We have been working on other projects too long, and we seriously couldn’t wait to get back to Liveacre. So now WE’RE BACK!

And not only are we back, but we’ve expanded! We’ve added two new sections of Liveacre that are being run by the wonderful Gabbi and Bella. So we can grow bigger and get even crazier than ever before!

Loook out world!

Love,
Gab + Jess + Bells

x,
liveacre

Some of the things we’ve done in a year.

Thank you for being a part
of our favorite memories!

x,
Liveacre

We love you, we lova you, we luurrrve you.

We dared you to show us your interpretation of wake up, literally or figuratively, monumentally or microscopically. We wanted a change- of any shape, size or color. You gave it to us.

YOUR TURN, PART 3:
ANYWHERE
BY
THE COSTELLOS

Written by Jessie Willner

Who … Carl Yeung, Aniekan Esen, Andrew Goldsborough & Sam Hurst
Where … Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Woke us up with … The spoken sounds they make.

The Costellos. We’ve loved the Costellos since the first day,

When a letter from Sam Hurst, their unstoppably witty bassist, arrived in the Liveacre inbox. He demanded that there be more variety of shirts for sale, so him and everyone in the Costellos could each wear one of our shirts at their shows. But they settled on getting variable colors. Once they had arrived in their Newcastle home, they proceeded to keep emailing us updates about all the shows they played in them. And then they kept emailing. And emailing.

Here is the art we made, and here is their story.

Hi guys! How and where are ya?

Hello! Thanks so much for having us in your feature! We come all the way from Newcastle in England. We’re feeling great – we’ve got lots of exciting stuff coming up and we can’t wait to promote our EP. We want to just give it away (give it away, give it away now). We made it so people could just have it.

What inspired you to start?

Jack Steadman has a great quote, it’s something like “You like music, you sort of work out how it’s made and then you start making your own music”. We’re nothing different from most bands in that sense. It’s just great fun so you keep doing it. We had quite a large overlap of bands that we liked and it was fun to play the songs we’d all listened to loads growing up. And then it’s such a natural step to start creating your own music, especially when you grow up and have all those teen feelings going on!

What inspires you now?

At the minute when we’re writing new stuff, it’s always that mixture of creating a sound that feels right for us… But also stuff that’s actually fun to play live. Fun and feeling right are the two biggest inspirations. Lyrically, it’s that challenge to capture thoughts and feeling honestly and being true to what you’re actually going through instead of just writing what you think people want to hear (or what your favorite bands sing about).  We’re still finding where we are as young musicians, anyway. That discovery of what we want to be, is what makes us excited to get into the studio overtime.

What excites you most about the current state of art?

The music scene in Newcastle at the minute is pretty exciting. There’s loads of generic diversity and really high quality stuff going on all the time and we love being a part of that. There are so many people that come out and support local bands, it makes the city really vibrant and alive. That’s something we get excited about.
We love the internet too, it makes everything related to music so much easier: Sharing music, recording music, organizing gigs, letting fans know about gigs, etc. Bands could record something acoustically on their phones and share it to thousands of people and it feels really personal and genuine. You’re only ever a Tumblr post away from having a new favorite song, and that’s pretty exciting for music lovers.

Where are you in 50 twelve-months?

We’d all like to still be buds, obviously, with all our stupid little private jokes intact. Between now and then, I guess we’d like to be able to say ‘we had some fun’ and not feel like we missed too many opportunities. It’d be nice if not too many of those fifty years are spent doing jobs we don’t like or with people we find hard to love.

Last words?

We’d just like to thank you for featuring us and for all the help and inspiration. We’re honored to be featured alongside such cool, genuinely creative people. Please continue to grow and hopefully take over the world one day!

learn more of The Costellos >

Download their free EP now >

or listen to it on itunes here.

x,
Jess +
Liveacre.
(SEE ALL HERE)

We dared you to show us your interpretation of JUMP, literally or figuratively, monumentally or microscopically. We wanted a change- of any shape, size or color. You gave it to us.

YOUR TURN, PART 3:
JUMP OFF
BY
HYUNJIN LEE

Who … Hyun-Jin Lee
Where … Seoul, Korea
What … Visual Artist

Hyun-jin is a beautiful & simple digital artist from Seoul. This series is called Jump Off.

All in all, we love Hyun-Jin’s talkative work. Now you can hear it, too.

See more of her work here >

Get wild.
x, Liveacre

We dared you to show us your interpretation of JUMP, literally or figuratively, monumentally or microscopically. We wanted a change- of any shape, size or color. You gave it to us.

YOUR TURN, PART 2
EXPLOSION
BY
SOPHIE OLSON

Who … Sophie Olson
Where … Los Angeles, CA
What … Choreographer

The glorious Sophie Olson! Sophie’s life is already saturated with movement, seeing as that’s what she does for a living. So it was only perfect to be able to feature her for this month’s Weekly Wild of ‘Jump’.

Sophie is an unique choreographer, never sticking to particularly one niche, yet always making you able to tell whenever a work is hers. She first wanted to dance after seeing the Solid Gold dancers of the 80′s. Eight years ago, she moved to Los Angeles from Ontario. Since then, she’s done everything from launching her own dance production company to choreographing your favorite pop-folk band’s music videos.

We worked with her to glorify some of her most Jump-esque work, so here you are.

Additionally, to see Sophie’s work with She & Him, Fox’s New Girl and So You Think You Can Dance, go explore here! In the meantime, we’ve included a little peek at some of her choreography below.

Get wild.
x, Liveacre

We dared you to show us your interpretation of JUMP, literally or figuratively, monumentally or microscopically. We wanted a change- of any shape, size or color. You gave it to us.

YOUR TURN, PART 1:
99 THINGS BEFORE I DIE
BY
DIANA OMAN

Who … Diana Oman
Where … Los Feliz, CA
What … Writer

A Liveacre kid who’s been there since the start, Diana made this series to represent ’99 things I want to do before I die’. These show the last 4 things she wants to do in her life. She wanted to embody jumping away from reality by taking far-off goals and showcasing them much more tangibly. It’s hard not to love these.

In order of appearance: ‘Space travel’, ‘Backstroking down the Danube’, ‘Flying’ & ‘Commandeering a Hot-Air Balloon’.

Get wild.
x, Liveacre

How it works:

1: We do something utterly crazy and inspiring and post it here.
2: We dare you to go do your own interpretation of it. And document it.
3: You send your adventures to us and we’ll post them here every week, for a month.

So, for the month of May, here’s how we got wild…

May:
WEEKLY WILD #8
JUMP

11:00 AM. 11 skydivers. 13,000 feet up. We jumped into our fear. Now we dare you to.

See all pictures >

Get wild.
x, Liveacre

Submit your weekly wild to:
weeklywild@liveacre.org