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Posted: 08-02-2013 09:46 Post subject:

Some more public art:

Your Paintings: artworks to be projected on UK landmarks

Buildings around the UK are to have art projected upon them later to celebrate the completion of a website showing the national collection of oil paintings.
Exeter Cathedral, Lincoln Castle and Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall are among the 28 locations where images can be enjoyed from 16:30-22:00 GMT on Friday.
Each location will show four paintings of national interest, as well as three paintings specific to its region.

These and around 210,000 more can be found on the Your Paintings website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/
Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers, held by the National Gallery in London, will be one of the four paintings that will be projected at every location.
So will three lesser-known works depicting life in the UK: Frances Broomfield's George Formby - Speed Ace, an affectionate portrait of the chirpy British comic; Beryl Cook's colourful 1992 piece Karaoke; and The Clay Pits by Cornish painter Harold C Harvey.

Works by L S Lowry, Edwin Henry Landseer, Ronald George Lampitt and Rita Duffy will be shown in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland respectively, alongside pieces by other artists indigenous to each country.

The projections mark the start of a month of exhibitions and events organised by the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation, who have created Your Paintings in conjunction with participating collections and museums from across the UK.

"No other country has ever embarked on such a project to make accessible online its entire collection of oil paintings," said Andrew Ellis from the Public Catalogue Foundation.
"The result is an extraordinary, rich and varied virtual gallery of paintings with styles and subject matters to suit all tastes and interests."

More than 37,000 artists are represented on the website, with works ranging from Old Masters to works by leading contemporary painters.
The vast majority of the collection has never been photographed before, while around 30,000 paintings do not have firm artist attributions.
The National Trust owns the largest single collection featured on the website, its holdings accounting for 12,567 entries.

Members of the public are invited to "tag" paintings in their local collections on the website, to help future users find paintings by subjects, themes and events of common interest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21372685

I was pleased to see Beryl Cook's work included - Brian Sewell will be having conniptions! Twisted Evil

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Posted: 21-02-2013 14:43 Post subject:

Gone but not forgotten.

Posted: 26-02-2013 19:06 Post subject:

does me getting a job and starting on Friday count as worth putting in this thread? its certainly made me the happiest i have been in a few years. Very Happy

Posted: 26-02-2013 21:30 Post subject:

Posted: 26-02-2013 23:19 Post subject:

Good luck! What sort of job is it? (Not that it matters!)

Posted: 26-02-2013 23:20 Post subject:

Yep definitely good news, congrats. yeay

Posted: 26-02-2013 23:45 Post subject:

FANTASTIC news! Very Happy

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Posted: 27-02-2013 10:54 Post subject:

thank you all, its a trainee cemetery operative at hoop lane cemetery, golders green, london, i will be doing everything from cleaning the toilets, mowing the lawns,digging graves and if i volunteer for it, digging up bodies for a £500 bonus..GIMMIE A SPADE AND LEMME AT THEM DEAD BODIES!!

Money has never been important to me but i am surprised how much i need to work just for personal pride, now i have my fingers crossed for the other FTMB members in the same boat, dont believe what the goverment and certain newspapers would have you believe, being unemployed is not easy,its horrible and soul destroying

Posted: 27-02-2013 12:29 Post subject:

Grave news, indeed.

Congratulations and good luck, Titch! Laughing

Posted: 27-02-2013 15:19 Post subject:

Posted: 28-02-2013 11:22 Post subject:

Good luck. I hated being out of work after the first few weeks of bewilderment.

Posted: 08-03-2013 08:37 Post subject:

Good news for Scilly:

Isles of Scilly in £3.7m superfast broadband scheme

Superfast broadband is to be delivered to the Isles of Scilly in a "pioneering" £3.7m scheme by BT.
Unused fibre optic cables on the Atlantic sea bed will provide nearly 2,200 inhabitants with some of the "fastest broadband speeds in the UK".
BT said it was the most ambitious initiative of its kind ever to be undertaken in UK waters.
Nigel Ashcroft, from the Cornwall Development Company, said it would be "truly life-changing".

The project will divert superseded fibre optic cables, which have remained unused on the seabed for about three years, to all five of the inhabited islands located 28 miles off the south west of Cornwall.

BT is expecting that the first Scilly customers will be connected during the first half of 2014.
Until now residents have had to make do with a broadband service provided by a radio link between Lands End and the Islands.

Nigel Ashcroft, programme director of Superfast Cornwall for the Cornwall Development Company, said it would be "truly life-changing for businesses on the isles... opening the door to doing business in more markets across the world".

Ranulf Scarbrough, Superfast Cornwall programme director for BT, said bringing fibre broadband to the islands was "pioneering in every sense of the word".
Mr Scarborough said it was "excellent news that we are able to breathe new life into existing cables which are no longer used, but [are] still in very good condition". Cool

The project is part of the £132m Superfast Cornwall initiative between the European Regional Development Fund, BT and Cornwall Council.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-21687216

Posted: 17-03-2013 16:38 Post subject:

Sounds pretty Fortean, doesn't it? Wink

Hovering leprechaun in Chicago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21820009