ghost towns graveyards and beds ....

Virginia city .... where Bonanza was filmed ...where it used to take an hour to cross the single main street ... where thousands and thousands of goldminers and silver miners swarmed .....
where men still wear spurs and sheriffs badges and the sidewalks are wooden slats slumping now like an Alice in wonderland rollercoaster....

where the graveyard looks like a giant has been throwing around old

....beds .....


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Vogue Australia ...Melhop retrospective

mmmm
going through
boxes and boxes of images from the last 20 years of photography ... and look what I found ...my first ever shoot for Vogue ...

and can you believe ... I still adore it ....

so,...... I shall run it again privately :D for my own pleasure ....





and here we all are with our fake red cheeks on like the model ...looking like total babies ...
how wonderful !!! all still friends living all over the world now, and all still working together when we can !!!!!! the best original crew ever :D

waltz......

my latest work in Italy .... lush exaggerated baroque villa dream in Milano

scary faery ...... 28 hours

... faeries arent necessarily "nice" you know .....

and this one is particularly bad tempered and wicked

he joined me on my latest seven league boots leaps

...you never can tell what mood he will be in but

he has flown a very very long way in a very very short time

..............................

3 am get up ...

Reno ........... fasten seat belt

Nevada ..... high mountain desert

Las Vegas... (a nice lady helped me with the shooting... )

buckle up in Vegas

flit around in San francisco.... but dont get caught

ahhhhhh green (still SF)

back on the plane ...erghhhhh need food now!

feeling pretty tragic in Frankfurt...

until.... ahhh breakfast time again ...at 2am...luvely

but when you get to Italy ..it's all worth it ...............

roast tomatoes from Etna... mozzarella di buffala from Capua

basil from Toscana... balsamico from Modena...and oil from Puglia ...

...caspita....

faery food

home sweet home

scary faery was handmade by the very brilliant and constantly ALIVE Ingermaaike for me ...his job is to bring good fortune and lucky-ness where-ever "we" go .....

I really like him .... despite his kranky bad disposition....

he does make me laugh.............

ghost girl

a long time ago
in a land far far away ...
there grew an obsession ...
for abandoned houses
and ghostly presences



"ghost girl" were my first ever published abandoned house shots ... they were shot about 15 years ago, on 5x4 inch infrared black and white sheet film ... not easy stuff to deal with ... film that has to be loaded by hand in a dark bag on location...

film which is affected not only by light and chemistry but also by heat (hence the fingerprints)






these images will be shown by the Arthaus66 gallery New Mexico.
10 x 12 inch prints in an edition of 10 each...

they are to be printed on the most luxurious Japanese black and white paper that is so matte you cannot see where it begins and ends .... zero reflectance ... it's wonderful stuff ...like the Yves Klein torso of Venus ...matte blue that fools the eye and makes spatial distance recognition impossible ...
(she most certainly wasn't in a case when I saw her ,.... I guess too many people just had to try and touch her ...)

hmmmmmmmmmm...............something something... something ...the dark side

astronauts.... stars and black holes

so...
wondering what this year will bring ... ( I think you are supposed to think this on New Years day....I'm having a slight delay...... again....)
seems to be some tiny bit of positive movement amongst all the gruesome grim-ness ... of the dark void the world seems to be slipping into....



why does Neil Armstrong standing on the moon always make me feel brilliant?
so much so that i made a pinhole image on polaroid of the iconic picture from my computer ... 1.5 hours exposure through clingwrap... nice ....

my first ever animation attempt

so the last week i have had my nose glued to my computer ...animating my still photography for a short film proposal ....

777 still images sketched into ,composited, photoshopped for animation later and i have a rickety-crickety 1 minute movie to stitch together as a storyboard for the "big break" competition in NZ ... judged by Peter Jackson and Barrie Osborne ... obviously heroes .... being from hobbit-land myself

a few frames follow and the real thing is here

it would make a very happy Frances if you zip over and vote for my little movie in the next 24 hours...
maybe I will get a chance to get a real film crew and shoot it in New Zealand end of January this year ..... vote here
(i hate people that do this "vote for me thing".... but not to worry)

grin and bear it...kiwi style :D








did you vote yet ...did you ??? did you ????