Tweet Avery Hill Publishing are in a veritable stew of aromatic emotion as they announce the publication of David White's Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2, a magnified photographic documentation of MasterChef: The Professionals series five. Just as the fifth exploration of televisually tough cooking on a professional level made history by resulting in joint winners for the first time , so Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2 also marks it's place in the annals [...]
Tweet If I were to list the reasons why it's taken a loooong while for Tiny Dancing Issue 8 to appear, it would be boring. Real life, job related, boring. So please forgive me if I do not do that. Instead, I will tell you about the things that are not boring. These are the things that are in Tiny Dancing Issue 8. Kicking off the massively unboring, we have a trio of illustrative debuts from a trio of gentlemen whose work I absolutely love. To say I'm delighted to have them all grace [...]
Tweet If, like me, you are a connoisseur of the finer things in life, your switches will be flicked by the following itemised listing: 1 - cooking approaching a professional standard 2 - human drama at its most intense 3 - witty repartee that would make Noel Coward blush If you remain unaroused by these things, then I pity you. But if your cultural antennae is now twitching like a rabbit's nostril, may I introduce to you 'Close Up Masterchef Volume One' - a magnified, photographic documentary of the eighth series of [...]
If, like me, you are a connoisseur of the finer things in life, your switches will be flicked by the following itemised listing: 1 - cooking approaching a professional standard 2 - human drama at its most intense 3 - witty repartee that would make Noel Coward blush If you remain unaroused by these things, then I pity you. But if your cultural antennae is now twitching like a rabbit's nostril, may I introduce to you 'Close Up Masterchef Volume One' - a magnified, photographic documentary of the eighth series of Masterchef (not counting the Loyd [...]
Tweet Cast your mind back, dear reader, to the days of the dim and distant past. To a time of civil unrest, political skulduggery, and international warmongering. To a time of uncertainty, despair, and anger. To a time when you couldn’t be sure that one day would follow another, and so lived every moment as if it were your last. Yes, dear reader. I speak of August 2011, when the last issue of Tiny Dancing made itself known unto this world of tumult. So much has happened since then. So much has come to pass... [...]
Ah, the difficult third issue. Difficult for me to get my arse in gear you understand, in no way difficult for the amazing people who have contributed yet more astonishing work for our pleasurings with apparent ease. In an order of my choosing we have a boggling array of offerings from Megan Ancliffe, Michael Gosden, H.B., Steven Horry, Lovejoy, Ricky Miller, Tom Quinn, Rebecca Strickson and David White - and what's more this time we've enlisted the help of a real printer, so you don't have to put up with my wonky stapling. The pace of the [...]
What's that? Tiny Dancing Issue 4 is here? Just in time for the yueltide? Oh, thank the Jesu child! And merry Christmas, everyone! That is correct - with the festive season bearing down on us like an overly large child stuffed to the gills with Guylians, Issue 4 has landed in our metaphorical stocking for your enjoyment in between the eating and the drinking and the feeling slightly gippy. Better than a walnut, and a on a par with a satsuma. Which might possibly be our new tagline. So what does this most... frosty of [...]
There are two thing we like at Tiny Dancing; art and Christmas. We get art all the long year around - that's just the type of people we are - but Christmas, that's a different story. And we don't necessarily mean the one about the little fella in the manger with the cows. Yes, we like Christmas very much, and have done ever since we got the Millennium Falcon as our main present in 1982. It's kind of been a bit downhill from there in all honesty, but it was a very high peak, and we're [...]
Despite the best efforts of all involved, the return from Leeds was made with minds, bodies and souls mostly intact. Thought Bubble was excellent fun, and damned inspirational to boot. What more could we ask for? Erasure being played as requested on the Saturday night, that’s what, but then we are very difficult to please… So we begrudgingly return to the real world. We playfully teased you last week with a mention of Reads Issue 1, the new home of all things comic-like in the world that was and will once more [...]
And lo, they did say that after the calm did come the storms and that. And they were very, very right indeed. We've been a bit quiet lately. If you've seen me walking down the street, I may have nodded and serenely smiled, perhaps even proffered a cheeky wink, but deep inside I was a tumultuous whirlwind of new. 'New what?', you may well ask. 'New this!' is my response. THE FIRST NEW - following a meeting in a pub a little while ago (yes, we have meetings - sometimes we even have [...]
Back in the dim and distant days of Tiny Dancing, when we didn't really exist, and were not people of art, we used to talk about stuff and then make that talking available for people to listen to, if they were that way inclined. You know the type. Then we stopped doing that, didn't do anything at all for a bit, then started doing Tiny Dancing as a venerable publication of the great and the good, which you know about, because we tell you about it often enough. But we'd stopped talking, and if [...]
It took 5 months. It didn't need to, but it did. I blame the ills of society, but what can you do? Get on Tiny Dancing Issue 6, that's what! But filling in for the vacuity of Big Dave's Big Plan isn't the only reason why you should get involved. Let's start with the cover, by Becky Strickson . Not only is it a wonder in itself, as you can see, but it's also the first of our covers that has the potential to offend Tom Cruise. It is also exciting to touch. Now that's [...]
Of course, this had to happen. The wave of almost fervent indifference following our threat to make some actual real copies of The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles - Volume 1, was palpable. And when our public speaks with one voice, we, your servants, must surely listen. So, here for the holding in your real hand, the looking at, and the reading of, is possibly the peak of my creative career so far. And that's saying something. In a bid to stir up what will doubtless be a consuming frenzy to get your hands on one of these [...]
There are three simple reasons why it's taken sooooo long to get the downloadable version of Issue 5 up for your clicking on. These can be summarised as follows: 1 - I am easily distracted. Things that have distracted me recently include my cat, Game of Thrones, Football Manager on the iPhone and Duncan The Wonderdog Show One. And that's possibly in the last week. 2 - The company who we use for our web-hosting-type-stuff being a bunch of fuckwits, and taking a month to sort out something which didn't need to be changed [...]
Some paintings of faces pulled by Gregg Wallace during Masterchef 2011.
I am built for heat. Anyone who knows me knows that I am built for heat. But even then on a day such as this, when weather forecasters have to look up what we call it when temperatures get above twenty-nine degrees (start at 'thirty' chaps, and work your way up from there), I have made some classic errors. Firstly, I've started watching a new television series that is rather good, and have powered through the first four episodes without as much as mopping my brow with a moist wipe. Answers on a postcard as to what that [...]
After what will be included in promotions textbooks in years to come as the very model of a teaser campaign - a single post on Facebook and a Tweet that didn't upload the image properly - it is time! Yes! It's the downloadable The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles - Volume One! Not only does it collect together the first five TYTHC's from Tiny Dancing's 4 and 5 (in one clean, tidy, consecutively paginated place!), it also contains three (three!) exclusive new TYTHC's that will never be seen anywhere else ever, AND some exciting facts [...]
Some paintings of faces pulled by Greg Wallace during Masterchef 2011.
jotta: Absolut London from jotta on Vimeo . We told you ALL through the medium of 'social networking' that Tiny Dancing was taking part in the jotta curated zine exhibition as part of the Dazed Live weekend t'other week, and if you look very carefully at the video above, you might be able to see issues 3, 4 and 5 minding their own business in the corner somewhere, like content, well behaved puppies. You see, we were being truthful. It was a rare honour for our modest publication [...]
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