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fabulously british

 With many of the designer brands migrating down to The Avenue it is pleasing to see King Street is welcoming a new kid on the block. Jack Wills the self-proclaimed fabulously British clothing store will be throwing open it’s doors on Saturday 20th November 2010 (from 10am). There’ll be live music and much, much more to help you shop till you drop. Roll on pay day! c/o M.J.S. licensed under Creative Commons.

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nightmare on market street

 Happy Halloween… hope you’re having spook-tacular day! But beware ghosts and ghouls will be taking to the streets of Manchester later today to scare you silly, as well as to raising money for charity at the same time. The Manchester Monster Mardi Gras & Zombie Walk kicks off at The Printworks from 4pm where they’ll be face painters, Halloween market stalls and live music. You can register for the walk from 4.30pm and get your freak on in the parade which commences at 6pm. c/o Kerry Burnout licensed under Creative Commons.

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the class of 2010?

 In conducting my research I asked participating museums to indicate the duration of time their organisation has had a presence on Twitter. Overwhelming the answer came back that tweeting was in the main a ‘new’ activity for these museums. With 60% stating that they had been tweeting for no more than 1 year, and 44% of these organisations for less than 6 months. Jim Richardson‘s global data taken in July 2009 (415 museums) and January 2010 (871 museums, estimated figure closer to 1,000) reflects a huge surge in museums using Twitter in the second half of 2009. Seemingly an upward tread that has continued into 2010. Interestingly however 37% of these…

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craft-werk

 Although not there tonight for the big reveal I am getting very excited about this year’s Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair. Once again the event is located in Spinningfields, which means near GBK equaling an extra thumbs up from me. Last year got my mitts on a Ruth Green print (pictured above) so looking forward to seeing what talented folk have for me to spend my pennies on this time around. Then if all that lovely craft gets you inspired don’t forget to check out Manchester Craft Mafia who have their next Crafternoon at  the Whitworth Art Gallery on December 18th 2010. Where festive decorations will be the order of the day. c/o H is…

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moomin madness comes to bury

 On the 23rd of October* Bury Art Gallery opens the doors on a new exhibition bringing Moominvalley to north Manchester. The exhibition is part of a cultural partnership between Bury and Tampere, Finland the motherland of the Moomins who are celebrating their 65th birthday this year – isn’t Moominmamma is looking good for her age! The show will give visitors the chance to experience the magic of original Moomin drawings from the creator Tove Jansson, displayed alongside a collection of rare examples of Jansson’s illustrations published in the Finnish press. All making it the ideal day out for big kids, as well as the little ‘uns. The exhibition coincides with the re-printing…

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the social network: the museums edition

 Back in July I began collecting data as part of my dissertation looking at the role of social networking sites in audience development, using Twitter as a case study platform. As I have previously posted thank you to everyone who has taken part in this project so far (I couldn’t have done it without you!) Now the ‘results’ are in I thought it was high time I started sharing some of the data/findings back. So first up size and scale… Ninety one museums in total participated in the survey of which 71% are using one or more social networking platform on behalf of their institution – still leaving a significant…

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you can’t f**k a shoe…

 …but you can buy a new edition of the Tracey Emin print of the same name at her pop-up shop coming to Manchester this month, as part of The Manchester Contemporary (28th-31st October). Emin International will be selling ‘You Can’t Fuck a Shoe’ alongside a series of three new monoprints, Tiny Gold Hearts, Moth, and Dragonfly. Taking place for the second year The Manchester Contemporary will host work from 12 commercial galleries providing visitors access to high calibre contemporary art by international artists and emerging new talent. The event is supported by a programme of talks and events organised by the Contemporary Art Society North West. And if you’re looking for more of an art fix…

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are you sitting comfortably?…

 Yes this looks just like the sort of fodder I peddle over on that t’other blog, but I wanted to have a tinker with some new tech. To see my story (as pictured above) in all it’s ‘glory’ you’ll have to hop over to Storify – as the embed functionality isn’t available to self-hosted simpletons like me just yet. Currently Storify is in beta and is billed as a platform to ‘create stories’ from social media. This could be tweets, Facebook posts, Flickr images, YouTube to name a few. It already seems an easy to use and attractive to look at service for collating posts to document events – take a look…

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ta

 Merci, gracias, danke, cheers! To all that took part in my research survey, which is now closed, as well as my interviews. Much appreciated… and now it’s time for the ‘science’ bit to happen… Image c/o darwinbell licensed under Creative Commons.

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