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William Crawley | 19:01 UK time, Thursday, 5 March 2009

I was mooching about at the launch of the Belfast Film Festival, having a hastily-consumed lunch of something vaguely vegetarian with my old(er) friend and colleague Rick Hill, when Rick exclaimed, "Moochin?" Whereupon I was introduced to the photographer John Baucher, who has been chronicling the strangely ordinary and inordinately strange features of our life in Northern Ireland and exhibiting his pictures online using the photo sharing site Flickr. John may well be the Samuel Pepys of our day. He has been combining the viewfinder of a 1940's Ensign Ful-Vue (i.e., this) with a digital camera to create a fascinating body of work ranging from portraits to more conceptual pieces, all documenting aspects of daily life in Northern Ireland. This picture of me, taken last October during the Belfast Festival at Queen's, is now part of his online collection. I hope it's catalogued in the portraiture collection, and not under conceptual art.

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  • 1. At 10:50am on 06 Mar 2009, Heliopolitan wrote:

    Will, I'm not sure it shouldn't be classified in the Horror section! ;-) The similarities to the Doctor - I take it he meant Dr Who? And if so, who will be your next Assistant?

    I'm sure PastorPhilip would be up for a romp through time & space - you could take him back in your Tardis and show him precisely what YHWH and Asherah were getting up to in 700BCE...

    -H

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  • 2. At 12:18pm on 06 Mar 2009, MoochinPhotoman wrote:

    Hi William
    Thanks for blogging me.
    The pedant in me just wants to note that the photo of you was taken at the Amnesty International event 5 months ago.
    Thanks again

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  • 3. At 3:13pm on 06 Mar 2009, gveale wrote:

    "now here's a story about willie the moocher
    he was a lowdown hoochie-coocher
    ....."

    Complete the lyrics for a prize, judges decision is final


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  • 4. At 6:56pm on 06 Mar 2009, William Crawley (BBC) wrote:

    John --

    I've corrected the locational inexactitude!

    Will

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  • 5. At 7:07pm on 06 Mar 2009, petermorrow wrote:


    Is it too simplistic to say that I think the photos are great.


    Graham, is it a limerick you are looking for?

    And Helio, if Will does have a time machine maybe you and I can travel back with Philip and we'll put the matter to rest once and for all. Although, come to think of it, would anyone believe either of our testimonies on our return?


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  • 6. At 3:56pm on 26 Nov 2009, The Christian Hippy wrote:

    Just to let you know William that I have just started a Flickr page and you are also now part of my collection, which can be viewed at:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonebelfast/

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