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Featured Track

Our featured track this month is iFear by TAPE

Productofboy / Vicky Miller / Cristina Nualart / Andrew Gilmore / TAPE / Javier Muñoz / Elaine Wilson

Brrrrrrrr! Come in! Leave your umbrella and wellies at the door! Welcome to February's blankpages – your digital blanket of creative warmth.

Our cover art this month is by Productofboy, one of the exhibitors at Blank Media Collective's Neck of the Woods exhibition at Nexus Art Cafe in Manchester. They are  a group of artists from Newcastle and Manchester, exploring perceptions of environment and urban space utilising text, video, photography, sound, electronics, installation composition and performance

Andrew Gilmore returns to our pages this month with a short story – a strange journey through a paranoid imaginative landscape, coupled with bespoke illustration from Michael Thorp.

'iFear' by TAPE is this month's mp3 – an up-tempo, hook driven beast of a track that should get your heart racing.

Poetry this month is singularly female - Vicky Miller and Cristina Nualart unabashedly discuss loneliness and PMT, and our spotlight this month features Javier Muñoz, a joyfully eclectic illustrator and artist based in Spain. Alongside his work, he talks to us about inspiration and his creative process.

Blank Media Presents... is previewed by Elaine Wilson, a writer and music blogger based in Liverpool, coupled with an interview with one of the featured bands at February's gig, Klaus Kinski.

All this and more in your monthly cultural companion, blankpages. Check it out!

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Issue 19 Featured Artists

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    Productofboy

     

    Lindsay Duncanson, Marek Gabrysch and Victoria Conlan are a group of artists from Newcastle and Manchester who formed as a way to maintain a creative dialogue between two cities. They have diverse creative backgrounds and trainings including Science, Photography Video and Music. Productofboy are exhibiting as part of Blank Media Collective's 'Neck of the Woods' exhibition at Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester (12th February - 11th April 2010 – Pubic Preview 11th February 6-9pm).

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    Vicky Miller

    Vicky Miller is a 25 year old freelance writer based in York. She has a degree in Professional Writing and a Masters in Women’s Studies. She is a music reviewer for various webzines. She loves hardcore, deathcore, screamo and weird electro music, writing poetry and short stories and walking in the rain.

  • Looking up

    Cristina Nualart

    Cristina Nualart is an Anglo-Spanish artist based in London. She likes to create images using pencils, paint, photographs, computers and words. She is currently working on an MA in Creative Economy. Gifted with languages, she says “I love double meanings, fusing meanings and burst of colour - in any media. I also love Benidorm and Birmingham!”

  • The Boy with Eyes the Size of Miami Football Stadium

    Gilmore

    Andrew Gilmore is a writer and artist living in Manchester. He has had poetry published, written a horror novel, Gate, and a children's picture book. Gilmore is currently working on new short stories for a collection.

    Andrew Gilmore is a writer and artist living in Manchester. He has had poetry published,written a horror novel called Gate and a children's picture book. Gilmore is currently working on new short stories for a collection

    Andrew Gilmore is a writer and artist living in Manchester. He has had poetry published,written a horror novel called Gate and a children's picture book. Gilmore is currently working on new short stories for a collection

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    TAPE

    TAPE are a very contemporary indie band drawing influence from the likes of TV on the Radio, The Secret Machines and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.The group was formed in 2008 when vocalist/keyboardist Toby Rothwell and drummer Andy Gill met over Music Technology lectures at Lancaster University.Textures, hooks and driving beats are all present and correct in ‘iFear', this month's mp3.

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    Javier Muñoz

    Javier Muñoz is a Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts (University of the Basque Country). He was  born in Pamplona, Spain, a few months after World Cup 78. He has been in illustration for more than 10 years. He writes a blog (elcanodromo.blogspot.com) and paints. He has worked for CNN.com, Grupo SIENA, Diario de Navarra, Diario de Noticias, La Voz de Almería, El Diario del Alto Aragón, Diari de Tarragona, Canarias,7 La Opinión de Tenerife (Spain); Etiqueta Negra (Perú); Marvin, La Tempestad, Tangente, Boulevard (Mexico), Knot, The City Magazine (Colombia), Exo2 (Venezuela), Capicúa (Chile), DY (USA)

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    Elaine Wilson

    Elaine Wilson is a Creative Writing MA student at Edge Hill, specialising in prose and creative non-fiction. She frequently reviews live music for a music website and is hoping, one day, to write for Rolling Stone magazine so she can follow the antics of a rock band on tour. And yes, Almost Famous is one of her favourite films.

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