Resonance

Hey Plain Janes will be on Resonance Late Late Breakfast show today @ 12.00 with the foundry so tune in and have a listen http://resonancefm.com/

Mr T

I've been going on about this guy for ages, not on the blog but generally all over my facebook, so it felt a shame not to repeat myself once more upon here, check out Mr T London,

my friend Kojo hooked me up with his mixtape http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=91210835 but he can't take too much credit, because I knew about him first and I'm the one who told Kojo about this guy in the first place, obviously making me a much better person than he is (yes the childish and slightly music snobbish, I knew them before you did line) have a listen to a few of his bits here

I know this is meant to be sweet but it slightly scared me

A Thousand Words from Ted Chung on Vimeo.

it's well made tho!!!!

PLAIN JANES LOVE DAYLIGHT SAVING

Don't miss the first Plain Janes for 2009 on 1st March @ The Foundry




I'm really excited about this one we've got Luke H from SSD on the decks, and I love this guys stuff

http://www.myspace.com/lukestownmusic

as well as Trip Hop band The Kemistry performing and you don't want to miss out on that.

Afro Samurai Ressurection

Okay guilty concious, I haven't written anything for ages, and with a PJ's event coming up on march 1st I thought I better get my arse into gear.

One of the first things I thought I would drop a mention about is this. Don't know how many people watched the 1st Afro Samurai, but the second is back through Spike TV,

check the trailer here



I have soo many mixed feelings about this, based on the first I definitely didn't think it deserved a second round, I thought the narrative in the first was weak and wasted too many opportunities in terms of development, they could have taken the venegence concepts much further. Cross cultural links between idea's of a warrior in both African and Eastern asian culture, wasted.

I was soo upset I was overly hyped about the first one, until I saw the first one. So will they do any better the second time round, the trailer for this does look good though, so who knows. What I'm most excited about personally is that RZA soundtrack, the scores on this are sounding big!!!!!

This saturday

Check out Coloured Sound, a night dedicated to art and music my two favourite things in the whole wide world. The guy behind the night Henry Rumour promises, a visual overload that is bound to leave you feeling inspired, so check it out.


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This really made my day

hey guys this is totally geeky/groupyish of me, but whatever I don't care. Today I got a friends request from the writer of the Comic of Plain janes, the comic the night was inspired by. I love comic's she writes comics, she wrote one of my favourite comic's of all time. How cool is that!!!!!!

This is dedicated to my student over-draft.

Come Celebrate with us!!!!!!!!!

Plain Janes love art but we love having a great time too, and a couple of friends of mine do a really cool night called Ain't it Black which turns ONE tomorrow @ Favela Chic in old street!!!!!

Come down if your about it's free and soo much fun.

Viva la Revolution (Paris is Burning)

It all got a bit political last week for a couple of us Plain Janes.

A few of us do a bit of work in the Tate Modern through a group they have called Raw canvas, I freaking love Raw canvas, not even going to into detail about what raw canvas do yet because that will take ages, I'll just say we end up doing random stuff to do with young people and art.

Anyway as part of this random stuff, we found ourselves taking part in two arty but kinda political events. One was the unveiling of a new Creative Manifesto for young people which I've written an article about on the Tate Website for anyone who wants to know more.
http://creativemanifesto.tate.org.uk/?q=node/155

And the other was a weekend in Paris hosted by Centre Pompidou, where young people across Europe were invited to take part in a project called Scenerio 2050. We were basically discussing and exploring what we felt the world would be like by 2050.



They had groups from Finland, Turkey (the Turkish people rocked) France, Switzerland, Romania, and we repped Team GB!!!! (Apologies if I have forgotten to list any of the other countries that were there, my memory is poor and it's not an international insult.)

It was just a really interesting week to see and discover different young people's cultural persceptives, and their views and beliefs in art, and the world we live in. Can continue to be soo clichéd about this, but I'll try my hardest to hold it down.

I think one of the biggest things I took away from the experience was just that although it was a really positive exchange of idea's, it was clear that a lot of young people today have a very pessimistic view about the future. Predictions about Global warming, and the media attention given to violence incidents internationally and also locally, have kinda tainted a naive interpretation about what the future may be like.

None the less nothing can ever make you feel better like getting drunk with Turkish people, Turkish people are really cool.

I haven't quite figured out how to get youtube clips on the blog.

So copy and paste the link below and have a little listen to I blame coco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n__LafGVUc

First Plain Janes

Ohh my gosh here it is, the first blog for the Plain Janes and this is the first blog post.

Considering that I always find it really hard to think about how to start things (saying hello for the first time tends to really freak me out and sends me rambling on uncontrollably) I reckon a good place to start would be by answering some fairly commonly asked questions.

Question 1.

"Who the hell are the Plain Janes?"

Ahhh I sometimes ask myself this question too.

Basically the Plain Janes are a bunch of people who are into the arts and hook up about once every month or two to do an arts culture night in London.

All sorts of crazy crap happens there, like DJ's play music, artists display their work, people make their own art or read at the book club and there are showcase performances by actors, poets and musicians. If its a good day there will be animation and film short screenings but film makers can be a little difficult sometimes.

The night was inspired by this really cool comic of the same name written by Cecil Castellucci which everyone should read some of us are comic geeks it couldn't be helped.

Question 2

"Are all Plain Janes called Jane? And are they all girls?"

In the comic yes at our night no. Some people go by the name of Lucy or Hannah, we have a few Roses and often their not female either, people tend to be either of the sexes but appreciate things that are creative, so its open to all anyone can come.

Question 3

"Okay so whats with the blog?"

Well we've basically set up a blog to keep people updated about what's been happening with the night and other Plain Jane activities. It's highly likely there will be posts about other art stuff too, anything that may tickle a Plain Janes fancy so keep your eyes peeled for some of that.

Plain Janes love art but do try not to get too snobby with it. Obviously sometimes that's not always possible for some reason we can find big brother and high school musicial kinda repulsive but we try to keep pretentiousness down and self expression high high up!!!!

So make sure you come back and check out whats happening in the world of Jane.

Lots of Love

Plain Janes

xoxoxoxo