The 9 eyes of Google maps, artist Jon Rafman

 

For the past number of years, artist Jon Rafman has been collecting these incredible images from Google street view.

The 9 eyes of Google maps

some cheering up favourites from jane in a rather WET co.mayo (ssssshhhhccchhh this rain !!)

always lovely work from artist cornelia o'donovan,take a look at her blog , she is quite open about how she works and is just so JOYFUL .

A sweet new blog for analog drawings , ie made with just old school pens paint etc , no tablets (maybe ones you eat are okay.....) .

She (angela dalinger) takes submissions too for her analog drawings blog.

Look at her new book , I bought it , its beautifully made (by hand !)

I want to shout out to all in tinderbox to make your next post an image of your own work .......I know that I have just posted other artists work today and I hope you enjoy them , but I would love to see some TINDERBOX beauties , drawings , papercuts (damo) ......photos , cartoons, dolls,maybe a macrame plant holder ......
whatever
BRING IT ON
I,,ll show you mine , if you ........
jane x

Nobrow Press. No Man's Land by Blexbolex

Flying the flag for high-quality book design, at a time when it has been described as a dying medium, Nobrow provide an independent platform for graphic art, Illustration and art comics in the UK and abroad.

Nobrow site
Book review on itsnicethat.com


For the past few years I have been aware of the work of Nobrow, but mostly by seeing images online; that is, until my local art book shop here in Paris started stocking their books. Their style of book making is so distinctive, the paper quality, the form and content, the Nobrow books are special objects helping to remind me of the joy of books.

No man's land, by Blexbolex caught my eye in particular for its rich screen-print style.

About Blexbolex

The Eagleman Stag

This is a really great stop motion animation by Mikey Please that has a real papercraft feel to it. There's a brief making of video and some behind the scenes pics here.

martha vershaffel (again)

as you know I have a great love for marthas work ,I received this her new zine yesterday and it is a beautiful production. It is screenprinted and hand sewn ....the subject matter is bleak but so well drawn ,its utterly poignant and I just wanted to share it with you . Treat yourself to a n inspiring piece of art ....11 euros (includes p&P)
hope everybodies busy making some killing work jane x
marthas blog 
other post on martha

Tinderboxers at Independants Day!

truth is my identity
concertina book
edition of 6
jane o sullivan

she is really quite quick actually ......comic book artist extraordinaire elida maiques folding the latest edition of her comic SLOW.

jane stalling out

elida and sam ♡♡

Some members of our collective showed their work at the very recent fair, for independant publishers.
It was held in the dublin food co-op and was a celebration of D.I.Y. culture in zine , artist books,  music and crafts with a truelly independant attitude.
Elida ,Jane,Esther and Richael had a presence , it was a super turn out and a very cool atmostphere.
With bands playing, delish veggie food, with lots of appreciation and encouragement for our individual and collective works.
It was lovely to meet up with eoghan carroll, sam maiques carroll,and denise nestor....thanks guys for showing your support big time and sharing the love.
Its fantastic to know that gods and monsters is alive and kicking , watch this space for upcoming news.
We are all now really looking forward to the upcoming dublin zine fair in august.

Please post any other photos you may have of the day :)
independentsdaydublin

Kate Merritt, Illustration

Kate Merritt

Lovely lovely illustrations by Kate.
So cute!

Independents Day Sunday 22nd

Hi everybody. Here's the great poster Elida made for this year's Independent's Day. We have two tables booked so plenty of room if anybody would like to participate and try and sell some of their art or just come to say hello. Elida and Emma are going to bring Tinderbox zines to sell and I'll have prints of my photos and I'll display a copy of my book 'Dublin graffiti walkers'. There will be lots of live music acts, should be fun!

New video from Feist featuring photos from Irina Werning's "Back to the Future" project. Nice. 

Good bye Moebius

Hey,

This drawing is my little tribute to the late Jean Giraud, Moebius, who died March 10th, 2012.
He changed the landscape of illustration, comics, sci-fi and cinema (contributing to movies like Alien). If you are not familiar with him, a good place to start is this article on Comics Alliance.


Of his most recent work, "Inside Moebius" is a fun reminder of how he bent the rules of comics and sci-fi into a Moebius strip.

Fireworks (2008)

Usually I upload new work here, but I found this collection of fireworks and thought that I would share it with you- they have such fantastic packaging

ILLUSTRATIONS >>>>

Everywhere

Hi,
I kept seeing the same poster all over Paris and wondered what it was all about.
Just for fun, I took a phone-photo everytime I saw it and made a little animated gif for my blog.

I looked at it again the other day, only to see that, the Everywhere folks had replied!

I thought it might be a fun thing to spread to Ireland (everywhere the other Tinderboxers are).


Check out their site.

did something a little different yesterday.. went with Mark and couple of his friends, to a life drawing class with a twist!

Haven't done life drawing since I left college so was a little rusty! The classes are modeled by burlesque performers...You are supposed to not take the drawing part too seriously and so they ask you to place the model in imagined scenes - most were pretty good at doing this but I found it hard to NOT try to draw it realistically.. and only added the French flag and the top of the Eiffel tower in the last two seconds (imagined scene was supposed to be somewhere romantic)

Marjane Satrapi

The Iranian Director and Graphic Novelist Reflects On Her Early Influences

Watch the film on Nowness

Independents Day 2012!

Hi everybody! Sorry I haven't been very active here lately, been pretty busy... A date has been set for Independent's Day on Sunday the 22nd of April. How about doing a Tinderbox stall? It's 5 euro per table. Can book a full table, or even two if enough people are interested. We could sell zines, art prints, photographs, crafts, textiles, whatever you have, and it would be a nice chance to get together again!

Love Is Making Its Way Back Home

Here's a great papercut animation for Josh Ritter’s “Love Is Making Its Way Back Home”, made from over 12,000 pieces of construction paper by Prominent Figures




(thanks to Emma for the link!)

Martha Vershaffel

Martha Vershaffel is a fantastic artist working out of Belgium within the comic book/ zine/art world but with a totally fine art sensibility....her work is definately worth checking out.

She is very prolific making her own zines and books and collaborates with many other artist publications.

Here is an interesting insight to her process, look too at the other links on this latvian comic /zine blog, there are some rare ones indeed.

Also go to marthas blog and her flickr for a peek at what she does.
I think that marthas work may inspire peeps for the upcoming independants day april 22nd and the second dublin zine fair , later in the summer.
It is personal, she works from dreams and nightmares often and celebrates the handmade gloriously in her process.

My Spring Summer Line Up at the Painters Palette Moycullen

28 Drawings Later: February Drawing Challenge

Link to Facebook page and full info

A fun way to focus on drawing. Do a drawing every day the first 28 days in February and post the results here. Open to everyone! Use the extra day this year to mail your work for inclusion in a physical exhibition. Details in 'info' section of the facebook page.

28 Drawings later is a drawing challenge and social networking project created by Visual Artist Victoria Evans. The result is an evolving, month-long, participatory online gallery which encourages everyone, artists and non-artists alike, to see what might happen if they made time to draw every day for a month.

Here's the 2011 book

(Thanks to Noirin for the link)

David Shrigley

Ahead of a retrospective show at the Hayward Gallery in London, David Shrigley answers readers questions on the Guardian website...

David Shrigley's Site

Q + A with David Shrigley

Here's a taster...
Question:
I imagine that you have an advice for art students stock answer (you must get asked a lot) although I don't think I have ever read it, care to reiterate?

David answers:
My advice is:
Your degree mark is unimportant.
Try not to spend too much money on your art (unless you're rich)
Put the hours in and the art will get made.
Enjoy yourself.
You don't have to be an artist when you leave art school if you don't want to, but if you do want to then it is entirely possible: All you have to do is keep making art.

New Site!!!

new web site!!!   http://www.emmarowedrawings.com/

Happy Thursday, Here are some Creative Textile Workshops coming up

SPIDDAL,GALWAY- FEBRUARY

SUNDAY FEB 5th - BEGINNERS FELTMAKING *Four Places Left*

^{Learn how to make your own colourful felt. Learn basic techniques like blending colours & making bobbles and cord. Use stitchwork & beadwork to embellish your felt.  Turn the felt into earrings , a brooch or cards, which you can bring home. Tea & Coffee included}

SUNDAY FEB 19th -  BEGINNERS SEWING -

Learn how to use your sewing machine & 

a basic pattern template. Make your own sleeping eye mask , a pin cushion or  a clutch purse. Bring your own sewing machine, scraps of fabric and thread if you wish.^{Tea & Coffee included}

A HAPPY NEW YEAR DEAL - 40€ per day or €70 for both

PHONE Sinéad - 0879952637 or EMAIL folksongdesigns@gmail.com

THE PAINTERS PALETTE , MOYCULLEN , GALWAY MARCH - JUNE

MARCH - TUESDAY MORNINGS 10am-1pm , BEGINNERS FELTMAKING

^{Learn how to make your own colourful felt. Learn basic techniques like blending colours & making bobbles and cord. Use stitchwork & beadwork to embellish your felt. Turn the felt into earrings , a brooch or cards, which you can bring home. Tea & Coffee included}

SUNDAY  MAY 27th - DIY INTERIOR TEXTILES

As part of a DIY Interior Design Weekend workshop.You will learn paint skills, furniture restoration and I will be teaching how to make or upcycle your own cushions/throws or table runners.

^{Tea & Coffee included}

SATURDAY JUNE 2nd - PRINT & EMBELLISHMENT WORKSHOP 10am - 5pm

Learn to print your own designs onto textiles. You will learn how to transform your designs into stencils and print onto fabric! After lunch you can work further into your designs by using stitchwork and beadwork . In the class you will print onto a canvas bags which will be provided on the day and pieces of felt which can make beautiful Cards or be framed 

Lunch provided in The Painters Palette Cafe

PHONE Sinéad - 0879952637 or EMAIL folksongdesigns@gmail.com

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Sandwich Artist

Made me smile

Hi Kids, Just to let you know
WORKSHOPS- SPIDDAL,GALWAY
SUNDAY FEB 5th - FELTMAKING *Four Places Left*
SUNDAY FEB 19th - SEWING
40€ per day or €70 for both
Sinéad - 0879952637

Printing on Felt - Not sure what to do next....Make them into Cards?

Hoods By Folksong Designs x

Portrait series 'Dylan'

I may be looking for faces to draw for my portrait series...this is a recent drawing of a reluctant model. 

a lovely positive heads up for the tinderbox family :)

 Tinderbox presence at last years Dublin zine -fair ☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟

photo sarah bracken

Hi guys ,as you know we were there at the first zine fair and this year it would be ideal for those who are interested to get involved. I am sharing this email with sarahs permission,she sent it to all the contributors. Jane xxx 
also......take a peek at the dublin zine-fair  link below and think how tinderbox as a community could really have a super stall full of  publication/s and be involved in some kick ass d.i.y art history in the making.

http://www.babybeefartpress.com/zinefair.html ❀

Hey everybody,
Happy New Year to you all!
I hope you are all ready for another year in independent publishing!

In November I was lucky enough to attend the first ever Berlin Zine Fest. I was amazed by how well it was organised. It was a full weekend event. The opening hours were: Sat 10am until 12pm!! and Sunday 10am - 6pm.

There were loads of great free workshops, talks and zine readings. As well as a spoken word night and gig!
I want the Dublin Zine Fair to grow this year, have it a full weekend long and have workshops and events at it.
I would love to have a zine made over the weekend, the "Dublin Zine Fair Zine 2012", anyone can submit a page to it. They do this at the London Zine Symposium and they did one in Berlin too. It's a really brilliant souvenir from the event.

So it got me thinking, if I want it to grow I'm not going to be able to do it all alone. So I'm writing to you guys to see if any of you are interested in joining the Dublin Zine Fair team, to help organise and promote the fair,  and mostly to help with things on the weekend and to make sure workshops and events run smoothly.

I'm writing now to give you loads of notice, and time to think about it.
I will call the first meeting for the event in April.
Let me know if you are interested!
Sarah Bracken
Dublin Zine Fair Founder
www.brackensarah.com
www.babybeefartpress.com 
❀
http://www.babybeefartpress.com/zinefair.html

The Monomyth @ Seven

I have been very busy in London town i have just finished working with Patrick Collier on The Monomyth with Transition Collective base in London. If your in London its well worth a look at Seven at Brixton, 7 Market Row, SW9 8LB London.

We both share a fascination with modern and classical mythologies. This collaborative installation explores the hero myth. Universal motifs of adventure and transformation are employed in a multi-faceted visual homage to Campbell's concept of the 'monomyth', which has served as a cultural framework for countless contemporary narratives.

The intricately laser cut imagery of the sculptural rings are inspired by the Book of Revelations and the opening of the Seven Seals, bringing forth the Horsemen of Conquest, War, Famine, Death before the final end of the world.

Screen printed illustrations evoke the narrative of the hero's adventure, depicting the archetypal characters and their gifts, knowledge and tests to be encountered along the way: the wise old man, the goddess, the trickster, herald and villain. Above looms the belly of the whale - an unknown void that threatens to swallow the hero but ultimately represents a sphere of rebirth.

http://patrickcollier.tumblr.com
www.leepitman.com