Jason DeMarte

Jason makes some well good collagey photography mix media things, lots more here.

Spike Spends Saturday with Shane Smith

I'm sure you all got this in the Vice mailout because they got all our email address by putting on a free crystal castles tour, but just in case you didn't, this is spike meeting the founder of Vice, it's nice to see Spike trotting about more than anything

Ellie Goulding

I've missed any Ellie hype and subsequently am a fan, Gareth aint buying it. I'm not saying she's amazing or anything it's not like when I heard Foundations for the first time, I just like a bit of youthful romantic melancholy. Wearing a 2007 american apparel huddy aint doing her any favours but we can see past that.

what do you guys think?

myspace (inc Bon Iver cover)

Portraits Of Power

50 world leaders photographed for the New Yorker by Platon (fuck knows) inc Obama, Brown, Mugabe, and this dinkum. Includes audio commentary from Platon (still no idea) about each portrait, the brown story is pretty good.

Spotify Albums Vol 5

After Robots by Blk Jks

The Very Best of Talk Talk "It's my life, don't you forget!"
Upper Air by Bowerbirds The audio equivalent of an open fire, brilliant lyrics as well.
Immolate Yourself by Telefon Tel Aviv
Threadbare - Port O'Brian
Power by Boyz Noise
Album by Girls (just in case there is someone out there that hasn't listened to it)
Moderat by Moderat

Original Pirate Material by The Streets The Guardian Album of the Decade, one of mine too.

Bandstand Busking

Come marching on Saturday then go to this on Sunday, even if they did spell Hackney wrong.

My highlights of Photo Paris 09

Lise SarfariEllen Kooi
Evelyn Hofer
Adam Jeppensen
Hellen Van Meene
JH Engstrom
Holly Andres
Jean Christian Bourcart
Leigh Ledare

Rineke Dijkstra
Takashi Homma
Youseef Nabil
Wolfram Hahn
Yasser Alwan

Rhona Bitner

D T Hurley

...this took longer than you think.

Pollyn - Still Love

I like everything about this.

HEARTBEATS

Manchester! Amazing club night this Tuesday. Heartbeats. Do it.

No Distance Left To Run, Blur Documentary

One of my biggest regrets in life is befriending a quart of Jamesons on the sunday afternoon at Glastonbury 09 and subsequently passing out 2 songs into Blur's set, this documentary about their recent reformation might ease the pain a bit.

Black Snapper

Black Snapper is an amazing online magazine that presents a new photographer everyday, it has a different guest curated every week which makes it better and more varied, unlike things like flak photo which is good don't get me wrong. Today my boi Glen Erler is up for your judgement, you can go and rate each photographer, go on, rate him highly you'll feel good about it.

The Wave 5/12/09

Why not paint your hands blue, dress blue and head to Grosvenor Square for about half 12 next Saturday afternoon? trying to put a bit of pressure of folks before Copenhagen and all that. more info at Stop Climate Chaos site

...thanks for sending me this Luke

Yeasayer Ambling Alp Video

Bit of an obvious thing to blog I know but the imagery in the mountains is so good I couldn't resist. Directed by Radical Friend

One Of My Kind Documentary

The Story of the Mystic Valley Band

Lost In Transit Photography Exhibition

Debz has a show opening on Thurday night if you fancy it.

Theophilus London Humdrum Town

Paris Photo 09

Probably a bit late in the day to mention but Paris Photo is next Thursday till Sunday if you fancy it. Basically all the contemporary photography galleries in world take over the Louvre for 4 days, showing their photographers. It's amazing. Relatively cheap on the Eurostar and all that, you could just go for the day.

Do you remember when I just used to blog about rap? now it's photography, sorry about that. Wonder what it will be next...I'll probably get into Jazz one day...nah scratch that i fucking hate Jazz.

Laura Pannack

Laura has some brilliant work on her site. The blurbs for her stories are great too, you should read them.

The National Portrait Prize

Now showing at the National Gallery in central london till Feb 14th. Free and all that. Link here for more details and to look at all the pictures if indeed you don't live in London like my mum and dad and Javis Cocker.

Adam Patterson: Another Lost Child

Great photography story about people knife crime and shit here. Wouldn't mind having a pop at more social documentary photography one day, it's easy to get it wrong and make it boring and preachy I guess, but taking pictures of your mates next to a river in the sun might be seen as a bit trivial after a while...

Tom Stade...On Shopping

Guy Garvey's Magic Hour

Old news to some but...Guy Garvey's 6music show on a Sunday night has to be one of the greatest things in the world. I am currently listening to it in my kitchen, lights low, curtains draw, and having a blissful time, he has played some lovely songs so far, including The National, Johnny Cash, and Grizzly Bear, but such things are almost superfluous when coupled with his confessional, witty, and often autobiographical mode of address. Listen again here if for some reason you don't sit by my blog and miss it live.

PS. the Johnny Cash song he played was HEARTBREAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL and subsequently made the ever bourgeoning spotify playlist

Grizzly Bear "Ready, Able" video

Fricking amazing. Made by Allison Schulnik, yes the same Allison Schulnik I blogged mere weeks ago....coincidence??....yes.

Cait Fahey

I really love this work, so much so I bought the same camera as her on ebay (£11.70!!) it feels kinda wrong to do such a thing, like cheating or stealing or something but you know me I'll stop at nothing to be rich. Another point, ebay is good innit, first time I'd used it, you should have a look I think they have a website. Lots more work here.