For quite some time, my internal compass has been telling me to take TheRingOfDOOM to Bristol to drink the water and have a transformation. I seriously fished my wish and was blessed to get drenched in the Bristol rain multiple times on my recent last minute photo adventure. The last minute trip was the most awesome thing I’ve done in my 41 years so far: the whole #MFDALÍ collages blessed on Salvador Dalí’s grave and in his house thing, Bristol, Shoreditch, my Street Art Tour with Josh from Alternative London, discovering Home Slice Pizza, (the irony), the Jam Baxter/High Focus Records show at Westbank, the giant Halloween Bristol Hip Hop rave, TheRingOfDOOM and his lips couch on Dali’s plastic lips couch near his pool and fountains, getting footage outside Aardman Animation Studios, pastries, salt beef on beigels, prosciutto sandwiches, the greens at the hipster steak place; very excited to top this adventure with the next. I plan on spending 2020 being at or creating all the most interesting art events in the world. Cue Heart’s “Straight On.”
My double Banksy & Soker photo would definitely be a two page image in my photo book.
Now that I’m finally weaving together the narrative of all my adventures into easily consumable content, the #MFDALÍ story will have a chance to break out of its cocoon in my brain. I could easily create tons of content every night in my hotel room while I’m hydrating in but I prefer to hoard the footage/photos because I haven’t been able to travel as much as I hoped to. Since I’ve declared myself to be a Street Art Photographer (as well as Artist/Music Industry Swiss Army Knife/Creator of TheRingOfDOOM & MusicVideoPedia), I like to keep reminding people all over the world how great both of us are. I’ll be moving all my stuff into storage at the end of the year when my lease ends, leaving for a brief Merch Manager gig with some of my favorite humans, and heading out on an epic multi-month road trip adventure with at least one artist friend. It’s time to go all in on Plan A, so here’s another few pieces of it…
TheRingOfDOOM and the Greta Thunberg mural at Aldi on North Street in Bristol.
The reason I was blessed to find Dame Emily park is because the previous day I had met a Street Art Tour Guide who has been a Bristol-based Graffiti photographer since the 80s after being spotted with TheRingOfDOOM at a Banksy mural and a stencil piece by JPS. He introduced me to his tour and I gave them all stickers while I realized my elevator pitch for TheRingOfDOOM has been neglected far too long. He directed me to the Stokes Croft neighborhood as well as North Street and I was able to make some seriously beautiful photos. Since I’ve returned home, he’s helped me to tag artists in my Instagram photos and follow the internet wormholes of Bristol Street Art. I plan on making all kinds of ridiculous mini movies with the Bristol footage in the coming weeks. Sharing a couple of my favorite photos in this post because that’s what one does when aiming to publish a series of Street Art Photography books. If I had not gone to Bristol, I’d have never had the opportunity to learn so much about its Street Artists, eat that pho, have the transformation in rain, meet Johnnation, sing in that tunnel, or leave a few my Ghostface stickers circa flyers for his upcoming show there. The seeds I planted on this trip will blossom into giant redwoods because I’ll be back in May and fertilize the MF out of them (I can only say that publicly because I’m a woman).
TheRingOfDOOM and Banksy’s Well Hung Lover in Bristol, UK
TheRingOfDOOM and JPS Street Art in Bristol, UK
I know I’ll step out of my comfort zone into YouTube myself very soon but for now TheRingOfDOOM series remains instrumental and starring just my tiny fictional character. I keep thinking about asking someone’s opinion about how to move forward… but who? Aside from the obvious influences of MF DOOM and everything else I’ve ever seen, this project remains 100% me and I’ve truly enjoyed being able to be the sole creator of an entire universe. Some of my favorite humans are those who have created epic characters and built on them all the way to sequel/prequel film status. Repotting this project into a larger setting helps it to grow and this is still only the beginning. I’ve already asked some rad humans to become part of the story and time will tell how TheRingOfDOOM and I’s story develops.
If you’d like to watch me learn how to use iMovie, the full playlist of TheRingOfDOOM’s tour videos can be found here. 00025 is in the works…
