Urban Junkies London
Tuesday, March 11 2003
Blow Up
Blow it up and hang it up

One of my all time favourite things is a set of three shitty sailing images, which sit on top of my radiator. Each image is blown up to 350mm squared and printed on dodgy laminated card then mounted onto heavy chipboard.

The images look like they should be hanging in a sleazy, smokey bar and one glance at them is always guaranteed to make me smile.

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Curry-tinged beats at the Barbican as classical Indian music meets dub bass, breakbeat and electronica. Tabla Beat Science opens the Only Connect series of live events. Tonight at 8:30pm. Silk St, EC2. Tickets £12.50-25. 020 7638 8891 or here.

If you have an image that you'd like to view bigger and better (even I have to admit that sometimes size does matter) then visit Take Two. This website offers you a professional and slightly more sophisticated service than my own humble yachting photos were ever treated to.

Take Two will enlarge images to any size, print them onto canvas and stretch them across wooden frames. Almost any image can be given this special treatment - from drawings and paintings to photographs, letters, and even scraps of fabric. The result will be as vivid as you let your imagination be.

If imagination is something you are sadly lacking in, don't despair, just visit Pictures On Walls. Here, you can buy large-scale screen prints from artists such as Banksy, Jamie Hewlett and Mode 2. Also worth a visit is their photographic archive, which features some of the most entertaining shots of mods, rockers and ravers that I've seen for a while.

Whichever route you decide to take, the message is clear – big is always beautiful.

Take Two, www.take-two.co.uk from £95 (50x50cm)
Pictures On Walls, www.picturesonwalls.com from £42 (A4) to £165 (A1)

RP

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