July 25, 201410 yr Hair is much too short, hope they loose the clippers! :lol: Looking good though :)
July 29, 201410 yr Author Seems Will's at Universal today according to these tweeters who work there. Casually eating my sandwich and notice Will Young and his dog coming into my work’s canteen for a fruit juice...... Re: last RT - definitely didn't realise it was Will Young, Maybe using their recording studios? Guess they weren't aware of the new hairstyle. :lol:
August 2, 201410 yr Author Another pic from Cornwall. http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xpa1/927395_295647363942154_1128733651_n.jpg
August 8, 201410 yr Author New blog from Will in the Huffington Post. Do we make our own reality? Do we make our own reality? If I was talking to a Bucdhist monk, he might say nothing is real... and he would be right. My question, however, is spurred by two incidents, watching the play Great Britain at the National Theatre last night and walking past a picture of a well-known Hollywood actor promoting women's jewellery. Both these occasions pushed me to think about reality in terms of media portrayal. Do we want it or is it given? The age old 'supply and demand' query. In Great Britain, the play covers the recent history of a struggling tabloid's rise to success by discovering how to hack phones. Through the conduit of this paper, it marks the ensuing tale of events from hacking royalty, seized documents being hidden, collusions between the Met Police and the tabloid etc... you get the picture. In my opinion, the story is really cleverly written and even more cleverly directed - it is actually political satire at its best. Old school true cabaret. Through the subtle line of narrative and teetering on the brink of knowingness and so nearly moving through the fourth wall, the play poses a question involving the hacking of phones involving two child murders. Billy Piper's character asks whether the tide of opinion change from villain to hero if the paper had actually caught the perpetrator? The answer for me is a resounding yes. She goes on to say that people don't give a shit about who gets hurt in the collation of news, as long as it is delivered as fresh kill to our doorsteps every day. I concur. Such is our appetite for news, gimme gimme gimme more. We lap it up. I can't walk past a magazine if I spot a 'KARDASHIAN FLIES TO MOON FOR WEDDING' headline. It pulls me in and like junk food it just leaves me craving more. With this fresh in my mind, I open up my magazine at 6am this morning whilst waiting for a plane and I see a glowing picture of a mid-40s actor. She beams out of the magazine, her face truly angelic. I cannot fault it. The woman looks fantastic. I then have to remind myself... this lady is at least mid-40s. Women do NOT look like this in their mid-40s, they just don't. Every time I watch Kristen Scott Thomas in a film I think she looks great and she looks like her age. It heartens me and yet saddens me that she is such a rarity. I ponder, why are famous women now so polished and buffed to appear on screen or sell a product? Well here is a conundrum - a company wants to market their jewellery at the market that will buy it. The market that will buy it is older because they are more likely to have the money so the brand needs to get a women who is around the expected age to be wearing such creations. Nothing wrong at this point. The problem is they will need to get a women, famous preferably, who is older yet also 'aspirational'. It is now not enough that a women is deemed successful because she is known to be at the top of her game in a certain field. Now success needs to be tied in with youth and agelessness. These companies want women who are supernatural. Ageless women who are so aspirational why would you NOT want to buy the product to be like that? The problem with this is that THIS IS NOT REAL. It is no different to genetic engineering of cows to produce bigger, leaner and more amounts of meat. We are playing with creation or at least the concept of what it is to actually live. As always, this is driven by money. Designer labels, fashion magazines and ad agencies have created these surreal, freakish paintings of women. The dangling carrot, always there but never quite obtainable. Both Great Britain and this Hollywood jewellery campaign bring up questions about reality and more importantly who is driving the fabrication of this. In the case of the print media, I think responsibility can rest equally between news corporations wanting bigger and bigger bucks and the insatiable appetite of the modern Western human condition for news, preferably bad, and certainly instantaneous. Its real life Eastenders and we want to be wholly on top of the plot. In terms of the aesthetic portrayal of women to be something attainable, responsibility lays at the hands of labels and advertising agencies and fashion magazines. What is promoted as healthy and all encompassing and desirable is actually unobtainable. This isn't adhering to the human condition, this is exploiting and manipulating it for monetary gain. The only reality going on here is a lining of the coffers. Lets not forget however the participants in front of the camera. Do these people hold a social and moral responsibility? If I was a woman and got an offer to be the face of a brand, a whopping great pay cheque and maximum exposure for my career, would I turn that down to appear actually looking my age in an advert for rescuing newts in Bulgaria or selling a new floor mop for these would be the only adverts I would get? Then I think my human condition might take over. If it isn't me it will just be someone else and why should I lose out. It isn't my fault. A master practitioner in Tai Chi said to me once (funnily enough in an airport) that "the only reality is that there isn't a reality". Well, regarding the portrayal of older woman in fashion, he certainly got that right. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/will-young...l?utm_hp_ref=uk Edited August 8, 201410 yr by truly talented
August 11, 201410 yr Tweeted about an hour ago Saw will young at the airport today lol Is he off again :unsure:
August 11, 201410 yr Author Thanks Jackie. Lots of coming and going. Unless he's taken up residence in the airport. :lol: Edited August 11, 201410 yr by truly talented
August 11, 201410 yr Thanks Jackie. Lots of coming and going. Unless he's taken up residence in the airport. :lol: Plane spotting?? :lol: I presume BD is down for everyone and not just me?
August 11, 201410 yr Author Plane spotting?? :lol: I presume BD is down for everyone and not just me? Another to add to Will's long list of hobbies. Yes it's down.
August 11, 201410 yr Author David Nunn @davidjnunn · Great to meet @will_young31 yesterday, if you have a spare moment please donate, help us out! http://www.cryinthedark.org/about%20us pic.twitter.com/Nly8rb86p5
August 17, 201410 yr Author Look who showed up to the meat party last night @thervt only @will_young31 <3<3<3 http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xaf1/10611133_258998044296778_513431704_n.jpg
August 19, 201410 yr Author Sounds as if Will may have been singing last night. I've just heard @will_young31's version of #Thelookoflove it's amazing I love it!!! Will I'm looking forward to your next album :-) X 1 retweet Sent 10h ago From Twitter for iPhone
August 19, 201410 yr Thanks TT Sounds as if Will may have been singing last night. Oh to have been a fly on the wall for that....I do miss his live singing :( Hope we don't have to wait too long next year for a tour
August 20, 201410 yr Author Thanks to Julie (Will4me) From the Hackney Gazette. Will Young visited members of a Hackney youth group to show his support for lesbian, gay, bisexual or queer youngsters. The Leave Right Now singer attended in his capacity as an ambassador for Holloway based charity PACE, which promotes the mental health and emotional well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Project Indigo, in collaboration with PACE, offers a safe space for young LGBT people, as well as opportunities to make friends and have fun. The singer commended the project for supporting LGBT people experience bullying, rejection and harassment which can seriously affect their mental health, well-being and ability to get on with life. He said: “It is so important for young LGBT people to have a chance to communicate within a safe, trusting environment. It’s been fantastic to meet with the guys in Project Indigo.” It's very telling that there's no strap line Will is in the studio working on his 6th album. It really is all about the charity for Will. The same article features in the Islington Gazette. http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/wil...rce=twitterfeed Edited August 20, 201410 yr by truly talented
August 20, 201410 yr Author Back in London. At the Wyndham Theatre waiting for #Skylight to start. Marcus Mumford, Will Young & Paul Greengrass are here.
August 23, 201410 yr Author Andy Butterfield @shiatsu_matters @will_young31 Great meeting you last Sat eve Will. I forgot the name of that retreat in Oxford. If you get a mo, please refresh my mem. Tvm Well he did spend a lot of time in Oxford. :)
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