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Archive for the ‘Influences’ Category

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The best festive films ever?

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Are these the best festive films ever?

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Keep calm and poster on

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Has the ubiquitous ‘Keep Calm’ poster had its day?

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Pete’s Top Tunes

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Pete Martin gives us his Top Ten tunes

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Recommended Scottish Albums

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Here’s the complete list of Scottish rock ‘n’ pop albums as recommended by men and women of taste and judgement. (The Top 30 - as judged by most frequently mentioned - can be found here.) Big thanks to all contributors.

If you’re ever in the mood to buy music, and can’t quite decide what to spend [...]

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The Best Scottish Album in the World - Ever

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Alright pop-pickers…  Here’s the big Top 30 - dah, dah, dah-dah-dah– dah-dah.
We’ve put them in alphabetic order because after Deacon Blue’s Raintown, Love & Money’s Strange Kind of Love, Hipsway’s self-titled Hipsway, and James Grant’s My Thrawn Glory, the field’s pretty even and, frankly, trying to rank them is a bit silly in the first [...]

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Can you think of a better album made by a Scottish artist?

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

We think James Grant’s new album is ‘nae bad’. But maybe you know there’s a better album made by a Scottish artist? Leave a reply below, stating your own favourite Scottish album of all time (and a reason if you have one).
The best 5 replies will win a limited edition Strange Flowers t-shirt.*
If you need [...]

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Martin Munoz

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz create sculptural scenes of isolation, despair and dark humor and mix them up with all the enchantment of a snow globe. Here’s a sprinkling of their work.

 

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Bela Borsodi

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Surreal, experimental, provocative…these are just some of the words I would use to describe the work of Bela Borsodi. Like the Salvador Dali of still life photography, Borsodi challenges our perception of inanimate objects by altering the context within which they are seen. Whilst the majority of his work is for fashion editorial and advertising, his [...]

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Exactitudes

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Exactitudes is an interesting photography project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek documenting the dress codes of different social groups, from yupstergirls and bonkerboys to surfistas and skins. The resulting set of images is a juxtaposition of individuality and uniformity.

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Field of Light

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

A light installation by designer Bruce Munro will be exhibited at the Eden Project in Cornwall this winter. Using 6,000 acrylic tubes containing optical fibers, Munro has created a field of light which will illuminate its natural surroundings with a spectrum of colour. He came up with the concept whilst traveling through the red desert in Australia, where he [...]

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