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the eclectic nu rave fashion scene on the streets of Soweto by Chris Saunders http://www.imagination.co.za/
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DJ History publishes wicked new book by Gavin and Neville Watson
"An amazing collection of photos from 1989, the year acid house exploded into a nationwide phenomenon. Gavin Watson captures the revolutionary moment like no-one else, with intimate portraits of mates and strangers alike having the time of their lives. It's all here: the crowds, the lasers, the villains, the crimes against fashion. With hilarious recollections from Gavin and his brother Neville."
Download the sampler:
http://www.djhistory.com/books/raving
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Im not really sure what Blackology is, its not a black power thing as you might think, according to this guy anyway. I met Fred Goddard yesterday walking through Dalston. I think Blackology is some kind on linguistic scientific theory he has devised or appropriated. I said "are you an artist", and he was like, "I prefer to think of myself as a philosopher". Big up the High Street Believers.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nefatron/
From Faraway
Up Close
This is Doris or D, as she prefers to be called. Came across her and her amazing steez on Oxford Street.
See more pics: www.ninamanandhar.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nefatron
Props to the peeps at Do Be Do for recognising the Eye Culture Photo Lab. I love Mr and Mrs Siddique, their shop is the spot to get your films done to cheaply to super high quality, and helps keep me shooting on film. The best kept secret in Brick Lane. I also like Jack Days shot (above)of these unassuming double dressers, which you can see in the show which opens tommorrow.
"'DoBeDo presents... 'Fashion Man', an exhibition by 10 photographers and customers of the 'Eye-Culture' Lab on Fashion Street.
'Fashion Man' celebrates the Eye Culture Lab and its owners Mr and Mrs Siddique for their support of a whole generation of young, film-shooting photographers through their high quality and low cost film services.
Event: ‘Fashion Man' - Exhibition of the work of customers of the ‘Eye Culture' Lab.
Date: Private View, 20.06.09, 6-9. Exhibition, 22.06.09 to 04.07.09, 10-6.30.
Location: Eye Culture, 57 Fashion Street, London E1 6PX.
Cost: Free."
http://www.dobedo.co.uk/
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SHOT ON MIXTAPE 001
DVD-POSTER-ZINE
A3 Double Sided Colour Poster-Zine
DVD 9 Minute Running Time
Featuring JME, Fatima, L-Vis 1990
Approx 10 minutes Extras: 3 Short Films, taken From the Back II Life Mixtape
Shot on an unremarkable day in London, 2009
That any-day is now the first installment in an on-going series linking the unseen and the unsung, the ignored and the adored, from 'the man on the street' to this issues host JME - all played on a big backing beat. A mix of print and video looking at the unravelling story of us, told through music, movement, words and people. This first Issue is a straight up tone setter, a taste, a signal of intent, the start of a format, a work in progress...
ON Sale Now
GoodHood, 41 Coronet Street, N1 6HD www.goodhood.co.uk
Rough Trade, Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL
Marshal News, 11 Marshall St, Soho, W1F 7EN
Brick Lane Mini Market, 100 Brick Lane, E1 6RL
The ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
"Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City's Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he's recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance."
we're doing it again. This time round it's a poster-zine-dvd. First issue features JME and Fatima with a whole host of other characters. Get ready for the start of a continuing story about you. People, words, music and movement.
Boy Better Know - Too Many Man
Homegrown talent in full force with some grimey green throwback lighting. Big song and line-up but not sure about the face paint which perhaps explains the lack of females.
Seriously Showa: Double Dressers Mare Street, Hackney 2009 
Angela & Ramon, Austin, Texas 2004 
Look No Hands! Hackney, 2009 
Girl's gone and got herself a shiny new website. Go have a look!
www.ninamanandhar.com
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'One day there will be a museum dedicated to the conflict in Iraq. Until then we have to imagine what it might contain.'
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Earlier this week UK artist and Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller began touring the burnt out remains of a bombed out Iraqi suicide bomb car around the U S of A on the back of that icon of Americana, an RV trailer. For his new project 'Conversations About Iraq: It is what it is" Deller will use the car as a catalyst for debate at various stop off points in the US, inviting guest participants, including veterans, journalists, scholars and Iraqi nationals to initiate conversations and represent a wide range of experience and perspectives on Iraq. Check out the site for a whole different take on 'On the Road'. I always thought that book was overrated anyway.
http://www.conversationsaboutiraq.org/
