It's that time again!

Dutty bass, Cheap drinks, Top people & an amazing little venue. Do not miss the second installment of Compa & Curlzz's dubstep night @ 41 King Street, Blackburn.

Last month was the first ever Wax night and it was off the chain - completely packed out! Can't wait for this next one!

Turfone

Turfone is a street artist, an illustrator and also a sculptor. He works with a vast amount of media such as found and ready-made objects, acrylic, cavas, wood, gold leaf, metal and various fabrics. His style is reminiscent of the Victorian era, with hints of carnivals, gypsies, freak shows, the Flemish Primitive, Russian icons....and road kill (dead birds).

Turfone has a real signature style, by creating creepy, antique and rustic looking works in both 3D and 2D.

David Gillanders

Gillanders is a photojournalist from Glasgow, Scotland. He travels the world photographing situations and issues that affect us all in one way or another, from homeless people to violent crimes on the streets. He captures so much emotion and really brings forward the reality of the world's ever growing poverty and it's violent crimes.

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson

I've been in two minds whether to write about this, but seeing as a delete button is so accesible, I'm going to anyway.

It's about the James Bulger killers, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. Everyone knows about the new revelations that Venables has been recalled to prison on "very serious allegations". The government refuse to say anything else at this moment in time about the incident, as they are hoping that Jon Venables will be investigated, tried and brought to justice as fairly as possible, under his new identity.

Due to a very similar personal experience involving an extremely unfair murder case, I do not think that Venables even deserves a trial, let alone a fair one! The government spent hundereds of thousands of pounds of tax payer's money to protect these animals, after serving a mere 8 years in a detention centre. Against the public's wishes and James Bulger's mother's warnings, the government released the two killers back into society, claiming they posed no threat to the public and are no longer a danger to society. How wrong they were.

Personally, I think the government are hiding the information on Venables' re-call to prison because they have messed up in a collosal way. They took no notice of the public and most importantly of all James Bulger's parent's feelings about the release. Now one of the monsters is back behind bars, because he has obviously violated the terms of his license of release. The government told us that he posed no threat or danger to society! They gave Venables and Thompson an oportunity for a new life, where no one could know who they were and what a horrific thing they had done. The two child killers have almost been given permission to forget about what they did and how many lives they have destroyed. It is not right and it is not fair. In circumstances so vulgar and disturbing, no one should be able to walk free again. What about poor James? He'll never be given that chance. What about James' parents? They'll never be able to see their little boy grow up, they'll never be able to hold him, they'll never be able to forget what happened to him and they'll never stop wondering what James' last horrifying moments alive were like.

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson should both be exposed, not protected. What have they done to deserve such fair treatment? What have James' parents done to deserve such awfully unfair treatment? There is no such thing as justice and personally, I have no faith that there ever will be.

Rest in peace James

Rot in hell Venables and Thompson.

Rob Hornstra

I'm currently looking at documentary photography and film, as I'm doing something along these lines for my art practise in University. I've been surfing the net trying to find images that can really inspire and explain what I want to achieve. Most of the images I came across are black and white, war photography, which isn't at all what I want. Finally, I discovered a photographer called Rob Hornstra. He's a documentary photograper from the Netherlands who travelled to Russia to take some amazing, moving and astonishing photographs of the poverty and the economic recession under Vladimir Putin's rule.

Oh Betty

Stephen Willats

Willats is an artist that was suggested to me by a tutor, as I am currently doing some documentary work on Liverpool youth gangs. Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art. Since the early 1960s he has created work concerned processes and theories in sociology, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy. He has produced a number of extended projects working with residents of public housing estates across Europe. These images are from an exhibition he put on the the Victoria Miro gallery where he concentrated on 3 families that resided in a tower block in London. He displays the majority of his works as diagrams...

Matthew Williamson

Williamson is a graphic designer and uses an abundance of media and works with collage. I love his work as he uses photographs and blueprints of machinery, adds paint to the images and turns it into a piece of art. It reminds me of industrial landscapes, in an abstract kind of way. He has a signature colour scheme, which is a mixture of earthy tones, angry darks and a slight touch of bright blues and pinks.

Spring had sprung

I was walking to the train station this morning and decided to go through the park seeing as the sun was shining. The air was crisp and the wild spring flowers were out, what a blissful feeling. It's the first time in a long time that I've taken a deep breath and took it all in. I walked extra slow and enjoyed it (usually I'm getting battered by rain, wind or snow).

As the weather is getting better and the nights are gradually getting lighter, me and my mum have decided to build a little wildlife pond in the garden. We're not going to have fish, it causes too much heartbreak when the heron comes to visit, so we're going to have frogs instead. We've been getting clued up on how to attract all the frogs and newts from an old Charlie Dimmock book I got when I was younger. Apparently the trick is to get a few bottles of water from a really old natural pond and some rotting logs from the woods. I've always been infatuated by ponds, I really can't wait.

So it's March! It's quite the month for my family and I. My Nan and Granddad are Celebrating their Golden wedding anniversary! 50 solid years together and they're still so in love. They are the glue that holds my family together, we're going to celebrate this one big time!

My boyfriend and I are also celebrating our anniversary this month. Our first :) it's not exactly 50 years but it could be one day. I love him very much.

Anyway, I've finished my Contemporary Art and Globalisation essay, which doesn't have to be in til the 19th, so it gives me loads more time for my own art practise. Life is good..