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"Long-Eared Furry Things"

In the current climate, we find ourselves looking for opportunities further afield - but this often leads to random trains of thought.  We do think that eventually these all magically link back into bigger things we're interested in pursuing - ideas and artforms and ways of working.  But the problem with responding to adverts is you think of an idea in response to a prompt, then you write up your idea, then you talk about your idea - and by this point you think THIS IDEA IS AMAZING - I CAN'T WAIT TO MAKE IT! .... And then more often than not you're not selected. (recessions seem to ramp up the competition exponentially..)

So - this may be another one of those ideas, and because of that we don't want to say too much - other than we picked a rogue prompt: "Long-Eared Furry Things".  Our idea was based around collecting 'sightings' of this mythical creature and then make them in 3D using a range of techniques.

To test the idea, we posed the question on Twitter, with about 2 hours worth of turnaround time for responses:

if you're bored this morning, could you draw a quick picture of a "long-eared furry thing" for me? i need any drawings before 11! rt please!

And here's the responses we collected!  What would your Long-Eared Furry Thing look like?

 

Credits:

1) Ben Waddington - @falsedog

2) Jon Clarke - @goatboyuk

3) Kirsty Hillyer (my partner in crime!) - @kfrilly

4) Ben Waddington (again!) - @falsedog

5) Lee Allen - @leeallenphotos

6) Keith Bloomfield - @hardluck_hotel

7) Paul Gallear - @paulgallear

8) "Quirky Joe" - @QuirkyJoe_

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Kingsfest 2011 - 16/07/11 - excited now!

Superquick entry just to mention we've been working on an event happening next weekend in Kingstanding, Birmingham and we now have marketing material to show to help promote!

Everybody is welcome and the programme is just being finalised... and there's a LOT going on across the 5 sites - exhibitions, performances, donkey rides, competitions, amazing installations (including a knitted bull!), graffiti workshops, Zumba, and Hunt Emerson (Beano artist) is going to be exhibiting some work and chatting to visitors!  Amazing!

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kaleidoscopes and telescopes

Just a little interin update - most of the installation at one of our PiCL schools has happened - but we wanted to add some home made kaleidoscopes as the school we're at is SEN and we wanted to try to engage a range of senses.  Some of these have colours, some distort the view out the other end, some rattle and make sounds.  We're going to hang them using elastic so they can be pulled down to a range of heights and moved about within the outdoor space.  They're made entirely using recycled materials - old glasses lenses, ceramic offcuts, coloured plastic and more.  They make fun photos!

 

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