Gallery Nothing

I was pretty upset when I found out that the awesome internet based publication Nothing Mag had finished for good but knew it couldn't be too long before the geniuses behind it (whoever they may be) came up with something just as great - enter Gallery Nothing, a site packed with New Zealand and international photographers, with all works for sale. Two past interviewees from CBB (Natasha Cantwell, #2 and Jo Galvin, #3) both have work featured, along with these two inspiring artists:

Gigi Cifali (England)

'Hornsey Baths' 2007

'Soho Marshall Pool' 2007

And Sarah Berners (Australia)

'Butcher's Wives #3' 2007

'Skin Job #4' 2008

Check it out!

SLOW

CBB went along to this show at Tim Melville Gallery last night. Two artists - Elliot Collins and Linden Simmons - who both featured in Issue One of CBB were exhibiting alongside Wayne Youle in a show which 'utilized and addressed aspects of the watercolour medium' which basically means it was awesome. 

Linden's mini, intricate watercolours (loved the framing!) were of his trademark scenes of tragedies cut from The New Zealand Herald and he was heard regailing a fellow attendee with the story behind each.

Elliot's works were large scale maths-like grids with certain squares filled in with colour, all three had awesome names like 'Growing up really fucking hurts'. Check out more of Elliot's work on the Tim Melville website here

The date is set!!

Thursday 12th March, 5:30pm at OUi Boutique in St Kevin's Arcade on Krd.

Come along if you'd like to be one of the first to purchase our brand spanking new issue (#3!) and just celebrate the zine in general. As I've previously posted there'll be awesome CBB affiliated art and jewellery to gaze at in awe so please do come along.

Wine will be served too.. of course!

Oh and p.s. our page is live on endemic world now! Check out the zines and our profile here.

Yard Sale

Some friends of ours (Jamie-lee and Ashleigh) live in the old Cherry Bomb Comics building (41 New North Road, Eden Terrace - right up the top end) and are having a sweet yard sale on Saturday March 7th from 10 - 1pm.

Head along if you'd like to purchase for yourself 2nd hand clothing, home baking, art and handmade crafts or general bric-a-brac. Issue Two of CBB will also be on sale. I can definitely recommend heading along, if just for the handmade lacy knickers that the gals make under their label 'Thieves Like Us'. 

Oh and of course there's live music by Caoimhe and Saan.

Eveline Tarunadjaja

I discovered this awesome Melbourne blog site over the weekend - threethousand.com.au which is updated daily with short reviews and blurbs on places to eat, galleries to visit, markets to attend and general cool things to do over there, it got me very excited about my mid year move to Melbourne! I also got excited when it led me to this amazing Melbourne based illustrator with a crazy last name..

Check out more of her great work featuring long haired (and short haired) ladies at lovexevol.com. I'm in love.

More LAUNCH news..

CBB is finally having an official Launch Party at OUi Boutique in St Kevin's Arcade on Krd, Auckland, to co-incide with our 3rd issue! Date to be announced..

Not only will Sharon have 30 lightbulbs with knitted cosies (not switched on, they're kind of a fire hazard!) hanging in the window, Sally Shand - an Issue Three featured artist - have her work on the wall but Nicola is now exhibiting some of her new necklaces as well! We are very excited, everything has turned out quite cohesive!

A while ago Nicola started casting tree roots in solid silver, which she is now turning into necklaces. They are so intricate, the casting process picks up all the little bumps on the root so they look very lifelike and pretty much awesome so come along if you want one all your own!

These are my lightbulb cosies in progress - 12 down, 18 to go! It's so great to be given a chance to do this on a large scale because I really enjoyed doing the four that were featured in Issue Two, but 30!! Very cool..

Oh and there's a pretty big possibility that any purchaser of CBB #3 will also get an individually screenprinted poster of their very own too..

Swap-A-Cloth

If your wardrobe looks anything like my sister's you should probably head along to Swap-A-Cloth, held at 8A Mount Eden Road, Saturday 21st February, from 10-4pm, as you'll have a lot of pre-loved (clean!) clothing to choose from to put in a bag to take along!

Take $5 with you and swap to your heart's content till your bag is refilled - you may not diminish any piles of clothing cluttering up your room but at least the piles will be of new clothes!

To make the day even better there will be screenprinting, sewing machines and other do-it-yourself crafts to modify existing items, that, along with the drinks and home baked goodies that will be available and the fact that it's all for charity should be all the reasons you need to head along!

Contact Felicity Perry - felicity.perry@gmail.com for more information.

Exciting News!!

I went into OUi Boutique (where the zine is stocked along with World Sweet World and Makeshift) in St Kevin's Arcade today to take some sweet pics to accompany the interview for Issue Three with Lou, the owner, who is so awesome that she's offered to have a CBB #3 Launch Party at the shop! Which we are both very excited about! As this can only happen once we have Issue Three out it means we've just got one more reason to keep working away at it.

We've officially got all content so thanks to everyone who is contributing, it's going to be a great Issue!

See you all at the Launch! 

Back On!

CBB #3 is officially back on! Keep your eyes peeled..

taking a break

I pinched this image off Swonderful's blog because it's so beautifully shot and the zines look so nice and pristine!

So, we've decided to take a bit of a summer break due to financial issues amongst other things, we will aim to have Issue Three out by the end of February but we'll have to see what happens. Don't worry though Cardboard Box will be back.. hopefully catch us as Cross Street Carnival on February the 14th, if we don't accepted we'll still be there with bells on - it's going to be an awesome day!

Issue Three

So Issue Three is well under way and we've got some exciting people featuring! Some of our lovely artists whose work we will have the pleasure of showing off include Sophie Corban, recent graduate of a BVA at AUT (what Nicola and I both did) and also a very good friend. She's been snapped up by dealer gallery Seed in Newmarket already and it's not hard to see why with her edgy work: 

Sally Shand originally contacted us about the art swap advertised in Issue One but her work was so amazing (self described as like 'frankie') we just had to get her to feature! 

Jo Galvin is an artist/photographer/curator involved in some cool projects around Auckland, her photography blows me away, it's so beautifully shot..

Oh and Kraftbomb is coming up this Sunday - Grey Lynn Community Centre from 11-2pm so come along and buy a copy of Issue Two or one of the 6 Issue One's we have left - we'd love to see you there! It's the Christmas edition so it's sure to be good.

the stall..

Craftwerk was such an awesome night, sold plenty of zines.. Also Oui Boutique in St Kevin's now stocks CBB which is very exciting for us, Marita Hewitt who featured in Issue One has her amazing work up at Oui right now - check it out!

Craftwerk

We just got into Craftwerk! Yuss!! Come and check out our stall this Thursday night in St Kevins Arcade..

a wee mention

A big thank you to Julia from Studio Home Creative who stumbled across CBB in Queenstown and put up a lovely post about it on her blog - check it out! 

HOARD

I thought it was high time I reviewed another zine purchased at Zinefest - well two actually - Issues One and Two of HOARD. Nicola brought Issues Three and Four but these ones jumped out at me because they both document collections of items that I have been known to hoard myself. Infact I am a chronic hoarder of all things useful and more often otherwise and these zines send such a massive wave of nostalgia over me it's amazing. 

In the intro to Issue One - Stamps, writer Hurricane wants me to join him in 'this several part series where I waste my time and space on collections so you don't have to' but actually he succeeds in the opposite - I want to drag my stamp collection (in an official album of course) out of the cupboard and get back into it!!

The stamps are all well organised, according to countries and what's pictured on the stamps - planes, outerspace and animals etc..

I actually have the entire butterfly collection pictured here..

Yeah.. so when I was overseas when I was younger I collected sugar, as well as sand (which produced a solitary bad-ass moment when I got caught taking a few crumbs off the Pyramids!) and coins, so this one brings back memories too..

I love the backgrounds of maths and refill paper!

I think my sugar collection is gone forever but at least with this zine I get to relive the feeling of satisfaction I had upon returning to NZ laden with sugar sachets!

Kraftbomb!

In my mad rush out of the door in an intensely hungover state on Sunday morning I stupidly forgot my camera but rest assured.. our stall looked great!

It was our most successful outing to Kraftbomb yet and we sold a record number of zines, with at least three people I can remember specifically purchasing Issues One AND Two - one of whom was fellow Kraftbomb-er Miss Deb who makes awesome sock monkeys - we're hoping you aren't regretting succumbing to our persuasive pitch!! Such a positive experience.

We have just been confirmed for the Christmas edition of Kraftbomb (21st of Dec) which sounds like it's going to be epic so come along and find all your friends and family members awesome Christmas presents - a few issues of CBB perhaps?!