Toothbrush party

Steve Bliss, ladies and gentlemen

Pink balloon

Kylie Griffiths

She of A Criminal Waste of Space.

LFW 2.0

Fashion week ended not a minute too soon. By day four I was already so underslept and hungover I'd have traded a PPQ goodiebag for an extra hour of Zzzs. HARD LIFE, as Jamie might say.

Tough as it was, we pressed on with vigorous tweeting for @viceuk_fashion and I even managed to squeeze out a couple of blogs - one here and one here. One of them contains boobs.

Also look at the funny video blog Jamie and Billie made about going through Henners' trash:


Overall I'd say my favourite collections were by Ashish, Richard Nicoll.

All Yr Vids

Here's a video you'll be tempted to re-watch at least five times. It's by a guy from Toronto. The shitty '90s throwback thing is supposed to be so over, yet somehow he improves on it to the point of being more on trend than an American Apparel catalogue and you just believe his stupid little song. Hmm. It's like commodified child-like glee. What genre would this fall under? Can we call it post-ironic-core? Can't describe music these days without inventing an idiotic "-core" suffixed adjective.



And here is video you should watch at least five times. Or at least until you appreciate the delicate complexity of the fucking genius lyrics. It's by my current obsession, Momus, who should have been bigger than Adam Ant and Pet Shop Boys put together, but instead has been making underground pop records for the past 20 years while writing books and generally being a true uncompromising vagabond bohemian with an eye patch and a Japanese girlfriend - arguably a better fate than the bloated '80s has-been he could have been. Momus is my new Bowie. He also has a brilliant blog and is coming to the Barbican on October 22nd for a Jacques Brel tribute concert.

Good cop, badass cop

and Pearly King.

Karma Kameleon

This was sitting in the front row of the Child of the Jago show tonight. Magic.

Finn again

Finn pt. 2

Cairo, in two photos or less

From August 2008

Last year's Ukie close-ups

Батьки! Роз'яснюйте дітям правила поведінки на дорозі!

Bestival Kids

I don't even like kids that much, but there's been a few of them on the blog lately. I don't know.

Bestival

Work has given me the new Olympus PEN camera to use for the benefit of the photoblog so I took it along to Bestival to find out just how rugged the brushed steel exterior really is.

Big fan of the "pinhole" setting.

Hmm, painful

There is a wonderful animation installation in a shop window in Charing Cross Road, somewhere near Foyles books. It is of a man castrating himself and inflicting pain on himself in various creative ways. Here are some photo screen grabs of it:

Notting Hill Carnival 2009

Kids I

Yesterday I hung out with some kids. MJ style.

Kids II