I just bought a beautiful picture from the beautiful Camilla Stacey, aka Made By Milla.
She is moving down to Falmouth to do an MA, which I find incredibly exciting because I have always been an admirer of her work and her industriousness (and her!) so I can’t wait to see what new delights come out now she’s getting a chance to really develop and be in her element.
Camilla will be at the Here Shop in Bristol this Saturday, selling all her other amazing vintage arty bits and pieces to raise funds for her new adventure. According to her there will be: comics, books…records, cds, videos, paintings, ornaments, snowglobes, fabric, magazines and cakes.
Yet again the lovely Branchage Team succeed in creating a gorgeous trailer for the festival. This year its particularly beautiful, featuring blossoming flora arranged by the festival director’s own grandmother.
For those uninitiated to Branchage Festival, its an incredible 4 days of exciting cross-arts events with a film/music bias, that happens on the lovely island of Jersey each year.
They have an incredible line-up for 2010 as their programming becomes bolder and more inventive. I highly recommend investigating… www.branchagefestival.com
So now its time to tell you about Fashion Popcorn, a digital fashion salon I’ve cooked up with Emily (a fashion editorial consultant/digital content producer) and Constance (an artist and pervasive media practitioner) Fleuriot. Yes it’s a creative-meets-digital family affair, ably assisted by the fabulous Roma Vaccaro, who is helping us make it happen.
Fashion Popcorn
Thursday July 22 at 6.30pm (for 7pm start)
the Centre Space and Terrace, London College of Fashion, John Princes Street, London, W1.
We’re inviting film-makers, fashion designers, communicators and digital media practitioners to pinpoint and debate the issues around fashion, film and digital media, and get excited about the future of fashion in the digital landscape. Let’s start a conversation!
A short fashion film and pervasive media presentation is followed by a panel discussion, with guests encouraged to pose questions and contribute their viewpoints. This will all be followed with some good ol’ networking, with a refreshing beverage in hand, courtesy of Martini.
Matter2Media’s Tim Kindberg will present his very exciting Krstl project, which we will all get to play with, and ultra-talented film-maker and curator Kathryn Ferguson also joins the panel. See her gorgeous Crystalline film for the Richard Nicoll S/S10 Catwalk show below.
Fashion Popcorn aims to play a role in demystifying digital, social and pervasive media, debunk the geek myths, and encourage the use of new technologies for creative expression and communication – and we’re hoping to have some fun along the way!
If you would like to come, please get in touch: info(at)harrietfleuriot.co.uk
New characters spawned from the educational and glamourous bosom of Patty&Hills are the star hosts of VPL Shopping Channel – Stevie and Ray. Watch them in hard-sell action here.
Ali Epps and I perform live tonight at Chelsea Arts Club Summer Ball, bringing a little Stevie and Ray of hope to the audience in keeping with this year’s theme Vintage Circus Freakshow.
I’m off to the New Designers Awards Preview Evening tomorrow to go see what my very talented cousin and illustrator Katy-Rose Thorogood has been up to these past 3 years!
Katy-Rose shared a stall with Constance and me at Rob Pruitt’s Christmas Fair at the Tate Modern back in December, and well, her beautiful drawings were definitely the favourite attraction by far. Her alphabet illustrations in particular were a big hit with both adult and child. They were originally designed so that the lines were raised, to help teach the alphabet to blind children through feeling the letters and the animals associated with the letter, but they also work as gorgeous drawings on their own. I like the “F” for “Flamingo” for obvious reasons… You can see more of Katy-Rose’s work on her website.
This trailer completely reduced me to tears (again) this morning. A film that I came across whilst swotting up on women directors when I was working at Birds Eye View, Pray The Devil Back To Hell presents an incredible real story through documentary footage and interviews with some of Liberia’s toughest and most determined women who helped push through a peace agreement during a horrific civil war.
Pray The Devil Back To Hell is showing at the Tricycle Theatre tonight at 7.30pm with a post-screening discussion “Women, Protest and Unity”. For more info click here.
I saw Tony Sinden speak at the Arnolfini about 10 years ago, when I was a teen studying A-Level Art. I remember watching an early experimental black and white film that he had made of windscreen wipers going back and forth and back and forth, and hearing him talk about an elaborate installation he had made which played with the light moving across the gallery room. I remember my patience being tested with the slow, conceptual elements of his work. It was sophisticated, introspective, technical, almost alien compared to all the other accessible, traditional art I had been shown before. As a young, aspiring artist interested in moving image, I think I was incredibly inspired, sitting in the auditorium listening to him talk so naturally and normally about his work, finding out the detail of how he approached things. I think I even asked him a question but I can’t remember what. Since then, I have always felt fondly towards Tony Sinden and his work, and was a little sad to hear that he had died last year. Picture This are having a show of his early works, starting next week. I think I’m going to try and make it down to Bristol to have a little look and pay my tribute.
I went to see Alain Platel’s latest work with his dance company les ballets C de la Bon Thursday night at Sadlers Wells: Out of Context – for Pina. It was breathtaking – such natural, concentrated expression forming a humble, consciously balanced exploration of the human form and condition, yet at the same time was totally epic and mind-expanding. Here’s a little clip from a previous performance (one of the males dancers changed to a taller, skinnier one at our performance, and he was rather incredible to watch).
So after rooting around on the web to find out whether Platel has any other projects on the go that I could experience soon, I found the trailer for a new project to premiere this weekend at NT Gent Theatre in Belgium called Gardenia. Wanna see it! Alas, it doesn’t seem to be coming to the UK….
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