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Virginia Black/nearerdark

About Me

I film bands, and photograph things.
my youtube
my flickr
my blog on tumblr
Star Fucking Hipsters @ Camden Underworld, 24.05.09 (more on youtube)
Lot Lizards @ Catch, 14.06.09 (more on my youtube)
Bo Ningen @ Catch, 14.06.09 (more on my youtube)
Blue Bambinos @ Tower Tavern, 12.06.09 (more on my youtube)
Moral Dilemma @ Camden Underworld 24.05.09
The Slackers @ Camden Underworld 19.04.09 (more on my youtube)
One of my favourite places
I love using GIMP
I use Apophysis sometimes, too
but I prefer GIMP...

...I definitely prefer it
This seriously needs rewriting/updating, and it was going to have a dear little Flickr badge right here, but it won't work due to javascript elements. Drat. Oh well, sorry, hmm. You can view the images above on their very own flickr pages by clicking them, however. Hopefully.
I film bands - I started late February last year, had a long hiatus over the late spring and summer and early autumn, then started again. I shoot from the crowd, so it's a bit rough and ready sometimes, but I'm getting better.
My films are up here: on my youtube channel Here's one:
I also have some videos on vimeo , although I mostly use youtube at the moment. You'll find some of those further down, I expect.
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I write about music sometimes, I do odd bits of acting/background sometimes too. And obviously I take a lot of photographs, and sometimes play around with them a lot. There are a couple of thousand more of them here: here
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Meanwhile, some videos from vimeo - these were the very first things I filmed, pretty much...
Peter Doherty, The Torriano, Kentish Town 20.03.08 from nearer dark on Vimeo .

The bar where this gig took place is under threat from property developers - please sign The Torriano's petition to help them stay open: here
This is The Johnsons at Death By Stereo, New Cross Inn:
The Johnsons - Afraid Of The Dark from nearer dark on Vimeo .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



Filmmakers, writers, artists, musicians, people who are never going to get it out of their systems. People with a bit of a thing for decaf lattés who occasionally mislay bicycles and can hold a conversation for eight hours. And Dennis Hopper. And Robert De Niro. And David Lynch. And Alex Cox. And possibly Catherine Deneuve. And, but for chronological discrepancies, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Sanford Meisner, Montgomery Clift, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis. And Miles Davis. And Joe Orton. And Robert Mitchum. And Edith Piaf. And Noel Coward. Actually, I'd really like to meet Ada Lovelace.

My Blog

Mongrel Soundclash, Kid Harpoon and His Lost Boys videos up

I've put up on youtube videos from His Lost Boys @ Hope & Anchor (15.12.08); Mongrel Soundclash @ Boston Arms (16.12.08) including first ever set from The Traitors, and the Carlos Drew and Kyle setett...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:26:00 GMT

I’ve just started filming gigs

I got a Sony Handycam a couple of weeks ago, and started taking it out with me. I'm just filming live music - and I'm still learning how to do it, but I've put some videos up online on my vimeo accoun...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Happy happy joy joy and Headbutt

Went to the immensely ace All Ages Records in Camden today (well, technically yesterday, it was Thursday November 9, but I'm still awake, therefore it's still the same day), and got Headbutt's Solvent...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:37:00 GMT

Something that doesn't include "first" in it, because that would be ungood

I feel like writing something, but it's a bit nervy-makingness, or is it? Might try recipes, safe enough. Um - here goes. Alternative potato salad. Boil a leek up with the potatoes! Honest, slice it a...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:32:00 GMT