Above:Model: Karen Garside. Title: 'British Beauty' Below: Monica Richards and Serpentine
Above: Lexx convention card promotions.
From above:left to right models:Rachael Jacobs,Eileen Daly,Rachael Lawson.
Above: Album covers.
Above:2 important influences in my work- Sound (my music,soundtracks etc) and Vision (my Photography lens and eye for design). l've only 2 big prints of these that l may sell signed and numbered later this year.
My work, Now lets see interests . . .Art, photography, l photograph ladies and gentlemen. l like beautiful shiney ornaments and other objects, erotic victorian art, (Don Winslow's Victorian Erotica/A Stately English Mansion | A Night in a Moorish Harem) l have a passion for Pre-raphaelite art with the likes of Waterhouse, Rossetti and William Morris which reflects in my personal artwork and photography at times. And l’ve visited exhibitions to see the originals at places like Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Bows Museum and the Tate. The work of Francis Bacon has always interested me. l like to read when l can. l love music, (Dead Can Dance are a big influence in lots of my work). l love egyptain dance and especially the talents and look of Rachel Brice. Now what else do l like, gothic lands, dark things with a twist of humour, magik, music by candle light. l like good food and mexican . . . Emmm! Watching alternative people come and go over the years. l love both factual and fantasy information and history on mediaeval chinese and Japanese cultures. l've a 5000 plus collection of graphic novels and comics many signed and in full sets. l've worked with an wide spectrum of 'Famous' people and get on well with most as 'Fame' and the person l can always separate. Lets see . . . what else oh yes l love mediaeval history and visiting old castles, l like travelling about doing various shoots, visiting exhibitions and openings. l dont suffer fools and tend to speak as l find and dislike certain forms of authority and football.
Above models Amber England and Donna
Copyright darkview. Prints & Posters are for sale at New Yorks' Pod Gallery.Go to Darkview website and (shop) to purchase limited number prints or copy and paste this:http://podgallery.com/jordansmith
Music
Where do l start, all sorts really: Cocteau Twins / Dead Can Dance / Danielle Dax / Creatures / Liabach / Rammstien / Classical / Faith and the Muse / Virgin Prunes / Sisters of Mercy / Punk / Sex Pistols / Crass (good old Class War) / Poison Girls / Misfits / Rancid / Lars Frederisken / Depeche Mode / Dave Gahan, etc . . ok more for you . . . The Dance Society / Sisters of Mercy / Japan / The Birthday Party / Siouxsie and the Banshees / Stranglers, Southern Death Cult / Death Cult / Cult / Throbing Gristle / Psychic TV / Mission / March Violets / The Glove / Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry / Kate Bush / Lydia Lunch / Killing Joke / Lena Lovich / Nina Hagen / Hole / Daisy Chainsaw / Naughty Miranda / Dammed /AC-DC / Aerosmith / Diamanda Galas / Big Black / MM / Smashing Pumpkins / The Cure / Joy Division / X-mal Deutschland / Naked Lunch / Blancmange / Wolfsheim / NIN / Led Zepplin / Type O Negative / Black Sabbath / Talking Heads / David Burn / The The / Disturbed / Orgy / Fields of the Nephilim / COF / Skinny Puppy / Moonspell / Conjure One / Void Construct / Alabama 3 / The Cramps / The Meteors / B-52's / Horrorpops / HIM / Marc Bolan / T-Rex / This Mortal Coil / The Distillers / Velvet Revolver / John Martin / Rob Zombie / White Zombie / Aphex Twin / The Clash / The Fall / Goldfrapp / Portishead / Radiohead / The Ramones / The Ruts / Tom Waits / Tim Buckley / Brendan Perry / John Foxx / Fad Gadget / The Bravery / Massive Attack / Tricky / Cabaret Voltaire / B-Movie / Kraftwerk / Current 93 / David Sylvian / Lisa Gerrard / Mediaeval music/babes / Misrecrodia / PIL / Sorrow / Spell / Rose McDowall / Zodiac Mindwarp (the dirty boy!) / Metallica / Motorhead / Early David Bowie / Death in Vegas / Sonic Youth / Suede / Velvet Underground / Buzzcocks / Pay it all back volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, / Velvet Underground / certain movie soundtracks by Howard Shore, Ry Cooder (Paris, Texas), Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Thomas Newman, Wilhelmenia Wiggins-Fernandez, Tan Dun (Hero) DVladimir Cosma (Diva) George Fenton (The Company Of Wolves/Dangerous Liasons) Berliner Philharmoniker/Simon Rattle's Perfume / Jaye Barnes Luckett (MAY) Regina Spektor, Shiva in Exile etc . . .
Below: Planet designs for the Lexxzone offical website etc . .
l used to work in the fashion/retail trade and have a good eye for creating textiles within my work. l used to tout my portfolio of textiles all over and sold a few to fashion houses and mainstream chains like Miss Selfridges in the 90's,. My 'Second Skin' (above picture) here's just a hybrid of those days textiles mixed with photography and art.
Bought this old pocket watch in Camden Market last week,now its a DV advert ;-)
Sample work
My abstract version of Carabosse |
Movies
Neil Jordans The Company of Wolves | François Girards The Red Violin | Francis Ford Coppola Rumblefish, One from the Heart | David Lynch's Dune, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway | Ridley Scotts 'Bladerunner' (GOD) & Alien | Jim Jarmuschs Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai, Mystery Train, Deadman and the exellent 'Night on Earth | Godrey Reggio's KOYAANISQATSI | The Coen brothers: Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing | Terry Gilliams Jabberwocky, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, BRAZIL, Fisher King,12 Monkeys,Tideland | Luc Bessons The Fifth Element | KrzysztofKieslowskis: Trois couleurs Rouge | Wim Wenders: Paris,Texas | Spike Jonzes Being John Malcovich / Jack Golds The Naked Civil Servant | Rob Zombies House of a 1000 Corpses Tony Scotts The Hunger | Roman Polanskis Dance of the Vampires (also know as The Vampire Lovers), Tess, The 9th Gate / Guillermo Del Toros The Devils Backbone, Hellboy | Pan’s Labyrinth | Woody Allens Manhattan, Mighty Aphrodite, Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask, Radio Days, Sleeper (and the brilliant) Deconstructing Harry| John Schlesinger s Marathon Man | Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Russ Meyers Vixen, Supervixens, Valley of the Dolls | Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Heavenly Creatures | Karen Waltins Ginger Snaps | Sally Potters Orlando | Bernardo Bertoluccis The Sheltering Sky Yolande Zaubermans Clubbed to Death | Maroun Bagdadis A Fille de l'air | Stephen Frears Dangerous Liaisons | Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Clockwork Orange | The Crow | Amelie | True Romance | Planet of the Apes | Lucky Mckee's MAY (Well l would as l worked with them) Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Halloween | Evil Dead | Wickerman | Fight Club | Being John Malkovich | Michael Cohns Snow White | Charles Sturridge
s Fairy Tale: A true story | Mike Figus's Leaving Las Vegas | most Tim Burton movies, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood, Big Fish | Jim Henderson's The Dark Crystal | Samuel Z. Arkoffs classy Dr.Phibes and The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Paul Hellers Withnail and I | Jean Jacques Beineix masterpiece DIVA (Roughly based on the mystery novel by Delacorta)as well as his later 'Betty Blue' | Napoleon Dynamite (My friend Ellen in that) Erotic Porn,(given to me by a certain well cool lady) Richard Lesters The 3 and 4 Musketeers | Razorblade smile | John Boorman's 'Excalibur' | Dennis Potter's 'Brimstone & Treacle' | Alan Ball's 'American Beauty' | Jane Campions 'The Piano' | Ealing movies: Kind Hearts & Coronets,The Lavender Hill Mob, The Lady Killers | Norman Wisdow | Christophe Gan's Brotherhood of the Wolf | Dont Look Now | Hammer | Jean-Pierre Jeunes Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children and Alien Resurrection | Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory | Fight Club | Star Wars | Empire | Leon | Lotte Reinigers The Adventures of Prince Achmed | Laural & Hardy | Ken Russell's Women In Love,Tommy, The Lair Of The White Worm, Aria, Gothic, Crimes Of Passion, Altered States | Stardust | Yellow Submarine | Cat People | Hayao Miyazakis Princess Mononoke & Spirited Away | Dario Argentos Suspiria, Opera, Trauma | Jonathan Millers Alice in Wonderland | The Brothers Quay Nocturna Artificialia Peter Greenaways The Draughtmans Contract | Quills |
John Duigan's 1994 'Sirens' (Sam Neill as Norman Lindsay,its me) Ang Lees Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Zhang Yimou's brilliant Hero & House of Flying Daggers | Pitof's VIDOCQ | Werner Herzog's Nosferatu | Alexandre Dumas La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) | Don Coscarellis Bubba Ho-Tep | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Micheal Gondrys Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Mark Wolpers Mists of Avalon | Christopher Nolans Memento | McLeans Wolf Creek | My Summer of Love by Pawel Pawlikowski and the works of Pedro Almodovar | PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER by Tom Tykwer.Frank Miller's 300 |Venus
Angela Bettis stars in MAY and THE TOOLBOX MURDERS. When l shipped this picture to Angela in L.A. Angela was so pleased with it that she hung it on her living room wall and that coming from a lady who's not one for her own image was a big compliment to my painting. Theirs only 4 prints of this worldwide.
THE FASHION SHOW WILL BE IN FEBRUARY, {LIVERPOOL} STILL LOOKING FOR A LOCATION, THE CHARITIES WILL BE PULLED OUT OF THE HAT BY A CUSTOMER, ALL MODELS PLEASE COME DOWN AND SEE MICHELLE AND BUT THE DETAILS IN BOOK, THE STORY LINE IS NOW BEING WRITTEN (THE BRIDE TO DIE FOR {PART2}THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST /GO TO FACE BOOK 4 DETAILS MORGANAS LAIR
stopping by for a quick hi...peeking around to check out what's new here, though i love your website much more cuz it's so amazing :o). i love your artwork, have i said that lately?
It was a few Years ago when I was working at Metalhammer awards I was with Skindred the other Week though at a couple of their shows, they are a good bunch of Guys..
Hi Jordan, yes it was wonderful to meet up at Whitby :-). The Faith And The Muse photos are beautiful. :-) All OK here, had some crazy shifts at work and my Dad isn't well right now bless him. Hopefully he'll be over it soon. I'm looking forward to some much needed days off next week :-).
Hope all well with you and yours too...... Love, light and blessings, Kim x x
Hey just wanted to stop by and thank you for your friendship and let you know that you can now download the entire "American Nightmare" album for ONE DOLLAR for a limited time!
Go to the Dead Aesthetic profile and click on the album cover art in the right hand column to get it now!
Thanks again for the support and I hope you enjoy the album!
Thought you'd like to know we have the Raveonettes take over as our Guest Eds throughout October! Keep checking www.supersweet.org to find out how the October issue is going to look like. There's music, fashion, art and lots of fun things for everyone! Hope you like! SS x
Above:Model: Karen Garside. Title: 'British Beauty' Below: Monica Richards and Serpentine
From above:left to right models:Rachael Jacobs,Eileen Daly,Rachael Lawson.
Copyright darkview. Prints & Posters are for sale at New Yorks' Pod Gallery.Go to Darkview website and (shop) to purchase limited number prints or copy and paste this:http://podgallery.com/jordansmith
l used to work in the fashion/retail trade and have a good eye for creating textiles within my work. l used to tout my portfolio of textiles all over and sold a few to fashion houses and mainstream chains like Miss Selfridges in the 90's,. My 'Second Skin' (above picture) here's just a hybrid of those days textiles mixed with photography and art.
Bought this old pocket watch in Camden Market last week,now its a DV advert ;-)
Sample work
My abstract version of Carabosse |
Angela Bettis stars in MAY and THE TOOLBOX MURDERS. When l shipped this picture to Angela in L.A. Angela was so pleased with it that she hung it on her living room wall and that coming from a lady who's not one for her own image was a big compliment to my painting. Theirs only 4 prints of this worldwide.
Models: Rachael Lawson, pictures used and printed in various Art, photography and fashion magazines worldwide last year. ©Darkview. Right Vince (private collection)
Above right: model Elyssia and below: Morrigan Hel
Below: mix samples of Fantasy goddess work- Left Poison Ivy. Right- Queen Titania from 'A Midsummer's night Dream' (See Bloggs for more info)
Above:'Siren Love Bomb' ready to drop!!!
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‘Dremonian series’© A vast dream war like battle,protectors of the imagination. It’s been the biggest and most time consuming piece l’ve ever done, and many photoshoots were done as reference. In August at my website l will display the whole workings of this epic picture series plus it's future ideas and development.
Above:This is a working full book layout for Bryan Talbots new graphic novel 'Alice in Sunderland' due out for print in March 2007 by Dark Horse comics and Jonathan Cape publications. all work both photography/art/logos were created by my work and digital art. The rough pencil sketch was divised by Bryan Talbot
Above:My dear friend Motoko Suhara (Moon-eyes),not only a stunning model but full-time Professional Piano and Violinist to some of Japans top music venue establishments and hotels.
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