Using the link below you can listen to them talk Room 237, comic books, movies, bands and Angelo’s own comic book ‘No Place Like Home‘ due out later this month. There will be more information about this on Strong Island later this month, so keep an eye out.

Angelo will be joining Joel and Leigh on a monthly basis starting soon.

This is too hot to miss out on. I’m the tower of power. Too sweet to be sour. I’m funky like a monkey. Skies the limit. And space is the place. Ohhhhh YEAHHHHHHHH. Grab yours HERE before they get counted out of the ring.

]]> http://www.strong-island.co.uk/2012/02/06/the-owl-and-the-accordion/feed/ 0 http://www.strong-island.co.uk/2012/02/02/art-on-the-streets-a-bit-of-culture/ http://www.strong-island.co.uk/2012/02/02/art-on-the-streets-a-bit-of-culture/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:38:13 +0000 My Dog Sighs http://www.strong-island.co.uk/?p=20000 I’ve been putting a piece of art on the streets of Porstmouth every Friday for close to ten years now as part of my Free Art friday project and this week I was invited  by the BBC Culture show to be featured in a film about my project. ‘Dropping’ my art  is normally a very solitary occupation but after a day’s filming on my studio I went up to that there London town where a massive film crew (with secret cameras and directors and runners and everything!!) followed me and two other free art artists round dropping work and jumped on anyone who dared pick the pieces up. All very exciting!

The feature will be aired on the 10th February, 7pm, BBC2

We are now accepting your contributions for the January 2013 page. The ONLY rule is there must be a link of some sort to the local area. You can send your images to calendar@strongisland.co.uk.

Originally we were going to run this as a photography competition asking people to send in photo’s from Portsmouth and Southsea area taken during the previous month. We then decided we’d like to open it up to other diverse art forms such as graphic design, illustration.

For Januarys contributions there is no theme but it’d be nice to see some photo’s taken during New Years Eve/Day. If you have any questions please email us at calendar@strong-island.co.uk.

Keep an eye out on the website as more information about the calendar will be published over the year.

The show will begin with one piece and the exhibition will grow as an additional work is added each week.

If you are an artist living within a 60minute journey of Portsmouth and you feel that a work of yours communicates in some way, with other works on display then please submit an image of the work (jpeg) and a brief explanation (up to 200 words) to saywhatyousee@aspex.org.uk

Find the blog here.

At Sea, Joanne Hummel-Newell

The group are currently looking for a small amount of funding, if you want to help check out the video here.

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

We’ve posted about Harvey more than a few times on Strong Island and his awesome skate photography, and even some of his NYC photographs for his website www.harveymills.com.

As well as being the guy behind the camera for Herbal Skateboards and Skateboarding Photo Magazine, Harvey is an accomplished photographer with 30 years of experience, and his image portfolio presents an eclectic and diverse range of subject matter. Talented chap.

In his own words about the project Harvey says “My challenge was to present an alternative take on vistas and aspects of New York City – a place where, with every corner turned, you stumble across familiar scenes and images. Even first-time visitors feel as if they’ve known the place all of their lives.”

All photographs are tastefully framed and for sale in Sopranos or at www.harveymills.com. And if you’re popping by to check it out you would be bonkers to pass up a bite to eat, especially considering they are running their 2 for £10 lunch menu. Meatballs! Forget about it……

They are always looking for artists to display their work for future exhibitions so get in touch if interested.