Monthly Archives: April 2009

Pub Table Tennis B (eer m) ats and the beginnings of a Table Tennis net too!

Instructions to follow!

beermats wanted

a selection of Beermats

Some beermats we have already acquired!

Anyway the next step is to collect around 60(approx?!) beermats which we can hopefully do by going on a teetotal pubcrawl and crack on with experimenting by making the net and the bats before creating a build it yourself pub table tennis set

stand up comedians and writing sitcoms

stewart-lee1

Stewart Lee - Both witty & wise

We might get to work on some scripts.. we had a laugh thinking about subjects – like old housemate stories and things that have happened which in hindsight become hilarious.

Watching a lot of Stewart Lee standup has influenced us – we started thinking it would be so much better to become a comedy double act if we could ever pull it off.  He is so witty and wise.  We are a bit in love with him.

SAW – no not a big budget horror – a small budget local arts fest

Since both of us have been reading ‘Lipstick Traces’ we got talking about the great little rebellions which the book talks about.  We are both interested in making something fun and a bit out of the ordinary to intervene with the everyday.

We started talking about how we could create an intervention or event which  used places in Sherwood.

We had an idea last year for the Arena Festival in Leicester, but we would have only had a week to prepare it so we didn’t manage to make it happen.  It involved table tennis, the pub they were using for their opening night, a Boris Johnson mask and the Chinese girl – Yang Peiyi who had to sing for another girl at the Olympics last year as she was deemed to be too ‘ugly’.  We had wanted to develop our puppetry experience and make  Boris and Yang Peiyi play table tennis against each other in a faked championing of the little girl who was too ‘ugly’ to sing.

Hmm will the pub tables be long enough?

Hmm will the pub tables be long enough?

So for SAW we have decided to expand on this idea by creating an artwork for Sherwood’s public that could be utilised and played with!  A portable table tennis kit which we will hopefully get local pubs to allow us to set up across pub tables.  The kit will be created from beer mats and we would also like to leave instructions so it can be passed on and created again and again..

Internet Dongles

Dongles are probably the worst invention of this modern life and what a stupid name they have.