Applogies for the radio silence. I am working my ass off on something significant and mental. I was up till 5 again last night, I knew it was time to go to bed when a black cat ran in the studio. I don’t own a black cat.

I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I was trying anyway most likely, what wth the swarm of helicopters that circles Don Studios 24 hours a day right now. They never warned us about that…

Rehearsals seem to be going well. There were fireworks again last night. That’s the stadium on the right. They were strobing great beams of light off the sky and playing Hey Jude pretty loud at around midnight. That weird UFO blimp thing up top hung around till 1 or so. The helicopters staright up hung around all night, and they’re still buzzing around now.

Interesting times…

— Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Fuck The Olympics T-Shirt

Designed by Akira The Don & Zef. Screen printed in five colours in Cardiff on a beautiful white Gildan super-soft cotton shirt.

I’m printing a small ammount of these mainly because I want one.

FUCK THE OLYMPICS.

Here’s just a few reasons why.

Ships July 27th August 2nd, along with the other new shirts.

— Friday, July 20th, 2012

Its a year and a half since the launch of AkiraTheDon.com, officially the The Best Artist Website in the world… but as we know, the internet progresses faster than the speed of gamma rays these days, and it’s time to drag this sleek beast kicking and screaming into the FUTURE.

As you know, I’ve always collaborated with my little brother Zef in the past, but Zef is a boy no more, and now works full time for a posh design agency, and thus hasn’t the hours to dedicate to such a hervculean endeavour.

So, I am looking for a WEB GENIUS to help take The Best Artist Website In The World to the next level of amazing. If you are that web genius, or know that web genius, please get in touch, with some examples of that genius, via akirathedon at gmail dot com.

Meanwhile, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what we should be doing with this new Thing. If there’s anything at all you’d like to see on the new site, please let me know in the comments! There will be prizes for the best ones!

PAX!

@!

PS – Here’s version 1.0, courtesy of the amazing WayBackMachine. That lil guy on the right used to float around the screen, dressed in the garb of whatever country I was in at the time. Damn shit done changed!

— Thursday, July 19th, 2012

“I Alchemy… I Alchemi… I cook, I chef, I Walter White”

YES! Celebrating the birth of the final season of Breaking Bad today, after months of trans-atlantic digital graft I am proud to present to you, the FULL METAL ALCHEMIST VIDEO!

The video is a psychedigital trippy pop art masterpice, packed with DRUGS and GUNS and FOOD and WEIRD RED STUFF shot on location in Nu Olypia, London and Denver, Colorado… the UK bits were shot by Tom Coles (Scroobius Pip, Beardyman, B Dolan) and the US bits by Trenton Cotten (just done the new Young Jeezy flick). Directed and edited by ME, word famous polymath AKIRA THE DON.

Full Metal Alchemist was performed by @akirathedon and @timeraps
Produced by Akira The Don
From ATD26: Manga Music out now on CD, digital, and NEW limited edition 10″ print.

FULL METAL ALCHEMIST
The Alchemical Psychedigital Music Video

Shot on location in Nu Olympa, UK, and Denver, Collorado.
Directed and edited by Akira The Don
ATD shot by Mighty Tom Coles
Time shot and edited by @TrentonCotten
Additional filming by Christina Ryder
Guest stars
@littles_life, @AwareNess0

Time says: “Shout out to my cat Elliott, Dan Banta, and AwareNess for pushing that red.”

ATD says: “Shout out Time, trenton and crew for making transatlantic magic and my Alchemical London peoples Tom and Litts for bringing the Bokonon vision to Nu Olympia.”

I would also like to shout out my peoples at Southern Hopitalty whose immediate support of this tune put the thought of the video in my head.

I hope you enjoy it! It is PACKED WITH MEANINGS! Collect them all!

— Monday, July 16th, 2012

So just before I woke this morning I got an email in my dream from Jimmy Savile asking if I was gonna put out Jimmy Savile Swag as a single. He said he thought it was a good idea. Without considering the implications of getting digital communication from a dead disc jockey, I responded, “you know, that is a pretty good idea… I have a video 73% completed, and it is a great song…” then my wife woke me up.

Is that what Joan Of Arc would have called A Sign?

It is certainly ADDAWOL FAWR IAWN! As my Facebook people agree:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgL9txV1cs

Shout out the fine folks over at the Guardian Music Blog, who dropped my Oh! What A Glorious Thing acoustic video this morning, deeming it “irresistibly cheerful,” which is true. The thing is edging on 5000 views on Youtube right now. I suspect it will require 10,000 at least for Summer to come in UK.

Meanwhile over in The Bay, Predator Dreads is working on me and Issue’s World’s Finest video. This just came through via Twitter:

@akirathedon twitter.com/predator_dread…

— Andrew Clausen (@predator_dreads) July 13, 2012

I’ve been on a similar flex these past few days, working on the Full Metal Alchemist video. I dropped a screen cap on Facebook as a caption contest the other day. here’s the winning entry:

Congratulations Bethan Bucknall, my ole school chum. Obvious is often best, ask Sosa.

“I could use metaphors and punchlines, but that’s doin’ too much. I just wanna say what’s goin’ on right now. Real talk.” Chief Keef

— Friday, July 13th, 2012