it’s getting to be that time of year, and about his time last year james was busy hand stencilling christmas cards for create arts development ltd. we had the insides pre-printed on this translucent material so that the light really shines through – each front was sprayed by hand with gold paint. the cards were posted out in envelopes made of the same translucent material so the card design could be seen through the envelope beyond the address.
pre-coastival event, this sunday at the spa, starting 2pm. bands from across the region will battle it out for a prestigious support slot at coastival [the headline act will be announced on sunday].
i’ve been asked to be one of the judges – a job i feel rather unqualified for although discussing the judging criteria this week brought back memories of many teenage summers spent performing in the sun [and rain] and anaylsing judges comments afterwards. so at least i know what it feels like to be judged on musical peformance. otherwise i guess i’m bringing the average punters perspective to the panel. good luck to all the bands competing.
tickets on the door are £5 or if you’re quick you can snap one up online and save 20%: www.coastival.com – use the coupon code BATTLE. i’m told that students can get two-for-one if they buy theirs from mojos music cafe.
it’s funny when you discover a description and whole subculture for something you’ve been into for ages, blissfully unaware that there’s a whole load of other people out there also desperately seeking more of the same. such it is with a clutch of albums currently on rotation in the studio, all of which are apparantly fine examples of ‘kosmigroove‘. nice to know we’re not alone.
miles davis, olympia 1973
miles in his post-bitches brew stop-start chuggery. ‘jazz fans’ often hate this stuff. but if you like it there are lots of live performances from this period available on the net.
charles earland, leaving this planet
tight group with stellar soloists often heading for the stratosphere.
tony williams lifetime, emergency!
where jazz really meets rock. frantic, distorted, kinda scary.
fela ransome-kuti and africa ’70 with ginger baker
funk jive goodness.
this is a companion piece to the ‘drinking‘ and ‘dog poo‘ signs. scarborough borough council gave us a very open brief to design something eye-catching and that would get the message across in a more friendly way than regular prohibitive signage. we were given free reign with the design and wording.
as with the other 2 signs, the images were entirely consutructed from lettershapes – you can see the comma for the gull’s eye and the parantheses forming the gull’s neck.
this is a small project, but public signage is so pervasive there’s a responsibility in designing this stuff. to be honest, i wish they’d just put them on lamposts and not spoilt the signposts. we got to suggest where the metal freebay signs might go in the same area and made an effort to avoid spoiling an attractive place whilst still informing people of the free wifi access. the idea behind designing all these signs the same size was that they could be clustered in just a few locations and look cohesive in an attempt to avoid too much visual pollution. it’s always a thrill to see your work in the public realm, but a shame if it’s spoiling it.
…you could talk to him/her online. well you can.
lava prayer lamp. developed by electric angel with michael southgate.
click here to visit the lamp.
we’ll blog about the rest of the emergingchurch.info site sometime soon. but in the meantime…
local press coverage of the lamp launch at digital scarborough 05
what people are blogging about the lamp
international business forum. wednesday and thursday this week at the spa. free seminars. great networking opportunity. be there.
[image: sea scarborough change sign outside the spa. an electric angel design]
it’s not every day you get your photo in the paper under the headline ‘failing’. well, they say all publicity is good publicity. [mail on sunday 18.10.08. full deadline: failing resort town turns tide.]
some more enterprising britain publicity for electric angel:
financial times 20.10.08
small business 21.10.08
but what made it all worthwhile was jim fixing it for us…
you’ve not achieved anything in scarborough until jim gives it the thumbs up.
probably our last post on this – until the enterprising europe competition anyway…
i said in an earlier post that we needed to provide contrasts – we reinforced the message of old scarborough and renaissance scarborough in several ways on the judging day. we began in woodend with a revisited version of the visual presentation, this time with scarborough businessman peter wilkinson setting the scene from his experiences of living and working in the town. because this time we had a full day to show present day scarborough, we spent more time showing how bad scarborough had got before the renaissance process. it took a fair bit of digging around to find incriminating images for the presentation – people don’t generally take many photos when somewhere isn’t looking too good.
then i presented my story – how moving to scarborough has been great for us and how the creative industries here are vibrant and rapidly growing. so i got to speak in front of a wall of changing images of scarborough being a dynamic place.
we reinforced this contrast by lining the presentation room with banner stands – on one side black and white images of scarborough as was, on the other vibrant specially-commissioned photographs of scarborough today. when the judging team returned to woodend for a drink and chilled close to the day with some of the local surf community, the banners were also placed as a reminder of the transformation.
so there you have it. i gather there’s a nice glass trophy somewhere in the town hall but i can’t post a photo as we haven’t seen it yet – we will campaign to get it in the renaissance office window in the centre of town for ordinary folks to see. as far as i know, there hasn’t been an official thank you from the town hall which is a shame but as i did a fair bit of the contacting of people and asking if they would be open to meeting james murray-wells and the judging team, i would like to say a personal thank you to everyone who gave their time gladly and spoke enthusiastically and honestly about living and working in scarborough. they are all people we invited because of what they’re doing for the town. enterprising britain was won by ‘the renaissance partnership’ and these are the type of people who make it happen. thank you and well done!
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