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comic fan and doodle bug with an unhealthy obsession in antique cameras

National Drawing Day 2010

  By Sharon | May 20, 2010 - 4:47 pm | Events, Kids, The Arts, The Culch
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Nationwide, this Saturday (may 22nd), people will be doodling, painting and scribbling to their hearts content. Nationwide Drawing Day is part of the Catch up on Culture Week. Over 50 venues are taking part, including the National Gallery, Science Gallery, Glucksman Gallery and National Museum, with various free and low cost drawing events. And it’s not just for kids! Check out what’s on in your area or do what i’ll be doing, nipping down to the local park with picnic and pencil case in tow.

Points For Life

  By Sharon | March 21, 2010 - 11:00 pm | Events, Featured Post, Games, The Culch
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Just heard about this, I’m a sucker for charity events and I think this is a great idea. It would be nice if it went global and each player could donate to children’s hospitals in their respective countries. What is Points for Life? Points For Life is a 24hour gaming event on June 5th 2010. Play will start at 9am on June 5th and last through to 9am the following day. It’s up to you to earn as many achievements/trophies as you possibly can. But it not just a full on games event. It’s your chance to give something back. This is for children’s charity, get a sponsor who can sponsor you per point or trophy (or who can just sponsor the event) and earn money for points for two charities, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Child’s Play. Who’s behind it? Daniel Lipscombe, deputy editor of the online gaming magazine … There’s more →

Studio Ghibli

  By Sharon | February 6, 2010 - 1:28 pm | The Culch
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Today latest Studio Ghibli film is on in the IFI cinema open day. Called ‘Ponyo’ it is the story of a goldfish (Ponyo) that falls in love with a boy (Sōsuke) and wants to become human. At least thats what the poster says. And it does makes it a little confusing because seriously, what goldfish has a face?! What the blurb should say is the daughter of the sea wizard falls in love with a boy.. We’ve seen the littlest mermaid. We know how this works. but I digress. If you didn’t get to check it out today perhaps you’d like to check out the rest of whats on offer.

But is it Art final

  By Sharon | December 21, 2009 - 8:17 am | The Arts, The Culch, TV
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School of Saatchi - Final (was on BBC2) They think it’s all over. It is now. But who won it? Well, let’s have a run-through of what we had. Six artists (Samuel Zealey, Eugenie Scrase, Matt Clark, Saad Qureshi, Ben Lowe and Suki Chan). Six art pieces in the Saatchi gallery. All keyed to win the prized slot of a piece in Saatchis exhibit in the Hermitage Gallery St. Petersburg. To win they need to do something bold, something daring, something unique. So what did they do? A painting, a ladder to nowhere and a log on a fence. WTF? Is this what passes for contemporary art? No wonder the general public think it’s the biggest con since NAMA. It’s so hard to separate the talented from the chancers and, sometimes, the best man doesn’t win.

But is it Art part 2

  By Sharon | December 7, 2009 - 2:29 pm | The Arts, The Culch, TV
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School of Saatchi BBC 2 mondays at 9pm You may have seen my post last week about this. It’s another ‘apprenticeship as prize’ type show but this one is for artists. Not the ‘able to paint really well’ type artists, it’s the ‘place a stick of celery in a large empty room and call it Art’ type of artist. The prize is a so called ‘Dream Ticket’; a slot in a prestigious exhibition and a three year patronage with your own studio. Do I sound biased already? Yes. Trouble is I actually like contemporary art. You learn two things from this show 1. the process by which the artist comes up with his/her piece. 2. NEVER meet the artist. When you see art you like you bring your own thing to it and why you like it may have nothing to do with the thoughts behind creating it. I really … There’s more →

but is it Art?

  By Sharon | November 30, 2009 - 8:04 pm | The Arts, The Culch, TV
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School of Saatchi BBC 2, mondays, 9pm It’s all about apprenticeships these days. Should you not wish to follow Bills exploits (over on the weekly liveblog) perhaps you might want to follow the path of the art worlds newest pop culture artist. Or at least that’s what they hope to be. Charles Saatchi, world famous art collector, museum owner and patron is looking for the artworlds Next Big Thing. He held an open submission contest and hundreds applied. Who wouldn’t? The prize is a three year patronage and your own studio. This is the man who discovered Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. Think of them what you will but these guys earn THOUSANDS on their work. The hundreds got whittled down to 12 who got to show their work to a judging panel of artist Tracey Emin, critic and broadcaster Matthew Collings, art collector Frank Cohen and Barbican curator Kate … There’s more →

Twelve Days in May

  By Sharon | November 25, 2009 - 2:24 pm | The Arts, Theatre
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A Play by Frank Allen Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 at 8pm nightly Tickets 20euro, runs til November 28th Only 3 days left of Twelve Days in May It was recommended to me to go see this before it closed. So I checked it out last night. Going on a day when public sector strikes were happening all over the country seemed most appropriate because this play was about James Connolly during, you guessed it, 12 days in may of 1916.

King Panic Face

  By Sharon | October 27, 2009 - 12:15 am | Random Whimsy, The Culch, TV
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We know culture round here. How about cultural differences though? Cultural differences are a more subtle thing. Some differences however. Not so hard to spot. In this case it’s the ‘comedy in the shame of others fear’ culture of the japan. I’d like you to met ‘King Panic Face’. Some how I don’t think we’ll be having a Neil Delamare presented version of this on our local channels.. though it would spice up the evening slots.