Monday, July 19th, 2010

Well I’ve been doing some editing…

…for the Index on Censorship.
They recently had Sir Tom Stoppard and the Belarus Free Theatre on at the Free Word Centre.
Nick Cohen wrote a smashing review in the Guardian about how to make a drama out of a crisis.
Belarus is possibly Europe’s last dictatorship where freedom of speech and expression are, to state the bleeding [...]

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Sky’s the Limit

BSkyB has rejected a takeover bid from its sister company News Corp, the beast that owns News International. In the eyes of the general public, this media clustershag is commonly referred to as Murdoch. Specifically, its patriarch Rupert Murdoch. If a takeover became reality, what would the future of Sky’s television news be?
Learning Mandarin Chinese [...]

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Questions Bloody Questions

The problem with filling out so many application forms for funding, placements, new livers… are the questions you have to answer. How does one eke out money for old rope – or worse, how do you feign insightful replies in approximately 200 words?
Here are a couple questions I’ve had to answer recently…along with the answers.
Which [...]

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Inside the Doctor’s Surgery: Dr D (and them billboards what he does)

Billboard vandal and drinker of tea Dr D plies his trade in a West London warehouse nestled in a landscape of railway lines, telephone poles and refrigerator graveyards.
When we meet, he is ankle deep in cut-out letters, spraymount and a scattering of UK election campaign propaganda. He’s recently finished a two-storey high paste up [...]

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Silly Lazarides

Oh dear oh dear. A silly man at London’s Lazarides Gallery has just sent an email cc’ing everyone on their client list. I won’t reprint the list but suffice it to say some of the people on there have A LOT of money.
A bit of background – photographer Steve Lazarides founded LazInc many moons ago…it [...]

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Haiti

Shortly after charges were dropped, I accepted a job as media coordinator for Merlin. They’re an emergency medical relief charity who responded to the Haiti earthquake by setting up a field hospital in what was a tennis court in one of Port au Prince’s worst hit areas, Delmas 33.
Part of my role was to spark [...]

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Dirty White Gold – The Film

I’m making a film. A virginal effort. I wrote an article for Who’s Jack last autumn. I was then invited on a press trip to India with Pants to Poverty. At this time, I was at the Frontline Club on a course with documentary Claire Lewis. I told her about the trip and she shoved [...]

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Copenhagen, Cop Off….

Environmental pressure groups have abandoned their moral integrity by clubbing together with arms manufacturers and corporate energy giants. So why should you go to Copenhagen?
Over 50,000 members of the “I Only Fly to India” militia will descend on Copenhagen over the next week to demonstrate over a shopping list of demands longer than J-Lo’s rider. [...]

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Travels and Travails

Have just come back from India filming my first ever documentary (by filming, I mean shooting, producing, directing, presenting, editing, everything myself) on suicides, pesticides and fashion. Working title “Deadly White Gold”… same as the article I wrote for Who’s Jack this September.
At its height, up to 26 Indian cotton farmers a day were drinking [...]

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

G20 vs 34C

Despite the fact that photographs from the first day of the G20 protests in April 2009 show me astride an armoured personnel carrier in black bra and blue boiler suit with another woman straddling me in red stockings and lipstick heels, the Crown Prosecution Service has charged me and 10 others with impersonating police officers. [...]