60 Million Postcards

WeThreeClub

WeThreeClub is an illustration and design agency recently set up by Alex Curtis and
Chris White. They predominantly work within the music industry creating stuff for
such artists as Dizzee Rascal, Foals, Gallows, Pulled apart by Horses, Jamie T
and Blood Red Shoes.

They have a large passion for screen printing and gig posters, recently setting up the
company Poster Roast.com which promotes UK gig poster artists.

Alex has also just set up an invitation company as well..dearsoandso.co.uk

In the future they have a exhibition lined up at The Nook in London, which will
be the launch of their new website..but for now there is a holding page up at
wethreeclub.com

www.wethreeclub.comwww.posterroast.comwww.dearsoandso.co.uk

SEXBEAT / Branchage viral series part.4 - Friendship

The 4th and penultimate part of the SEXBEAT / Branchage viral series is a collaboration between director Kate Jessop and left field indie duo Friendship. You can watch it HERE!

Alex Reuben @ Public Domain 17 July

Public Domain is a festival if digital art, music, interaction and screenings which runs through the 16th, 17th and 18th of July. It’s held in bournemouth lower gardens and you can find out more by clicking the link below. For the Saturday we’ve teamed up with Public Domain to make a No Fun Americana Special, a night which celebrates the new ALex Reuben film ‘Routes’, which is being shown at the festival. Reuben’s film looks at American through the prism of it’s popular music, our No Fun DJs will be adding finishing the night off with a mixture of barn storming country classics to the latest Brooklyn dance duos.

http://www.scansite.org/publicdomain http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=139065016106246&ref=mf

Sonar 2010

This years Sonar Festival in Barcelona took place across two indoor and two outdoor stages with over three days of events focused around “advanced music and multimedia art”.  Art, audiovisual concerts, and medialab presentations next to DJ sets, electonic music, film and more.  This years bill ranged from glitches, glides and ethereal vocals from London based Nedry, to experimental organic electronica that is Caribou, to bigger named acts such as The Chemical Brothers and Dizzee Rascal.  As part of the mayhem there were a range of Interactive multimedia installations: Marcel-lí Antúnez created a video wall of cartoonish craziness that placed viewers’ faces in the action.  ReacTable, by the Musical Technology Group from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, was a video-terminal table that responded to users moving around blocks and discs, showing connections like a flow chart as it triggered clicks and clatters.  And Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman displayed a piece called Messa di Voce that made bubbles and drew lines using a microphone and tracking system.  Lets hope i can actually make it along next year.

Rube Goldberg music video

Discovered this music video, another visual masterpiece for Ok Go.  You’ll probably remember them best for their choreographed routine on treadmills.  And you probably want to check out the collection of videos on their website:

http://www.okgo.net/media/videos/

Our Name In Lights

As some of you will know our brand spanking new old cinema style sign has gone up. We’re all pretty chuffed with it, and are have been having fun coming up with various slogans to write on it. So, if you have any ideas, stick ‘em on the Postcards Facebook wall and you might see you’re idea up in lights sooner than you’d thought. Click the Facebook link below

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2226551292&ref=ts

Kate Copeland

A couple of years ago I got a message from AIB student Kate Copeland asking if she could do some poster design work for Sixty Million Postcards. I had a quick glance and, to be totally honest, it slipped my mind to contact her back. A few weeks went by and I realised I needed posters for the Operator Please and Your Twenties gigs in the pub so I gave Kate a shout. What she came back with knocked me off my chair. The illustrations were some of the best I had ever seen, full of character and a hint of ‘darkness’ I always find so appealing, plus the poster designs were spot on. Two years on and Kate is now the resident designer and creative mind behind the Kill Em All club night which I run with the Filthy Dukes, meaning she regularly designs for fabric and other clubs all over the world. Have a look at the website she made for us here. She has also recently done work for Pure Groove (designing record sleeves for their label), Topman CTRL, Warchild, Stopmakingme, plus a lot more work for Postcards of course ... and she is still doing her degree. This young lady is going to go onto massive things. Check out her blog here.

SEXBEAT / Branchage viral series part.2 Tweak Bird

Installment no.2 of the SEXBEAT viral series with Branchage film festival is a collaboration between Tweak Bird and directors Fred Grace & Gemma Atkinson. Tweak Bird make a whole bunch of noise for a 2 piece band of brothers (siblings that is, not over blown US drama). Their set at the SEXBEAT – Stag & Dagger stage felt more like a guest pass to their practice room than a festival performance, as they engrossed the crowd in a 30 minute, riff heavy jam, sounding much more Kyuss than No Age. Click to watch the video below…
Part 2: Tweakbird - directed by Gemma Atkinson & Fred Grace

SEXBEAT / Branchage viral series

London based diy party / promoter / label SEXBEAT’s stage at Stag & Dagger this year was a collaboration with Branchage film festival who curated a unique visual piece for each act playing. They will be releasing an edited down version of each video accompanied by a track from the relevant artist in a 5 part weekly viral series on the SEXBEAT blog. Click to watch part 1…

Part 1: Bango or Freakout - directed by The Astburys
Part 2: Tweakbird - directed by Gemma Atkinson & Fred Grace
Part 3: Wax Fang - directed by Bella Fanning
Part 4: Friendship - directed by Kate Jessop
Part 5: Pulled Apart By Horses - directed by Carla Mackinnon

Animal Farm Exhibition & Live Bands

WEDS 10TH FEBRUARY
ANIMAL FARM
12.00-00.00
Free Entry
CHALKY GRAVELL - live
JOUIS - live
Press Play ( FAT POPPADADDYS)
Animal Farm is a silent auction / exhibition of animal themed limited edition screen prints and one off illustrations, also featuring live music and djs from 8pm plus market stalls throughout the day. This time it kicks off with some fresh live sounds from Chalky Gravel and Jouis.

Stuff We Like : The XX + Saam Farahmand

Every now and again we’ll post something that isn’t strictly to do with Sixty Million Postcards, but that we just liked and decided to share with you. Here’s an image from artist Saam Farahmand’s installation interpretation of The XX album. We love the album and you can read a review of this exhibition on the link below. Shaam says of the project “Music videos are a 2D visual interpretation of a song… We are interested in creating spaces that exist as a 3D physical interpretation of a song or an album, and that is what we have created for the album xx”.

Remember to come and catch XX member / remixer and forward thinking DJ in his own right at Postcards on March 13th. It’ll be a good one.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/january/xx-a-sculpture-of-an-album

Postcards Art

Those of you with an eye for aesthetics will have noticed the sexiness of our recent flyer art. This is down to illustrative handy work of one Jo Sinclair. You can see his latest work on the cover of our February flyer downloadable on from this page. We’ll be uploading all our artwork into the art section of this blog so you can print it off and pass it off as your own work as you see fit, just kidding. In the meantime Jo has just finished working on a huge new mural down the side of Sixty Million Postcards so go and check it out.

Anyone interested in contributing will illustration / photography or art should email us on sixtympc@mac.com

Find more of Jo’s artwork and contact details at -

http://josinclair.wordpress.com/