showstudio live event: 'transformer'

[chris raettig <chris@raettig.org>]

i'm currently embracing the chaos that is another showstudio live event.
we're looking at an eight hour event running two days running from
midday (bst) tomorrow.  thankfully we're operating from a studio in
north london rather than a hotel, field or public toilet.  these things
are getting kind of routine now, so apart from the inevitable unforseen
hitches it ought to be plain sailing.  we're looking to use four webcams,
probably on a one minute refresh.  though god knows what they'll be
pointing at.  rumours that i will be appearing on both sides of the 
camera at this event are yet to be confirmed.  i may offer further
information about the event as it happens, depending on how organised i am.

the downside is that it requires me to be at the studio at *seven in the
morning*.  hence i plan to rig up a webcam at the flat tonight.  if you
see me asleep after 6.30am-bst on thursday morning, please call and
wake me. 

here is the official blurb about the event;


Transformer| Nick Knight/Simon Foxton/Sam McKnight

Enter a transgressive, transgendered netherworld where nothing is as it
seems Fashion photographer Nick Knight, stylist Simon Foxton and hair
stylist Sam McKnight have plumbed the depths of their darker desires and
choreographed a spectacular live fashion event to be transmitted by the
fashion broadcasting initiative, SHOWstudio, live on www.showstudio.com.

At 12:00hrs GMT on Thursday 18 July, the team will throw open their studio
doors to a global audience, where an entourage of models including Liberty
Ross, Erin O'Connor and Zora Star, celebrities including Alexander McQueen
and Katy England, performers, cross-dressers and eccentrics will indulge in
a series of fashion transformations, transfigurations and fashion
performances. Taking transgender as their point of departure, make-up
artists, stylists and hair artists will transform men into women and vice
versa, occidental individuals into oriental ones, slender girls to fulsome
women and men to beasts and fowl.

Not only will viewers be able to spectate on a live Nick Knight shoot and
watch the entire spectacle develop from backstage in the make-up rooms, they
will have a direct line to the team from their home and office computers.
There will be an ongoing Web-chat throughout Transformer, through which
viewers can converse directly with the team. Save your thoughts and
questions until Thursday and log on to showstudio.com to participate in the
ultimate end-of-term fashion party.

For further information or images of the project please contact:

Kate Monckton at Abnormal PR (for SHOWstudio.com)
info@abnormalpr.co.uk