Editorial

Christmas is past and the New Year rapidly approaches.

I was asked recently about the drop in posts to the blogs. Both Bellebyrd and Blakkbyrd have less posts this year than previously. 2008 has been an interesting year. Most of the past six months has been taken up with travel and relocations, not to mention learning new languages and the establishment of the Byrdsong language blog.

All this is expected to change in 2009. At present I am surveying my current subscriptions and cleaning the slate for the new year. With a return to Australia there will be a greater coverage of the Australian art scene, and a lesser need to follow the day to day minutiae of Europe.

This month has seen the creation of indexes for Urban art on Blakkbyrd for the past four years, an extensive and time consuming task. Similarly, there are new indexes for Printmaking on Bellebyrd blog. Please enjoy. I intend to write more indexes on new media, art theory and copyright issues. Eventually all the individual themes on the two blogs will be covered.

To all my readers, I wish you the best in the New Year and hope that you will continue to enjoy the blogs in 2009.

Blakkbyrd

Blakkbyrd - Hong Kong

I'm in Hong Kong at the moment. Last night I attended the vernissage of the Adapta exhibition in Hong Kong Central. See previous blog
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2008/11/dface-hong-kong.html

Met lots of people, made new friends and came away with lots of information to follow up on and research, both on the UK and Asian graf scenes. More later when I return to Taipei and have time to blog it all.

Waving to the guys...

Today I photographed Hong Kong's "Hall of Fame" which is adjacent to Mong Kok East KCR railway station across the bay in Kowloon.

Black Birds

Rotterdam




Singapore

UmbrellART - Let it Rain 2007

Credits: Let it Rain 2007

Concept: Blakkbyrd
Creative Design: Blakkbyrd & IvesOne
Flyer Photoshoot: Blakkbyrd & IvesOne
Flyer Photos: Blakkbyrd
Flyer Design: http://www.grafisch-vormgever.com
Flyer Publication: Xstreets
Artist Invitations (English): Blakkbyrd
Artist Invitations (Swiss & Dutch): Xstreets
Publicity (English) : Blakkbyrd
Publicity (Swiss & Dutch): Xstreets
Let it Rain Parade 2007: Xstreets
FOAM Exhibition: Xstreets
FOAM photoshoot: Blakkbyrd & Xstreets



Links
2007
4th Sept: http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/09/let-it-rain_04.html
13th Sept: http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/09/let-it-rain_13.html
21st Sept: http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/09/let-it-rain_21.html
5th Oct: http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/10/let-it-rain-saturday.html
19th Oct: http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/10/rain-barnesy.html
3rd Nov:
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/11/umbrella-roadshow-at-foam-for-museum.html

2008
26th Feb:
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2008/02/let-it-rain-umbrella-roadshow-2007.html
5th April
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2008/04/obsession-4-fashion-show.html
12th April
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2008/04/umbrella-roadshow-rotterdam.html

FLICKR
2008 UmbrellART - Studio One
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakkbyrd/2289189846/in/set-72157603976858447/
2008 Umbrella Roadshow - Obsession 4 Fashion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakkbyrd/2390339070/in/set-72157603976858447/
2007 'Let it Rain' - FOAM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakkbyrd/2291225122/in/set-72157603976858447/
2007 'Let it Rain' Parade
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakkbyrd/2288476731/in/set-72157603976858447/
2007 'let it rain' Blakkbyrd Brolly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakkbyrd/2288399455/in/set-72157603973090148/
2007 'let it rain' Blakkbyrd Brolly II
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakkbyrd/2288398807/in/set-72157603973090148/

Skype

Blakkbyrd is now on Skype

Chat online, make free audio or video calls via the net.

see Skype

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/

I'm adding a Skype call button to the sidebar

Blakkbyrd

Blakkbyrd

New work - experimental piece.






drippy pens .... yum

Editorial: Relocation to Asia

Its now official.

In the next couple of months The Aviary will be relocating to Asia. We have new premises in Taipei, Taiwan and we will be transferring our activities from Europe to Asia. What this means is that there will be a reduction in the amount of posts during the relocation, and once we are up and running again there will be a shift of emphasis to Taiwan material.

You might want to learn Mandarin as this will be necessary for reading many of the websites.

If you have first hand experience or contacts with Taiwan, we would love to hear about it.

If you live in Taiwan and can show us the hall of fame, we'd like to meet you.

Here's looking forward to networking and collaborations between Australia, Amsterdam and Taiwan.

Artfully yours
Blakkbyrd

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