27/06/09: Berlin 2

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24/06/09: Berlin 5 Gum Launch Party Germany

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I am here in Berlin for the next three days invited by Wrigley who are launching a new chewing gum and they have asked Eley Kishimoto to be part of a synposium on the 5 senses. We are responsible for the keynote paper on "LOOK". We have worked hard on the paper and honestly I am a bit nervous as I have no idea what the audience is expecting from us. I will publish the paper here once delivered and also in the Workshop I will conduct tomorrow we will create a documentary film that also relates to the topic "LOOK". Here are some first time views of Berlin and of Dominik from Wrigleys and our curator Holm Friebe.

20/06/09: Flash Tracker

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Possibly the first of many of "Dai Jobu" products. Still not finished needs the seat pad, front number plate with built in halogen, rear shocks need to b changed, get rid of the battery and front forks also need to be looked at. Would like to powder coat the frame black but that can wait. Finished for the end of summer....

18/06/09: Last Night in Tokyo

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After two days of meetings and discoveries about the future direction of Eley Kishimoto we relaxed and did what we knew best. Looking at bikes eating at Mamasans with a member from SMAP, drinking in strange places and meeting new people. Thanks to Hasegawa and Miura and as ever Luli...

14/06/09: Andre, Andrea, Akiko and the Aftermath

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Was a pleasure to be invited to the after party by the students of Antwerp who choose a suitably appropriate venue an old mans cafe at the front and a full on anything goes tranny shack at the back all sharing the same lovely bar couple. Andrea was sweet and introducing the idea that I should be a model for this forthcoming mens Paris fashion week as a big man?? I met Andre J the following afternoon obviously both sharing the same fascination of facial hair but obviously his more elegant, the girls from the party and a Welsh Flag in Brussels sun.

12/06/09: Antwerp Between Presentations and Show

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Henrik Visbow and I ventured out and found a good local Hidy Hole with some colourfull locals and then to dinner with all the team from the school and other Jury Members, here is Christian Wijnants and Hirofumi Kurino from United Arrows.

18/05/09: Of Course Paris Hilton Was There..

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18/05/09: THEY CAME

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17/05/09: My fellow assistant Kim preparing for the film festival party.

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16/05/09: On the Croisette cannes

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06/05/09: Herriot Watt University 2

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06/05/09: Herriot Watt University

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19/04/09: The House At.. Cannes First Visit Finished April 2009

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05/04/09: Tomomi's Birthday

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11/03/09: A New Friend Paris Fashion Week

L1000838.JPGL1000838.JPGL1000838.JPG James Murphy founder of DFA records and LCD sound system. We met I think late one night in the Le Baron went back to Dan Ross's suite in Hotel D'Amour and somehow got into a fight together and he ended up with a black eye which I only discovered the next night at the decks where he was playing for the Open Ceremony party and I with a broken knee. I think he was slightly proud of his eye, I was slightly embarrassed and my knee is still playing up to this day so if we have to have a winner I think he won. It was a pleasure to meet and his wife and play together the following days...

08/03/09: Was There, Done That and This. Paris Fashion Week

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25/02/09: Backstage at the Show in London last Sunday

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Some of my personal photographs of the what was going on backstage at our show on Sunday.

21/02/09: John made me look at the Penguin's Major performance

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18/02/09: Days Documented running up to show 2

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18/02/09: Days Documented running up to show 1

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