Look back in candour
In the absence of any real quality posts on this blog of late, I thought I'd show you some photos taken last year. These are some of the nicest outtakes from the fabled and highly self-indulgent 12-month self portrait project of 2010.
I was unfortunately rather blocked, stressed, ill and unhappy for much of last year and therefore it seems to me now that I sublimated a lot of my frustration and anger into these shoots which I think is part of the reason (apart from the fact that I was trying to achieve something artistically significant) that they had a real charge about them. I can appreciate them as a body of work now, but at the time I was often in pain, and almost always in a state of mental turmoil.
So they don't really come from a great place, but having said that they're among the only things that I consider of real value that I produced last year so, oh well...
Conversely, a lot of things have changed this year and I'm feeling a lot more fulfilled, less stressed and much more creative.
Unfortunately for fans of Miss K in pictorial form, this will mean much less of this sort of thing. It also explains the aforementioned lack of quality posting here on this weblog. Sorry. Creativity for me is like water, and at the moment it seems to be flowing very freely which means that much less of it sticks.
I'll write more about my relationship with my personal creative water cycle shortly. Bet you cant't wait!
Anyway, the photos.
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Help Deathline to help the victims of the Tohoku Earthquake-Tsunami Disaster in Japan
For the week from midnight GMT on Sunday 13th - Sunday 20th March we will be donating the entire proceeds of sales on Bandcamp of our first album SixtyNine to the Japanese Red Cross Tsunami appeal.
Powerlessness
I'm Japanese by birth and spent most of Friday and Saturday in a state of high anxiety watching the terrible images unfold and unable to contact my family back in Tokyo.
I finally got hold of a cousin on Saturday night and she was able to tell me that they were all OK, but up to tens of thousands of others are less fortunate and it's those whom the relief workers we're trying to help are working for.
I really felt shaken by the feeling of powerlessness and it made me feel desperate to help in some way and I felt the only way I could do that was to help financially in some way. It proved less simple than I'd thought. Because Japan is a "first world" country it rightly doesn't qualify to become the beneficiary of funds such as those run by the Disasters Emergency Committee.
One of the organisations that were definitely going to need help on the ground was the Japanese Red Cross, however, but even then we had to wait until they formally requested funding asistance from their franchises in other countries so it was a waiting game for a while. The call finally came on Saturday and so we decided that we'd make them the beneficiary of our fundraising.
What to do
We've lowered the minimum price of the album to $2 to encourage donations but we suggest you pay as much as you feel you can afford. We promise all money we earn from the sale will all go directly to the appeal to aid those working hard to help in the terrible aftermath of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Bandcamp have kindly agreed to write off some of their revenue share meaning even more money will go to the cause.
If you already own SixtyNine and don't want to purchase again, go to your country's Red Cross website and donate directly to the Japan Tsunami Appeal. Here's the link for the UK http://www.redcross.org.uk/japantsunami/
I hope you can find it in your heart to dig deep and help. Kind thoughts and prayers are all well and good but a situation like this demands direct action and financial support.
Please pass this message on to your friends and colleagues.
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\Life thru a square format
A friend on Flickr said:
"your photos seemed to have transformed - interesting results! we all change [or at least some of us}"
I replied:
I think it's probably more that the device and the app make it easier for me to immediately capture things in the way I always saw them, but thanks...
Above are all the public photos taken with the Instagram and Hipstamatic apps on my iPhone since I started playing with vintage photo apps last summer.
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I'm a Musician, writer, photographer, designer, transgendered z-list celebrity. Insomniac's boyfriend. Tragic glamour and sleepless nights are my fellow travellers. Skinny jeans and pointy shoes are my mode-us operandi. I like cats. Especially the ones who talk. Oh, and David Lynch.
