we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: "IT'S LIKE THE RADIO TIMES BUT FOR UNFUNNY WEBSITES" next issue » « previous issue This Week: * GAME - Guess the pop video thingie * LAST CHANCE - For Fesshole LIVE tickets * CONTRIBUTE - to the Festival Of Brexit ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | "Celebrating the People's ___/ _ |/_ > This week: Musicians in art << Put musicians into works of art, give us Vermeer's Girl With The Pearl Jam, Botticelli's Birth Of Bananarama's Venus and other art/music puns. http://b3ta.com/challenge/musiciansart/popular ------------------------------------------------- : B3TAN GOING OUT AND STUFF Your guide to us lot doing real world event stuff * KLF FILM GOES ON TOUR - we saw the screening premier of this and it's fucking great and made us want to make more art. Director Chris Atkins is now touring it around cinemas with a live Q&A. Make sure you ask him if he's ever going to do TikTok skits where he pretends to be Matt Hancock. Dates on the link. https://linktr.ee/whokilledtheklf * MAGAZINE COVER TALK - our resident art chum Dr Dunno AKA Chris Barker - who went from B3ta front pages to newspaper front pages - is part of a panel talking about how to do great magazine covers. £20 with a free drink at Shoreditch House in London, on Tuesday the 10th of May. https://www.bsme.com/cover * OBVIOUSLY WE SHOULD MENTION FESSHOLE LIVE AGAIN. FFS - Come you wankers. This is your chance to complain to the editor of this very newsletter about why he didn't frontpage your photoshop of a spunking penis in 2002. It's the day after Chris's thing, on the 11th. And you can buy your own drinks. https://www.designmynight.com/london/whats-on/come... ------------------------------------------------- : THINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE NEXT WEEK Ideas to kick start your creative anal warts * NEXT YEAR IS THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MUSIC COMPILATION 'NOW 1' - think up a game idea for each song and present this as a book, detailing the extraordinary 1983 project to make Now 1 as a ZX Spectrum tape with 36 games that was cancelled at the last minute and only now can you tell the story in some screenshots and interviews with the coders. * THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PROBLEMATICALLY NAMED THINGS - this idea is largely off the back off noticing that there's a typeface called 'Jim Crow' * WORLD'S BIGGEST CRISP SANDWICH - two B3tans, at opposite points on the globe, to place bread and crisps on the ground and create the world's biggest crisp sandwich. Also send this to Matt Round. 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NEWEST - special love to NEW PATREON Phillip Spowart. NEW NEWSEST - extra love love love to si Jobling & Daniel Calvin. And bonus new love to Douglas Pennant, Roy Santos & Will Thompson. We love you. OH GOD, and more bonus love to Alex Collin-Oakley, Phil McGuire & Paul Blanchard - you sexy people. And Mike Powell and Damion Brown and Ross Carter and PJ. Ooooh and John Daly. Oooh oooh ooh and Rich Corcoran. Love you. And a special thank you to the super generous Paul Topping. And a thank you to the return of Carlos Fandango. Much appreciated Carl. OOH AND NEW ONES! Alistair Murray Swodeck, nevillebartos, Blargity Blarg Blarg. YAY! Oh and more thanks to Ian Walker, Attila Eros, Calanish and Mike Wolcom. WE LOVE YOU. And do please donate as you get occasional "bonus" content. Maybe. https://www.patreon.com/b3ta ------------------------------------------------- : I'M SORRY I'VE WRITTEN A JOKE Woodkovsky is apologising this week What rhymes with and stinks like poo? 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