Sweet Sweet Lies Flyer

Its always nice to see your pix being used!

New profile pic

Its always difficult to find a profile picture that captures both my big head and big ego, but if ever a picture was going to show the way I'd like my presence to be announced wherever I went, then this is it.

I've been ripped off!

Nicole sent me the below pic this morning, its a press shot for MGMTs new album.



and this is a shot I did for the band New Adventures a year or two ago:



There are some similarities there! I'm calling my lawyers. In reality, its most likely a big coincidence, being as any photographer shooting MGMT now is probably pretty well established and above nicking ideas, especially from little known UK photographers!

Still, there have been some amazing examples of plagiarism in the creative world recently, check out the latest posts on copycunts!

Peter Panic and the Pixie photoshoot video

Peter Panic and the Pixie photoshoot from James Midwinter on Vimeo.

I shot the band Peter Panic and the Pixie a few weeks ago, and have pieced together this little video from some footage I shot of them at the time.

Usually Something To Do With Clothes

I shot this pic for the blog Nicole has started this week. As with most things she does, shes set about it with a determination bordering on the obsessive, and will probably be updated so often, and with such skill that it will start getting the attention of Anna 'Nuclear' Wintour within the month.

I think that if you want to know whats going to be hot in the world of difficult-to-pull-off, impractical, pretty uncomfortable, seemingly crazy, but then later on you find out that it was actually dead-on-brilliant, ahead of its time fashion, then this is the place to go.

If you're after some indigo jeans and a nice white vest top, then its probably not likely to be a good start, but if you're feeling wolves and aztec patterns, I think she might have some of that this week.

http://usuallysomethingtodowithclothes.blogspot.com/

NME

One of my pix is also featured on the NME website this month. Its a shot of Brighton based band Sweet Sweet Lies, and its really nice to see it up there. You also get a free copy of their very popular cover of The Stone Roses 'Waterfall'

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=122&p=8178&more=1&c=1

Blog Props 2010

Nicole was going through some blogs the other day, and weirdly came across a post someone had made that featured some of my Cult images. I'm not sure where they found them or how they came upon them, but it was a nice little ego boost that other people had seen and liked my pix.

For a minute I did wonder if it was all some kind of new computer aggregation software or some kind of scam site, but doing a quick google search brought up a few more blogs featuring this project, all with enough of a commentary to suggest they are real people who like my work, or that someone somewhere has designed a very intricate, highly realistic, and somewhat bizarrely pointless blog posting machine.

Anyway, when I was doing these photos, i always wondered if it was all a bit silly, implausible and stupid, but now it seems that prancing around in a nylon robe brought from a fancy dress shop is the way forward!

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/james-midwinter-cult

http://www.whokilledbambi.co.uk/2010/03/james-midwinter/

http://cakeheadlovesevil.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/cultish-james-midwinter/

http://wanderlustmind.com/2010/03/27/cult-by-james-midwinter/