Tinderbox Heartstrings Collective (song drawings) WAS massive !!!!!!

ciaran l channelling sinnitta
jane agus elida
the front cover of zine
Hi everyone , just a teaser of whats to follow when I regain control over my mind \hand movements !
We took lots of photos at the stall and will post them soon soon soon .
Just to say , it WAS worth all the hard work , it will and CAN lead on to so many other things , it was lovely to meet you elida,esther,eoghan, lucky , sarah, leo, emma and ciaran .
We had fun at the stall and felt really part of the day.
I have kept a zine for all those who collaborated on the project , it costs 6 euro = 1.50 P&P This covers the printng etc ...any extra monies will go towards the next chapter of heartstrings.
Please let me know a.s.a.p if you want one as they are nearly all gone .
So that will be the first limited edition of 20 in that particular form . Please mention this on facebook, it may be of interest to tinderboxers that may not be paying attention on the blog :)
No worries if you were not able to be in on this , you are keeping tinderbox going however you are able to support it and if you would like to mix it up for the next chapter .....please please do not be shy,put up a suggestion on the blog .
xx

Tinderbox at Independents Day and a photography event announcement

Hi, everybody! Here's some of the wonderful drawings done on the tablecloth of the Tinderbox Stall at Independents Day yesterday by some of the artists collaborating in the Heartstring Collection project organized by Jane. It was a great day, really enjoyed meeting everybody and the Heartstring Collection did really well!
I have a quick announcement to make for people interested in photography, sorry it's such short notice but I only found out about this over the weekend. There's going to be a photography auction on the 25th of November in aid of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and today is the closing date for submission of photographs. You email the photo to them and if your photo is chosen you'll be asked to print it yourself but the mounting or framing can be done by the event organizers if you so choose. Photo size must be 8R (8” X 10”) or 10R (10” X 12”) and the donated photographs will receive 5% of the bid. More details here:
Photography Auction in aid of The Alzheimer Society of Ireland

I'm going to attend whether my photo gets chosen or not and I thought it would be a good opportunity to get other people from Tinderbox that are interested in photography together, or anybody at all, even if you're not so much into photography you might like to go there too!

Missing songs

Hello!

I am putting all the songs in an mp3 player, so people buying the Heartstrings album/publication can listen to the songs that triggered those fan tas tic drawings.

I have collected all the songs except:

- Half Light1 by Arcade Fire (drawn by Alan Nagle)

- Everybody is talking at me by Harry Nilsson (?) (drawn by Emma Rowe) (GOT IT NOW, thank you Emma)

- All you need is love was not true by Xinlisupreme (drawn by Ciaran L.) (GOT IT NOW, thanks Ciaran)

- Wake Me Up When September Comes (by Green Day) (drawn by Noirin)

Could any of you, tinderboxers email them to me? elida.maiques[at]gmail.com

Thanks a lot!

:] elida.

Who and When at Tinderbox stall, Independents' Day

Let me summarise who offered to be at the stall at what times.
Jane, Esther, and myself will be around all day, so we can fill the gaps.

Leo, Lucky Fish, Sarah, don't worry, you won't be alone there!

Leo 12-1pm
Lucky Fish and Ciaran L. 1-2pm
Emma Rowe 2-3pm
Sarah Bowie 3-4pm
4-5pm

If anybody else is interested, please say so. Always more fun to have a friend with you at the stall.
:] elida.

Tinderbox Heartstrings, cover for Yellowhammer

Yellowhammer, the rest you will have to come and see!
:]] elida.

Tinderbox Heartstrings Collective - a 7'' cover

Hi all,

This is an appetizer: I found a bunch of 7'' gems like this in Spain.

For the Heartstrings Song Drawings project.

Jane found another bunch in England.

I thought you'd like to see one of the jackets for our drawings.

Also, two ideas for Independents' Day this Sunday:

1. A gang

It would be great if we are a gang at Independents' Day, that way we can take turns and go browse the rest of stalls. As I am helping with the screening of Independents' Day I will have to go off now and then.

Will you come and command? Please? :]]

2. Tablecloth, tablepaper

We can make it into a game, I was thinking of covering our table with a large piece of drawing paper and spending the day covering it in collage, drawings, fingerprints, etc.

The fair is 12 to 5pm.

Up for it? Drop a comment, please, say what you think. :]

elida.

Illustration of Anna Bhushan

Many more unique and fascinating images here : http://www.annabhushan.com
Just come across this very special work which I can not resist sharing!

Tinderbox Heartstrings Collective ...song drawings. It is all under control really ...really)

Hi everyone , just a quick hello and to say a massive THANK YOU to all the peeps that were able to collaborate on the project.
I am so pleased that I was brave that day and mentioned it !
The drawings are so full of life,all of them .
Well done ♥♥
I will let you know how I get on with it and hope to meet you on sunday at the independants day .
A special thank you publically to elida who is a great Robin x

Parapluie

My collaboration to the suggestion of Jane. It is made from the song "Parapluie" from Georges Brassens. Yann Tiersen has made a great cover of it. The line is : "Un petit coin de parapluie pour un coin de paradis."

'Brainbelt' Exhibition Launch

Hi all, just a reminder about the 'Brainbelt Illustration Collective' exhibition, its launching tomorrow, as part of Design Week 2010.
Where: 'The Centre for Creative Practices', 15 Lower Pembroke St., Dublin 2 (just off Baggot St.)
When: The exhibition launches tomorrow, November 1st, 7–10pm and the show will run daily from 11.30–6pm until November 7th.

Would love to see you there! :)

Wake me up...

Hi all - Jane apologies for the delay in sending it in! Was nice to do a bit of drawing.. never seem to have the time! Anyways the song is Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Comes..

The Symphony No. 4 in E minor by Johannes Brahms - Heartstrings

This was inspired by Symphony No. 4 in E minor by Johannes Brahms, the quoted line is the first few bars of the second movement.
The picture illustrates emotional development of a musical composition: starting with dark somber notes of miserable office workers going to their crammed workplaces on a dark morning, developing into repetitive routine of greed and buzzwords.... then gradually changing into light birds floating among the currents of wind.
Of course such is only one personal interpretation of the symphony written by Brahms in 1885, I love listening to this piece!

Wandering Eye - Heartstrings

'Wandering Eye' by Fat Freddys Drop..
Fat Freddys Drop are Dub/Reggae band from New Zealand. When I moved to Melbourne they were my first concert & this song stood out from everything else they played that night. I always think of that when I hear this song...i miss Melbourne!

Gainsbourg for Heartstrings

 

Thanks to Jane for organising the Heartstrings project.

I think we were all glad of the project extension, I know I was.

Here is a portrait of Serge Gainsbourg. I'm fascinated by his appeal here in France. 

Poet, lover, rebel and hero for various reasons including his many conquests with the ladiiiies.

I'll be working on this a bit further with some song lyrics, but here he is.

Thanks again Jane

Heartstrings

  

Midnight Cowboy is one of my favourite films of all time, it always makes me cry. music has always being associated with film in my mind, even if a song has never been in a movie it will be cinematic in my mind. so if you don't mind I going to where the sun keeps shining in the pouring rain

I'll find you and I'll kill you (Heartstrings Collective)

Had no time to do this one (yesterday evening) so thought i would just draw it in biro's red/blue/black its a really good song and i wish i had the time to do it justice.

The song:

Chad VanGaalen - Molten Light

The line:

She stood up on the bank and whispered, I'll find you and I'll kill you

Check out the video its strange as hell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLw5b70OJH8

new work

Hi everyone, sorry I missed out on the song drawings, the work looked great. I've been busy getting new work done for an upcoming exhibition, the 'Brainbelt Illustration Collective', part of Design Week this year. The show is launching next monday, the 1st, and will run for a week. I'll post the details a little nearer to the day. Would love to see you there :)

Hello Everyone

Hi,

My name is Peter O' Brien and I just joined the Tinderbox Network today. I just thought I'd post saying hello to everyone. I am interested in Film, Photography and sound design. Above is an example of my photography work. I shoot mostly documentary street photography.

Below is an example of my film work. This is a project I recently finished. Its a short documentary about Barney Mc Kenna, banjo player of the traditional band, 'The Dubliners'. I hope you guys like my work and I'd love some feedback, positive or negative. I am looking forward to working and collaborating with all you lovely people in the future.

Link: http://vimeo.com/13440253

Travel size pillows with lavender ...zzzzzzz

Focus on Art - Opening tomorrow Thursday

Focus on Art

OPENING this Thursday at 7pM

at the Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Lower Pembroke Street, D2

Hello Tinderboxers,

How to say this?
Yes, I am friends with one of the organisers, and yes, I genuinely think it will be worth a visit, so
if you are in the mood, go and check it out.

Tinderbox Heartstrings Collective (song drawings) its going to be massive

the latest piece in !!!!! thanks roisin maguire
'Life On Mars' by David Bowie.
alan nagle
Half Light1- Arcade Fire,
elida maiques
Hitting the ground
By Gordon Gano, as sung by PJ Harvey.
claire gallagher
Bob Dylan's 'Subterranian Homesick Blues'.
jane o sullivan
I feel at home whenever the unknown surrounds me
wanderlust
bjork



extended final closing date
FRIDAY 29TH OCTOBER !!! before if you can as it leaves only a week to make up the multiples.
You will be in a cute as a button multiples project to be launched at our own tinderbox stall at the second independants fair on sunday 7th november.
Have you seen whats going on at the fair ?,its going to be rocking.

hi guys ....I have four drawings including my own
a big thank you to elida , claire and alan and am hoping that we can get a few more in .......????
My plan is to make a little multiples pack of the song drawings in time for the independants day zine fair which is on sunday the 7th november.
I want to place the drawings B&W photocopies/colour (into vintage 7inch record sleeves which I will customise the front of the record sleeve with a printed sticker.)
I have a 1950's wire singles record rack to display the multiples in ...omg its going to be great !
Elida had the fab idea of playing the songs on an i-pod ...maybe on headphones while the person looks at the original drawings.( paper clipped into a large song book)
To be honest I feel a little sad :( and would like to know if there are any others out there that want to work collectively ?....there are over 100 followers and a lot of new contributors , there must be some more peeps that draw.
Stand up and be counted.

READ CAREFULLY DIGEST AND THEN PRESS GO X
1*please leave a comment if you have a drawing and its nearly ready.
2* remember its about being in something together , your drawing will part of something greater , its not going to be judged ,you probably have a drawing already that you have made that is in fact related to a song .....
hmmmm bet you have SEND THE BABY IN WE WANT IT
3*has anyone got any unwanted outer cardboard 7inch record sleeves (it doesnt matter how cheesy they are)
4*I know that there are lots of fantastic artists in tinderbox lets make this work

****** original post

love jane x

Illustration Competition

Hey y'all,

Just wanted to let you know about a competition being run by the House of Illustration and the Folio Society. All the info is available here, but in brief, they want you to illustrate 3 pages and the cover for Albert Camus' The Outsider. The prize is a 4k commission and the closing date is 10th Jan 2011. Worth a shot. Good luck.

Sarah

Robotbag changes the world

Hello again!

I know I am a big last minute mongrel, but my friend Simon Kinane and I are entering a version of Robotbag to a competition that finishes today, Friday.

Part of the score is the reaction of the audience.
So, if you want, watch the film and comment!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO6Pe2xCnJ0

:] animation!
elida.

For the Tinderbox Heartstrings Collection of Song Drawings. Hitting the ground.

Hello!

This is my submission to Jane's Heartstrings Song project.
I still have to scan it and add perhaps a layer of colour to it.
Ah, I thought it'd be good to upload a work in progress.
I'll finish it today, Jane, I promise!

The song: Hitting the Ground
By Gordon Gano, as sung by PJ Harvey.
:] elida.

Open House

Just saw this now - its on tomorrow going to try to head into it. Its free and lets you snoop inside buildings...

www.architecturefoundation.ie/openhouse/

Okey Bokeh

The area of photography called 'Bokeh' can provide some very beautiful images - Bokeh basically involves focusing on blur, so to speak... an intentional use of the out-of-focus as part of the compositional appeal of a shot. There are 88 examples of such images here: INSTANT SHIFT

Bubble in the sky

Bubble in the sky, originally uploaded by Esther Moliné.

Hi! I just joined the site! Looking forward to seeing everybody else's work. I'm from Madrid but have been living in Dublin for the last 20 years! I'm interested in all kinds of art even though I'm mainly into photography myself. Haven't been doing it for very long though, still lots to learn! Here's a big bubble I caught at Grafton Street a while ago, thanks to a guy who's often making bubbles there

Independents Day!

Hello!

This is going to be a bit long, so:

1. Look at the poster I made for Independents Day! I hope you like it!

2. Would any of you, fabulous artists, like to participate in the Independents Day exhibition?

If so, contact Julia Duff (xxxjulz[at]gmail.com).

3. Let us have a Tinderbox stall. We can sell postcards, jewellery, artifacts, artwork, the zines (I have a bunch of copies of each issue)... It only costs a fiver, and it can be a lot of fun. It would be fan tas tic to go as a gang, perhaps spending just one hour each at the stall, then floating around between coffee, bands, and artzines!

I hope you think it is a good idea, please, drop a comment or email me (elida.maiques[at]gmail.com).

:]

elida.

BLACKOUT POSTER Day Time - Play Time

The concept of the poster was to show how people have to present an image in work\day time but at night they can be themselves. I also thought this would be good for glow in the dark ink.

Harry Hill... yes really!

Harry Hill Art

There's a Vic Reeves-y quality to his work that I found very enticing.