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Reflections 010: Late nights? Can't hack it!
I can't actually recall the moment I started to struggle to stay up past 11pm. It could be exhaustion accumulated from years of regular nights out, transatlantic press trips (those raves and house parties back in o' day), and all those things that had no respect for a good night's sleep. Because right now, I aint the one when it comes to staying awake past 11:30pm (I could be standing up, bass bumping and will still nod off same way. Trust).
Like last night, the every vivacious Janelle Monae didn't touch down until 11pm (can you imagine? Ah!) and I could only hold tight for 30mins. And I was undoubtedly snoozing on the tube home.
Maybe it's old age? (hee hee!)
Pic of the Day
Some of y'all may not know this, but I'm such a dog lover. So this picture is just awwwwww to me. (but love the cross processing and angle). Well done Photographer Andrej Fijev from the JPG fam.
Vignettes Screening @ the Host Gallery - We Live In Public
Read the blurb for this and I'm totally on it - November 11th peeps!:
Vignettes and HOST are proud to host a preview of WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, winner of this year’s Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at Sundance .
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public.
Weds 11 Nov:
Doors and Drinks: 6:15, Start: 7:00pm
Where: HOST Gallery, 1 Honduras St, London, EC1Y 0TH
Tickets: £5, To reserve your place please email: clubvignettes@gmail.com
Paris Photo - November 19 to 22
Feeling lazy, so I'm gonna cut and paste the blurb:
Paris Photo, the world’s leading event for photography, presents a panoramic overview of photographic expression spanning the 19th century to the present day.
- 89 galleries and 13 publishers from 23 countries
- 31 first-time exhibitors
- Seven new countries will be represented (Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, Tunisia , UAE)
- 75% of the participants are non French
- 38,000 visitors expected
- 500 international photographers
Someone told me it costs about 15euros to get in, and I've got some Frequent Flyer miles to spend, so this is might be the much needed day trip to Paris I've been trying to lock down for a min...
Seeing Janelle Monae tomorrow!
This song's a year old but finally seeing Miss JM tomorrow (although, might I add the VV Brown similarities are a lil freaky. They have some the same vocal inflections...)
I'm exhibiting this month!
Peeps!
I'm exhibiting on the 5th floor at City Lit ( Keeley Street, Covent Garden, London) from November 24th for a week, along with a few others for this year's Photomonth. It's open from morning to evening so try to reach if you can; I'll be heading there in the middle of the week but let me know if ya wanna roll x
Pic of the Day
Photographer Guy Eppel. Y'all already know I love Aggy, but it's the relaxed vulnerability and high contrast of this shot that did it for me. Loves it.
(PS - twas a bit busy yesterday hence the lack of bloggage - went to see the lovely Leona Lewis in Hackney in the evening, and in the morning, I was trying to SELL myself on the freelancing front. A girl's gotta do what she gotta)
Reflections 009: This Is It :-(
Tonight, I went to see This Is It. Yea...it was pretty deep. Sentimental. Overwhelming. Baffling.
Like, I REALLY wanna see the show, Mike or no Mike.
And that's no disregard for MJ at all. It's just that this dude was on a whole 'nother level of creativity and it's a shame it's been reduced to a 2 hour doc which showed all the best bits of what would have undeniably been the greatest show on earth. I kid you not.
Man, I can't believe MJ is dead :-( Such a shame.
Anyway, I post Smooth Criminal. For the record, this is my favourite Michael Jackson VIDEO of all time. Not Billie Jean (and deffo not Thriller, that vid was way too scary, even still!)...I can't imagine my close second...
Anyway, RIP (again).
Jay-Z and documentary photography
Jay-Z - "Empire State Of Mind" ft. Alicia Keys
Jay-Z | MySpace Video
Love the fact Jay-Z went for a mixed media music vid for Empire State of Mind. Salute you, sir - the snaps are tight.
Homey D. Clown
"I don't think so...Homey don't play that"
(LOL! Thanks Adenike for the reminder via Twitter - In Living Colour was the SHOW!!!)
Pic of the Day
Photographer Henry Ditz. Features in the exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, showing until January 31, 2010 at the Brooklyn Museum, NY. Love the tight crop, the colours, the expression. Fab, really.
Reflections 008: Let's talk about race, baby
Schoolteacher Jane Elliott from 1968's A Class Divided
Last night I tuned in to watch Ch4's The Event: How Racist Are You? (watch it here), which attempted to recreate schoolteacher Jane Elliot's experiment of teaching the negative effects of racism/discrimination by dividing a group according to their eye colour. The 'blue eyes' are treated badly to give them the experience of being judged according to a physical attribute, a phenomena commonly experienced by blacks, Asians and other minority groups.
I loved A Class Divided when I first watched it a few years back, and I remember asking a friend AGES ago if it could work in modern day UK. Personally, I thought not, and unsurprisingly, last night's experiment didn't go to plan. And admittedly, it gave the impression that white people were the sole advocates of racism in this country which is absolutely untrue. However, it did highlight that there might not be enough regular dialogue about racism in this country, as Guardian writer Lola Adesioye points out brilliantly in today's Comment Is Free section; but I know that given my two cultural experiences of being an American in the UK, I have every intention of entertaining this discussion more (and not because of no damn chip on my shoulder (lol), but to really understand how people feel, both on the right and the left wings of society, communication needs to be a constant. Racism/discrimination exists, pure and simple and it's not an equlibrium either).
Photographer Nabil Elderkin's Glow In the Dark Tour book
(spotted on necolebitchie) I imagine I'll produce a photo book one day - and love the fact 'Ye gave Mr Elderkin the freedom to produce insightful pics for this gorgeous coffee table tome. Yep; it's all about access.
Pic of the Day
, originally uploaded by Kharumwa.
Photographer Martin Kharumwa - brilliant lighting, styling (courtesy of Gloria Wavamunno), the colours just POP and given the African narrative, Vogue, Cosmo, Glamour et al should be running this dude down to freshen up their pages. Two thumbs up.
Pic of the Day
Photographer Darryl Cuz, shortlisted in the "This Is Britain" category in the Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2009 comp. Pretty loaded pic, makes me giggle.
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