Latitude 2012

I haven't posted in ages as been in the library for most of the year so far but now I am more or less free! I have just received the prints back from the disposable camera I took at Latitude Festival this year so I thought I would share a few...

The Painted House

In the Faraway Forest was, well, lots of exciting stuff to be honest! The thing I least expected had to be the Norwich and Norfolk Medieval Association who were in full costume and giving demonstrations of medieval music, armour, candle-making etc. The most magical part of the Faraway Forest had to be the Painted House, an immersive installation by Imogen Eveson and Samara Tompsett, inspired by the boudoir of Marie Antoinette. This became the fashion-hub of the festival with various workshops and dressing up with Rag and Bow Vintage!

Just Married

I really hope that Latitude Festival was their honeymoon...

Theme Park

The picture is terrible but I was glad to catch Theme Park at the lake stage.

For a better look, check out 'Milk' here:

One of the many theatre performances that take place all over the festival site. I have no idea what this was, I was just passing by, but it looked pretty good!

Back into the Faraway Forest 'searching for Boudica', an audio installation by Art Assembly. I am not sure if we found her, we kept getting distracted by all the other stuff that was going on.

The Kid's Area

I don't want to sound weird or anything, but seriously, the Kid's Area is probably the best part of Latitude. If it wasn't creepy for me to hang out in there I would be there half the time I was at Latitude! They have the best workshops and games, including wand-carving - geek attack!

View from the top of the Helter Skelter

 I may have gone into the Kid's Area to go on the Helter Skelter - I couldn't resist.

The inflatable lighthouse

Rock-balancing

Can't wait til next year!

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In FHM - On Emily Atack!

As in my gilded spider ring is in FHM (April 2012) on the finger of Emily Atack "She's Tv's sexiest girl - and here's the proof"!

I have basically given up on blogging at the moment because my dissertation is genuinely making me feel genuinely ill but I was pretty excited to see my ring on the cover of FHM so I'm going to share a few pictures. And much thanks goes to the stylist Hayley Forester for picking the ring!

Front cover! Whoop!

And here is a clearer image of the ring. Sterling silver with gold plated body, clutching a black diamond and with teeny little diamond eyes!

I do find the poses for the editorial quite funny: Here's Emily sitting on some stairs wearing trainers, a denim jacket but no trousers! Now she is standing in the livingroom...Now she's hugging a giant bear wearing even less! Blowing bubbles in the kitchen, lying on the floor eating fruit, reading a book in the denim and trainers ensemble, back in the kitchen wearing suspenders and drinking milk from the carton!

And finally stretching her hamstring on a radiator! Bizarre.

Though this final one does have a brilliantly clear shot of the ring!

There is also a pendant version.

All available from here.

Lad's mags are so silly!

I'll be back when I have written 11,000 words.

xxx

Kitten Goes to the Manchester Museum

Ok it's pretty much official now. I only seem to be able to post every 8 days. Ridiculous.

Anyway this is what was working on last week. I handed it in yesterday so hopefully I won't be done for self-plagiarism but if some Important University Person is reading this... I am just posting some work that I already handed in!

Also I owe an awful lot to two books in particular so I want to post links to them to make sure they get the credit they deserve:
1. Ottoline at the British Museum by Sally Craddock

2. Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt

All drawings are my own, photographs are my own or taken from 'Ancient Faces' (or other publications cited in the bibliography). I have not requested permission to use the images I do not own but have used them purely for research and will taken them down if required.

Ok, on with the project!

Having been given the assignment ‘How can we reconstruct the lives of ancient people using papyri?’ I have opted to create a book designed to appeal to a younger audience. This is in keeping with the aims of the forthcoming exhibition at John Rylands Library Deansgate to make the artifacts featured in ‘Kitten Goes to the Manchester Museum’ more accessible.

The End.

xxx

(I will do a separate post, perhaps on Friday, with the full bibliog because there's no room here and also some pictures I took behind the scenes at the Museum!)

Dissertation

I'm going to blame dissertation for having failed - again - to post on Friday as I had promised myself. I was in the library until about 7.30pm on Friday (largely waiting for the university server to stop crashing so I could get my exam results) and then the rest of the weekend I have mostly crashed out and watched the 6 Nations (go Ireland!).

Anyway, at the moment my life is looking at this:

While my head goes like this:

stereo skifcha from xgabberx on Vimeo.

But what I want to see is this:

(In my head I often imagine the elegiac poets as 19th century Parisian painters. Therefore this painting is 100% relevant to my dissertation!)

I wanted to do a post about jewellery in the Fayuum portraits... maybe tomorrow...

Goodnight!
xxx

It's Real

Friday post fail!

Trying to catch up asap!

Last Sunday I finally had a much needed haircut at  Sinead Kelly London. I want to upload 'Before' and 'After' pictures... just because it's funny... but the cut is for a competition so I have to wait a bit. So I will do a proper post in a couple of weeks but for now here are a couple of pictures from the day:

So I took the first picture to show mid-cut. I've got a number 2 shave at the nape of the neck which I love and the front is still at its' original length here.

Some mood board pictures. Rooney Mara's Vanity Fair cover was a major inspiration (here).

And soooo much make-up! Seriously, that is less than half of it! And you can see a bit of the lovely interior of the salon with the fantastic mirrors and flocked wallpaper.

Also last night I went to a gig for the first time in ages... which is probably why I completely forgot to post. I saw Real Estate at the Deaf Institute and it was really great - I even had a little chat with the bassist who was super friendly and came out to mingle and have a beer with the audience!

I took one rubbish picture:

My favorite song is Wonder Years but they have not done a video for that so here is 'It's Real':

More to come!

xxx


(P.S. totally forgot to say, I have Twitter! @YasminEverley     follow me!!!)

Victorian Dandy Ladies

At some point last year (I wrote it down as 25/11/11 but I can't seem to find it) BBC Radio4's Woman's Hour mentioned a Victorian stage performance I had never heard of before - Drag Kings!  It's fairly self explanatory what this involves (women performing dressed as men if you are really struggling) and I have heard of women in Japan dressing up as young businessmen and going to clubs but I had never considered uptight Victorian's society's reaction to ladies cross-dressing!

To get you in the mood, have a listen of this - not directly related but I am loving The Correspondants at the moment so there!

May I present to you... Vesta Tilley (aka Matilda Alice Powles)!

What a dapper chap!

Yes, I am just linking the pics from her Wiki page but check out the Beetle Jewellery!

Ella Shields is another male impersonator who wrote this parody of one of Vesta Tilley's most popular songs:

A third male impersonator of the time that I would like to hear more about Miss Hettie King who was actually on BBC's Desert Island Discs programme on 14th April 1969 but it is not available to listen at the moment which is sad...

Slightly off topic and going a bit further back in time... tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Siddal, the flame-haired Pre-Raphaelite beauty.



This looks like it might be a pretty cool blog in general but this is a nice detailed post about Miss Siddal...


That's all for now!

xxx

How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep?

I've not been very good at posting regularly but I shall now attempt to post something or other every Friday.
This is my resolution for this term (as well as magically completing my dissertation before midnight on the last day and somehow getting a first.)

I have attempted precisely 3 animations in my life. They have all been mediocre to say the least. If I needed any further confirmation that I lack talent in this area, Anna Ginsburg's animation for Bombay Bicycle Club's 'How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep?' would be it.

Anna has also made a really clear and interesting sketchbook blog about the process which led to the video (this is sort of what I originally meant for my blog to be like)

http://bicyclesonthemoon.tumblr.com/tagged/Bombay-Bicycle-Club/chrono

It is just lovely. I particularly like the copper curls. But I do have a bit of a thing for copper curls so I would. It also makes me want to watch The Science of Sleep again...

(it didn't remind me of this scene particularly but I have become increasingly obsessed with furry onesies... I might give in and buy a Kigu!)

xxx