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

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 geniune leather and partitioned with gold and platinium. 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.

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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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After the success of the Spring Tournament and The Curry Cup we felt it was time to get serious. After much research we decided to invest in a world class foosball table. We opted for a Garlando Master Champion which is the official ITSF model for the international competitions of the category International, Master Series and Pro Tour. It is a thing of beauty to help inspire (of course!), as well as being silky smooth whilst rock solid to play on.

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I had recently blogged about a font clock which made it into my top five clocks. There is now another clock that has sledgehammered its way onto the list, the analog digital clock. Read more

The Guernsey Memory Walk will take place on Sunday 28th September and Betley Whitehorne has launched the new website, which will feature an online registration facility.

All money raised from the Memory Walk will go to the Guernsey Alzheimer’s Society, the UK’s leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers, and the Maison Million Appeal, which is raising money in order to provide a local Alzheimer’s care unit.

You can get full details on the Guernsey Alzheimer’s Society, details of the walk, register online and download a sponsorship form on the website.

A new exhibition is opening at the greenhouse gallery later this month entitled St Peter Port: past and present.

Showing for the first time in public, drawings with watercolour washes of three streets in St Peter Port. These townscapes from the 1970’s, were commissioned by the Environment Department and were drawn by Robert Reed (while he was attending the Central School of Art in London). They capture a moment in history and, alongside these long landscape drawings, we plan to show photographs pf some of the same detail as they are now.

The exhibition runs from 25th July - 11th September 2008.

I love type and typography but have terrible handwriting, it’s so bad I’m ashamed of it. But after finding an article on the handwriting of typographers I don’t feel so bad, some of them have bad writing too. It’s an interesting read and you can see similarity in some typographers’ creations and their handwriting.

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