The gilded halls of London play host to some multinational back-room dealing (with mini croissants and freshly squeezed orange juice). A gang of climate activists decided to upset this corporate cosiness by making love, not oil.
Yeah, a molasses-smeared dirty protest.
Many thanks to Platform and UK Tar Sands Network.
November 30. The largest public sector strike in generations. Some people go out and do a march with a placard and scream themselves hoarse. I head out on a bicycle with my camera and a couple of political hairdressers fighting the cuts with…erm…cuts….
Thanks to The Haircut Before the Party, Emily James, James Leadbitter, ZCZ and [...]
It was one of those one-off phone call scenarios.
Dr D, this wheatpasting vandal I know, rings up. “You still doing your telly things?”
Yes.
“What you doin tonight?”
Erm…. I scrabbled around for a camera.
“Wanna meet me at six or seven around [redacted]?”
So after I convinced Emily James to come out shooting with me, we met D on [...]
The second instalment of my Random Acts films for Channel 4 aired on Monday night.
This one is on the Situationist-inspired anarchitect collective, the Space Hijackers. Troublemakers with a dapper cut and a razor-edged wit, they saw fit to tackle moves by the UK’s coalition government to privatise bits of the NHS. Their mode of battle? [...]
Santa doesn’t come once a year. He comes by the thousands on a sozzled, situationist-inspired derive that wreaks merry ho all over the streets of London. He paints the town red and white and has little time for pesky elves. He can be nice, but on Santacon, he’s only ever naughty.
