NANCY
Scottee’s new club NANCY debuted at East Bloc last night, with the dressed-up, make-an-effort East End scene glamming up for his return to clubland. Pix here.
The Royal Dalston Hotel
Lyall caught the pop-up bug, and themed Vogue Fabrics upstairs and down as The Royal Dalston Hotel for a limited season of performances and club nights. Last night, Scottee was taking confessions and secrets upstairs, whilst Jonny Woo (above) was mixing it up with Kurt Weill’s Pirate Jenny down in the basement. Some pix here…
Gutterslut GutterBall 2010
The Gutterslut crew took over The Rhythm Factory for their second annual Slut Ball. Pix here.
Nando Messias — Sissy
I’ve been shooting Nando’s development of his performance piece Sissy — part of his practice-based PhD at the Central School of Speech and Drama — over the past year. This week, Nando has been performing the piece (with Biño Sauitzvy) at Central. Last Friday I shot the dress rehearsal for the current run. Pix here.
Transparencies
I think there’s a basic fascination in technology which derives from the fact that there’s always a hidden space–a control room, a projection booth, a source of light of some kind — from which the image comes. A painting on canvas, no matter how good it is, is to our eyes more or less flat, or at least flatter than the luminescent image of cinema, television, or the transparencies […] The luminescent image is fascinating because it’s lit with another atmosphere. So two atmospheres intersect to make the image. One of them, the hidden one, is more powerful than the …
Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s
This beautifully-assembled collection has been an inspiration over the past few months. There are many amazing images, and beautiful repro/packaging on show, but it’s the sheer narrative surge, the urgency of the photobooks themselves as assemblages that grips me. Give me 90 minutes with Hosoe’s Man and Woman or Kikuji Kawada’s The Map over watching a film (other than Tarkovsky, maybe) any day. An essential purchase, though a frustrating tease for those of us without access to the original books. Shame that so many of the volumes lovingly-reproduced here havent’t been reprinted, and are only available at auction for crazy …
Scottee — Cafe
Scottee’s one-day-only cafe/’working-class therapy’ performance at Maiden on Shoreditch High Street… pix here.
Street Knowledge
King Adz’s new Street Culture primer, Street Knowledge, has hit the shelves. Flip through to ‘B’ and you’ll find a nice double-page spread of one of my photos from Slumbarave at Metropolis a while back. Buy a copy and you’ll even be supporting me financially (in a tiny, Amazon Associates kind of way).
Bo Ningen at the Macbeth
Dropped by The Macbeth last night to grab some pre-Offset Festival shots of Bo Ningen. Pix here.