The Guernsey Arts Commission are promoting a new event you can all get involved in. The details are as follows:
Pianos in the street of St Peter Port…
Musical or not, we invite you to play the pianos and get involved with this community arts project.
‘Let’s Play’
Pianos in the streets of St Peter Port is a community arts project which has been masterminded by local musician conductor James Henderson and supported by the Guernsey Arts Commission. Read more
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Artists, architects, academics and arts administrators from around the world will be in Guernsey on the 23 and 24 September to examine the position that art holds in our society. Discussions will include whether an island such as Guernsey can play a more active role and benefit from being part of the international art world.
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When 99% of the population are saving money on unnecessary food due to the credit crunch Harrods launch a box of chocolates costing £5000!
The 49 Swarovski-studded chocolates come wrapped in hand-woven silk from India and China and are packaged in a box made of genuine leather and partitioned with gold and platinum. The packaging was designed by Lebanese chocolatier, Patchi, for a new range of Harrod’s High Life products.
A Harrods spokesman says, ‘A number of our customers have actually asked for a product such as this which has the “wow” factor.’
Of course there is a place for luxurious packaging but this is ridiculous, an obscene display of wealth. If anyone out there even considers buying these chocolates please think twice, donate £5000 to charity, and feel much better about yourself.
A lot of people love exploring with Google Maps/Earth but the problem is the data isn’t real-time. It would great to see cars driving the streets, planes taking off, the sea lapping the shoreline. The BBC have noted this and a new series called Britain From Above looks set to give us a glimsp of life in England from the air. There are some lovely looking visualisations of aircraft flight patterns, the movement of cars etc in this sample video which I really hope will be in HD.
Cymbolism is an online experiment that lets you associate colours with words. A random word is selected with a brief description and you can click the coloured box that you feel most closely captures the essence of the word. I think the palette from which to choose is rather limited, being primarily bright colours but it’s an interesting idea and I like the way previous results are displayed using coloured bars at the bottom of the site. Being able to view results by gender, age, geo-location etc would also make it more valuable as a tool.
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