Monday, 31 January 2011
the end
... I went to the theater last week. Am glad I went, I learnt stuff etc, but I didn't FEEL anything. In fact I found it a bit too theatrical. But the audience seemed to love it and at the end they mostly all stood up while applauding. And I didn't stand. I thought, I really *didn't* feel anything and so if I stood up it would be just because of a feeling of peer pressure and it'd be dishonest of me.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
bEy0nd thE plAnEt 0f thE ApEs
....NEWS UPDATE ... I've been thinking a LOT about what's important and what do I want re being LIVE and HOSTING a social event blah blah blah .... and I've decided that bEy0nd thE plAnEt 0f thE ApEs needs to be *really* stretchy and amorphous. NOT just an evening in a bar.
... Therefore THE very NEXT bEy0nd will NOT be this Thursday downstairs at Olive ... It will instead begin as a daylight walking narrative tour ... maybe a few buses too so bring your oysters ... date to yet be announced, probably a weekend day :) ... Hope to see you there x
Archive: http://www.flickr.com/photos/folkushackney/sets/72157625566745194/
... Therefore THE very NEXT bEy0nd will NOT be this Thursday downstairs at Olive ... It will instead begin as a daylight walking narrative tour ... maybe a few buses too so bring your oysters ... date to yet be announced, probably a weekend day :) ... Hope to see you there x
Archive: http://www.flickr.com/photos/folkushackney/sets/72157625566745194/
Sunday, 23 January 2011
LIVE
... http://duckie.co.uk/ ...
A culture's power structure depends largely on how we look and how we are looked at.
UNDRESSING:Russell Higgs Live Onstage @ Duckie 22Jan2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5382096784/
... VIDEO ... 17 December 2000: Russell Higgs @ Downing Street
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKTneEC2gc
... PHOTO ALBUM ... The Unclothed Human Appearance In Public Space At The Start Of The 21st Century
... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/sets/72157625723827797/
DRESSING UP: Russell Higgs Live Onstage @ Duckie 22Jan2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5382096382/
... VIDEO ... 999 DAYS IN 3 MINUTES
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0O6OWUL3k ...
... PHOTOS: daily self portrait photo archive
... http://russellhiggs.shutterchance.com/archive.php
A culture's power structure depends largely on how we look and how we are looked at.
UNDRESSING:Russell Higgs Live Onstage @ Duckie 22Jan2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5382096784/
... VIDEO ... 17 December 2000: Russell Higgs @ Downing Street
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKTneEC2gc
... PHOTO ALBUM ... The Unclothed Human Appearance In Public Space At The Start Of The 21st Century
... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/sets/72157625723827797/
DRESSING UP: Russell Higgs Live Onstage @ Duckie 22Jan2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5382096382/
... VIDEO ... 999 DAYS IN 3 MINUTES
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0O6OWUL3k ...
... PHOTOS: daily self portrait photo archive
... http://russellhiggs.shutterchance.com/archive.php
Friday, 14 January 2011
temporary flickr censorship
... I see flickr's dastardly restrictions are tighter and pettier than I'd first assumed and you need to be *signed-in* to flickr to see my pics.
meanwhile and with that in mind, here's my new kitty powered fumetti ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5352848648/
meanwhile and with that in mind, here's my new kitty powered fumetti ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5352848648/
Monday, 3 January 2011
make up make up never never break up
.. It always fascinates me that so many men are attracted to people who daily cover their faces with paint.
And it is also interesting that the people who lead the way in mainstream acceptance of artificiality (cosmetic surgery etc) are women.
... personally I'm just not *sexually* attracted to faces with make-up on and therefore I find it a genuinely curious thing that so many men are attracted to people wearing makeup. Obviously though I can still appreciate great looking madeup faces etc :)
... I do also think it a curious thing that so many people, predominantly women, consider it ordinary and/or a necessity to paint their faces every day :) I'm not criticising make-up, by the way, I'm just saying it is kind of surreal that it's normal, when you think about it :)
And it is also interesting that the people who lead the way in mainstream acceptance of artificiality (cosmetic surgery etc) are women.
... personally I'm just not *sexually* attracted to faces with make-up on and therefore I find it a genuinely curious thing that so many men are attracted to people wearing makeup. Obviously though I can still appreciate great looking madeup faces etc :)
... I do also think it a curious thing that so many people, predominantly women, consider it ordinary and/or a necessity to paint their faces every day :) I'm not criticising make-up, by the way, I'm just saying it is kind of surreal that it's normal, when you think about it :)
irony
... my censored flickr:
... ironically the one image (from 2007) that remains visible to all, it was itself temporarily censored once upon a time and then reinstated by flickr as being officially "safe"; thus it remains visible today when all else since 2004 are currently sodding invisibilised by flickr to any casual visitor who has default "safe-search" settings.
... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/376538369/ ...
... my censored flickr:
... ironically the one image (from 2007) that remains visible to all, it was itself temporarily censored once upon a time and then reinstated by flickr as being officially "safe"; thus it remains visible today when all else since 2004 are currently sodding invisibilised by flickr to any casual visitor who has default "safe-search" settings.
... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/376538369/ ...
Friday, 31 December 2010
more online censorship
.... I discover my entire FLICKR collection has been marked "RESTRICTED" and is therefore currently INVISIBLE except for ONE IMAGE ... 6 fucking years I've been with flickr without a problem ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/
Sunday, 26 December 2010
xmas day 2000
I'm naked in Brixton prison;
a nun says to me, through my cell door, "why don't you put some #clothes on and get a #job."
a nun says to me, through my cell door, "why don't you put some #clothes on and get a #job."
Friday, 24 December 2010
Monday, 20 December 2010
compulsory religion in school
... in the "religious knowledge" class at my school in the 1970s I just used to wiggle my pen to make it look as though I was writing stuff down. I had page after page of wiggly pen lines.
... in church at my school in the 1970s I often used to read science fiction novels by Michael Moorcock :)
... in church at my school in the 1970s I often used to read science fiction novels by Michael Moorcock :)
Friday, 10 December 2010
BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE APES downstairs @ Olive - 9dec10
http://www.flickr.com/photos/folkushackney/
Monday, 22 November 2010
Ian Richardson
"Sir Ian Richardson has final resting place in row A"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/nov/22/sir-ian-richardson-rsc-theatre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11809603
"New £112m Royal Shakespeare theatre to open its doors this week, with actor's ashes buried in the foundation"
... back in about 1978, when I briefly experienced a period without a home of my own, I sometimes used to pass Ian and Maroussia on the stairs :) they were off on tour and I was moving in as a temporary guest in their central London flat :)
... my beautiful great big Yamaha CS30 synth lived in Ian's flat for awhile in the late 70s :)
... I watched the first transmission night of Channel 4 upstairs in their south London house. I was on mushrooms I think :)
... Ian and Maroussia came to see my band performing in the early 80s. Was it the gig at the Broadway in Hammersmith?
... he used to make me laugh :)
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_%281998_film%29
... Ian's eldest grand daughter and me ... greeting the pope in London earlier this year :) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6759865&l=814cadbcc4&id=526724739
... his preferential choice of furniture was very alien to me though :) What was it? Edwardian perhaps :) Very very camp. Like a museum :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/nov/22/sir-ian-richardson-rsc-theatre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11809603
"New £112m Royal Shakespeare theatre to open its doors this week, with actor's ashes buried in the foundation"
... back in about 1978, when I briefly experienced a period without a home of my own, I sometimes used to pass Ian and Maroussia on the stairs :) they were off on tour and I was moving in as a temporary guest in their central London flat :)
... my beautiful great big Yamaha CS30 synth lived in Ian's flat for awhile in the late 70s :)
... I watched the first transmission night of Channel 4 upstairs in their south London house. I was on mushrooms I think :)
... Ian and Maroussia came to see my band performing in the early 80s. Was it the gig at the Broadway in Hammersmith?
... he used to make me laugh :)
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_%281998_film%29
... Ian's eldest grand daughter and me ... greeting the pope in London earlier this year :) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6759865&l=814cadbcc4&id=526724739
... his preferential choice of furniture was very alien to me though :) What was it? Edwardian perhaps :) Very very camp. Like a museum :)
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Commonplace episodes 1-9
... from the pages of the print edition of the Hackney Citizen
... Commonplace episodes 1 - 9
... http://www.flickr.com/photos/folkushackney/
Friday, 12 November 2010
Uni
when I eventually got round to enjoying 3 years of Westminster Uni, 1998-2001, I climaxed by HANDwriting my final year's thesis while I was in a prison segregation cell, Brixton, continuously naked for a month, for the duration of the Uni Xmas Holidays :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jan/05/guardianletters1
"what is #HigherEducation for? They all assume that the point of higher education is better earnings" ...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9774/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jan/05/guardianletters1
"what is #HigherEducation for? They all assume that the point of higher education is better earnings" ...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9774/
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