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now I’m getting mega nostalgic over my past London “aesthetic” photography tendencies so of course I am sharing these unpublished winter scenes with you: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.

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.

Graham Coxon at the Forum

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

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

On the brink of insani-tea

Clipper will bankrupt me

It's almost that time of year again

In 36 hours I'll be on the Eurostar to London. I always end up having to leave the Netherlands right in the middle of cherry blossom season...

Ow rvwaa, trees! I wish I had more time to roll around in your petals

Shugo Tokumaru at Cafe Oto

So, was this totally amazing?

A: Yes

B: Meh

C: No

D: It was the worst thing that ever happened to me

Find the correct answer at the bottom of the page!

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