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Number 2 in the charts!

This site (thiswindow.org) is now  Number 2 in the Technorati Top 100 Arts blogs  and  Number 46 in the Top 100 for Living. This is fantastic news and thank you for finding time to visit!

Screenprint - 2011 by This Window
Screenprint – 2011, a photo by This Window on Flickr.

Exhibition of Prints, Drawings and Paintings by
Peter Bright (aka This Window)
150 Building, West Buckland School

Monday 6th June – Friday 1st July (open 0900 to 1600 Mon. to Fri.)
Old images and ideas revisited and recycled – re-executed in print and paint. A body of work based around “Beauty and the Beast” a classic tale of love, rejection and prejudice, where the beauty is the beast and the beast is the beauty.  An  allegory, a symbolic representation or a metaphor for my feelings towards ART.
Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757.
Variants of the tale are known across Europe. In France, for example, Zémire et Azor is an operatic version of the story of Beauty and the Beast written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry in 1771. It had enormous success well into the 19th century. It is based on the second version of the tale. The tale has perhaps been made most recently famous by the retelling in the 1991 Disney film.

Beauty and the Beast. (2011, April 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:47, April 7, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beauty_and_the_Beast&oldid=422255721

 

Extraction now on iTunes

‘Extraction‘ was recorded for EE-Tapes of Belgium in 1989; the version available on iTunes, Amazon, Napster etc. is a remix by Jake Bright. Part of the original recording was made in a bathroom and features Nicola Mumford (the vocalist from Finish The Story) …
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This week’s top ten

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Below are the ten most popular articles, interviews and reviews of artists on this site this week. We are really pleased that all genres are attracting visitors. The weekly charts are calculated on the amount of clicks and visits on the pages and do not include plays etc.


Framed – Here comes an exhibition:

Quotes: “Take up a radical position with Peter Bright, who is borderline anarchic in his thinking and equally bold in his art.” Andrea Charters “I keep thinking about George Braque who learnt artificial wood graining from his time as a … Continue reading ?

Newsletter – Top 10 this week

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There has been a considerable amount of traffic to SystemCulture.org and below are the ten most popular articles, interviews and reviews of artists on this site this week. We are really pleased that all genres are attracting visitors. The weekly charts are calculated on the amount of clicks and visits on the pages and do not include plays etc.
  • Matthias Lang – IRRE Tapes
    IRRE Tapes (Germany) run by Matthias Lang evolved out of the IRRE Fanzine which he published regularly during the early 1980’s covering New…
  • Intrendent – Interview
    Below is an email interview with Intrendent. All interviews are published unedited. When did you begin releasing music? Started making Ta…
  • Connie – ‘Fly Away’
    The sun is burning down  and the beach is full of people – the light reflecting off the polished cars like spears stabbing your eyes – it is…
  • Our Top 10 articles so far!
    Below are the top 10 articles, reviews, interviews on SystemCulture.org . There are some surprises in this list but the data helps us to wor…
  • Bat For lashes – Live – Colston Hall (Bristol)
    Photo by Veronica Henry I have been looking forward to going to see a Bat For Lashes live gig again and on the whole I wasn’t too disappo…
  • The Dancing Did
    The New Musical Express have recently rediscovered this band from Evesham – a real shame they never gave them the support when they were …
  • Jenni French – Archive
    Below is part an email interview with Jenni French and a section of a review. How would you describe your music? We try to be as original …
  • Four Dimensional Nightmare – Revisited
    Four Dimensional Nightmare is a dark analogue place – a fabulous place where your nerves get a little bit  jangled but the experience is hig…
  • Xavier – Review
    As you know I am a sucker for analogue synth sounds. Any chance to listen to something that has references to Kraftwerk (it need only be mi…
  • Torturing Nurse – Interview
    When you sit down and listen to music all you are doing is listening to noise, so listening to pure noise makes total sense to me. I love…
    Here is an extract from the archive:

    Jenni is a singer, songwriter and recording artist. She records her own music using ProTools with husband, Toby Francis. All the tracks on the player are different but have (undoubtedly) a Jenni French sound and feel. I was really disappointed when the tracks were over, I wanted more. Read More…

    Ending on a personal note:

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    Two paintings by Peter Bright have suddenly come back on the market.  Based on his constant struggle with allergies these two paintings come from his ‘Allergies’ series of 2004…

    Compiled by This Window

    Get reviewed: Are you this week’s top 10?
    Allergies: Death by Sushi

    Peter Bright (aka This Window) will be giving a hands on introduction to woodcuts and how to create prints at West Buckland School in North Devon (UK). Within the time frame it is hoped that each participating member will be able to create a finished image. The techniques he will be introducing will be simple ‘kitchen table’ processes that will be easy to replicate at home. Read more...

This week’s top ten

This%20Window
There has been a considerable amount of traffic to SystemCulture.org and below are the ten most popular articles, interviews and reviews of artists on this site this week. We are really pleased that all genres are attracting visitors. The weekly charts are calculated on the amount of clicks and visits on the pages and do not include plays etc.
  • Matthias Lang – IRRE Tapes
    IRRE Tapes (Germany) run by Matthias Lang evolved out of the IRRE Fanzine which he published regularly during the early 1980’s covering New…
  • Intrendent – Interview
    Below is an email interview with Intrendent. All interviews are published unedited. When did you begin releasing music? Started making Ta…
  • Connie – ‘Fly Away’
    The sun is burning down  and the beach is full of people – the light reflecting off the polished cars like spears stabbing your eyes – it is…
  • Our Top 10 articles so far!
    Below are the top 10 articles, reviews, interviews on SystemCulture.org . There are some surprises in this list but the data helps us to wor…
  • Bat For lashes – Live – Colston Hall (Bristol)
    Photo by Veronica Henry I have been looking forward to going to see a Bat For Lashes live gig again and on the whole I wasn’t too disappo…
  • The Dancing Did
    The New Musical Express have recently rediscovered this band from Evesham – a real shame they never gave them the support when they were …
  • Jenni French – Archive
    Below is part an email interview with Jenni French and a section of a review. How would you describe your music? We try to be as original …
  • Four Dimensional Nightmare – Revisited
    Four Dimensional Nightmare is a dark analogue place – a fabulous place where your nerves get a little bit  jangled but the experience is hig…
  • Xavier – Review
    As you know I am a sucker for analogue synth sounds. Any chance to listen to something that has references to Kraftwerk (it need only be mi…
  • Torturing Nurse – Interview
    When you sit down and listen to music all you are doing is listening to noise, so listening to pure noise makes total sense to me. I love…
    Here is an extract from the archive:

    Jenni is a singer, songwriter and recording artist. She records her own music using ProTools with husband, Toby Francis. All the tracks on the player are different but have (undoubtedly) a Jenni French sound and feel. I was really disappointed when the tracks were over, I wanted more. Read More…

    Ending on a personal note:

    Cheap antihistamine Art for sale – size 40″x30″
    Two paintings by Peter Bright have suddenly come back on the market.  Based on his constant struggle with allergies these two paintings come from his ‘Allergies’ series of 2004…

    Compiled by This Window
Finally our S P O N S O R S

Quail eggs – Green Business Website
Quail eggs for lunch After a long wait we have finally got enough eggs to have them as part of a meal. It was worth the wait, they were de…

Our Top 10 articles so far!

Below are the top 10 articles, reviews, interviews on SystemCulture.org. There are some surprises in this list but the data helps us to work out what our readers want to read about.

  • Intrendent – Interview
    Below is an email interview with Intrendent. All interviews are published unedited. When did you begin releasing music?Started making Tapes…
  • Lotte Kestner – China Mountain
    Had a very long day yesterday – Devon to London and back again. I’ve had very little sleep and the house is very quiet so it is time to foll…
  • The Tascam 144 4 track cassette recorder
    ‘Like A Sickle Runs Through Corn’ was recorded on a 4 track Tascam 144 cassette recorder – I had bought this in Birmingham – the store flee…
  • Xavier – Review
    As you know I am a sucker for analogue synth sounds. Any chance to listen to something that has references to Kraftwerk (it need only be min…
  • Alms – Sane
    How good is this track!!!! – Listen to more tracks by Alms at Myspace Music Alms early mix DEMOS NOW UP – gigs a’plently a’coming in run u…
  • Bat For lashes – Live – Colston Hall (Bristol)
    Photo by Veronica Henry I have been looking forward to going to see a Bat For Lashes live gig again and on the whole I wasn’t too disappoi…
  • Nika Shoot – Concert
    I watched Nika Shoot play last year and it was jaw dropping. To feel a grand piano rumble and hear it cry is an experience that is up there …
  • Finish The Story – Recording ‘Doorways’
    Recording ‘Doorways’ the beginning and the end, a conversation between Gary Smout and Peter Bright, to be overheard by other people…
  • Torturing Nurse – Interview
    When you sit down and listen to music all you are doing is listening to noise, so listening to pure noise makes total sense to me. I love…
  • Cyphreinc Podcasts
    There are thousands of podcasts out there that deliver repetitive, dull, boring music mixed in with inane verbal garbage, a masturbation f…