Down House

 I went down to Down House the other day, to start off a new project about my lovely neighbour* Charles Darwin.

It was amazing, especially the recreation of Darwin's deck on The Beagle, which astounded me with a VERY LIFELIKE hologram of him sitting there playing with dead birds or something. I'm easily amused.

I learnt some INTERESTING FACTS about things like The Glutton Club and honey bees and I befriended a charming old man who worked there. He was probably excited to see a visitor under the age of 40; I was the only one.

I feel like a massive geek now, even more than usual.

*(I sometimes think I live in Victorian times...is Darwin not still alive then? What?)

photos by me

Freja Beha Erichsen

Marry me, please?

Life (or death) drawing

Got a bit carried away last week in life drawing...

He turned into a creepy stone angel.

Religion

Some images from my previous project, which focused on the gaudy (and often tasteless) decorations surrounding religion.

As inspiration I watched John Waters' Pecker, which I loved and would recommend to YOU. Watch it now!

Are you a boy?

A short film in response to gender issues in A Clockwork Orange!

Not great quality - I only really made it so I could draw from the stills, but you get the picture.

A Clockwork Orange - some pages from my sketchbook

See the rest here

New Holga

I traded my 120 Holga for a 35 cos I don't have access to a darkroom any more (sob).

This is how the first film came out (I used colour filters)

Corsets and curly hair

are quite nice

Poison apple

An ordinary day for me and Hannah: she took photos of me poncing around on a mouldy tomb in Hackney, pretending to be some kind of supervillain!

I dyed my hair

THIS COLOUR!!!

Dita and a criminal

I met Dita von Teese!

Can't remember where I found this image but I LOVE IT

I love how nonplussed she looks.

Not a real Power

"I didn't even realize I wasn't wearing underwear until the magazine came out."

Chan Marshall aka Cat Power

by Richard Avedon
source

Here's a picture I drew of her a while ago: 

Time travel

I went back to 1965 to find some lookalikes of 60s icons

to model a (kind of hideous) jacket I found.

Here's who I discovered:

Edie Sedgwick

Twiggy

Thanks to my sister Grace and my friend Alice. And her kitten.

Ooh

I just discovered poladroid...

The most cake...

...launch party.

I've recently been a bit obsessed with The Most Cake, which is a bit like Vice but for lesbians. It has articles like THIS , which might as well have come from my own brain! TMC is a welcome alternative to other lesbian/pop culture sites (After Ellen etc) which, although massively successful, seem to be aimed at a much older and more general audience. This one actually seems to have a sense of humour and more emphasis on PRETTY THINGS, for shallow people like me.

So on Saturday I went along to their launch party to hoard free cakes and snoop around.

(We bumped into our friend, the very glamorous CRAIG TEMPLATE)