As digital photography takes over its slowly getting harder and harder to find a good place to develop, contact and print your film at a high quality / reasonable price.
However just off Old St there's a lab used by many of the DoBeDo photographers that we can highly recommend. Cosimo D'Apriano and John McCarthy are very experienced and friendly printers, who are offering DoBeDo visitors a special deal. Just mention DoBeDo when you contact them.
£10+vat for C-41 dev+contact.
And reasonable prices for all sizes of C-41 and Digital Prints of the highest quality.
If you haven't aready come across Sweet and Sound Magazine, I recommend having a look.
They publish a newspaper-style magazine every few months that can be delivered to your home for only a few quid a copy, but their website www.sweetandsound.co.uk also mirrors the magazine with a choice selection of interesting interviews with musicians, artists, filmmakers etc... both big and small.
This month Shane Connolly has interviewed DoBeDo contributors Phoebe Collings-James and Mark Lebon - click either name to link to the interviews.
GETME! and DoBeDo presents 'Reely and Truly' is a film night and party, originally started in the 80s but resurrected in 2009. Click here for more history. Read on for this months details.
Event: Reely and Truly 3
Date: Tuesday 8.12.09 7pm-2am. Films from 8pm sharp!
Location: Notting Hill Arts Club
Cost: Free + 50 free programs for the first to arrive.
Photo Slideshow: Milo Holliday.
DJS: Louis Enchante, Fervent Moon, Lixo, DDF (Crystal Vision), Goodbye! Mother, Extra Stout Sound System.
Click to see photos from the night.
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FILM PROGRAM (starts at 8pm sharp! running order will be decided on the night):
- '1976' by John Tiberi - 8mm film first shown at Reely in 1984 with soundtrack 'Ancora Tu by Lucio Battisti'.
- ‘Christmas’ by Laura Hemming-Lowe & William Pine - Short film about yuletide indigestion.
- ‘Crazy Mexican Licker’ by John Dawson / written by Murray Partridge - Advert for Mexican Tequila featuring Barnzley.
- ‘Don’t Say Sneakers’ by TheBoyKing - Interview with Kish about his shoes.
- ‘Know Your Place’ by Tim Craig - Interviews with the artists and visitors to ‘DoBeDo Presents… Know Your Place’ exhibition in August 2009.
- ‘Love Man Groove’ by Georgia De Castro Keeling - Sexy animation.
- ‘Metal Worker’ by Konstantin Kornakov – footage of metal working machinery. For more information visit www.againstart.ru
- ‘Nike 1948 Dance Film’ by Tyrone Lebon / Music by Lachlan Munro. Super8 film commissioned by Nike for their ‘1948’ space.
- ‘Normski Interludes’ by Mark Lebon. Normski fills the gaps with VHS gabba.
- ‘Occupation’ by Lewis Wright - Two experimental films exploring occupation and the significance of flags.
- 'Punkature' by Mick Calvert / John Tiberi - 16mm film of Vivienne Westwood fashion show shot in Paris in 1982.
- ‘Real Chins’ by Mags - Chins do songs.
- ‘Starting starring Suzy’ and ‘Again starring Ken’ by Mark Lebon - Two 35mm animated films featuring Suzy Bick at the Serpentine and Kenny McDonald in a self-tailored suit.
- ‘Shit & Piss’ by Dave Baby - Animation featuring a woman and her excrement.
- ‘Tagada’ (4mins) 1985 by Dick Jewell - Was enough to make one person throw up.
- ‘The Trailer to ‘The War That Never Ends’’ by Giacomo Ricci - A film about love and a young man’s struggle to come to terms with modernization.
Mexican Licker by John Dawson. Showing at 'Reely and Truly' 3.
Brickhouse Gallery is a new temporary arts space created by DoBeDo contributor, artist, DJ and photographer - Guy Gormley.
Set up in the basement of a town house in Little Russell Street, Bloomsbury, the space has been used for the last 20 years as an office and will be changed into a house on the 6th of March. In a state of limbo, the space has been given the ‘short life’ of an art gallery designed specifically for young and emerging artists.
The gallery programs only solo shows (unless artists work exclusively together) so that individual artists can make their ideas clear and take responsibility for what they are doing, allowing the audience to gain a better understanding and feeling for their work as a whole.
The exhibitions last only a week – in keeping with its identity as a transient gallery - to keep up the energy of the space and to encourage artists to take risks, be spontaneous and use it as a place to publicly try out ideas.
Exhibitions are open to the public at a Private View on Thursday 6-9 or by appointment Friday – Saturday, 11-6. Please call: 07828847462 / 07920023752.
