Thursday 17 September 2009

Thursday 13 August 2009

He's like a big frog that's died

The best clip on the entire internet

Tune for the day

Actually, tune for the summer. I can't listen to this enough, two months and counting...

Wednesday 12 August 2009

NY Excuse

Have been crippled with New York lust in the past week. It started last week when I was stir crazy at home with the flu. I started watching Flight Of The Conchords second season, and all I could think about was escapeing to NYC instead of finding it funny and stuff. Watched a bit of Manhatten last night, probably my favorite film. I defy you not to have NY lust after watching this:



Joy... it's been almost 2 years since I took this, Kat has promised me we'll definitly go in the next 12 months (along with Mexico, New Zealand, Vietnam, Texas, Slovenia, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris...):

Taxi from airport

Tuesday 11 August 2009

He's gone home *sniff*

An old picture from University days - 2002



An old picture I out together in my final year at Brighton University (2002). Background is the West Pier in Brighton, shot on slide film and re-projected onto a slightly yellow wall. The people (he's Phil, no idea what she was called) were shot in the studio, and put together on Photoshop. Interestingly enough, in these ancient times, we had no digital cameras (we also didn't have an indoor toilet, and Henry Fox Talbot was the course leader), and the university had only had the digital suite installed a few months earlier, so this final piece of work was the first time I'd properly used Photoshop.
Initially, I'd projected slides in the background, and tried to stand the models at an angle so I could capture them and the background at the same time. There was some success, but generally it would require an exposure of 3-4 seconds to fill the background in after the flash (the flash was required to make artificial sunlight to match the backgrounds. That, and to make it look non-shit). In the end , technology saved me. I owe my sanity to the 'Extract' tool. After I'd put the two pictures together, I printed the picture off, re-photographed it on chrome film again, projected and re-shot it again, and then printed as a normal negative. I don't know why I did the last bit, but it looks ok.

(I lied about the toilet and Bobby Talbot)

1905 - first ever LOLcat!

From here

Wednesday 5 August 2009

Elliott has come to stay

He's a heavy beast, and he has no tail.

Elliott has come to stay for a week.

Tuesday 4 August 2009

HELLO YOU

Hello. I've started this on a day when I came home sick. I got jealous of other people's blogs, so I have started one. Here it is! My girlfriend just looked over my shoulder as I typed that, and laughed her annoying ultra high pitched laugh, the one she does when she's being annoying. She's asking if this blog will contain my most personal thoughts, but it won't, as there are special websites for that. I don't think I'll kill her yet, as she's got us free tickets to Fleetwood Mac in a few weeks.

It's named after an imaginary debut album, from an imaginary band, formed in Texas in March 2006, when I was exiting Fiesta supermarket in Dallas after spending half an hour gawking at the voodoo isle (especially voodoo floor cleaner).

I'll probably just bung some photos up, clear up the clutter from Flickr and that.