Th'Owd Towser

What a way to be woken up. I feel like I've just got out of jail!!! It's time to stop the 'Rip Van Winkle' mode and ' flag a blog '.
I'll come to 'Th'Owd Towser' shortly but 'Hear now' we've had the Holmfirth Film Festival and it's Holmfirth Arts Festival time again and at the end of the month of June it's Holmfirth Art Week and the Fringe events plug for ' Light without Heat '.
W O W .Art Confused.com ????
So where is the art Zen amongst all this art cacophony, down at ' Th'Owd Towser' and the Artists Talks which have been arranged to take place alongside the curated exhibition of artists responses to the space, a Grade 1 listed heritage site, once used as Holmfirth village church lockup, mortuary, ambulance station and fire station. Perhaps the oldest building in Holmfirth dating from circa 1597.
This well thought out, meaningful contemporary snapshot of ' art now responses' and the discussion follow up create a sense of , ' being part of the process ' , audience inclusiveness at it's best. More of this is needed to encourage the audience of potential consumers of artists' works.   A big up to Alice Bradshaw and Vanessa Haley who curated the show.

Profile Pics ... A New LOOK

Okay, We're back from our Tour de France, not on 2 wheeled transport I might add but dans le Campeurvan, we did 5.5 weeks this time. What an absolutely luscious, mouth watering, feast of delightful delicacies passed into our brains digestive tract, saite, monsieur ? Oh OUI  !!!! Les image will be posted when I get them sorted. I know I say that every year. C'est la vie.

Now, let's get down to the real purpose of this post. As some of you observant types will have already spotted my profile pic has changed, keep spotting, 'cos it's got a mind to get morphing and not only that it wants to make friends with other, Profile Pics.

You see, it's always the same when an inanimate object gets into personification there's no telling what it will get up to.

Here's what it said, " Go forth, O Master, into the fields of plenty. Bring back unto me the gift of curated, Profile Pics, so that I might be amongst mine own for I am lonely without friends for company and begetting. "

Well, what with the deep sounding voice of authority and all that backing noise I began to doubt that I was the Master, anyway, I'm off to do it's bidding and arriving shortly in one form or another will be a curated collection of Profile Pics of course they will not in any way have the capacity to look at you or me but they will, I am sure, give you and me A New LOOK.

Brown Paper Bag

Now, mentioning the fact that paper bags are sometimes square is pushing a link to my last post in case it sinks without trace due to lack of activity. Bit like the performer running around keeping plates balancing on the end of poles ! But that's what has prompted an awakening of the sleeping blogger, a brown paper bag and  three events:

1. Email from Temporary Art Space. http://temporaryartspace.co.uk/
announcing the first Huddersfield Arts Festival 2010  unfunded, free for all. )

2. Checking out Bob Curate at http://bobmilner.wordpress.com/ and

3. Alice Curate at http://museumofcontemporyrubbish.blogspot.com/

Hot stuff when it comes to maximising the minimal in the art world by working with the intangibles.

If you´ve got time squared....

If you have been following closely the latest flurry ( snow induced vocabulary ) of Blog then you will notice that rectangles are now squares and for added entertainment value the images are presented as a slideshow, Da Da,all courtesy of  Picasa Google, a very charming and visually engaging member of the Google family, from Canada.

And for those of you who are FOF here are some more hot photos from France. Where on Earth are all these F´s coming from ?

When is a square not a square?

Believe me the pics are square, but not when displayed on the Blog· Who knows, have I the time to discover the button which will correct the formatting, should I edit the HTML ?????

Maybe Next Year. Now back to the,  S ´now Antidote pictures, maybe I´ll upload some to Picassa and share the heat, give you a tan from the xtra hot rays coming from youir viewing screen and allow you to toast a slice of bread on a toasting fork in front of the screen then melt butter on it,  yumm..eeee. The Canadians do marshmallow..

Never mind Google wave can YOU FEEEEEEEL the HeaT wave blasting out to you !!!!!