Unlike Paul, I’m terrible at getting any 35mm film developed. Sometimes many months after finishing a roll. I just got a few hundred shots back from good old ASDA and, of course, there were plenty of Southsea photos. Check a few here and then head over to my Flickr to view the full Lost & Found set comprising of photos from all sorts of random events and places.
The Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth website is a collection of every plaque, memorial, monument, etc in Portsmouth. The website itself is quite a fascinating resource in to local history, events and famous residents and well worth looking through the interesting background stories and old photographs. Always good to discover the history of the places you walk by every day.
Jane Shepherd recently got in contact about an up coming exhibition in Southsea. The weekend 14 & 15th November sees four Portsmouth-based artists, Katayoun Dowlatshahi, Patti Gaal-Holmes, Liz Bick and Jane Shepherd hold an open house exhibition ‘Storm in a Tea Cup.’ Exhibiting photographs, prints, drawings, artist’s books and screenings of experimental film this sounds really interesting and definitely worth a look see.
There will be work for sale, plus tea and loads of cakes on offer at 1 Balcarres Mansion, 5 Eastern Villas Road, Southsea, PO4 0SU. Check the map HERE and invite HERE.
Janes website is also worth checking out. A talented local artist with a strong illustrative style. www.janeshepherd.com
The Girls Who Ride crew are having another social event tomorrow night at LJRs from 7pm, if you like riding your bike and some liquid refreshment, do pop along (boys are allowed too ‘if they behave’). Some of the Strong Island Fixed Gear girls will be there with their bikes as well, incase you have any fixed gear related questions.
The students are back in full effect so expect plenty of mid week events and drink promotions to hit town. The very popular Baby SUMO is back at LJRs as are the very popular drinks prices. Sign up HERE for updates.
Tonight is Tom Alex, Trubass (UP.dnb), Barry Bun Roi b2b DJ Maars and The Turk. Involved?
This is a nice little offering for a chilled out Saturday afternoon. Pop along to The Edge Of The Wedge from 3-7pm every Saturday to hang with some cool cats and listen to some smooth Jazz grooves courtesy of The Santos Jazz Collective. Nice.
Oh, and it’s totally FREE. Keep up to date on future Jazz gigs HERE.
Radio 1′s Zane Lowe will be DJing at PunchFunk’s halloween warmup on Friday 30th at Tiger Tiger as part of the DJ Hero Tour. The line up for the evening is as follows:
Main Room
ZANE LOWE
ALEX METRIC
MATT BERRY
Lightbox arena: PunchFunk
CHRIS VAUX
SIMON BLANN
MATT HORROCKS
& special guest : ROB WILDER
The Boutique
PURE SEX REUNION!!
STEVE CONWAY & STU RISING
Tickets are £10 in advance and fancy dress is recommended!
For more information check the the Facebook event.
A quick reminder that the network of independent, professional and amateur film makers, Mission Network are premiering The DVMission 48 Hour Film Challenge at The New Theatre Royal Portsmouth, Sunday 1st November 2009 from 8pm till Midnight.
The culmination of 48-hours of guerrilla filmmaking from professional, independent and amateur teams. This glizty nominations / award ceremony is the showcase for all the films entered this year. Your ticket will also give you ‘exclusive’ access to the DVMISSION 2009 after party.
For more information and updates check out dvmission.ning.com
Dress to Impress: Posh Frocks / Black Tie.
Tickets available from the New Theatre Royal – Portsmouth.
Circle £4.00 advanced tickets / £5.00 on the door.
Upper Circle £3.00 advanced tickets / £4.00 on the door.
The Dog is killing it right now. In the past month alone Graham has left me battered and bruised on numerous occasions. Signs of a good night out? Well this Halloween prepare to get battered and bruised before you even get there. Dress as a Skeleton, loosen up them bones and get breakin’…
£7 all night
Last years Good VS Evil Halloween party at The Russell’s saw people really pull out the stops and rock up in some awesome costumes. Don’t let them down this year. Dress literally to kill. Expect to get smashed.
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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