The Dead Coast are filming some scenes for the pilot episode of the webseries next week and are looking for extras to come and get zombified on Tuesday morning and Friday afternoon. If you’re available email thedeadcoast@gmail.com. More info over at Facebook. Brainnnnzzzzz
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Logo: Olly T Taylor
For any web developers out there this could be an excellent opportunity for you. Steve got in touch with Strong Island with regards to his web agency Something Interesting looking to recruit a new developer.
Something Interesting are a website design and development agency based in the Old Treasury on Kings Road. Set up almost 10 years ago, they have worked on a range of projects for companies like Portsmouth Guildhall, The Belle Isle, The Co-operative financial services and Plane Finder.
As they are expanding and taking on more clients they are now looking for a full time developer to join the team.
You can find more about the job here > http://www.somethinginteresting.co.uk/blog/developer-wanted/
Following the success of ‘Ou est la lapin?’ back in the Spring I am launching a campaign called ‘Make one, pass it on’. This time by making, we will be making a difference. Here’s the lowdown
All aprons must be handmade and finished by December 1st. Every apron regardless of size, style and workmanship will be sold for £10. A special event will be held to sell the aprons and after that will be for sale online.
All money raised goes to a fantastic charity called ‘Fine Cell Work’ that teaches prison inmates needlework.
To find out more please visit Ooh la Lapin.
Last Saturday the 20th August Steve Langton set about the bonkers task of swimming from Ryde on the Isle of Wight over to Southsea beach. One single ferry ticket and a lot of balls later he made it. Well done mate. I tip my hat in your direction. Nutbar….
“I contacted Ryde Inshore Rescue in November last year re doing a cross Solent Swim (Southsea lifeguards wouldn’t do it !) I found Grodon Osbourne, the founder of Ryde inshore rescue, he offered to help in return for me raising some money for his organisation. After a few months Gordon contacted me with a date, last saturday August 20th, based on tides and shipping movements etc.
So I booked the 06.15 seacat to Ryde and arrived about 20 mins later very aprehensive and wishing I’d trained more!! Gordon met me and drove me around to Brading Yacht club to pick up the support boat and crew, Ian and Mike, we then chugged back to Ryde in the boat with the canoe on board. Once at Ryde Sands I donned my wetsuit and jumped off the boat into the water where Gordon made me wade in until knee deep – he then waited for me to wave and started the clock as I began my swim, with Mike in the canoe for safety.
First stop the Stourbridge Buoy, a bright yellow buoy about one mile off shore, I had to be there inside 40 minutes to avoid arriving at the same time as a rather large container ship – I made it in 32 mins but still managed to end up in the very large set of bow waves about 20 minutes later!
We then headed toward Gosport to allow for the tide sweeping us off course, once about a mile or so off the Haslar wall we continued on avoiding hovercrafts and car ferries, Gordon was in radio contact with all the shipping and let them know I was in the water. Mike in the canoe was kind enough to remind me not to worry as I apparently I had right of way over them all !
After swimming another mile or so we changed course and I could make out the war memorial on Southsea Common, I had to swim through the ‘swashway’ a choppy section of the Solent with a lot of boat and sailing traffic – luckliy all skippers were good natured and gave us plenty of room.
It was then on to cross the ‘Southsea Channel’ the shipping lane off Southsea Seafront, this was done as quickly as possible as the beach was in sight and I didn’t fancy getting run over! Finally 1 hour and 56 minutes later I set foot on the shores of Southsea beach, with very wobbly legs!!
Radio congratulations from the Queens Harbour Master then off to the Cafe for a very large brekky! Big thanks to my pilots Gordon, Mike and Ian, they did a great job of keeping me on course to swim in a big arc to compensate for the tides – well done boys! Any donations to Ryde Inshore Rescue most welcome.”
Southsea band Attack! Vipers! have a new tee out designed by Drew Millward available HERE for a bargain price of £10. The band have also made available the mp3 of ‘Raised by Wolves’, a song of their upcoming new album ‘Deadweight Revival’ coming September 2011. You can also catch them live at SouthseaFest next month too.
I was really stoked today to get an email from Daisy at Dumpster Designs, especially as its sewing related! Here’s a bit of info in Daisy’s own words:
I am a new upcoming designer from Southsea and would love to show you some of my creations! I am far from the norm, creating unique and distinctly unpractical dresses. This is my blog with a few of my dresses i have made http://dumpsterdesigns.blogspot.com/ . I am having a fashion show in Gunwarf on november 10th and would love people to send me any rubbish or bits and bobs they cant bring themselves to throw away. i can create different statement dresses out of anything i get sent and people can come along to the fashion show and see there rubbish on the catwalk.
I hope nobody minds me popping this up here but I’m moving house this weekend and sadly have no space for my vintage BSA ‘Weekender’ tourer bike so was wondering if anyone would be interested in buying it? It’s from the 80s, 5-speed, Raleigh parts – almost all original, 24″ frame with some awesome chrome mudguards. I was always meaning to convert the bike to single speed or fixed gear but never got around to it. Could be a good project for someone.
I’d like £80, give me a shout at paul@strong-island.co.uk. Pick up this weekend too please. Please give her a new home!
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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