All through the winter owners of a glow canvas expressed the joy they have switching on their glo-canvas on in the morning and evenings – it’s not too bright and the colours provide a true warmth to hearts and minds.

Here are the top three glo canvas’s from Oblong at present…

Glo-Canvas - Police cars in the 90's by Ian Wright

Glowing canvas - Leaves in a pond

Glo print - 5am Plymouth harbour

]]> http://raisephotos.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/top-3-glo-canvass/feed/ 1 raisephotos DSCF0780 DSCF0866 DSCF0788 http://raisephotos.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/lights-off/ http://raisephotos.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/lights-off/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:06:38 +0000 raisephotos http://raisephotos.wordpress.com/?p=24 ]]> Oblong this week completed the almost there selection of Parachute canvas prints which you can now buy through the market stalls at Spitalfields or save yourself the wait and go online.

I’ve designed the canvas prints to float off the wall and hover on a comforting pillow of light. Although the design or way it does so is registered, you can have any photo blown up in any size, oblongs preferably.

Activities involving a Parachute canvas include reading beneath it… finishing treasure island underneath it is essential… having it as a light feature… as a way to celebrate the greatest photo or landscape or architecture you’ve ever seen or as a piece of unusual art in the home to impress friends and neighbours with great telescopes.

My best use is to get Oblong.org to fit a strobe light to go within it too… gets the party going!

So don’t switch the light on. Switch an oblong on and raise money for a charity through a print and through people’s photo donations…Raise Photos™!

Warm Regards,

Matt x

We don’t celebrate enough the beauty of people movements. People moving for what it is they believe in and as they reflect their move and decision to be part of something with others so too does it inspire more in everythingl.

Walking Galleries on the 23rd April promises be the under handed way for artists to reach very top-end audiences through a moving art gallery. Based initially on the Kings Road, the gallery is people showing their work, people meeting people. The exhibition is by irony not to involve walking but instead is a gallery on legs.

The artist Duchamp would be very impressed. Here as a collective the walking gallery will show their work and the person behind it. The works and the artists for the first time come together as a pure form where a tap on a shoulder promises to reveal the artist – making them approachable and more familiar from then on.

Artists will form straight lines, swirls, squares crossing the street and maybe dance and display their work in whatever posture they feel for it seems the love of their own art and photography is bound to come alive and explain why it is that art today is less about movement and less about reaching more.

www.oblong.org/walkinggalleries.htm

Oblong did some research back in 2008 about what the typical customer would like to see hanging in thei

r front room from Oblong. A large amount of the sample suggested that buildings and skylines were an important artistic statement.

The most forgotten of all some could say is Center Point. It is a symbol of 60′s London and is not from all angles the stunning building in todays architectural  hierarchy but is truly an undecided building and should if anything be celebrated also for the lavish water feature that looks as if you could swim within.

Here are a couple of photos to prove a point. It goes without saying that the Intrepid Fox [pub] around t

he back and under the Centre Point is a massively unique pub to London as well.

If you want the Centre Point ‘Parachute’ canvas and light featured below then you can buy online at oblong.org

Whats the modern currency for charities though? A year ago I ask myself if there was another currency charities could share in and trade with?

Is it hope? Is it donations or is it groundwork pleas, street fundraisers and subjective advertising? No. It is instead for sale to buy and lights up a home, as bright as the sun and more radiant than a holiday memory. It’s called a Parachute and at the end of a hard day or beginning of a cold night a photo on the Parachute glows bright in the home. Using a photo Oblong.org can sell parachutes to raise money for a specific charity you like.

Donate a photo to www.oblong.org and have a look at a Parachute. http://www.oblong.org/buy.php