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Dreamscape, the colours of the unconscious.

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Sim Simma ! Oow am I ! New patterns out now! #woodenhillsbedding

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Long considered lost, Roman Polanski's 1969 film A Day at the Beach holds a particularly sad place in film history. Polanski wrote the screen play based on the 1962 book Een dagje naar het strand by Dutch author Heere Heeresma, and had intended to direct the film. He travelled to europe to begin principle  photography in July 1969; the location, a picturesque yet unquestionably Danish seaside town doubling as the English location of the story. The actual production history has a number of conflicting stories behind it, some accounts say Polanski was only two weeks away from completing the film as director, others say the production was only a few days in when he was contacted by close friends in California, where the polish ex-pat’ now lived with his 8 and half months pregnant wife, the stunningly beautiful,clean living all american actress, Sharon Tate. The news he received was of-course that of the murder of his wife and unborn child at the hands of Charles Manson’s ‘Family’. 

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However much input Polanski may have had in the direction of the film is unknown. But he left the production before the film was completed and travailing back to California, leaving the directors credit to a first-time director, Simon Hesera: A tragic and gruesome way to catch a brake.

The film it self follows a day in the life of Bernie, a tragically alcoholic intellectual who has the duty of taking his niece Winnie out for a day at the beach. The day is not only marred by the pissing rain but also by Bernie’s self-destructive booze fueled behavior. He has the capacity to aggravate and insult everyone he and the beautifully innocent Winnie meet on this pollatic odyssey. The script and the performances share an acutely accurate knowledge of the prick-like-nature of an irritatingly arrogant alcoholic, balanced sensitively opposite a heart felt understanding of the hopelessness and self-harm of loosing your self, or someone you know to alcohol. All the while Winnie is the heart of the story, as her unconditional love never questions, judges or falters for a man we begin to discover may be not just her Uncle. Peter Sellers has a strange cameo as a character billed as “a queer”.

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Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon Live

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This is a painting by the late Henry Hill, it is a scene from both his real life and the biographical film Goodfellas, where Henry and one of his crimbo bretharin extort a man by dangling him over the Lion inclosure at Tampa Bay Zoo. I bought it about 5 years ago from his eBay shop for £12.99. (Taken with Instagram)

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And this is a photograph I took in New York in 2001 when I saw him on the steps of a church in the middle of winter shill with a camera mounted on his shoulder but alas I could see there was no tape in the camera and the hole thing looked kind of as if it no longer worked. I ask him if he was Ugly George and he told me to fuck off #uglygeorge (Taken with Instagram)

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This man, with his balls hanging out is called Ugly George and he was a prolific pornographer in the late 70s and 80s. He would walk the avenues of New York and ask hot girls if they would mind going in to a near by ally way or hotel and flash their breasts for his video camera (which was always mounted on shoulder for a real POV effect) and some cash. Most times he would persuade them to have sex with him too. His videos sold in the tens of thousand and are a perverted but amazing document of the time. (Taken with Instagram)

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David Bowie once played John Merrick (the real elephant man was named Joseph Merrick) in the broadway production of The Elephant Man, and, unlike John Hurt in the film adaptation he didn't see the need for prosthetics, his acting would do all the work instead. The thin white elephant man in the room. #davidbowie #josephMerrick #theelephantman #whyareyoubeingweirdwithme (Taken with Instagram)

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Frank Frazetta is the undisputed heavyweight champion of fantasy art. With an astonishing career starting at the tender age of 14, going on to span 50 years up until his sad passing in 2010, his influence can be seen in sci-fi art, cinema, graffiti, heavy metal cover art and comic books such as 2000 AD. The Drawers Gallery is proud to be the first gallery in the UK to house a major retrospective of the great man's illustrations. With the permission of Mr Frazetta's family, the gallery will be exhibiting over 40 prints of the master's most popular illustrations. All prints are for sale priced £30 - £120. A must see for all comic book, heavy metal and fantasy art fans.

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My friend Danny emailed and requested that we hold ISMN this week. I was so busy with life and finding a new job, after being defamed and blackballed from my last one, that I almost forgot.

Really quick, this week’s film will be Ralph Bakshi/Frank Frazetta’s animated fantasy: FIRE and ICE...

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Frank Frazetta is the undisputed heavyweight champion of fantasy art. With an astonishing career starting at the tender age of 14, going on to span 50 years up until his sad passing in 2010, his influence can be seen in sci-fi art, cinema, graffiti, heavy metal cover art and comic books such as 2000 AD. The Drawers Gallery is proud to be the first gallery in the UK to house a major retrospective of the great man's illustrations. With the permission of Mr Frazetta's family, the gallery will be exhibiting over 40 prints of the master's most popular illustrations. All prints are for sale priced £30 - £120. A must see for all comic book, heavy metal and fantasy art fans.