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Dean Stockings

Dean Stockings Photography & Graphic Design

About Me

Photographer & Graphic Designer - http://www.deanstockings.co.uk - http://www.gaydar.co.uk/...english_men::: Things I like ::: Jelly & ice-cream, red sparkly shoes, yellow brick roads, motorised disco balls, Leigh Bowery look-a-likes, club freaks, musicians and rude boyz...Not so recently back from taking a well earned year out to travel the world - Sept '05 - Aug '06. Russia, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Easter Island, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, New York, Pensylvania, Vancouver and finally back to Europe, spending the summer of '06 in Greece and Italy. It was an incredible journey!''' I have recently ventured into the realm of video making on a budget! It has been a whole load of fun and is something I plan to expand apon... Here's a short movie I made to go with Toyah's brilliant new 'Heal Ourselves' track. Check www.myspace.com/toyahofficial or www.toyahwillcox.com for more info. There's another (rather humorous one) further down the page for Toyah's 'Latex Messiah' track and there will be further videos added to her myspace page in the not too distant future...

My Interests

Travelling, Photography and Graphic Design being the main ones I guess...

I'd like to meet:

In an ideal world I'd like to step back in time to when Max's Kansas City was at it's creative peak in the 60's & 70's, and to meet some of Mickey's regulars - I'd probably be having a chat with Mapplethorpe about a joint project we were planning together, whilst being waited on by Debbie Harry.I'd like to photograph more of my musical heroes and inspirations, and I'd like to assist James Bidgood on whatever his next project might be...

Music:

Rufus Wainwright, Antony & the Johnsons, Joan As Police Woman, Mika, Luke Toms, Patrick Wolf, CocoRosie, The Twin, Daniel Cartier, Tori Amos, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Scissor Sisters, Toyah ('Ophelias Shadow', 'Prostitute' and 'Velvet Lined Shell'), Jesus Loves You, Marc Almond, Lou Reed, T-Rex, Sarah Brightman, The Divine Comedy, Dead Can Dance, Kate Bush, Air, Cocteau Twins, Eddi Reader, Madonna (Come on... I'm a gay man, what do you expect?), Blondie, Laurie Anderson, Goldfrapp, Erasure, Angus & Julia Stone...

Movies:

Pink Narcissus, Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, Moulin Rouge, American Beauty, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Brokeback Mountain...

Television:

Six Feet Under (Claim to Fame: I recently met Alan Ball!)

Books:

I have recently enjoyed books by Armistead Maupin, Paul Burston, Gregory Maguire & Jake Arnott, among others...

Heroes:

James Bidgood, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Pierre et Giles, Bowie, Antony, Rufus Wainwright, Mr O'Dowd, David LaChappelle...

My Blog

Boo!

Excerpt from Robert Fripps diary about the art of BOOing!"17.54  The Humans have been viddying & a triple run-through of their set.Toyah also set up a big boo! event as I returned from World HQ & thro...
Posted by Dean Stockings on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:16:00 PST

Txt from article about me in issue 66 of Blue+ magazine January '07

Some of my work and an article about me are in issue 66 of Blue+ magazine, January 2007. The article reads as follows:Shortly after completing photography studies at the Brighton College of Technology...
Posted by Dean Stockings on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:48:00 PST

The love of a good man

From SX National Magazine, Australia, February '07.http://www.evolutionpublishing.com.au/sxnational/index.p hp?option=com_content&task=view&id=258&Itemid=39The love of a good manFor Valentine's Day, we...
Posted by Dean Stockings on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:35:00 PST

Shits in the Gobi...

This is an extract from an email I sent September 2005 from Beijing, after travelling there from Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway via Mongolia (the least visited country in the world, apparently),...
Posted by Dean Stockings on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:42:00 PST