Waus Online

Let me make a quick point about a trend that I’m a fan of.

Mask-wearing techno groups.

I think most people are at least peripherally aware of Daft Punk and their image, but I don’t think it would be outrageous to claim they sort of started this trend of wearing masks.

MSTRKRFT is a new techno group. Without discussing their actual music - let’s look at how awesome the gold hockey/jason masks are. GOLD HOCKEY MASKS. There’s no chance that their actual faces could be as cool or memorable as that. There’s something totally different about dancing to a DJ set performed by cyber super-heroes.

I love the Bloody Beetroots. Not only because they have an album/song called just that, but also because they rule. Tripped out thumping underground anthems booming from a group that wears Scarlet Spider era spiderman masks while they spin. Awesome.

Last example. This guy is french I believe, but he goes by The Toxic Avenger - and he makes a mean old school distorted synth banger. He’s on iheartcomix right now, which is a bleeding-edge hip label. His whole image reminds me of food poisoning gone right, blazing rainbows screaming past your eyelids that feel like a broken subwoofer.

More masks, please. Let’s dispel the cult of personality and make music a thing of creative artifice again.

I’ve been spending a lot of time over at ffffound.com lately browsing the incredible collection of graphic design pieces. I’ve also been posting more and more ads to zooppa.com - so make sure you go check those out, the last few have been pretty high quality I think.

I learned a little about using clipping masks in photoshop today, so here’s something I made while messing with settings.

I posted a few ads on www.zooppa.com, which I guess is some kind of ad competition site. You can earn real money, so I figured I’d give it a shot. I love doing print design.

It doesn’t look like it has as sophisticated of a voting system as worth1000.com used to, but it’s not bad. Hopefully I’ll do well and get some extra money!

My profile there is http://www.zooppa.com/mwallace. Keep up with me!

So, I worked up a new version of that last poster, but I don’t think it really matters enough for me to re-post it. Here’s a couple more in the same vein. Incase I forgot, they’re all inspired by the iso50 collection.