#HYPERLAPSE TOUR | Alexandra Park Manchester M16

Hyperlapse tour of the newly renovated and re-opened Alexandra Park, Moss Side, Manchester. 

& below, various photos taken around Alexandra Park, pre-regeneration, a couple of years ago...

SINGAPORE BIRD ZOO | JURONG Bird Park | September 2007

Visited whilst on a stop over en route to Australia, Jurong Bird Park is probably the most pleasant place in Singapore. Though kinda sad that, apart from the parrots, every bird in there is pretty much on lock down, cage-wise.

NEW YORK CITY PHOTOGRAPHY | October 2003

Disposable camera photos from 10 days spent in New York, October 2003. Guest starring ODB, Ice T and all the Chelsea Hotel tenants...

Inspired this mixtape too...

KEITH HARING POP UP SHOP | Tate Modern London 2009

Found these photos the other day, shady 2009-era no-filter camera phone shots of the Keith Haring pop up shop at Tate Modern, part of their Pop Life exhibition. I assume there was a no photo rule which is why everything looks a bit covert. 

The soundtrack was  Paradise Garage classics (see below for Fab 5 Freddy talking about the first time him & Keith went there...) 

Would be nice if someone put this exhibition on again somewhere...

The text below is taken from the exhibition guide...

Keith Haring made his name in the early 1980s when he took his chalk to the unsold advertising marquees dotting the walls of New York City subway stops. Haring saw the ‘Subway Drawings’ – schematic, hit-and-run line drawings, populated by his signature cartoon-like emblems, including the ‘radiant child’ that became his logo – as a way of circumventing the usual channels of the gallery and the museum to bring art into the daily lives of the city’s commuters. 

As he became a major figure on the downtown art scene, Haring forged a close friendship with Warhol, and the two artists collaborated and exchanged works.

In 1986, Haring opened his Pop Shop in New York, offering a range of merchandise branded with his distinct visual style. The walls, floor and ceiling were covered with Haring’s graffiti, and the goods on sale changed hands to the accompaniment of a continuous rap soundtrack. Like his subway drawings, Haring saw the Pop Shop as a way of accessing the public directly. Art, typically out of reach to the average consumer, was packaged in the form of affordable commodities. 

Haring embraced merchandising as a medium. ‘I knew I would be attacked’, he said of the critical dangers inherent in crossing the line between art and commerce. However, he recalled that Warhol was ‘a big supporter of the Pop Shop’. Indeed, for Haring, Warhol ‘was the only figure that represented any real forerunner of the attitude about making art in a more public way and dealing with art as part of the real world’.

Fab 5 Freddy talking about going to Paradise Garage with Keith Haring...


Video from when the pop up shop exhibited at National Gallery Of Canada...

 

& for additional viewing...