The Undergrowth

does anyone still go on here..?

2010-08-03T05:19:00.000-07:00

SNAIL TRAIL SAN FRAN...

NEW GLOW THE THE DARK SNAILS!

2009-07-14T15:25:00.001-07:00

Check these..!

Snail Trail continues...

2009-07-04T06:49:00.001-07:00

HAHA! Yes! Tony COlman (London Elektricity) rocking our beloved Snail. Well played to Westy.

Cool Podcast

2009-06-22T07:15:00.000-07:00

Stephen Fry talks about the formation of Apple Inc and shares his experiences with Apple. Download this free podcast. Very, very interesting.

Badger.

Click here to download

Snail Trail - NYC

2009-05-29T12:04:00.001-07:00

Some snails on tour in new york. We've got Long Beach, Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge and me in some Obama sunnies.

Competition ya'll

2009-05-29T11:48:00.000-07:00

I'm looking for the freshest new pair of airmax 90's and i'm going custom.

You should have all been emailed an invite, have a quick go at designing me some killers (only airmax90's) and the winner will see them get made and worn by my fair flippers. It's pretty addictive.

Nike ID

Gustav's brand new home!

2009-05-19T06:48:00.000-07:00

Gustav has a new home! It has loads of new stuff n shit. Feel free to sign the guestbook.

check it out on www.gustavbalderdash.co.uk

Badger beats..

2009-05-13T07:43:00.000-07:00

Badger has recently obtained a copy of Logic Pro studio, and is working hard generating tunes for your waxy little manky ears... Watch the fuck out world,! Prepare for some beats..!

GUSTAV WINS THE WAR....AGAIN!

2009-05-13T07:08:00.000-07:00

Gustav Balderdash retained his title as undefeated Secret Wars Champion of Southampton, beating Rem 1 in the final with a horribly unfinished and cluttered piece. Mr Balderdash gave himself a lot to do, but the judges decided in favor of his "Early retirement" piece over Rem's drunken cameraman. A fun night was had by all and Gustav is now enjoying early retirement from the secret wars game, focusing his mind elsewhere.

Hoorah!!

2009-05-05T10:10:00.000-07:00

After years of sourcing out and chasing various geeks across Reading,trying to get a website sorted, and when one was, it collapsed, Ive given up with it. bollox to it. I have created my own blog captainbukioe.blogspot.com where you can monitor my lack of productivity whenever you want. go check it out....peas

dj phase tunnel sounds....

2009-05-01T03:58:00.001-07:00

Secret Wars Southampton Final Gustav vs Rem 1

2009-04-14T02:06:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

I am once again in the Southampton Secret Wars Final, this time as defending champion.

April 30th @ the Soul Cellar. Be you there or be you square...

For anyone who doesn't know, here's the blurb -

Secret Wars is the World’s premier live art battle – working in similar ways to Fight Club, Secret Wars battles are set up & promoted through word of mouth.

The Secret Wars Grand Final is here and its been a long and entertaining journey. Defending champion Gustav has made it again, but Rem 1 DNK who has impressed the judges and the crowds is more than ready and capable of stealing the title to become Secret Wars Series 2 Champion!

Both artists will battle it out for the £500 cash prize, a load of goodies supplied to us by our sponsors and of course a place in the London tournament. This was always going to be a busy night, so we’ve decided to go all out with the entertainment. We have Jimi Crayon hosting the night along with our residents Mr Muffle &
R-Kid, playing upstairs and downstairs.

For more, go to www.secretwars.co.uk

See you at the Cellar,

Gustav Balderdash.

iPod Killer!!

2009-04-02T02:40:00.000-07:00

Yes Yes! it's the latest hot shit to come out of Infinite Loop California, what will Jonathan Ive and the rest of those crazy cats think of next? You can't get them in England yet...

Nexus Productions/Comcast

2009-03-27T05:44:00.000-07:00

Hello! Well for the last 6 months (!) I have been working with the lovely people at Nexus Productions, and the brilliant directors Smith & Foulkes, to design and create these 6 TV spots for the American telecommunications company Comcast.

Enjoy the ads, and much respect to everyone at Nexus who worked on this huge project, in a couple of months i'll be able to show all the concept work behind the ads, and trust me, it will take that long to go through it all and pick the best ones.

New MF Doom Album release TODAY!!

2009-03-24T02:14:00.000-07:00

Yes peeps, for those who are fans of the Metal Faced Supervillian, you might be interested to know that the legend has released a new album, OUT TODAY! (March 24th) entitled 'Born Like This', im already 'pon the download! I suggest you 'obtain' it too.

Check out his myspace for a listen and further info on the album.

MF DOOM's Myspace page <--- Click here

Badge ;)

The deification of stupidity by AC Grayling

2009-03-23T07:02:00.000-07:00

(reposted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/20/islam-unitednations )

If the OIC succeeds in turning criticism of religion into 'defamation', freedom of expression will be eradicated

Facts speak for themselves. Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, 29, a journalist and blogger, has taken his own life in Evin prison in Iran, where he was serving a two-year sentence for "insulting Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei", and awaiting further trial for "insulting sacred values", which would have meant more years in prison. He was a sensitive man, who blogged mainly about music and the arts, and imprisonment was a hellish experience for him; he was reported to be profoundly depressed and anxious.

Safayi is yet another victim of religion. If the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has its way, it will become impossible to make such a remark.

At the United Nations Council on Human Rights in Geneva, the OIC is trying again to have "defamation of religion" banned. The aim is a universal gag on free speech, blocking the right of anyone to criticise the too frequently negative effects of religion on individuals and society. The OIC has yet to appreciate that if it succeeds in its effort to protect Islam from legitimate challenges to its less attractive doctrines and practices – to say nothing of Islamism with its murderous extreme – the relentless antisemitism from its own side of the street will have to stop too.

If it succeeds in turning criticism of religion and its main beneficiaries into "defamation", we might not be free to express our condemnation of a sentence just handed down in Saudi Arabia against a 74-year-old woman, condemned to 45 lashes, three months in prison, and deportation to her native Jordan, for having two male visitors in her home who were not relatives.

And here is another thing we might not be able to discuss. The Pope's iteration of his church's doctrine on contraception, while on his way to visit Africa where 21 million people in sub-Saharan countries are infected with HIV, millions have died of Aids, and millions of Aids orphans live in frightful conditions of semi-slavery and destitution, has been rightly condemned by many around the world.

But the HIV/Aids tragedy of Africa is only the tip of an iceberg. Opposition to control of family size in the poorest part of the world condemns women to endless pregnancies if they are not – as many are – killed or incapacitated by childbearing in difficult circumstances. The difficulty of looking after numerous children in abject poverty is, on its own, a grinding oppression, to say nothing of the immense barriers to the opportunity for decent lives later on for the children. These brutal facts are as nothing to the Pope: in his view the blight of too many pregnancies, too many children, infant mortality, starvation, disease, poverty and immiseration is all part of the deity's plan. For anyone who goes by evidence, if there is a deity, this suggests that it devotes its spare time to pulling wings off flies.

The Pope's attitude to sex is mainly informed by having to deal with child-abusing priests (latest reports say that in the US complaints against abusive priests rose to 800 in 2008: that's more than a dozen a week), which is why his advice to them – abstinence – seems to be the only thing he can think to suggest to everyone else, and most of all as a guard against HIV infection. Plenty of people lack insight into the deep imperatives of human nature, so let us not blame the Pope for adding this particular deficit to his already rich repertoire of them: but let us ask whether a marrying clergy might not be part of the solution to sexually abusing priests, if there has to be a clergy at all. Best of all as a policy for the Pope and his church on matters of sex might be silence. To adapt Wittgenstein, "Wherof you know nothing, shut up."

The chief point is that Vatican policy on contraception is in every sense a hideous crime against humanity and ought to be treated as such.

And that takes us back to the OIC. The OIC dislikes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the very good reason that religion, not excluding their version of it, is a systematic violator of human rights, not least the rights of women – who are one half of the world, a fact the OIC does not notice, or if it does it applies religious arithmetic to solve the problem: one woman is worth half a man. The OIC is trying to change the Universal Declaration of Human Rights accordingly.

It has introduced its own version of "(Hu)Man Rights": it is an instructive read, and illustrates the importance of abating the nuisance of religion in today's world. How is this to be done consistently with the right to believe stupid things? By entrenching, and making effective, the principle that whereas you can believe as many stupid things as you like, you are not free to act on those beliefs in ways that harm others.

Google street level maps in the UK!

2009-03-20T11:42:00.000-07:00

Check it out here, they have southampton and i'm spyin on u suckas!

New Iphone software announced today

2009-03-17T08:09:00.000-07:00

Yo peeps, those who are keen 'Pie'Phone users, (myself and Bones) be sure to check out Engadget or Macrumours for deets on the new iPhone operating system due out soon. Hopefully it will sway those who dont yet own an iPhone to go and get one, (Gustav).

Macrumors

Engadget

2009-03-17T08:06:00.000-07:00

This is some cool vid. Also a glimpse into the future of transportation. We are doomed to become an obese race.!

CAJUN ROBOT CRAWLER<--- nice.

Nice app for the geeks among us

2009-03-09T05:47:00.000-07:00

'What The Font' is an iphone app that lets you take a picture of some text, highlight the font and find out what it is. Been finding it really useful at work when all you have is a static logo and you want to add some text within branding guidelines...

Lime Signs Creative!

2009-03-03T05:08:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

Lime Signs Creative is now up and running, we can design pretty much anything, and apply it to most types of surfaces too. Check it out at www.limesignscreative.co.uk

.t shirts for the sofa sounds collective..

2009-01-21T14:06:00.000-08:00

Christian Bus Driver refuses to drive an Atheist bus

2009-01-17T04:41:00.000-08:00

Original story - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7832647.stm

A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming "There's probably no God".

Ron Heather, from Southampton, Hampshire, responded with "shock" and "horror" at the message and walked out of his shift on Saturday in protest.

First Bus said it would do everything in its power to ensure Mr Heather does not have to drive the buses.

Buses across Britain started displaying atheist messages in an advertising campaign launched earlier this month.

Mr Heather told BBC Radio Solent: "I was just about to board and there it was staring me in the face, my first reaction was shock horror.

"I felt that I could not drive that bus, I told my managers and they said they haven't got another one and I thought I better go home, so I did.

"I think it was the starkness of this advert which implied there was no God."

When he returned to work on Monday he was called into a meeting with managers and agreed to go back to work with the promise he would only have to drive the buses if there were no others available.

First Bus said in a statement: "As a company we understand Mr Heather's views regarding the atheist bus advert and we are doing what we can to accommodate his request not to drive the buses concerned."

It added: "As an organisation we don't endorse any of the products or sentiments advertised on our buses.

"The content of this advert has been approved by the Advertising Standards Agency and therefore it is capable of being posted on static sites or anywhere else."

The advertising campaign is backed by the British Humanist Association and prominent atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins.

Hanne Stinson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association, said: "I have difficulty understanding why people with particular religious beliefs find the expression of a different sort of beliefs to be offensive.

"I can't understand why some people seem to have a different attitude when it comes to atheists."

Pressure group Christian Voice has questioned the campaign's effectiveness but the Methodist Church said it would be a "good thing if it gets people to engage with the deepest questions of life" and suggested it showed there was a "continued interest in God".

The advertisements run on 200 bendy buses in London and 600 vehicles in England, Scotland and Wales.

word

2008-12-13T05:42:00.001-08:00

Think it's about time I started a little posting.

First of all check out the updated www.sherlockbones.co.uk, preview and download some tunes for free.

Would love to preview some of the new work with Bukioe but we've got to keep it under wraps till it's done - better that way....

Here's a dub reggae track I recently finished with The Uplifter and Brother Culture.

Blat.

did he draw a toilet?

2008-10-02T08:12:00.000-07:00

hurry up with the new flix..!

the Economy

2008-10-01T15:46:00.000-07:00

lesson 1 in capitalism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LWQQrpSc4

Secret Wars Gustav vs Von

2008-09-29T06:24:00.000-07:00

Yes I know, "its another old guy, you always do the same thing" but well, I don't really have anything to say apart from "I know". I was quite pleased with the heads on the wall though.

I apologize for the poor quality of the photo's, they were from my phone. I'm waiting for better ones. It was an OK battle, I had an idea before I started, but then I had to alter it to focus on Von's errrr how to put it politely, "growth issues"? "lack of altitude"? I guess he never ate his greens. Anyway, on to the next round for me.

OI...

2008-09-28T12:54:00.000-07:00

gusty old boi, where are the pics from secret wars?

Apple's answer to the G-1

2008-09-27T10:56:00.000-07:00

Turkey bans biologist Richard Dawkins' website

2008-09-18T11:12:00.000-07:00

Yes Turkey, (the country) has banned Turkish people from richarddawkins.net, because there was some criticism of some crazy Turk's book!!

check it here

http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,3128,Turkey-bans-biologist-Richard-Dawkins-website,Monsters-and-Critics

Utter nutcases!

Look what I did with my Poscas...

2008-09-03T07:08:00.000-07:00

Work Club studios in Borough, London, www.work-club.com

Oh more photos on my flickr

Peas

oioi...

2008-08-26T05:37:00.001-07:00

http://www.hurtyoubad.com/

Those Pesky Caps.

Natural Selection Mixtape from Gustav

2008-08-19T02:03:00.000-07:00

Yes, Natural Selection the mixtape named after the greatest idea ever had, is available for download from gustavbalderdash.com. It features some legendary instrumentals mixed with some Drum n Bass, and sprinkled with some thought provoking spoken word clips. Enjoy!

tarts have hearts..

2008-08-12T11:14:00.000-07:00

My ex ginger missis has been telling everyone i punched her in the face. this is untrue, i slapped her a couple of times when we were in sommerset for the weekend, but never punched her. Looking back on it all I wish i had.

This is not a drawing of her.

peace

Badger gets a feature on www.kaizenrecords.com

2008-08-10T14:20:00.000-07:00

yes yes y'all i was asked if i could be featured on this website, i naturally said yes. So check it out y'allll!

www.kaizenrecords.com/djofthemonth

2008-08-07T09:55:00.000-07:00

oioi..

lets get drunk down the sea front...

2008-06-11T01:02:00.000-07:00

Now thats what I call design!

This new car that BMW have designed is fuckin badass, it has a skin! The lights open and close like eyes, and when the doors open they crease! This must be one of the most original car designs I have seen since that crazy Honda Puyo.

check it here; http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=18183

new Badger Mixup available to Download!

2008-02-19T13:51:00.000-08:00

yo yo! i have a new mix for your ears!

every Badger must have his set!

obtain this mix from my website

CLICK HERE!

Badgers Website

2008-02-07T11:34:00.000-08:00

With a domain name purchased, Badger has now begun forging his efforts into his portfolio site.

Keep on eye on it over the coming weeks,

www.misterbadger.co.uk

werd,

yeh yeah!

2008-02-02T04:52:00.000-08:00

At last, come one come all to this ugly bug-blog ball. Undergrowths bloggin will keep ya head noddin like ya ridin a toboggan!

Welcome

2008-02-01T12:18:00.000-08:00

Yes well done, you have managed to find your way to the undergrowth blog, check back here to see what we've been up to. Its very very new, so if you are here, try coming back in a few weeks.