Day at the Beach

Yesterday the Shorts invited me to join them on a day trip up the coast to Filey. A very British summer day out: it rained, it was cold, it was windy, we had fish and chips, flew kites, made sand castles, caught a crab and had an endless amount of fun!

ATP Curated by Animal Collective: A Reminisce

The Animal Collective-curated edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival was back in May, but I've only just come across this video that Sara made featuring herself, myself and Mike. The video is above, and there are some of my photos below it.

Assorted Film Scans II

Collage Without The Mess (Part III)

  Back Bone (Clip) by White Pilots

Collage Without The Mess (Part II)

After spending most of the day and most of the night on Photoshop - serious lump on my wrist right now, time for a break - here's where I'm at. It's not finished, probably won't be for a few days. The hardest part is finding persons to decorate the foreground that don't look too out-of-place. All this might change once I'm sent the logo to go on top, but we shall see. It's getting to one of those crucial milestones where a few tweaks and it'll be right ... It's just not quite there yet.

Tomorrow is another day. Now to the freezer for frozen peas.

Collage Without The Mess

Today Louis briefed me on possibly helping out with the design of the new White Pilots 7" single. We talked over their ideas so far and he showed me a draft (which couldn't be used) so I could get an idea of mood and what everyone wanted. I liked the idea, "got" it and we had a little brain storm before going off our own ways and starting to collage. 

I wanted to see if I could create what I had in mind through photos I've collated over the past few months from scanning in negatives. I couldn't, but I ran with it anyway. This was a shoddy warm up. 

Maybe I'll build on it. Maybe I'll bin it. Probably the latter.

Wandering Bears Workshop

8 Prince Street, Hull

Prince Street is my favourite street in Hull for two reasons. 

1) Tucked away just outside the "Museum Quarter", it is incredibly quaint with its cobbled road, Georgian buildings and the smallest of parks / a garden which I imagine looks quite creepy in certain lights.

2) Because, between 1969 and 1973, No. 8 Prince Street was the creative HQ for COUM Transmissions, later known as the infamous Throbbing Gristle. There are photos here and here of member Cosey Fanni Tutti also doing a bit of posing on the spot.

Smelly Balls

Colourful Outdoor Seating Arrangements

Humberfield

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Vernacular Photographs from a 1920s French Wedding

Purchased at a market in Dinan, Brittany. Location, subjects and date unknown. 1920s being an educated guess. Also, excuse my horrible scanner.