I shall try to keep these posts to at least once a month!
JUNE: consisted of me working very hard to finish off my uni work, in which I have got a FIRST for my second year!! YUSS! Hard work still lays ahead!
The talented Garazi Gardner (Garazi Photography) decided she wanted to photograph me. I love how different our photography styles are, and love to collaborate with others who I think are amazing, so it was fun fun fun. Here is one of the images from the shoot, she's made me look super hot with her magic skillage! http://www.garazi.co.uk/
Then just before I rushed off to BARCELONA, the SuperSuper team got in contact and said they wanted me to get involved with a documentary that channel 4 were doing on them, and so they came to Brum to document what I do for the magazine. Here is a photograph taken that day by the talented and lovely Billa. http://www.flickr.com/photos/billa
JULY: Barcelona was amazingggg! Even danced on stage with GRACE JONES! She is by far the most supreme beautiful being I have ever seen! I do want to go back to live in the near future and have started a night course in Spanish. Although, London will probably be my next home after Birmingham. I back home to find me plastered all over the SuperSuper mag. I had roped my photographer friend Ursula Roxy into taking the photos of me on a very cold 6am morning in my garden with a sheet for a backdrop. Oh so glamorous in my blue thong swimming costume! http://www.flickr.com/photos/ursulaisamazing/
SEPTEMBER: I was on TV. :-) and so was my aunty if you watched COME DINE WITH ME in SWANSEA. She owns the house the poet Dylan Thomas was born and brought up in and wrote a lot of his poetry in. She has done it up in true 1914 style, you can stay there and have a real Swansea 1914 experience. http://www.5cwmdonkindrive.com/
Getting into conversations/debates about heated subjects on the internet, never ends well, so just gonna have a bit of ramble here. It does make me sad that there has been quite a backlash of hate about the SuperSuper docs. I mean, in terms of my own involvement I know that what I am doing is not meant to be a joke, and is actually supposed to be positive. But I think, it's one of those things that when you use a typically (or media-typically) archetypical non-hero and place them as the importance: the fashion icon, people think you are taking the piss, which is inevitable. I try to present the people I find in the same way I would if I came across 'fashionable young things'. I truly find these people interesting and worthy of being admired. Why not? Because they are normal? or old? Well that's a little boring if I can only find inspiration in media slick pages. I love people, and I love talking to people. I had one guy tell me it was the highlight of his week to have someone want to take his photo, as nothing else happens in his life. The government had stopped paying for him to do a night-class and I thought that was very sad, and for me, it is not just about taking the photos for the magazine, I love to talk to people. One of the first guys I ever photographed for the magazine, Abdul, is now a friend of mine and we keep in touch about our adventures, and things we find interesting. I am not trying to be like, wow, some photographs of old people as fashion icons..how different. It is merely supposed to be a nice reflection and idea that anyone can be a fashion icon, and we can decide on that. These people may not be your fashion icons, but they are mine. Anyway you can watch my section in the video below, and check out the new supersuper website. http://www.supersuper.tv/
Okay, I have actually said the word SuperSuper too many times now. :-) But I do think it is full of amazingly talented and might I add, nice, people!
I entered a small competition at the Impressions Gallery, Bradford, and was shortlisted, but didn't win.
I'm excited and feeling positive about more exciting things to come!
i Think the SuperSuper docu waS reaLLy Sweet!! i Loved watching it! why the BackLash?
ReplyDelete..gReat woRk as always Alis! i Look foRward to what you do nexT! :) :) xxScaRlettChaRlettxx
being renown 4 having a sense of humour is a bad thing?
ReplyDeleteThe backlash took me by surprise too. I would have countered some of it, but YouTube wouldn't let me reply to comments for some bizarre reason. As soon as I get my mitts on this elusive issue 19, I might post a video review of it, so people can see the magazine behind it all...which along with the website, I think is pretty well written [although I'm new to it from issue 17, and I missed issue 18, 'cos my local Smiths are crap at stocking it].
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