Some Oscar Wilde quote

Spent too much time on Tumblr, discovered the dark academia tag and now I’m getting mega nostalgic over my past London “aesthetic” photography tendencies so of course I am sharing these unpublished winter scenes with you:

Let's celebrate this special day

It's Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's birthday! What better opportunity to shamelessly promote some of my photos from all the London concerts she blessed us with that I got to attend (which is every single one of them)

Koko

Roundhouse

Shepherds Bush Empire

Islington Academy

Happy birthday Kyary! May you live forever.

Christmas things in London

This year I went to London right when Christmas shopping season was getting started and took a ridiculous amount of pictures because Christmas? Two months in advance? Sign me up!

Then I realised I have nowhere to put them and it might be a good idea to fire up the old blog again so they all have a proper place to live and be enjoyed by everyone's eyeballs. Please ignore the fact that this took me almost two months to post, on Christmas Eve, which in blogging world I think is the last acceptable day on which you can post general Christmas content that isn't a giant gift haul.

Let's Christmas
I gave you my heart
But luckily I kept the receipt
So that the very next day
You could exchange it for something
You actually wanted

Metric, Shepherd's Bush Empire

If Emily Haines is not in your Coolest Women Alive list then I cannot take you seriously as a human being.

Salyu X Salyu

I finally invested in a Mark III! First gig I got to shoot with it: Cornelius + Salyu's Salyu X Salyu project at the Jazz Cafe in Camden. It was amazing.

White Denim + White Arrows

Hey! Remember when I used to actually go out and do stuff? And then came back home and wrote about it?

...no, me neither. It's hot. Please go easy on me. My mouse pad keeps sticking to my arms.

Anyway, here are some pictures I took of White Denim and White Arrows last week. Sweat galore!

Graham Coxon at the Forum

Multig-rain

Today I walked to Shoreditch to buy some multigrain mini bread at Albion (seriously, best multigrain bread I've found in London so far). On my way back it started to rain, biblical style, and I had to choose between seeking shelter in Spitalfields market or walking through the rain and risk getting my beloved bread soaked. The choice was obvious, so this is what I was stuck looking at for about half an hour this afternoon.

Look at all those running city folk!

Then the rain stopped, I walked back home and had a delicious multigrain + Nutella dinner. The end. Only it isn't, because I still have two mini loaves left for breakfast. Thanks Albion! Stay delicious.

My live music shots of the week

Kindness

The History of Apple Pie

Both these gigs were brilliant. Go see them if you have the chance, shower them with love and support, buy their stuff, etc. etc. !

S'no more snow

So the snow fun sadly didn't end up lasting very long. It started melting the day after and there's not much evidence of it left other than the occasional gray patch of sludge. Luckily I went out to document it right away (I felt I owed it to my friend Clara who loves snow but had to miss out on account of her being Spain-ed), so here's is my - kind of late - obligatory London snow photo post!

Butt faced snowman calls you in

Winter Solstice

Miniature Merry-go-round

Holiday window displays are serious business in London.

One year later: another Koko post. I sat on my coat this time.

Because I haven't done a music post in a while:

Wednesday I got a last minute pass to photograph Lucky 13 - Memphis Industries' 13th birthday celebration at Koko (read: I wanted to see the Go! Team for free, signed up in June and totally forgot about it afterwards). It was -really- tiring to shoot as there were four bands playing that night and I am lazy. And old. And deprived of sleep (I am typing this at 3 in the morning, I am my own worst enemy).

Luckily all four bands were absolutely wonderful and pretty good bands to shoot, especially The Go! Team - great energy, and such an amazing frontwoman! I was kind of bummed afterwards because I don't think I did as well as usual photo-wise but again...maybe I should consider moving my bedtime to a more reasonable hour so I can be all wide eyed and bushy tailed for the next gig. Maybe that'll happen. Some day. 

So yeah, since I'm a photog..rer..rerer, not a writer, I'll just leave you with some of my shots from the evening!

Walking from Kings Road to the City

A half assed attempt at masking my current inability to type up a nice blog post by throwing in a stack of Instax shots I took on my cliché autumn walk through London. Enjoy or something!

Kings Road

Big Ben can be such a downer sometimes

Needless to say I spent a lot of time blowdrying my shoes that evening.

Unintentional face

My smiley chocolate "gateaux" + teas at Fig & Olive

V&A Late: Yohji Yamamoto at Play

V&A Lates are usually brilliant so there's not much I can say about them. Or actually there is loads, I just don't know where to start. Any event that lets me claw my way through a tunnel of outfits (really!) gets a thumbs up in my book. I didn't take a lot of pictures, just of the Bo Ningen gig in the lecture hall which was really good. I wish I had more things to show as it's 2:30 and I'm tired/losing my ability to type nice stuff, but don't let my word and photo laziness hold you back from attending V&A Late this month, I'm sure it will be amazing as always!

It may be a cliché but Bo Ningen really is the ultimate haircut band

And because we haven't had a .gif in a while...

Baaaassssssss

Failing at having priorities

Lunchtime, strolling through Piccadilly, surrounded by food establishments. I was so set on getting a proper meal (or at least a sandwich) but when I saw these jellies wrapped in tiny fish kite papers...well, so much for sticking to the food pyramid system. It ended up reminding me of this though,

so yeah, that made starving through Soho all worth it in the end.

Chancery Lane Lions

It's grrrrrreat

Pretty s-trandy font, eh? (I'm so sorry)

Today I decided to take advantage of my proximity to all things old and amazing in London and went to Somerset House see Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals. I can highly recommend it, it's a good excuse to take a stroll through the old City area (forever one of my favourite neighbourhoods) and the statues are really beautiful. Just try to go on an "off" day to prevent being surrounded by tourists and tourist children. Today it was pretty peaceful and quiet until two artsy looking Chinese guys took off all of their clothes and leaped across the fountain square while a third one took pictures. I think it may have been a protest action against Ai Weiwei's (ridiculous!) imprisonment? So kudos, guys. It was freezing, especially near those fountains. I would've just said "T-shirt and shorts max, that's all" (hahaha no I wouldn't, I would be hiding in the gift shop like the coward that I am).

So go! And while you're there, make sure to take a picture with your favourite zodiac animal for future grandkids and the like. Mine is, obviously...