Blue Teeth!

Vix & Anna experiment on their teeth for a shoot idea...!

Advent Time!

Anna's made us an Advent Calendar for the studio... can't wait to see how it looks by Christmas time!

Concrete-boarding

Marcus, who has been working with us this week, shows us his moves on one of our new Burton boards! Weeeeeheeeee!

Anna and Lu's HOT dance accessory!

Watch our glow-in-the-dark-hips shake things up on a dancefloor near you!

Anna designs spectacular head piece for Nicola

Thank GOD for our 3d department!
:-)

We all parlent fluent française.....

...in our interview avec Manuel Atréide for beauty-lifestyle website OrSériE.
Incroyable!

http://www.orserie.fr/meet-the-Evil-Twins_3321.html

How many people fit in a photo booth?

Paris, France

Paris, je t'aime!

We're so excited, preparing to show in Paris at the beautiful Hotel Le Placide(www.leplacidehotel.com) in St Germain on Thursday 16 October!
Let us know if you'd like to come to the show and we'll put you on the list.

ContainerPLUS do a centerfold!

Our Pandora's Teacup "causes a stir" - according to today's issue of the Evening Standard. Despite vertical orientation of our piece we get a double page spread. Yesterday's film crew were also complaining that our dimensions didn't fit the screen - well - we'll make sure we are a bit more 16x9 next time!

More tea!

Setting up in Covent Garden Piazza yesterday....
Teacup becomes most popular tourist motif in London for the day - overtaking the London Eye and even Big Ben.
(Ok, that is a complete lie, but it was just so much fun watching all the Japanese kids pose with our cup!)

TEA - in CAPITAL LETTERS!!!

After the holiday season we find ourselves firmly back in our favourite country: the Wonderland of distorted dimension we love to create and inhabit. This time it's Pandora's giant teacup (naturally!) spilling out all Evils on Covent Garden Piazza - in conjunction with the London Design Festival. Come and visit Thursday 18 - Sunday 21 September.
Event details here: http://www.designersblock.org.uk/

Trashing the studio

Everything happens in cycles. Last month's post was all about tidying, whereas this month the trend has reversed itself. Our only tidy team member has gone away, so in Patricia's absence we were helpless when confronted with the power of pandemonium.

Tidying up the studio....

..... turns into a hazardous activity as Lu mistakenly (?) gets thrown out with the recycling and Anna is attacked by some especially vicious typograph-eeeeee!!

Coldplay Visuals

Straight onto the next project we go, concocting moving cogs (yes more cogs) for the new Coldplay visuals in collaboration with Judy Jacob from Beggars Velvet. (http://www.beggarsvelvet.com) Who knew cog turning to the music would be so hard? ( I blame the sleep deprivation, not my lack of rhythm)

On a more serious note, all well wishes are being sent out to Claude Jacob, suffering a bout of cat achne… Get well soon.

V

A Sinful Teaset and weeks of confession

With all this work on sinning and confessing we have found ourselves in the eye of a storm of peculiar tales: We have learned a lot more about our friends and colleagues than we ever imagined, not to mention the amount of detail strangers are willing to divulge when confronted by mute marionettes holding up signs (V&A late - 30.5.- The Modern Confessor).

While the rest of the team was working frantically towards the V&A night in London, I was running around Berlin trying to find a solution as to how to fix a relatively heavy shelf onto a hollow wall made of cardboard for our treasured "7 sin teaset". (Our german agents Andrea and Jörn from 2agenten had organized a huge show for all their illustrators in one of those enviably large vacant spaces Berlin has to offer. ) Our star-euro-assistant Berni made it all happen for us in the end, squirting some specialist filler into the holes in the wall before hammering those magic rawlplugs in. It sounds easy enough, but it sure does get the pulse racing when you realize that the filler needs 2 hours drying time - with only one and a half hours to go before the show opens...

To my surprise it all stayed up. Berni - I love you forever!

Lu
PS: I want to marry him. (That is my confession by the way!)

See more pics from the opening night on the 23.5. in Berlin at http://www.2agenten.com/

V&A The Art of Confession.. part 1!

With migraines haunting our delicate craniums and the bags under our eyes becoming a rather permanent feature it was evident that the V&A project had taken over our lives. Every day we occupied ourselves with wood routering, cog cutting, motor sourcing and other ludicrous activities, some days working in the beautiful summer sun, other days by a bodged bonfire desperate for warmth, all this fuelled by a diet of fig rolls and bananas.

Then the evening arrived, a manic 8 hour setup seemed to skirt by in minutes, The boys at Bad Idea curated and executed an amazing evening, the team at The V&A were brilliantly helpful and supportive, and of course how could we forget our hero Dave, even though his antics from the night before left him looking a slight shade of green he drilled his way through the pain and endured endless taunts from the ladies of ContainerPLUS.. That’s a real man for you!


V

Tea time

Crazy really when you pass a day, a week or even a month in a studio completely consumed by the production of your very own magnificent machine how easy it is to forget the world around us. Time passes by in varying speeds for each of us, some things are never ending and sometimes an hour passes like a minute. But it's what we produce in that time that makes us want to continue I guess.

It seems whilst we have been tackling our own V&A issues, others have been climbing the steep hill of contemporary art. Here Rona Smith a friend of ContainerPLUS has been busy recording the beauty that time leaves behind. Rona tackles the passing of time and the transient nature of life and her works continually amaze me! To be honest Rona has always been an inspiration and it was such a pleasure to work with her and contemporary dancer Jessica Green on a piece entitled 'Dust Spin.' Photos of this performance can be found on her website, it leaves a sweet taste in your mouth.

This picture shows a cup of tea that was left in a very dry room for 8 weeks.

Our studio as a boy's playground

We feel we are trapped in a 12 year old boy's bedroom as we experiment with automata for the "Tell All Printing Press" due to churn out people's secret confessions at the V&A's 'Art of Confession' event on the 30.5. - How will it work? - you might wonder... well, we are asking ourselves similar questions.

ContainerPLUS' swimming champion raises money for Marie Curie cancer care

Luise and her russian twin before and after Swimathon at York Hall.
Thanks to all our sponsors - we overshot our fundraising goal with your generous support!
Thank you Jenny, thank you Hege!