All the ways...

This is an illustration I've been working on. I'm not sure if i can show it yet really because I've only just submitted it, so I cropped into it for now. It's for an exhibition/book that will be published in the new year. This is also the reason I missed the zine submission deadline, sorry elida!

Geraldine Georges

Geraldine Georges

be true...
ink,paper stars and pen on board
nov 2009

Very interesting project

The Fiction Project
(thanks to Susan for the link)

Cake Cafe stall available

Hey,

I have a stall in the Cake Cafe next Saturday (1-5pm), but I won't be able to make it until 3pm. Does anybody want to share it or sell their stuff at the Cake Cafe? The market there is small, all about re-styled second hand clothes, jewellery and bric a brac.

I would like to sell the Tinderbox zine, and perhaps prints!

Please drop a comment here if you want to share..

Tinderbox Zine - send it all before... Saturday!

Hey fellow kindling of Tinderbox!

Thanks a lot to all of you who sent their stuff for publication in the zine nr.2. Also, to those who still need a couple of days, you have them!

I will be putting the zine together over the weekend, so please send it by Saturday.

No need to talk about shoes, ok?

Sleepless in Seattle - the horror movie

Fatal Attraction anyone?

A poem by Taylor Mali, comes to life through type

This is something that's ssooooo been bothering me for a while now, you know? glad to find a poem that feels the same way too.

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

Check out more Taylor Mali here www.taylormali.com

EXHALE MANDY O'NEILL

Exhibition. Norman Mailer has stated that boxing is a metaphor for life. Investment of time and energy in a tradition like boxing can be explained through the desire to achieve stability in a rapidly changing world. It may also engender a yearning for a more vital existence and a longing for authenticity. In this photographic work, Mandy O'Neill uses the world of the amateur boxer to explore such ideas and to examine aspects of the human condition. These images were taken over a two-year period at St Saviours Boxing club, Dorset St in Dublin.
Mandy O'Neill is a Visual Artist based in Dublin. She graduated with a BA in Photography from the DIT College of Photography in 2005. She has recently exhibited at ‘RUA RED’ Dublin 2009 and the RHA Dublin 2009.
27 November - 6 February 2010
Opening Thursday 26 November at 6.30pm - Admission free

Alliance Française1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Dublins Unisgned - We're getting Excited

“Dublin Unsigned shines a light on some of the very best emerging acts from the Dublin scene. There are some incredible bands coming through right now and this compilation provides a snapshot of what’s hot and what’s likely to make a big impression in 2010”.

- Keith Johnson, IMRO

Hi All

I hope you all have Dec 11th penciled in for the Album Launch in Crawdaddy - for the Dublin's Unsigned gig.

Its going to be huge!!

We just got confirmation that the lads from Noise Control will be finishing off the night with a fantastic DJ set after the bands finish - they are awesome.

Check us out on facebook for more updates as they come in. This night is growing and growing!!!

Check out Our New Website (a work in progress)



And check out our cool new video:






All the best


Ruairi

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

Mama?

Many Toys at Last Year’s Prices

and the awkward pre-production...

Totally 100% Trend

Tinderbox Zine

Hello all,

Elida is accepting submissions for the Tinderbox Zine - "In These Shoes".

All kinds of subjects are welcome, as a zine just about shoes might be boring!

She is busy going around town today looking for shop windows to paint for Christmas.
(You can contact her by phone or email.)

Thank you

Procrastination is...

...why I don't have anything for the new zine. sorry. (sadface)

web log

http://emmamegannety.blogspot.com/

hi guys,
finally got around to starting a blog! Still needs lots of work but please let me know what you think, good or bad!
cheers me dears

song for edith holden (work in progress)

ink and pen and marker on paper

...its not right for the zine ,but this is very dear to my heart at the moment, I have been haunted by the little known facts of edwardian artist and botanist Edith Holden ,for a long time now.
You may not know of the country diary of an edwardian lady ....its a fascimile copy of a diary that edith kept as her journal in the early 1900's , she recorded what was happening in nature throughout the year and drew it all. Birds ,flowers , poems etc.
In the 1970's her grand niece found it in the attic and got it published.
It was very freely available and many homes had one ,you can still pick them up easily second hand.BUT what really gets me is the nature of her death .....its soooooo tragic , you wont believe it.
Edith was gathering chestnut buds and leaning over she fell into the river thames and drowned. omg ......
I am making more work in response to this awful end ,it has really captured something in me.

Heaven Can Wait

Really like this video. Charlotte Gainsbourg featuring Beck.

illustrations

Working on a Commission - illustrations for female dressing rooms in a new boutique in eyre square.
See what ye think so far .(Sorry for bad photos, just took with a camera phone,) Thanks.

Tinderbox loves Panda Facts

100 Facts about Pandas

Christmas Exhibition at the Bernard Shaw

The annual Bernard Shaw/Shaw Space Christmas
The exhibition will run from Friday 4th of December to Tuesday the 22nd December.

Maybe the Tinderbox peoples could get together for a lil' festive drink on the 4th.

Dublins Unisgned - Poster Update

Hi Guys,

Here is the updated poster for the Dublin's Unsigned CD Launch in Crawdaddy on Dec 11th.

(Great job by Phil Moyna on the poster).

Hope to see you all down at the gig

An illustration I did for Electric Penguins

This is an illustration I just did for an "Electric Penguin's" ep. They wanted  a girl lying in the woods, the initial design was meant to be gold, but it didn't work for me... and they say a writers best friend is the bin! 

Recognise those trees? 

Independents Day

Independents Day will take place this Sunday Nov 22nd, at the Coop.
Check out their blog to take part in the exhibition or get a stall.
http://independentsdaydublin.blogspot.com/

It will be very interesting to take a dip in the micropress pool!

In These Shoes by Evelyn Walsh

Evelyn Walsh has very kindly written this text for us. Please drop a comment if you want to illustrate it or you want to share your impressions!

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She sat for a while, looking and listening. It was thirty years since she had been to the city and it had changed, changed utterly. So many people, busy confident good looking people.
She manoeuvred her wheelchair deeper into the bustling shopping centre and stopped at the window of the shoe shop, a single shoe on display, suspended in a way that made it look as if it was floating. It was shiny patent, deepest crimson red with a bowed front and a delicate spiked heel. They were beautiful. In these shoes she thought she might once again dance the tarantella. She watched her reflection in the plate glass window, an elderly overweight solitary figure fumbling beneath the chair for her purse. Her gnarled arthritic knuckles found the once shiny advertisement torn from a magazine, she opened it and laughed aloud. Yes! It was the coveted Jimmy Choos. Her heart pounded harder than it should. She briefly wondered was she having a heart attack. No matter. If she were to die they could bury her with the shoes on.
And we did.
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The Little Ghost Gallery

A friend of mine told me about this. Thought it may be of interest to some of you! Click on the image to see it at a readable size. Here's the website to mick minogue, the guy who's organising it. 

STORYSKETCH TONIGHT

Tinderbox Network presents the first Storysketch session
association with the Narrative Arts Club
20.00 Library Bar Extension
(Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2, just off South Great George's Street)

The Narrative Arts Club will provide an evening of "eye-contact theatre"
Tinderbox members and other sketching enthusiasts are invited to draw the storyteller/audience OR the story itself.

We're expecting a nice crowd so best to arrive early.
Suggested donation €2 - €6

Looking forward to seeing you there.
Tinderbox Network

chris piascik

Chris Piascik does some nice doodly illustrations and hand rendered type.

WOW, thats a lot of starlings!

In These Shoes by Shauna Busto Gilligan

Anybody wants to grab this text and illustrate it? Please drop a comment. Shauna very kindly wrote it.

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I wear red patent shoes that click and clack across paved paths and scrape on uneven cobble stones. I am invisible if I am soundless. My shoes click; my voice sings.

Us women are masters in deception; our own mistresses. Before these days of blackness and magic, before Día de los Muertos, when I imagined behaving in this way, I thought an unbearable guilt would build up and consume my passion, forcing me to retreat into my shell of niceness and apologies. But with each further sin I commit I cast off another layer of guilt and submission. My heels click louder. Each stomp is a stomp for freedom. At thirty three I have found my secret.

It is purely for the pleasure that we are together. We can neither hide this pleasure nor can we prevent it from taking over. I imagine I am a twentieth century Coatlicue, Goddess of earth and fire: earth with my J but fire with my C.

“Disfruta,” C whispers in my ear. I get so excited that I have to hold myself back from climaxing. And then all my guilt-infested feelings fly out the window and I do as he bids: Enjoy. And then I slip back into my glistening red shoes and listen to the sound of happiness as they bring me home.
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