News Flash!

News Flash! Crazy Octopus Terrorizes Toy Town. Our resident fly on the scene has this to say: "BbbbbbZzzzzzz." These groovy promotional post-cards were given to us by Nathan Peacock at this week's Comic Evening @ Travelling Man. Nathan is a fantastic illustrator whose work is delicately drawn by hand. At first glance we thought he'd used a program like Adobe Illustrator to put his designs together but Nathan prefers to use liquid pens and the tools he was born with. Good on ya Nathan!

Image © Nathan Peacock

Image © Nathan Peacock

An Evening with Wayne Hemingway

As part of this year's Northern Design Competition, run by Leeds Met University (where we both studied, yay team!) the Rose Bowl played host to a lecture from designer, Wayne Hemingway. The talk, entitled 'Be Inspired by Creativity and Design,' covered the success of Wayne's entrepreneurial endeavours and his social/ political views and impact on the country.

From the early years fixing and selling Doc Martins along with his partner Geraldine, the two went on to lead the fashion industry with controversial label, 'Red or Dead' which would make the headlines for it's support for Greenpeace and other social causes. The fashion label was sold and the two have worked on many creative projects since, always with a view to improve the standard of living with his current venture, Hemingway Design.


As usual, Katherine ensured that she was heard and piped up during the talk. The new building, Broadcasting Place was mentioned and we just couldn't resist voicing our reservations for the eye-sore. Wayne thought it was an old building that had been updated and we had to point out that it was brand new. Well we can't agree on everything now can we! :D

570 Media Launch Party

Bukkie from the Collective celebrated the launch of 570 Media's new website in style, with a party held in Leeds, Old Broadcasting House. As well as presenting some of the artist's work featured on the site, guests were entertained with funky tunes by DJ Silvao with the Element dance troupe, a catwalk of models strutting their stuff with some up and coming fashion and who could forget the jelly beans! Yes there were many sweets consumed that evening :)


We also managed to squeeze in some mingling amongst the guests (between scoffing jelly beans and crisps) and met a great couple: Dominic Palmer and Melissa March, who run the social enterprise University of the Fourth Age together. Dominic is a creative who like ourselves mixes his Traditional Fine Art style with his Digital Art work through his Masters degree in Graphic Design. It's just great to meet another creative who crosses both disciplines like this. Be sure to check out his portfolio here.

Free Comic Book Day 2009

It's gotta be one of the best days of the year! Yes! It's 'Free Comic Book Day.' A day when everything is right with the world and we all join hands with our fellow human beings in a joyous celebration of free comics throughout the land. Me, Johnny and Ste got ourselves on over to Travelling Man again this week (after a great night out earlier in the week at the fortnightly Travelling Man Comic Evening) and grabbed ourselves some great free comics. We'll definitely be going again next year! Woot! :D


http://www.freecomicbookday.com

Leeds Art Fair 2009

Leeds Art Fair is an annual event and we made certain we were there again this year to sample the tasty treats on display. This year we came armed with snazzy camera enabled mobile phones so we could take piccies to document the occasion. Check em out:

Image © Kathryn Edwards

I have to just say that I'm being quite biased with this artist (because I'm really into the hand-drawn style at the moment) but I thought this display by Kathryn Edwards was beautiful.

Image © Kathryn Edwards

Image © Kathryn Edwards


Image © Helen Parsley

Here's Johnny checking out Helen Parsley's work. Incredible art and beautifully framed too.

Image © Paula Dunn

Image © Nick Tankard

Image © Nick Tankard

Image © Richard Taylor

We finished off our daily dose of creative inspiration by popping into the Leeds College of Art & Design for their Damien Hirst exhibition: "In a Spin, The Action of the World on Things."

The entry below was written on Wikipedia for Damien Hirst: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst

What Hirst has insightfully observed of his spin-paintings in Life and Death and Damien Hirst is the only comment that needs to be made of his entire oeuvre:

"They're bright and they're zany - but there's fuck all there at the end of the day."

We have to agree with Damien really...