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TheOtherSimon

I'm so tired.

About Me

If you are a total stranger and you want to add me as a friend, then drop me a message and introduce yourself, as well as a friend request. I'd like that. I have also decided that 150 friends is quite enough and if you want be my friend then you better suggest one of my other friends to delete and explain why i should be your friend instead.
My Dark R'n'R past.. Me and my fellow members of Headbutt, ripping it up (literally) this time at Camden Falcon, circa 1992. Needless to say we were banned from ever playing there again.. And to paraphrase the Cr@ss: "Banned from the Falcon OK. We didn't wanna play there anyway.."Hahaha :) These days I take pics, in between making websites and vice versa.

I have been doing this cubist-esque form of photography, first made famous by David Hockney since I was a teenager, though I never even knew who David Hockney was until much much later. All it really is, is a kind of drawing, a way of sketching what I see.

I am a graphic designer and photographer, I live and work in Central London. I am a visiting Lecturer at The University College of the Creative Arts in Kent both in Lens Based Media and Visual Communication.
If you want to see some work, have a look at my myspace blog or go here:
My much neglected PhotoBlog on Blogspot for older work.
Or here: My Flickr photo stream where my more recent work is.
and also: www.simonlast.co.uk coming soon..
I like: rock n roll, big hair and eating italian. In fact I like eating most things. Old guitars and cameras. But not eating old guitars and cameras.
94% of my friends are actually really people I know and talk to.
35% of my "friends" are bands
30% of my friends in bands are in bands who are my "friends"
17.5% of my mates bands make music I don't like very much.
14% of my friends were, or are strippers.
6% of my friends are bands who I never heard of before who sent me a friend request.
8% of my friends make films for a living.
0.8% write porno for a living.
11% are students.
12% of my friends live in another country.
2% of my friends I agreed to add purely on the strength of their profile pic.
27% Of the non friends I added was because I wanted to take their picture.
1% of my friends is a total stranger who is now a friend tho we never actually met
By the way.. I made this up although in spirit it is correct..

My Interests

i am a mental jackrabbit, i get very very interested in things and then i get very very interested in something else.., writing, reading, banging bits of old metal, making things, playing my nice guitars, exploring music, weird cameras, taking pictures. i am getting obsessed with making maps of things and places. and Spirographs!!

I'd like to meet:

    People who would like to take part in my portrait project. People who like to build cameras out of other cameras and then take pictures with them.Anyone whos not an 24 carat gold plated asshole.

Music:

oh you know, the (un)usual, anyone bashing bits of old metal and shouting, surf-tastic twangy rock'n'roll, pussy galore, neubauten, the sadies, johnny cash, the treble spankers, headbutt, thee headcoats, thee headcoatees, the mummies, trashmen, trashwomen, man or astroman. The Mighty FALL! Pavement. The swans! the Handsome Family. The stooges

Movies:

Absolutely everything ever by Emir kustarica. Anything with zombies.

Television:

Trashy sci fi of any flavour atall. 24. Lost.. oh yes i cant deny it.. Cop shows.. black books, spaced, thats enough tv already.. battlestar gallactica remake. Its awesome.

Books:

Cyberpunk and hardboiledpunk, cybernoir.. you get the picture and if you dont there's always google..

Heroes:

Nearest thing to a hero could be John Peel or Johnny Cash..

My Blog

The Garden City Project

The Garden City Project, asked me to do some pics for them. More to follow (as soon as I have time to develop the negs). Listen to them  >...
Posted by TheOtherSimon on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:27:00 PST

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Posted by TheOtherSimon on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:06:00 PST

Battersea Bridge illuminated

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Posted by TheOtherSimon on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:37:00 PST

Breakfast at Peruginos

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Posted by TheOtherSimon on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:50:00 PST

Cranes Lioverpool Street.

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Posted by TheOtherSimon on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:45:00 PST

Anne Cambridge.

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Posted by TheOtherSimon on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:07:00 PST

Big Green Machinery, Kolding, Denmark

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Posted by TheOtherSimon on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:27:00 PST

Railway yard, Kolding Denmark

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Posted by TheOtherSimon on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:00 PST