'Sunday Girl' Phillipa Alexander has a Sunday baby - and a hit song from Mail on Sunday Ad (includes free mp3 download)

  
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She was an unknown session artist until she left thousands transfixed
by singing Blondie’s Sunday Girl on television adverts for The Mail on
Sunday’s You magazine last week.

Now Phillipa Alexander is celebrating the success of the song with a
Sunday Girl of her own.

Phillipa recorded the track for the advert just days before giving
birth to her daughter Priya. And, appropriately, the little girl came
into the world on a Sunday.

‘The song is ­obviously nothing to do with mother­hood, but to have
given birth to my own Sunday girl and to have sung it while she was
still inside me feels like a special and very sweet coincidence,’ said
Phillipa.

Her song is used on a series of adverts whose theme is ‘You time’ –
the precious moment of the day when readers retreat with their
magazine.

The Mail on Sunday was inundated with requests to know who the singer
is – and is now making the complete track available as a free
download.

The musical arrangement to Sunday Girl was masterminded by M&C Saatchi
agency composer Alex Ball. Although not a household name, Phillipa,
38, has impersonated ­singers from Nina Simone to Billie Holiday and
provided voiceover performances for clients including Levi’s, Lynx and
L’Oreal.

‘I am a huge fan of Blondie,’ said Phillipa. ‘Heart Of Glass is my
fav­ourite Blondie song.’

Phillipa moved from Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, to America when she
was seven after her father Colin got an engineering job in San Diego.

Her creative ambitions were encouraged by her mother, Wendy, an artist
and illustrator.

Phillipa enjoyed success as a session singer before moving back to
Brighton with her family at 21. There she met her husband, music
producer Sanj Sen, 35, in 1999.

He suggested a career doing voice­overs for advertisements, and seven
years ago she joined Calypso voice­over agency.

As well as her singing and voice­over work, Phillipa runs a successful
songwriting business, Chicks With Hits, with friend Ellie Wyatt. Their
songs have been heard on hit U.S. shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and
Desperate Housewives, and they are currently trying to secure a record
deal for their latest artist, Larissa Eddie, and her band, Eddie.

But Phillipa’s priority now lies with her gorgeous baby girl.

‘Holding her for the first time was the most incredible experience,’
she said. ‘Priya is adorable, although running my own businesses at
the same time is tough. I am constantly juggling. I am hoping she will
teach me to relax more.’

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In Sound: The Salvation Army Band Play on Gallowtree Gate, Leicester - Christmas 2010

I recorded this on the 11th December 2010 at 14:43 - a bright, winter afternoon in Leicester city centre. The Salvation Army played Christmas Carols to shoppers on Gallowtree Gate. My last Christmas in Leicester.

  
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In memory of George Thomas Brown
12th April 1920 ~ 11th December 1999

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Official iPad Wallpaper

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Textured iPhone 4 Wallpaper

I painstakingly created an iPhone 4 Wallpaper based on the backgrounds used in the multitasking dock and in the folders in iOS 4.1. You can download this at the end of this article.

I'm currently using this as my springboard/homescreen background:

Here's the high-res Retina Display wallpaper for download; click/tap to get the fulll size image and to download to your iPhone camera roll, tap and hold the enlarged image and select 'save.'

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Copyright © 2010 Ryan Price - Not for general distribution. Not for publication in whole or part without the express permission of the author and/or creator. Any usage of images or text created and published on www.uselessdesires.co.uk or its affiliated sites, or on social networking sites, must be credited to the original author/creator, and a link back to this website must be provided if images or text are used on any other website. Any images and/or text must be credited as follows:
"Reproduced with permission. Images and/or text copyright © Ryan Price 2010. All rights reserved. Visit www.uselessdesires.co.uk for the original content."

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iPhone 4 iOS 4.1 - Bundles UI Part 1 of 2 - Icons, Wallpapers, Backgrounds, Images, Themes

Click here to download:

iPhone4_Bundles_UI_Part_1.zip (22569 KB)

NOTE: This is Part 1 of 2

Download both attachments from this blog (two topics - Parts 1 & 2) and extract the compressed folder into 1 newly created folder, which you should name 'iPhone4 Bundles-UI').No sound files are included in this download.

Everything you need to theme an iPhone 4 with high-resolution Retina Display Icons, Wallpapers, Backgrounds, Images, Themes etc. I extracted the iPhone 4 Firmware images simply because I needed the multi-tasking/folder background/wallpaper.

Here is also a link to download the full package here (however, no guarantee can be given for the validity or integrity of this download.)
4.0 Stock Theme.zip:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ejwnyzyzlym

All files in this attachment © 2010 Apple Inc. Reproduced for educational purposes only. 

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Apple Uses Unlicensed Photo by Richard Misrach for iPad Wallpaper. Download it here

An impressive landscape photograph called "Pyramid Lake (at Night)" was featured at Apple’s January 27 event in San Francisco, when the Mac maker unveiled the highly anticipated iPad to the world. Apple hadn’t gotten around to licensing the image when the people attending Steve Jobs’ keynote gazed at it behind the 9.7-inch glass panel, yet its author is extremely pleased with the move. He is certain he and Apple will reach a fruitful agreement.

Generally, artists go ballistic when someone uses their works of art and don’t credit them properly, and for good reason too. Not Richard Misrach. He admits Apple had contacted him ahead of the January 27 event to license the photo, but the two parties never got around to signing the papers, for one reason or another.

Artinfo reveals that Misrach was first contacted by Apple a while ago in regards to ten images from his different series. Misrach rejected them. Then, two weeks ago (days before the iPad announcement), Misrach was contacted again from Cupertino, this time for a licensing of Pyramid Lake (at Night), a photo he had taken at a Native American reservation in Nevada, back in 2004. According to Artinfo, the two parties talked about a five-year, exclusive deal, with Apple saying it would use the image for screen-savers and stuff like that.

"I was in bed watching Inglorious Bastards when I got a call from Jeffrey FraenkeL, my dealer in San Francisco, and he said, 'Do you know what's going on live here?'" Misrach told Artinfo. "I was totally shocked. Naturally my other galleries started calling and my family was all atwitter, because it's a whole different world."

However, no papers have yet been signed.

"The funny thing is that I don't even have a contract with them yet, so they must have decided on it at the eleventh hour," Misrach revealed. "I'm sure they'll send me one quickly now. But I'm very happy, I'm sure it's fine, and the terms are good."

Misrach also explained that, "[Pyramid Lake (at Night) is] a long night exposure where the moon is lighting up the mountains in the distance. I shot it on an 8x10 camera, so the quality is really beautiful and you can see star trails going through the sky."

That's a Richard Misrach Photo on the iPad

Have you seen all the photos of the new Apple iPad? That landscape photo shown on the screen is an image fine-art photographer Richard Misrach licensed to Apple in a five-year exclusive deal.  Misrach told ArtInfo.comthat it's the first time he's ever licensed an image for commercial use. 

Misrach, who is represented byPace/MacGill in New York, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and other galleries, says Apple had reviewed several of his photos. Then two weeks before the launch of the much-hyped new tablet, Apple specified they wanted to use "Pyramid Lake (at Night)."   Apple said only that it wanted to use the 2004 image"Pyramid Lake (at Night),"  as a screen saver and for other features -- no mention of the iPad, which was still under wraps. 

'What's funny is that for years I actually used the photo as my own screensaver," Misrach says. "So I guess they know what they're doing."

(Note: Richard Misrach's "On the Beach" was chosen one of the last decade's most influential photo books of the decade. Check out yesterday's PDN Photo of the Day. )

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