#it's liverpool

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It’s not wrong to be strong. Installation by building mates The Royal Standard. http://the-royal-standard.com/

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Bookshop, Liverpool. July, 2016

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Boyz (photo by RJ Battersby). July, 2016

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June, 2016

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Liverpool is more then just The Beatles, football and shell suits, industrial devastation and petty thievery y’know. As with so much of Britain, we Liverpudlians are kept away from London’s posh oakwood coffee table and kept in a dusty old box in the attic, fit only for the occasional selective memory to show off to visitors, then carefully put back into the attic along with the other various knick-knacks and decayed photos of a lost golden era.

We aren’t like that. Well, alright. Stereotypes always have some accuracy to them. But we’re so much than that

We’re Hindus immersing Lord Ganesha in the depths of the Mersey. We’re black communities ten generations old. We’re the first Orientals in Europe. We’re Irish Catholics in a dense sea of Protestants. We’re Jewish, Orthodox, Muslim, and two cathedrals aligned perfectly on Hope Street. We’re inter-racial violence and peaceful LGTB communities, urban decay and spiritual renewal. We are the men and women who defended American blacks racially abused by their own countrymen, and we are the Jamaican communities firebombing white families in fits of anger. We are the spirit of unity after the tragedy of Hillsborough, and yet we are the riots that shook Toxteth to its core. We are legends of two cormorants ever watching over sailors in faraway seas and over the wives waiting at home, and we are the stories of agonising poverty and ruined lives, souls burned in the crucible of economic stagnation.

We are where capitalism was born, sending men in wooden ships with riches from our factories and returning with enfeebled slaves far from home, but we are also Marxists and anarchists, socialists and activists, preaching the word of liberty and equality - and then sometimes the blood-red anger of the working oppressed sharpening their cleavers and their knives to the cry of Jim Jones.

We are not the London of white-bread disillusioned, angry insomniacs. We are not Edinburgh, dressed in haggard finery, convinced it still lives its glory days of Adam Smith and the Dundee oil baronies, and we are not Birmingham, playing second fiddle to London’s ill-deserved arrogance. No, we are Britain entire, its flaws, its glories, its past and its future, the sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent mingling of communities, the depths of its decay and the heights of its culture. We are the Britain that is alive and lives for for its own future, and lives with its flaws. We are Britain entire, with its stupidity and its intelligence, its gregariousness and its viciousness, its glory days and its darkest hours. Liverpool alone, among those other legendary cities, is what Britain is, was, and always will be. And I wouldn’t have it any other way

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Home - It's Liverpool and LMH 5 Day Film Challenge

Jeez, it's been a LONG weekend and bank holiday Monday. Starting Friday, me and a couple of co-workers have been working on our video 'Home' (below) for the It's Liverpool 5 Day film challenge (http://www.itsliverpool.com/news/5-day-film-challenge-has-begun/). Beginning Friday, the task was to make a short film (less than 5 minutes) which would incorporate 'home' as the theme. Not only having to do this, we had to include a film quote/ reference, '5', 'birthday' and 'there is no place like home'. 

I filmed the entire video and Craig Graham (Digital Organix) directed and did the soundtrack. We ended up getting to the edit on Tuesday (with the film being in for midnight) and did a long 12 hour edit. Overall, think we got there. See what you think.

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He's Liverpool. I'm Liverpool. You'll never walk alone. Perfection.

http://www.itsliverpool.com