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#NHS299 Music

Original music to accompany the days theatrics!!!
#NHS299 – A day out with BANK£N$T€IN and friends

NHS299 – A day out with BANK£N$T€IN and friends

A short video covering the theatrics of the NHS299 march against the Conservative Party Conference on Sunday 29th September where the puppet politicians kindly joined us for the day 🙂

NHS299 – The Photos

NHS299

The Tories decided to pay us a visit in Manchester so we and thousands of others welcomed them:)

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Wonga Conga – 7th September 2013

Wonga Conga

A day of theatrics targeted at the high street payday loan sharks to expose them for what they really are; unregulated ‘Legal’ thieves who prey on the poorest and most vulnerable at a time of a record drop in living standards.

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The Man of Many Faces

The Face

A fine actor and a LumumbaMonologues regular.

Photo taken on February 2013, UK

The Moors

The Moors

After miles of moors we came across a fence…

Photo taken on January 2009 – Marsden, UK

Der Whistleblower Official Trailer

The most wanted man on the planet finds himself the victim of a relentless manhunt and smear campaign for revealing nothing more than the truth but he finds help in the strangest of places that guide him and help him discover who is friend and who is foe.

“A distinctly LumumbaMonologue take on real and recent events.”
***** Left Biscuit Weekly

This trailer was edited in a Hollywood trailer style with over-the-top bass in an attempt to make the production seem bigger than it is to get Nicolas Cage on board. (Long story short, he didn’t make it past the first audition. All a bit awkward in the end really)

“Nothing is Secret, Nothing is Private. They know everything”

The Forest

The Forest

Dreamlike pine forest on the coast of Formby. A few gaps allow the sun to burst through….

Photo taken on June 2011 – Formby, UK

UK Uncut #StuffTheBanks 20th July 2013

UK Uncut #StuffTheBanks 20th July 2013

At a time where 500,000 people are dependant on food banks HSBC banks across the UK were targeted for their obscene tax avoidance and their long list of anti-social practices and turned into food banks. Here is what happened in Manchester…

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I’m Gas Mask Boy – now you’ve made me MAD! (#TraffordGasMaskBoy)

A cool (and disturbing) piece of theatrical protest!!

After unanimous local rejection in Trafford for Peel’s Biomess Incinerator from the people, the council and the local MP, the Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Abuse of Power & Business Interests decided to override the peoples will and give Peel his pollution license as naturally he knows what’s best for the people of Trafford. (From his office down in London)

This decision will not go unchallenged!

Have you ever seen an anguished boy in a suit with a gas mask rage rapping over a heavy remix of Erik Satie? Thought not… turn it up:)

2017 Remastered Version

An Unusual Manoeuvre – The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank

A short time-lapse video of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory performing what one of the expert employees (Eric) called ‘An Unusual Manoeuvre.’ Apparently the telescope was tracking a moving object in space. A truly impressive site. (Albeit in real life there was no epic bassy soundtrack and it was much much slower than this:)

An Afternoon with Dr Frankín

A short documentary following the young and deeply disturbed Dr Frankín and his minions as he reveals his life’s work, the secret moon annihilator humanitarian experiment. He also shares his thoughts on tourists, recycling and his neighbour. But have his minions done their jobs properly and is the experiment correctly configured to give Dr Frankín his revenge what he needs to help humanity?

Rockscapes

Rockscapes - Å (Lofoten), Norway

On a drive down to the bottom of Lofoten in Norway we came across the village Å. A tiny place on the coast with a dramatic view of the Norwegian sea over the fractured rockscapes. Surely one of the most peaceful places on the planet. (Based on very limited and subjective opinion 🙂 )

Photo taken on September 2009 – Å (Lofoten), Norway

Auschwitz – Birkenau

‘For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity, where the Nazis murdered about one and a half million men, women, and children, mainly Jews from various countries of Europe. Auschwitz-Birkenau 1940 – 1945’

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Figure It Out

A selection of loops and grooves made on the move by twitchy thumbs using Propellerheads Figure.

When Trance and Reggaeton roll around in the mud 🙂

25 minutes is a long time in a Gondola

Something a little more meditative…

My first Figure track inspired while visiting Považská Bystrica in Slovakia 🙂

Awakening

Awakening was an experiment with time-lapse photography that became this video of a Lily. My first attempts resulted in 1000s of photos of the same closed Lilly which were nice enough as pictures (although acutally pretty boring if I’m being honest) but they definitely didn’t make much of a video and it did start to feel strange leaving for work everyday and leaving a camera repeatedly taking the same thing like an art-house CCTV camera. After watching how the flowers seemed to burst open at first light and in as short a time of 1hr I setup and this is what I got. The soundtrack is the actual sound of the flower opening. I put a very small hidden microphone with the flowers and this is what it picked up. Honestly, it wasn’t created separately and added later to make the whole thing seem like Planet Earth on acid!

Das Tagebuch (The Diary)

On a recent visit to the Austrian Alps ‘Das Tagebuch’ gave birth to itself and from the chaos and cushion of digital placenta grew and evolved into an experimental diary to review the many thoughts and emotions of the day. The form is a true surrealist visceral art-house style which subverts and rejects the straightjacket of traditional narrative structures.

These films were conceived, filmed and edited daily in 1.5 hours each (avg based on dinner time) so are instinctive expressions and naturally liberated from any typical editorial processes. As such they embody a rawness that makes them either truly original organic masterpieces of expression, thoughts and emotions or, more likely, rushed incoherent shite.

Note: These films are best watched in fullscreen mode with full HD selected accompanied with a fine balsamic vinegar and a breaded fertiliser.

Tag Eins
“…the Millennium Express stole my innocence.”

Tag Zwei
“And all that remains is my snow blind humiliation.”

Tag Drei
“His coat was as soaked as a doughnut made from spit.”
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Individualism

Taken on a walk in the Peak District on a snow covered day which provided the clean and slightly surreal white background to the barbed wire.

Photos taken on January 2013 – Peak District, UK

Manchester Unite Against Council Cuts

Visions of Bankenstein

^ WARNING ^ COUNCIL BROKEN #THEBIGLIE
“There’s no money & no alternative”
#banksters #taxdodgers
CUT THE CRAP NOT OUR CASH

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We want to BREATHE CLEAN AIR ! – Part II The Inquiry

Part II from #GasMaskBoy. The Inquiry has begun, the stalls have been set, let the game of chess commence…

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