Performance artist Countess alex Zapak is putting on a free show at the Tabernacle tonight.
Whatever comes to mind before I alter it with the overpaint of time. Mostly satire, poetry and fiction but occasional unreliable fact, as all facts seems to be today. From deepest Notting Hill. London.
Thursday 23 June 2011
Elvis spotted in Powis Square, Notting Hill.
Elvis is alive and well. I spotted him in Powis Square yesterday going into the house that was used as the location in 'Performance' the cult 70's movie starring Mick Jagger and Anita Ekberg. Sorry about the picture quality but I had to move fast.
Suspiciously Elvis is performing at the Tabernacle on July 8th. should be fun.
Suspiciously Elvis is performing at the Tabernacle on July 8th. should be fun.
Tuesday 21 June 2011
The girl with the horse in her hair.
Performance Artist and storyteller The Countess Alex Zapak brings her fairytail Punk to the Tabernacle on Thursday evening. She is probably as mad as a box of frogs but interesting. I have not seen her show, I have however seen videos and talked to Alex and am looking forward to this.
Notting Hill could do with an injection of Avante Garde, Dadaist creativity.
http://www.tabernaclew11.com/whats-on/gigdetails/23-jun-11-the-girl-with-the-horse-in-her-hair-part-i-fairytail-punk-tabernacle/
It is a free event. The fb page is here:
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=220585207963199
Notting Hill could do with an injection of Avante Garde, Dadaist creativity.
http://www.tabernaclew11.com/whats-on/gigdetails/23-jun-11-the-girl-with-the-horse-in-her-hair-part-i-fairytail-punk-tabernacle/
It is a free event. The fb page is here:
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=220585207963199
Thursday 16 June 2011
ICON TACT.
Icon Tact. Bob West.
Bob writes:
It's constructed from a series of hand made faux messiahs in plaster around the edges. An actual external solid wood frame, The main image is on a separate board, canvas covered and slightly uplifted to sit proud of the framing device. The main panel is a montage of bits. There is a small upturned, hand painted postal box for jewellery in the bottom left-hand corner beside the central face; a fake looking relic on the other side made from nails and bits of gnarled leather and at the top right-hand side, obscuring the crown a little, is another applied 'thing' figure with a tin insert. The central figure is surrounded by what are to me rather archetypical characters making hand gestures that crop up a lot in my work. The worn down nature of the thing is a key element; lots of scratched surfaces and purposeful ageing - care worn and enticed. The main figure has brass 'eyebrows' from an old gas mantle. It's mostly painted in acrylic with household emulsion - although I am tempted to say 'household emotion' which has a better ring to its echoing tones.
Wednesday 15 June 2011
How to identify a fairytail punk.
Tuesday 14 June 2011
Portobello Art Gallery and what's going on at the Westway Development Trust.
Portobello Art Gallery is a 'pop up' underneath the Westway on Portobello Green (half way between Portobello Road and Ladbroke Grove). It is open until Sunday and although small contains some interesting portraits painted from photograph by Jon Cartwright . It is well worth a look if you are in the neighbourhood.
http://www.westway.org/trustnews/trustnews/11-05-23/Westway_Community_Festival_11th_-_19th_June_2011_Its_a_Celebration.aspx
http://www.westway.org/trustnews/trustnews/11-05-23/Westway_Community_Festival_11th_-_19th_June_2011_Its_a_Celebration.aspx
Monday 13 June 2011
Pigeon post.
this is a very early rough draft. Just notes really.
A song for last year's wife.
A song for last year's wife.
This spring
a pigeon scratched a rough nest
on the ledge outside the kitchen window
The ledge where you grew parsley and mint
and the scarlet geranium you nurtured from a cutting
taken on a drunken walk home
from outside the neighbours house.
The pots have gone
the herbs long dead
the geranium fell to the basement last winter
leaving space for the rough nest
in which a pigeon laid a solitary egg
It was not a good nest
I scolded the bird for such slapdash househusbandry
but we watched over that egg
as I fed her seeds and crumbs
and fretted with her.
On the third day
a jackdaw took the egg
there was nothing I nor the pigeon could do
a jackdaw took the egg
save make accusative stares
a jackdaw took the egg
I did not take the egg and I could not save the egg
she did not take the egg and could not save the egg.
but I think we equally cared for that egg
until we decided to blame each other for it's loss.
I have not seen the pigeon since and I have let the pigeon go
but the egg still haunts me.
Saturday 11 June 2011
Kittens in nature. This blog hurts.
I am well known for my lack of enthusiasm for anything remotely kittenish.
The following arrived via twitter from Philippa Perry:
Kittens in nature
On a spring day
Come through on twitter
and ruin my day.
He finds a reason
As soon as he can
To hate little kitty
Although he's aman.
kitty must bear
The brunt of his blame
All of his misery
And much of his shame.
Thank you Philippa.
The following arrived via twitter from Philippa Perry:
Kittens in nature
On a spring day
Come through on twitter
and ruin my day.
He finds a reason
As soon as he can
To hate little kitty
Although he's aman.
kitty must bear
The brunt of his blame
All of his misery
And much of his shame.
Thank you Philippa.
Pepe Francis MBE.
Congratulations to Pepe on the award of his gong for services to Steelpan music. More HERE
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