As you set out for Ithaka....

Robin
Originally uploaded by Fanny's flickr

Hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

"Ithaka" by C.P. Cavafy

x FM x

Absence / Abstinence

Yeah right, so I pretty much haven't updated since I was made redundant in July.

Not that I haven't spent most of that time online.

Not that lots of stuff hasn't happened.

But I have one to say of the last couple of months...

a very big FUCK YOU to anyone who thinks the economic crisis is over.

It's not.

There are basically no jobs out there at right now.

It fucking heartbreakingly depressing.

It made me feel fucking worthless and desperate for a while there, so I can't imagine how much harder it has been for anyone with a family / lots of debt / a mortgage / little to no redundancy pay out / looking for their first proper job.

Thanks to all the asshole who put us in this.

I feel so fucking lucky to have another job, even if it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do right now.


x FM x

Xmas in the 80's

Today I discovered gilbyrocks on Flickr when he added the above pic of mine to his favourites. He appears to scouring Flickr for old photos of kidz with their 80's Xmas presents. The brilliant thing is that from a distance, all the photos looked like they could have been from my family photo album. Every lounge room, hair cut, xmas tree and set of pyjama's seems to be curiously similar. Amazing.







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Lawless love

Originally uploaded by narq

Image by Ian Morrison



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Fuck The Law party

FM Impersonating Police
Originally uploaded by bristly pioneer

To raise funds for their recent and ridiculous impersonating police officer charges on April Fools Day at the G20, the Space Hijackers threw a police uniform fetish party on Saturday.

My outfit wasn't half bad for 20 squids off ebay. Definitely an*arresting* officer ; P

Image by El Miguel

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Critical Mass

Critical Mass @ Buckingham Palace
Originally uploaded by Fanny's flickr

On Friday I accidentally attended my first Critical Mass. I had been thinking about attending previously and knew that there was a ride on that evening but had booked tickets to see "Three More Sleepless Nights" at the National Theatre.

Funnily enough, when I came out of the NT at 7pm, there were hundreds of cyclists milling around o the South Bank and I realised that conveniently it was the meeting point for that evening! So excitedly, grabbed my little red and joined the ride!

And when we stopped at Buckingham Palace briefly, I took some photos :)

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Glamour Kitten shoot

Glamourkitten.com jewellery shoot
Originally uploaded by Fanny's flickr

I recently shot some photos with Paul Ashby and Charlie Pycraft for vintage jewellery website glamourkitten.com.

I haven't done any photo work in some time but it was quite amusing to be styled by someone else for a shoot for once, especially as I look like my mother in most of these photos :)


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