Skatalites in Bimbotown

The Skatalites played at Bimbotown in Basel in 1994 and their site has a load of photos you can see here, along with the playlist and other details like set list.

Jim Whiting with Herbie Hancock

Photo of Jim and Herbie Hancock meeting in London in November 2019 (see here), holding photo most likely from around 1984 and connected Rockit music video collaboration.

Bimbotown 360 Panorama by Douglas Cape (2011)

You can see a 360 degree panoramic photography tour of Jim’s Bimbotown variété venue in Leipzig shot by Douglas Cape in 2011 here.

Rambo Gun (again)

Another photo of the Rambo Gun (read more on this here). Can’t help think that the Rambo Gun needs it’s own page or at least a tag and probably video showing it works, as well as what it is for, i.e. as part of creating the pneumatic muscles that make many of Jim’s figures move:

Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy Artist Profile

Jim Whiting”s preparatory sketches for Mechanical Theater exhibited at Luna Luna in Hamburg (1987)

Jim’s Maschinentheater installation from the original 1987 Luna Luna art amusement Park curated by André Heller is not featured in it’s recent relaunch as Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy in Los Angeles, although some of the figures that featured are displayed statically. However, they do provide the following artist profile on their site with some photographs of the original exhibit, as well as preparatory sketches here:

Jim Whiting Show’s 1986-1992 by Douglas Cape

Slideshow of photographs by photographer Douglas Cape of Jim Whiting Shows from 1986-1992 including portraits of Jim, his figures and helpers, parties at his (Unit 24) Upper Clapton Road Studios and from the following shows:

• The Tower 1: Broadgate, London (1992)
• Deus Ex Machina 1: Wapping Power Station, London (1990)
• Unnatural Bodies 4: NBK Kunsthalle, Berlin  (1989)