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Jake Fransen @ M&P
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Tearoom

Last night I decided a jaunt was in order...no one had seen my 'strong look' all day damnit, so after a tip off by the lovely Will, I tottered down to the Swallow Street gallery for the opening of 'Tearoom' by William E Jones.

And I'm very glad I did. Not just see the film, but catch the talk between the artist and Stuart Comer, film curator at Tate, and wearer of super nice cobalt blue socks. It's very araely a bad thing to see an artist talking about their work, and here it answered questions. The footage is 16mm filmed as surveillance footage for the Ohio police in 1962. It is the 'work' of one policeman - called Bruce, doves - who spent every day for 8 weeks in poky little cupboard behind a 2-way mirror in the public conveniences in the centre of Mansfield, Ohio. His aim was to find evidence to convict men of the then-illegal act of sodomy. As a result of his efforts, 31 men were sentenced to a minimum of 1 year in prison.

Go and see it! It's projected from the inside in such a way that you can view the top half of the frame from the street. Although in that sense you only really see the top's of people's heads, you somehow know what's going on...

Picture courtesy of buttmagazine.com - can't you tell from the pink cast of the picture!

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www.swallowstreet.com

www.williamejones.com

Halloween, Hong Kong

I really regretted not going out in costume in the end - had an amazing corpse bride look all ready, and then when I saw my companions were all looking totally normal....

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TWIN FREAKSSSS!!!

The showcase of Scott Ramsay Kyle's fabulous embroidery we made in time for Halloween, though sadly it didn't get put up when we originally intended....

Embroidery : Scott Ramsay Kyle
Soundtrack: Henry Law
Starring Jenny Chalmers @ Elite London
Make Up and Hair: Louise Bryan
Assistant: Siobhan Canavan

Thanks everyone!!

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Birds Eye View - Call For Entries!!

The awesome Birds Eye View festival is calling all femme fatale filmmakers!

Deadline: December 6th

I'll be submitting, oh yessss....

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Pat

I love Pat @ M&P, strong look! Am trying to think of a good excuse to shoot some pictures of him...hmmmm

One of the things I thought I'd lost when the computer died was all the pics from this casting. Phew!

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Belle

In the studio, just now...

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Homecoming

i haven't just taken a picture for the fuck of it, for me, for ages.

i would never complain about work - god, I'm constantly trying to get it, but occasionally I miss those little islands of unemployment> The whole laptop debacle has been really depressing...i know the things I didn't back up would be little sketches, folders labelled "weird Street Shit" and bits of random writing that didn't really belong anywhere..
OH WAFFLE...

god my famous patience is really tested by my own bitching and moaning, and this ancient keyboard,from like maybe 1999 makes typing a full body work out. grrrak!

the crux of it is... here is a self portrait of me lit by the halogen heater which is keeping me alive, photoshopped to look like 70000 other pictures off FFFOUND, a stimulating discussion of whose merits can be found here. tomorrow i can start using my other computer and stop being so fucking boring.

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(ends)

ha!

love this picture! i gatecrashed a party last Friday with Bea, had a bubble xx

JUMP!

Dan's started a blog!

Reminds me...



Belle put this on a mixtape for me a while back. Awesomeness! I've almost memorized the words.... x

Annie Collinge

Annie's got a blog...I did not know that x

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