Big in Japan ..

Well, what do you think of these bad boys?

A whole new range of T-shirts using my Joy Division photography!

I'm delighted to announce their launch, after months of planning and design. Not that I planned or designed, of course. That was all done by my friends at Lad Musician, a top-end fashion house based in Tokyo, Japan. This is the second time they've chosen my work to grace their garments, and I'm absolutely delighted ..

They're the real deal, too. Top quality printing on beautifully soft cotton, they feel great and look fantastic, even on a skinny bod like mine. How do I know? They sent me some samples, of course ..

 

The price? From about ￥12, 000 .. ! (Put it into a currency converter. It's not as bad as you think!) 

Getting it off my chest ..

Lesley loves to watch programmes about those crazed nutblob kinds who can't throw anything away! 'Hidden Hoarders', 'Obsessive Compulsive Hoarders' .. that kind of thing! Hoarders, anyway! Trouble is, she then goes bananas when she looks at me! She thinks I'm on the way to getting my own show! Hey, it's not my fault I can't throw anything away! Magazines, books, records, t-shirts, cassettes, ticket stubs, my old toy cars and, of course, every single photograph I've ever taken - be it on film, transparency or digital. I just can't throw 'em away! They're too important! This is my history and, whilst I'm still around, I want to wallow in it! Don't get me wrong  .. I'm sure as a regular reader you'll know I'm pretty forward looking .. always searching for new ways to shoot, or new styles of music and so on .. BUT I don't seem to be finding anything that turns me on! I find 'new' photography so plastic and bland, so digitized and desaturatedly lack-lustre. Same with music! So I'm staying here! Circa 1979! It's lovely here! You'd love it!..

Glad I've got that off my chest ..

Lucky for some ..

Friday the 13th is the start of a really fantastic few days for me! I've got another Wedding at Willington Hall - one of my favourite venues - then I'm treating myself to a day off at Southport Air Show, and then on Monday I have a full day's PR shoot for one of the country's leading supermarkets!

It was mentioned quite a while back that 2013 would be a quiet one for Wedding bookings as it has the number thirteen in it! I think, on the whole, that's been true for every one of my Wedding contacts but the up-side to that is that it's now looking busier for next year. I already have bookings right up to Christmas 2014! There's a chance, too, that my music T-shirts will be marketed out to a large chain of shops across Tokyo, and I've started working on a new exhibition that will open soon in Altrincham. All that and I finally hit my mini-milestone of 300 likes on Facebook! 2013? Lucky for some ..

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