Zane Wright & Amber Bailey

Hey All


Im excited to present the work from two extremely talented people Zane Wright & Amber Bailey. 
Both from NZ which is mad also.




Firstly Zane's paintings. Zane likes fish.

And now  Amber.
Such great design. I love it.
Images created to address Christ Churches traffic problems.

Till next time 


Have fun out there


MCMC

While Im here. Check these portraits. Rosie's Journal

Also before I leave you once again to return to my frenzy of assignments, guitars and general chaos figured Id share a blog recently bought to my attention.

Rosie's Journal is perfect for those into beautiful portraits. 


At first I thought it a touch imposing viewing personal portraits of randoms. Like a stalker scrolling through friends of friends of friends pages on Face Book just because you can (I don't do this not ever honest, except maybe this one time but thats a whole different story).
But once I passed this tiny insecurity a hugely talented photographer with an amazing portfolio came into view. She clearly experiments with color and subject matter making selected works resemble more art than a friends face. Along with her portraits she's seems to have covered nearly everything you could imagine in which it seems she has stumbled upon in her adventures, with interesting scenes and landscapes. 

Also technically it seems she's got the whole image thing down. Very very high quality images with great judgement of depth of field and focus. Im sure she could make that guy from the Pouges look good!


Check it out HERE.

Well worth your time.


Have Fun Out There
MCMC

The Electric Boutique

Hey have you herd of the Electric Boutique?
Well they are well worth checking out.
I like them haha.
Anyways figured Id share what they had to say about themselves.

Name: The Electric Boutique
Age: 102
Location:  29.9753° N, 31.1378° EWho/What we do? : Three Guys and a treasure chest of magical musical ideas with unicorns and rainbows  and pots of gold and other such magical things.
A Brief History: Saw a little boy in a manger, the rest is history.

Funny Pricks Yes!

You can like them on Facey Book HERE.
And check out there Sound Cloud HERE.

There from Auckland too which is neat.

Check it son.

Till Next Time 

Have Fun Out There


MCMC

Mmdelai

Hey there


Its been a while (I know its becoming a habit will try to get better).


Anyways


Say hello to Mmdelai

A christchurch band formed in 2010, Mmdelai's set up started with Annemarie singing to backing tracks live and then with DJ Cutloose. Later that year a friend gathered some Christchurch musicians together to form a band for the RounDUp competition 2010.

Since then Mmdelai has been live with band; the line-up featuring Annemarie Duff (Miniatures), Josh Black (Sleepy Age), Jess Hix (NYBBNZ) and Danny Webster (Radar Angel,

Permanence).

There EP has been over a year in the making, inspired by general rantings about the Universe and recorded in various places around Christchurch/Dunedin. It tends toward the darker side of electronica with influences including U.N.K.L.E., Bonobo and Quantic.

They are currently working towards an album to be released later this year. 

The EP is available on I-tunes if you feel like supporting some local music. 

Also available for free download at www.mmdelai.bandcamp.com. 

Keep up to date with new tracks at www.soundcloud.com/mmdelai

Contact Them at:

mmdelai@gmail.com

 Phone: +64 27 3130229

www.mmdelai.bandcamp.com

Till Next Time

Have Fun Out There

MCMC

Welsh Brothers Racing

Hey All


As you may or may not know 
we here at the Captains Post have deep roots in BMX & Mountain Biking (Downhill & Free Ride none of this XC nonsense).


And it has come to our attention a couple of great lads need a helping hand.

Christian and Wes desperately wish to travel to the one and only  brazil and have a crack at winning the masters world cup along with its rainbow jersey. It will be a long journey but I personally believe they have it in them to take it  home with two podium results, just its impossible to say in which order because their racing is so tight.
With differing styles on the track its always exciting to watch them ride.
With wit as fast as their race runs they manage to keep an air of respect and professionalism about them at events, yet they still know how to have fun on their bikes. keeping them down to earth with a fearless passion and honorable dedication to the sport.   
I couldn't possibly think of two better ambassadors for New Zealand.


Brazil won't be the same.

Wes

You can find their Face book page HERE. 
along with a brief bio:


We are 2 brothers from Wales who moved to New Zealand in 2000, we started riding bikes a few years ago and other than our families, it has become our lives. We got into riding for something different to do but once we started racing and going to some beautiful locations and meeting some really cool people, it has become a lifestyle not just a hobby. We both give work 100% and all our spare time and money goes into training, maintaing our race bikes and racing, to help get us to our goal of the Masters World Downhill Champs in Brazil this year. We are looking for help/support to get us there. A big thanks to LK TV, Watsons Racing and 
Fenwicks for your support so far.

Christian

Any way Have fun Out There


MCMC

Nick Raven & the "Happy You Hippy Me" E.P.

Hey team sorry about the wait 


I was lucky enough to meet up with local musician Nick Raven the other weekend. 
He was opening a great little gig at the Lucha Lounge featuring other local bands Ghost Wave, High Society & Headspins. 

With his Ukulele at the Lucha Lounge.

Surviving my wonderful gift of being most uncoordinated, empty pens, and terribly pressing questions he turned out to be a super nice lad with Im sure a bright future.


At the age of 18 he has an impressive record. This South Aucklander was 6 years old when he got his first guitar. 
Move on to the age 13 and he's entering the Smoke Free RockQuest. A competition which his band "Razor Fox" went on to win the "Schick Style Award" in 2010, in result a video for the song "Take Off Your Shoes" was funded.
Even as a youngster Nick has played at the home of many a wild nights the Kings Arms as support for "Made in Japan"  when he was all of 15.

Playing at the Lucha Lounge.

Move on to present and Nick is ambitious as ever. Still a current member of Razor Fox he has also begun dabbling in a solo project. Signed to Power Tool Records who help by organizing tours and production of his E.P "Happy You Hippy Me" which is available in the New Zealand Alt section at Marbecks & Real Groovy for $9.
Nick loves touring and giging, He is currently playing full-time and recently traveled the country on a national tour for his E.P playing all over the show. 

Happy You Hippy Me. Nick Raven.

Inspiration for his music strikes at any time and his influences include the Psychedelic Movement, Neil Young and Flying Nun Records amongst others which truly shine through his music. Funny as he collects Flying Nun vinyl. 


When asked what 5 songs would be on his iPod if stuck on a deserted island he truly struggled but managed to commit to these after many a deliberation and mind changes.


Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
Neil Young- Old Man
The The- This is the day
Metric- Opium for the people
Led Zeppelin- Ramble On

Mid Song.

Being a multi instrumentalist I asked how he learned it all, He can play basically anything with exemption of wind instruments. In response it turns out he believes strongly in self teaching as it is a more healthy way to learn in comparison to formal training. Fair enough comment as his future plans include releasing more raw unpolished recordings featuring only the basic instruments.
He also believes in "total freedom in life and everything, people build their own oppressors". Deep.


Upon the end of our chat before setting up for his set I asked whats your favorite moment been?
Quick to reply, casually, oh playing a Bob Dylan song with this homeless dude out side my school we both had guitars and had a jam. Legit!.


Thanks Nick 
Check his latest E.P Here 


Until next time 
Have fun out there


MCMC

You should definatly check his music out some time.

SHINE DARLINGTON.

Hey sorry about the little delay in posts
Slacker its true


Today I have a Auckland local to share with you.


He goes by the name of Shine Darlington (real name Simon Darlington). A name given to him around 1987 when he ventured in to Auckland graffiti scene. 

Shines graffiti as apart of a production

Even as a kid he was drawing apparently he just couldn't help it. Being told he was one of the easiest children to look after "get me a pack felts and a wotta jotta and I was happy" he received much praise and encouragement from his peers which kept him practicing.

Shine

Then he progressed to graffiti. Spending many 
years spraying his name "SHINE" over walls 
and sinking deeper and deeper into Graffiti culture. A time he feels may have slowed the development of his art. 

"you just fall deep into the culture, I had to break the chains so to speak, I had to start re drawing again without automatically do a graffiti outline/sketch."

In his 20s to 30s while working all sorts of average jobs he was doing pastel drawings for friends and just giving them away. Partially due to the fact he believed he could simply reproduce them but mostly due to his years of graffiti. Never getting precious about his art was natural and all apart of the lifestyle, "you do a piece one day and then the next it's gone".

So knowing he needed a change he got to work creating a new style for himself to chase. Mixing his previous years of experience he started using acrylics and enamels on canvas and board rather than spray and walls to create a style of his own. A mix of street art and 80s culture.

"I worked on developing a style/ a character. mixing robotics with human parts. I know it's been done before. but everything has been done before I just wanted to put my angle on the idea. I miss doing graffiti, I really do want to paint with my old buddies but it's like the Mafia I'm trying to get out but it keeps trying to pull me back in."

Shine/ For sale from his site

He enrolled at Unitec and graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Design in 06. With a new view on his art he saw the worth of it and believes it should be respected, If not by others at least by him.
We can quote the 39 year old artist in saying "my art keeps me young" which is a good thing as his works are influenced by his youth. 

"many of my influences are from my days as youth, ie 80's television like buck rogers, cartoons and those weird wheel stickers.. graffiti became a big part of my life and anything to do with New York from style wars to beat street and hip hop/rap like PE and LLCoolJ"

Shine

Shine now has an amazing website where you can acquire his works or get in touch with him HERE. 

As well as featuring some work a Abundance Art Gallery, 617 Te Atatu Rd.

Shine

Shine

Shine

Hope you like it
Until next time 
Have Fun Out There


MCMC

Shine

Shine

a MOment with MO Clothes

Hey there 


So sorry about the terrible heading of this post but I just couldn't resist.


Today I am truly excited to share with you a gem of a company named Mo Clothes. 

Beulls shirt in Black, ChiMo in Sand & Stompers in Brown

Jardigan in Mustard, Beulls shirt in Purple

This rising brand is awesome to say the least, creating superb products with a fresh twist just for us men. No longer do we have to share the same boring labeled shirt with our peers.
And its not only shirts. They have a stellar lineup of pants, jackets and shoes all made to the highest quality (We here at the Captains Post can vouch for this) so you know they can handle whatever turn may be thrown at you.

Beulls shirt in Black

Beulls shirt in Purple

Wanting to know a little more about how this boutique Australian brand ticks we got in touch.
They are a super friendly bunch with their heads in all the right places I reckon.


So here goes

Hey there whats the Age? Location? How Many People? you know the basics? of the brand Mo.

MO is pretty much a baby brand, we've been online now for almost a year and hitting up markets in Melbourne for about four months. We're based in Abbotsford and the Mo fam consists of a three person design team - one of whom doubles up as our too-cool online media guy and one communications, branding and market wench.

How did the brand come into fruition?

Mo was born in Canberra out of sheer frustration that there was no access to good quality, unique mens clothing or anything even leaning on a reasonable price. It grew up a little (as all creative types do) and headed to Melbourne where it has been sleazing its way round the market scene and trying new things.

I see you have an online boutique where did you first start to spin your wares?

Mo actually started online and at the amazing Fash'n'Treasure Market in Canberra.

Jardigan in Leaf, Sads in Blue

I know you lot are probably sick to death of hearing this but does everybody who works for you have a Mo? like if I grew up and wanted ever so desperately to work for you but for some reason unbeknown to me, my upper lip didn't want to come to the party would I be that guy? But really where did he name come from?

awww, can't you grow a mo? (Its not my fault! one day Ill have one.MCMC)

When we say Mo family, we mean Mo family, we are seriously inbred here! Original designers are cousins Harry Morrissey and Robin Hall (whose Mum is a Morrissey) aforementioned comms wench is Harry's sister Alice Morrissey and designer No3/online guy is her fiance who would love a moustache but can hardly grow a proper beard and ends up looking like a sick Craig David if he tries. In short Mo is short for Morrissey, nobody has a moustache but Robin's brother who we sometimes force to work has seriously the hairiest chest you've ever seen. 

Neato, and now too the product.

All your product is original designs hand made in Vietnam yes?

Yep, we design everything here, draw pictures, ask everyone we know what they think (ignore what they think, how dare they try to corrupt our design process) and then do our very best to communicate all that to the lovely Sa in Hoi An who translates it back into Vietnamese and then we receive a sample or two, we change it some more and the whole process plays out around one million times before we all agree that we're happy with it and apologise to the helpful people we 

yelled at earlier.

Dads in Red & Stompers in Black

So your product is not made in some sweatshop somewhere? the people who craft/stitch actually care about the quality of the product?

Oh hell no! the people who make our clothes are our extended family, we visit them in Vietnam, we know their names and they care about the product (if only because Alice is pretty scary). No seriously, we can hold our heads pretty high on this one, an important part of being able to offer the quality that we do at youth friendly prices is our relationship with our team in Vietnam.

Cigs in Khaki & Loafs in Brown

Oh and how do the designs come about? where do you find influence and inspiration?

We take inspiration from anything and everything. At the moment we're really influended by John Waters and 1950s Baltimore. We're digging tailored Bermuda shorts, rolled sleeve shirts, Kung Fu shoes and butch leather jackets.

Cigs in Rust & Stompers in Black

Are there any exciting new products in the works that you'd like to mention/ tease us with?

Mo’s upcoming S/S 12 collection Playground takes inspiration from John Waters and 1950s Baltimore. It includes tailored Bermuda shorts, rolled sleeve shirts, leather Kung Fu shoes and of course our famous Mo jeans in some rad new colours and fits.

Sads in Grey & Stompers in Black

If the Mo team some how found themselves stuck on a deserted island and the iPod only had room for 5 songs that where going to be the only songs you'd hear for ever and ever more. What would they be? 

This game is FUN.

• Aint no sunshine - Bill Withers. He says 'I know' 27 times and I swear each of them sounds different. Such an amazing song that can bring me to tears in two minutes flat.

• I'm going to cheat here and say The Twelfth Hour - The Twelves. It's a one hour mixtape, so technically its one track. I could listen to this everyday of my life, which I'm well on my way to doing already. We've been waiting for these guys to blow up for a few years now. If you haven't come across these guys, please do yourself a favour and jump on one of their mixtapes.

• When the sun goes down - Arctic Monkeys. I love this album so much, it was released soon after I returned from a year in England and it instantly reminded me of nights out on the town in Salisbury. This song in particular makes me smile just thinking about how scummy nights out could get.

• Pa Pa Power – Dead Man's Bones. Is there anything Ryan Gosling can't do?

• Heads Will Roll – Yeah Yeah Yeahs. KAREN O – that woman is perfection.

Stompers in Brown

Big Day Out or LaneWay?

We are very much LaneWay people but we try really hard as a group not to say no to any opportunity to drink, dance and show off our new jeans.

Stompers in Brown

Got any final words to the world?

2012 looks pretty exciting so far! We've been approached by a couple of super-cool Melbourne boutiques, and we'll be having our very own pop-up shop in the SO:ME Space in early May. We're also heading to Vietnam in a couple of weeks to design and create our Winter pieces.

Stompers in Black

Check Their Website HERE!

Its well worth a look. These lot are just too cool.

Many thanks go out to them.

Cheers MO family.

Anyways 

Have Fun Out There 

Till Next Time 

MCMC 

Blue Loafs