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Lee ‘Scratch' Perry and Peter Harris collaboration exhibition @ The Tabernacle Arts Centre, Powis Square, Notting Hill, London W11 2AY, ‘Higher Powers' is presented by Paddy Barstow & Eazy Bailey on til Oct 8th.
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Today is exam results day here in England, but did you know in America you can go to Car High School? Automative High is based in Brooklyn. Saw this on the site of photographer called Aaron Lee Fineman. Check out some of his work documenting youth culture and communities across America here.
http://www.aaronleefineman.com
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DJ History publishes wicked new book by Gavin and Neville Watson
"An amazing collection of photos from 1989, the year acid house exploded into a nationwide phenomenon. Gavin Watson captures the revolutionary moment like no-one else, with intimate portraits of mates and strangers alike having the time of their lives. It's all here: the crowds, the lasers, the villains, the crimes against fashion. With hilarious recollections from Gavin and his brother Neville."
Download the sampler:
http://www.djhistory.com/books/raving
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Im not really sure what Blackology is, its not a black power thing as you might think, according to this guy anyway. I met Fred Goddard yesterday walking through Dalston. I think Blackology is some kind on linguistic scientific theory he has devised or appropriated. I said "are you an artist", and he was like, "I prefer to think of myself as a philosopher". Big up the High Street Believers.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nefatron/
From Faraway
Up Close
This is Doris or D, as she prefers to be called. Came across her and her amazing steez on Oxford Street.
See more pics: www.ninamanandhar.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nefatron
Props to the peeps at Do Be Do for recognising the Eye Culture Photo Lab. I love Mr and Mrs Siddique, their shop is the spot to get your films done to cheaply to super high quality, and helps keep me shooting on film. The best kept secret in Brick Lane. I also like Jack Days shot (above)of these unassuming double dressers, which you can see in the show which opens tommorrow.
"'DoBeDo presents... 'Fashion Man', an exhibition by 10 photographers and customers of the 'Eye-Culture' Lab on Fashion Street.
'Fashion Man' celebrates the Eye Culture Lab and its owners Mr and Mrs Siddique for their support of a whole generation of young, film-shooting photographers through their high quality and low cost film services.
Event: ‘Fashion Man' - Exhibition of the work of customers of the ‘Eye Culture' Lab.
Date: Private View, 20.06.09, 6-9. Exhibition, 22.06.09 to 04.07.09, 10-6.30.
Location: Eye Culture, 57 Fashion Street, London E1 6PX.
Cost: Free."
http://www.dobedo.co.uk/
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'One day there will be a museum dedicated to the conflict in Iraq. Until then we have to imagine what it might contain.'
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Earlier this week UK artist and Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller began touring the burnt out remains of a bombed out Iraqi suicide bomb car around the U S of A on the back of that icon of Americana, an RV trailer. For his new project 'Conversations About Iraq: It is what it is" Deller will use the car as a catalyst for debate at various stop off points in the US, inviting guest participants, including veterans, journalists, scholars and Iraqi nationals to initiate conversations and represent a wide range of experience and perspectives on Iraq. Check out the site for a whole different take on 'On the Road'. I always thought that book was overrated anyway.
http://www.conversationsaboutiraq.org/
These images are taken from the legendary book Russian Criminal Tattoos, and can be seen life-size at Michael Hoppen Gallery till this Saturday. The archive was compiled by Sergei Vasilev and Danzig Baldaev's both Russian prison wardens who worked together to create this encyclopedic trilogy of tats over a 40 year period.
www.michaelhoppengallery.com/
Dress up like a Pearly at the Museum of London this Saturday as part of the East Festival. But the Pearly steez was about more than just looking bling Victoriana style. Pearlies were the original charity fundraisers of the streets, with their origins in costermonger communities, their distinctive costumes are said to have sprung from the arrival of a large cargo of pearl-buttons from Japan in the 1860.
They became instant attraction and were approached by many hospitals and churches to help raise funds for the poor, deaf, dumb and blind.
Cities should be places made by the people that inhabit them. 'Storefront', a new photographic book by James and Karla Murray exemplifies this, taking us on a whistle stop tour through the very best of New Yorks Original Independent Stores, 'These stores have the city's history etched in their facades. They tirelessly serve their community, sustaining a neighborhood's diverse nature and ethnic background, in a city with an unmercifully fast pace and seemingly insatiable need for change.'
http://flickr.com/photos/jimandkarlamurray/sets/72157612285425548/
Found on the almighty Flickr.
'We're all Gonna Die: 100 Meters of Existence' is the latest piece of work by Danish photographer Simon Hoegsberg, who spent 20 days was perched in the same spot in Berlin with his telephoto, snapping passers by. The results were edited into a 100 meter panorama of human expression. Simple but epic- gets my vote every day of the week.
These stills don't really do it justice, watch the slider here:
http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html
Photo by Whisky Gone Bad : http://www.flickr.com/photos/badwsky/
Photo by Justine Brice : http://www.flickr.com/photos/23446157@N06/
Often the best social documentary comes from within the community it springs from. So I've started a Flickr group with the aim of creating a 'peoples picture' of youth subcultures from the past 60 years. It's inspired by photographers like Gavin Watson and Jamel Shabazz who exemplify this theory.
Were you an orginal rude-boi or raver or was your mum a mod? Your dad a rockabilly? Or are you a young photographer snapping your scene today? If you are on Flickr, please add your pics to the group. If not join up!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/therealoldskool/
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Be a tourist in your home-town. More Adventures in the Local- Friday Night Dog Walking in E5.
