I was astonished to discover that there are people in the world who haven’t heard this, and very specifically that one of them is tyrell, who, I suspect will be cheering along with this. So I am posting it, just in case anyone else hasn’t heard it, because as far as I’m concerned, this should be played in every school in the country as part of a balanced RE syllabus.

And many more works of the Special Unicorn Tattoo Magic (including an old favourite) available here.

Abandoned industrial/warehouse space in London. I would really like to do some photoshoots in derelict industrial/warehouse space, or on largely empty industrial estates. Anyone know of anywhere that would fit this bill that I can make arrangements to use that won’t see us having to scale fences to break in and/or getting chased off by security guards?

Hell, I’m even willing to sign indemnity paperwork and/or pay modest/reasonable fees for the use of the space.

Anyone know of anywhere? Anyone got *access* to anywhere that they’d be willing to let us into for a few hours on a Saturday/Sunday in exchange for beers or modest remuneration?

A guide to horses. Very important.

(via Phil)

Would anyone be interested in acquiring a pair of tickets to see Camille O’Sullivan at The Soho Theatre next Tuesday? stu_n has a couple he needs to sell and to my chagrin I don’t have the time next week to go myself, so I said I’d ask around.

In case you’re wavering: she is ace, and you should go.

via mighty_god_king

I am posting just to say: if you are not watching riotclitshave then you fucking well should be. It is the best round-up of weird, wonderful, absurd, and occasionally horrible, images that I know. Every time I finish looking at a particular set of pictures, I am comforted that the world is a better, stranger and more interesting place than I thought it was.

Here, for example, is one of today’s images.

Someone out there in the world genuinely has that inked on them. Either the world is a marvellous, entertaining, fucked up place, or we urgently need a nuclear armageddon to scourge the face of the earth with white hot fire. I’m good with either.

This is not intended to badger people, and I apologise for spaming the friends pages of uninterested parties, but I’m aware that the poll I posted yesterday was posted late at night, and may have gotten lost/buried down people’s friends pages today.

It’s a poll about who might be interested in coming to my place in Tooting to get your picture taken in an unusual outfit that you might happen to own. So obviously, if that’s not you, then you can skip this, but it’s just that when I mooted the project a while back I got a reasonably enthusiastic response from a decent number of people, but when it comes to actually to arrange something to happen, the response has dropped off markedly.

So: if you in the course of your life, dress up in funny outfits, for goth/fetish/steampunk/LARP/furry/steampunk/other reasons, and want a pair of photos of you taken, please, pop back and fill the poll in…

Bet you all thought I’d forgotten, didn’t you?

I hadn’t. But a couple of days after I first posted about it, they started digging up the road. They finished digging it up a couple of weeks back, but I was busy with stuff at work, and other randoms stuff, and didn’t really have time to think about it. And anyway: the weather’s improving a bit. And while I do want some shots in the rain, my general preference is likely to be for sunlight. Of some kind.

Those of you wondering what the fuck I’m talking about, by the way, should go here, but the brief version is that I have a number of friends who belong to one or more subcultures that involve dressing up, and I want to do a series of photos with willing people of two shots each – one in normal clothes, the other dressed up in their finery, in identical poses at the bus stop.

I’m planning to get groups of 3-6 people in at a time – that should give me enough time to get decent photos of each person, and mean that we’ve enough space about the place for people to get changed, apply make-up, and so on.

So, for those of you interested (and if you didn’t say you were interested last time, you can always say so now), please indicate dates that you would be willing/able to lug a costume to my place in Tooting, and have a few shots taken of you, in exchange for all the tea and biscuits you can consume, and hi-res digital copies of the two resulting images.

I’ll then drop people emails trying to sort out specific dates/times/groups. I’ll probably want a range of daytime/evening/night shots.

NB: like I said last time – this is a moderately busy bus stop, on a main road. You won’t be out there in your costume very long, and it is literaly outside my front door, but still: it will be pretty public. That’s the appeal of the project – the very ordinary context. So if you’re nervous about being seen in public in the outfit you want to use, do say – we can always try and arrange a night shoot, when the street is emptier, but I would like *some* day shoots if I can…

Everyone follow that? Good. Please to be ticking the boxes.