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Yellow Bear

Hola!

About Me


I try to be a photographer, filmmaker, arts-facilitator, workshop provider, documentarist, collaborator, music appreciator, botch job web-designer, image-based practitioner, darkroom operator, stop frame animator, card-maker, noise-maker, novice sewing-machinist, scribbler, messy person, clumsy person, lover, and friend.

My website: http://www.clairegriffiths.com/

My Flickr is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbear/
(My photography)

My Interests

Film making, photography, film, music, making things out of clay/fimo etc, making my own clothes with a dodgy old sewing machine I found in a skip, Animals, collaborative photography/film, self-representation, Sign-language (BSL), learning spanish, learning disabilities, collaboration.

I'd like to meet:

Those who still care..!

Music:

(smog), a silver mt. zion, Animal collective, ATP, arab strap, audience, Ali Farke Toure, lightning bolt, bardo pond, bob marley, bonnie prince billie, Klever, charlottefield, constellation records, deus, Diane Cluck, Fugazi, The Rub, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Dufus, Smoke, dufus, Espers, Fugazi, Currituck county, Tindersticks, elliot smith, Explosions in the sky, fly pan am, godspeed you! black emperor, good morning captain, herman dune, jeffrey lewis, june of 44, karate, kimya dawson, mogwai, mugison, nirvana, ariel m, pajo, papa m, pavement, peaches, rachel's, Taj Mahal, The dirty three, set fire to flames, shellac, sigur ros, slint, sonic youth, standstill, the diamond family archive, Vincent Gallo, Magik Markers, nofx, the microphones, the moldy peaches, tinariwen, tortoise, violins, will oldham, yo la tengo, do make say think, polmo polpo, Tortoise, Hrsta, Jaga Jazzist, Lambchop, Low, Peaches, Jackie-o-motherfucker, Hanged up,

Movies:

Gummo, Julien Donkey boy, the idiots, dancer in the dark, dead man, les amants du pont neuf, Japon, Rosetta, the man without a past, the garden, Nanook of the north, Benjamin smoke, Chain, The brown Bunny, Buffalo 66, Capturing the friedmans, Gerry, Buena vista social club, san soliel, la jette, the werkmeister harmonies, Every Little Thing, Fata Morgana, The New World, Punishment Park, Searching For The Wrong Eyed Jesus, The Thin Red Line, A Woman Under The Influence, Hidden, Rocky Road To Dublin, Notre Musique, Land Of The Deaf, Gloria, Eloge De L'Amour,

Television:

I don't have a Tv and havent had one for about 2 years, My life has become so much better, I learn more, I think more, I don't talk about shit Tv with people any longer......the only downer is that I get confused when other people quote tv and I don't get the joke, who the f@*? is Catherine Tate? and what is Boosh? trust me, lots of people don't realise how many others quote the same thing. Also I can't get through a few weeks without somebody mentioning 'Lost', is it really that good?

Heroes:

Werner Herzog, Harmony korine, Jem Cohen, Helen Keller, The Dardene brothers, Tarkovsky, Bela Tar, Bonnie 'Prince' Billie, all the musicians in my music section on here, there are more i cant think of them right now.