Southsea Series – Dead Man’s Glory

Episode 3 is now ready to view from Wide Aperture Media. All shot on a digital SLR camera.

This time it feature’s Luci from Dead Man’s Glory on Albert Road. What a character she is.

Southsea Series – Episode 2 Peter Clutterbuck

Local production company Wide Aperture Media have just finished episode 2 of their Southsea Series. This time they feature the talented blacksmith Peter Clutterbuck. “Peter has plied his trade in Portsmouth for over 40 years, creating bespoke metalwork, including the iconic bandstand in Southsea.”

Totally loving their use of camera/software effects in the opening and closing scene.

Wide Aperture Media

Paul Organ and Matt Potter recent Television and Broadcasting graduates from Portsmouth University have just set up Wide Aperture Media a new local production company.

They are just in the process of establishing themselves in the creative community in the city and have started their own series of short documentaries the depict the people that make it such a special place. They have just completed the first episode that features Ian Parmiter, of Parmiters Antiques, and they are currently working on the second episode with Peter Clutterbuck, artistic blacksmith.

Paul and Matt are also on the hunt for suggestions for other people to be featured so drop them an email.

Parmiter’s Antiques – Southsea Series Episode 1 from Wide Aperture Media on Vimeo.

Munroe Effect – New Video and Tees

Local band Munroe Effect have just released a new video from their new album ‘Ultraviolenceland’. They also have some new tees for £10 which you can buy on their merchandise store.

Adventures with My Camera

Taken over the past 2 months around the city. As you can see I do document quite a lot from dog walks, beer competitions, Print This exhibition, Strong Island Round Tower development, more dog walks, beach shots, architecture and street art.

Adventures with my camera from claire sambrook on Vimeo.

Jack Palmer

Jack Palmer is a 3rd year BA Media student at The University of Portsmouth and Sam Stockley from  Ballpoint Zine has just released a video of one of his tracks.

Strong Island grabbed a quick interview with him.

“I played bass in a band from the age of around 12 so I’ve been writing original stuff from around that age. I picked up the 6 string when I was about 15. My dad and brother played. My brother is still influential today actually. He plays the blues incredibly. My dad plays a mean version of Streets of London too!
I started playing my own solo stuff at gigs when I was 18. My good friend Will McNicol had a gig at Drift in Southsea and invited me up to play with him. It went down well and the fact that I had contacts in Portsmouth from then on was a fairly big factor in me choosing to come to university here. Since then, I’ve recorded an album called ‘Winter’s Songs’ and an ep called ‘Scenery of Music’. You can buy the EP and download the album, free, from www.jackpalmer.bandcamp.com

You can see Jack perform tomorrow night (30th Nov) at RMA Tavern, Southsea from 8pm.

Bransbury Sunset

A pleasant autumn evening’s skateboarding went down at Milton/Eastney’s Bransbury Park’s skatepark, Bored Store posted up a video clip on their blog of the activities as the sun set.

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