Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Drink Shop Do.

I'm working in Kings Cross again this week at my wonderful old office with my lovely old (not old) colleagues. YEY they are the best! Drink Shop Do next door is therefore very much back on the agenda. These girls are remarkable, not only have they secured the shop after it beginning as a temporary pop up - but they have more recently aquired the downstairs floor of the adjacent sex shop (!) and turned it into a great late night disco and cocktail bar (espresso martinin please). Love it.
Here's this weeks listings:


Tuesday 6th March
—Mothers Day Card Making. Have a few drinks and get inspired to make & create something special thats comes from the heart. 

Thursday 8th March 6.30–11.30PM
—’Pin-Up’ Vintage Hair & Make-Up. Look like your favourite 50’s siren in the comfort of cocktails, cake and friends! Turn up and put your name down, when its your turn you pay what you think it was worth! From 7PM. you may have to wait a while before getting your hair & make-up done (but thats nothing a few cocktails can’t cure!)

Saturday 10th March 7.30 & 10PM
—’Papier Mache Monster Mash.’ There are some drinks, some paper, glue a few feathers and felt tip pens and quite a bit of mess. Make your Monster’s with Margarita’s in hand and feel free to get on down and boogie at the same time.


* A word of caution- I had my hair stlyed in a 'vintage' fashion with about a million hairclips into a beehive fit for a queen (bee) and it looked beyond mental. I do not reccomend it especially when you have to get the night bus home to Peckham after! 
You are encouraged to only pay what you think it's worth - I parted with a crisp fiver and a couple of coins but really I should have been paid a tenner to compensate the gallon of conditioner I had to smother on while tugging out all that backcombing - sheesh!
Thank god there is no photographic evidence.

The Deptford Project.





So Boris said we can no longer drink alcohol on the London Underground - well now you can. Not only can you drink in the Deptford tube carriage restaurant but you can eat a ruddy Great meal to boot. Temporary so book in advance!

Copita - get inside my tummy!

I was taken here the other night and it is amazing, have the Sea Bass.
Look at how I have screen grabbed all the bits you need and therefore hardly have to write another word: what a LAZY blogger! I have however scoured their website gallery for a photo of the seabass to illustrate that point at least.
http://copita.co.uk/



ride da riddim. (or this really cute bike)

the MADE.com HOLLANDER bike is BACK! wahooo.
* update - I have just ordered myself one of these beauties. Can't wait to be pimping it round Peckahm. weeeeeeeee!

As slice short of a loaf.

Incase you can't make up your mind which bread roll you'd like, Warburtons have come up with the (revolutionary) idea of providing 360 degree views of their products on their new interactive website.
So now my wholemeal sandwich roll not only looks like this...

but also like this...









and this.


I don't' really understand who would go on their website anyway, apart from me, but that's my job. Absolutely bonkers! 

Maddie the coonhound.

I want a coonhound! Look at how versatile they are.
Photographer  Theron 
'This Wild Idea' Humphrey adopted Maddie 2 years ago and after having her by his side for most of his shoots and general photgraph taking decided to turn the camera on her. see all the photos here




Theron is currently on a 365 day tour of the states for a separate project.
Each day of the year he will take a single portrait snapshot of someone along with recording an interesting annecdotal story / full on life biog for each person. 
http://thiswildidea.com/stories

The Mime Alphabet Book.


Wish they'd scanned the whole thing in, leaves me wondering about quite a few of the letters.

Thursday, 23 February 2012

will I ever grow tired of this song?



absolutely perfect live recording.

I can't stop my Nicaragua home movie thingy from auto playing so you may want to scroll down the blog and tell it to shut the hell up by pressing the pause button!

Switching Clothes Series Hana Pesut.


Focus sur cette excellente série par la photographe canadienne Hana Pesut. Un concept autour des couples qui sont photographiés devant le même fond, mais avec un échange de leurs vêtements. Un souci du détail et un rendu a découvrir dans la suite. See all of the photos here.

Dr Sketchy London



























'where art meets cabaret." life drawing but for hipsters, expect burlesque cabaret show style models and plenty of booze to fuel your creative juices.




join their facebook page to get all the latest venue dates and locations - and see my pal Luke modeling probably!

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Jamie Hewlett ABSOLUT.


ABSOLUT vodka has commissioned Jamie Hewlett to create a special limited edition Absolut London bottle, in celebration of London’s creativity and rich style heritage. Set against a London backdrop, the bottle introduces key characters from the past who have influenced and shaped London’s present fashion scene, from a Dickensian gent and 18th Century Dandy, through to Pinstripe gent, 60’s chick, SKA, Punk and 80’s Casual. (from the dieline)

Skull Portraits by Carsten Witte


and I love this sculpture from thecoolhunter this week.

The greatest party of all time?: 9th MARCH 2012

Dress like a beast and dance like a beast at a party for animals, by animals and all in aid of Animals.
Come and gyrate in our jungle, let your tiger out of its cage and free the beast that lurks within you.
Cast your own paw and make a poking stick or slither through your natural habitat at our ball pit.
Wallow in the Chocolate Watering Hole in the heart of the forest. Feast your feral eyes in the Animal Cinema and swill out your gills with a dip in our bubbling oasis (formerly known as the bath house). Forage for fodder at the Midnight Feast and create your own critters at our Vegetable Animal Making. Also featuring splat rat, a bucking bronco, a disco zoo, all night popcorn and candy floss.


Ten percent of all Animal Party proceeds will be donated to animal charities.
The Last Tuesday Society would like to dedicate this party to the conservation of Pygmy Hippos.
Join us to support our mission to conserve wild animals and their habitats on a global scale.  
Dress code: animals, no costume, no entry. TICKETS HERE

Rumble in the Jumble - this sunday kings x

 
Sunday 26th February 2012 at St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, London NW1 1UL





















For just £2 entry, and bringing at least one bag of your own jumble, you can join Kate Nash, Sara Cox, Gizzi Erskine, Grace Woodward and Brigitte Aphrodite, trading in your jumble for some new eco-chic. Any jumble remaining will be donated to Oxfam.

Travelling and Holiday tips for girls.

Pah travel you say? Fair enough I've not been away much shy of a month at the longest but I live in Peckham now and consider my usual trip to Covent Garden an epic journey. Rye Lane is a mystical place of untold people full of the smells and sounds of the most far flung corners of the world. The train station is my Manila jeepney terminal. Primark is my bustling Moroccan bazaar and Poundland my Nicaraguan corner shop. So with that authority I offer up my wise tips for any girl embarking on a bit of traveling even if just for a few weeks.

    
Pack like a man.
There is no need to take more than 2 pairs of shoes MAXIMUM (I took 5 to Nicaragua and wore only 2, flung one pair out in the street, and made my boyfriend carry a pair round for the entire trip. I did offer to wear them on the plane home so at least they'd been worn but he'd buried them deep in his bag by then)

You should lay out all your clothes on the bed and then put only half of them in your case. Repeat that process if you find it tricky to do up the bag. Note - no one will be carrying your bag up the side of the mountain/volcano/waterfall but you, and trust me - you'll be flinging your shoes into the sunset if you've packed too much.  The things that you should take in abundance tampons/suncream/antihistamines/ mosquito spray and travel wash (superdrug 99p) and baby wipes.

I feel that I'm quite an environmentally conscious person, green in that when prompted I'll opt for
(yet another) bag for life over a plastic carrier. Technically at my age I could also have a 10 year old child - which I haven't - so that's a lot of baby wipes just there that I haven't used,  so I'm justified in using loads and loads on holiday. Trust me - you'll need them.

Don't be such a girl on holiday.
I did a bit of a wee in my bikini when I came up close with a shark while snorkeling, it's funny now but I really lost it. The poor old shark thought I was far too mental to come near and promptly swam away. Freaking out is the worst thing to do, it'll put you off diving off that really high cliff in to the lovely sea and it'll make you not want to go walking to the beautiful lake though the long grass incase it's infested with cobras. (It probably is, but the lake is worth it.)
Spiders - ignore them, they'll scuttle off.
Snakes - poke long grass with a stick and stomp as you walk - they'll slither off.
Sharks - punch them in the gills - they'll either kill you instantly or swim off.
Mosquitos - wear a bit of spray - they'll fly off.

The nastiest things are in the sea - jelly fish should be avoided at all costs, coral will rip you up and leave nasty little things in your skin, and ala Steve Irwin Sting Ray will stab you with their poisonous tails so best to shuffle in to the sea so they swim off - if you stand on one and it stings you you must piss all over yourself apparently. Hmm. I'd rather have the stinger.

Research your destination.
It's so important to have a few things figured out before you arrive on day one, book your first night accommodation and then ear mark all the interesting places you'd like to visit, mark them on the map and that's pretty much your holiday planned.
Be prepared to map read - you see where you are on the map, where you need to be on the map, and follow the lines that join the two. It's quite easy really.

Eat like a local
Depending on where you are going naturally, I'd suggest bottled water at least to begin your trip, but definitely get involved in the local cuisine. No one wants to serve you steak and chips - so don't ask. Except in the Philippines where I would suggest no one ever tries Balut which is a partially developed duck foetus still in the egg - I tried it but I can't bring myself to talk about it. STEAK MEDIUM RARE PLEASE!
more abhorrent foods from around the world here

Sunday, 19 February 2012

nicaragua coast to coast

All photos except boy with fish (C) Neil Watson. 






OOOHHH THIS IS GETTING ANNOYING - HOW DO YOU STOP AUTO-PLAY? Shush!

Saturday, 18 February 2012

read a magazine by its cover.






I had a brief few hours stop over in Houston Texas, erm - yesterday? ( I'm confused with all the travel and time zone changes) anyway, while browsing for a magazine for the second leg of the journey ( Time Magazine - amazing animal friendships and Readers Digest - are you nuts or normal, because the glossy mags made me sick) I found these beauties...

 Guns & Ammo - "America - fuck yeah!"

Texas Trophies Women Hunt. How to shoot stuff and special feature - Antlers: Questions Answered. My question is simply- why?

 Vogue America. Some beautiful photoshop work here shaving at least 2 stone of the lovely Adele, and carving some dangerous looking cheek bones in her once peachy face, leave her alone! (Just look at that waist!)

And as we're in Texas - what better way to abolish those preconceived stereotypes than Texas Monthly - The Greatest BBQ Story Ever Told. ha ha.

Lastly - Bon Appétit - nah I literally can't be bothered to write about this one it's too ridiculous.

AND. Nicaragua like their cereals to look like this:




ZUCAPITAS...They're Gggrreeeat!