Saturday, 30 July 2011

You know when you rummage through your drawers...

...and underneath all the bank statements and junk mail you find the hand-drawn Pokemon Information Booklet you made over 10 years ago? Yeah. It's a good feeling. We overestimated the pages we'd need. [Item not for sale...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

A Casual Tuesday Tea-Time Photoshoot

My OM10 seems to be getting all the attention these days so it was nice to get out my trusty Nikon and open up Photoshop for the first time in yonks! As usual, click on the above for a larger, juicier version. There's a couple more on my Flickr too. Teehee ...

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Blip

A few weeks ago I was metaphorically kicked in the balls, I received an elbow jab to the kidney and a simultaneous slap in the face. It was painful to try and comprehend things that were said to me and consume the resulting emotions I experienced. Fast-forward though, and somehow things have reverted to how they were before. I (think I) like to refer to it as 'the blip'. Weirdly, that short period of panic and uncertainty has had a massive positive...

Saturday, 16 July 2011

Are 'Wii' Fit?

Taken from my final year photography project. Click on the photos to enlarge and see blurb below. It's one year old now, so perhaps a little technologically out of date considering the invention of the Xbox Kinect. Yet, the message is still just as important to remember when you consume those ads with the virtual personal trainers in virtual training environments. Don't waste...

Saturday, 2 July 2011

Congradulations

It's been a year since I graduated. Wowzer. The overpriced framed portrait is stuck on a shelf in the dining room and only gets dusted when we happen to have guests*. It is a rubbish photo anyway; wonky hat, creased cape, forced smile and big embarrassed rosy red cheeks. I've no idea where my degree certificate is but it's bound to be somewhere 'safe' with all...

Friday, 1 July 2011

A small post dedicated to Andrew Castle

That is Andrew Castle. Earlier he was trending on Twitter. As thousands of Wimbledon viewers hunted for the remote to hit mute during the Nadal/Murray semi-final, the twitterers that endured his commentary still found it infuriating, embarrassing, ridiculous, or a combo of all of the above. Personally, I found it quite hilarious. See highlights below: Thinking out loud during...