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/
Monday, 1 November 2010
ME LEAF
... from the pages of 999 DAYS in 3 minutes;
... comes just one day;
... "ME LEAF" ...
http://www.onelifephotos.com/ruSSeLLhiGGs
... plus ... NEW FUMETTI ... THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Stik's street people in Hackney, meet Krishnamurti, samhain 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5131996114/
... comes just one day;
... "ME LEAF" ...
http://www.onelifephotos.com/ruSSeLLhiGGs
... plus ... NEW FUMETTI ... THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Stik's street people in Hackney, meet Krishnamurti, samhain 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5131996114/
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
NOTHING by Russell Higgs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V46LNUYZ4G8
... an improvised vocal video performance from 2007 mashed with an instrumental from 2009, plus subtitles
Sunday, 24 October 2010
belonging
I've always been an in-betweener, never feeling I belong in any social group; I have a feeling of distance from educated professional types, just as much as I have a feeling of distance from people I presume to be tabloid readers etc. I try not to pander to my assumptions and prejudices etc, but nonetheless I'm always an outsider.
... most of my relatives are what I'd call tabloid readers and most of my friends tend to come from middle class backgrounds.
... the first time I ever really became conscious of class was during my 3rd time in prison in 1985. During my first two prison sentences I was mostly just locked in a cell, but my 3rd time inside I was assigned work as a cleaner/food server, and therefore I mixed with more people inside on a daily basis.
There was a most bizarre period at the beginning when almost everybody in prison caricatured my voice. They'd greet me pitched way down low and they'd say "okay yar Harrods." Of course this just made me laugh, because it was surreal and nothing to do with my actual reality :)
... plus ... the alienation is of course added to by being gay in a world where we are dependent upon the heterosexual majority eventually evolving enough to legislate our fucking human equality one day.
... I mean, don't get me wrong, I LOVE being me, I really do and always have done. I think I'm lucky to be me etc and I've always enjoyed my own company. But nonetheless "belonging" feels nice (I assume:) I think belonging has become a topic for me since both my parents died.
... most of my relatives are what I'd call tabloid readers and most of my friends tend to come from middle class backgrounds.
... the first time I ever really became conscious of class was during my 3rd time in prison in 1985. During my first two prison sentences I was mostly just locked in a cell, but my 3rd time inside I was assigned work as a cleaner/food server, and therefore I mixed with more people inside on a daily basis.
There was a most bizarre period at the beginning when almost everybody in prison caricatured my voice. They'd greet me pitched way down low and they'd say "okay yar Harrods." Of course this just made me laugh, because it was surreal and nothing to do with my actual reality :)
... plus ... the alienation is of course added to by being gay in a world where we are dependent upon the heterosexual majority eventually evolving enough to legislate our fucking human equality one day.
... I mean, don't get me wrong, I LOVE being me, I really do and always have done. I think I'm lucky to be me etc and I've always enjoyed my own company. But nonetheless "belonging" feels nice (I assume:) I think belonging has become a topic for me since both my parents died.
Friday, 22 October 2010
PLAY
... I've known since last weekend that I didn't make it to the jury's final 25 videos in the first Guggenheim Youtube PLAY biennial. Naturally I felt a bit deflated for awhile. But, hey, it was great being shortlisted...
... http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/10/jury-selection-for-youtube-play.html
... http://www.youtube.com/play
... http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/participate/youtube-play
... http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/10/jury-selection-for-youtube-play.html
... http://www.youtube.com/play
... http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/participate/youtube-play
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
back in the bath
"Russell Higgs In The Bath" has now been put back online by Youtube, after a false accusation of Hate Speech where I couldn't access my channel until I had "agreed" that I'd violated Youtube's guidelines; plus that pesky nazi anthem swastika video that had been prominently positioned next to my "999 Days" for the past 7 months has now been removed by Youtube.
... in the bath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzXdK2wh0I
... 999 days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0O6OWUL3k
... in the bath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzXdK2wh0I
... 999 days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0O6OWUL3k
Friday, 8 October 2010
dah dah
... I like serendipitous options with my narrative intakes;
the option to interrupt the narratives;
I think that is one reason why my 2 most recent cinema experiences felt on some levels to be too restrictive and controlling; perhaps too ideologically 1920s/1930s (the global birth of talkies AND public relations etc );
the option to interrupt the narratives;
I think that is one reason why my 2 most recent cinema experiences felt on some levels to be too restrictive and controlling; perhaps too ideologically 1920s/1930s (the global birth of talkies AND public relations etc );
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