To The Rescue!!!

Hi Everyone!

Maybe you know that I play keyboards in a great Dutch band called RUDDY SHELDUCK.  We have just recorded a demo, and we would like to make a video for one of the songs to put it on Youtube.

The title of the song we are doing the video for is called TO THE RESCUE.  It's an up-tempo, punky kind of song, and we would greatly love your help to create some original art for the video.

What we would like you to do:
Send us a drawing, inspired by the title TO THE RESCUE.  We plan to intercut drawings with live action, in a very basic, DIY fashion.  Very simple, eh?

Here are some guidelines:
Subject - whatever you want, as long as it's inspired by the title TO THE RESCUE.
Size, format - It's for a video on Youtube, so it doesn't have to be a huge drawing, or extremely high resolution.  Whatever you feel comfortable with.  JPG format please.
Artistic Quality and Finish - We are not asking for a super-high-quality piece of art.    A sketch, rough drawing, crayon scribble or whatever you can get to us will be fine.
Timeframe - Send us your drawing/artistic creation by Tuesday 22 November.  Yes, it's not a long time, but the idea is this is a burst of inspiration from you.  Don't worry if you miss the date, but try to send them as soon as you can.
Where to send your drawing - Please email to me at hypersphinx@hotmail.com  
Use, Copyright, etc. - Any drawing you send has to be free for us to use in the video.

That's about it!  If you have any questions just let me know.

Thank you!!!!

Jason

crane

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Captured!

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 Well, as you can imagine, the ISS was pasted on, but I actually did take that photo of the moon :-D

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Afraid of the rain by Noisewheel

Hope you like it, even though it's not really apt if you are having a "proper" summer :-)

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Agnostic by Noisewheel

What I'm working on

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What I'm reading

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Welcome to the Noisewheel Blog

Hi! 
Thanks for tuning in to the blog.  I hope to keep it tidy and post stuff that is rocking my own particular world, and maybe you can find something for you too :-)