So!!! excited to be returning to Glastonbury festival this year where I will be enjoying a lovely busman’s holiday teaching embroidery in the Green Crafts Field. I will be bringing lots of my best festival style fancy underwear for dressing up so get in touch via instagram or come and find me there for a private appointment and a secret peep of something for the weekend
Vout O Reenees Members Group Show at the Stash Gallery, 16-27th June PRIVATE VIEW Thurs 16th 6-10pm
VOUT O REENEES CLUB - The Crypt, 30 Prescot St, Whitechapel LONDON E1 8BB
Really excited to have been asked to take part in this!
If we had high street ateliers more often than high street shops we could Lower the carbon footprint of clothing, make less waste, create more jobs, cater for all body sizes, maker a kinder shopping environment, enable more community space in our city centres. We’ve been given a chance to try and show it’s true, please support the crowdfunder so we can do our best to try it!
We’ve just been given the AMAZING OPPORTUNTY to occupy a shop in london’s REGENT STREET for the months of September and October to test drive the Community Atelier, Please come and take a look and support and share the crowdfunder so we can put of the BEST Lingerie SHOW ever!!
I am really delighted to have this accolade, it’s a lot of hard work around here doing what we do so it’s super good to be noticed:) thanks LIVE FRANKLY for spreading the word!
Cut the cotton is a new project designed to make the best of the nations misused and discarded fine cotton shirts
photo by Matilda pine
photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
Photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
Photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
photo by Matilda Pine
DIVERSITY OF THE BREAST glorious life affirming catwalk show raised £700 all of the door money for Breast Cancer Haven and raised a lot of JOY on the night!
Dave Pickens Photography Surf Mama Wilma
Dave Pickens photography Claire Diamond Dancer
Dave Pickens photography Dan the_mad_death
Dave Pickens photography Katy Marks UnoBra
Dave Pickens photography Katy Marks UnoBra
Dave Pickens photography Anna Versteeg UnoBra www.bbookproject,com
Dave Pickens photography Anna Versteeg Katy Marks Unobra
Dave Pickens photography @azulabandit
Dave Pickens photography @azulabandit
Dave Pickens photography @surfmamawilma
Dave Pickens phtotgraphy
Dave Pickens photography Anna Versteeg www.bbookproject.com
Dave Pickens photography @the_mad_death
Dave Pickens photography Mrs warren
Dave Pickens phototgraphy
Dave Pickens photography Vout O reenee’s mermaid feast
photo by Dollhouse
real mermaid skeleton uncovered
These are beautiful photographs of some of the first underwear I ever made. They were taken at the bottom of the sea 10 years ago by Nikoletta Monyok. I dearly want to own some. Printed by 31 studios using a late 19th century photographic process favoured by the Secessionists and now by Sebastio Salgaldo and David Bailey. Read more at:
http://www.31-studio.com/history_of_the_platinum_printroom.html
Exhibition at the Convent Gallery, GL5 5HS
To date, we have explored less than five percent of the ocean.....
The Orkney islands' have witnessed a number of strange sea-creature sightings over the years.
In most cases, the witnesses have been pragmatic, professional men with no reason to fabricate yarns.
In November 1905, for example, two men fishing off Shapinsay claimed they had encountered a sea-creature.
The sea serpent in Orkney
Seen by two fishermen - off the "douch"
From The Orcadian, November 11, 1905
The sea serpent has again made its appearance, and at present it is enjoying itself in the boisterous waters of the String, with a tendency to sun itself near Shapinsay, quite close to the .rocks under Balfour Castle.
Last Saturday two fishermen were working their creels off the "Douch" when the monster suddenly raised itself out of the water at the side of their boat.
The visit was so sudden and unexpected that the men cannot give a very particular description of the monster. Of one thing they are certain, however, and that is that the serpent had an awe-inspiring appearance, and was quite different from anything they had ever seen before.
The body is described as massive as that of horse, covered with a scaly surface, and spotted. It was the eyes of the monster, however, that attracted most attention. These are said to have been as large as a bowl, and had a most fascinating attraction for the beholder.
After gazing at the occupants of the boat for a second or two the uncanny visitant, gradually sank out of view, much to the relief of the fishermen. The same men, when fishing near the same place on Wednesday last, had another glimpse of the sea serpent..
It is needless to add that the reported visit of the far-famed monster to Shapinsay has caused somewhat of a sensation, and arguments are rife and strong as to what it can be.
The more superstitiously inclined lean to the belief it is the sea serpent; but more level-headed people are of opinion that it is nothing more than an extra large seal, attracted to the vicinity by large numbers of sillocks which are at present swarming around Elwick Bay.
Who knows?
Some day a more than ordinarily plucky fisherman may succeed in laying a drop of salt on the tail of the real sea serpent. Maybe a Shapinsay man. There are no more plucky men in Orkney.
Munster's famous chart of sea monsters
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
went down to the beach(to play one day)
and Maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
Milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and Molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and
May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
It’s always ourselves we find in the sea.
EE Cummings
times change
these rock
damn right, it's better than yours