Angelusnoctis - Bats inside my head

The power of our useless brains
helps me to forget my daily pain
we make one step after another
and we try to discover
our evil border

Lola Angst - “Just Slaves”

Remembering last august again, my second day in the Mera Luna. I don’t actually feel like telling anything today, so I’ll just add some photos of the festival.

Here you have Big Boy (with Chris Harms!, that was a surprise for me), a great pick of Cruxshadows (see that Sangria brick!!!) and The 69 Eyes. My photos of Diorama and Rabia Sorda aren’t as good as I wanted, as they played inside the angar and the light was quite poor.

This is gonna be an stressing week… On Friday I’m fliying to Hannover to get to the Mera Luna festival!!! I don’t know if I have prepared everything, if I’m missing something… I’ve got my sleeping bag, a torch, an air bed… Mmmm and as I write I remmember the usefulness of a insecticide for mosquitos (I don’t know if they’re as big as in Finland, but I’m afraid of european insects!!) I hope the weather doesn’t ruin the festival, but the weather forecast (from http://www.weather.com/) is not very good… Rainy days for Saturday and Sunday!!!

The good news come from the festival programme, as they have changed the timetable, and now I don’t have to choose between And One and Suicide Commando!! (I’ll be ruining from And One to get to listen the first SC song! What a stressing day!)

I have added a lastfm widget to my left sidebar, so now you can check the music I usually listen to.

If you don’t know http://www.lastfm.com/, just jump into it and begin enjoying (they don’t pay me for the promotion!! hehehe). Lastfm is a place where you can listen music. You search for an artist, or tag, and then you get a customized radio station that only plays songs that match with your searching criteria.

Some months ago listening to lastfm was quite poor, as they didn’t have a lot of dark music available. I tried searching for “Hocico” (begining with the big ones), and I just got about 10 songs. But as my colleagues went on listening to it everyday, I tried from time to time again, and some weeks ago, looking for Straftanz info, I found their profile in lastfm. It was a great surprise, as the song I was looking for was listed there, but I couldn’t listen to it. I didn’t understand why, and finally I found them in myspace.com.

Yestayday mi colleagues where talking about lastfm, and I told them my attempts to listen to music without success. They gave me the answer: if you download the lastfm.com software, you get a programme that is allways runing, and if you want, it takes the info from your music player to include it to the stats in lastfm. So you can get a general overview of the music you listen from your computer and from lastfm radios.

So there you have my profile in lastfm now, full of tracks I usually listen at home. And here you have mi new widget, taking the images of my top CDs… Give lastfm a try!!

Two days ago my friends told me they had found a photo of a girl that was almost like me. I was not convinced by their words, and told them to show it. And they were right!! Here you have the photo taken from the Mera Luna galleries); if I would have been there at that moment I would have appeared in that photo almost the same than her. Even the clothes are similar to what I usually wear… (By the way, if you recognize your self in that photo write me!! You’ve got a twin in South Spain hehehe!)

Maybe I meet her this year in Hildesheim. This is the first year I’m able to go to a big gothic festival, and I’m really excited with it. I can’t wait to see some of the concerts, such as Covenant, And One, Diorama, Suicide Commando, Assemblage 23… The only annoying thing is that I have to choose between And One and Suicide Commando (And One begins just half an hour later than SC!!). Any idea? I love both of them, and they’re so different!!!

Anyway, I hope everything’s fine. I’m traveling with some friends and I expect a great weekend with great music!!

Some weeks ago searching for free photos in the internet (in the great community of http://www.sxc.hu) I found a curious one, that made me think about the design, the resources we use, and the small size of the dark electro scene.

The issue is that I found the photography of the latest CD cover for Combichrist. I was so amazed that I went to my Ipod to check that I was not confused. The photo uploaded by user ‘emsago‘, which is given free to use, was the one in the latest Combichrist CD (by the way, great CD, listening to ‘Shut Up and Swallow’ makes me dance even inside when I’m working quiet at the office!).

Immediately, I thought about all the times I have to do the same when designing for these kind of things, when I even make designs for free in my spare time just to help the scene grow a little bit with my job. For example, the poster I made in Halloween for a friend of mine, who owns a little but nice club in the city. I had to use several free images which I also took from Stock.schng, and today I’m revealing my work on this poster, and the photos that some people around the world decided to share.

As a designer, I want my works to be paid, but I think that maybe, the things I make and don’t use -beacuse finally I don’t like them- may be useful for others. I think sharing is a good way to optimize this work: sometimes my work is useful for others, and sometimes their work is useful for mine. At the end is just a big exchange of work among people from all over the world.

This is my first post in my new blog. My name’s Leire, and I’m a graphic and web designer from Spain. I’ll try to write in English, so I don’t forget what I learnt at the school (forgive me if I make mistakes!).

Why have I created this blog? Because it is so hard to maintain a lot of fotologs, weblogs, myspace… The thing is I want just one place where I can tell the world whatever I want: anything curious I find about my job or the things I like, such as music, concerts, movies, etc. Since I knew what internet was, I was amazed about the fact that anyone could publish anything without almost any money. I like searching through different websites, even personal blogs, as we allways have somtehing to learn from others. And this is my little contribution to the net.

If you are interested in knowing something else about my professional work, you may visit my professional site at http://www.angelusnoctis.net