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Welcome to the personal blog of LA based photographer Yannick Lord; in these pages you'll find my rants, raves, reviews and much more. Feel free to explore, and check back on a regular basis to see what's new!

The House Music Phenomenon

A brief introduction to the world of house.

Inspired by new the DJ’ing techniques pioneered in the late 70’s and early 80’s by ‘Kool Herc’ and later ‘Chris the Glove Taylor’ - the undisputed Godfathers of hip-hop and what has now become known as Turntablism – a new breed of DJ/Producers started playing experimental electronic music fusing elements of disco, electro/hip-hop, and funk & punk in the bars and clubs of Chicago and Detroit,

The term ‘House Music’ being derived from the definitive Grandfather of house Frankie Knuckles’ Chicago based club ‘The Warehouse’.

The Van Helsing

A New Cocktail to keep the Vampires at bay!

Van Helsing Vampire Slaying Cocktail

Have those pesky vampires been bothering you again? Or are you just bored with the same old boring Bloody Mary? If so you’ve come to the right place. Vampires are everywhere now days it would seem – eager to sup on the hot syrupy blood pulsing through your veins…So in order to preserve your necks and your sweet virgin innocence (yeah right), I decided to create a new cocktail (a perfect Halloween cocktail). Enter The Van Helsing!

The Van Helsing cocktail takes the traditional Bloody Mary and turns it on its head, distilling it down to a pure and concentrated form with a bite that would put Béla Lugosi to shame.

The Zombie Survival Guide

10 top tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse

There have been many zombie survival guides making their way online over the last few years, but they all have one major flaw. They operate under the outdated and erroneous assumption that all zombies are slow-moving dull-witted sloths with limited motor functions.

Quite how this portrayal of zombies came into being is unknown (although it probably stems back to the cataleptic state associated with zombies in Haiti, created by voodoo, however the victims of these ritual attacks are not truly zombies; they’re just chemically enslaved and therefore have no will of their own). Regardless, its widespread adoption, along with the burying of news pertaining to zombie outbreaks by the church and, subsequently, world governments, has unnecessarily cost thousands of individuals their lives.

No matter what George A. Romero might say, not all zombies are vegetative walking corpses; some can move quickly and apply logic and cunning to outwit their prey. Thanks to illicit experiments on tiny islands in the Pacific, there are now two types of zombies: the walking dead, as portrayed quite accurately by the aforementioned Mr. Romero, and the new, far more deadly ones, infected by manmade viruses. Whichever type of zombie you encounter, groups of zombies can become particularly dangerous, and not just because of their numbers; they (like ants and bees) have a hive mentality, or collective consciousness as some researchers claim. This means the entire group will function as one, with one purpose…to eat your brain.

After five years of silence, as the sole survivor of the 2003 Cook Island zombie outbreak, I feel it’s my duty to share what I learnt in the field, so that you may stand a chance of survival if it ever happens to you. So here are my top 10 tips for staying alive.

The Zombie Survival Guide