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Creaturemag at Shambala Festival 2010 – The 10 Picture Challenge

Shambala festival is a teeming tented circus town, a brew of sensory stimulation that is just right and ready. It’s all about the participation, there is an emphasis on open expression, friendliness and a staunch resistance against commercialisation and consumerism. It’s a truly eclectic gathering of characters, creative explorers and hedonistic experimenters stirring up a very special atmosphere and one that is very unique to Shambala. Our challenge was to sum all this up in 10 photos.

Arriving at 4pm on Friday, equipped with the necessities and armed with 10 photographs yet to be taken, we embarked on a 48 hour exploration of this new found land. Soaking up the splendid array of music the fields awash with art, costume and splendidly happy people all willing to make, do and see whatever they want. This is a creative enthusiasts dream and a field full of inspiration ready to be harvested.

The following photos form Creatures visual diary, 10 photos and some commentary that we feel sums up our Shambala festival 2010.

1 – Welcome to Shambala

Overlooked by a mansion house sat beside a lake on the edge of the woods lies a creative wonderland. Shambala is brimming with well considered art installations that make this festival an utterly extravagant garden for the senses. The sculpture above sat in the lake, you could walk to it over the water on a bridge just below the surface. (more…)

Artist: Thom Kofoed and Steven Jarvis
Project: The inside thoughts of now
Website: sj-illustration.co.uk, thomatronics.com

Welcome to a brand new feature here on Creaturemag.  Sharing a slot with Chris Getliffe  every other Tuesday will be Thom Kofoed and Steven Jarvis. These guys will be collaborating on a project they call “The inside thoughts of now”. This series of posts will consists of bi-weekly pieces of merged art and writing created especially for Creaturemag by these thoroughly good people.

We love this first contribution from Thom and Steven, entitled “Make Me Feel”. We wont let on too much about our thoughts on the piece as we don’t want to dilute your interpretation. We hope you enjoy investigating it.

For a bit about the artists:
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Event: Open mic
Where: Upstairs at the Ritzy – Brixton
RSVP: Facebook page or contact creature@creaturemag.com

With a host of great acoustic acts, spoken word, stand up and this month a headline set from Andy and the prostitutes – myspace/andyandtheprostitutes.

Your friendly Creature blogger/ musician / general creative chap, Matt Witt ( myspace.com/theboywitt ), fresh off the back of a secret Garden Party trip, will be introducing some very talented performers and will play a few of his own songs too. Do come along, sing us a song or just enjoy the performances… it will be fun!

We hope to see you there.

Matt also hosts the open mic event at the famous Hope and Anchor venue  in Islington, every Wednesday night: http://www.myspace.com/bignotelondon

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Event: Spring Anti Folk Festival featuring Matt Witt
Myspace: myspace.com/antifolkukk
Facebook event page: Spring Antifolk Fest 2010

Last summer Creature attended the Anti Folk UK, Summer Anti Folk Festival at the 12 Bar Club on London’s Denmark Street. It was a great event which included some extraordinary anti folk acts as well as some spoken word and a very funny compere and poet called Robert Auton who performed some of his poems.

This weekend the Anti Folk festival returns for its spring edition which promises to be just as much fun. This time we have plucked up the courage to stick our head above the parapet and get involved.

Alongside some of the best acts from the UK’s Anti Folk scene, Creaturemag’s Matt Witt will be playing an acoustic set on Saturday night at about 12.30pm. Check out Matt’s music here: myspace.com/theboywitt

Check out the facebook event page here for full detials: Spring Antifolk Fest 2010

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Artist: Matt Witt
Project: Steve Rack’s Toe Fluff Exhibition
Website: toefluff.co.uk

A few weeks back we were informed about a very interesting project organised by the illustrator, Steve Rack. The project revolves around the wonderful world of Toe Fluff. Steve Rack invites all to create their very own Toe Fluff character,  anything goes as long as it’s based on the template provided.

Creature got very excited by the prospect and as you can see from our efforts, we got a little carried away with the Toe Fluff Joy. We decided that we couldn’t decide on one particular Toe Fluff character, so we did 227! That’s right, a Toe Fluff made of 227 little bits of Toe Fluff… fluff within fluff. Please + Enlarge the image above to see it in it’s full glory.
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