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12/3/2010

Sister Blog

Filed under: Art, Artists, Cube, Cube Cinema History, Film, Haiti, Life, Projections, Transport, Volunteers, activism — site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) @ 5:28 pm

Check out what’s happening with the Haiti Kids Kino Project at our sister blog here . . .

http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/blog/

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25/5/2009

slo-mo #2

Filed under: Art, Artists, Audio, Events, Film, General, Life, Music, Projections, Video, dj, flyers & posters — site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) @ 10:31 am

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15/5/2007

the projector that never was..

Filed under: Cube Cinema History, General, Projections — james @ 2:13 pm

hogge and myself have been installing a beautiful 1930s lamphouse to our 35mm projector. unfortunately due to cooling problems we’ve had to reinstall our old lamphouse, although these pictures remain of its brief moment insitu. wonderous lines.

james

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10/12/2006

You probably weren’t there . . .

Filed under: Art, Audio, Events, Film, General, Music, Projections, Qu Junckions, Video, admin, computer sings, computers — site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) @ 3:08 pm

. . . at the Seven Inch Cinema night on Thursday.

Sadly, possibly because of a Qu Junktions final jaunt at the soon to be closed Seymour’s Family Club, The Cube was nearly empty for a fantastic programme of short films and musical performances put on by our like-minded Birmingham counterparts.

I managed to record most of the ubergeeky ZX Spectrum Orchestra performance which you can check below . . .

If you’re in Birmingham in February you can catch the Flatpack Festival put on by the same people which will feature a performance by my computer ( NOTE while we’re in gloriously pedantic geek mode : I say “my computer” but he’s not generally meant to be called “my computer”, he actually is my computer, so it’s “mr_hopkinon’s computerâ„¢”, or just “The Computer” to you thank you ! )

Got no pics or nothing, but I feel honourable mention should be made of our own 7 inch cinema of sorts – “7s & 8s” featuring Super8 films and & 7 inch singles put on by Cube projectionist, Ali, the next day, and almost next door in Cafe Kino.

It was lovely.

And hopefully the first of more.

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13/3/2006

QuWack, QuWack

Filed under: Art, Audio, General, Mr Hopkinson personas, Music, Projections, Qu Junckions, Team Brick, Video, admin, comedy, computer sings, dj, mp3, performance, sparror — site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) @ 1:47 am

This Friday & Saturday saw a new mini-festival brought to us by Qu Juncktions . . .
QuWack

This was QuWack, number 1, “M” ( for all Male. Next, obviously, will be “F” for all female . . . )

Two nights, seven and a half solo male performers, all categorised as uncatergorisable, doing one fifteen minute set each – the “half” men being one man doing a pair of seven and a half minute performances to end the first day and start the second – with the curtains closing bang on the 900th second ( or 450th ) whether they’d finished or not . . . geddit?

That’s what we were promised, and broadly got, although Saturday had an extra bonus performance ( from George Headfall ) and a Chiz curtain calculation error meant Kid Carpet got cut off at the 10 minute mark – but he came back almost immediately for a 5 minute encore much to the crowd’s delight.

So, who were the fellas? Have a look see . . .

FRIDAY

Friday_01
Friday_02

SATURDAY

Saturday_01
Saturday_02

It was all top notch and a tribute to good thinking by Chiz & Mark of Qu for giving so many singularly talented odd-bods a set set time to prepare something stunning for.

A particular inspirational stroke was Chiz’s idea, faultlessly executed by Adam Faraday, to video the performances which were then played back ( sans audio ) immediately onto the closed curtain while the change-overs took place . . .

. . . so bringing a wonderful coherence to the over all events.

There were too many performances for me to do in-depth reviews, but overlapping themes were looping and layering ( Ian Green / Maiof / Freeze Puppy/ Def Con Stylus and Paul Bradley ), virtuosic single instrument mania ( George / Colin Smith ), startling vocalisations ( Men Daimler / Team Brick ) and timely Ivor Cutler tributes . . .

. . . from ( separately ) mr_hopkinson’s computer and ( pictured ) Kid Carpet . . . which leaves out-on-their-owners Don Mandarin ( karaoke of your own songs ), just off the plane from Berlin international electro superstar Kurt Wiesel ( needs no introduction – this man is HUGE, if you haven’t heard of him, you will . . . ), a beautiful little set from last minute slot filler FrÃ¡nÃ§ois, plus S J Esau, who I sadly missed as I was taking care of my computer after his set ( sorry, Sam ! ).

Friday’s audience was a little bit undersubscribed – not too bad though – but Saturday was completely packed out – all in all amazing.

The one female performance presence in this male, though handsomely un-macho atmosphere, was multi-linguist Lea Piontek, who introduced acts carabet style in the spotlight in front of the closed curtains . . .

. . . including Kurt’s intro in German and FrÃ¡nÃ§ois’ in French.

Loads of pics up on Sparror . . . and if you want mp3s of my compy’s Cutler tributes you can get one on his myspace space ( search for Ivor’s image ), and the other on Rob Da Bank’s listen again ( around the 1:04 mark ), if your reading this around the week it was written . . .

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