Issue # Six - Part Two. Dormancy

Some of the pages join up so sorry if they don't make sense individually. Let me know if ya want a copy.  

Issue # Six - Part One. Eruption

Volcano leaflets

I was given two amazing leaflets at the weekend; the first of which is from Scotland. My aunt went to the Shetland Islands recently- she sent me that picture of the odd volcano monument thing on a beach. Part of the Shetlands were formed by a volcano (Eshraness) - back in the old times when the UK was part of pangaea and close to the equator. This has given the islands amazing and dramatic landscapes, although I've never actually been there so I'm just guessing from the leaflet which guide you through some volcano trails taking you to a magma chamber and beaches where you can find volcanic rock. Even though it's highly illegal Kate stole me some of the volcanic rock which is very light and aerated, you can see it in the photo below. So in addition to wanting to go to all Hebridean islands I now also want to go to the Shetlands.

If you're thinking that all this seems a bit implausible then the second volcano leaflet is far more accurate. My brother is a TEFL teacher- which means he teaches English as a foreign language as opposed to teaching frying pans how to be non-stick. For a lesson his students had to create an island (if this seems like an odd task, he has also made them play Bargain Hunt) and the centre of one of the islands had a volcano. I think it was perhaps bad town planning that the mall was positioned next to a volcano; but it is amazing how much the map looks like a map of Hawaii's volcanoes.

Finally in Volcano news people have decided that volcanoes are so fantastic that they will create artificial ones to solve all the worlds problems. And I'm also finally going to go to this exhibition in Liverpool. I'm sure it'll be fantastic and I will write a full review.

First Volcano Stamp

The creator says 

'Volcanic activity in England 
No. 1 Bradgate Park, Leicestershire'. The Precambrian rocks there are 
over 500 million years old.

 Isaac is still pissing about with his but it looks like that'll be ready soon too.

Design a Volcano Stamp!

For the new zine which will be travel based I am going to include some volcano stamps. I have previously written about real volcano stamps here. But I thought it would be cool for people to design volcano stamps. I would put this out as a competition and offer to make the best one but the royal mail ones are shit as you have to have a real stamp next to it and they are all gross so that seems a bit pointless but if you do want to make stamps  here is how. Also doing a competition would promote elitism which at Volcano Club we are against.
Here are my first two stamp designs.

Hopefully you will be suitably inspired to make a volcano stamp if so email to me at augusta.ward@hotmail.co.uk. Just remember that stamps are only about 2.5cm tall so don't write really tiny text on it or anything. If you have anything else to contribute to the travel based issue then email that to me. 

Tenuous Volcanoes

This is going to be one of those everything that I have seen recently that slightly reminds me of a volcano posts. So it could be crap, rambling and boring or really amazing and insightful. Firstly this blog is about a year old (it's useful when you have a similar birthday to your blog) so that's possibly good and worth celebrating.

Firstly I've got another track for the upcoming and coming volcano club CD, still waiting for Alice's specially commissioned piece (see interview in Love, Lust and Lava) this video was actually sent to me by her brother. That family are very into volcano music. If anyone has more suggestions for the compliation please let me know.

I saw the film Le Quatrro Volte over the weekend which was fantastic. The opening and closing scenes consisted off an earthy smoking mound, which was very reminiscent of a volcano with lots of lovely little fumeroles. This is how charcoal is made, I suppose volcanoes can also make charcoal . The film has no other volcano references just a lot of lovely goats, a nice old man and a great tree. But it did give me an idea of how to make a volcano like structure and some good winter fuel.

Finally the newly opened Turner Margate gallery actually only has one Turner painting, which is of a volcano, the same painting that inspired the Turner to Warhol exhibition. It's of the Caribbean volcano Soufriere Hills which erupts fairly frequently. I think they were probably planning on having more Turners there but then they saw the volcano and thought that nothing else would stand up in comparison (which is how I frequently feel).

As I predicted the ash cloud was fine and I'm definitely flying to Sweden, YAY!

Karacano

I got sent some exciting volcano art last week but due to easter festivities (mainly eating and getting sunburnt) I am only just getting round to posting it. It's a karaoke machine inside a volcano made by Jack Barraclough for an exhibition in Seoul. Here are some pictures and a link to the video that was played on a loop in the machine. video inside volcano

It's pretty great and I really need to make a papier-mache volcano.
Here's an easter riddle, Why is Jesus like a dormant volcano?

Some people see Jesus in their toast...

A very strange thing happened to me yesterday when I walked through my bedroom door and was confronted with this sight; no it wasn't that a bomb had gone off or someone accidentally let a bull in or anything else hilarious alluding to my tidiness (tidiness is the word I mean)

But what I did find there was that the random bits of blue tac, foam and other stuff in my bed (where else would you keep it) had assembled itself into the shape of a volcano. How did it get there? What does it mean? Was it created by human hand? Is a sign from the earth that volcanology is my true calling in life? Or just a beautiful coincidence? Do I have borrowers living in my room? Is it a law of chaos theory that if somewhere is so messy, something will eventually arrange itself into the shape of a volcano? One thing I am sure of is that Isaac definitely didn't make it...

stuff and volcanoes

Firstly, an amazing website for all those of you who want some hard  facts. It has loads of information on every volcano on earth and its eruptions; kinda like a volcano facebook (or volcanobook)  comes in very handy for writing Volcano of the Week.
http://www.volcano.si.edu/

Secondly, the next couple of issues of volcano club magazine are in the pipeline, one is about fashion (and volcanoes) the other has a working title of 'Love, Lust and Lava'. Submissions will be gratefully received for either, I've already had some great ideas, whichever has the most material should be going to print in October.

Thirdly, hoping to go to this amazing looking exhibition soon and will write a full review. http://www.comptonverney.org.uk/modules/events/event.aspx?e=2&title=volcano_turner_to_warhol

Happy Volcanoes!

Issue Two Supplement

Made and contributed by Elanor 'liquid nitrogen foothills' Footman

Postcards

lots of lovely volcanic entries today





Pictures of Vesuvius from the 1944 eruption (first pic) other two from the 1930s. Vesuvius was pretty much constantly active from 1660 to 1944
From the well known postcard collector Michael D. Stamp

Volcano jokes

Why have volcanoes changed the nature of the internet?

Because there was an e-ruption

Why aren't there any births in Iceland?

Because it's full of geysers

Who's a volcano's favourite entertainer?

Dame Etna Everidge

What's a volcanoes' favourite food?

Molten Mowbray Pork Pies

by Hadrian 'Dame Etna Everidge' Ward

Amazing Volcano Birthday Cake

made by Emma 'Cake-atoa' Richards and Theo "Vesuvius" Vidgen
think the jelly baby massacre makes this cake truly great

First volcano club entry

Painting of Vesuvius by Ray "Pompeii" Ward

MEMBERSHIP REOPENED!

Due to the overwhelming response to the new Volcano Club magazine and the fact that suggestions for future features are already flooding in (including the volcanoes that turned Indonesia Muslim and wiped out the Minoan civilisation); membership has now been reopened. Originally to become a member you had to draw a volcano to my exact specification however realising this is slightly restrictive the criteria have been widened. All you have to do is sent in some volcano related stuff- be it pictures or words. These will then help me to create the magazine and blog. As Proof of membership, I will issue every member with a code name.

Please email you work to augusta.ward@hotmail.co.uk