Help our good friend Mark win this competition, I think The Shins would be silly not to pick this design because it’s amazingly good…. who doesn’t like pipe-smoking whales!
Something I’ve entered into the latest Creative Allies contest, to design a tour poster for The Shins. If you like it, please vote! http://creativeallies.com/creations/xc21
It is with much joy that I can now officially announce our first partnership of 2012. As you’re aware (or if you’re new to the WHA world are not aware) We Heart Arts partners up with organisations wherever needed to help promote, create awareness of and/or fund young persons programs. Our first partnership of 2012 is with The Unit who are local to ourselves. In the past we have used artist prints, charity singles, gigs and more to raise awareness and funds for a children’s photography program in Romania and supplying instruments to two schools.
To continue our work and to try something different this time around with The Unit we have produced a run of T-Shirts designed by the wonderfully talented Mark Gamble that are up for pre-order until January 31st 2012. We are pleased to announce that £8 from each shirt will go directly to The Unit.
As always we need your help to spread the word so please tell all your friends and together we can make the world a little better for ourselves and the generations below us <3
YAY!
THE HEALTHY ONE (the music video) premiered on BROOKLYN VEGAN last night.
We had a lot of fun making this video. It only took one take. We filmed it on Dave’s couch, and then he cleaned everything up and edited the footage.
We hope you like it! REBLOG/RETWEET!
Everyone here at We Heart Arts loves discovering new bands. Our band discovery of today is “These Days”
To promote parent-child interaction, COA Youth & Family Centers set up large puzzles, word searches and more around Milwaukee. They call it guerrilla classrooms.
That’s fresh.
Hey everyone!
Well as the title suggests the allocated time we set aside for you all to pre-order “A Mountain Lullaby” has almost come to a close. When it finishes we will then set to getting the remaining artwork finished (and ordering all of your amazing tee-shirts + extras).
We are expecting the finished book + pre-order packages to be shipped to you around the 6th of July *fingers crossed* we hope you all think it will be worth the wait, I know that every one here does! we will of course keep you updated with all the news.
As a thank you for every one that pre-ordered or told a friend here is another page from the book, I hope you like it.
Last minute pre-orders can be placed at this site but hurry, the pre-orders end VERY SOON.
It’s been so busy here at We Heart Arts HQ as we continue to work on our first ever charity children’s book “A Mountain Lullaby” which we are aiming to have in your hands by July 8th (fingers crossed). We just want to thank every one that has pre-ordered so far and we hope that even more people will pre-order in the near future.
As a treat for you all we thought we’d give you a sneak peek at pages 15 & 16 of the book, we think you’ll agree that it looks AWESOME!
As a reminder you can still pre-order this wonderful book (plus lots of other extra goodies) by clicking here
Luke Leighfield did our 2010 charity single and we <3 Jose Vanders so this is super exciting news!
We’re extremely pleased to announce that two of our favourite pop starlets, Luke Leighfield and Jose Vanders, will be uniting this September for a few exciting events.
Luke and Jose will be releasing a split EP in September, with each of them reinterpreting two of each other’s songs. Luke and…
(Source: gotgotneedrecords)
A little post separate to A Mountain Lullaby and We Heart Arts tonight but a post that I felt needed to be posted.
I’m so sad to see the end of Tinyfolk, for those who don’t know Tinyfolk it is/was the name that We Heart Arts good friend Russ Woods made/used to make music under. It ranged from Uke Twee-pop to obscure electro lo-fi and every album was amazing! Tinyfolk has always been a mainstay on the We Heart Arts stereo!
Tinyfolk was a project I did from 2005-2011. Below you’ll find every song I ever released.
Real Albums:
1. Thirty-Six Cat Songs (2005)
2. Love Doesn’t Grow on Trees (2005)
3. Platapeasawallaland: A Rainy-Day Owlbum (2006)
4. Bill (2007)
5. Sic Semper Equis (2008)
6. Black Bears (2010)Real EPs:
1. Little Mice and Other Things That Go Skitter Skitter (2006)
2. Valley Forge split with Manipulator Alligator (2008)
3. Jack’s Broth (2008)
4. Steel Magnolias (2008)
5. The Things We Cherish are Small Indeed (2008)
6. Known New China (2010)
7. Oxbow Woods split with Wisdom Tooth (2010)
8. Incredible Snow (2011)“B-sides” Albums & EPs:
1. Catfood Shotgun Goddamn (2008)
2. Look to the Sky EP (2008)
3. Remarkable Renewal of Your Body Hen (2009)
4. I Think I Am Becoming a Unicorn (2009)
5. One Day, These Children Will Be as Strong and Beautiful as Ourselves (2010)
6. Moth Hunting (2011)Collaborations/Other:
1. Secret Folk collaboration with Secret Owl Society (2007)
2. A Football Fields - Battery Home EP collaboration with Mike Downey (2008)
3. Until the Very Last Moment score for Stephen Ray Morris short film (2009)
4. Dark Sun collaboration with James Eric/Garden on a Trampoline (2009)
Hi everyone,
We are about 1/3 of the way through the pre-order campaign for A Mountain Lullaby and we’d like to thank everyone that has pre-ordered so far. We are excited to say that we have so far raised £380!!
As a thank you we thought we’d give you all a sneaky look at one of the pages from the book (page two).
We’d love it if you could all re-blog this/like this and share it with your friends, remember that for every ten books we sell a school with be given a copy for free… and that’s a very good thing :)
Here’s a quick (poor resolution) photo of the test prints we had made of the shirts, we’re looking forward to being able to send these out with the pre-orders!
<3
Hello to all of the wonderful people that read our blog, this is just a quick entry about the We Heart Arts charity children’s book event page.
Did you know that if each of you pre-ordered the book we would be able to give away free copies to schools? I’m sure the schools that would receive the book would be grateful.
Now we have never spammed our blog readers before with buy now, buy now, buy now messages and we never will but I thought now (as we are about 1/3 of the way through the pre-order period) would be as good a time as any to drop you all a message and include the pre-order page link (just in case anyone did want to pre-order the book).
Hopefully we have put together some neat pre-order packages that you’ll all like.
http://weheartarts.bigcartel.com/
Please come and say hi to us too, in this digital age sometimes we forget about actually having conversations and we here at We Heart Arts would actually like to get to know all of you personally :)
Until next time,
Tony
We Heart Arts
<3
Who loves dinosaurs? We LOVE dinosaurs, we love them even more when they are proud of being nerdy and read books on evolution. We found a Nerdosaur and you can wear him on your chests if you pick up one of our new tee-shirts as part of the pre-order packages for our children’s book (and for every 10 books sold we will donate a book for free to a school… and that’s a very nice thing :)
Here’s a picture of the shirt, we really hope you love them as much as we do!
Hello friends old and new,
I’m writing this on a chilly evening at We Heart Arts HQ to the wonderful sounds of Sigur Rós.
It’s been a little while since we’ve blogged anything and I apologise for this however the reason why we’ve been so quiet is that we have been busy working hard behind the scenes.
Today we can announce that our new project is called “A Mountain Lullaby” and is our first ever children’s book! The book is based on the song of the same name by our good friend and longtime We Heart Arts supporter Jordan o’ Jordan. This project however cannot happen without your help.
We Heart Arts has always worked hard to make sure that you get something back for your donations and “A Mountain Lullaby” is no different. Even at the most basic level of donation you will get your own copy of this book (and at the highest level of donation you get an iPod). The best part about this project however is that for every ten books sold we will donate a copy of the book for free to a school.
All the information you could ever want or need can be found atwww.amountainlullaby.com including details of all the wonderful packages you can get for pre-ordering.
This is such an exciting project for us and hopefully for all of our friends too.
(The image below is the front cover)
Check out this fantastic crowd-funding project that my friends at We Heart Arts have put together!
They’re raising money to create a children’s book. A copy of this could potentially be delivered free to all UK schools, and they need your help to make it happen!
Its aim is to ignite a passion for creativity in kids, which is undoubtedly an essential part of education.
As is the way with crowd-funding, you can earn cool rewards when you help out!
You can find out more about this young people’s creative organisation here, and visit the crowd-funder here!
