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Arcadia Noir

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About Me


I live in London with my husband "Vade Retro". Originally I am from Dresden (former east Germany) but have been living in London since '93.
For those people who need to label everything and everyone I guess I'd be an industrial gothic Hippie :).
I love photography and I am probably the last person on earth still using old-fashioned film! My profile shots are all self portraits - but I DO photograph other people as well - honest! ;) - for proof go to my website ( www.chameleonart.org ) or see below.
I am generally very creative and artistic - I love painting, making jewellery and clothes and lots of other stuff. Musically I am into anything dark from Blues to Industrial and love going to gigs and clubs (such as the Slimelight before it went seriously downhill and EBM took over). In fact these days it seems impossible to find a club that doesn't play EBM which is why my husband and I started running our own club night "REPTILE" at The Minories,just to have a place to dance to our favourite music and hang out with our friends. Click the link to check it out and join us if you like :)
I like positive, honest, straight forward no-bullshit people and hope to find a few new friends and/or models on this site.
If that annoying advert comes up during the slideshow please click the cross at the top right corner twice!

My Interests



photography, music, films, art, creativity, spirituality, Yoga, nature, discovering countries and cultures, animals (I am vegetarian), alternative people and lifestyles.Check out my website www.chameleonart.org

I'd like to meet:

Like-minded creative free-thinking people

Please don't add me if you are simply collecting friends for the sake of it and have no intention of writing to me.
A note to Bands: Unless there is a personal message attached to your request you will be refused.

This is a slidehow I created from the pictures I have taken in Lebanon: ..

Music:



Ministry, NIN, Revolting Cocks, Martin Grech, Neil Young, Jeff Buckley, Marilyn Manson (old stuff!), Pink Floyd, Andy McQuade, The Chameleons, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Doors, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, David Bowie, Radiohead, Sulpher, Filter, Tool, Gary Numan, Ours, Korn, Deathstars, Prodigy, Massive Attack, Front 242, Sex Pistols, Skinny Puppy, Jimmy Hendrix, The Skuzzies, Mortiis, Hybrid, Pantera, Misfits, New Model Army, Bad Religion, Placebo, Black Crowes, Depeche Mode, the old AC/DC with Bon Scott, Kiss, Alice In Chains, Faith No More, Sisters Of Mercy, Killing Joke, White Zombie, Bauhaus, Ultravox, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Kate Bush, Sigur Ros, Ella Fitzgerald, Cesaria Evora, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Puressence, Ennio Morricone, Manu Chao, Gypsy Kings, Bob Marley, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Puccini... ...and many more (and not necessarily in that order)

Movies:

I love films from the following directors:
Tim Burton, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Krzyzstof Kieslowski, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock, Mel Gibson, Yimou Zhang...
I like almost all the films featuring:
Robert De Niro, Jonny Depp, Chris Walken, Al Pacino (early films), Meryl Streep...
I like foreign films, especially French, Spanish, South American and Japanese.
21 GRAMS, BABEL, BIRDCAGE, BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, DANGEROUS LIAISONS, DEAD ZONE, THE DEERHUNTER, DONNIE DARKO, DRACULA, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, THE GODFATHER, GREEN MILE, HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, IL POSTINO, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, THE JACKET, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, THE MACHINIST, MISERY, OF MICE AND MEN, OUT OF AFRICA, PAN'S LABYRINTH, PRISCILLA - QUEEN OF THE DESERT, PULP FICTION, RESERVOIR DOGS, ROAD TO PERDITION, SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE SHINING, SOPHIE’S CHOICE, THELMA & LOUISE, TRUE ROMANCE
I also love Ali G, Blackadder, Bottom, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted and David Attenborough's Nature programmes!

Television:

sucks!

"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye." Bill Hicks

Books:

I love books and got one with me all the time as I read pretty much every day! I love Stephen King, horror in general and Autobiographies, my favourite are real life dramas (that goes for films too)... the last amazing book I read is "The Time Travellers Wife" and I am presently reading "Breaking The Chain" by Andy McQuade.
BILL HICKS
1961- 1994
"I believe that everyone has a voice of reason inside. I believe that it is quelled by the shrieking idiocy of mainstream media that we hear and it has added to our hopelessness on the planet because mainstream doesn't offer answers, they only continue the problems. And I believe the voice of reason inside of us has the answers if we'd only calm down and listen to it."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."Bill Hicks
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."Nelson Mandela
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"UNTIL DEATH DO US PART"
This painting was a wedding present from our friends Sara & Dwayne Shirley. To see more of their amazing work click on the painting.

My Blog

The Art Of Not Being Offended

The Art of Not Being OffendedBy Dr. Jodi Prinzivalli There is an ancient and well-kept secret to happiness which the Great Ones have known for centuries. They rarely talk about it, but they use it all...
Posted by Arcadia Noir on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:53:00 PST

GLOBAL WARMING - what you can do

..>   What You Can DoTen Personal Solutions ..> ..> Individual choices can have an impact on global climate change. Reducing your family's heat-trapping emissions does not mean forgo...
Posted by Arcadia Noir on Mon, 07 May 2007 09:28:00 PST

1,2 million cluster bombs in south Lebanon

For the first time an Israeli soldier has accepted to talk about the war in Lebanon and he has launched a warning: "My batallion has  launched about 1800 rockets. Each one contained 650 bombs, it...
Posted by Arcadia Noir on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:49:00 PST

Killing Hope in Beit Hanoun

Friday, November 17, 2006   Killing hope in Beit Hanoun Killing Hope in Beit Hanoun by Ramzy Baroud   November 17, 2006 "God is greater than Israel and America," was th...
Posted by Arcadia Noir on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:55:00 PST

Lebanon pictures on my website

To everyone who expressed interest in the pictures I took in Lebanon - they are finally uploaded and on my website (in the "other" section)www.chameleonart.org comments pleeeeeez!!!! (sorry, couldn't ...
Posted by Arcadia Noir on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:12:00 PST

Bint Jbail - War Crimes in Lebanon

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Posted by Arcadia Noir on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:30:00 PST

Lebanon and Israel Facts that the Media Isn't Telling You

Here are some background the facts about Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Hezbollah and the Palestinians Noam Chomsky reveals facts like the abduction of the two Gaza civilians June 24, BEFORE the israeli soldi...
Posted by Arcadia Noir on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:39:00 PST

Nazi Tactics

  Nazi Tactics by Israel and America in the Phony War On TerrorBy Joel Fischer 10/02/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- As a Jew who witnessed the loss of 6,000,000 of my fellow Jews, most...
Posted by Arcadia Noir on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:40:00 PST

Mechanisms of Denial

Ilan Pappeby what a guy Monday August 28, 2006 at 09:24 AMMechanisms of Denial Justin Podur interviews Ilan Pappe by Ilan Pappe and Justin Podur; February 20, 2005 Ilan Pappe is a professor of History...
Posted by Arcadia Noir on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:42:00 PST

Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land (video)

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Posted by Arcadia Noir on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:31:00 PST