THE ACE CAFE IS FUCKIN'... ACE

You 'eard.

Recently popped down to the Ace Cafe in Stonebridge Park, London - a famous motorcyclist cafe, providing tea and bacon sandwiches to weary riders just passing through. Met some amazing dudes, one old lass who owned a BSA bike that was as old as she was, and some twat with a compact camera who kept getting in my shots.

With these shots I was trying to go for the street photography / documentary style seen in Robert Frank's The Americans series, and I'm really pleased with the results. These are just a few of the photos I took, for the full set visit www.facebook.com/this.is.patography.

Was kick-ass just chatting to these awesome dudes; now the call of the open road and the desire to take photos of it is even stronger. Just gotta keep saving my money for my motorbike whilst trying to survive work at the cinema and my uni course.

One day man. One day.

- Padfoot

SCREAMING IN THE MARGINS

Some new work for you, my delicious internet fans. 

These were inspired by the work of Barbra Kruger and Robert Frank, another way of incorporating text and image. Not sure what I should call it; but I'm thinking maybe Screaming in the Margins. Sounds pretty kickass.

The text is all from the short story PAPERCUTS that I published on here a couple weeks ago; I printed them out in massive font on A3 sheets of paper and just threw them on the floor, then took pictures where they landed. Also, someone had left some painted canvas in the middle of the room... pretty handy, as it happens. Made a tasty backdrop to my scribblings.

Also been trying to do some characterisation for Alan, the protagonist of the story. Many middle-aged beardy men have been startled by me taking photos of them this week... also gonna raid Google images later. Maybe I could even persuade an SFX student to do a collab with me and make me look proper old. Eventually I'm hoping to get a short film out of it.

As far as the Jack Kerouac experiment is concerned, I have the necessary materials - now I just need to borrow a typewriter from someone.

CREATE DESTROY REMAKE OBLITERATE is also on the back burner for now; charity shops are surprisingly expensive around Hatfield... so until I find some cheap shit that is actually cheap as well as shit, then I shall start smashing them. Should probably film that.

And now for the weekend. Bring it on motherfuckers.

- Padfoot