Art
Formans Smokehouse Gallery Hackney Wick is home to the highest concentration of artist studios in the world, as well as the annual Hackney Wicked Art Festival. Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery(facebook page) is an art project space overlooking the London 2012 Olympic Park, and was founded to provide artists with a high profile platform from which to introduce their work to new audiences. With spectacular exhibition space measuring more than 600 square metres (6600 sq ft) and with an unrivalled view of the new Olympic stadium, the gallery is situated on the top floor of Britain’s oldest salmon smokers, H Forman & Son, which was forced to relocate to its new premises by the Olympic development. Each month, invited curators will handpick artists from the local, national and international art community to create a dynamic and varied program of exhibitions.
Natasha Gomperts works with mixed media, often using observational drawing as a foundation for exploring ideas. Her work oscillates between two related themes: absence which tends toward the abstract and presence, which can be more narrative and elegiac. Her work is analytical and emotive, and is at its best when subject and media challenge each other to form an unlikely alliance. Last project:-Drawn Petition, an illustrated campaign supporting the right for people to choose to work legally in the sex trade.
Sam Shaker Has painted portraits of many celebrities mainly under commission, through his connections at the Soho Jazz bar Jazz After Dark which is a favourite haunt of many celebrities including Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse.
YD Gallery Master Simon Wong, spiritual master and artist. The next big name in art and best long term investment you can make. Master Simon Wong developed his talents as an artist, into the spiritual realm by developing as a Taoist Master. When he was a young artist he did not merely want to be an artist, but rather sought to develop a deeper state of consciousness from his life experiences, and so to create a deeper profundity in his artwork when returning to his practise.
Clubs
Villain bar in Shoreditch is an ever evolving and changing environment. Created primarily from reclaimed materials and opened minds. Their vision is have this space evolve over time through the contributions and visions of the community that bring life and soul to the venue. They are keen to work with artists, performers and open minds to contribute to this evolutionary process. If this strikes a chord, share ideas.
Fashion
Glamour Kitten Offer the finest range of vintage and couture jewels and accessories, their treasures have been chosen for their beauty, originality, and in many cases, rarity. Whatever the requirement, they have necklaces, brooches, pins, earrings and full parures to suit. They also offer a growing range of wonderful couture pieces and bespoke services.
They have previously sold to exclusive boutiques, high street chains and their designers and to stylists.
Feng Shui
Yellowdragon Feng Shui Master Simon Wong has been a Flying Star Feng Shui Master for over 10 years during which time he has enhanced the Feng Shui for many clients all over the world – including Stock Brokers and financial institutions in London and a vast number of shops, restaurants, offices and private homes in this and many countries world-wide.
IT
IT Consultant Omen
Kung Fu
Yellowdragon Fist Kung Fu chosen to honour the open mindedness of Loi Dong Bung and to honour the meeting between a Taoist monk, Loi Dong Bung, and a Buddhist monk, Yellow Dragon. This led Loi Dong Bung to learn to understand compassion and achieve enlightenment. In many fields, not just the Martial Arts, people who are specialists in their profession often have a great deal of arrogance, and will not humble themselves to listen to a different point of view. Loi Dong Bung was remarkable as despite his great knowledge he was open-minded enough to listen and learn.
Law
Lawson-Cruttenden specialise in designing and effecting legal strategies to counter, contain and curtail the worst excesses of direct action groups. This firm has achieved ground breaking injunctions for transnational companies that have been recognised as protecting the business interests of their clients who were being targeted and harassed. In addition to corporate harassment, this firm also specialises in preventing the harassment and stalking of individual private clients.
Edward, “Eddie” Tabash Lawyer in the Los Angeles area who graduated magna cum laude from UCLA in 1973 and obtained his law degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1976. He is a member of the California State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Beverly Hills Bar Association. And he believes that prostitution among consenting adults should be decriminalized.
Law Society The Law Society represents solicitors in England and Wales. From negotiating with and lobbying the profession’s regulators, government and others, to offering training and advice, they are there to help, protect and promote solicitors across England and Wales.
Media
Press Complaints Commisission The PCC is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites). They keep industry standards high by training journalists and editors, and work pro-actively behind the scenes to prevent harassment and media intrusion. They can also provide pre-publication advice to journalists and the public.
The MediaWise Trust MediaWise (formerly PressWise), is an independent charity, set up in 1993 by ‘victims of media abuse’, supported by concerned journalists, media lawyers and politicians in the UK. They operate on the principle that press freedom is a responsibility exercised by journalists on behalf of the public, and that the public have a right to know when the media publish inaccurate information. They employ media professionals with experience in all parts of the industry, and have established an international reputation for our imaginative approach to tackling media ethics issues through consultancies, projects and training.
Press Gazette Gives you an inside journalist view on the media
YD Photos photo agency For all your entertainment and news needs
Photography
Paul Ashby Photography Great portrait photographer who I work with on many projects
Chas Ray Krider’s photographs are part of a tradition of erotic art that employs exaggeration, mystery and the guilty pleasures of voyeurism. His photographs are about the forms employed in narrative based erotic art. Chas Ray’s work concerns the art of presentation, the mystery of anticipation, and the universal human curiosity about sexuality. His photographs are widely published, most notable are his monographs, Motel Fetish published by Taschen in 2002, and the recently released Do Not Disturb by the French publisher La Musardine in 2007.
Politics
United Kingdom Parliament Parliament examines what the Government is doing, makes new laws, holds the power to set taxes and debates the issues of the day. The House of Commons and House of Lords each play an important role in Parliament’s work and it’s important that you know what they are doing.
Risque
Harlot’s Parlour is a group blog of sex workers and allies to discuss sex, sexuality and sex workers rights and issues in the UK, Europe and beyond.
ISWFACE an organization which offers funding to individual current, ex and transitioning sex worker artists and organizations, allowing them to create and exhibit art work, performance art, music, books, documentaries, photos and ANYTHING contributing to the cultural heritage of sex workers, world wide.
IUSW The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) campaigns for the human, civil and labour rights of those who work in the sex industry.
Prostitutes Collective Since 1975, the International Prostitutes Collective has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and their families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages.
“The Real Princess Diaries“ interesting expose
Violet Blue is a Forbes “Web Celeb”, Associate Editor at Laughing Squid, a high-profile tech personality and one of Wired’s “Faces of Innovation.” She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (MacLife, The Oprah Winfrey Show, others) and is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major media outlets. Violet has many award-winning, best selling books and was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She headlines at conferences ranging from ETech, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive, to Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc.
