Advert: What day is it?

Another great ad playing currently on USA TV!
I’ve watched it maybe 10 times and it’s still great :)

Uneven Structure – 8

Uneven Structure, one of my favourite metal bands, has re-recorded their brutal and excellent “8″ album. The new version adds more singing, and is a little warmer in the production, matching their last album Februus. It’s interesting to hear the difference. I would describe it as shaving with a sharp and rusty blade, then using some aloe vera wipes to try and stem the bleeding cuts. Maybe it’s because they’re from France?

Dunno…

Anyway, if you like bands like Meshuggah — and don’t mind the occasional sung lyric — check out Uneven Structure. In fact, I recommend the following:

  1. Grab the original while it’s still free. It’s pure metal, and confusing as hell at first.
  2. Listen to/buy Februus and enjoy that while you rest your ears from the previous album.
  3. After a few months, listen to/buy the new version of 8. I think you’ll appreciate the contrast and love both versions for their own differences.

Thank me later :)

Oh, and here’s a taster of Februus:

Free: Illustrator isometric grid templates

Illustrator isometric grid

Ever wanted Illustrator to give you a page full of isometric grid guides?
Me too. So I created one. Well, some. And they’re free for you to download and use!

A set of Adobe Illustrator (.ai) templates compatible all the way back to version CS. The templates contain a unlockable layer group of isometric guides so you don’t have to do anything other than start working!

There are 18 files in total covering portrait and landscape orientations in both International Standard page sizes and US sizing.

See the full file list here.

Download the templates

Free to use however you wish, just don’t resell them. Enjoy!

Learning new things

dessert beer!

Above is an image explained in the below list of things learned last night when a few friends came ’round for a spontaneous BBQ:

  • The difference between an opossum and a possum
  • The difference between an opossum and a nutria
  • Rats can climb fences and look cute while doing it
  • A Dodge Caravan looks nothing like a caravan
  • Babies don’t breathe in the womb; they get oxygen from the nutrients in the placenta, but they do ‘practise’ breathing amniotic fluid in latter stages of pregnacy
  • Everyone loves sausages from HEB when they are cooked in beer and onions
  • Everyone loves beer- and sausage fat-simmered onions
  • (The lemon and herb chicken breasts aren’t worthy of a mention)
  • Nectarines definitely have no fuzz (except some actually do)
  • Nectarines can appear on peach trees (and vice versa)
  • If you plant a pip from a nectarine, no fruit will grow on that tree for at least three years, and if it does it’s very likely the fruit will look nothing like the original nectarine it came from
  • The distance Kelly, Claire, and I swam to that little island of the coast of Pangkor was 245.6 smoots; or 798.127 Egyptian old royal cubits; or 3.8 American football fields
  • Mixing banana bread beer and organic chocolate stout works as a dessert beer (!!!)
  • Tax, and other, implications of getting a full ‘greencard’ for the USA

‘Twas a good evening.

Durant + Wade + Gatorade

There are 99 (thousand) crap ads on TV, but the new Gatorade one with Kevin Durant and Dwyane Wade ain’t one…