Author: nick raistrick

 

…a spectacular launch weekend for Bristol’s premier art satire photobook; huge thanks to everybody who said hello or bought a book.

Special respect for the use of the van to Ed and Sazzle, and to Claudia, Phat Tony, Cai, Rosa, Rural Will, dougaLL, Madie, Ceri, and Claire – some of whom are pictured.

Massive thanks to the Sunday sales team, whoever you were.

Gary, Liz and everyone at the Greenbank were amazing too, as was the lady who won the rowing machine…

If the Greenbank sell out, you can buy the book here: www.blurb.co.uk/b/7923021-get-the-easton-look

or DM via the Facebook page as there are still a handful in circulation.

 

 

 

 

So this is the official Get the Easton look van, out of which we will be selling Easton’s only coffee table* art book.

 

It represents the unofficial mobile fringe of the Easton Arts Trail and will be in the Chelsea Rod area on the afternoon of Saturday 3 June.

If we can be bothered we might deliver to your door (Easton only), get in touch via the Facebook page, if you trust us with your address. Otherwise copies available at the launch event upstairs in the Greenbank at 6 pm that day.

We are currently working on some slogans for the battle bus. Ideas welcome:

* – more of a toilet book to be honest. people wanted something that cost under a tenner, so I needed to keep unit costs down, production-wise. It’s more an Argos catalogue kind of a weight than proper art book that would set you back fifty quid. But it’s what’s inside that counts. Also available here as an ebook or in print:

http://www.blurb.com/b/7923021-get-the-easton-look

 

So the official Get the Easton look book is now available.

I would advise you not to buy it online, which you can do here; instead come to the launch on 3 June, at 6 pm, at the Greenbank (upstairs) in Easton instead. Or watch out for the official green van on arts trail weekend – we will be selling copies of the book out the back.

As it is an Easton book for Easton people it is cheaper in BS5 (£10 per copy as requested). Plus there will be postcards and prints and stuff which can be yours for a donation to the official get the easton look 2015 Christmas charity appeal.

Get The Easton Look has been living up to is mission statement –  ‘a visual archive of Easton’s aesthetic ephemera, particularly charming examples of guerrilla recycling and site specific community art installations using found objects,’ since approximately 2014. 

I started the group and have acted as an occasional curatorial voice since its inception; now I feel I must step down as the winds of change are blowing me in a different direction, far, far away from Easton and its mattresses and sofas.

As these winds blow, I think of the sweet and mournful music of a half crushed Tyskie can, its gentle tinkling melody drifting through the night air, a reminder of the place I once knew.

I think of the moments we have shared; could they be lost forever too, disappearing into the ether, like so many King Size Rizlas in the damp? Discarded and forgotten, like the Police cordon tape in the nearest available bin to the Jolly Roger on a Sunday morning?

No; we must have a permanent record. A book perhaps? That is what the people* demanded. And that, two years after they demanded it, is exactly what they are getting.

 

 

* – four of them