{"id":44,"date":"2017-10-30T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everpress.local.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2018-05-29T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:50:42","slug":"music-to-work-to-mr-phomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/music-to-work-to-mr-phomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to Work to: Mr Phomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/user\/everpresshq\/playlist\/7gZDhY9v5AX7XF2O2Sb2Jk\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With a knack for punchy slogans and politically charged artwork, his work is rooted in what&#8217;s going on around him, often with a certain amount of humour thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with Mr Phomer to briefly chat about how music drives and inspires his work.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-189 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress-blog.dvsb1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOMER-MTWT-DYPTYCH3-copy.png\" alt=\"Mr Phomer, 2017.\" width=\"610\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOMER-MTWT-DYPTYCH3-copy.png 610w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PHOMER-MTWT-DYPTYCH3-copy-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Phomer, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: inherit;\">How do you use music to help you work?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Music is a huge influence on my work, from using lyrics as direct quotes, inspiring my own writing, trying to put a visual version of a jazz beat on a cartoon, to working a lot with music artists on a regular basis. It&#8217;s a constant presence.<\/p>\n<p>It not only helps me to pass the hours while I&#8217;m working, but it&#8217;s actually helped me to do\u00a0what I do today. My first freelance gigs back in the day were all for music artists and that made me go full time head on.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, just today I&#8217;m working on something for a huge American legend, Mr. Pete Rock, that&#8217;s really special to be blessed to be involved in.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 697px;\" src=\"https:\/\/d3fc22kf489ohb.cloudfront.net\/assets\/phiomerblog17-59f6fc6d6d78f.jpg?93e1cfb9fe0a\" alt=\"Mr Phomer, Pins for WKNDRS and The Basement.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Phomer, Pins for WKNDRS and The Basement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000000;\">Sum up your playlist in one sentence.<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;One time for your mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000000;\">What vibe have you gone for?<\/h3>\n<p>Eclectic like my music taste, but more on the jazzy, electronic side of it. Chill, relaxed to not get too excited and want to get up and leave&#8230; Ah, also I think aging is making me softer. I tried to mix some more old school vibes with that new new and some local talent as well. Being a work playlist and not my &#8220;DJ&#8221; hard selection, but something somehow introspective, so it gives a good, clear, calm head space. It&#8217;s also tunes that inspire me and get some visuals in my head so I can get a good creative output from it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress-blog.dvsb1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/phomerblog31.png\" alt=\"Beams by Mr Phomer, 2015.\" width=\"610\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/phomerblog31.png 610w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/phomerblog31-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beams by Mr Phomer, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000000;\">Are you a headphones or speakers listener?<\/h3>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t a favourite there, it really just depends on the environment I&#8217;m in and on the mood to be honest. Obviously, if I&#8217;m working in a place that&#8217;s shared with others, I try to be civilized and put my headphones on lol, even though my short lived DJ background comes out sometimes and I think, &#8220;Man, I really wish these people could listen to this banger!&#8221; and like in a movie just sprout an impromptu party!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 697px;\" src=\"https:\/\/d3fc22kf489ohb.cloudfront.net\/assets\/phiomerblog11-59f6ef6eef99d.jpg?93e1cfb9fe0a\" alt=\"Mr Phomer, various custom typefaces.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Phomer, various custom typefaces.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000000;\">What\u2019s your favorite track within this playlist?<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s really hard for me to have one favourite thing. I&#8217;m not really a favourite one thing person; music, movies, colours. There&#8217;s too many good things out there in life to appreciate and I like to grow and evolve my taste \u2013 music and other.<\/p>\n<p>But I do have to give a special nod to a song I just squeezed in there, even though it&#8217;s from an instrumental side project that I had the chance and pleasure to see in one of their rare live performances. It&#8217;s a song from the Beastie Boys, they have a special place in my heart. I believe they embodied that cross culture feeling, form NY skate, rap, to punk, hardcore, jazz and art, but also boundless experimenting and fun. Definitely a huge influence on me. A very similar style to my life and work. #RIPMCA<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 697px;\" src=\"https:\/\/d3fc22kf489ohb.cloudfront.net\/assets\/phomer5-59f64eaa796de.jpg?93e1cfb9fe0a\" alt=\"S.O.O.N x Mr Phomer, 2015.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">S.O.O.N x Mr Phomer, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Make sure to follow our\u00a0<a href=\"spotify:user:everpresshq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0playlist to get new tunes every month. We&#8217;ll be back in December with some more music to inspire your daily grind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November\u2019s playlist has been curated by London based designer and regular brand collaborator, Mr Phomer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}