MURDOCK × HUGH MENDES

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at murdock london store in shoreditch, Hugh Mendes's private viewing was hold. he was born in 1955, and graduated a BA fine art course of chelsea school of art at 1978, and done a MA fine art at city and guilds of london art school at 2001. since 2007, he hold an own exhibition at seven times in london and frankfurt and los angeles and northampton. at 2003, he got a fresh art " artist of the year " and did a lots of group exhibitions in worldwide. and this time, his works are displayed at murdock london shoreditch store. have a time to see these works of him while cut your hair at murdock london. also, these works for sale. ask to someone who in there if you have interesting in it.

words & photography : Souichiro Ota

THE MAN IN THE WORDS

▷LITERATURE / PHOTOGRAPHY

dance in the words

hit by the words

hide in the words

cry in the words

believe in the words

moan in the words

build by the words

show by the words

design by the words

silence in the words

loud in the words

suffered by the words

saved by the words

the world  in the words

the way in the words

hope in the words

despair in the words

love in the words

die in the words

photography & words : Souichiro Ota

MON NOUVEAU SAC ROUGE

▷FASHION

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I've been looking for something new bag from last year. and finally I found this red leather bag at Murdock london in shoreditch store. Murdock london is tremendous stylish barber in london placed in covent garden, mayfair ( now closing ), liberty, and shoreditch. this shoreditch store was opened at redchurch st a few month ago. and me neither usually attend to it for hair cutting and buy some products for hair styling and shaving. this red close to bordeaux fascinates me in a blink of an eye. actually, this bag is for hair dresser to bring a stuffs something like scissors, and something ( I don't know well coz I'm not hair dresser! lol ) to workplace. so, aspect also perfect. nothing any extra decoration in it. and very smoothy leather. and six studded at the bottom for protect leather from dirt. to be honest, I supposed to buy an Acne's bag at 12a/w. but store at dover street didn't treat a bag. but looking back, I think it was prophecy to buy this bag. this great harvest will be good memory and some day, it remind me these missing days in london ( coz I leave london at end of march and back to japan ; ( ) so, in short, if you'd get a traditional hair style, and great product, get to the Murdock london! you can find some satisfied stuffs and invariance men's style! and I'll put a lot of novels and camera in the bag instead of scissors and something I can't figure out!

words & photography : Souichiro Ota

CLIMATE REVOLUTION

▷FASHION / EVENT

climate revolution is the action & protest by vivienne westwood for save the future. the aim is to get everyone to realize : our rotten financial system is the cause of climate change. this system is designed to create poverty to syphon off any profits for big business and it destroys the earth in the process. the ecological crisis a the financial crisis go together. they are the same problem - we can't keep exploiting the earth. the only way out of this is to create a new economic system by putting the planet first : what's good for the planet is good for the economy - what's bad for the planet is bad for the economy - pass it on! if we do this we will put pressure on governments, governments work for business not for people. the first thing we have to do is " save the rainforest, save the arctic " all this will make a better world. 

and at 2nd march, at shop of vivienne westwood located at 44 conduit st, london during 14:00 to 16:00. the event for climate revolution has held by daniel lismore who has known as organizer of shabba dabba da which was dictated to most cool party in london by timeout and british artist and dictated to london's most outrageous dresser by american vogue. he did a painting to face of person who came to this event.

words and photography : Souichiro Ota

GIRLFRIEND

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yes, I still remember that moment clearly when I heard her singing voice. she was holding an ukulele on her knees in the sunshine filtering through foliage like a morning awaking and she was just sixteen. I dare sing that moment by quote a greg kramer's song named " sweet sixteen ", " oh I got a pretty little girl, she's sweet sixteen, she's pretty singing voice! " so, anyway, in short, the first time I knew her was that when I saw the burberry acoustic two years ago. at that time, I was still at japan and after that, I came to london and I immediately went to see her gig. the fist gig of her I saw was at camden proud in 2011. then, I sometimes went to her gig when I can go and did a photography. and she has released a self titled album " misty miller ", and among it, the track called " remember " is that was picked up from burberry acoustic. also, at this burberry prorsum show for aw 13 during london fashion week, her song called " happy together " was used in first song of that show. at that time, I was in the burberry show venue as photographer, and when I heard her song, I was so happy. ( and after that, I had chatting with misty at outside of venue afterward the show ) this " happy together " also really recommending song from me. and other, wild thing, tiptoe through the bluebells, vampire, sail on me, horns on and so on... and this time, she released new ep single called " girl friend ". in this song, there is no figure to use an ukulele everyone's having on her. it can realized based on what she has been affected by patti smith. yes, everyone should know what she has rock spirits in bottom of her heart. although this is my guess, this band set is a figure of her honest expression on music. at any rate, her adorable singing voice doesn't die. and ofcourse she has been writing song by her own self. I can feel the love of how she loves music from her endearing singing voice. I'll support her in the future as well. so, you can get " girl friend " on i Tunes from link below.

Girlfriend - EP by Misty Milleritun.esPreview and download Girlfriend - EP on iTunes. See ratings and read customer reviews.

worlds and photography : Souichiro Ota