INTO: Japan, fetish scene, Japanese rope bondage, red lipstick, seamed stockings, tattoos, piercings, Agent Provocateur, latex, photography, Nobuyoshi Araki, Gilles Berquet, Torture Garden, Hello Kitty, rain, alcohol, and sex!
MAKES ME HAPPY: Rain, the smell and taste of coffee, traveling on trains, eating cupcakes, music, kissing, love, going out with friends, dancing, getting drunk, staying up all night, spending my mornings with a hangover, and sex!
MAKES ME SAD: Every time I feel bored:(
HOBBIES: Drinking beer is on of my favorites;)
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My friends, music, coffee, alcohol, and sex.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: On the internet. I’m a little nerdy :D.
“A lot of actors become actors because they like dancing for grandma and putting a lampshade on, but that’s just not my personality.”
– Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is one of the best actors planet Earth has ever given birth to. Her two Oscars, her performances that haven’t been nominated for anything and the two brilliant films she’s directed all attest to that.
Now shes starring in the new thriller Flightplan, which is about a recently widowed woman who is flying her husband’s corpse back to America in a giant plane she partially designed. Her daughter disappears on the plane and everyone seems to think the girl was never there in the first place.
INTO: Photography, rum, animals, cuddles, partying, tea, zombies, nature, making lists, being on time, piercings, tattoos, pale skin, smell of rain, old school horror.
MAKES ME HAPPY: More cuddles, being with people, acting like a child.
MAKES ME SAD: When the top of my ice cream falls off, rude people, ignorant people.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Internet, cereal, iPod, eyeliner, tea.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Taking pictures, eating, tidying, drinking tea, drawing, daydreaming.
This week’s #TattooTuesday winner is Andrea Bellavigna a.k.a. @andreadele who tells us: “This is my flower shoulder piece, each flower represents my family and I.” Beautiful!
Enter this week’s competition by replying to this tweet with a pic of your fav tattoo and the #tattootuesday hashtag.
Good luck!
A few things to remember:
You have to be 18 to qualify.
The tattoo has to be yours…that means permanently etched on your body.
On Twitter we search for your entries by looking up the hashtag #TattooTuesday, so make sure you include it in your tweet!
The livestreams and photographs coming from the May 12th Occupy London action outside The Royal Exchange are deeply distressing. The police are acting with impunity, seemingly unconcerned by the fact that their behavior is being witnessed. There are many images to review and videos to watch but the sequence in this video from 8.52-9.22 stood out immediately.
As the policeman in the front pulls back at 8:52 you can see one of his colleagues in the background has his gloved hand clamped over the mouth of a woman who is seated. As the video continues, you can see quite clearly how distressed she is by police behavior.
[Above: Another image from a different angle via @TheJanieMac]
Whatever you think of Occupy, whatever you think of protest, whatever your politics – this is unacceptable behavior and the police officer in question should be suspended from duty immediately. There needs to be an urgent review into policing of peaceful protest like this.
With the police behaving with such open aggression towards peaceful protesters, how long will it be before they kill another innocent?
There were further reports of excessive force being used against women on May 12 including this tweet from @jjarichardson:
The above video was upload by YouTube user yetanotherwyrdo who writes:
May 12th 2012 peaceful protest against global economic injustice outside Bank Of England, women targeted, pulled from peaceful assembly, arrested and being man-handled by 8 x City Of London Police, arms handcuffed behind back, 4 on top of her, Police kneel on her neck and then neck braced by 4 x City Of London Police, she unsurprisingly has an anxiety attack.
Another video, below (via occupylondon.org), includes an interview with a woman who was threatened by the police with having her children put into the custody of social services because she was a protester.
Tim Hardy is a software engineer, activist and writer from London with a particular interest in the role of technology in driving social and political change. He is the founder and editor of beyondclicktivism.com and can be found on twitter at @bc_tmh.
“In drama you worry and in comedy you really worry.”
– Steve Martin
Steve Martin is a god, not the G-d, but a god nonetheless. When I try to remember my childhood, I mostly come up with images of The Man with Two Brains and The Jerk. But in recent years, his work has turned to the more complex with such theater plays as Picasso at the Lapin Agile and the novella Shopgirl.
Next month Touchstone Pictures will release the film adaptation of Shopgirl with Martin writing, producing and starring. It tells the story of Mirabelle [played by Claire Danes] who oversees the rarely frequented glove counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. She is an artist struggling to keep up with even the minimum payment on her credit card and student loans. She keeps to herself until a rich, handsome fifty something named Ray Porter [Steve Martin] sweeps her off her feet. Simultaneously, Mirabelle is being pursued by Jeremy [Jason Schwartzman], a basic bachelor who’s not quite as cultured and successful as Ray.
