Man (hat on)

Ash was surreptitiously bootlegging the Gardeners Arms gig, and has posted some great videos and audio on his Posterous, including the first ever recording of WINKYFACE.

This one’s my favourite. A proper chorus of backing singers (ish) for the Twitter song. Genius. From left to right, Darwin, Matt, Xander and Miranda.

The first few photos are starting to sneak up on the Man (hat on) tour Flickr group too, thanks to Garrett, our official unofficial online community manager. ;)

Blueberry muffins.  Badges. WINKYFACE. ;)

Exhausted after badgemaking and web shenannigans for Man(hat on). Catching forty winkyfaces ;)

More than a couple of clever little badges… ;)

The Oxford Flickr Group guys and girls rock like a mountain.

Yep. Down here. The link. I blogged it. The whole thing: http://ihatemornings.com/album-artwork-flickr/

A clever little badge.

We’ve emailed, tweeted, designed badges, created a Flickr challenge, eaten bagels and drunk tea that tasted like coffee. Plans are very much afoot. ;)

On Sunday I learned how screen printing works. It’s basically magic. Watch the video. ;)

For the Man (hat on) tour we wanted to make some t-shirts by hand. I had no idea how. So I called on Nick Gill, who always seems to be able to print one thing on another. He printed the logo on a letter press and threw in a WINKYFACE for good luck.

I’m falling in love with letterpressed artwork. We wanted to use it for the t-shirts, and Nick (of course) knows a guy who does screen printing.

Daley Walton is an artist and a screen printing legend. In a day we created 50 beautiful t-shirts. Selling them will go some way towards paying for our flights… ;)

If Man (hat on) had a hero, it would be Ferris Bueller. And we do. So it is.

Three friends take time out to head to the city, blag their way around, spread a little joy, have a lot of fun and occasionally talk to the camera. Xander and I just need to fight over who gets to be Ferris.

I guess the only difference is that Ferris had a rich friend. We’ve only got you. ;)