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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Hackney in Flux: A Preview

Hidden away on the backwaters of the River Lea is a Hackney community for whom running water, flushing toilets, working fridges and adequate heating is little more than a pipe dream. Which is just the way they like it. But, with British Waterways tightening up the rules on river boat living in London, is the [...]

Zack Morrissey

The last of the famous international schoolboys.
Nell Frizzell

Upstaged: Russia

From Uncle Vanya and Anna Karenina to Three Sisters and The Government Inspector, there’s something of the Russian revolution about our current theatre season…

Russia smells of chemical toilets.
Now, before you all start attacking me with Premier League football teams and ovulating sturgeons, let me explain. And by “explain” I mean [...]

Pick ‘n’ Mix: Mobilise

This is a quick Pick ‘n’ Mix I wrote for IdeasTap to help promote the Mobilise brief. You can earn £100 for a photo or film taken on your mobile phone. I have a feeling we’re living in the future:
Instac: Dogs
Some people watch porn. I watch a slowly rotating wallpaper of photos of [...]

The Apprentice: Episode Four

According to the official Apprentice twitter profile, tonight’s episode would see “the teams attempt to sell beauty products, fake tans and treatments to punters in Birmingham.” For those of you who don’t speak fluent TV, this basically translates as “thirteen jobless fools rub warm shells and cold gravy over the unwary of Birmingham.” That’s right; [...]

Upstaged: Telly

Here’s my latest piece for IdeasTap…
Frank Lloyd Wright said that television was chewing gum for the eyes. But Frank Lloyd Wright designed expensive buildings that looked like leaking toasters, so, you know, he’s a schmuck.
Television is the window to my soul. As a child of the ’80s I was educated by Sesame Street, [...]

I just saved myself £95

That’s the power of a £5 strip of jersey, a sewing machine and 40 mins to call your own.
Nell Frizzell

The Queen/ Dot Cotton hair continuum

Both royalty in my eyes.
Nell Frizzell

New bike. Old forest.

I’m a Raleigh girl now. Click continue to see my day out in Epping Forest…

Pat Graham : The full interview

There is a much slicker version of this interview on IdeasTap. But, if you believe in quantity over quality, then this is for you:
I feel that I was really privileged to get that shot.
I grew up in Wiconsin, which is 15 hours from Washington DC . I’d been there a few times to photograph bands [...]