Exciting events will be unfolding in Photoshop all over the world this evening. SweetTalk Copenhagen’s very own Simon Roche will be partaking in a worldwide Layer Tennis match tonight. Full details of this Layer Tennis game are here but it’s basically 10 people from all over the world have 15 minutes each to add/alter a Photoshop image before sending it on.
The images will start in Portland at kl.21 Danish time and arrive at Simon’s virtual desktop via Chicago, Toronto, New York, Saratosa in Florida, Buenos Aires, London and Paris. This Copenhagen 15 minutes of fame will begin at kl.23 and then the file is whisked off to the final leg in Tokyo. For a Friday night in front of a computer that’s pretty exciting. You can follow it online with live commentary from Jeffrey Zeldman, who is a bit of a legend, at the Layer Tennis website.
Tune in and watch as the pressure of pixel depth and anti-aliasing drives Simon crazy. See if he can fit in something about the Queen’s birthday and laugh at his poor type choices.
This also coincides with the launch of the new Smoke & Mirrors Studio website – Simon and Line J’s design studio. It’s a busy day for the man so we’re gonna start feeding him beer in two minutes.
Well while the dust settles on the last SweetTalk we have been delighted to hear so many good responses from the evening. We’re now proceeding with the next one – we know exactly what we want to put on - and this will hopefully happen within the next few months. More news soon.
In the meantime, and for a moment stepping away from design related things, SweetTalk Cph is delighted to see that one of our absolute favourite bands, The Unthanks, are coming over for a tiny, intimate and nicely priced (only kr. 60 a ticket) gig in Rust this coming week. If you like beautiful, folk-inspired music from the north of England we’ll see you there. One of the most beautiful songs ever, ‘Fareweel Regality’, is here for your listening pleasure.
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Last night we had a wonderful evening in Grand with Eileen Yaghoobian (pictured doing a Dick Nixon thumb wave with a cheerful member of the audience) and her ‘Died Young, Stayed Pretty’ film. Those poster making people in the film are an odd bunch for sure. Thanks to everyone who made last night a huge success - also so nice to see so many show up on a Tuesday night after Easter. Bravo. More details about the next, and 10th, SweetTalk Cph event soon.
We made it through Easter and now the beautiful run into summer begins tonight with the ‘Died Young, Stayed Pretty’ screening tonight in Grand. Begin your evening with a look at the poster exhibition in Hotel Fox - an awesome collection of prints especially made for this movie featuring Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, some slabs of meat, phallic instruments of all sorts as well as the usual naked ladies. Then get to Grand for the movie, 21.30. There may be a few more tickets left at www.grandteatret.dk. Laters!
The ‘Died Young, Stayed Pretty’ poster exhibition in Hotel Fox is now open. Call in anytime before Wednesday to see a beautiful display of screenprinted posters from worldwide screenings of the movie, showing in Copenhagen on this Tuesday. It is perhaps the most amount of different posters ever made for just one movie and the prints are GORGEOUS. The three posters made for the Cph screening are the first you see on the way in the door and they are three brilliant and varied posters (made by Jefrescott, Surplus Wonder and Zven Balslev). Make sure to catch the exhibition before you come see the movie.
We have just had the first hand-printed poster for our screening of ‘Died Young, Stayed Pretty’ delivered. Jefrescott’s beautiful poster is screen printed in three colours (see photos below) and available in a numbered edition of 100. They’ll be on sale at the screening in Grand Teatret on April 6. But the truly great news is that this poster, as well as 32 other hand-made posters from worldwide screenings of the film will be on exhibition in the foyer of Hotel Fox here in Copenhagen from this Easter Sunday, April 4th until Wednesday morning April 7th. Call in anytime to see these beautiful posters on exhibition.
There are two more hand made posters for the Cph screenings being printed today - and they’ll be in the exhibition too! We’ll keep you posted.
Some tickets still available for this fantastic, one-off, premier screening with the director on April 6th, in Grand Teatret, Copenhagen at 21.30 - click here to be taken direct to to Grand Teatret’s tickets sales.
You can now buy tickets for our special SweetTalk screening of Died Young, Stayed Pretty on Tuesday 6 April at 21.30, through the Grand Teatret website.
You should be able to link to our tickets sales at Grand here otherwise go to grandteatret.dk and go to the ‘vælg film’ drop down menu on the right and choose the film there.
It’s been a long cold winter but with today’s sun high in the sky we are DELIGHTED to be able to announce the next SweetTalk Cph event. It’s back to the movies with us, as we have secured a one-night-only screening, with the director herself presenting, of the documentary on the illustrators, designers and printers that make those beautiful indie-rock concert posters across north America:
SweetTalk Cph and Plant present the Scandinavian premiere of Died Young, Stayed Pretty
a documentary on underground indie-rock posters
Tuesday, April 6 at 21.30
Grand Teatret, Copenhagen Presented on the evening by the Director, Eileen Yaghoobian
SweetTalk and our web-specialist friends at Plant are so happy to be able to present this unique documentary about the people who get their hands dirty making beautiful graphics and posters for our favourite bands, how and why they do it and why using an octopus illustration is now ‘out’.
Get your tickets straight from Grand by following this link or by choosing ‘Died Young, Stayed Pretty’ from the drop-down menu in the right-hand column (’Genvej til billetbestilling’). Ticket prices a wallet-friendly kr. 75. SweetTalk would LOVE if you bought the tickets now instead of just reserving it so we can make sure everyone who wants to go can get a ticket. It’s a special one-off event, and the director (all the way from Canada) will be introducing the movie herself and also be available after the movie to share a beer with.
We have three awesome local artists/illustrators/groups making posters for the concert and we will be posting them here as we get them, PLUS the limited, hand-printed editions will be available to buy on the night. The one you see here is by the talented Jefrescott.
Movie is in English with no subtitles.
www.diedyoungstayedpretty.com
We will have the full details of this in the next day or two when everything is in place but we’d like to just say this… keep the evening of Tuesday, April 6th free. To ease you back into real life after the Easter holidays and to fire up that creativity which may have been dulled by chocolate at that stage, SweetTalk have a special event for you - one that involves design, music and people getting their hands dirty and all you have to do it sit there and take it in. It’s going to be a very sweet event. More soon!
Thanks to Beast Pieces for finding this one, a beautiful clip from the 1970s of a trip to a letterpress printers. It wasn’t the Hollywood ending that had SweetTalk excited it was seeing the kids looking at the prints coming off the press and remembering that awesomenss of a big metal machine moving like a ballet and making these beautiful prints, one after another. Don’t say you can get the same wonder from a digital printer. Letterpress printing is a system where you can see EVERY single part involved in the process. No sealed boxes. You literally can see exactly how it works and it’s STILL like magic.
