Face off!

I decided to spend this years festive months in Portugal once again, at 7 weeks it will be my longest stay yet. This being said, I had to find some way of entertaining myself. Thankfully they built a new skate park in Faro since my last visit on which i had to put my mark.

In between early morning dog walks, all you can eat sushi feasts and hard core gym sessions, I found a bit of time to squeeze in some painting....

"Hello Sailor!"

A quickie with Charlotte...

Howl!

I ask people to do embarassing stuff all the time, so it's only fair that I do embarassing stuff for other people in return....

My friend Charlotte was asked to make a music video for her media project and asked me to be the star. I should be flattered.

Made and directed by Charlotte and Olivia.

To be fair they did a pretty good job considering were all a bunch of amatuers!

Making a Fool of oneself in the name of charity

Alex works in a Cancer Research charity shop on Glastonbury high street. I go in there often and buy all the cool things they have. Me and Alex have become friends. It was innevitable.
One day she asked if i wanted to help raise some cash.... and this is what happened;






We raised over £250 with our madness, mulled wine and mince pies.
Esther, your mince pies were delicious!
Window Girls included Joy, Ruscha, Tasha, Daniella and myself.
Thank You to everyone who put their hands in their pockets to pull out some pennies...

The Snow Leopard

Finally, I get my arse in gear and do some painting again!! After several hours hidden away in the confines of my attic breathing those tasty spray paint fumes, I can finally present to you the long awaited 'Snow Leopard'.

Joy, Jo, Jezz and some more UV light painting...

More light experiments. This time it's Jezz behind the camera, Joy in the plastic dress, Jo P on the Make-Up and once again me dancing around with a light sabre....

Thank you Ian for letting us use your studio space.

Jezz and the Plastic Dress

Theres some space in my attic so me and Jezz jumped at the opportunity to use it. I selotaped together some plastic (recycled packaging from the loft insulation) to make a dress and then did some Ultra Violet light painting with carnival swords....
Jezzy just looked gorgeous and tried to hold still.

Beauty and the Beasts

In time for halloween, here´s our horror themed photo....

Photography ; Paul Roylance and Charlotte J. Bibby.

Styling ; Kim von Coels.

Mary Queen of darkness ; Kim von Coels

Acolytes ; Joy Miller and Jo Preistley

Monster in the attic ; Briana Marsh

Dead Beauty ; Leon Pullin

to view a larger image go here :

http://www.melancholyrhino.com/beauty_and_beasts.html

Porno Tash

Ian cashed in his 'make you look like a pimp for your birthday' photo voucher today....

and while we were there we funked up his friend Nina too.
you can listen to her tunes at
www.myspace.com/ninaredfoxx

Sing for Joy

My housemate, the lovely Joy Miller, is making some music and ask me to whip up some promotional pics.
He she is in all her greatness:

Wall of Mirrors

My boss at GLD asked if I'd be interested in doing a shoot within a wall of make-up mirrors for a press release...
Hell Yeah!! Any excuse to wear my new shoes!

Thank you to Paul Roylance for taking the photo's
Maire for being such a fabulous model/stylist/make-up artist/friend
and Craig for building the mirror wall.

Sebastianetta

A group effort.

Photography; Paul Roylance
Photography assistant; Charlotte Jane Bibby
Art direction / Styling; Kim von Coels
Make-up; Maire Douglas
Models ;
Sebastanetta; Ashton
The Archer; Josh
Evil child; Roma
Feline creature; Jahoulia
Mary Madgeline; Briana
Lady Baskerville; Maire
and Dylan the Dog.

for a larger image click here :

http://www.melancholyrhino.com/sebastianetta.html

The Golden Stag

Every year, my good friends, the Turners have an end of summer mash up in a field. They do me the honour of asking me to organise and run the bar.
I have called it The Golden Stag, and it will become legendary.....

This year we raised £113 for a local charity called Childrens World!

You can take a look at the Turner Bash bonanza below:

Playing with Swords

The afore-mentioned Charlotte Jane Bibby has managed to borrow some fabulous battery opperrated lights from her place of work. That and my newly achieved tan was more than enough reasons to go out into a field in the middle of the night and dance around semi-naked with a samurai sword.

Photo's by Charlotte J B and Paul R.
assisting by Olivia
Styling and Make-up by me.

Bride Bride Homicide!!!

Sometimes we have an idea and we just throw it together and turn it into a masterpiece. Paul wanted to do a group of misserable brides and I wanted Death, Murder and Zombies. We compromised.
The team.
Paul R. (and Kim) - Photography
Kim - Styling/Set design
Charlotte J.B. - Assisting and creative input
and I'd like to thank our fantastic models
The bride; Luce and the murderers; Briana, Gaby and Katie for being so damn gorgeous!

Thank you to Graeme and Tracy at GLD for letting us use the space.

Ring Flash

My friend Paul has a new photo friend called Charlotte, and she's cool!!

Yesterday they asked me to pose for them ('emergency model needed') so I put on some lippy and a few belts and pulled some faces....

and here's one by Paul;