So the past week was quite conflicting I guess, for the past few months I have been amping myself up to see the new Batman movie because we all know how great the last film was and how great batman is in general. Needless to say I was sorely disappointing. I don’t want to ruin The Dark Knight Rises for anyone but yeah its pretty much the worst batman movie I have ever seen.

On Thursday I got a message from a good friend of mine Jahra asking if I would be interested in doing some filming for a spoken word night at 1885. I always saw spoken word nights to be this super wanky pretentious collection of try-hard hipsters wearing beret’s carrying bongo drums and snapping their fingers constantly. It turns out spoken word nights are only one of those things (snapping fingers constantly). It was a really beautiful and inspiring night full of energy and some really talented performers. I am currently trawling through videos but check my YouTube channel systematically for more updates. Here is one of the performances from “Decolonize the Night: spoken word @ 1885”

The third and final eventful thing this week was me FINALLY getting to try out some of the products from the mindblowing new collection from M.A.C, Heavenly Creatures. I was so impressed by these products that I decided to do a shoot semi-inspired by them (and a little bit of final fantasy 7 and black swan). If you are familiar with the video game Final Fantasy VII (7) or even the film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children then this may make some sense to you, if not I apologize. I initially started out with the idea of doing a shoot based around the character Jenova from FFVII but really stripped back and totally re-invented, my only constraint to the initial Jenova was that she be travelling to earth. Then I got my hands on a couple of the products from the Heavenly Creatures collection and then I sort of clicked as to how I was going to visually represent this Jenova character. For some reason mythological space birds come to mind when I think of Heavenly Creatures and swans are birds….. black swans are birds….. black swan…. ballet…… Post apocalyptic black swan bird lady coming to a new planet from her futuristic metallic cube meteorite! Have I lost you yet? My mind works in strange and mysterious ways. Continue reading →