the "Mexican suitcase".
- In 1995, thousands of negatives to photographs that Capa took during the Spanish Civil War were found in three suitcases bequeathed to a Mexico City filmmaker from his aunt
- In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos with, among others, the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.
Maxime Ducamp
- Born in Paris in 1822.
- After finishing college, Maxime Ducamp indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets
- He travelled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company with Gustave Flaubert
- In 1851 he became a founder of the Revue de Paris which suppressed in 1858.
- Maxime Ducamp was also a frequent contributor to the Revue des deux mondes.
- As well as travelling and photography, Maxim Ducamp was also a writer
- He wrote Chants modernes in 1855 and aslo wrote Convictions in 1858.
- He aslo wrote Souvenirs et paysages d'orient which he wrote in 1848 as well as the book gypte, Nubie, Palestine, Syrie which he wrote in 1852. He wrote these books upon his travelling experiences.
- In 1853, he became an officer of the Legion of Honour. Serving as a volunteer with Garibaldi in his 1860 conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Maxime Ducamp recounted his experiences in Expédition des deux Siciles, a book he wrote.
- In 1870 he was nominated for the senate, but his election was frustrated by the downfall of the Empire
- Born in Budapest in 1913
- His most famous work occurred on D-day, June 6 1944 when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras attached with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film.
- On D-Day he apparently took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion.
- A staff member at Life in London made the mistake in the darkroom of setting the dryer too high and melting the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll of the images taken ion D-Day. Only eight frames in total were recovered.
- In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo known as the "Falling Soldier" which long falsely presumed to have been taken in Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba Front of a Workers' Party of Marxist Unification Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death.
- In 2009 a Spanish professor published a book titled Shadows of Photography, in which he showed that the photograph of the "Falling Soldier" could not have been taken where, when, or how Capa and his backers have alleged.
- Many of Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War were for many decades was presumed lost but surfaced in Mexico City in the late 1990s.- While fleeing Europe in 1939, Robert Capa had lost the collection, which over time came to be dubbed the "Mexican suitcase".
- In 1995, thousands of negatives to photographs that Capa took during the Spanish Civil War were found in three suitcases bequeathed to a Mexico City filmmaker from his aunt
- In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos with, among others, the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.
Maxime Ducamp
- Born in Paris in 1822.
- After finishing college, Maxime Ducamp indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets
- He travelled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company with Gustave Flaubert- In 1851 he became a founder of the Revue de Paris which suppressed in 1858.
- Maxime Ducamp was also a frequent contributor to the Revue des deux mondes.
- As well as travelling and photography, Maxim Ducamp was also a writer
- He wrote Chants modernes in 1855 and aslo wrote Convictions in 1858.
- He aslo wrote Souvenirs et paysages d'orient which he wrote in 1848 as well as the book gypte, Nubie, Palestine, Syrie which he wrote in 1852. He wrote these books upon his travelling experiences.
- In 1853, he became an officer of the Legion of Honour. Serving as a volunteer with Garibaldi in his 1860 conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Maxime Ducamp recounted his experiences in Expédition des deux Siciles, a book he wrote.
- In 1870 he was nominated for the senate, but his election was frustrated by the downfall of the Empire
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Adulthood Short Review
The film Adulthood is a British film set in London written by and starring Noel Clarke. It is a sequel to the film Kidulthood which also is written by and start Noel Clarke. In Kidulthood you learn that you dislike the character played by Noel Clarke whereas in Adulthood you see yourself as on his side as he moves on and tries to leave the past behind. Doing this he fails as he is confronted by the past, which is seen in Kidulthood, and has to face it in a adult maturer way as he is trying to move on and realises that he cant keep acting the same old ways. Noel Clarke cant move on until he has faced 2 enemy's who are friends of a man in which Noel has killed who are trying to get revenge on him. 
Adulthood has a tighter focus on the real world and what's going on than Kidulthood. This is a film with a target audience of teenage boys and the youngest of men firmly in mind and its a film which is never far from a loud tune or a fight.
Monday, 22 November 2010
DSLR Induction
This morning we had to have a DSLR induction which involved learning how to hold the camera, taking the lens of of the camera, how to turn it on and off and how to use the basics of th DSLR. Once we knew how to set it up we had to learn about how to set it to diffent shutter speeds, focusing, when we would use a tripod and about the F points. having the F points set to a different setting will change the blur in the background or foreground.
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