17/01/2012

Film Night Monday 23/2012

We are happy to invite you to the thirteenth installment of Alpha-Beat Cinema Club at Kingsland Road Studio on Kingsland Road, thank you to Brendan and co. for having us again.

This week it's M for 'Marriage' with Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage Of Maria Braun. We welcome you a little later this week at 8pm with a film starting time of 8.15pm.

Fassbinder’s biggest international box-office success and the first part of his “postwar trilogy,” The Marriage of Maria Braun is a heartbreaking study of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life, as well as a pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past...

"A work of epic and poetic qualities" Francois Truffaut

Public and Studio friends welcome.

17/12/2011

BoxPark Pop-up Mall in Shoreditch

BoxPark is a pop-up mall, next to Shoreditch High St station, a few minutes South of Hoxton, down the road from the studio. It's opposite Pizza East/Shoreditch House.

It's a novel idea that looks unique, with an impressive list of brands too, some established and some fresh/innovative organisations like Art Against Knives, set up by an innocent knife crime victim to help reduce street crime.

Perhaps there will be more of these in future, I'm unsure how long it will be there or what will be done with the space afterwards.

The brands present are below.

ABUZE / AMNESTY SHOP / ART AGAINST KNIVES / BOXFRESH / BOXPARK / BUKOWSKI / CALVIN KLEIN / CHOP'D / CRUSSH / CYBER CANDY / DAVID MAYAR NAMAN / DC SHOES / DOCKERS / ETNIES / EVISU / FARAH VINTAGE / FIFTY FIVE DSL / FOXCROFT & GINGER / FRAE FROZEN YOGHURT / GOLA / HOP-NAMO / IRREGULAR CHOICE / KANGOL / LACOSTE L!VE / LEVI'S / LUKE / MARIMEKKO / MEXWAY / NEW ERA / NIKE / OAKLEY / ONE TRUE SAXON / ONEPIECE / ORIGINAL PENGUIN / PALLADIUM / PHAIDON / PIEMINISTER / PLAYFUL PROMISES / PUMA / ROUTE ONE / SMILEY / THE NORTH FACE / URBANEARS / VANS

08/12/2011

Trivia

Deep in the wilderness in the late afternoon with a field camera on your back, a glorious photo opportunity in perfect golden light just over the next ridge? Whether to forge ahead while the light lasts to secure the shot or to return to base before sunset? Stretch out an arm, raise a hand with the palm toward you and fingers parallel to the horizon. Align the side of your little finger with the skyline, and see how many fingers fit between it and the sun. Each finger means 15 minutes more light. An eminent cameraman cations: err on the safe side, ten minutes per finger may be more appropriate, fewer if you have large fingers; the method only works in higher latitudes - near the equator, the sun sets too quickly for measuring.

Pring's Photography Miscellany 2011.

03/12/2011

Hangover Blues

Your night music

1. Errors - A rumour in Africa
2. Lounge Lizards - Voice of chunk
3. Tindersticks - Falling down a mountain

The Bus ride home

4. Washed Out - Far away

A new day

5. Mount Kimbie - Before I move off
6. Glowbug - My name is death
7. Wu LYF - Such a sad puppy dog
8. Timber Timbre - No bold villain
9. Yo La Tengo - Our way to fall
10. Miles Davis - Blue in green

Philip Brillo.