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On Saturday, July 7, 2018 I travelled to Dublin in the Republic of Ireland to see one of my musical icons from the 80's and 90's, James George Thirlwell (a.k.a. J.G. Thirlwell, Clint Ruin and Foetus). In particular it was the Australian's work as "Foetus" that resonated with me, forever changing my tastes in music. I have in my collection almost everthing that he produced at that stage of his career from 1981's single "OKFM" (OK Freeze Mother) until 2013's "Soak" (on both LP and CD). Though popularly known as simply "Foetus", Jim released albums under diverse variations of the name, including: Foetus Art Terrorism; Foetus Über Frisco; Foetus Corruptus; Foetus In Excelsis Corruptus Deluxe; Foetus Inc.; Foetus Interruptus; Foetus Over Frisco; Foetus Under Glass; Philip and His Foetus Vibrations; Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel; The Foetus All-Nude Revue; The Foetus of Excellence; The Foetus Symphony Orchestra; and You've Got Foetus On Your Breath.
I was incredibly privileged to see Foetus live on September 2, 1996 in a venue in Prague called "Bunkr" which was formerly a Cold War nuclear fall-out shelter. And what a mind-blowing gig that was! In Dublin, Thirlwell was the supporting act for another one of my favourite groups from the 80's and 90's, Matt Johnson and "The The" who were on their much anticipated "2018 Comeback Special." Johnson and Thirwell are long-time friends and colleagues.
The gig was at the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin and featured Thirlwell's latest project called "Xordox." For this iteration of Xordox, he was joined by long-time musical collaborator Simon Hanes (of Tredici Bacci) on additional keyboards. My old connection from Pretoria (South Africa), Helgard de Barros was there with me right at the front of the stage. These unedited photos capture some of what we experienced on that fine evening in Ireland.
There was a whole bunch of old Corvettes parked in the same spot. All of them were beautiful and shiny. Except this one. It's a '56 or 7, and had lived a pretty hard life. Flaking, scraped paint. Pitted and rusting chrome. Hood held on with bungee cords. Interior bits that were either beat all to hell or missing all together. And those weird Dayton-like wire wheels (with Corvette logos on the spinners!).
In other words, it was just right.
march 23, 2012
work, stc, $5 fish tacos at the corner, freebirds to see emily.
got this tiny little scrape thing on my ankle, but it's exactly where my shoe hits, apparently. yay.
falling out of Andres' mom's car.
Before we went to go see:
Romance on A Rocketship
Breathe Electric
Chase Coy
Stephen Jerzak
Pretty br00tal.
~4"x6" postcard
Dragged pallet (piece of paperboard) used for part one across paper.
Acrylic paint. part three of three part set of cards.
OK the arse has fallen out of the UK housing market and everyone has holed up for Christmas already. So I am taking all and any job I can get my hands on. I shot two probate flats today, one still had a chemical stain on the floor where they cleared up after removing the body.
This was a one strobe job. Can't even summon the enthusiasm to describe the set up. Although it did highlight the appalling conditions that some of our old age pensioners live in.
If you have an elderly relative that lives by themselves & because you're busy with your modern life you don't call in on them as often as you should I'm asking you to pop in and see them, check if there is anything they need doing.
If you don't live close, give them a call. They'll appreciate that just as much.
Showing wear in the centre; I forgot to take any photos before I started scraping, but the dip was about six thou before I started
i.e.0.006" or 0.15mm
The bottom right hand corner holds a casting, and was thus unworn. Similarly the very top of the column showed the original scraping marks, so was also unworn.
This gave me two reference points for the initial measurements.
A view looking straight upwards along State Street in downtown Chicago. One of the Marina City corncobs is along the bottom of the image and the top of Mies Van Der Rohe's atrocious IBM building is at the top.
Photograph taken with a Holga 120N using Kodak Tri-X film developed in Diafine.
Our 1st attempts at grinding. This is a simple ledge and a great start. A good fun day at the skate park.
Rider - Jay
This is Terry Cook's Lincoln Zephyr Coupe from around the turn of the century. This is the first show he took it to, the NSRA Nats East ('01 I think).
Getting there (eventually); the marker pen lines are to show the angles of the final scraping to make it look a bit neater.
I stole third base today, and I have this lovely little blemish to show for it. (I went on to score, and I was ultimately our winning pitcher, so it was well worth it.)
Loading Dock Sign. San Jose, California. December 26, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved. (larger)
Detail of a very worn and scraped red and yellow sign painted on an industrial loading dock in San Jose, California.
This very bright but very worn sign is painted on the front of a loading dock in a light industrial area of downtown San Jose, California.
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I suppose it's been done a million times, but here's one of my own interpretations of the Manhattan metropolis, using a wide-angle lens. There is another, telephoto, shot. As you can see, we had glorious weather, although it was life-threateningly cold, especially at the top of the Rockefeller Centre, where this was taken.