Happy Christmas from Strong Island

Have a great Christmas everyone. No doubt i’ll see many of you out over this boozey period and to those who I don’t see, have an excellent time. Rave safe kids…

Tristan and Paul

Warehaus Studio

Warehaus Studio are an awesome little design studio based a stones throw from the Southsea seafront. You’ve probably seen plenty of their work already on Albert Road, including the windows of Bored and Garbos. To see more of their designs, artwork and photography check out www.warehausstudio.com and the images below.

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Peckish

One of Albert Road’s more recent new businesses is the little gem of a sandwish bar/deli called Peckish. Located at the Bored/Little Johnny Russells/Fat Fox end of Albert Road, Peckish’s owner Mathieu makes more than just the usual sandwich choices (although they can be ordered if you like). Sandwiches, baguettes and salads are all freshly made on the spot with deli meats, cheeses and condiments, organic produce and fresh ingredients from Hampshire. Throw in gourmet crisps, fair trade coffee, deli chutneys and meats, delivery service and free WiFi and newspapers and you have one of the best little food stops in Southsea. Strong Island recommends the £3 sandwich deal which includes a bag of crisps, chocolate bar and a can of drink. Hard to beat.

Fort

Found a couple of photos of one of the Spithead forts from the summer. Anyone know what this one is called?

Cinema No.6 – Waltz with Bashir

Ari Folmans groundbreaking animated documentary is visually stunning, highly personal and ferociously honest. I’ve not seen it yet, but that’s what i’ve read and the trailer does that statement justice.

Head over to No.6 Cinema and check the listings which start in January. I’m definitely going to see this.

LJR Christmas Party with Foals DJ set

At a loose end this Thursday. Have no fear. Get down to the good chaps at The Little Johnny Russells and pick up a ticket for their Foals DJ set with residents Red Indie. A nice way to start warming up for the coming weeks. Get involved as always.

LJR Indoor Market 20th December

Gather round ladies and gents, after great success, Little Johnny Russells is hosting its second Indoor Market. There is a wide range of products such as CDs, Records, Vintage Clothing, Prints, Jewellery on sale from Edgeworld Records, Bored of Southsea, Dress Code, Deluded Clothing, Rokii, Style In The City, top fashion queen Beau Franklin Savage, Parmiters Antiques, artwork by Ramsey Sheriff and more.

Opens at Midday, with a wide range of refreshments including a licensed bar (obviously!)

Bog Rolling Stones

You may well have caught the Bog Rolling Stones play at the last Love Albert Road day or one of their many shows before that as they tour all over. Even if you haven’t, trust us, you need to see them play and this month you have two chances to catch them. The first show is an acoustic set in Little Johnny Russells on the 23rd, an amazing warm up for Christmas Eve (will be there, fingers are crossed for some/all of Exile on Main Street). The second show will be part of The Wedgewood Rooms new years eve celebrations and is sure to be good too.

Love Life Quiz Photos

The Love Life charity graphic design and typography pub quiz held in the Fat Fox last night was a huge success raising over £350 pounds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust as well as being great fun. The huge pile of awesome design and typography books, prints, magazines, t-shirts and posters as prizes meant most people managed to take something home what with the extra quickfire questions and the raffle.

A huge thanks to the organisers for great evening.

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Love Albert Road Day Skating

Bored have put together an edit of the skateboarding that went down on the last Love Albert Road day. The clip includes skating by Bored staff Gary and Toby and Bored team member Jack Tonge.

PRIMARY – A Phoneography Exhibition by Strong Island – Call for entries

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

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

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