One Million Pageviews!!

We just hit 1,000,000 pageviews!! A huge thanks to all our readers everywhere!! Thanks for the support and we hope to keep you entertained for another million!!

ESPVisuals now have a FB Page

Some shameless self promotion here, but we have actually maxed out our personal Facebook account and cannot accept any more friendships. Therefore, we have had to create a FB Page to keep up with all the friend requests. If you want to show us some love, then go HERE....

My Recent Toy Additions

Yes, I'm addicted. Yes, I have a problem........

Glow In The Dark 3.5-inch Buddha Statue

Gizmo with pull-back action

Glow In Dark Munny DIY

Flying Cat by Nathan Jurevicius

Glow In the Dark Puppet Master from 1989

Sham Da Clown by MADL (ltd. to 300)

Mephist Festa Boxset by Touma (ltd to 400)

Tygun Banded Blaze (Gold ed. ltd to 50)

AND.....

I forgot to post about this from Xmas time. But I managed to meet my fave Hong Kong toy legend, Michael Lau in Causeway Bay, where he had a toy exhibition going on. I joined the raffle and managed to win this ultra-rare TooBigFoot toy (ltd. to only 29!!!)

ESPVisuals Goes For E4 Sting Competition

If you have a spare 10 seconds, please would you do me a big favour and check out JJ's (ESP crew) entry into this years E4 Sting competition. If you like his Sting, called "drip-e", please vote by clicking YAY! Thanks alot!!! Altogether, it takes 12 secs of your life...



If you like it, then please please click on this LINK and YAY! the video as it'll help him get better ratings!!! ( you don't need to register to vote)
JJ is extremely grateful to everyone who has already YAY!ed it and to anyone who will!

SE One Squat Painting

Sasquatch from Senseless Records asked myself and Probs if we'd like to go and paint a couple walls in the old SE One nightclub (which was occupied 4 weeks ago) in preparation for his insanely good Bass-drenched squat party on Saturday night, called Pachanga. Many thanks to the Hooked Blog crew who came down to chill and take some pics!

Check out this awesome Glitch-step mix by DJ Your Niece!
YOUR NIECE SMELLS OF HAMMERS by Your Niece

ESPVisuals iPhone App

It's here!!!!!
ESPVisuals now has its very own RSS reader so you can enjoy all your favourite art, graff, toys and videos whilst on the move, all laid out neatly.
A HUGE thank you to Implode for spending who knows how much time on this.
You fucking rock!!

Check out some screenshots below and then get it HERE

ESP Video For IDN 15th Anniversary

ESP were asked to make a very short video segment for design mag, IDN's 15th Anniversary Book. With the brief asking us to explore what design would be like, 15 years from now, we decided to create a fictitious computer game that 'immersed' its players into a virtual environment...it was made on no budget, except to buy beer and green.....

A perspective on films 15 years from now
Tailor made for IdN 15th Anniversary
Directed/Produced/Animated/Edited/Scored: Jonathan Shine
Camera and Assistant Director: Selph
Production Assistant: Irie
3D Animation: Tai Hollingsbee
Motion Graphics and Titles: Dkoda
Voices By: Ashley Schaefer

ESPVisuals in IdN's 15th Anniversary hard-cover Book

In 2007 ESPVisuals were invited by IdN to submit some content for their 15th Anniversary special edition hard-cover coffee table book and accompanying DVD. Featuring around 450 artists the book is a phenomenal insight into the creativity of many of the World's top designers and we were ecstatic being asked to be involved!

IdN's only request for the submitted work was that it forecast a particular area of design 15 years from now.

Our contribution comes in the form of a short trailer for a fictional video-game called "Anonymous", where your identity isn't what it appears, and you strive to find out who you really are.



We wanted to show what we thought the future of gaming might hold; a blend between films and video-games where the user not only controls the plot of the film, but is a character within it. In creating a new user experience we thought up the idea of a gaming pod in which a panoramic screen and built in surround sound would enhance gameplay and immerse you deep within the plot.

The book is a real collectors piece and we recommend you take a look for yourselves!

Check out a preview of the book here.

Buy the book here.

ESPVisuals Twitter & Blip

ESPVisuals are all hooked up and connected community-stylee now with our Twitter account and a Blip.fm account.
Join us and get up to date posts & some lovely music from:
www.twitter.com/espvisuals
www.blip.fm/espvisuals

Sea Shepherd Cover Art

ESPV recently had the opportunity to work with Ocean Conservationists Sea Shepherd, Australia. PHilfy put together a CD design which will be used on the compilation CD featuring Auzzie rock bands, to be sold across Australia to raise money for Sea Shepherd's new ship.

For more info on the organization's projects check out seashepherd.org. 

Chameleon Device

The functions of previously separate gadgets like cameras, phones, and music players have come together into single devices in recent years. But juggling all of those functions in one product with multiple personalities is not simple, and confusing interfaces plague many big-selling gadgets.
But a new prototype that is able to predict what function its user wants from the way it is manipulated, shows a more intuitive way to tackle the problem.
A basic version of this concept is already built into a handful of portable gadgets. Some smartphones automatically dim the screen when they sense they have been swung against a person's ear during a call.

They have created a "bar of soap" device, with an LCD screen front and rear. It contains a three-axis accelerometer to measure its motion in 3D, and 72 sensors across its surface to track the position of the user's fingers.
The researchers tested their prototype on 13 users who were asked to pick up several times, holding it each time in turn as if it were a remote control, PDA, camera, games controller, or mobile phone. By analysing the output from the sensors, the team spotted patterns in the way the different users held the gadget, and their grip gave clues about how they expected the device to perform (see image, right).
Those results were used to program the soap bar to guess what was expected of it and respond appropriately by presenting an interface tailored for that function – when held as a camera, the LCD screens display a camera mode.

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ESPVisuals 1000th Post

To all those who have been reading from the start, we wanna thank you from the bottom of our hearts! 1000 posts and still going strong, with more readers regularly joining us every day.




Illustrations by Zoe Lacchei
Images [VIA]

Adapta Gallery Launch Show Pics

Our Hong Kong trip was amazing! So much happened in the week that we were all there. I will therefore be doing a couple posts for our trip, starting with the "Attention Spam" show itself.
To be able to hang with the artists and show them round my hometown was such a pleasure. Eating weird food, painting on the street, drinking & smoking hard...we did it all and literally got the t-shirt! (I will definitely dedicate a post just for the tees!)

Cyclops

D*Face

Vesna Parchet

David Bray

The Adapta Gallery was really spacious...

Vesna Parchet's Prints

D*Face's Prints

Word To Mother's wall

This was the view from our gracious host, Nicole Schoeni's apartment!! The 44th floor on the side of a mountain offers you the most panoramic view of HKG ever...(click image to enlarge)

The next post will show the artists work for "Attention Spam" in detail...

The Beauty of Power Sprayers

I met up with ARE from the DIELOOTED Crew & MEKA last weekend for an extremely fun evening in East London. ARE had brought his Power Sprayer and filled it with some white emulsion. It was my first time to try out large-scale tags and I tell you now, it did not disappoint! I am gonna have to get one of these for myself.....The empowerment you get from doing tags on that scale was great!






I apologise for the quality of the photos, they were all taken on my shitty mobile phone camera.