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Project: Vacant Lot Project: Vacant Lot
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Blog We-want-to-hear-your-thoughts
Opened up discussions from Bill Millett about creative uses for empty shop fronts.
This reminded me of this proposal for Glasgow. Anyone got any feedback on this process? - or interested in collaborating to take a project forward then get in touch or post a comment back.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7700418.stm
A motion by Bailie Dr Nina Baker, supported by Councillor Philip Braat, to provide short term public green space on vacant development sites in Glasgow was passed at today's (30 October 2008) Glasgow City Council meeting.
The global financial situation has put a small number of developments in Glasgow on hold, and Bailie Baker's motion proposed that the Council works with site and property owners, to lay grass on vacant ground to provide short term public green space on the sites until development conditions improve.
Bailie Baker said: "Although there is a substantial amount of new development activity underway in the city, it is recognised that the current financial downturn will put a number of planned projects on temporary hold. This is regrettable, but entirely understandable given current market conditions. Some developments will be delayed, undeveloped sites will be fenced off and buildings awaiting redevelopment lie empty until market conditions improve. In the meantime, it is important that Glasgow presents a good environment to residents, visitors and potential investors.
"The Council's City Plan 2 encourages the use of vacant and derelict land as temporary greenspace. I am delighted that the Council has resolved to work with site and property owners to temporarily landscape vacant sites to create simple and well-maintained grassed areas that will be open to the public, and also to use empty buildings' windows for displays of Glasgow's commercial, innovation, art and design capabilities."
Councillor Philip Braat, one of Bailie Baker's co-councillors in the Anderston / City multi-member ward, supported the motion at the Council meeting. This was agreed to be a practical workable solution and a number of potential sites in the city have been identified.
Councillor Philip Braat said: "While Glasgow is well-placed to resist the worst of the global credit situation, it must be recognised that nowhere will be immune to its effects. This motion will help improve our city environment and will also encourage empty buildings to make suitable window space available to our universities and colleges to display student work and research projects. We should be clear that these green spaces will be short term in nature, and will be redeveloped as market conditions improve." - Blog post
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The Central Station Book Proje The Central Station Book Project
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31.08.10
Update: The Central Station Book
Thank you to everyone who has uploaded work over the last week. There's been a fantastic response and some really excellent work (why didn't we see it before?!). Be sure to have a browse of some of the latest work here.
We're now busy choosing our top 10 to feature in the book. We'll also be choosing a further 90 images that have appeared on the site stretching back to day 1 of Central Station. Keep an eye on your inbox - well be contacting those who'll be featured in the next few days.
Credit: jessica.diamond under Creative Commons
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24.08.10
Central Station first came into life on 17 September 2009. 20,000 uploaded pieces of work, 1700 blogs and 4000 members later we are fast approaching our first birthday. Doesn't time fly!
To celebrate we'll be publishing a book reflecting back over our first year, exploring what it is that Central Station represents, how our members use the site and showcasing the best projects, blogs and work.
Now this is where there's an exciting opportunity.
We'll be selecting ten pieces of work, from those uploaded to the site over the next few days*, to feature in the publication. This is your chance to see your work in print - go on, dig out those images and films and get them on the site now. The cut off point for your work to be considered is Monday 30 August at 9am.
The final chosen contributors will all be given a copy of the final book which will be published in September, with more details to follow in the coming weeks.*make sure you add your work to your portfolio by selecting 'Showcase Work' from the drop down menu when you add each item.
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Reveal your process... Reveal your process...
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Process Month Update:
We've had a fantastic response via blogs and images, revealing practical and theoretical approaches across a host of different disciplines.
A massive thank-you to all those who took the time to share these stories, images and films.
We've put together a comprehensive list [in no particular order] of what you, our members have posted.
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Retchy – Animation / VJing. Including a great live animation performance: http://bit.ly/retchy
VanillaInk – Silversmith: The Story of a Shiny Heart: http://bit.ly/silversm
ReCoat – Gallery Promotion. Street-Art supremos ReCoat Gallery share their promotion ideas: http://bit.ly/gallprom
jonosandislands – Handmade Graphics. Jono's step-by-step guide to handcut graphics for a commercial job: http://bit.ly/shetpro
jonosandislands – How we (screen)print. Amazing stop-motion film of screen-printing collaboration: http://bit.ly/co-lab
Jo Basford – Great new project from Miss Twitterpic herself, illustrating the Edinburgh Fringe via Twitter: http://bit.ly/jobasford
Kirsty Hall – Artist – 4 Process Blogs. Kirsty Hall is an artist who makes using an obsessive, repetitve process: http://bit.ly/kirstyhall
N C K R S S – Mapping as Process – Incredible use of cartographic data to make sculptural products: http://bit.ly/maplake
Neil McGuire – Link Haiku – sharing a wealth of graphic design ideas via daft condensed poetry: http://bit.ly/linkhaiku
jessla – Writing for Film. How do you start to outline sripts and development for shorts? – http://bit.ly/writjessGregor Johnstone – Filmmaker musing on the notion of "Pure Process" – http://bit.ly/pureproc
rosscolquhoun – The amazing story of making beautiful design from a virus in a petri dish: MTV Virus – http://bit.ly/mtvvirus
Klingatron – Great wee film about the intricacies of cutting stencils for street-art. Stencil cut: http://bit.ly/stencilcut
Grant McPhee – A step-by-step guide to developing movie-film at home: http://bit.ly/devfilm
Stephanie Spindler – An artist details a collaborative process over several blogs showing the progression of her drawings: http://bit.ly/recycsel
Lynn-Sayers-McHattie – Stepahnie's collaborator on "Dealing with Compexity" – http://bit.ly/cmplxty
Ric Warren – Conceptual cartography – mark-making on maps: http://bit.ly/markmap
--AVA-- – Xeroxography, or designers playing with a photocopier: http://bit.ly/alchemco
Omar Zingaro Bhatia – "Process Schmocess" Conception, acceptance, money, shame: http://bit.ly/schmocess
Alburt – How a design competition – attempting to rethink political process – is born: http://bit.ly/cmpttn
Trickartt – Great stop-motion film from a designer titled "What I do all day": http://bit.ly/allday
Daniel Montesinos Donaghy – Folded drawings – the importance of doodles and sketches: http://bit.ly/foldedman
alicebee – Creating 3D animated models from drawings – Process images: http://bit.ly/prcssimg
Max Swinton – Beautiful pre-production drawing and ideas for a dark new film: http://bit.ly/flmprdct
Skeeter – Is there a value in the instanst idea, in relation to great art? Instant Art – http://bit.ly/instantart
Wealth_of_the_Commons – Scotland the Creative – examining cultural and governmental process: http://bit.ly/culturalp----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
March is Process month. It's about how you do what you do.
To start unravelling process, what process can mean, from documenting techniques to the process of transforming an idea into a work, here's a stream of thoughts that got us thinking about what process can be. We'll be adding links to examples, featuring blogs, sketchbooks and discussions on process.
What does process mean to you? Will you reveal your process to us?
Creative Process
Technical Process
Day-to-Day Process
Thought Process
Conceptual Process
Experimental Process
Research Process
Business Process
Collaborative Process
Cross-disciplinary Process
Digital Process
Design Process
Editing Process
Storyboards
Brainstorms
Crits
Critical Process
Auto-Pilot
Altering your Process
Learning from mistakes & Happy Accidents
Residencies
Teaching as Process – Unravelling
Techniques
Tools
Crowd Sourcing
Idea>Finished Product
Lost / Forgotten Process [eg dying crafts]
New Processes – eg Transformation Design, Crowd-Sourcing
Process of Elimination
Work Ethic
Sustainability
Gerhard Richter:
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among grey surfaces, and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it. Destitution became a constructive statement; it became relative perfection, beauty, and therefore painting.”
From a letter de Edy de Wilde, 23 February 1975
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The Day Democracy Died in Aber The Day Democracy Died in Aberdeen
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Yesterday, Aberdeen City Council agreed to Sir Ian Wood’s proposal to suffocate the last green space in the city centre under tones of concrete. Buried with it are Peacock Visual Art’s plans for a brilliant new Arts Centre which would have acted as cultural beacon in the city, a resource which would have enticed talent and commerce into the city long after the North Sea lies empty and barren.
More details of the campaign here.
As one Aberdonian commented this morning on Twitter: “It’s disgusting. ACC sold our integrity, our reputation, our culture, our heritage, our green space and democracy yesterday.” (JackKeenan)
The general feeling in the City today is one of deep-set frustration and despair. The campaign to save UTG and the Peacock proposal has been high profile and bitterly fought in the North East for months now. The culmination of which was a £300,000 public enquiry (paid for by the tax payer) to discover what Aberdonian’s wanted the space to be used as.
Despite a majority being in favour of saving UTG, the council made the highly questionable vote of 20 to 7 in favour of Sir Ian Wood’s concrete tomb. 12 Councillors chose not to vote, a decision which is both disgusting and disgraceful considering the monumental impact of the outcome.
As the decision stands, the concrete will start flowing, our green space will be lost, our hopes for a cultural centre in the city will die and Aberdeen's faith in democracy and our council has been shattered.
The mood in Aberdeen is one of despair and heartbreak.
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Starting out on your own Starting out on your own
- From: Duncan MacDonald
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Starting out on your own will be one of the biggest decisions you make.
Whether you're going it alone as a freelancer, working as a creative team, or starting a fully fledged company, the pitfalls are by and large the same, and the same preparations are necessary.
When myself and Lyn Cunningham decided to start Make, we struggled to find information directly related to the creative industries, and starting out. A lot of blog posts were written by serial entrepreneurs, whose business models seemed to be built entirely around venture capital, funding, and building a service without a revenue model.
There was also a lot of advice offered to us by people who'd never run a company. We dismissed it out of hand.
There seemed also to be a distinct lack of realism and self-criticism, and a pious insistence that self belief will conquer all obstacles.
We found very little in the way of practical, realistic advice.
Since opening our doors four months ago, we haven't stopped, and I believe that's largely to do with our combined experience in the industry. I'll outline 10 things we believe you should do before you make the leap, and afterwards, when you've set yourself up.
Preparation
Have some experience under your belt
I can't stress this enough. When I went freelance the first time around, I had 2 years worth of experience in the creative industries, and it definitely wasn't enough. I'd barely learned enough to be an effective middleweight designer, and there I was, leading projects, and not really knowing how to do it. I messed up big time on small jobs, I didn't make much money, and I got very little repeat business. If you've just left college, or if you've had a job in a studio for a while and you're fed up with it, going it alone isn't going to be easy, and there are dozens of experienced designers out there ready to open fire on your work if you mess up. Sit tight, learn as much as you can, about design, about business, and about yourself and your potential clients. Consider it an investment in your own future, just like your college education.
Plan in advance, while you still have a job
This is just common sense, at least I think so. It doesn't matter if you hate your job, it doesn't matter if it's sapping your will to live, if you've made the decision to go it alone, keep that goal in mind, and sit it out. In addition, don't assume your current boss is a fool. They've established a business, they pay themselves, and they pay you. They've done something right for long enough to be in a position to do that. Learn from them, even in passing.
Getting your planning done while you still have a job and while you can still save money, is going to save you wasting away your first few months, and all your savings, while you sit writing a business plan and putting everything in place. Also, plan for every eventuality, and be honest with yourself. You aren't going to make 100k in your first year. You probably aren't going to make close to what you earned before you went it alone, so be prepared.
Have clients lined up
Now, while some people will simply poach clients when they leave their jobs, I don't advocate it.
That's a personal choice, but I'm not out to screw anyone over. If people choose to go with you when you leave, well, all's fair in love and war, as they say. Business is business.
Nevertheless, when we started out with Make, we had 5 jobs lined up, and a handful of prospects on the horizon. If you don't have clients lined up, and if you're sitting there thinking "how do I get business in?", go back to point 1 and have a long hard think. Starting out on your own isn't an ego trip, it's about controlling your own earnings, and your own working environment. If you can't bring in money, you've fallen at the first hurdle.
Be clear about what you're selling
Most non-creative people find the term 'graphic designer' confusing, even if it seems self explanatory to us.
Setting out your services in plain English will make you more approachable to potential clients. Even then, you're always going to struggle against perception.
I've lost count of the amount of times I've had people say "well, we thought we should ask you about our website, but you're an illustrator...".
If you have multiple skills, tell people about them, and promote them equally.
In addition to this, don't use industry lingo when you're selling.
People can't abide bullshitters, and that's what you'll be seen as.
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Don't burn bridges
Sure, you're your own boss now, you don't have to answer to anyone, inside you're saying "look at me now". If you run around bad mouthing people you look immature and petty.
You don't know where relationships might lead, or what relationships other people already have in place. Choose your words carefully.
Have clearly defined roles
This is equally important if you're a freelancer, even though you'll be filling every role. It's in line with 'Be clear about what you're selling'.
It's not only helpful to yourselves, and your workflow, but also to clients, in that they know who they're dealing with regarding any specific enquiry.
Get contracts in place, and take deposits
Even if it's for friends and family, put these structures in place. You have no idea what situation someone is going to find themselves in 4 months down the line, when you invoice them, and they may decide that because of your relationship, you should be willing to hang on to get paid, or simply accept no payment. Trust isn't implicit, it has to be earned by showing mutual respect, and by following simple rules, and sadly in business, you can't take anyone on their word. Likewise with larger organisations, if you don't take necessary precautions, they know they can keep you hanging on as long as they like. Get it in writing, put milestones in place, and get money upfront. If someone isn't willing to pay a deposit for your services, chances are they're going to argue the toss when it comes to final settlement.
Don't take on every job that comes your way
This may seem counter-intuitive, but there are plenty of cowboys and fools out there. Get involved with them and you'll be out of pocket before you know it.
Likewise, promising to do work that you're not really qualified to do is hugely destructive.
You may have spent a month or two making things in Dreamweaver. If you've promised you can design and build a CMS driven website with X amount of functionality, by X date, for X cost, you're going to be knee deep in your own shit before you can smell it, and there's no getting out without considerable loss to your pocket, and your reputation.
You can't do everything, and sometimes you just have to say no.
Look after the numbers
If you don't have a head for figures, pay your accountant more to fill in the gaps.
If you're in partnership, work out who is better at dealing with figures, and give them the responsibility.
Again, this ties into the earlier point 'Have clearly defined roles'.
Work yourself hard, but take time to recover
Again, self explanatory. If you force yourself to work harder when you're beginning to crack under the pressure, you'll crack.
If you want to be effective, take time out and relax. Don't sit and stress out that there are things you could be doing, if you're burning yourself out, you'll probably do them badly, or sit staring at your screen doing nothing. Strike a balance and stick to it.It's by no means an exhaustive list, and I know I haven't covered everything, hopefully it's of some help to anyone thinking of making the move.
I welcome any additional points or feedback in the comments.
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Two Open Ears: OUT OF TUNE Two Open Ears: OUT OF TUNE
- From: brian
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"Two Open Ears" blog investigates how ambient sound, noise and music significantly shape our everyday experiences. Inspired by the likes of Brian Eno, John Cage and R Murray Shafer, the blog will draw from real world examples of innovative uses of sound as both a positive and negative force (e.g. as a healer in music therapy or as a weapon in Guantanamo bay's torture techniques) as well as recent academic research.
This blog presents a direct challenge to the visual artists, designers, architects, town planners and politicians to open your ears! We fight for a shift in thinking - away from dominant visual design world to one where the practise of music and sound design is elevated to an equal footing. The first post below explores the current state of our soundscape and the following posts will investigate theories of noise, experimental soundscapes and music as used within design.
It's written by Brian, manging director of music design company Open Ear
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or read the archiveOUT OF TUNE: The urban crescendo, deafening spaces and noise, noise, noise!
“ Modern man is beginning to inhabit a world with an acoustic environment radically different from any he has previously known.
Noise pollution is now a world problem.
The world soundscape has reached an apex of vulgarity in our time….
Universal deafness is the ultimate consequence.”
R. Murray Schafer, The Soundscape, 1977.
Ecologist R Murray Shafer, head of the World Soundscape Project, wrote the book “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World” in 1977 to document many years spent measuring increasing sound levels in Western cities. He concluded that a combination of man-made factors contribute to the continuous and seemingly exponential rise in noise level in our urban areas. Shafer warns that the eventual outcome will be “universal deafness” for us all and predicts the sound levels will continue to rise to the increasing detriment of our health unless we change our ways with tighter regulation, better education and a process of ‘ear cleaning’.
Over 30 years on, Shafer's apocalyptic warning seems to be more relevant that ever. Our cities have got louder. We continue to create noise in any way we can - new technologies, increased traffic, more people and more industry adds to the cacophony. Looking a little deeper, you can begin to see the reasons why - has our politicians, town planners, architects and design community in general neglected the sense of hearing?! Architectural spaces are filled with hard and reverberant surfaces because they 'look nice'. Bars, restaurants and shops drown out our conversations with badly selected generic pop music. Websites batter you with intrusive soundtracks and hidden mute buttons. Mobile phones provide the unwanted soundtrack to our public transport journeys. The list goes on...
Why do we place such little importance on our city soundscapes and sound of the spaces within them? Why do our designers, architects, artists, creatives, not to mention politicians, continue to undervalue sound? Although sometimes there seems to be a fine line, sound doesn't have to be noise! If used in the right way, it can have a significant and powerfully positive affect for anyone experiencing it. Science shows how music can be used to improve health, with music therapy being one of the best known means of combating mental illness. Business theory tells us that successful brands are not purely visual, with market leaders reaching out to consumers ears as well as their eyes. Psychology shows how big an influence music is over our choices – listening to music can tell us what wine to buy, encourage us to stay longer, spend more money and can even alter the taste of that wine!
As more and more research continues to support the positive impact of sound on both a commercial and health level, we believe this presents the design community with a fantastic opportunity - for collaboration, education and implemention of better sound! The following posts in this blog will give various examples, theory, and research to support and expand on the above. We welcome your comments and feedback, just make sure and keep your voices down ....
See also (full reading list will be presented at the end of the month)
Noises - live AV project byt Brian d'Souza and Ling Lee / Myspace
Spaces Speak, Are you Listening?
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Spotlight on Bristol: An Intro Spotlight on Bristol: An Introduction
- From: Heidi.Kuisma
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Did you know that there are 35 places on Earth named Bristol, most in the US but also in Peru, Canada, Jamaica and Costa Rica? I'll be talking about Bristol that is a bit closer to home to most of CenSta users, the one in South-West of England.
In two weeks time we will be turning our focus on Bristol's creative scene. Our Bulletin page will be taken over by all things Bristol; blogs, photos, events, galleries...
I'm first to admit that beyond knowing that Darth Vader (well, the actor), Banksy and one of my favourite bands when I was 19 hail from there, I don't know a lot more about Bristol. There is also only so much Google will be able to tell you (such as that very interesting fact how many Bristols there are in the world) and as nothing beats first-hand knowledge we are asking your help.
We would like to find out more about Bristol, what's happening in there, which galleries/venues you like to visit. Are there hidden spaces in Bristol you find inspirational?
There are a couple of ways you can give an insight to Bristol:
1. Write blogs, add audio, upload images and videos...
2. Start Discussions why Bristol is the best creative place in the world. Or not if that's the case.
3. Let us know about great events and festivals. Point us to the best galleries. Make sure we won't miss out on anything interesting.
4. Invite your creative Bristol based friends to join Central Station.
5. If you are a Bristol artist/designer/filmmaker/creative and already a member make sure your profile has plenty of work and is up to date. Also let us know that you are from Bristol by saying hello and by editing your profile and adding your location.
We will also be launching a new feature soon taking a closer look at people's creative environments and we'll start with Bristol. So keep your eyes peeled for that too.
I am really looking forward to finding more about Bristol so get creating!
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My Creative Scene: Bristol
by HowardLitchfieldThe first in our new series of blogs documenting individual creative scenes across the globe. Here Howard Litchfield explores the colour and vibrancy of Bristol.
My Creative Scene: Bristol (2)
by MarkSharmanCam
A second snapshot of Bristol this time by camera operator Mark Sharman who works closely with the BBC Natural History Unit which is based in the city.//////////////////////////////
More Bristol blogs:
Bristol Takeover by Gailtolley
A CenSta Top 5: Bristol Members' Work by CenSta
Bristol's Creative Scene by BristolCulture - Blog post
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Cult:Red or Dead? 25 Questions Cult:Red or Dead? 25 Questions ...
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DigiCult's hypothesis is simple: People make better films when they ask better questions. Please post your suggestions for the 'critical questions that need to be asked by every filmmaker' below. Read on:
Questions, questions, questions.
When you watch a good film, you’re watching the answer to a thousand questions.
The urge begins with the writer. Passes to the director. Slips to the cast, DoP, editor, composer. Every single person involved in making a film needs to ask a hundred questions. And if we don’t ask a thousand questions, we can’t make a great film.
What should my character do now? Kiss her or run away?
Which camera should I use? Why? And what shot tells the story best?
When should I cut away? When should I hold? Or should I dissolve?
Does this sequence need some score? And what about sound design?
On Sunday 20th June at EIFF, DigiCult will attempt the impossible. In less than six hours, we want to discover
25 CRITICAL QUESTIONS THAT WILL DEFINITELY MAKE YOUR FILM BETTER
As part of EIFF’s industry programme, we’re bringing together a group of multi-talented panellists - writers and directors from DigiCult’s Scottish talent pool plus their collaborators on our slate of challenging shorts premiering at EIFF. With the help of the Central Station community, we want to identify the questions that should to be asked by every aspiring film-maker.
What creative choices do you need to make in film-making? And what questions can you ask to help make the right choices? From writing through shooting, editing, grading, sound design, and composition, what questions are going to make a material difference to the quality of your film? This blog is the beginning of our exploration:
Reflect on the subject. Offer your ideas. Suggest some questions.
Post a message via the blog now. Our panel members are reading.
At RED or Dead? your questions will be discussed and at the end of the session, DigiCult will publish the definitive list of questions online.
DigiCult presents Red or Dead? Creative Choices in Short Filmmaking
in Association with Central Station, Freakworks & RSAMD
For more details on RED or Dead, visit the event listing.
To win tickets to this exclusive industry event at EIFF, click here.
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My GI with Phil Kay & The Film My GI with Phil Kay & The Film Crew Pt. 1 (Sat)
- From: Heidi.Kuisma
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My GI weekend with Phil Kay and the film crew as a runner/assistant started on Saturday afternoon in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. After Phil sang a song about the hardness of trying to get your music heard in art galleries we visited Glasgow based artist, David Shrigley’s exhibition. I didn’t manage to see it properly so a second viewing is definitely on the cards as I really like his humorous work. The stuffed animal holding a sign with ‘I’m Dead’ written on it can’t but make you smile.
After a quick bite to eat we headed to 212 West Princes Street to see Jane Nicoll’s curated exhibition HALLelujah 2 which brings together the work of fifteen artists from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. This exhibition came with a welcome twist as the artwork is set in the hall way of Jane Nicoll’s beautiful flat. It was lovely to see artwork in a domestic setting and let’s be honest (and maybe a bit cheeky), have a wee wander in someone else’s flat. After viewing the artwork Phil ended up singing a song with Sparky the dog and we planned the rest of our day over cups of coffee.
On our drive to City Centre to check out what Le Drapeau Noir at Renfield Lane opposite from Stereo was all about I found out that Phil Kay used to live on the same street that I live on at the moment. The phrase ‘It’s a small world’ comes to mind. At least it wasn’t the same number. When we got to Renfield Lane there wasn’t much happening yet other than Phil unravelling their black flag so we had a nice dinner break munching Stereo’s food and planned to visit the cafe again later on in the evening.
From Stereo we headed to Jim Lambie’s exhibition ‘Neon’ at The Modern Institute. It was bright, colourful and full of all creative, arty types enjoying chat, drink and the artwork. Neon is an exhibition I’d like to visit again when not so busy and take my time walking around in the space. The Modern Institute also had a book shop which seemed to have plenty of inspiring looking books not available in mainstream shops. Their big windows created a sort of fishbowl effect on the opening night as a group of people looked in from the dark Glasgow evening into what seemed like a burst of colour and enjoyment. It all made the world seem a bit drab and boring on our drive to pick up Phil from Stereo where he had cycled using a White Bike to see The Trembling Bells.Our next stop was Guantanamera Record launch event at The Grand Hall at Trades Hall. Unfortunately due to visa and volcano issues, artist José Andres Ramirez hadn’t been able to come along as planned. I spent most of my time in there trying to get a signature from someone who had been filmed. While I finally succeeded in my task, but only after being asked to draw a shoe (who said that being a runner/assistant isn’t glamorous), Phil had a wee dance in the light of two big screens showing the two artists singing Guantanamera.
We finished the night at Le Drapeau Noir, a venue rumoured to be THE place to be during the festival. We entered the absolutely packed place about midway through Gummy Stump’s energetic set. The night continued with ‘Love Alien’, an artist Michelle Hannah dressed in silver skintight spandex taking the stage, or top of the table to be correct. After her spoken word performance she walked around in the crowd sharing her alien love by giving hugs and bringing a smile on people’s face. Phil Kay then improvised song about volcanic ashes before people dressed as bushes took over the dancefloor. This was our cue for the exit and some well deserved sleep before another GI day on Sunday. You can find more photos, blogs and links to videos over at Phil Kay Does GI Group and in his profile.
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Human Resources™ Introduction Human Resources™ Introduction
- From: rosscolquhoun
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Human Resources™ is an independent, online source of creative inspiration. Launched in the late summer of 2008 by three Edinburgh College of Art graduates, it now receives around 500,000 hits per month, from nearly every corner of Planet Earth. Recently, it was also nominated for 'Arts & Culture Blog of the Year' by style bible Dazed & Confused Magazine.
There are a number of new exciting projects planned for the next twelve months (including a new look website) and by joining this group, you will be able to track the progress through the Central Station Community. Keep your eyes peeled and your ears to the ground. - Blog post
- 8 months ago
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The Made In The Shade Maisonet The Made In The Shade Maisonette
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The Made In The Shade Maisonette is our new permanent, dynamic retail, gallery and social space dedicated to showcasing and promoting off-beat design, creativity and vintage lifestyle. The Maisonette, or 'little home', is a friendly hub of activity set in a friendly space in Glasgow's old-time indie shopping institution, De Courcy's Arcade on Cresswell Lane. We'll be opening our doors to customers on Friday 30th October 2009.
Not just a one-stop shop for all things handmade, unusual and beautiful, The Maisonette is also home to the Tiny Gallery AND to a fabulous program of creative and sociable get-togethers. From October 2009, the Made In The Shade gals will continue to conduct their event and agency work in The Maisonette too. We'll have a real-life Made In The Shade home at last!
Although small and dinky, the vintage styled Made In The Shade Maisonette showcases work by directional Scottish designers, makers and artists and introduces the work of creatives from across the UK and beyond. Crossing disciplines, product categories and styles, the Maisonette offers customers the pick of handmade delights and vintage finds.
We are so excited about The Maisonette and we really, really hope you are too. - Blog post
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Tasty twEATs! Tasty twEATs!
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Central Station are joining up with Landshare and River Cottage to bring you 'twEATs' - a live cooking Twitter challenge taking place on the night of 16th August. It's all for NVA’s Glasgow Harvest, a couple of weeks later at Tramway’s Hidden Gardens on 28th August. If you haven’t read about it yet, it’s a celebration of urban farming aiming to educate and encourage people to grow their own food.
This is our rolling blog, which we update with news, info or just general excitement that we want to share.
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17.08.10
twEATs 2: The Leftovers
The smoke has cleared, the dishes have been collected, there’s a faint tang of lemon and garlic in the air, and all around the country people are looking forward to twEATs 2: The Leftovers – we think it’s fair to say the night was a delicious success. Check out our special picture blog here...
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12.08.10
Tasty TwEATs Ingredients Revealed
We can now reveal the ingredients for our twEATs event - a live cooking Twitter Challenge- giving you plenty of time to shop and harvest over the weekend.
Have your ingredients ready and be set to start cooking from 7pm!
75g pumpkin seeds
Large bunch of parsley
50g parmesan or matured goat's cheese, finely grated.
8 courgettes, about 1kg
4 cloves garlic
300ml of rapeseed or extra virgin olive oil
20 basil leaves, cut into strips
Salad leaves for 4
200g crumbly goats cheese
1 lemon
8 thick slices bread
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Hot tip: Have a food processor or blender to hand.
So that's it. The above will feed 4 lovely friends, if you are cooking for more or less, just adjust to suit. Make sure you follow River Cottage on twitter, and be ready for the cooking instructions to start at 7pm on Monday 16th August. It's going to be tasty.
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06.08.10
BREAKING NEWS: The chef taking part in twEATs is revealed! We’re incredibly excited to announce that Tim Maddams, Head Chef at River Cottage Axminster Canteen and Deli will be cooking the secret dish on 16th August. See Landshare's announcement or read on…
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twEATs!
You’ve cooked along while watching on telly, you’ve even cooked along to a blog on the net, so now Central Station, Landshare and River Cottage are hosting a live cooking event of our own… on Twitter! To find out the ins and outs, check out our twEATs event listing here.
Basically, it looks like this:
- Tim Maddams, Head Chef at River Cottage Axminster Canteen and Deli has selected a dish (vegetarian) from one of their fantastic seasonal recipes for you to cook up.
- Next week the ingredients you will need to cook this mystery recipe will be revealed, giving you a few days to get yourself organised. How you get the ingredients is up to you – you could pick them from your garden, barter with other keen growers for ingredients, visit your local grocer or go out foraging in the wild. What ever floats your boat.
- on the day itself the chef will give step-by-step directions over Twitter - @rivercottage - on what to do with your ingredients, with the odd picture to keep you on the right track. It’s going to literally be a twitter FEED (see what we did there?)
- you send us your own twEATs and pics as it all happens, letting us know how your culinary skills have held up. And chef will be able to answer any relevant queries as the feed continues. Then we’ll put it all together in an exclusive publication available only at Glasgow Harvest on 28 August.How can you get involved? We’re glad you asked…
1. Source your ingredients:
In the spirit of NVA and Landshare, we encourage you to find your ingredients locally, if at all possible; perhaps you already have your own windowbox or herb patch, or know of a veggie-growing neighbour who you could trade with. Check out your local farmers' markets to find a variety of fresh produce, or head out into the countryside yourself, to forage for your food! If you feel inspired to begin growing your own food but don’t have access to a garden, check out Landshare’s programme matching growers with spare land in their area.
2. twEATs aplenty:
This is when you get to eat what you tweet!
Collect together your ingredients and utensils; keep the evening free in your diary, have your computer or phone charged and camera to hand.
Then prepare to cook a dinner you could tweet home about.
3. Go to Harvest:
Pick up a copy of the twEATs’ publication, eat good food, get a punk herb hair-do, check out the jam wall & have a hoot!/////////////////
05.08.10
UPDATE: WE HAVE A WINNER!Central Station is chuffed to announce that Hilary Grant (hilarygrant) is the winner of our twEATs design competition.
Here are the winning entries:
POTTED SALAD
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ICED TEA
Hilary is one half of art collective Edible/Wearable, which she formed with Mahala la May, a fellow student at Duncan of Jordanstone College. Since graduating in 2007, Hilary has designed textiles and accessories for Alexander McQueen, Clare Tough and Tait & Style. She spent the last year working with creative research group Distance Lab and is currently a freelance illustrator and designer.
Angus Farquhar, Creative Director of NVA and one of the judges for our competition said: "I chose Hilary out of a really diverse field with many strong contenders, as I liked her clear and bold style; it is uncomplicated but lively and capable of lifting a simple recipe off the page."
His fellow judge, Mark Breslin from ISO Design, agreed: "Both of Hilary’s entries have a strong graphic feel, they were really appropriate for the scale and production qualities of the newspaper format. I really liked the contrast between her two entries (yes, two entries – one isn’t enough these days), the first being a sequence of frames illustrating the process, the other a strong single image."
We can't wait to see what she does with our limited-edition publication, available only at NVA's Glasgow Harvest Festival on Sat 28th August.
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NVA:
NVA is a public arts organisation founded in Glasgow in 1992. Our practice is directly engaged in the wider world of urban and rural landscapes. We use a collective approach both in terms of artistic development and also to encourage audiences to participate physically and creatively. We take what is ‘there’ as a starting point to uncover complex underlying realities and to reveal how places shape and are shaped by their inhabitants.
Landshare:
If twEATS and Harvest have got you hankering after the good life, Landshare is the place to find a plot to grow some veggies on. Landshare is an online network where you can look for land to grow veg on, offer their spare land, or get help and tips from Veg Doctors and Helpers supported by Garden Organic, the Royal Horticultural Society and the National Trust.
http://www.landshare.net/River Cottage:
Tim Maddams, Head Chef from the River Cottage Axminster Canteen and Deli, will be cooking one of River Cottage’s great seasonal recipes. If you just can’t wait to see what he has chosen, take a peek at some of the fantastic meals in their Everyday Cookbook. Or if you’re passing by, drop in and visit the fantastic new Deli counter at the Axminster Canteen. - Blog post
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Ever Here I Be and Digital Cin Ever Here I Be and Digital Cinema
- From: Aldo Palumbo
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When I heard that the RED camera was coming to town, I was keen to work with it. Digital cinema had arrived, and by digital cinema I mean rushes that are just computer files; and yet they look amazing on the big screen. No toxic rolls of film, no whirring reels of tape. The result could be projected in Cineworld or GFT1 (5 mins from my Glasgow suite), and it would look like 35mm. I had already seen Stephen Soderbergh's Che (entirely shot on RED) in GFT2 and it looked very nice to me.
I'm not one of those people who reveres celluloid film as the apotheosis of cinema. To me, film is an unwieldily middleman putting technology in the way of expression. It's nice in your hands and even nicer when you hold it up to the light, but films are meant to carry stories: not be objects of fetish in themselves. I shot my first films on Super 8 and then on 16mm. Super 8 seemed better because it corrupted what it saw in unusual ways. 16mm just looked like soft 35mm. 35mm needed the big money. We put up with film because it was poetry when compared to video. But digital cinema is not video: it's something else.
Surely future generations will feel deprived of this celluloid poetry…?
I recently asked a class of secondary school children (12-17 year olds in a school film unit) if any of them had ever taken a roll of snap shots to be developed and printed. Not one of them had. Not one of them cared. Digital stills have taken over, and we're all very relaxed about it. Goodbye XP4 and HP5, or my favourites: Scotch Chrome 1000 and Ektachrome 100. We don't need you anymore; what an awful lot of money you cost us.
For some reason there's a resistance to the death of celluloid when it comes to movies. Which is strange considering that lab costs have been the single biggest hurdle to getting a film made for as long as I can remember. Now that hurdle has gone. No more begging for 'short-ends', no more mind-boggling 'edge-numbers', no more agonising over telecine costs. I expect that by April 2013, we won't be able to purchase or develop a roll of 16mm or 35mm film anywhere in the UK.
Film is dead. Long live Film.
For low budget film-makers, all our attention can now be given over to the stuff that really matters:
the script, the cast, the light, the lens.
Yes, the lens: because what you are shooting through is far more important than what you are shooting on. But that's what everyone asks when you say you're making a film: "Oh cool, what are you shooting on?" Not, “What is it about? Who is it about?” Or, if you are going to be technical, “Are you getting prime lenses?”
Why? Because everyone wants to know how close you are getting to 35mm. With tapeless systems like RED, that boring question is properly answered. And of course it comes with a box full of lovely lenses. So all that's left now is one interesting question:
“What's the story”
And one very boring one:
“Can anyone's computer cope with such massive movie files?”
Yes, the Red camera produces a huge 'negative'. It's worth noting that at actual size, the RED camera's rushes won't even fit within my 30" Apple Cinema Display. These are huge files.
Both the Interesting and Boring questions would be addressed with my most recent editing assignment: Ever Here I Be by Kate Burton, produced by Philippa Farnese for DigiCult.
The Interesting Answer
Ever Here I Be is a story about a beautiful young woman who is a terrible waitress, but an admirable spirit in a world of disappointments. One of these disappointments is a relationship she hopes to rekindle. To do so, she'll have to convince her gloomy minded ex. After all, what is love without optimism?
Over 15 minutes we meet a number of unusual characters in an unusually bright and colourful Glasgow. Yes, it's a bright film that’s set in Glasgow. Not everyone smiles, but not everyone feels hopeless either. They do what real people do: try to be happy despite their circumstances and self-doubts. Moreover, this film is funny and serious at the same time: even in the same shot. Like life, it's rather rich.
Writer/director Kate Burton had visited some of these themes before in her previous film The Ice Plant, for which she had also created a hyper-real environment; but this new film would take these interests to another level: bigger cast, more locations, more evolved design ideas and only 5 pages longer. I say 'only', because, as any poet knows, it's hard to do a lot with a little. The Ice Plant had 2 characters over 10 pages; Ever Here I Be has 7 characters over 15 pages. Rich indeed. It would also be a big demand on its production team (PM - Su Bainbridge, PC - Rachel Fiddes, 1st AD - Deva Smith, Designer - Natalie Astridge, Costume - Lucy Harvey, MUA - Nicole Stafford, Sound - Chris Campion).
Ever Here I Be also has a wider colour palette and a wider aspect ratio: 2.35:1 - very cinematic, very landscapey: the stuff of adventures, fables, myths and Westerns.
And it would be shot by David Liddell - esteemed graduate of both the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the National Film and Television School with his own team of RSAMD and NFTS trained camera and lighting professionals. Not bad at all.
But would it all work on my Mac…?
The Boring Answer
The no 1 piece of advice for rushes from the RED camera is to transcode: that it is to turn them into another type of video; Uncompressed, Apple ProRes or even DV - something normal, smaller, less scary. It’s the same as the old offline/online workflow of last century, in which Avid Media Composer would suck the life out pictures from a DigiBeta deck until up to 95% of its data had been thrown away leaving a very porridgy looking result. Editors would shy away from wide-shots because the detail was so hard to read in the offline. At the end of the process, all the tapes would have to be taken out their boxes and stuck into clunky machines all over again to recapture the footage at full-fat quality.
Transcoding is the same idea without the porridgy pics: ProRes is actually a very high-quality image - calling it ‘offline’ seems a little rude - so I shouldn’t really complain. But I will. Because this transcoding process takes time. In fact, for every hour of rushes, you need 3 hours of transcoding.
3 hours?! This to me seemed very old school. I thought the point of tapeless was no waiting? Just drag-and-drop-instant-cinema? Transcode? That's a bit like a 'one light rush print' back at the film lab, isn't it? I don't want to make time for that.
And what's more, I had a director who wanted to review her rushes only an hour after I came out of mentoring editing students at the RSAMD. There was no time to be transcoding. Would it really be so bad if I just dragged a QuickTime from the location-temperature drive to the room-temperature Timeline and just pressed play?
So, I dragged, dropped, pressed play and it played.
RED uses wavelet derived proxies. This means that alongside the massive Redcode media file (the 'negative'), are three wafer-light QuickTimes designed for use in editing software. These QuickTimes use the terribly clever mathematics of 'wavelet transforms' to sift only a manageable number of pixels from the 'negative'. You can choose Full Frame, Half Frame, Medium or Proxy, and once again, you don't have to wait. It’s all created on-the-fly once the DoP presses Rec and re-created when the editor presses play. It’s like using the online pictures, but with an instant offline translator holding back all the pixels you won’t need until you get to the cinema.
For the first slate of Ever Here I Be, the Redcode media file - the 'negative' - is 1.2GB of drive space - rather large - but the QuickTime I used for editing that shot is only 12KB: about the size of a longish email.
I’ll say now, you only need the Medium sized frame. It's 1000 pixels wide and a quarter of the size of image intended for the cinema’s projector holding its own next to 35mm. But it was certainly big enough for my 30" screen; and you have to put the Half size and Medium next to each other before you notice that the bigger of the two has blacker blacks.
When I told people I hadn't transcoded, I was variously warned that I would have trouble exporting viewing copies. But despite longer than normal compression times, I was able to export DVDs and web-sized QuickTimes without a problem. All in all there were 17 uploads and 2 DVDs (yes, DVD is following VHS to the Clunky Format Graveyard, and I for one won't miss it).
I should say that the RED documentation includes a hybrid workflow, which involves using the Log and Transfer window to create native, Redcode QuickTimes. These are self-contained 2k files. This takes some weight of the processor when you’re editing, but this is definitely not an instant process.
My workflow: drag-and-drop to Final Cut Pro on a high-spec Mac.
Finishing
The picture-locked cut also translated to the Baselight system at Serious Facilities (for grader, Ben Mullen) without a problem. That rich script has come out looking like a rather rich QuickTime. But how will look it projected? Get your tickets:
Edinburgh International Film Festival - 21st June 2010
Postscript
Ever Here I Be’s DoP, David Liddell has offered a thought or two on the subject of RED vs film, which goes beyond the easy pixel punch up between 4k and 35mm, and gets right to RED’s equivalent to the celluloid film plane at the back of the lens: the big and hilariously named ‘Mysterium’ sensor:
“Before, digital was only 3 x ⅔ inch sensors going through different prisms and filters each correlating to one of the primary colours: red, green or blue. So the smaller sensor produced images with too large a depth of field to be pleasing to the eye and an image area that - although a camera might have a high resolution - the sensor and lens really seemed unable to resolve those pixels in the most flattering way. Pixel count is no longer the primary goal.
“What cinematographer's want is greater latitude ie more tonal range from black to white.”
Scouring the internet for further discussions will take you to reports on how many f–stops of exposure can be resolved using a given digital cinema camera or film stock, but a very important factor in image quality is the quality of the lighting, and that means the crew. Digital technology has turned us all into photographers, but your digital cinema rushes will never compete with the classics of celluloid without a first class DoP and team.
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MCS - Manchester MCS - Manchester
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Papergirl’s guide to Manchester
Papergirl is coming to Manchester. Papergirl is an art project from Berlin where in the style of American paper-boys, rolled art pieces will be distributed by bicycle in the streets of Manchester to random passers-by. You can submit as many pieces or copies as you like before 1st September.
But what are you going to submit? Here’s our essential guide to Manchester.
Start the day off with some breakfast at Koffee Pot. The art maybe on the shutters but the food is good and you’ll need bags of energy for the day ahead.
Koffee Pot, 21 Hilton Street, Stevenson Square,Northern Quarter, M1 1JJ
http://www.thekoffeepot.co.uk/
Pop round the corner to Magma to indulge in international design magazines and books. Check out Papergirl Berlin in Urban Interventions, featuring 256 pages of personal projects in public spaces. Try to resist spending a month’s wages on books and t-shirts. Instead opt for an issue of boneshaker magazine, full or articles, stories and anecdotes about people doing great things with bicycles (look out for issue 3 in October). Don’t forget to pick up a free copy of Article magazine on the way out – made in Sheffield, Article features art, design, music and urbanism.
Magma Books, 22 Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M1 1JN
Further down Oldham Street you'll find Mooch N4, a small gallery representing some of the best emerging street artists. Their current show 'Natural Selection' is a series of work on canvas and pieces of salvaged wood, by Sheffield based Faunagraphic and Rocket01. The exhibition closes on Saturday 14th of August. Pop round for a brew and a chat Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
Mooch N4, 88 Oldham Street, Northern Quarter, M4 1LF
http://www.mooch-art.co.uk/ContemporaryStreetArt/
Check out Papergirl Manchester artist TXLW exhibition at the Chinese Arts Centre.TXLW describes her work as evolving, endearing, sporadic and predominantly image based. Notes to Self visitors are invited to write a note to self and place it in a TXLW bird box. Pick up a TXLW handscreened notebook with recycled paper whilst your there.
Chinese Arts Centre, Market Buildings, Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester,M4 1EU
http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/
Now you’ve found your inspiration head down to Fred Aldous to pick up some materials. Established in 1886, you’ll find everything you need to turn your ideas into art.
Fred Aldous, 37 Lever Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1 1LW
So your pockets are busting with art materials and you could probably do with re-fuelling. Go straight to Common for some food*, drink, art and music. Get out your sketchbook and start working on your Papergirl Manchester submission, whilst checking out the exhibition 'An Apple A Day' by DR ME.
*I recommend the veggie chilli.
Common, 39 to 41 Edge Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 1HW
http://www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk/
It's time to print your Papergirl Manchester submissions at Hot Bed Press, where the printmaking facilities cost just £2.00 per hour to members. Hot Bed Press is a not-for-profit open access print workshop, dedicated to supporting anyone with an interest in printmaking. Facilities include equipment for screen printing, etching, drypoint, collagraphs, relief printing and other related processes. They also host a series of courses and workshops.
Hot Bed Press, Printmakers' Studio, 1st Floor, The Casket Works, Cow Lane, Salford, M5 4 NB http://www.hotbedpress.org
Now you have created your Papergirl submission, drop it off at Nexus Art Café where you can enjoy some tea and cake, take a look at the latest installation and take part in the events from crafternoons to life drawing.
Nexus Art Café, Dale Street, M1 1JW
Now you have submitted your work to Papergirl Manchester await details of the upcoming exhibition and distribution. To find out more visit http://papergirlmanchester.tumblr.com/
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A CenSta Top 5: Most Liked Vid A CenSta Top 5: Most Liked Videos
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To celebrate Moving Image Month we've compiled the top 5 most liked videos as chosen by the Central Station community. What a talented bunch!
1. Big Ideas (don't get any) by jameshouston
2. Gorbals Highlights by Multicolours
3. Digital Analogue by LU Sisi
4. The Bedfords by ciarabaz
5. NVA White Bikes by Heidi.Kuisma
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Pick up a Skinny Guide Pick up a Skinny Guide
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Atypical Root & Radius are twinned but separate projects united by a desire to provide unusual perspectives on Glasgow and its art in April 2010, alongside Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. Both come from the heart of the local art scene, from the unfunded and grassroots endeavour that is at the core of the city's notoriety as an artistic hub. They're both innovative, inclusive and concerned with emergent art.
We noticed the whisperings of their projects here on Central Station and decided we liked what we saw, so wanted to support it, which came in the form of a Skinny's guide to Radius & Atypical Root that will be distributed across arts venues around Glasgow from Wednesday 14th April, providing details of what's going on, with a map showing where to find it.
Both Radius & Atypical Root have dozens of events happening across the city in and outside venues. Find out more by picking up the Skinny publication at venues across the city, including The Tramway, Welcome Home, Tron Theatre, Trongate 103, Oran Mor, Beanscene, Gallery of Modern Art, Sorcha Dallas, CCA, Gilmorehill G12 and Swg3.
Or check the Radius & Atypical Root groups for more info online.
Highlights from Radius and Atypical Root will include - amongst other things - guerilla gardeners improving the urban landscape, the sound of a dying star playing in a Clydeside pedestrian tunnel, desinger-makers displaying their wares in the Lighthouse and plenty more.
So, to find out more, keep up to date and to tell us what you think of these two projects, join the Radius & Atypical Root groups where you can also comment, blog and upload images or video about any of the exhibitions you visited!
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A CenSta Top 5: Collaborative A CenSta Top 5: Collaborative Projects
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Central Station is a great place to find people to collaborate with. The possibilities really are endless... for a little inspiration here are 5 projects which came about from people finding each other and teaming up on the site.
1. Jo Mango - collectors’ edition 10" double single, The Moth & The Moon / The Black Sun
Album artwork and packaging for Scottish musician Jo Mango by Rydo! and Hanna Tuulikki. The three didn't know each other before the project and Jo found and commissioned them through Central Station. See Rydo's showcase for more images of the work.
2. Filmmakers Group Edinburgh
This informal group was set up via Central Station. Lina has recently blogged to say that they currently have 21 filmmakers and are hoping to announce joint projects and collaborations in the near future. Watch this space.
3. Strawberry Fields
In January this year Genevieve did a call out to curators, designers and sound artists for her project Strawberry Fields - an exhibition based on work inspired by the Beatles song of the same name. She was also on the look out for a venue. Within 24 hours she'd found a whole team to work with and a space and the exhibition took place the following month. Success.
4. Radius
Image: Entry/exit site view by grahamlister
In the lead up to Glasgow International Festival there were several Central Station members who had planned an exhibition but whose submissions hadn't been accepted. After discussions on the site, spearheaded by Stephanie Spindler, Radius developed as a series of fringe events happening around the city during the festival.
5. Uzzz
The ultimate collaboration and a project that introduced the world to Central Station. We asked for our members to submit an image that tells the audience something significant or revealing about them. Alec Farmer then created a video entitled Uzzz from the submissions and Jack McConchie from the band Isosceles did the soundtrack.
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Stereohype ABC call for work Stereohype ABC call for work
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Thought I should share this call with people.
ABC DIMENSIONAL
DEADLINE 18 JANStereohype are looking for people to design create physical 3D letters of the alphabet.
call for entriesThe image of the B above is a sneak peak of the series I'm working up for them. Their books are really smart, I was in the one they did in 2008 called "Postcard" and its full of brilliant ideas and I'm sure this years book will be the same. [Click here to see more images of my my project entitled AB0Co.]
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A CenSta Top 5: Black and Whit A CenSta Top 5: Black and White Photography
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So many images to choose from for this week's Top 5 blog. No doubt we have missed several worthy contenders but here is a selection of some of the most striking black and white photographs currently on the site. Plenty of drama and atmosphere in these snaps.
1. Birds by Sarah Connolly
2. the cracks by sam_hart
3. . by Benzoharris
4. flats by allanmcleodroney
5. Toilet and Gun by emmamacleod
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Art and bicycles Art and bicycles
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So we're half way through our second day at GI....so far nobody has given us any cake, but we did have a lovely lunch at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in their cafe. First stop this morning was the Collins Art Gallery to see Pum Dunbar's exhibit of collages and things. It is Pum. Not Pam like most people like to spell it, but that only makes her more interesting. After that, with our BBC Reporter in hot pursuit...(alright, we gave her a lift, but only becuase she was a nice lady and is called Monica)....we set off to the westend. I went on my bike, borrowed from one of the production team, thanks Kirstie :) All the same, how rude... the crew made me cycle from the city centre to the west end because there wasn't enough room in the Quashqai. It's really far. But I do like to cycle, so it was okay.
When we got there, we watched a man playing a big organ...he was good...obviously practices. I did my very own song too from one of the balconies overlooking the foyer. Surprised people having their lunch. Then we visited the David Shrigley exhibit where I had a chat with a lady called Ang. She said it was surreal, I thought it was fun.
Next stop is a fringe festival event called Hallelujah 2 in West Princes Street. At some point in their life, everybody in Glasgow lives on West Princes Street. It's the Andy Warhol of Glasgow. We're going to someone's flat....a lady called Janie Nicoll. She invited us by Tweeting at us. I hope she has tea. You'd think she would, since she's invited 15 artists into her living room, plus all the GI visitors too. Might put a wash on while I'm there.
If you want us to visit your event next, then leave me a comment or tweet us an invite @Censta tagging it #GIPhil
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