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Greetings! Hope the new year n new decade are treating you well so far…

MYLDN is back…in black and white.

I have decided to go on a ‘colour strike’. Colour is optimism and positivity, two things I am currently a bit short of. Last time I went monochromatic was in 2016 after the referendum result. And once again things look grey and more divided, more polarised, and so black and white seems a better reflection of these times.

The absence of colour also seems appropriate as am in mourning for common sense, decency and the death of socialism which seems to now be no more than a crumbling relic of a former era. We have drifted too far from the concept of a country as a collective community and a global one seems nothing more than sheer fantasy.

Also feel we should be in mourning for all the species we have killed off, a process that is happening right now in Australia and all over the globe. And it will only continue as there is nothing really being done to stop it. At this rate and at this trajectory this extinction process, at our hands, will eventually include us. We are the problem so it’s clearly difficult to be the solution as well as this would mean getting rid of the problem, which is us.

We live in strange and disquieting times and the strangest thing about for me it is that, we carry on our lives as normal and discussion about this collective threat is kept to a minimum which just makes it all the weirder so am sharing this feeling in case it is a shared feeling. It is not just the elephant in the room but the elephant in our heads, silently trampling over our personal ambitions, hopes & desires, and just about contained by denial and/or intoxication.

I personally am struggling with the absurdity of carrying on with normality at a time when the opposite is required but feel I must continue documenting this paradoxical period as am sure furious future generations might want to look back and see what we were actually doing when we should’ve been dealing with it. And also, like everyone else, I don’t know what else to do.

I didn’t really want to start this year on a downer but it would be utterly false to pretend everything is hunky dory. Apparently if you have nothing good to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all so I will try to keep my mouth shut for a bit and let my pictures do the talking. I still want to continue to document the world and the people around me. I can see, just beneath the surface, the angst that we are all carrying about the future and to capture our barely hidden anxiety might lead to some acknowledgement of our collective paralysis…which in turn might lead to action.

So am going to stay schtum for a while….if you have followed my blog for a while you know what I am for and what I am against so I’m not sure what else there is to say. As Jarvis Cocker so righly says “Cunts are still running the world” and that doesn’t look like its going to change anytime soon…

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#MYLDN MERRY XMAS!

I posted the above shot back way back in dec 2013 but it still remains my favourite festive shot. It also appears in MYLDNBK. Not sure if I mentioned I have a book out or not (hehe or rather ho ho) but thought I would give it one final push as apparently there is this national event coming up where you buy gifts for people…can’t quite remember the name of it …Consumeristmas or something like that…

Incredibly this Steel Drum Santa is still out on Portobello Rd. The shot below was taken a couple of days ago. He’s lost his fag puffing mate but he’s gained a beard and still going strong, although he does appear to have somewhat lost his festive cheer. which is maybe more a statement on these times. Even Santa’s feelin it.

I know, its not quite over but I am wrapping up for the year as off to bury my head in the sand and hope it all goes away which apparently is a really effective way of dealing with things. Tried and tested. That aside I would just like to wish you all happy holidays and a happy new year…tanks for tuning in and see you in 2020!

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The election is upon us and the Tories are still up in the polls but I cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone would want to vote for them unless they were possibly minted, masochistic or mental.

They have run this country completely into the ground over the last 15 years. They have systematically sold off every asset this country had, run millions into poverty, dismantled public services, crippled the NHS and fucked the country sideways with a referendum no-one wanted or asked for. And yet still people want to vote them back in. And this is after an extended period of relentless misery, uncertainty and back to back fuck ups…so for fuck’s sake, why?? Cos Boris can deliver a good one liner and has a floppy fringe?? Really??

People used to vote for Tory because they were the party of business and were worried the economy would suffer under anyone else but Brexit will destroy the economy, even more than it has already already, and so that doesn’t even make sense anymore. And yet still people cling onto this outdated notion.

Labour’s policies will restore care towards communities, create green jobs and reduce inequality. The Lib Dems will ensure we stay in Europe. The Green Party will put the climate emergency at the top of the agenda. These are all good reasons to vote for these parties. What are the Tories going to do other than continue to service the rich and screw everyone else in the process?

For the climate, for equality, for basic fucking decency…please, I’m on my hands and knees begging you please…anything but tory!!

If you want to vote tactically go to: https://vote-smart.org.uk/ 

#MYLDNBK – Celebrity Endorsements (Ep. 6) – The Farage

So that’s the last of me celeb endorsements. Thanks again to all those lovely famous folk who took time out of their busy famousy lives to say a few heartfelt words about my book. Bless their little cotton socks.

You also might be relieved to know it’s also the last of the MYLDNBK campaign. Hopefully it hasn’t been too relentless. You can blame a quote I read which said : “Without promotions something terrible happens..nothing”. So figured I’d better do me best and punt the shit out of it whilst trying to successfully traverse that fine line between engagement and harassment. Was I successful in that endeavour? Only you can say. Hopefully there were a few laughs along the way. i sincerely believe promotion to be a joke so you might as well try and make it funny. Bada bing!

#MYLDNBK – Celebrity Endorsements (Ep. 5) – The Kate

Kate was a doll. I say she was a doll, she was actually an incredibly advanced cybernetic artificial life form and a testimony to the continued technical advancement in robotics. She also had superhuman strength and could crush a Volvo in her teeth.

Please note: These are 100% real testimonials. The celebs featured have not received any payment whatsoever. Their views are their own. Well Kate’s were programmed but her AI endorsed them.

https://babycakesromero.com/buy-myldn-a-streetview-of-london-life/

#MYLDNBK – Celebrity Endorsements (Ep. 4) – The Putin

Putin ‘suggests’ you get a copy…and you know what he does if people don’t agree with him so prob best you get one…or you’ll be sleeping with the fishes.

SANTA VS MYLDN

Watch out John Lewis, there’s a new kid in town…

Yes, a heartwarming tale of a kid losing his shit cos he didn’t get a copy of ‘MYLDN, a streetview of London Life’ which many, if not everyone, ever, has said could just be the perfect xmas giftâ„¢

Buy MYLDN – a streetview of London Life.

50% all of all my proceeds will go towards youth homeless charity Centrepoint. If you want to give directly to them here is link to their website. You can sponsor a room for just £12 a month or 40p a day and you can keep a young person off the streets.

https://centrepoint.org.uk/

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This week’s shots feature graffiti and street art plastered across the walls of this city highlighting the importance of the climate crisis in this upcoming election in the U.K. The environment should be at the forefront of the political debate, which it appears to be for every party but the Tories. The following passage is from Naomi Klein’s book on the environment ‘This Changes Everything’ which I am reading at the mo and it explains exactly why Boris did not attend the climate debate on Channel 4.

“it has become increasingly difficult to discern where the oil and gas industry ends and the British government begins…At least 50 employees of companies including EDF energy, npower and Centrica have been placed within government to work on energy issues in the past four years..the staff are provided free of charge..”

Clearly no conflict of interest there. No, not at all, not one jot. So we basically live in an ‘Oiltocracy’. Like Trump, Boris is just a fossil fuel flunky (F.F.F) He works for them. A vote for the Tories is a vote to ensure ‘business as usual’ for the oil n gas industries so they carry on as they have been, which is to relentlessly plunder our ecosystem for shareholder profit with zero concern for the collateral damage to humans and all other species.

And not only will no-one currently in power get in their way but they are actively supporting them, pumping billions in subsidies, paid for with your tax money, which will allow the continuation of planetary devastation. Their actions, if not stopped, will ultimately destroy our ability to live on our spinning spherical host. Doesn’t feel like a good move from what I can see. ..

The next five years might just be the most crucial time ever for the human race in the entire history of our species as it will determine what path we take, which, for survival, requires putting ourselves on an entirely different path, because this one has revealed itself to be a dead end. The need to radically change our way of life and to confront head on the effects of climate change will require us to have strong forward thinking leaders that will take us in a new direction. Boris has none of these attributes.

Like Trump & Bolsanaro, Boris is not strong, despite him trying to play the ‘churchill’ card. These FFF’ are weak spineless men because, despite knowing (they’re cunts not idiots) of the consequences they continue to cower to their masters and help them to destroy the resources of this planet which are vital for life to continue. They are not the future, they are the past. They are the weights of yesterday that will drag us down into the depths from which we will not be able to return.

If Boris can’t even be arsed to turn up to a friggin tv studio to discuss it what do you think he’s actually going to do for the environment? Sweet FFF..A! So vote Tory, vote for humanity’s death warrant. That might sound overly dramatic but contrary to the utter inaction of this current government this actually is a fucking emergency. And saying it is one, isn’t actually part of the solution.

If they aren’t going to act like ‘our house is on fire’ we need to. And that means getting rid of them. We need to get these blocks in the road out of the way for good so we do not consign ourselves to a footnote in history. Many species have been and gone since this Earth formed but none have been dumb enough to wipe themselves out. And we’re supposed to be the most evolved so far. Not really looking that way right now because we are destroying the host that keeps us alive and as I have previously stated, even bacteria know to keep their host alive which means, right now, we are dumber than bacteria…

I feel like I have said these things many times but now as we get ready to choose our elected representatives it is a chance to remove those dragging us towards the precipice and enlist those who want to initiate a greener future, which means having one.

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When I was a kid I wanted nothing more than to travel into the future and with 2020 looming I realise I actually achieved my dream, I just did it the long way round, in real time. The future doesn’t look quite as shiny and as optimistic as we maybe imagined back then but it is definitely here, as am I.

What we do now will dictate what kind of actual future we will have but we must act now… doing nothing will not maintain the status quo. Doing nothing will propel us forwards towards a future none of us want to be in…

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