Articles Archive for July 2009
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What up!
Its all fizzin up in the Catherdral city (or cheese town) this week!
This Saturday, Love Riot kicks of its with the first of its ‘August Threesome’ nights at The One Eyed Cat.
They are continuing to sling the radness at us, and have Boy 8-Bit returning to his Cornish roots, set to get the party going off like a pint of semi skimmed in a sauna.Yep, its going to be HAWT!
I flippin love Boy 8-Bit, His dirty eighties horror, Garbage Pale Kid, NES inspired sound is like …
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Welcome to the ’still super bad-ass, but also super belated’, 3rd installment of our Featured Flickr Artist!
This time round we are proud to showcase the work of ultra busy boy, Bombo!
Bombo!(AKA Maurizio Santucci) was born in Barga, outside of Lucca, Italy, where he still lives and works. He attended ISIA design school in Florence, Italy from 2000 to 2004.
After two years working in advertising agencies, he became a freelance illustrator. He also writes and illustrates short comic books.
Here’s what Bombo! had to say about himself and his work:
“I live and …
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YO YO!
I am flippin amped on AJ Fosik’s work – it fizzin rules.full stop.
Maybe it’s because I am terrible at making 3D stuff, that I appreciate his artwork so much. Its so intricate, painstaking and beautifully executed it kinda makes me sick with envy for how nimble his hands must be (I bet he can play the guitar and all-the mother!)
Last week it took me almost a whole day to make a chocolate box out of cardboard and Copydex (remember Copydex?!-the glue that smells of rancid fish bones…… You would …
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Eh up!
Sorry I ain’t hit y’all with a blog post in ages-Its official, I am mega lame. Please forgive me!!!
I’ve been running round with my head in the clouds all week doing all sorts of stuff including BBC Blast workshops and getting engaged to my super ace girlfriend (now fiancee) Hatchy! – I as a result I am guilty of major blogsville neglect.
This week whilst grinning like an ecstatic Cheshire cat, clicking my heels and doing crazy happy robot dances I am going to right the wrongs and blog …
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Yo Yo Yo!
If you like to dance, and are looking to get yo dance on like a crazy dance machine then get yourself down The Isobar in St Ives you crazy toe-tapping, shape throwing maniac……
Tonight the monthly electro house melee; Love Riot sees legendary house DJ Danny Rampling playing alongside resident Cornish house DJ Ry Spenceley. Downstairs, local talents Dave Spenceley and Will Vegas of ‘Sir Vinyl of the Fattest’ will be slinging something a little bit slower to sort yo heart rate out.
Coming up on Saturday 25th July is …
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Word up!
This week I took a trip across the Tamar to Plymouth in order to link up with Haacht and get our paint on!
My shoulders are freakin killing after carrying several large cans of mulsh all the way across town to Astor Park. It’s been flippin ages since I went to P-town and I can’t say I did much exploring. Haacht’s anti KFC views even stopped me coppin the usual 3 piece and chips hook up!
Regardless of the lack of fast food sampling I had a rad time. The scene …
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Howdy peeps!
I am amped to announce the best flippin deal ever that people with eyes have ever done seen!
Them ridiculously resistant rucksack makers at Eastpak have produced a limited edition Fisheye camera in association with Loco lens lovers, Lomography. (Ain’t alliteration ace?!)
These super cameras come absolutely FREE when you buy a piece of the selected wheeled Eastpak luggage, (we have in store) which means that for just Fifty quid you can cop a Eastpak branded, super limited cult camera and a nifty bag to sling yo holiday gear in
If you …
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Guten Tag!
We had the our balmy summers eve, ‘village fete’ themed opening party for Gemma Corrells exhibition last night!
Thanks so much to everyone who came through and checked it out-I hope you all had a flippin ace time…..
It was a great night with lots of fruit filled Pimms being dished out to try and combat the heat!
Many thanks to the gorgeous Hatchy for the delicious homemade cakes and keeping everyones glasses filled!
Gemma has put on a fantastic show with loads of amazing work on show, and it’s all available at …
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Howdy Peeps,
I got an email from Plymouthian slickster Haacht over the weekend, he told me he had lost his entire Sunday on a website for a shop based in Madrid called SUBAQUATICA.
The mark making madman sent me over a link, so I checked up on it.
And I tell thee what-
He wasn’t wrong.
It’s a right treasure trove of brilliant work and great interviews with a wealth of different artists.
It’s a flippin great way to spend a rainy day, a.k.a- today.
SUBAQUATICA, the brain child of Karl Stromberg, is an art space …





