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Tomorrow, CDR Birmingham goes to the heart of the West Midlands in session with The Insomniax (Earnest Endeavours), Tony Nwachukwu & Guests.
Venue: Bull’s Head, 23 St Mary’s Row, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8HW.
You can upload your tracks to be heard at the session to the CDR Soundcloud. Sounds of the CDR travels and more can also be found on the the bi-monthly CDR Audio Show on NTS. Get involved.
Let us hark back to a time when the cars were red, the design was pure and the roll cages non-existent. A beautiful piece of barely plausible engineering. No you’re not getting a lift.
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via Budnitz Bicycles of all places
Without any pun intended, Farhad Moshiri’s Life is Beautiful message gets straight to the point; a typographic installation created with kitchen knives.
Made in London, New York, Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Cardiff & Tartu; the Earnest Endeavours worldwide family represent a true worldwide affair.
Our Nest Vol.1 is available for free, but comes with a minor trade-off. Listeners pay with a tweet or Facebook ‘Like’, ensuring that the word travels just that little bit further with every download.
SelfSays, Darkhouse Fam, The Insomniax, Widows, B. Bravo, J Todd, mfp and KiEnRa are the line-up for the label’s first compilation, representing enough eclectic boom-bap to mess up heads and ruffle feathers for some time.
Melted disco balls is by a Rotterdam based artist collective formed by Robin Stam, Joeri Horstink and Mark van Wijk.
Disco is dead. No wait, long live disco.
The making of the hourglass is definitely worth your time. Marc Newson’s latest creation for Ikepod. Directed by Philip Andelman.
Craig Murray is a creative geyser that blows roughly every week or so, dousing us in directorial greatness in the process. His new showreel contains a dazzling array of work shot between June 2011 and March 2012.
All visual effects are made in camera by a process of photographic long exposure animation. All layers used are hand made. All his tees and jackets would be mine if they weren’t too small for me.
Were I to have received a penny for every programme that has been compared to The Wire, I’d have enough money tucked away to have executive produced Mad Men: one of the few shows worthy of such comparison, and one that has made its return on the Outer Hebredies of British television – Sky Atlantic.
Rather than dwell on my lack of free-viewing opportunities, allow me to delve into the impressive promotional photography’s ode to painter Edward Hopper. Subtlety of this nature is something one can come to expect from a show that is as true to life as it is a supreme work of fiction.
The angst, unrequited emotions and unspoken words present in Hopper’s work flow through Andy Ryan’s images, creating a suggestive, intriguing narrative. I couldn’t state with any certainty what Donald Draper’s take would be on this work, but Ansel Neckles says that if you are going to tell a story through picture, make sure it says the right things and has the viewer asking the right questions.
Worms, bins and compost aren’t the usual topics we cover in a workshop, but hey, don’t say we aren’t full of surprises.
Ansel will be sharing his home grown knowledge and green fingered wizardry in ‘How to create a self contained wormery’ at the Trade School London, which will be hosted at one of our new fav local spots FARM:Shop.
Based around the idea of the social nature of exchange, Trade School is a global initiative that uses barter as a way to engage knowledge share. For example, “I’ll teach you how to mend your bicycle puncture for art supplies and a banana or better yet teach me a skill”.
Starting in April and running on Thursdays and Sundays throughout the month, you can learn anything from yoga for beginners, make usable websites or even check out the ‘divine/ridiculous’ an exploration of the collision point between the sublime and the silly’ workshop.
To sign up for any of the classes please go here and hit join.
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How to create a self-contained wormery composter | 6.30 -8pm Thursday 19th April
FARM:shop
20 Dalston Lane
London
E8 3AZ
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