Mutate Britain

Just title it is wicked.

Mutate Britain is an exhibition.

no no.. Mutate Britain is an happening..neither.. is something that embrace different kind of what we call art.

It include Mixed media, live art performances with a touch of steampunk spirit, dj set and much more.

All of this is happening in London for 5 week-ends in a 5 floors open gallery create for the occasion.

Have a look at the line up and you’ll find a good reason to go there and have a look or maybe experience it.

Maque.

Hip Hug-Her

Before you start reading, click play. Ok Go.

As I surfed our friend’s “Miss Mars” MySpace I heard this great song “Hip Hug-Her” by one of the “creators” of the Memphis Soul sound, Booker T. & The M.G.s, “one of the first racially-integrated bands in popular music.”

The cover of the album looks pretty late 60′s fashion

But they’re most known byt their song “Green Onions”, which we can see was all about good dancing and happy moments

Once introduced, “Miss Mars” is a new Clothing Brand by some of our friends here in Monterrey. That’s Elena, Marcela Viejo & Priscila from Quiero Club.
We’re helping them to do their Launch Party next Saturday 19 at Topaz Deluxe, where Marcelo Cunnin and Amylu will be doing the now famous Nacotheque Party whose slogan is “Quality music for cheap people”.

Here are some Miss Mars designs.

Apart from telling the story, I started this post to learn and show how to use some basic common web features to bloggers: linking text (not writing the http://www.URL.com but doing a link that opens a new window), the mp3 player and the YouTube embedd.
Note: upload your files with no blank spaces in the filename.ok
Info on how to put music here, and video here

Mau

And that’s me..

Hiya everyone, 

Let me introduce myself..

I'm Laura (but you can call me Lotti), the other blogger from London Town - 

In this year that I've lived in here, I've changed the lenght and the colour of my hair a few times (from plain dark curly Italian style to Agy lesbo-nazi pixie blonde 'do - I'm boringly straight thou), I've organized a music festival in Shoreditch, moved from Camden Town to Shoreditch, developed a serious addiction to hummus (or humous..? wha'eva..) and broaden my music tastes quite a bit (now I'm getting more and more into experimental and noise - but I don't have any musical prejudices and can't stand the snobbish ATP- style attitude of some dudes towards pop and commercial music - I heart Britney - and I loooove elctro rap and mash ups for parties - and I can't forget my punk background).

But despite all this, in the end I remain a lazy fucker who's trying to sort out her life as most of the people living here...uhmmm...

For further information please visit my myspace page or find me on facebook (but I'd rather avoid it - it's boring, thou useful), and please befriend me on last.fm cos I've just a few friends and I feel lonely in there - my flatmate, who's mexican and works there, among them

So, this is me

and this is where i'm working this weekend

'FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR 2007' Plan B Magazine

Supersonic Festival

"Of this welter of well organised, wisely curated festivals (ATP, Faster Than Sound, Sonar, Greenman) perhaps the best organised and most wisely curated was Supersonic. Plotted by Birmingham promoters Capsule, 2007's Supersonic inhabited the nexus where metal, folk and noise met."
Louis Pattison Plan B Magazine

"The Custard Factory is a typical Birmingham name, typical in its self deprecating frankness. The city of Birmingham, although the second largest in the UK, has always had more of an inferiority complex than a chip on its shoulder. Hard to love architecturally despite a recent makeover of its city centre, it feels like a city shambling ruefully on - the West Midlands accent of its citizens considered inherently risible - its hopes of civic prestige some way south of the horizon. And yet, as Supersonic once again demonstrates, Birmingham has shown itself in recent years to be far from the "cultural wilderness" this writer once offhandedly described the city as."
David Stubbs The Wire

 

 

and this is where I’m going next weekend (just for fun, this time)

 

M E L T 2 0 0 8

well, there’s no need for explanations…

 

Melt!Festival

cool, time to take a nap before get the party started! yo!

x Lotti

Print Stories (part 1)

A bit about Print Club.
Set up in 2007 by Fred Higginson (sculptor) and Rose Stallard (illustrator) Print Club is designed to work as a members water based screen printing club for illustrators and designers, to produce posters, t- shirts, record covers and all things screen printed.

The trend for screenprinting died down in the late 80s but is gaining momentum again. Print Club aims to revive screenprinting by providing a laid back yet productive affordable environment, enabling designers to go from laptop to inky hands.

Print Club presents Blisters on my fingers

35 Illustrators.35 Edition and hand signed prints.35 Pounds each.

The exhibition titled ‘Blisters on My Fingers’ will be bringing together a mixture of 35 established and emerging illustrators for a summer bonanza of hand pulled, screen printed posters. (No digital prints allowed!)

Illustrators from the UK were invited to submit although word has spread as far as Brazil .The brief given was intended to be as open as possible, to allow artists to develop their own work within the format of a B2 screen-printed poster. All artists will screenprint their own posters.

The event is planned like a secret gig, with the excitement at the prospect of seeing new works by well-known and emerging illustrators. Plus all prints (signed and numbered) can be on your bedroom wall for £35 each.

Blisters on my fingers fingers will run from 11th to 13th July 2008 at MC Motors, Millers Avenue off Arcola Street, Dalston, E8 2DS.

Maque