Chelsea Hotel

Shirley Clarke, actress and choreographer, at Chelsea Hotel in 1970

Sam Shepard and Patti Smith Chelsea Hotel, New York, 1971 photo by Gerard Malanga

Robert Mapplethorpe by Patti Smith, as featured in 'Just Kids'

Nico and Robert Mapplethorpe

The Chelsea Hotel has seen a lot of action: Mark Rothko lived there. Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen there, Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Dylan Thomas drank himself to death there. Other famous lodgers included Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Coen, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Allan Ginsberg, Edie Sedgewick and Chales Bukowski to name a few... and of course there is the Leonard Coen song recently covered by Lana Del Rey (which despite myself I like)

I have been collecting images for the last month of the infamous hotel after finishing one time Chelsea hotel resident Patti Smith's heart wrenching book 'Just Kids', about her friendship and relationship with Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. If you haven't read it, you must. Just like Patti's music, it is well written , raw and honest... I haven't cried so much at the ending of a book for ages :)

Just Kids: Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, Chelsea Hotel

Dancing Barefoot....

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My next door neighbour has a hammock in her garden that taunts me when I look through my bathroom window, I am so tempted to nip over the fence and have a go, although I have only been living in this house a month so don't think it would be a good introduction.

I would love one however, despite my best efforts I am very ungraceful and would no doubt capsize the hammock and land on the floor.

Just a note to say thank you to Sara from sisters of the black moon and Here's the deal for sharing this  breathatking video. Seeing Patti Smiths reaction ...