worlds first projector camera

I think this is as big as polaroids would have been when that first came out. You know those times, you are away somewhere away from your computer with yr buddys, you are getting a bit bored of them and you dont know how to encourage them to disperse so you can get a little alone time in with your current squeeze.
Well, just whip this little bugger out and you can have a slide show anywhere! The Nikon s1000pj (catchy!) is billed as the first camera with a built in projector!
It promises pictures between 4 and 40 inches. resolution probably needs to be seen to be believed, or at least blogged- but hey, this is one camera gimmick I am all for.
Get one soon!

best live band i have seen for ages!

Fight Like Apes!

Saw them at Latitude festival, and I loved it. L and I are going to go over to Berlin in September to see them! Hopefully R. can come to, and how about you?

looking back

This should have been posted a long time ago. It's our representation of Ruth Ellis killing her husband outside the very pub she did it. If you remember, the bullet holes are still there. This was done on the anniversary, but I don't know why I haven't put it up yet?

John Landis is the Man- dis!

Midnight movies? are you mad? That means a night bus home! That seems far more frightening than some giant American werewolf prowling the town... However when I was told that John Landis, director of Trading Places and Blues Brothers would be there, I had to go. I mean had to.

And it was a pretty successful event, Mr Landis shook hands posed and signed with a rather tired looking smile, then he gave a cool question and answer thing with Empires Kim Newman. He mentioned that he had sold the rights to Dimension for a remake of AMWiL, that he was pretty pissed off when he heard that the howling was being made, and that we should go and watch the new version of AMWiL because it had all been made up for blue ray, and that it looked amazing. The makeup for the wolf looked even better in HD. He then seemed to remember where he was and said that he hoped this was a good print. It wasn't. The whole thing had a yellow tinge to it, but it was the first time I had seen it on the big screen, and its even better than the first time!

Oh- and with free cocktails!

snaps

well, so much goes on doesnt it? here are some photos from last week. Catch a glimpse of King Henry the 8th as he cruises down the Thames. See the latest protests about Hillsborough. And look at what might be the last photo i ever take in Ravenscourt Park

Please put down your hands, because I C U

Beck has a cool idea. He has bought together music friends to come into his studio and re record one randomly chosen album in one day. Then they release a song a week on this website (follow the link)!

The first album is the classic Velvet Underground and Nico. How exciting is that! The first song is the Sunday morning, which is the first song in the album, so it could be (and should be) in chronological order. It was also the first single from the original.

I guess this album has been in my life for 20 years, and you know how it is with these sorts of albums that you start off loving the hits, "waiting for the man", "heroin" etc, but then maybe you thrash those songs too much, and its the other ones- the slow releasers that stand out in the end. So not taking anything away from any of the others, if i was to choose my favorite from this album it would be ... "I'll be your mirror"

Down the Buffalo Bar.

Lovely eggs rocked the buffalo bar last week, superb. and so very friendly! Great merchandise sprung out of their travelling suitcase that I walked away with a t shirt, a handstitched badge and a signed disc.

Zoey Van Goey were very good live, a variety of classy singers, swapping instruments with some really good tunes to boot.

giant bumblebee attacks west London mall

ha ha, mall.

morning walk through the park

So with the queen throwing down her new alotment I thought I would share more pictures of Ravenscourt Park
I mean, if you were to write a blog, you would chuck flower pictures all over it right? Right?

New Blues Venue Opening today!

Live blues venues in London are scarce, which is odd as there are blues all around these days if you believe the papers.

Blues is an odd genre of music I think, it can be amazing, or it can be elevator music. Lets hope with 3 floors and a W1 postcode Charolotte St Blues comes up with the goods!


Tomorrow night at the Buffalo Bar these guys will be playing and I will be there! come along do. Now they could be a one hit wonder, but what a hit!

Albert and Pearl have their record swap night on Friday as well, you pretty much take records you don't want and swap it. sweet.

picture update

Heres some pictures I havent shared yet about the last couple of weekends.
Enjoyed Hampstead Heath with a few friends. The place was packed but we managed to get a couple of really good spots.


C&A gave me a reflector and this is my first go at it. The lovley L. poses here first under the warm golden reflector, ...

...and here under the natural light of the silver!


I enjoyed dusk on the Thames with some old friends,




We watched our friends 10KM run for A Safer World, around central London. Although gruelling looking, it also seemed like a lot of fun, and a great way to raise awareness for their charity.

Weekend Roundup: June 6th and 7th

Hey, its still spring lets take the rain on the chin and the sun on our backs. There is still a bunch of stuff to do…
I thought I would throw some weekend ideas your way.

Saturday

Pirate time! Its that simple folks, get yr timbers shivered at the golden hynde lunchtime.

The strain looks amazing, its like vampires but forget everything you have heard about them except they are evil motherfuckers. Guillermo del Toro signs copys at Forbidden Planet

NZ Play Scotland at the Oval, hey its 20/20, hey it might rain, just do it anyway!

Saturday night’s featured party relives the roaring forties! Dress up forties glam which is always nice!


KK Outlet have a display of passive aggressive notes, pretty funny stuff actually, originated from this website, you probably know it.

Crafters unite! It looks like a great crafternoon in Borough if you want to learn how to pompom or make finger puppets, and I know you do!

Ukulele orchestra supplying the score for silent films…

Although it’s likely to be raining, grab yr brolly and learn about London. As part of the ongoing Story of London festival a whole lot of blue badgers will show you around at history you hadn’t noticed yet… also involved is Carnaby St with some sort of sales and model mods walking around for some kind of "sorry you missed the 60's" thing.

Love London, love your planet festival is hippytastic you know, in a totally London way!

The Bagel end of Brick Lane is holding what looks to be a fantastic day of street art, international graffiti artists- music and general excitement - get those cameras ready!

There is a slow food festival on the South Bank this weekend, although you should be across the many free things they are offering over the spring.

Sunday

I know it’s at the end of the line, but that’s all I know about it! Upminster also apparently has a windmill- this is having an open day… (one of the finest examples of the smock windmill remaining in England)

Of course there is still bike polo

If you are checking out the meeting of styles then also head over post bagel to Rough Trade, that has two wristband gigs going on
Including Broken Records, who are about to release their album through 4AD and Mockingbird wish me luck both very good hangover tunes! (Also The Drones play on Monday)

Streetfighter IV play offs! Juno in Shoreditch- fiver to join you could win a grand!

If you haven’t been to the Wellcome Trust yet, you really should, along with the usual tours of this obscure and varied collection they have a discussion about London Life and Death this Sunday.

Have you been to Somerset house yet? There are plenty of reasons to this year, including an amazing film festival (under the stars!) that includes a double bill of Pan’s Labyrinth/ The Exorcist, The Mars Volta and this weekend they are opening their doors to the public.


This includes access to the cool bits you only see in films like “the duchess”.

The British Museum has an interesting talk about the history of the museum


Camden Oxfam is getting a facelift, check it out

bah

I just dont want to talk to any of my friends who went to this.

Herb and Dorothy

Just read about these two.

Now I want to 1) c more film
2) Make art
3) Buy more art.

your man in London

Just got accepted into the writing team of my favourite London information websites Londonist. This is also one of the only sites that I twitter, as it always has an interesting list of things to do or a run down on whats happening in this town. So it was with a lot of joy that I wrote my first post on William Blakes exhibition, which you can read here

You can also read someones helpful advice to me- but in my defence I didn't really want to write up a bio, and its really easy for me to gush on about Blake and even easier for me to randomly go off onto tangents. So its my first go buddy! give me a bone! hahaha.

cool hey?

noodle alert, buy them where you can.

As if fully aware of the satire they bring on themselves, England has sold out of Doner Kebab flavored noodles! They have had to take commercials off of tv channels.

I wonder if its the obvious Flight of the Conchord rip off that did it?

NZ Wine is first choice for England: Choice!

Just read in the Guardian today that sales of NZ Sauvignon Blanc has risen 370% this fortnight than sales last year. Ignoring the trends set by the credit crunch.

Handily at Majestic if you buy 2 bottles of more there is 20% off the listed price.

wind beneath my wings

Wingsuit loic jean albert and friends , Amazing flight... from Xmicky on Vimeo.

Jesus, sometimes you see something that you really really want to do. Here I sit at my desk typing and surfing, listening to metronomy and looking out the window, or watching tv. these guys can fly!

why dont you stand.

Playing For Change | Song Around The World "Stand By Me" from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

These guys took one Ben e King tune to street performers all around the world, and made their venue a studio, mixing their voices together. Its pretty excellent.

Brick Lane on the sunniest Sunday ever

Brick Lane, the curry isnt as nice or as cheap as Tooting but on a Sunday in April, with the heat beating down and the streets crowded with smiley people, its a good place to hang. We took J and B down for their first time, and although we didnt get a salt beef bagel because of the queue, it was still a worth while trip.



It reminds me that I have 2 days to realise my SoFoBoMo project that after 5 misfires I may have decided on "the art of selling in a recession". If you havent heard me dribble on about this before, the idea of SoFoBoMo is to create a photobook containing 35 photos in 31 days. The theme is completely up to you, but of course thats half the battle to try and get a satisfactory one that is interesting enough not just for you to want to take photos, but for others to actually read.

Tonight is Manchester United v Arsenal for the Champions League. I am heading down to the Junction to watch it with low expectations and high hopes...