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Rabbit, run
This is a guitar led song: Rabbit, run by Michael Fredman (new window) it started off as a composition on my phone one commute - you can hear the rough idea here, on soundcloud: Hopeful by fredmanatee
Proverbial experiments
'Learn to handle a writing-brush and you’ll never handle a begging-bowl.'
This is a Chinese proverb that makes me concerned that, in this age of the computer keyboard, I have no familiarity with the Chinese writing brush and am destined for a future of penury and woe.
However, some time ago it struck me that, while such sayings seem sage, no-one has actually gone out and rigorously tested them.
So I have dedicated myself to that end.
You can read my conclusions at my proverb testing blog, proverbial experiments:
Open seas
Blank
This is a rough version I recorded on my phone for my bandmate to work with:
Blank Guitar Vox Rough by fredmanatee
And this is a demo version I recorded:
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play MP3 by clicking above
This is a song I wrote recently.
In My Mind
In my mind from Michael Fredman on Myspace.
This is a song I wrote a while ago but have only just got around to recording - I played this song live and people seemed to like it, so I paid it some attention. - wish I had access to some real drums, but the drum machine will have to do for now.
Pomegranate and bird
This is a symbolic work. Acrylics on canvas.
Click for larger version
Montaigne quote 1
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom
Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92
Reclining female nude
This is a painting in acrylics.
By design
Here are some examples of my design work.
Logo design for Mouthfuls, international food and restaurant forum (note the image is mine, the text is not)
The Smokefree Action website from 2004/5
Other organisations for which I have worked :
50 years of the SI banner
A cartoon for ASH on the subject of smokefree pubs.
I was looking for a Twitter logo for a work project, and didn't find one I liked, so I made this one
Note to shelf...
Where to put those books that haven't been 'lent' to friends, or carried into the sea by a sausage dog (sorry Gore Vidal, your 'Creation' was subject to this) or destroyed in a fit of pique (the bloody Celestine Prophecies, what a load of bunk)...
The Dedalo bookcase by Porada is one of the best designed I have seen, but price info is suspiciously elusive, meaning it must cost a shocking amount of money.
This is a good round up of 30 creative bookshelf designs