The Eighties

This is an edit of a durational piece made in May 1986 which originally lasted one hour and only had incidental ambient noise on the soundtrack. It is more hardcore 'art' as it was originally made but this is the YouTube generation recut 21 years down the line. Other hour long durational pieces made in the eighties include a fabulous video of Pete Horobin and I taking afternoon tea that begins with a five minute static shot of the table before we sit down at it. We really knew how to make fun films back then... I love them, but YouTube doesn't carry hour long works, so you got this instead. My song on the soundtrack was also composed in the eighties, although this particular version was recorded in the nineties. But this static record of my head being shaved from a curly mop sums up the eighties for me. Immediately prior to this a friend in Hackney used to do my hair for me, and she also worked on Mel & Kim's barnets (so I met them a couple of times before they were famous when I headed down to Shakespeare Walk to get my hair cut)... Find out more about my movies, writing, pranks, gallery work etc at www.stewarthomesociety.org - and since I first put this up I have been getting a lot of comments about how much Britney Spears looks like me (don't forget I did this 20 years before her...)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 80s
• eighties
• shaving
• baldness
• curly hair
• Stewart Home
• neoism
• neoist
• head shaving
• Britney Spears
• Britney
• bald
• sex

[lawrencewraith]

Predates Sine'ad and Linda Evangelista Transformation

[stewarthome]

@lawrencewraith Yeah! And I'm better looking too!

[norniron57]

nice one

[stewarthome]

@norniron57 toot toot!

[stewarthome]

Whenever it rains I think of you and I always remember that day in May when I saw you walking in the rain.....

[TheFactoryOfLight]

This has nowt to do wiv nazism or whatever, but I think Stewart is quite right, I'd say, I mean, it's his experience ov the 80's, and as to many, I think the vid is just great cos it shows how the 80's were a moment to react. It aint a 'how to' shave one's head vid, but it represents PERFECTLY the experience of the 80's many people got. Mr Home, respect! Great author, great artist... such a great story-teller, even if it aint the sort ov stories most people like to read.

[stewarthome]

thanx!

[clowntju]

awesome :P

[stewarthome]

what bot girls like you do best is fail to deliver on anything... so dream on....

[stewarthome]

This not a demonstration video. This type of haircut is more normally done with clippers. I'm not trying to show how to do anything. This was shot in 1986 which was in the 1980s in case you hadn't noticed, and the haircut I start with is typical eighties, and the eighties was also when cropped and shaved heads became ever more fashionable for gay men. When were you born? If it was yesterday that probably explains why you don't understand what the eighties were about...