Apologies for the late notice but tonight at 5:30pm at the Guildhall will be the meet up point for the last Critical Mass cycling event in Portsmouth this year. Critical Mass events have been sucessful all over the world in recent years and this one aims to highlight the benefits of cycling for the city of Portsmouth and it’s citizens and the environment as a whole.
For more information hit up the Facebook Group.
Little Johnny Russell’s is now doing Sunday roasts starting this Sunday, home cooked style veg and potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and stuffing with a choice of either beef, lamb, chicken or nut. You’re hungry now, right?
Many of you are aware of lomo cameras and the lomography society i’m sure, but did you know you can now pick up a range of different cameras from bored
There’s the Action sampler flash, 35mm camera, Diana + Medium format camera, Lomo / Diana 35mm back pack, Fisheye 2, 35mm camera, Holga starter kit, medium format camera and the Lomolitos single use cameras. Click here to check them out!
Here’s a snap of Bored Manager Tom I took a while back with my Fisheye II.
More classic Southsea skatepark photos have been added to the Skate Library section including this one of Neil Danns:
The launch night of Civilisation Of The Rough’s ‘Educating You Up Stairs’ parties is swiftly approaching. As mentioned previously these parties are to raise funds to give parts of Albert Road a bit of an artistic facelift. The launch night is in the newly renovated upstairs of the Wine Vaults on the 29th of November and will feature Rosko Siffredi, Leon Windsor, Mark Persaud, Matt Seeney, Percy Fox, Steve Laming & Mick Hook on DJ duties. Tickets are £5 Tickets and available from either the Wine Vaults and from HEAD in Albert Road.
For more info call Tim 07887 620 947 or Mark 07787 11 46 46, email COR at hello@c-o-r.co.uk or check out the COR Facebook event page.
The Durty Sound System Block Party are back again for their 2nd fundraiser at Havana and it should be a damn good one, if last years is anything to go by. Backed by Bored, Sumo, King Street Tavern, Lovenskate and many more this event is an important date in the calendar.
Click the read more link to see the full flyer and put your pennies towards a good cause.
Love Life is a charity fund raising pub quiz about graphic design that will be on the 11th December in the Fat Fox. As well as the quiz there will be DJs and a raffle and loads of prizes such as design books, limited edition screenprints, t-shirts, etc. It’s £2 per person and all money raised goes to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust in memory of Alex Matthews, be sure to make it down there and show your support.
For more info check the poster or hit up the Love Life Facebook group.
Only in it’s infancy, Southsea Gallery has already established the top floor of Cafe Citrus as Southsea’s first photographic gallery and has seen some good trading in their shop on Albert Road, just a few doors down.
Proprietors Paul and Sarah are really nice people and I advise going for a look around and a chat, especially if you’re a local photographer or artist.
This is another step forward for both Albert Road and the city and Paul hopes to see more galleries in the future. We’ll keep you posted with any new exhibitions coming up and you never know, maybe myself and Gonz could be gracing the walls of Cafe Citrus in the future!
You can contact the Southsea Gallery at mail@southseagallery.co.uk
Hard to believe but the Council are making sneaky moves to try and ban BBQs on the Common. Luckily the good people of Southsea and Portsmouth as a whole are rallying together to kill the proposal dead. For full details (including the quite ridiculous reasons and underhanded methods by the Council), latest news on progress and the email address of the Councillor to complain to direct join the Facebook petition group that are leading the cause. The group has well over 3,000 people after only a few days but the more people who sign up the better so pass the news and the link to the group on to your friends, family, work buddies, etc.
Do we really want an end to this?
We plugged this event the other week and said it was going to go off and we were right, how could we be wrong really. Cash Money flew from Philly and hit LJR hard. Gentle Bren warmed everyone up with a seriously heavy set and proceeded to hand over to Cash Money to shut the place down.
Everyone was in attendance that night and the dance floor got smashed, massively. Yet again, big thanks to the boys at LJR, keep them coming and go get your tickets for Simian Mobile Disco on December 6th.
Cash Money even popped in to Bored to pick up some new sneaks.
This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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