Question Time
Questions have been flooding in already for Liberty. We have sent them all on to her in LA, so keep cheking within the project to start gleaning her answers once she posts them.
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New Project Launched
The second project of the new regime -Liberty's project- is now open. Click the 'attractor' picture of Liberty at the top of the page or on the 'click to view this project' link below to reveal all. As with Simon's project, the piece has several components, many of which are... [more]
Scrapbooks
As if today's sitting wasn't enough of a treat! Simon Foxton's long-awaited Scrapbooks section has finally been added to the project. Put your children to bed and click here for more.
Sittings Zenith? (Discuss)
The consensus in here is that today's portrait is particularly special. Armando's Dries get-up is pretty dapper, but it's the dusty pink and sage combo that gets me. Think: late 1940s kitchen design. Whilst remembering: poor model Armando has to perch on top of the David Chipperfield futon (that's been... [more]
The writing on the wall
We realise that for most of you, the SHOWstudio space will be in pitch darkness for most of your viewing time; our night being your day. Dorian's got the projector going on a test to see how a random scroll of the last 100 forum entries might look, cast over... [more]
Michael Bracewell essay launched
The interpretative essay has arrived and been added to Simon's ever encyclopaedic project. Read Michael Bracewell's careful consideration of the issues raised by 'Sittings' in relation to its broader cultural context, and to the work of Andy Warhol and Sam Taylor-Wood.
Site Updates
Those who come to the site regularly will probably have already noticed that we've made some tweeks to the design and functionality of the site. These reflect some of the feedback we've had from users, as well as our personal feelings about how the site 'works'.
The more prominent changes are... [more]
A Blumenthal Banquet Best in World
Heston Blumenthal's famous restaurant and culinary laboratory 'The Fat Duck' has been named best restaurant in the world. Download one of his expectation-defying recipes published as part of his contribution to last year's BANQUET project.
Spied in Vogue
Maybe you caught details about our 'living photographs' by Simon Foxton and Liberty Ross 'dress-up model' live events published in the new issue of UK Vogue.
To keep you in the know, Liberty's is currently scheduled as a live event in early June, but there will be plenty to see prior... [more]
Liberty Ross Project Re-dressed
Just to prove that projects seldom turn out as you first think, Nick has rung from his holiday (he would say that SHOWstudio IS his holiday) to talk through the following potential amendments to Liberty's project.
First of all, cast your mind back to the pre-production meeting for SITTINGS: THIRTY... [more]
Meeting of the two skinhead stylists
The charming Alastair McKimm pops in for a meeting with Simon (well, he's got to get free rent on a meetings space for all the work he's currently putting in, right?). But what have two stylists got to discuss? You'd think they'd be fighting for the same commission. They're not... [more]
Stylist Speaks! Pre-production Meeting
You've seen SITTINGS: THIRTY MEN unfold. Now compare the project's evolution with its origins and spot the difference in this lo-fi film of Foxton devising the piece with Nick, Penny and Paul H way back in February.
Foxton Towers Panopticon added
Jez has been painstakingly 'sewing' together the digital stills shots of Simon's home interiors that he took last week. Now we can all go round for a virtual gaze at Simon's amazing things, and see what material finds get him so excited at the car boot sale and auction houses... [more]
Saturday - Errant Model!
Unfortunately we've had model no-show today (it happens), however this time is more problematic as, being Saturday, we can't get hold of the agency to find out what's happened. So there will be no sitting today.
LIVING DOLL Project Brief
Dorian got the captured stream working yesterday (it's added to his post on Tuesday morning below). Here is a precis of the upshot of the meeting, which will act as a rough project brief for the project starring Liberty -pictured here on the left of Ozzy- and working title for... [more]
Press Day at Mandi Lennard's
It's that time of year again when fashion PRs open up their showrooms for Press Days: an opportunity for journalists and stylists to see all the clothes close-up and decide which exact pieces they will be calling in for shoots for the oncoming season. Mandi Lennard's is not to be... [more]
Val Garland in the studio
Following on from the shoot with Martin Parr on the 22nd, Val has made it into the studio to continue work on the Pinpressions project. She and her assistant Makky will be decorating three 'impressions' of Erin O'Connor, one of Kate Moss and three casts of Liberty, the pressing of... [more]
Liberty Ross Pre Production Meeting LIVE!
Nick, Penny and Paul are having a meeting with Liberty Ross to discuss her forthcoming project and iron out some of the details.
Nick wanted to present live audio coverage on the site, but our audio broadcastng equipment is tied up on the 'Sittings' project. However we've hired in a... [more]
Model II
In London, they say you are never more than three metres away from a model (don't they?) and to prove the point, sweet Oliver rushed in just after one o'clock to spare our blushes. Patiently he sat for us, in deadpan, manly, Hussein Chalayan, as he thought about his forthcoming... [more]
Model no show
After the surprising calm of this weekend's sittings, the studio has reconvened to find out that today's model has mixed up their booking. Simon has his agency, Katy Barker, frantically on the case of chasing up those scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday. Will a SHOWstudio tech be required to enter... [more]
Write On
"The most adroitly gifted writer of his generation" according to Morrissey, Michael Bracewell has contributed enormously to the cultural commentary of the last two decades. SHOWstudio are delighted that Bracewell has agreed to contribute to 'SITTINGS' with a contextual piece tackling issues of maleness and the 'vacant gaze' brought-up by... [more]
New Project Launched
At last the day is upon us and the first sitting is live. Henry is our first model, all dressed in McQueen Homme. In a twist on our standard live shoot, Henry is gamely accepting calls. You can ring him on +44 (0)20 7253 4351 and ask him what passes... [more]