Spadgermatazz!

my reaction to realising I've run out of coffee

2012-01-19T20:09:00.000Z

one more thing before i go...

2012-01-17T18:34:00.001Z

Obviously the blog is dead now, which is a shame, but it causes more anxiety than pleasure, a bit like a garden run wild.

So before I delete it (i'll archive it, as it's actually a really useful diary of sorts) i thought I'd share this picture of my Mum with you(if there are any of you left) xx

Lizzie

2011-12-13T18:30:00.000Z

Brooklyn Gang, 1959 by Bruce Davidson

2011-11-28T12:14:00.001Z

Josh

2011-11-20T22:47:00.001Z

Josh on Friday too x

Amrit

2011-11-20T21:48:00.001Z

Amrit, the gallery, Friday afternoon

67 CONSEQUENCES PRIVATE VIEW

2011-11-02T08:13:00.001Z

We're having an opening night of our (now annual) exhibition at the studio gallery next THURSDAY 10th NOVEMBER!

Its nice that when we've been telling people about it, they've been all "oh is it that time of year again?' this being the third one. But also a bit nerve-wracking as, honestly, I haven't a clue what I'm doing. Usually by now all those random ideas have crystallized into something... I think maybe it's because I've moved away from the naked dude pictures that were so fascinating to me for the last few years. I didn't believe I could ever get bored of naked men! And in their absence I realise maybe there's nothing else I'm interested in!

Anyway, no doubt I will have pulled something out of the hat by next Thursday so come down and see Anna Leader and Bella Fenning's things anyway, as they're looking much more interesting

Melancholia

2011-10-12T10:34:00.001+01:00

I finally got to see Melancholia. Starting to think it might be having an effect on me vis
i. listening to Wagner all the time
ii. getting a bob*
iii. staying in bed for 48 hours at a time

There was an embarrassment of amazing actors - Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgard, 2 of my all time favourites, were kind of wasted in annoying, pointless 'turns'. Ramples especially, she's such a hero of mine, but I'm struggling to remember why. Only John Hurt and Udo Kier (I cheered every time he came on) seemed to know what was expected of them - drift in and out amusingly as counterpoint to the sisters.

Otherwise, apart from ASkars looking incredibly, dopily buff, it was just Kirsten and Charlotte, who's growing on me despite her chest bones being the stuff of nightmares.

*i really really didn't get a bob after watching this, i'm joking. I did try and do a copycat pic for lulz, with the electricity but it was too lame

Ooh! It's William Potter

2011-09-29T09:17:00.001+01:00

Dartmoor!

2011-09-24T09:31:00.002+01:00

being glamorous on Dartmoor with Ben, Mattias, Sivan, Naoki, Hiromi and Sara. So much fun! Even though
i.it was very rainy,
ii.I genuinely thought I was in Scotland for the 1st 12 hours,
iii.I was wearing a poncho secured with tape.

Postcard from Latvia

2011-09-22T13:18:00.002+01:00

We went on holiday, to Jurmala on the Baltic coast of Latvia. It was amazing..these pictures are but a weak taste.... enormous skies, hundreds of beautiful earth 19th C wooden houses in a particularly photogenic state of decay, Henry in shorts; this holiday had it all xx

Louise Gray

2011-09-20T13:22:00.002+01:00

I'm trying to be serious, but in my absence from the blog I appear to have forgotten how to type, and wrote this title as Lousie Gary which is making me LOL hard. Hopefully Louise of all people would find that amusing.

For the SLashstroke fash wk special
Styling: David Poole and Alex Mein
Hair and makeup: Eoin Whelan
Model: Kristel van V at FM

The original was in colour of course

x

Brain Atrophy

2011-09-04T18:31:00.000+01:00

Becks tells me this is a real thing - that your brain starts to atrophy if you immerse yourself in the internet/tabloids/trash culture. Every cat you LOL at (except Cat Party), every tweet, all those bloody tumblrs full of unnaturally thin girls and pictures of motorbikes, they're all making your intellect fall apart - it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise when the above is a screengrab of an actual documentary i watched last week (broke my heart). I think I'm in serious danger of my entire brain trickling out of my ear. This took me over 20 minutes to write and spellcheck - IT BEGINS.

I'm going back to bed to watch True Blood

Arm

2011-08-29T18:15:00.003+01:00

I still occasionally try and work on that project i've been chipping away at for 2 years - predictably I've grown to absolutely hate it, and shudder every time i think about looking at it. So i'll just pop it in a box and hope that when I unearth it in a few years I'll still think it has some merit.

Style Hero: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

2011-08-21T09:24:00.004+01:00

I just came back from hols - reading included Jackie Oh! which is such amazing trash, and reminded me how when I was 16 my favourite mag was Vanity Fair (i actually used to read the articles) and my style hero was CBK. I've been trying to link the amazing article about her being a total high maintenance nightmare, which had me enthralled, but can't find it anywhere - maybe I made it up?!

JFK Jr was like soooooo buff..

Carson

2011-08-11T10:27:00.001+01:00

xxx

Levi Moriss at Premier and his extraordinary likeness to Richard Hell

2011-08-10T14:13:00.005+01:00

Ok, maybe not in the 'off his tits' pictures.

Not sure Levi was fully aware who Richard Hell was, but I assured him it was a pretty amazing person to be compared to!

Model: Levi at Premier
Styling: Madeleine Ostlie
Hair: Teiji Utsumi
Photo assistant: Liam Greetham
xxxx

coney island

2011-08-02T18:15:00.001+01:00

from wandering about coney island by myself, evidently turned into an rather earnest A-level photography student. haha

Sydney at FM

2011-08-02T18:11:00.001+01:00

xxxx

model - Sydney Edmond at FM
make up - Namiko Takemiya

Ron Arad for DAZED

2011-07-26T18:11:00.002+01:00

Some unpublished shots of awesome designer Ron Arad from current issue of dazed xx

Thanks to Sally x

The Process

2011-07-25T17:17:00.001+01:00

"They returned to London filled with a sense of purpose. Their return, however, wasn’t a total triumph. While at Xtul, the parents of some underaged Processeans sent a solicitor to retrieve their children. In paradise, the solicitor encountered a bikini-clad Mary Ann DeGrimston, fawned on by ragged and underfed Processeans; he made a note of her long, silver-polished fingernails, and talked to the press. The Sunday Telegraph ran a negative story on the "Mind Benders of Mayfair." The ‘alternative’ press wasn’t too keen on them either; a highly critical article appeared in the counterculture gazette, Oz. But the DeGrimstons weren’t detered. Back at Balfour Place they opened a 24-hour coffee bar called Satan’s Cave."

Doesn't the Process church of the 60s sound like fun? Yes I'm procrastinating.....

SAM at FM #2

2011-07-21T16:37:00.001+01:00

lovely xxx

SAM at FM

2011-07-21T15:24:00.001+01:00

xxx

CORRIE WILLIAMSON JEWELLERY

2011-07-13T18:49:00.001+01:00

Styling: Elizabeth Cardwell
Hair and make up: Bella Cruickshank
Assistant: Diana Patient
Model: Roxane @ FM

gimme some more

2011-07-05T23:49:00.001+01:00

shit i thought this was the one with the knightrider theme in it

HOUSE OF ORGANZA

2011-07-04T11:49:00.003+01:00

In praise of sleep

2011-07-04T11:34:00.002+01:00

I didn't do much this weekend, I worked, i finished things off, I freaked out about the sheer volume of clothes I own, and how even having TWO WALLS of built-in cupboards was not enough to house 50% of them, despite my throwing away 7 binbags full. And all i seem to wear is jeans and t shirts. But I had 2 lie-ins! An they were ambrosial. I haven't woken up feeling like i actually ant to get on with stuff for aaaaaaaaages. My boringness in increasing exponentially.

I also spent some quality time with tumblr, ostensibly setting up a new one for our upcoming show in October (more to come on that), but really just scoping pictures of famous girls when they were very young and super cute. There are all from here

x

Ms Fred B

2011-07-01T17:28:00.001+01:00

xxxxx

misty swimming pool

2011-06-29T09:30:00.001+01:00

if you look verrrrrrrry carefully you might see something incriminating floating in there....

sorry, i've been beyond busy, hopefully everything's nearly done now!

ZOYA SMIRNOVA

2011-06-23T09:11:00.002+01:00

Zoya's gradutae collection modelled by the lovely Rosie K, make up by Namiko Takemiya x x

The cars of Hanwell

2011-06-06T15:10:00.001+01:00

I visited a new part of London the other day - Hanwell. It had a disproportionate number of decaying cars in driveways, curiously.

new hair

2011-05-30T20:11:00.001+01:00

doesn't my finger look like a little sausage? gross. i have peachy orange hair for a bit, which has cheered me up xx

Wilson at the new place

2011-05-30T18:11:00.001+01:00

Wilson at FM

Alice Springs AKA June Brown AKA June Newton

2011-05-29T14:02:00.001+01:00

Susi Und Lena, Paris 1976

via Pas un Autre

Happy Birthday Thomas

2011-05-29T13:08:00.001+01:00

xxxxxxx

from the Blossom Time shoot for Dazed Digital, Apr 09

OMG I CANNOT WAIT!

2011-05-29T12:57:00.003+01:00

Having been a longtime lover of Irina Ionesco, I have been squealing with anticipation about the forthcoming film by Eva Ionesco about her childhood posing for her mother's iconic but SUPER un-PC photographs.
via Cat Party

from a folder called 'slags'

2011-05-29T12:46:00.002+01:00

which seems a bit judgy of me honestly! i think we look HAWT before the Big Fat Gypsy Royal Wedding. And actually I am totally going to reapply the fake tan x

DIZZEE RASCAL

2011-05-29T11:37:00.003+01:00

An option for the ES cover from Friday. Was really fun to shoot Dizzee!

xx

Urs Luthi

2011-05-29T11:28:00.004+01:00

I stumbled across Urs Luthi while waiting for some images to upload.....has 39 minutes to kill so immediately checked Point of View, Zoltan Jokay's inspiring photo blog.

The 2 week blogging hiatus will attest to the mind-numbing busyness of current situation. no complaints, lots of fun work, but also finally moving out of the tiny flat and into pastures bigger. It would be a bittersweet time if I had more opportunity to think about it - perhaps it's actually better to be forced to get on with it in a whirlwind of activity. I'm shooting my first boy there this afternoon of course, taking advantage of what might be a sadly narrow window of opportunity while the walls are becomingly dishevelled.

**UPDATE ok this is why I don't blog anymore! Either I can't string a sentence together, or its a paragraph full apparently randomly generated long-ish words put through Babelfish a couple of times. OY VAY

xx

Pamela Yates for DAZED

2011-05-16T11:06:00.002+01:00

From the portraits of filmmakers from the Human Rights Watch film festival.

Pamela Yates, unpublished version.

Henry Gatehouse

2011-05-12T17:15:00.000+01:00

another unpublished shot x

Glowing Carl

2011-05-04T17:22:00.001+01:00

outtake from the shoot for EXIT magazine

x

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2011-05-01T19:25:00.001+01:00

All Hail Zuul!

2011-05-01T13:58:00.002+01:00

via planet tampon

Russell

2011-04-28T15:06:00.000+01:00

Russell at Elite
mega cute!

MY BIG FAY ROYAL GYPSY WEDDING!

2011-04-26T20:40:00.001+01:00

Hi, how are you? #2

2011-04-26T08:44:00.000+01:00

A week in pictures #2

2011-04-24T19:03:00.001+01:00

Hi, how are you? #1

2011-04-22T08:50:00.001+01:00

Waiting for Floyd

2011-04-19T18:34:00.002+01:00

Lovely Sydney came to the studio today; we concocted a story whereby she was waiting to be picked up from the studio by her boyfriend, Floyd from Dazed and Confused. Then i got totally sun-dazzled in 20 minutes shooting outside, argh I forgot how poorly equipped I am for hot weather! She looked so ace in my mum's sailor top I nearly gave it to her. (nearly - I can see Rebecca LOLLING at the thought of me parting with any of my super cherished mum's 70s stuff that i GO MENTAL about if I take it out, and think I've lost it because I'm hammered. Literally I've had countless tantrums about this, particularly her blue wool coat, which I can't even leave the house in any more unless it's for like Sunday school, or a serious meeting. David may also recall a time I had to be ejected from Boombox (ah heady days) for losing my shit about theft of same blue bloody coat, when I WAS HOLDING IT IN MY HANDS.)

Aaaanyway...

Model: Sydney Edmonds at FM
Make up: Namiko Takemiya

xx

"Englishmen don't know how to dress"

2011-04-19T18:22:00.002+01:00

So said (shouted) this fella last Sunday on Kingsland Road, doing me a favour shyness-wise, as it would have seemed ruder NOT to have taken his picture.

more Clea

2011-04-18T16:31:00.002+01:00

separated at birth?

2011-04-14T19:15:00.001+01:00

but HAS anyone ever seen John Travolta and Chezza in the same room? Hmm?

I rest my case

Terri

2011-04-13T21:19:00.000+01:00

Terri at Storm = mad cute

xx

First morning in New York

2011-04-12T21:25:00.001+01:00

View from my hotel window. I was so excited I was up before dawn then again at first light coming through the curtains.

Marnie (1964)

2011-04-12T19:24:00.003+01:00

I'm only half way through it an all. Love a bit of Hitchcock. I put my hair in curlers while I was watching it, and painted my nails mauve. Hair flat, nail polish chipped already. Thug life.

Clea Martin

2011-04-12T15:05:00.001+01:00

Clea from Storm just popped into the studio. I think she might be inspiring me to get my gold studs out!

xxx

the best tattoo ever

2011-04-12T13:24:00.002+01:00

I love this tattoo, on/by Valie Export, and taken from one of the best, and best named tumblrs out there : hello vagina, you're out of your mind

Gorgeous

2011-04-12T12:43:00.001+01:00

I love this pictures of a pre-braids Bo Derek.

x

Style Hero: Diane Keaton

2011-04-11T21:31:00.005+01:00

In the spirit of trying to give credit where it's due...the last pic is by Gary Lee Boas, from Starstruck I think...although I can't find it on Amazin(oops typo)...I am VERY tired though, so that link takes you to New York Sex 1979-1984 which looks lots more interesting.

xxx

They see me rollin'....

2011-04-11T21:30:00.000+01:00

...they hatin'

The upturned forest

2011-04-11T11:44:00.002+01:00

This is Mickey on his farm in Kent on Saturday. We went on a family jaunt to enjoy the sunshine away from the usual Red Stripe on Hackney Downs ways (nothing wrong with that, obvs). Well, 3 out of 5 of us made it, which is actually pretty good going in Gwatkin terms.

One of his orchards is being pulled up, and we drove through this freaky landscape of claw like trees! More pictures to come...

Also won £3 on the National COME ON!!!

Olga R at FM

2011-04-07T09:35:00.002+01:00

I love Olga! I love that her surname means the same as Christmas in Ukrainian, so that's her nickname. Happy Christmas! x x x

OMG NY

2011-04-05T19:50:00.001+01:00

NEW YORK

2011-04-05T19:39:00.001+01:00

Just crappy blackberry shots for now, film to come. Kind of gutted to be back actually!

I heart Julia Stiles

2011-03-28T15:52:00.002+01:00

I would like rilly rilly RILLY like to look like Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You. Today I literally look like Gary Oldman, no lulz.

HIGHSCHOOL

2011-03-27T09:47:00.002+01:00

I love this shoot we did a couple of weeks ago!

Stylist: Sivan Currie
Photo assistant: Edward Lynn
Make Up: Abigail Johnson
Hair: Hiroshi Matsushita
Models: Olga R at FM, Victoria and Kirstie Brittain at Storm

More to come...running out the door for a portrait...Henry got up at SIX FORTY FREAKING FIVE to watch the formula one, wot a mentalist

A week in pictures

2011-03-21T22:05:00.002Z

From Teenage, Gunslinger, failbook, and a screencap which didn't quite do justice to the pure unadulterated freak out that my computer's been subject to lately, argh

2011-03-21T22:01:00.001Z

The Housewife....in her tidy room

2011-03-21T21:57:00.002Z

10 hours cleaning
reward = can of Polish lager in the bath
reminded me of when I used to 'work' from home, pre-studio, and the series The Housewife was born, only to die miserably as soon as I got premises.
heartbreakingly, you CAN'T TELL at all that I did so much cleaning! Especially not from that picture.

x

Ed Templeton -Teenage Smokers

2011-03-21T21:53:00.001Z

Anyone got $799 I can borrow?

Honey Pie

2011-03-19T12:34:00.001Z

Velvet jacket to the face

2011-03-17T19:12:00.001Z

Started shooting nudes again. YES!

xxx

Emma Lundgren

2011-03-17T11:00:00.001Z

A portrait of the lovely Emma, studio, this Sunday x

Mouths

2011-03-15T18:21:00.001Z

current obsession on the studio wall.... bringing the old printer to the studio has opened up a work of excitement and dicking about when I should be attending to much more important things!!!

Kirstie Brittain at Storm

2011-03-15T14:22:00.002Z

Music by Rosie and Joost

2011-03-15T14:10:00.003Z

Mum sent me this film of her made by Norman and posted by Tony (hope I got that right?!), featuring music she made with Joost during her adventures in Scotland. I love the bit from 03:48 when the wind starts playing the guitar! Also the song from 04:37 is called 'Cat and Mouse' and is dedicated to me and Henry. Thanks Mum! x x

I really need to clean that mirror

2011-03-11T20:43:00.000Z

Mr and Mrs Campbell McClane and their cat, Kitbear

2011-03-11T20:40:00.001Z

my flash has broken on my new yashica SAD TIMES. also it means the cat managed to scarper in time.

happy anniversary my beauties xxx

Thomas, at home

2011-03-08T16:40:00.000Z

xxxxx

end of the roll

2011-03-08T16:35:00.002Z

Edith, Laura's little pug princess, and random stuff.

Hell's teeth!

2011-03-08T16:28:00.003Z

Just got a film developed and found Rebecca looking like a goddess x x x x

The Visitor

2011-03-07T14:58:00.000Z

David Bowie, mon amour

2011-03-03T13:09:00.002Z

“At the height of his cocaine addiction, David Bowie weighed only 95 pounds, hardly a healthy weight for 5’11”. He later said that he spent most of the mid-Seventies trying to perfect telekinesis and trying to keep Jimmy Page and witches from stealing his soul.”

*sigh*

No pale blue colorama? No problem!

2011-03-01T14:59:00.001Z

Hmmm, possible I won't get away with it though.

Featuring the lovely Dave in Cooperative Designs x Aertex tee shirt xx

more Thomas Tait

2011-03-01T14:52:00.000Z

Thomas Tait AW11 backstage

2011-02-28T20:08:00.000Z

Cymbals for DAZED (unpublished)

2011-02-28T17:53:00.001Z

I like this variation of the b/w shot in the mag x

Lily Vanilli at 98

2011-02-28T16:22:00.002Z

Me and Carmen went to new bar 98 to sample Lily's amazing confections it was sugar-y bliss.

x

Thomas is a votex in the 1970s

2011-02-28T14:51:00.001Z

**hahahaha..I pressed publish before noticing I had actually meant to put 'Thomas IN a vortex...'

but i quite like how it came out... xx

Richard Ayoade and Joe Dunthorne for DAZED

2011-02-28T13:36:00.003Z

SO excited to shoot these guys, albeit super briefly, for the current issue of Dazed.

Looking forward to seeing Submarine really quite a lot.

Birds Eye View film festival

2011-02-24T14:25:00.001Z

The fashion film extravaganze (typo, but I sort or prefer it!) curated by Kathryn Ferguson is showing at the BFI on Wednesday 9th March!

xxx

I need a little sugar in my bowl

2011-02-23T18:21:00.003Z

internet still not without it's pleasures.

Cooperative Designs backstage!

2011-02-22T12:28:00.001Z

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2011-02-21T11:35:00.001Z

COOPERATIVE DESIGNS PREVIEW

2011-02-17T13:11:00.002Z

LFW previews, including our shoot for Cooperative, now up on Dazed Digi

x

THE W PROJECT

2011-02-13T17:22:00.002Z

I can't tell you how honoured and excited I was/am to be invited to show my work as part of The W Project, opening Wednesday 8th March.

Check The W Project website for more details

x

"Imagine the pleasures of a Scottish funeral"

2011-02-13T15:14:00.005Z

Picture is totally unrelated, but lots of nice stuff I've done lately I have to hold on to a bit...

Just had my birthday, and the inevitable 2 day duvet odyessy that follows. Thanks for all the lovely messages everyone x x x

picture, obvs, is Frida Kahlo on an NY roof, dragged carelessly off someone's tumblr. Quote is from Stendhal's "Cure's for Love", which Rebecca accidentally left. Made me chuckle. Full quote, if you care, is "The thing is that they [women] are hungry for emotion, anywhere and at any time; think of the pleasures of a Scottish funeral".

In my case, if you substitute the word 'emotion' for the word 'meow meow', you have some inkling of the severity of my predicament this weekend. Yikes.

xx

POSTSCRIPT. woah, "Cure's For Love"?. Really? poor show!

The Cleaner

2011-02-10T10:45:00.002Z

from Familiarity Breeds Contempt x

PARIS

2011-02-07T11:03:00.003Z

Spadgermatazz!

my reaction to realising I've run out of coffee

one more thing before i go...

Lizzie

Brooklyn Gang, 1959 by Bruce Davidson

Josh

Amrit

67 CONSEQUENCES PRIVATE VIEW

Melancholia

Ooh! It's William Potter

Dartmoor!

Postcard from Latvia

Louise Gray

Brain Atrophy

Arm

Style Hero: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

Carson

Levi Moriss at Premier and his extraordinary likeness to Richard Hell

coney island

Sydney at FM

Ron Arad for DAZED

The Process

SAM at FM #2

SAM at FM

CORRIE WILLIAMSON JEWELLERY

gimme some more

HOUSE OF ORGANZA

In praise of sleep

Ms Fred B

misty swimming pool

ZOYA SMIRNOVA

The cars of Hanwell

new hair

Wilson at the new place

Alice Springs AKA June Brown AKA June Newton

Happy Birthday Thomas

OMG I CANNOT WAIT!

from a folder called 'slags'

DIZZEE RASCAL

Urs Luthi

Pamela Yates for DAZED

Henry Gatehouse

Glowing Carl

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All Hail Zuul!

Russell

MY BIG FAY ROYAL GYPSY WEDDING!

Hi, how are you? #2

A week in pictures #2

Hi, how are you? #1

Waiting for Floyd

"Englishmen don't know how to dress"

more Clea

separated at birth?

Terri

First morning in New York

Marnie (1964)

Clea Martin

the best tattoo ever

Gorgeous

Style Hero: Diane Keaton

They see me rollin'....

The upturned forest

Olga R at FM

OMG NY

NEW YORK

I heart Julia Stiles

HIGHSCHOOL

A week in pictures

The Housewife....in her tidy room

Ed Templeton -Teenage Smokers

Honey Pie

Velvet jacket to the face

Emma Lundgren

Mouths

Kirstie Brittain at Storm

Music by Rosie and Joost

I really need to clean that mirror

Mr and Mrs Campbell McClane and their cat, Kitbear

Thomas, at home

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