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Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london

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I have seen many weird and genuinely odd things in London but I have never seen anyone stare at rotisserie chickens for as long as this man did. In my mind, or rather his mind, he thought that it was maybe a portal into another dimension that would take him back to the era he really came from if he just looked at it long enough. I didn’t actually wait to see if his Hot Chicken Time Machine worked. I haven’t seen him since so possibly it did…if anyone wants to give it a go its at the top of Queensway.

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Me and my camera in my home town at night, my capital city, my london..nites

Alcohol giveth but it doth also taketh away…as you can see from this week’s collection of London’s nightlife. If there is one thing you can be pretty certain of finding on the city’s streets at night is a lot of drunk people. Alcohol fuelled nights out have always been an integral part of British culture but apparently its grip on our society is waning, even though hospital A&E departments might tell you different. Recent statistics show that the youth are turning away from booze binges in favour of online marathons instead. A shift in socialising into the virtual world has meant that there are seemingly less young folk getting wasted in public, although I have to say that it is not immediately evident from my experience.

What has changed is that a lot of bars are often conspicuously lacking a younger demographic and you are more likely to find 30something professionals than their broke 20something counterparts. London rents also mean that they are more likely to be stuck at home with their parents rather than being out on the town. So, isn’t this all a triumph for society? Keeping the kids off the sauce? Protecting them from themselves with prohibitively expensive prices?

Alcohol can be a very destructive force but it’s also important to remember that it has brought people together for thousands of years and helped them bond, have a good time and escape the horrors of daily drudgery. And even though its detrimental effects on our health are now well documented is it not necessarily worse than the habits that are replacing it. It has been proven that inactivity and over-eating are equally as harmful so its not actually a healthier choice to stay at home. I read yesterday that by 2020 more liver transplants will be linked to over-eating than to alcohol abuse. It has also been well documented that the amount of money that used to be spent by NHS dealing with smoking related diseases is now being spent dealing with obesity induced illnesses. Booze and fags were demonised for being unhealthy but it just shifted consumption elsewhere. We might as well all have stayed in the pub, got wasted together and had some fun instead of being isolated on our sofas watching back-to-back netflix and gorging on junk. Food for thought…

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Me and my camera in my home town at night, my capital city, my london..nites

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Me and my camera in my home town at night, my capital city, my london..nites

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Me and my camera in my home town at night, my capital city, my london..nites

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This week’s photographs are all part of my ongoing series ‘R u talkin to me?’. To see the gallery please click here

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Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london

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In Memory Of Pearl x

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limbs without faces, legs without heads..with only appendages to look at what does the brain do? it fills in the gaps. It imagines. It creates. It projects. Faces reveal everything but in their absence we are forced to look closer or we are forced to invent. When we do not have the full story we fill it in. Our brains can’t help it. They want the whole thing and don’t seem to care if the bit that is missing is completed internally.

For me, the weird thing is that the brain wants to do it in the first place. Don’t have a full memory of an event? Don’t worry, your brain will fill it in and then tell you it happened. Don’t know why someone is doing something? Fear not, the brain will assume motive and tell you that’s the truth. Can’t see anything but a pair of legs? Without you even realising it, the brain will sketch in the rest. This is why I think C.G.I has it wrong. The brain wants to be involved. It wants to fill in the gaps. It doesn’t want the full picture. And this is why I give you photos of legs. So your brain can do its thing. Off you go…

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Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london

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08/05/2015

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Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london

and so the tory status quo remains which means…

another four years of squeezing everyone but those who have it

another four years of watching the gap between the ‘have loads’ and the ‘have fuck all’ get even wider

another four years of destroying affordable homes & livelihoods to build luxury flats for foreign investment

another four years of blue blood bullshit as they push us towards the inevitable boom & bust so we can again pick up the tab.

whoopee fucking doo

07/05/2015

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Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london

And so its election day in the u.k. It’s been really difficult to pay attention to what any of the parties or candidates have actually been saying because its pretty evident they’re just spouting whatever bullshit they think they need to say to get elected. And everyone knows it. Why believe any election statement when they have systematically showed time and time again they will re-neg on everything they promise?

The famous saying that “you can tell a when politician is lying because his lips move” is never truer than during the lead up to a general election.Not that its really about policies anymore anyway…the popularity contest which it now so clearly is feels more like the X factor than the all-important task to decide who governs out country…a place where its apparently more important how you eat a friggin bacon sandwich than what your political party stands for.

So many of us have officially lost faith in the system and our representatives. And with good reason. You only have to watch the “The Thich of It” to know that self-serving careerists run our country under the guise of serving the population. (Yes, I know its only a tv comedy but its so obviously is like that ). If anything positive happens for the electorate it is most likely to be an accident. They just implement whatever nonsense they see fit as they scrabble around trying to cling on to what power they have whilst servicing the rich donors that put them there. I would go as far to say all politicians are on an ‘anal retainer’ and will receive rewards based on how much they are prepared to take it up the arse from their ‘real’ bosses.

The most positive thing I have heard recently is from a good friend who works in government who assures me on very good authority it is in fact the civil service who run the country, not the politicians. They quietly get on with things as the hoopla happens above them. The drivers might change but the cogs of the machine stay the same so it doesn’t really matter who you vote for.

Although, having said that, it is fairly evident there is a “lesser of evil” choice and in these days of necessary tactical voting we must ensure that the interests of the 99% are even vaguely taken into account.

Cynical? Disillusioned? Defeatist? Yup, yup and yups. Guilty as charged. Maybe Russell Brand will come to our rescue…although I have seen his version of “Arthur” so his decision making process must be questioned…

06/05/2015

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Me and my camera in my home town, my capital city, my london

“Ed Milliband is like a plastic bag stuck up a tree, no-one knows how he got up there and no-one can be bothered to get him down” (bill bailey)