Halloween 2012… the ‘con’sultation ends… the fight continues…
Over 12,000 signatures on the historic petition – personally delivered to the Prime Minister in Downing Street.
Over 1,000 people marched together through the streets to the hospital.
Trafford Councillors and Health Scrutiny Committees unanimous in their rejection of fundamentally flawed proposals to further downgrade and remove vital hospital services.
Our health, our resources, our hospital, our NHS!
Something chilled from a rainy day.
Written October 2006
A short piece to accompany the Boxing Day Sales video.
Written January 2012
The music to accompany the noise!!! – #GlobalNoise Event
Written October 2012
(Click on the photos for descriptions)
Photos taken on October 2011 – Prague, Czech Republic
Democracy is not a tick in a box every X years – a dozen times or so in total over an entire lifetime!
Democracy is not the deficit of legitimacy left by the crushing majority of two-thirds non-voters at local elections!
Democracy is not a choice between a faster or slower rate of worsening financial apartheid and debt slavery!
Democracy is not about ruling through obedient, unquestioning or enforced compliance!
Democracy is not the abuse of power by the strong over the weak!
DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT!
THIS IS GLOBAL NOISE!
Introducing Gas Mask Boy (#TraffordGasMaskBoy). He has a message for the people of Trafford. The bullying Peel Powa is subverting democracy and trying to push through a poisonous polluting incinerator. Time for action!!!
We’re all in this together and everyone’s invited !
7th July 2012
11am Golden Hill Park, Urmston, Manchester
12 noon march to Trafford General Hospital
Through the endless warren of the Fes Medina is the tannery. An open sided 5 story building wall-to-wall in leather products over looking the giant tanning and dye pits. You can taste the stench of leather and dye in the air. “Would you like nice handbag for wife?” the salesman says and points to a cave of bags.
Photo taken on June 2007 – Fes, Morocco
Standing alone, tired and battered, holding on.
Photo taken on June 2011 – Formby, UK
While the tourists swarm around La Boqueria, Barcelona’s famous open air food market, a serene view of a side street captures something strange. Ghostly fragments and the moving remains of man as he passes the miracles (Milagros) shop.
Photo taken on May 2011 – Barcelona, Spain
Doing what he does best Mr Bono Vox lends his weight and charisma to a Three Peak Challenge fundraiser to raise money for River of Life Uganda White Eagles Project. (A great charity supporting and educating children in Uganda and giving them the opportunity to fly high) With the help of “De Edge”, Bono writes a theme tune and shows us his personalised Three Peak training regime with the aim of inspiring the challenge team to fly high.
(This video is a collection of Bono’s bits from 4 longer charity videos so may make even less sense!)
The MON$T£R is out of control!! The people of Manchester contribute their art and messages on a day of open expression.
Sick of the consumerist obsession for shopping? Boxing Day 2011 saw people queuing to find deals from 6am!!!?? There’s a lot that could be said about this but we tried to sum up the feeling in a simple film.
On the 30th November 2011 thousands of people took to the streets of Manchester.
Many of us from the private sector marched in support of our public sector.
Surreal genius or profound nonsense? Le Placebo is an intensely powerful portrayal of one mans struggle to survive in the global recession created by a dysfunctional, unfair and greed driven system. This hard hitting piece asks why?, what?, when?, who?, if? but more importantly asks nothing. Or does it?
We went out for the day with a camera, a rope and pair of cowboy boots and used it as an opportunity to try out various of angles and shots as proof-of-concept and as a location reccy for the short film ‘Left Hangin’. This video is an edited montage of ideas and so doesn’t really have any narrative as such but does have some interesting visual tit-bits and sets the mood for the film. (The film ‘Left Hangin’ is currently on the back burner but will hopefully see daylight at some point 🙂 )
MANCHESTER cares with courage …
“Fangs off our NHS!”
“Where’s all OUR money gone?”
“Bankers bailed out, we get sold out!”
“Pay your taxes, greedy puppet$!”
“Fix banking, make $ick bank£rs pay!”
A theatrical day of protest outside Manchester’s Banks in defence of our NHS.
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