Relocated from the BGWMC to the much friendlier (not hard) Marie Lloyd Bar at the Hackney Empire, Scottee and some of London’s finest alt.performance stars presented an evening of Polari, poetry, dance, scatology and vomit: something for everyone. Photos here.
I was down at Bank around 1230 to get some shots of the ‘four horses’ arriving. Stuck between police lines, I ended up with a small few decent pictures of the first surge forward, and the police response. A couple of these photos have been picked up by Indymedia for their coverage of the day.
I’ve been playing with Imagenomic’s Portraiture 2.0 plugin for Photoshop. Forget masking, smoothing, tweaking portaits — Portraiture does it all. An Auto-Tune for portraiture? Maybe. It’s not going to turn you into Pascal Dangin. However, start with an image properly lit and posed, tidy up any serious blemishes with Photoshop’s various brushes and stamps, and Portraiture will take care of most of the subsequent masking, smoothing and tweaking, quickly and easily. Even its default settings do a pretty good job. Portraiture also supports Photoshop’s automation processing workflow for batch processing. And, as with Auto-Tune, you can also pull the sliders …
Helen Noir, Dickie Beau, Ingenue St. John behind the decks (and elsewhere), downstairs at the venue otherwise known as Shoreditch’s ‘disco pub’. Pix here.
Dalston’s finest returned to their cosy just-south-of-the-junction venue for another night of disco mayhem. Pix here.
Azuli’s excellent Future Disco CD comes with a booklet including a couple of my photos from London’s thriving disco scene. Hunt it down.
Film Noir superstars Helen Noir, Severino (Horse Meat Disco), Nando Messias, Ingenue St. John, A Man Da Pet and Dickie Beau hosted downstairs at the Horse and Groom. Photos here.
The DBB crew brought their underground Disco crew to Aldgate on Saturday for a packed night. Some pix here, but my lens froze up a couple of hours in (what is it with me and camera gear failures at the moment?), so far fewer than there should be. Sigh.
We dropped into Slave to Fashion at BBB last night, on our way to Gutterslut (where someone knocked a pint of beer onto my flash battery and shorted it out, so no photos from Images!). Russella and Ryan Styles were hosting. Pix here.
Back at their new home at the Horse and Groom on Curtain Road, Helen Noir, Ingenue St. John, A Man Da Pet, Dickie Beau and Nando Messias behind the decks and doing their thing on the dancefloor. Photos here…