Pod Noodle Made Me Puke

Usually I would write some rant about the night before, the atmosphere, the laughs, the banter, the dancing till your white shoes turned black, but I’m too tired and a tad hungover for that. I’ll just say this. What a night. Cheers to Ben for letting Pod Noodle unleash his barrage of guilty pleasure heavy hitters on to the frenzied dance floor. He’s not left the country yet but what an exit. Peep the photos & video for a taste of Pod Noodle. More over at Flickr too.

Pod Noodle Make Me Puke from Tristan on Vimeo.

DJ Pod Noodle AKA Punk Paul @ LJR (Bye Bye Paul, again)

Oh dear, oh dear. It’s time again to say yet another good bye, or should we say ‘avoir’ to Southsea’s very own Punk Paul. With a highly fueled start, stop iPod massacre of sound, expect nothing less than everything you want to hear from Punk ‘Pod Noodle’ Paul. Even those songs you think you hate, but deep in your subconscious can’t help but love. Lock up your daughters and get ready for a night of carnage.

For those that are unaware Paul is off on his travels again. After a surprise landing over Christmas he’s made sure to keep his mark well and truly stamped on the local drinking and partying scene. We expect no less. I think I say it for all of us when I say you’ll be missed mate and we love you loads. Hope we’ll catch up in Canada soon.

Flyer Artwork: Dave Millard

Pod Noodle left a bad taste in my mouth…

…but only due to all the beer I drank last night. I’m seriously hungover and can’t think what to write so I’ll just post some photos and let them do all the talking.

All the best mate. Rave safe and get your self checked out every fortnight. X

Probably gonna go street skating and drink beer…

Tom and Pauls quest to skate 22 skateparks in one day will unfortunately have to wait. See you all tonight for Pauls fairwell party at LJRs, Pod Noodle. Good times.

Skateboarding is Sundays: 22 Skateparks / Bye Paul. from tommccaughan on Vimeo.

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