tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24496820276318957162024-03-14T06:23:23.392+00:00Lefty Le MurLefty Le Murhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18364758060719801807noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2449682027631895716.post-67033799393615368362014-12-20T10:40:00.000+00:002014-12-20T11:01:18.838+00:002014 > 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With my last blog post dating back a year, it's pretty clear that I don't really need this blog anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first half of this year was for the most part consumed by the audiovisual mix project I set up called <a href="http://www.intertext-editions.com/" target="_blank">Intertext Editions</a>. It's on hold at the moment, but it may well come back at some point when I have some more time. As much as I enjoyed curating the project and having the chance to collaborate with friends, the whole thing was quite draining and at times bordering on the obsessive. The whole idea of Intertext was basically born from the fact that I barely had any space to draw and create and was too broke to hire even a cheap studio, so moving to something web-based was my solution to that. That's London life for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm happy to say that since then I <i>have</i> managed to obtain a little space of my own and have revived my Lefty Le Mur guise. I relaunched my <a href="http://www.leftylemur.com/" target="_blank">website</a> and am now <a href="https://twitter.com/LeftyLeMur" target="_blank">tweeting</a> about my activities again. With conditions looking up, it's been possibly to finally start working on some projects that have long been gathering dust in my to-do list. First up is a publication about cities. I've got big plans for it and I aim to have something done by mid-2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, this blog. I've decided not to kill it entirely but rather start using it as a place where to publish more academic-ish stuff. Like talking about influences, new discoveries, visual culture etc. I've got a long list of subjects i wish to talk about more and explore further. But alas, with my memory as good as a well-oiled slide, this blog will be appointed as my memory bank, so to speak. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exciting times ahead in Lemuria for 2015 then! Can't wait.</span><br />
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Lefty Le Murhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18364758060719801807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2449682027631895716.post-43458487792906918542013-12-19T01:00:00.002+00:002013-12-19T01:05:36.063+00:002013 in Music - Personal Bests<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Ideally this article would have been published in <a href="http://leftylemur.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/intertext-project.html" target="_blank">another music-related blog which is currently brewing - Intertext</a>. Should hopefully have it up and running in time for the 2014 list..)</span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2014. Yes, one my top resolutions at the end of 2013 was to sort my musical self out for 2014. I'm glad to report that I did dive back into music and have totally feasted on all the goods it had to offer. It was a great year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And never have I been better placed geographically to do just that. Was there any place better than London to be in this year? With the jungle renaissance and the exciting rise of eski/neo-grime taking place in and because of this city, I really really doubt it. Apart from maybe Glasgow in 2007, I can't say I've ever been witness to a city that's so buzzing and alive musically (hell, and everything else!) as London is at the moment. </span><br />
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Lefty Le Murhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18364758060719801807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2449682027631895716.post-80129096810466380362013-12-17T23:10:00.000+00:002013-12-17T23:11:38.946+00:00Intertext Project<div style="text-align: center;">
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Lefty Le Murhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18364758060719801807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2449682027631895716.post-59594407364265185202013-09-26T01:01:00.001+01:002013-09-26T01:03:08.649+01:00Tberfil research project - an update<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">I recently had the chance to resume work on a project that I've been working on intermittently over these past 3 years. A couple of years ago <a href="http://leftylemur.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/it-tberfil-malti.html" target="_blank">I had posted some information</a> about the nature of the project which you can read here but just to recap, I'm currently documenting a local Maltese style of vehicle decoration and sign writing called 'tberfil'. I've been doing this by speaking to most of it's practitioners, visiting people with collections of vintage horse-drawn or automated vehicles and researching texts in libraries. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Over these past 3 years I have managed to interview most of tberfil's practioners and this time round I also had the opportunity of speaking to Malta's last two remaining cart (karrettun tax-xoghol) builders - which though not practitioners of 'tberfil' are still a vital source of information since tberfil would have never existed without carts. My main aims are to document this art form and in time help revitalise it but I am also very interested in it's origins, and this is something that I put a special emphasis on this summer, with promising results! <br /><br />In short, research so far points to origins (of one style) related to early incarnations of the Imnarja - a seminal Maltese rural feast that goes back at least 500 years. This is exciting especially when one considers how vital the Imnarja feast was in shaping Malta's identity in so many ways (it was the major gathering of rural dwellers, farmers and their culture, was one of the few occasions when rulers and lower classes mingled, it gave us our beloved rabbit dishes etc.). As luck would have it, a chance visit to the Imnarja feast itself four years ago (where spotted two beautifully decorated carts) was what inspired me to research this local brand of folk-art. <br /><br />I will be continuing my research on the subject throughout the next few months both here in London and in Malta and have plans to conclude it by early next year. I also have some other plans related to this research which I'll hopefully get to write about sometime next year. </span><br />
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<i>with some tasty early Detroit techno beats and synths slapped on. </i></div>
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<i>Made walking the streets of inner-city London at night quite an experience.</i> </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a Lefty Le Mur favourite! But really, this sounds like a Central-</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">been brought up in a block of 60s flats in a dodgy Parisian</span></i></div>
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Seeing as the weather was so utterly dismal this week-end, I spent the better part of it sketching and coloring up a visual interpretation of those <a href="http://leftylemur.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/lemurian.html" target="_blank">weird forms</a> I posted last week. I'd do all the Lemurian alphabet in this style if I had enough patience but I don't so 3 or 4 are probably enough for now. Here's one..</div>
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This last week was spent digitising/creating a new font or whatever you might want to call it based on what I call the Lemurian script. Here's a sneaky-peek..</div>
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I had a while ago done some prints related to my <a href="http://leftylemur.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/birth-of-culture-handmade-book.html" target="_blank">Birth of Culture book</a>. I haven't really shown them around much yet apart from putting them on sale at the Graphic Arts Stall during Malta's Patches Market last July. The prints are basically reworks or edits of visual material related to the Birth of Culture and were printed out using the riso process by Elliott at <a href="http://victorypress.co.uk/_1./Home.html" target="_blank">Victory Press</a>, who I would happily return to work with. </div>
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The prints come in 4 varieties, are all 3-colour and A3 in size. They can be purchased for £20 each by getting in touch <a href="mailto:info@leftylemur.com" target="_blank">here</a>. Discounts available for purchases of 3 or more prints!</div>
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Holy flying mackerel, that took a while! Settling in was far from speedy, but I've started doing some new work during these past few days now that the dust's settled a bit. The first few bits of drawing seem to be concerned mostly with clouds and wishy washy fluffy stuff. That might be due to the sky being a bit more visible out here in London's Zone 3 (as opposed to Zone 1)? I don't know. I like them though and I might do a little something with them this week. And while we're at it, I've thrown in a track by Shlohmo that reminds me of the white stuff. </div>
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ALOT of catching up on projects to be done once I get the paints out! </div>
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<br />Lefty Le Murhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18364758060719801807noreply@blogger.com0Xatt Lascaris, Valletta, Malta35.893917453170289 14.51225280761718835.881053453170288 14.492511807617188 35.906781453170289 14.531993807617187tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2449682027631895716.post-82571319480915015672012-07-01T00:07:00.000+01:002012-07-01T00:07:09.999+01:00Work for sale at Patches Market, Malta<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next Sunday the 8th of July will see yet another installment of the now firmly established Patches - Malta's handmade product market (which is, by the way, run by my camera hugging/brush wielding sister <a href="http://www.denisescicluna.com/" target="_blank">Denise Scicluna</a></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">). </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This will be I believe the 11th edition yet, and as much as I've always wanted to take part I've never really had much of anything to sell really. Up until now that is. </span><br />
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So, this time round I'll be having a stall at the market. I will be selling some prints and books of mine but the exciting bit for me is that I will also be selling works by other Maltese (or related) graphic artists. These include - <a href="http://www.studiomothership.com/" target="_blank">Ken Borg</a>, <a href="http://ityp.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Thomas Cuschieri</a>, <a href="http://www.behance.net/adriangauci" target="_blank">Adrian Gauci</a> and <a href="http://www.saradelamora.com/" target="_blank">Sara de la Mora</a>. We'll be selling a variety of graphic goodies ranging from prints (riso and screen), artist and comic books, postcards, accessories etc, most of which I believe is going to have been available in Malta for the first time. </div>
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For my part, I will be having 3 or 4 new risoprints, a selection of postcards and copies of my book <a href="http://leftylemur.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/birth-of-culture-handmade-book.html" target="_blank">The Birth of Culture</a> up for sale (see pics below). If you're not in Malta at the time then of course do please get in touch if interested in copies of the prints or the book, but for you graphic and illustration enthusiasts who will be in Malta at the time - we expect to see you there!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've been busy and it's been a while, but here's a little update - I'll be taking part in Malta's </span><a href="http://www.patchesmarket.com/?cat=4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Patches market</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> on the 8th of July where I'll be selling copies of my book </span><a href="http://leftylemur.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/birth-of-culture-handmade-book.html" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Birth of Culture</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, prints and other visual goodies. More info about this later..</span>Lefty Le Murhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18364758060719801807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2449682027631895716.post-72976267135677915172012-05-07T15:16:00.000+01:002012-05-07T15:16:45.530+01:00Exercises in Style<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Me and <a href="http://www.saradelamora.com/">Sara</a> recently did some props for a video by London-based songstress <a href="http://www.carriehaber.com/">Carrie Haber</a>. Unfortunately the project will probably never see the light of day, but those on top are how it would have looked like. Photos by <a href="http://www.denisescicluna.com/">Denise</a>. </div>
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<br />Lefty Le Murhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18364758060719801807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2449682027631895716.post-57554252594150861872012-04-16T23:50:00.003+01:002012-04-17T14:14:03.327+01:00B-Cards<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last year while at uni I did a series of screenprinted business cards for my fledgling little freelance business. I thought I wouldn't have another chance to screenprint some business cards for free for some time, so with that in mind and blind drunk on dreams of instant freelance illustration success I printed ALOT of them. </div><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The book is almost a 100% handmade (only the printing was not done by hand, but even that was done at home) and involves a mixture of linocut, letterpress and rubber stamp printing processes. All artwork and design was also done by myself. It consists of 48 saddle-stitched pages, measures 14x9cm and is being printed in an edition of 350 copies. Copies can be bought for £10 each (not including postage). Please email me at </span><a href="mailto:info@leftylemur.com" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">info@leftylemur.com</a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> if interested.</span></i>Lefty Le Murhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18364758060719801807noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2449682027631895716.post-48225950765602078942012-03-13T09:18:00.000+00:002012-03-13T09:18:15.116+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x-1CcpqUxT0/T18QWZCY41I/AAAAAAAAAOM/t9j3ZR9uh3o/s1600/illustration+final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x-1CcpqUxT0/T18QWZCY41I/AAAAAAAAAOM/t9j3ZR9uh3o/s400/illustration+final.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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