Moving again

Been a good month since I last posted, but it was for good reasons. I've moved to a great new apartment just around the corner of where I already enjoyed living. I currently don't have access to my workmail (edwin@edwinservaas.com) so you know why if I don't reply. You can always try me on edwinservaas@gmail.com if you want to contact me, and I'll let you know when my work pc is up and running again.

If you need to send me mail in the meantime and you happen to check this blog then this is my new address:

Superstylin'
Prins Bernhardlaan 103
1111 ES Diemen

I'll update my website info too when I get my work pc hooked up to the net.

Work is also slow at the moment due to the moving houses, but that doesn't mean all the fun is gone. I met up with Steve Savage of Beggars Fortune from the US a few days ago here in Amsterdam and had a blast. You can see the designs of the poster I did for his tour in the post below (I'll also upload his promo shirt and tour EP design soon). Also went to see one of his gigs here, which was just amazing. I was there with some of my friends who all were more than impressed so If you have some time check Mr. Savage out on his european tour (see few posts below for the dates/locations).

Beggars Fortune European Tour

This great band from Tenessee gave me the honor of designing some cool stuff for their European tour called "The 808 Tour". Their singer Steve Savage will be touring countries in Europe first before they hit it with the full band. Here's the schedule, check him out live and accoustic if he's anywhere near you:

20.jan.2008 Steve Savage @ Songwriters Guild Den Haag, NL
21.jan.2008 Steve Savage @ Pony Bar Hamburg, DE
24.jan.2008 Steve Savage @ Cafe Soundgarden Amsterdam, NL
29.jan.2008 Steve Savage @ Kafe Nonnetje Live Amersfoort, NL
01.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Dwaze Zaken Amsterdam, NL
01.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Dwaze Zaken Amsterdam, NL
08.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Club Meander Amsterdam, NL
09.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Night of the Stars Burbach, DE, Rheinland-Pfalz
12.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Kinky Star Gent, BE
13.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Radio Kinky Star Gent, BE
14.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Bare Bones Acoustic Cafe Alkmaar, NL
15.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Oranje Koffiehuis Arnhem, NL
16.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ New Orleans Cafe Siegen, DE
18.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Werk Stadt Witten Witten, DE
19.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Toms on the Rocks Ratingen Ratingen, DE
20.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Solaris Dusseldorf Dusseldorf, DE
21.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Irish Pub Wesel Wesel, DE
22.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Steinbruch Duisburg Duisburg, DE
22.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Studio 47 (TV Apperence) Duisburg, DE
23.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Schafer Bottrop Bottrop, DE
24.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Hard Rock Cafe Munich, DE
26.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Mausefalle Bonn Bonn, DE
27.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Total Bar Zurich, CH
28.feb.2008 Steve Savage @ Tarterre Bern, CH
01.mrt.2008 Steve Savage @ Kaff Frauenfeld, CH
02.mrt.2008 Steve Savage @ Grenzwert Bar Basel, CH
06.mrt.2008 Steve Savage @ Verein 08 Vienna, AT

They'll be selling cool promo stuff there such as tour shirts, The 808 EP and posters. All design by me, so support them and pick up something neato after the concert!

The Baby Fratellis

It's been a while since I posted, have to get used to this whole blog thing. It's tough to determine what would be interesting to post and what not haha.

Anyways, I've been listening to this album almost non-stop the past week or so and figured I'd share it with you all. The album Costello Music is by a Scottish band hailing from Glasgow called The Fratellis. It's delicious garage retro party rock, just as I like it. Honestly all the songs are good on the cd, but the songs that get to me the most are the real party rockers mainly "Henrietta", "Country Boys and City Girls", "Baby Fratelli" and the probably already pretty famous "Chelsea Dagger"

Check out their website too www.thefratellis.com

Robotrock

The DJ's of Robotrock have been rocking the Amsterdam clubscene for two years and celebrate this saturday 6th of October in Club 8. Go pay them some tribute, see you there!

Darth Vader has a posse

Some of you might be aware of the OBEY Giant campaign, some might even know that it came from a stencil project in the 80's called Andre The Giant has a Posse. It has now turned into an icon of not only the advertising world but maybe even more the subvertising world, culture jamming and all that cool jazz.

I felt that Darth Vader, as an icon of popular culture and at the same time commecialism which the whole Star Wars franchise is would make a great icon for a revival and tribute to the OBEY campaign. So I went and had some fun.

Alpha Dog

Whaddaya know, got dragged to see "the new Justin Timberlake movie" by my girlfriend yesterday. It turned out to be a pretty damn good movie actually. The movie seems very true to life, the thoughts, the emotions, the actions, it all seemed very believable to me. Don't be put off by the fact that Justin Timberlake is in it, he actually did a good job.

The trailer actually doesn't do the movie justice at all, they make it look way too over dramatic:

I'm from Holland...