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rgproduct:Buddha
Heirloom quality speaker Designed and hand made in England featuring Luxury soft Gold finish with contrast Natural Raffia detail. The latest technology in drive units is incorporated in the 3rd Eye position of enlightenment. Features dynamic 55 Hz to 16 KHz fatigue free listening response; utilising pure drive unit technology has no extraneous circuitry to hinder audio performance.  Enclosure material is a tough Polymer “cold ceramic” offering minimal audio colouration or distortion.

Pricing, availability & Finish options:
Available in two finish types:

Gold/Natural Raffia:      £275.00 per single unit & Shipping
Marble/ Natural Raffia:  £239.00 per single unit & Shipping

Raffia detail colour can be amended to suit your needs as cost option. Please email me with your requirements.

Available to pre-order now for early 2012 delivery.

Shipping:
UK address:         1-2 units £14.99
EU address:         1-2 units £ POA
Global address:    1-2 units £ POA:  

Ordering:
Please email with your requirements.

Forthcoming products:

  
rgproduct:Nautilus
An iconic and timeless Fossil based enclosure utilising an Aluminium drive unit brilliantly contrasting the Fossilised matrix texture. Dynamic 55 Hz to 16 KHz fatigue free listening response; utilising pure drive unit technology has no extraneous circuitry to hinder audio performance. Enclosure material is a tough Polymer “cold ceramic” offering minimal audio colouration or distortion.

Future concepts:

© Richard Grant/www.rgproduct.com. Final products may differ from pre-visualisation images above (in a good way and due to technical and design improvements).

I recommend an intentionally  miss-matched pair or quad arrangement to really enliven your home with art works both beautiful and practical.

Imagine Four stunning sculpture pieces, each historic and rare.  One in each corner of your viewing room providing your surround system audio.  Or a selection of ancient architectural detritus, each filling your environment with music.

Bespoke design:
One-off designs in pairs or batches to suit corporate branding, interior design and Restaurant/Retail environments or any marketing concept. Please email your inquiry.
 

Following a decade of research and background reading I have been in written and Skype contact with a leading NASA department head in relation to a dramatic real time story that will affect everybody on Earth. I have recently collated my notes from these conversations and formed a narrative arc to combine the story threads into this dramatic and potentially horrific work. 

It is truly Science Fiction butting up hard against Science Fact and I am adding a philosophical element to elucidate some of the technical aspects. Akin to “Zen and the art of…” but for Orbital mechanics.

Abstract Extract below © Richard Grant/Coalesce:

“That night I looked up into the lit sky at the wisps and could see only the spiders web in my mind. A huge husk of tiny points so fine as to be almost imperceptible. Clearer where they clustered in the now famous streaks. Back yard comets and orbital angel dust. I felt like never before, a bundled fly.

They are beautiful. Stunning, almost invisible and when a particularly large piece spins into view, picked up by the glint of the starlight it looks just the same as a drop of water on a strand of silk curved by the breeze. Sometimes, when you have spent too long staring up, when they slip into the foreground like the crazy frost pattern inside a cold-side window, as they become the backdrop for late night love; a kiss under the stars, just a speckled silver backdrop like a pin-pricked drape at a theatre.”

Abstract Extract below © Richard Grant/Coalesce:

“The first launches were a wonder to behold. At Base we were shown them, pilot propaganda reminding us our important role in the moral, social and technological progress of the free World. These recordings often take me back to when I was five or six and first saw a launch on the TV So big and loud I couldn’t figure what it really was and didn’t really understand any of it anyway. But I knew I had to be there soon. I thought for years that the rocket was a giant tube that sucked the clouds through it at the top and spat them out the back as it climbed. I wanted then to be in it. Watch as it swallowed the sky and left it behind. Burned but clean. I guess each time we watch those repeats all the cadets are reminded of young fantasies and strange misunderstood thoughts. Harsh reality bites a little harder, no fluffy clouds or cotton wool landscapes. The combination of soft flesh cargo, explosive charged propulsion and hard, cold composite ceramic skin was never an easy mix.

The climb glider launches certainly cut some of these risk factors out, but when this type of launch was made illegal due low orbit debris collision risk. The Field Path and high escape velocity Chemical Rocket method was it. The soft option suddenly wasn’t an option.

Instead of the Fast and loud approach used by rocket launch systems; Climb Gliders were immense and beautiful. Elegant Swans looking for love.

They have the longest wing Span of any craft. Slim wings like Dragonflies and below, slung possum fashion a payload. For the first 40 minutes or so a fairly conventional jet engine would climb continuously. Laboriously, yet efficiently lifting the payload with us in it higher and higher. When the Earth’s atmosphere became too thin to sustain conventional jet operation the Ramjets took over. These were really the same jets but they started to burn secondary fuel to fill the expansion exhausts. If a major system failed the option always existed to re-enter and glide to a pre-assigned landing zone. The real luxury of the Glider was time. Time to look at the planet below and it’s landmasses and Seas, cloud systems and landmarks. Almost as much valuable research could occur on the way up as once we were at our final destination.

Even more satisfying was the gradual ascent into weightlessness.

It was said the slow journey was like a morphine dope drip. I could only guess, as I don’t think they ever put me on one of those. We called it “High Class” and once you have experienced it’s special sensational hospitality little else compares. All your needs were taken care of and you wanted for little else”

More information as this develops.

This project brings together fascinating elements including dynamically generated digital animations and signal input reactive software.

Any music or audio/video feed drives the bespoke PC environment controlling the multitude of animations and images.  Further, text and specific images can be added to push home a marketing or safety message.   The digital output is then projected onto one of the largest screens in central London to create a stunning immersive and absorbing audio and video environment.  It is a true “Son et Lumiere”, fully digital, fully dynamic. More here.

Working for FIVE33 Creative Communications Agency I have been heavily involved with this unique Film and its Global Exhibition.  Full story can be found in the PROJECTS section of my site.

Bold (9700) wallpaper:

Created and optimised for current screen resolution giving high image quality and low file size.  Images are abstracts and shots from around the world and attuned to general Bold icon placement and visual acuity.

Image sizes:  480 by 360 pixels. Click on image and right click on new window version for save options.

I have found my BB to be something of a revelation, especially with global projects and trans-media content. 

More free BB wallpaper to follow…please check back.

iPhone4 Wallpaper:

I thought I would treat Apple-ites to a few freebies too, personally I am no fan of touch screen phones having tried them in the past. 

Image sizes:  960 by 640 pixels.  Click on image and right click on new window version for save options.

More free iPhone4 wallpaper to follow…please check back.

This simple, effective device ensures you never lose your colleagues or friends again.

Whether speed walking through the airport to make that flight or hacking along narrow streets or back alleys,  don’t get lost with your head buried in your BlackBerry.

Simply clip the BlackBelly to the bag or clothing of a designated individual and follow your ears…

You will automatically listen out for the tinkle of the device, keeping you on the straight and narrow. 

IMPORTANT: 

BlackBelly wearing individual must not use their BlackBerry device while on point duty.
BlackBelly device is not a substitute for looking where you are going and being aware of 
Environmental, Architectural and Road Traffic dangers.
BlackBelly cannot be held responsible for individuals being lost or acquired due to the convergence and subsequent divergence of two or more similar Blackbelly devices.
BlackBelly advise regular Aural, Visual and Sensory reality check when using your BlackBerry.

Some time back, whilst working as Design Director for Sarner I was sitting having a lunch time drink with a colleague when a Google Maps camera car went past…the result is below (Google Maps Link):

I have had an IMDB page from a young age due to the fact I used to act and perform. An IMDB listing was created on my behalf originally for performing in After Pilkington (a Screen Two production) by Simon Gray.  The film/script went on to win a Prix Italia.

Since then my listing has grown to cover various areas of professional film production from model and effects credits to Global logistics/Tour Management for the Alice In Wonderland Movie Exhibition for Disney.