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Rupert Brooke

Aldous Huxley

Described his aim as a novelist as being 'to arrive, technically, at a perfect fusion of the novel and the essay' - 'novel of ideas'

Died same day as JFK. as did C. S. Lewis. Huxley's ashes were interred in the family grave at the Watts Cemetery, home of the Watts Mortuary Chapel in Compton near Guildford.

Grandfather: Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and "Darwin's Bulldog"
Brother: Julian Huxley outstanding biologist - involved in eugenics

studied English literature at Balliol
taught French for a year at Eton where Eric Blair (George Orwell) was among his pupils [1984/BNW] On 21 October 1949 Huxley wrote to Orwell abt Nineteen Eighty-Four, congratulating him on "how fine and how profoundly important the book is."
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience."

worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically-advanced Brunner and [Mustapha] Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, part of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)

During World War I, Huxley spent much of his time at Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, working as a farm labourer. Here he met D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell and Clive Bell.
lived in Italy part of the time in the 1920s, where Huxley would visit his friend D. H. Lawrence. Following Lawrence's death in 1930, he edited his letters (1933).
In 1937, Huxley moved to Hollywood - met Christopher Isherwood, Anita Loos, Ray Bradbury.

Screenwriting: Madame Curie (1943), Pride and Prejudice (1940), Jane Eyre (1944),Alice in Wonderland (1951)

In October 1930, the occultist Aleister Crowley dined with Huxley in Berlin, and to this day rumours persist that Crowley introduced Huxley to peyote on that occasion.
famously took 100 micrograms of LSD as he lay dying
The Doors of Perception (the title deriving from some lines in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake) inspired the name of the band The Doors. Huxley also appears on the sleeve of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Music at Night, 1931

In Brave New World Revisited, he concluded that the world was becoming like Brave New World much faster than he originally thought.
When Brave New World was released, B. Russell thought that Huxley's book was based on his book The Scientific Outlook that had been released the previous year.
Brave New World's plot ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We
inspired by the H. G. Wells' utopian novel Men Like Gods. Wells' optimistic vision of the future gave Huxley the idea to parody the novel

Brave New World written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book)

"For the Slump brought even more disillusionment than the War. A new bitterness, and a new bewilderment, ran through all social life, and was reflected in all literature and art. It was contemptuous, not only of the old Capitalism, but of the old Socialism."

Public Art

The Naked Lady, Finchley - Deliverance by Emile Guillaume (French)
to celebrate victory at 1st Battle of Marne 1914, and 2nd battle in 1918
unveiled 1927 by Lloyd George
bought by Lord Rothermere (owner Daily Mail) at Paris Salon in 1920 - donated to Borough of Finchley 1927

Top image courtesy of Canonsnapper

Music

"Gee What A Boy" by The Joytones
Bat For Lashes album ‘Two Suns’ (released 6th April 2009)

Politics

[this photo published just after the 45th anniversary of JFK's death, yesterday - Martin Luther King's speech was in August 1963]

The capacity of a society to improve and reinvigorate itself (election of Obama X.08)


Has anyone here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
You know, he freed a lot of people
but it seems the good die young, yeah.
I just looked around and he was gone.

Oh yeah

Has anyone here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people
but it seems the good die young, yeah.
I just looked around and he was gone.

Poster Design

Film posters from the former Academy Cinema. The Academy Cinema used to be in Oxford Street and was the first and most prestigious British arthouse cinema. An Austrian filmmaker, George Hoellering, became director of the cinema just before the outbreak of war in 1937. During the war he was interned for a short period on the Isle of Man along with many other German and Austrian nationals. It was here Hoellering met artist Peter Strausfeld and together they produced a magazine for the internees. After their release Hoellering commissioned Strausfeld to produce posters for the Academy Cinema. Strausfeld's poster style, woodcuts, then later linocuts, quickly became the cinema's trademark. Hoellering would indicate to Strausfeld the key image in the film he would like illustrated and Strausfeld would usually have 48 hours to produce the work before it was sent to Westminster Press.

Only a few hundred prints could be made from the linocuts before they wore out. Strausfeld designed posters for the Academy Cinema until he passed away in 1980 and the cinema continued to run as an arthouse cinema until its closure in 1986.

2007-13 Projects

2007

Big Art Mob
Empire's Children
Picture This

2008

Medicine Chest
Embarrassing Bodies

Osama Loves

Sexperience

4mations

2009

Landshare
Secret Millionaire

Adoption Experience / Britain's Forgotten Children
Surgery Live
Alone In The Wild

CQD
ABC
CCTV Symphony
(Lost & Found)

2010

One Born Every Minute (Life Begins)
Embarrassing Bodies: Kids

4Thought.tv
Seven Days
Jamie's Dream School

Quotables
(ABC)
(CCTV Symphony)

Embarrassing Bodies: Live

Sexperience 3
Joy of TS

Big Art Mob revamp 2
OBEM 2
(OBAC)

2011

The Big Fish Fight
The Big Fish Fight iPhone app
Beauty & the Beast
My Healthchecker

Model Agency
Sexperience 4 and 5 - Joy of Teen Sex 2
Are You Sexperienced?
The Sexperience 1000
Live from the Clinic
The Great British Property Scandal
Empty Homes Spotter iPhone app

My Molechecker app
My SelfChecker app
My HealthChecker app

Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets

B of Dave
BFF Club

Are They B@stards?
CMBR
Mary Portas/Consumer
Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth

(EB Unembarrassed Buddies)
EB redesign

I Conf
Alt Cen
Dicel
Cash and Burn demo
Wasted
What's Going On Now?
Emotionom
YouFoo
SexTips4G.com
Friends
Kangeroo Court
Plan B
Celebrations


2012

New Year Revolution

LftC 2
3 EB apps - MHC MMC MSC

Hotel GB

BFF2
GBPS2

(The Revengers)
(Fundamentalists)

CYSYWY dev
EB game
Parental dev
The Big Share pilot
My Beautiful Funeral dev
Code dev
Quotalicious
BAM2
Public Eye dev
TOWIE app demo
CMBR demo
SS2 game dev
(EB Redesign)

Van Wars Could You, Should You, Would You? dev Muff March Hotshots

2013

Was It Something I Said
Bedtime Live

My RiskChecker

Health Freaks

Camera Ready (Shut Your Facebook)

My MP

What's Going On Now? 2014 My MindChecker (EB LftC4) MRC2 Don't Stop the Music

(Hard Cell)
Ph Bk
Cost of Living

SFV:
Tattoo Twists
Daughters & Fathers
Double Vision
24 Hour Party Politics
The Shape of Things to Come
In The Future
see separate SFV post

[Last Updated: 25/10/12 - 20/3/13 - 29/1/14 - 19/9/14 - 9/12/14]