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Okay we didn’t really hold a competition pitting the various corporate Christmas Cards we’ve recieved this year against one another. For a start we’re a young business and we don’t get many {most are actually just invoices from our suppliers within the Christmas period} but art & design collaborative Sparks deserve special attention this year for their

Heard Matt’s new composition tonight, ‘line and length’. It was made to sit between two bits of Bach variations. He was the filling in the musical sandwich. It was really fantastic. At first, having not read the programme, I thought he was doing a kind of oulipo sampling thing with the Bach, but then it became very

A magazine called Cluster has published a short story from a book we will be releasing next year. It is a satire entitled ‘That Storkes will onely live in Republicks and Free States’. Cluster is a magazine edited by Renee O’Drobinak and Ana Cavic, as a site for making work rather than to document and analyse

We arrived in Paris with an open mind, but when it came to art bookshops, all the clichés about people there began to occur! The art scene there appears to be really stale and people were very conservative and extremely rude. One example; the bookshop ‘books by artists – Florence Loewy’. It is normal, internationally,

I took a friend with me to Norman Foster’s architecture firm’s 40th birthday party in the British Museum. We got a Private View of the terracotta army. We queued to shake hands with the man himself, rather like meeting Santa, but for grown-ups. When we got to him we realised we had no idea what

Recently we went to the Conway Hall book fair and witnessed our sister Press, the Shytstem, giving a full and frank description of themselves. They break all the rules of public speaking.

Hello blog-chompers Again Mrs Ping* must apologise for a protracted absence, but i’ve been very busy. Whilst I was away I finished my MA and thus marked the end of formal education/preparation for the rest of life for some time….. Yikes that means I am, for the first time “living my real life.” For those

Rational Rec was at the South Bank last night. One of their finest ever performances; a truly mighty and insistent composition called Workers Union. And the best ever guitar piece by their axe-man – he played the strings directly with the jack and also used hair clippers on the pickups. A hilarious lady also gave us

Last night following a full-on two day printing marathon Ping* and I crossed over to Bush Hall to watch Elvis Perkins. The support, whose name escapes me, were an object lesson in mediocrity. I got that warning question ‘what is the point in this?’ flashing up occasionally. Basically EP did all the things they didn’t, so I

We went to the fireworks at Victoria Park. It was incredible. A giant flaming skeletal Guy set off a string of fireworks that launched a rocket the shape of Big Ben. Subsequent fireworks took the form of planets behind. It made me realise how much I’d like to send parliament into space. I wonder if