PERFORATED

I have been playing around with the idea of perforation, and how to best use this method to produce some form of tear away flyers and create some form of debate/argument amongst people, almost anonymously, however the final outcome of this will have an effect on what people in general think what should...

THE 100 CLUB CURTAINS AND CHAIRS

Today I went to the 100 club with Henry, it was strange seeing it completely empty on a Friday lunchtime at 12 oclock, however this gave us the platform to take some amazing photos of the place. It seems to be quite an easy place to get a good photo, probably because of the history that has gone on within the four...

CBGB NYC

CBGB's was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was similar to the 100 club due to the fact that it was a small venue in a big city that had hundreds of amazing bands playing at it, night in night out. However the plight of CBGB wasn't great as it closed in the summer...

TEARING UP THE DANCE FLOOR

Today was the first interim, for this I had whittled down my ideas that i have previously spoken about to one main idea, this is the tear away flyers idea. The flyers are going to be the same pattern as the wood panels on the floor in the 100 club. The idea being that when a flyer is ripped off a part of the 100 club goes with...

WOOD TILED FLOOR PART 2

In a previous post i said i couldnt remember what type of wood flooring the floor in the 100 club was, however today i found out it was a herringbone type of structure as you can see in the photo, now to construct the perforation pattern.

OLD TIMES FLYERING

I am starting to really warm to the idea of tear off flyers, it reminds me of times when i used to stand around giving out flyers for gigs a few years ago, something i think every music fan should do at one stage or another, i know nicholas my man does it on the regular, he seems to like it... when its not pissing it down anyway.

BEAUTIFUL LOSERS

This is a documentary film about that focuses on the careers and work of a collective group of artists who since the 1990s began a movement in the art world using D.I.Y. aesthetics from skateboarding, graffiti and underground music such as punk rock and hip-hop. The artists discussed and interviewed in the film include...

INFORMATION PLAYGROUNDS - JONA PIEHL

This was the first installment of the information playgrounds series, in which Annagrete is commanding. The first talk we had was with a designer called Jona Piehl who has been designing graphic systems for exhibitions and museums around which travel around the world. It was a interesting insight to the world of exhibition design, and the aspects that went into designing something that had to be accessible from so many different levels, and the amount of planning that went into this. Looking forward to next week where were going to the british library for some talking.

THE WHEATSHEAF RIP

This book is quite relevant to the 100 club brief at the moment, due to the fact that it was a local pub called The Wheatsheaf in Borough Market that was closed due to the network rail extension. The book was shot by John Ross who is an amazing photographer from london, to commemorate this local pub. It is full of the...

THE DISFIGURED 100

I have been pondering over this idea for a while of concentrating on the things that are really bad about the 100 club, the broken chairs and tables, the weird smell of the place, the tatty stage, and the hole ridden floor, apparently sometimes they dont even have ice at the bar, or didn't used to anyway! I was also talking to Henry (who happens to be doing the same brief) about this factor too, that concentrating on all the bad things actually isn't a bad thing at all, because all these crappy factors of the club actually fill it with character that no other place could emulate. The way id do this is to take photos of all the disfigurements within the club and then have some form of type around them, this idea however doesn't really open much of a debate up with anyone, it just sort of is there, I guess you could argue that it is advertising it to make sure it stays open...

WOOD TILED FLOOR

I seem to remember yesterday the flooring being this wood tile flooring that you get in old town halls and things like that, I remember looking at it because of someone saying that there were holes in the floor and I wanted to see if there really was, which to be fair there was, anyway I have just been thinking of...

TEAR OFF FLYERS

Over the last day i have been trying to think of ways to engage people that enables them to have an opinion of there own and being almost anonymous. I think that it would be hard to come out as a music lover and say that they actually thought that the 100 club would be best to go due to the fact that it will be subject...

ON THE GRAPEVINE

I have heard that the 100 Club has been saved from closure, this cant be for sure but apparently there has been a sponsor involved, so the 500,000 pounds that has needed to be raised to keep the club from closure has presumably been made, or given to them? This on first looks is a great thing, and all the people that have worked hard to get this have been rewarded, however i still feel that the vibe of the 100 club may go, due to the fact that sponsors are getting involved. These two conflicting ideas of it being great that it is being saved, but is it going to lose its atmosphere are something that i find really interesting, and feel it will open a wider debate, from the music lovers who wanted it to stay open to the people who wanted to close it and turn it into something else... More ideas on how to do this tomorrow, as a few of the ideas that i had to do with either saving the 100 club or closing it are obsolete now.

ITS GOT CHARM

For the ongoing list of things I need to do of late i actually achieved one today, this was to visit the infamous 100 Club, i dragged my flatmate Ariane along with me for the ride too (lucky her). Having only seen it from the outside before i didn't really know what was in-store for me, only that it is a bit tatty. We arrived at the venue and the first shock...

BANKS VIOLETTE

Banks Violette is a artist based in New York, his style is amazing, intergrating his stark, clean output, compared with his dark subjects that he bases his work upon. His work is such a nice thing to look at, with the range of lighting and usually some form of glossy black surface and ghostly white areas.

INITIAL THOUGHTS

The 100 club is going one or two ways for me, this is, it staying open for a while to come yet, due to either sponsors, the council changing their mind about rent or them getting a sudden burst of money, or people flooding through the doors.

JEFF HORTON 100 CLUB

"I knew people would be up in arms but the last thing I want to do is let my creditors down. I am acutely aware of how tatty the club has become. It always was a sweaty basement but, even by those standards, it is starting to look bad. There are broken chairs, the pictures need replacing and there are holes in the dancefloor. I don't want it to die a lonely painful death. If I have to I want to put it to sleep with dignity, like a faithful old pet."

This quote was taken from a recent article on the closure of the 100 club in the independent, this club obviously means a lot to many people from britain, and i'm sure worldwide. This is reminiscent to the closure of CBGB's in New York in 2006, Did its closure though only make it more of a legendary venue, there was a film made about it and all, maybe the 100 club will become a Hollywood blockbuster hit sooner than we know it...

MAKE WAY FOR THE NEW OR KEEP WITH THE OLD (100 CLUB)

With the next few weeks focusing on the 100 club I am starting to generate ideas, one of the main ideas I am getting is to let the 100 club go down with dignity. A main example of things going down with dignity are the bands who play there themselves. This is a factor about music that frustrates me, when a band break up through either a clash of tastes or personalities to stopping at the height of ones career, and the five, ten, fifteen years later they decide to get back together again, which some may think is great however I always feel the vibe of the music, the way a band play together is never the same as it was when they were together all that time ago.

Having said all this I feel this is why maybe the 100 should go down with dignity, and go out on a high, because I think if it were to stay open it would become a place that it never intended to be, and would get corrupted in some shape or form, obviously i cant read the future but this is a pattern that happens throughout life, people change, they grow, we evolve, tastes change and nothing stays the same (for long).

So with my reasoning for my view on the 100 club out the way, it means I can really concentrate on a way to get this message across to people, weather they agree or disagree, and i think i have one or two different ways of showing this visually. Check back for updates soon.

THE 100 CLUB

The 100 club is located on the increasingly busy oxford street, and with rising prices for rent it is under the threat of closure, it has been an established music venue since the 1940's, with the first movements of jazz being played there, since there has been many legendary gigs there from everyone to The Stones to Paul...

2011

2011 the year to concentrate on all things design, art, fashion, life, politics, health and anything that is anything. Its going to be an exciting few months, with hopefully a great outcome, here we go...