March 13, 2010
Pumpkin and Honey Bunny
YOUNG WOMAN
I love you, Pumpkin.
YOUNG MAN
I love you, Honey Bunny.
And with that, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny grab their weapons, stand up and rob the restaurant. Pumpkin's robbery persona is that of the in-control professional. Honey Bunny's is that of the psychopathic, hair-triggered, loose cannon.
PUMPKIN
(yelling to all)
Everybody be cool this is a
robbery!
HONEY BUNNY
Any of you fuckin' pricks move
and I'll execute every
motherfucking last one of you
cue: Dick Dale and his surf guitar...
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March 11, 2010
Sneaky Drawing
Extended for one more session, by popular demand, the Sneaky Drawing classes are drawing to a sneaky close.
By all accounts everyone had a good time and my sneaky tricks produced a lot of good results.
More classes to follow in the autumn.
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March 10, 2010
clearing up the sands of Kilimanjaro
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March 08, 2010
GUERILLA FILMMAKING
The latest short film, weighing in at around 17 minutes 50 seconds.
We at Bikeshed Digital Media have been working with some lost children in Leeds, improvising drama. At times it's been like herding cats - nervous, frightened, angry cats. But when the camera is on them it's amazing the concentration and focus [no pun intended] that the kids can muster.
thanks to these guys for making it possible:
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March 07, 2010
from Kilimanjaro to the Big Pebble
Le Grand Caillou, Les Gorges de l'Ardèche, France, early morning, winter,1980 photo: JC
The big pebble in question is the one in the river with the sunbeams falling on it. I guess it's really Big Rock - caillou can mean rock or stone or pebble. It was also called Post Office rock for reasons know only to a few, and subsequently lost in the mists of time [some of which can still be seen in this photo].
The water parts either side of the rock, as water does round rocks, and the resulting eddies and currents form one of the first rapids on the descent of the Ardèche gorge.
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March 06, 2010
walking up Kilimanjaro
Rachel, having walked up Kilimanjaro last year, is currently choreographing a dance concerning dust, a daily companion on such an endeavour, and the peculiar way that the locals walk.
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March 05, 2010
odd images that resonate
When you take a series of pictures there are always a few when things aren't all pointing in the same direction. Maybe you're trying something and it doesn't work, or the camera has a mind of its own and takes a picture when you aren't exactly expecting it.
These images sit around on the hard drive, at the bottom of folders, in the creases, catching dust.
Later, revisiting the images, you keep coming back to an odd one lurking in the corner...
Dusty Rachel - just back from a trip up Kilimanjaro
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February 28, 2010
The House of McFugger
In those days of rubble and brick dust one man stood out.
That man was McFugger.
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February 27, 2010
Pioneers of House Renovation
Back in the early 80s, when the property boom was at its height and renovation-fever gripped the land, men would come from Far and Wide to seek their fortunes amongst the cracked plaster, dark dusty beams and wet floors of long abandoned dwellings.
Rough shanty towns would spring up alongside rows of derelict cottages and rough men with rough hands would drink hard liquor long into the night in a vain attempt to wash the choking soot and dust of another lath and horsehair-plaster ceiling from their rasping throats.
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February 25, 2010
Pioneers of Photography part II
an early Coombesyotype
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