Melting Heart

"Eye looked out of the window and saw this. I told eye to ignore it because it would soon vanish into the air from where it came. But it couldn't. "Here today, gone tomorrow" I said. "Enjoy it whilst it lasts.""

Man

Leave yourself

++ Autumn

An in between place

"Our deepest fears are not that we are inadequate it is our life not our darkness that most frightens us. Yet playing small does not serve the world, there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people do not feel insecure around you."- Grand.

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..to everyone that made it on saturday to the opening to my current exhibition which was largely a presentation of my explorations into the physicality of the photograph, if you would like more info about the work, do give me a shout.

It was also Halloween so there were some ghoulish characters around...





Thanks also to Danger Dylan (Hervais-Adelman) for curating and putting it together... and to Rolan Daks for the AMAZING food via his pop-up restaurant. Also to The Breaktime Jazz Quartet for their beautiful music.

The exhibition's on for a few weeks to do still come down if you couldn't reach


http://www.antennastudios.co.uk

This Saturday

A momentary leap back into the real world, come and look at some stuff that's not been online and listen to some nice music in beautiful Crystal Palace

www.antennastudios.co.uk

Picture Palace

Right now I'm like something that knows that the disapperance of something is imminent- I can't remember what that feeling or phenomenon is called but it's like a moth with a final burst of energy flapping aggressively around the light-bulb
The disappearance is of myself from my home
Hence all of the photos of the area and my flat and friends in my flat. I'm hoarding memories
I need a change of scenery so badly
So I'm looking for a new home (still in London for now) but not having much luck
And my mind sways from...Maybe I should just stay here because... here are friends, and down the road is family, and everywhere round here is community and there's a tube line being built so I won't feel quite so cut off from the buzz of the darker, dirtier areas like Peckham, Brixton and Shoreditch;
To... I need to get out of this annoying village-esque place of thirty-somethings AND LIVE IT UP whilst I'm still in my twenties...

And there's a Cinema Campaign and it's big and on Sunday I went to the NIMBY's-are-us meeting to be met by over a 1000 people. And I didn't even know that a thousand people live in Crystal Palace never mind the 60,000 (eh?!) which somebody else suggested.

The deal with the Cinema Campaign? It's Simple:

Who wants a business orientated church in the art-deco building that used to house the Bingo Hall (once originally a cinema)?
And who wants an independent art-house cinema?

Hmmm......hmmmmmmmmm

No Brainer?

I'm a creative type, I oughta want a cinema; and I do... BUT I worry that it will yuppify this area even more that it's already yuppified over the past few years and that I should I decide to stay in the area (largely because my family are near) or should I decide to leave and then come back when I'm older and should be living somewhere like here, will property be even more costly partially as a result of a cinema?

A philosophical quagmire. I wonder if life is easier in Barnet.

http://www.campaign.picture-palace.org/

Sheik and Patrick

Crystal Palace Park

The Sheik is the wife of the headless woman who stands further down to his right - they can't reach each other, but occasionally shout obscenities to each other- he calls her Numb Skull ; she calls him Pansy

Tour de Crystal Palace (mini photo expedition)

Kitty, Kitty, Meow, Meow / Time Warp

Haynes Lane Market (down the street where Pizza Hut used to be- get sucked into a time warp- there's a lady with such a treasure trove of stuff that she may as well live there. She plays trance. I'll try to dig out some photos of her.


"That's my name, don't wear it out."

I'm pleased to see Jackie is wearing pants.



Dirty Arches / Victory

Walk round the triangle past the old McDonalds.

There was once some graffiti on here which said " soon to be another estate agents or coffee shop; a big local debate about whether it was Banksy as it linked directly to a Banksy-esque Grim Reaper painted onto the wall of the then doomed Library.


Yin&Yang

View from Cafe Paradou on the Parade near the looming Eiffel tower


"We've been waiting for our Panini's for an hour and a half."

Food for thought...are we all destined to become couples that only speak to each other over a meal when they have a complaint?

Train Journey

Down at Fraggle Rock
Tube is coming to Crystal Palace- No more beautiful peaceful moments staring into the magnificent space between platforms 3 and 4. I've taken lots of photos of and in the station over the years including this one of DJ Bailey


Stand and Deliver;
The mobile phone is the commuters best friend


Beyond me is a chamber of secrets


Dentist (because these windows look like teeth)

Nico Hogg informs us that these flats were built to protect the rest of the estate from the noise of the trains.



Green


No.
Are you sick of staring at the same train tracks with all of those eyes?


Yellow Heart


Arrival

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Bus Journey

Crystal Palace-West Norwood


I can still hear her voice


In these dark times, boy you're gonna be just fine


Blue


I don't mind if you don't


Angel, I'm walking you home


Mother

pics by Georgina Cook

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Jacket...

...poh-date-oh's. Whilst painting a filing cabinet, Georgie decide's it'd be a great idea to be painted on. Thankfully, Dylan's a pro.

dotsjacket
Originally uploaded by infinite.

Logo design by Sky Williams (Adventure Construct) and Georgina Cook
Stencil and paint by Dylan Dojy (aided by Rum and St Patrick)

www.myspace.com/joindots

www.myspace.com/dojydylan

Cold?

little balls of life
Originally uploaded by infinite.

in what was the warmest January since 1916. Does my face look bothered? Yep.

http://www.climatehotmap.org/

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org

Pure class

Gnarls Barkley Smiley Faces

Aaaah...bless the internet. Yes this video was filmed in Crystal Palace... I haven't laughed so much in ages...

"The soul of Bob is in this park...

in the trees, in the grass. No man can tell me that I can't ride around it."

Every morning, a man known only as D cycles around my local Crystal Palace park singing and smoking a reefa. On first sight he appears to be a happy guy sporting a banana yellow mountain bike to match his bright orange lycra's. But say hello to him and you're in trouble. 'Why are you saying hello to me...eh?" is the answer I got when I said good morning to him one sunny day. He says himself that he's so used to negativity that he's come to expect it. Give him some time and patience though (lots and lots of it) and it's easy see that despite his skunk fuelled intensity, he's a peaceful man plagued with paranoia about the system, women trouble, concerns for the environment and pure love for music.


D's been around the area for a long, long time and his version of the 1980 Bob Marley and Wailers concert in Crystal Palace Park is the best I've heard so far. He is afterall, in his own words 'the original google,' so it's to be expected. When he speaks of the concert with singing to illustrate the story, he sucks you into the vibe so much, that you wish you could have been there yourself. I wish I could say more about him but I can't do his strong character justice. Maybe one day he'll allow me to record his stories or take some photos of him but taking into consideration his concerns about being watched, I very much doubt it.

Still... here's the only pic I could find of Bob Marley and The Wailers on the very stage that me and the Palace fammo sit near every week. That very concert which still blesses the various gangs of skaters, joggers, cyclists and dog walkers of Crystal Palace Park with the soul of Bob.

D's tribute to freedom: "All them people walking around the park, who aint really feelin it, seeing it. They're wasted. Look at him over there, his belly hanging out of his trousers. He needs some exercise. He's trapped inside himself."

Further info about what truly is one of the most fascinating parks in London:

http://www.cocgb.dircon.co.uk/cry_pal_park.htm


www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk

and about Bob Marley's visit:

"When Marley came to London to play Crystal Palace Bowl in 1980, he didn’t want to do any interviews. Instead, Partridge booked the five-a-side court at Eternit Wharf Sports Centre in Fulham for four afternoons. Anybody who wanted to meet Bob had to challenge him and the Wailers to a match. ‘I remember we took all 11 Wailers up to a sports shop on the Fulham Palace Road to get some kit,’ says Partridge. ‘The shopkeepers didn’t know what had hit them."

SE19

The Postcodes Project

Antenna Studio's presents...

207baa2c55
Originally uploaded by infinite.

4 fine south london bands...

www.myspace.com/size9, www.sizenine.net

www.myspace.com/mendicantmusic

www.myspace.com/saltandblue

www.myspace.com/antennastudios, www.antennastudios.co.uk

www.myspace.com/windmillbrixton

South London Version

scrabble03
Originally uploaded by VERSION111a.

Scrabble, rum, chips, dubplates... you know how we do.

Orson's photos from his recent trip for DMZ weekend. www.flickr.com/photos/version

So Silage Crew

www.myspace.com/thesosilagecrew

Out to the DMZ team