When Primary School Games Attack!!!

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Ange just forwarded me an email from Bonnie, one of her friends we met the other night at King Gong at The Comedy Store. It reads:

I got a call early Tuesday morning from Campbell & Briony (two friends 21 & 22 year old artists from Perth) asking if I knew what the 'Metro' was as someone had emailed them saying they had seen an article on them over here.

Somehow a journalist at the metro had found a blog started by Briony and Campbell in December which turned doodles & random shapes into awesome pictures. It was loosely based on 'Mr Squiggle' (the kids show have you heard of it?) where kids sent in random shapes and doodles and 'Mr Squiggle' made it into a picture. Except it was Briony & Campbell giving each other challenges & inviting viewers to submit doodles as well..

Since discovering they were featured in the Metro they put a counter on their website and found over 40,000 hits on just ONE of the pictures...this was something they originally thought mainly their friends and a few others were seeing so it came as quite a shock..

Within days of the article going to print they have found links to them from all over the world.

If you would like to see the blog that made it to the London papers go to www.squigglepage.blogspot.com

Hooray for perth ppl!!!!

Christ, we used to play that game at school. The teacher would draw two squiggles on the board and the competetors would have to make something of them. I was a little skeptical when I popped over to the blog but some of the art works are quite sublime and heads and shoulders above anything we managed to squiggle on the blackboard in grade 3.


And for art lurvers in Perth they have an exhibition coming up in Northbridge (and if you don't go they'll kick you in the shins, apparently). You can get the details here or here

Tags: art, Perth, Australia