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Spoz

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

so.. who the hell is this "SPOZ" anywaze?..

in short I've been everything from cartoon animator, illustrator, graphic designer, web designer, desktop publisher, film maker, electronic musician, photographer, gonzo journalist, rambling intellectual funny bastard and idiot philosopher.. and YES, I am available for hire for all the above (for cheap rates): CD art / posters / websites / band promo photography? gimme a buzz yo!

so, in a continuing effort to inflate my own ego,
here's some shiny shit to check out while yer here..

my gonzo music journalism - SPOZ's RANT

as soundtrack to the above I highly recommend you go see these live acts..
ANGELIK | BLOW UP BETTY | BOOSTER | CUT OFF YOUR HANDS |
THE DARDANELLES | DEAD POPES OF THE VATICAN | DELUSIONS OF GRANDMA |
FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE! | HIGH STAKES | I HEART HIROSHIMA | KASAVETT |
LADY STRANGELOVE | MORALS OF A MINOR | MR WEDNESDAY |
NO THROUGH ROAD | THE PRESETS | QUIET CHILD | SUPERBEE | SKELETONS |
SPECIAL PATROL | SOFT WHITE MACHINE | SWORDS | TAUGHT BY ANIMALS |
TONY FONT SHOW | TRIXIE PLAIN | TYGER TYGER | WOLF & CUB |
YOUNG AND RESTLESS | YOUR MOTIVE FOR

here's a tiny sample of my former illustrative art (from 1990 - 1997). created with pen + pencil, on A4 size (29.7 x 21cms) paper (click thumbnails to view full-size image)


CD coverart I've done (click thumbnails to view full-size image)


gig posters I've designed (click thumbnails to view full-size image)


band promo photography I have done (click thumbnails to view full-size image)


a small selection of live band photography I've shot over the last few years..

and finally some shiny websites I've designed..
SPOZ's RANT | MUNCHKIN | ROCK THE VOTE |
HILLSIDE RECORDINGS | BOOSTER

if you wish to hire me for any of the above, feel free to drop me a comment or msg ..

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My Interests

..Music (Alternative / Indie / Rock / Adelaide Scene / Electronica / Fringe Underground Hiphop / The Experimental and the Bizarre), Movies and Television that doesn't suck, Cultural Stonerisms / Idiot Philosophies / Humanity or just any 'ol shit out there in this mad fucked up experience called "Life" that I find hilarious..

I'd like to meet:

Artists, Musicians, Photographers, Designers, Cartoonists, Film Makers, Actors, Comedians, Fashion Rejects, Philosophers, Stoners, Intergalactic Tweakers or pretty much anyone else out there who's ever been creatively insane enough to do seriously freaky shit and put it out there for the wonder and ridicule of others :)
SPOZ's elite ninja fighting death squad :: My Attorney

Flappy Muppet

Village Idiot

Angry Ezza

Smashycat

Stoner Andy

Welsh Midget

Hiding In Shadows

Timmy Fart Show

Soft Cock Machine

Flat! Fanta, Soda!

Lady Strangemuff

Dyslexic Tigers

Savage Nerds

Fraught By Cannibals

The Happy Wednesdays

Morons In
A-Minor

Lame Ducks Of
The Presidency

The Alcoholics

Pooshooter

:: view all of Spoz's friends

Music:



bands I've taken live photos of..

1200 Techniques, 1QA, 200 Motels, 21 Division, 67 Special, A Red Dawn, Adrian Belew, Africa Bambaataa, Airbourne, Alias & The Jams, All Flight Crew Are Dead, All Made Of Rubies, The Amcats, Amundsen's Flag, Andrew Higgs & The Sand Castle Harum, Angelik, Angove, Animal Johnson, Antony Of The Future, Aphelion, Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Artax Mission, The Audreys, August Falls, The Authentic Replicas, Aviator Lane, Backseat Romeos, Bakewell Street, Bang! Bang! Aids!, The Baron, Barcode, Baseball, Batrider, The Battery Kids, Battle Circus, Battles, The Beards, The Beastie Boys, Bedhead, Before The Aftermath, Belittle League, The Belle Curve, The Bird, Birthglow, Bit By Bats, Bjork, The Black And White, The Black Doves, The Black Eyed Peas, Blow Up Betty, Bog Log III, Bohoeffer, Booster, The Borderland, Brendawg & The Droid, Brillig, British India, Broken Social Scene, BrotherSister, Brunatex, Burn The Ashes, Bushido, Cal Williams Jnr, CallerDeNight, Cam Goodall, Candida, Captains Of Industry, The Casio Brothers, The Castonets, Centaurz, Central Deli Band, Chasing Phoenix, The Chemical Brothers, The Chevron Whores, Children Collide, Chris Finnen, Circle Clan, Circus Arcade, The City Riots, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clue To Kalo, Cock, Cog, Collider, Colourblind, Cookie Baker, Counterfeit Traitor, Crackwhore, The Crayon Fields, Cut Off Your Hands, The Dairy Brothers, Damn Arms, Damo Suzuki, The Dandy Warhols, Daniel Varricchio, Dappled Cities Fly, The Dardanelles, The Darkness, Dave Phillips, Daysworth Fighting, The Dead Bollocks, Dead Frenchmen, Dead Popes Of The Vatican, Deceptikonz, Delusions Of Grandma, Describe Eliza, The Devilrock Four, Dexter Jones, Diamond Sins, Die! Die! Die!, Diplomat, Dipstone, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Dexter (Avalanches), DJ Ian, DJ Josh, DJ Nazz (King Daddy), DJ Shadow, Double Dragon, Double Handed, The Drones, The Dukes Of Windsor, Dumb Earth, Dungen, The Eleventh Hour, The E.L.F., EmDee, Emily Davis, Enemy Of, Eskimo Joe, Expatriate, The Exploders, Fake Lake, Fat Tailed Antechinus, Feist, The Femme Fatales, Fighterpilot, The Finishing School, Fishing With Henry, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, Font Plays Font, Foreshore, Former Child Stars, Franz Ferdinand, Fraud Millionaires, Freestate, Freestylers, The Fumes, Funkoars, The Gels, GG Alan Bindig, Gnarls Barkley, Good Buddha, Go! Team, Goodhed, Gotye, Grandmaster Flash, The Grates, Grey Daturas, Groove Armada, Ground Components, Gyro, Happy Sometimes, Har Mar Superstar, Heath Weber (Solo), Helmet, Hekyl, The Herd, High Stakes, Hit The Jackpot, Holographic Colts, Home For The Def, The Honey Pies, The Howling Bells, I Heart Hiroshima, ID, Iggy and the Stooges, Illicit Eve, Impartial, The Inches, Intercooler, Interzone Express, Inuette, Isle Of Capri, It's Warsaw, J-Lo Biafra, Japanther, Jarvis, Jarvis Cocker, Jet, Jika, Jimmy & The Mirrors, Judge Mental, Jump! You Revolutionary, Kaliedoscope, Kamikaze, Kamikaze Trio, Kasabian, Kasavett, Kele Okereke (DJ Set), The Kemp Brothers, Kids In Cults, Killer Birds, The Killgirls, Kim Roberts Band, King Daddy, The Kings Of Leon, Kittyhawk, Koolism, Kyri, Kytes Of Omar, La Femme Le Fever, Lady Strangelove, Late Night Matinee, Later The Night, Laura Hill, Lazaro's Dog, LC3's, Leader Cheetah, Legless, LeighStarDust, Levitators, Like Leaves, Line Honours, Little Ice Age, Loemax, Long Walk Home, Lost Valentinos, Love Outside Andromeda, Love Stereo, Love Zombies, Luke Ashby Band, Luke Vibert, Mach Pelican, Magic Dirt, Mammal, Mani Neumeier & The Bitches Of Zeus, Marden, Marla Singer, Mary Trembles, Mathieu Werchowski, DJ Matt B Safer (The Rapture), Mayfield, MC Tali, Meanwell College, Megafauna, Mercy Arms, M.I.A., Mia Dyson, Midnight Juggernauts, Minikomi, Mirrorline, Miss Golly Gosh, The Molting Vultures, Morals Of A Minor, Mountains In The Sky, Mourgos Grund, Mr Wednesday, Mum's Tennis Friends, Mudvayne, Munchkin, Muscle Car, Muse, My Disco, My Sister The Cop, Nathan Kaye, Nereeda, Nervous Gerbal, New Pants, New Pollutants, The New Vague, The New York Dolls, Nick Barker, Nitidus, No Through Road, Nobody Knew They Were Robots, The Novacaines, Odyssey, The Offcutts, Okkervil River, The Panda Band, Patrick Saracino, Peaches & Herm, Penny Ikinger, The Pet Shop Boys, The Pharoahs, Phoenix, Pivot, The Pixies, Plug In City, Pnau, Pocket Ace, Poetikool Justice, Poly & The Statics, The Presets, The Prodigy, Qua, Quantum Kaos, Queens Of The Stone Age, Quiet Child, Radiant City, Radio Spectacular, Radiophobia, Rage Against The Machine, The Rapture, Raucoustra, Realist Few, Realm, Red Monika, The Red Paintings, Regurgitator, Rejusa, Reptiles, Ricochet Pete, Ringo Stalin, Risemann, Running With Horses, Russian Teammate, Runzelstirm & Gurglestock, Salmonella Dub, Satin Harem, Saul Williams, Saving Savanah, Screaming Gibbon, Scribe, The Sea Thieves, Secrets In Scale, Sexual Dad, Shark In The Dark, The Shine, Sidewalks, Sigit, Sin City, Sir Gerbil, Skeletons, Sleep Parade, The Sleepy Jackson, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Snap To Zero, Snowman, Soft White Machine, Sojourn, Sommnium, Soulwax, South From Somewhere, Spank Rock, Spastic Llamas, The Spazzys, Special Patrol, Spindickle, The Spires, Standard Union, Stars, The Steady-Ons, Steel Tiger, Stop Saying Helicopter, Straight To Video, Streetlight, The Strokes, Subaudible Hum, Sugar Army, Sumi, Sunk Loto, Superbee, Superphatass, Swayback, Sweeper, Swords, System Of A Down, Tall Tall Trees, Talvin Singh, Taught By Animals, The Tea Party, The Teddy Royals, Teenagers In Tokyo, Temper Trap, The Temps, Terra Firma, Testeagles, Thunderclaw, Tokyo City Sex Shooters, Tony Font Show, Tool, The Touch, Toxic Shock, The Trafalgars, Transport, Trixie Plain, Truth Corroded, Tyger Tyger, UK Special, Uncut White Noise, Unkle, Unpaid Debt, Unspoken Things, The Vampire Project, Van She, Vanilla Ice, The Vasco Era, Ventolin, The Vines, The Violet Femmes, Volume = Colour, The Warsaw Flowers, Warwick Ing, Whisky Go Go's, The White Stripes, Winter's Lament, Wolf & Cub, Wolfmother, Women Moving Furniture, Young And Restless, Your Motive For and Zeta League.. *phew*

Movies:

The Matrix, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Spiderman 1 & 2, X-Men Trilogy, Aliens, The Ring, Human Traffic, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Requiem For A Dream, Trainspotting, Donnie Darko, Memento, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Garden State, American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, Super Size Me, Lost In Translation, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle...

Television:

Heroes, Lost, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Alias, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Family Guy, Southpark, That 70's Show, Scrubs...

Books:

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Lord Of The Rings, American Psycho, Neuromancer, 1984, Clockwork Orange...

Heroes:

Yoda, that little green midget knows how to party! :)

My Blog

darkness and light

I'm at a loss right now.. it's 5:17AMI'm listening to Tom Wait's "Bone Machine"and I'm seriously bugging the fuck out. I just finished another blog, a few hours ago.this afternoon, go take a look...
Posted by Spoz on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:06:00 PST

pitchfork tv (if only spoz's rant was THIS badass!)

Now this is pretty fucking cool, just stumbled upon this today. If I could dream of an insane future for SPOZ’s RANT with unlimited resources and video cameras, it’d look a littl...
Posted by Spoz on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:45:00 PST

bands in need of art / design / promo?

Like many of you creative freaks out there, I’m fucking insane. I’m rather digging the buzz you lunatics are cooking and I actually believe this retarded shit might act...
Posted by Spoz on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:49:00 PST

fuck I love youtube!

Surfing around youtube tonight with nothing better to do, I stumbled upon this brilliantly condensed version of the 1999 Spike Lee film "Summer Of Sam". After watching all 3minutes and 47 seconds...
Posted by Spoz on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:33:00 PST

adelaide dodgems

This is just the kind’ve slapstick comedy I witness everytime I walk down the street from my house: piles upon piles of broken glass, busted tail lights, rear view mirrors and the...
Posted by Spoz on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:44:00 PST

triplej unearthed site

To all who's music I've ever trashed in the past.Now is the time to get your sweet revenge. Presenting, the worst fucked up excuse for "music" ever created.. http://www.triplejunearthed.com/...
Posted by Spoz on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:04:00 PST

the most awesome music video, ever!

I'm not even kidding! fuck yeaaaaaaaah!!...
Posted by Spoz on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:54:00 PST

an apology to anyone whos ever read my blogs

For everything that I have written.For everything that I am about to write.For everything that I'm writing now.I get it now.We don't understand each other.We never will.I am deeply DEEPLY so...
Posted by Spoz on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:04:00 PST

why I shouldn’t be a geneticist

I'm writing this entirely pointless myspace entry right now instead of the more important task of writing say, an episode of SPOZ's RANT, because I've already up and done that tonight and I'm jus...
Posted by Spoz on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:37:00 PST

cd review: mona lisa overdrive / the up-tight sessions

why oh WHY did MONA LISA OVERDRIVE ask me to do this!!? (and as always before reading this, please read my *disclaimer*) MONA LISA OVERDRIVE / THE UPTIGHT SESSIONS (DEMO) Genre: 60's Mod / G...
Posted by Spoz on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:46:00 PST