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We’re on Resonance 104.4FM with Half-handed Cloud {noon 27/6/08}

We’ll be on the radio again tomorrow, I’ve pasted in the info from John Ringhofer’s bulletin:  Hello!Thanks to those that came-out to tonight’s live printmaking/sing-a-long peformance in London on the giant 12-foot turntable. Really fun. We’ll try to post pictures before too long. For those who couldn’t make it, we’re going to play on London radio

Half-handed Cloud & the great 12′ vinyl experiment

You may have often heard us praising the gifts of John Ringhofer, the man behind Half-handed Cloud. Now you can hear him for yourselves! John is coming to do a print with us, and to celebrate that print, we’re putting on an event with him at the Foundry bringing together the pressing of prints that

Photos from the Erroneous Disposition of the People…

As the evening light grew dim on a drizzly wet London, a man wearing sneakers mounted on speakers thunked heavily up a small stair case and the room full of people fell into silence. Then he pressed play on the tape recorder, and an old man’s voice, fuzzy from the nearly obselete audio equipment, boomed

Reading from our new book 02/06/08 @ The Reliance

On the 2nd June, 7.30pm, we’ll be having a reading from our new book upstairs at the Reliance pub in Shoreditch. It’s called “the Erroneous Disposition of the People” and it was written by David Barnes, David Henningham, and Wade Bradshaw. We took the chapter headings from Thomas Brownes ‘Pseudodoxia Epidemica’ {‘common misconceptions’} and used

20th Century Launch last night

Thanks to everyone who came to the Foundry last night. It was a great evening for us and we were really pleased that all the hard work culminated well. We constructed a 6′ black cube on which all 100 copies of the edition could sit, leaving a space when one was sold. The circle underneath

The 20th Century Trailer

This video accompanies the release of ‘The 20th Century’, by Michael James Jones and the Henningham Family Press. We will be celebrating its release at the Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street, from 7pm on 29th April 2008. You are welcome to come and have a drink and a look.

Michael James Jones’ “The 20th Century” release 29/04/08

Very soon we’ll be celebrating our latest release, a print by a Canadian Artist, Michael James Jones. Everyone is welcome to come along and take a look at the work with us at the Foundry, and this will also be a chance to see some of our previous titles. Two things happened during the making

Ping* on Sebald at Universettee

Ping* will be giving a lecture very soon called: “Hunchbacks, Lunatics and Biopolitics in the work of W.G. Sebald” The lecture will give a history of what is behind the many physically and mentally malformed characters in W.G. Sebald’s books. The lecture will touch upon all his works, concentrating the most on chapter 5 of