Midnight Snackings

Paris 2010 (Part 1 - day 1 and 2)

2010-07-12T00:25:00.015+01:00

Yup, 'Paris 2010' is pretty much how I label everything relating to my trip to Paris this year. How inventive.

This is a brief run down of what

happened on my brief across-three-days-but-technically-still-just-under-48hours trip:

- Sat in the wrong seat on the Eurostar,

- Got our travelcards, learnt how to pronounce the name of the stop we had to get to, "Lamarck"

- Brief nighttime wonder around the area (Montmartre) and back to the non-existant aircon in the hotel room to sleep. (Too hot to leave the windows closed, but too loud to have them open.)

- Wonder around the area in actual daylight, visit a bakery or two.

- Puppies!!!!

- Back to the hotel to nap (because that's what I do ;)) and change.

- Louvre for outside watching and sunburning.

- (I didn't get to realize how sunburnt I got until we got back to the hotel. It wasn't BAD, but I was pinky red. With a tan. I both tan and burn. Go figure.)

- Still early in the day, (I'd guess it was about 3-4pm) so we went to the Pompidou, but turns out it closes on tuesdays :( we sat outside watching tourists get just as confused as we were and waited for them to read the sign that mentioned the museum being closed.

Young group of girls busking. The boy seemed to be there purely to turn the pages.

- After about 2 hours of sitting, eating and being confused, we decided to carry on with the day and go visit the Eiffel Tower.

- Getting sunburnt and the now lack of energy didn't help to my lack of enthusiasm to the Eiffel Tower, which would be a partial reason to the little photos I took of the actual Tower itself.

- We sat on the grass opposite the Tower for about an hour this time. We were tired, sunburnt and experience some uncomfortable rubbing and no way to stop it.

- This was the end of our day (7-8pm - all Parisian time) and thus we headed back to the hotel. A stop in the local supermarket shops for dinner and then to another restless night of minimal sleep, with my friend managing to sleep and me sitting in the bathtub for an hour planning the last day. (There is a picture of me in the tub on my twitter - look for the date of 30th June)

Fairly long post.

The next will be of the day 3, aka The Last Day.

(All photos were taken by me and are on my flickr. If you use any of my photos, please always rightfully link them back to flickr. Copyrights, dude.

Taken with a diana mini and digital cam.)

Paris playlist - 2010

2010-06-27T01:49:00.002+01:00

I go to Paris tomorrow. 30minutes earlier than I thought. Good thing I checked the time!

I haven't packed yet. The previous post of the planned list of what I was going to take? Yes, indeed it has changed. I am definitely for sure, bringing 5 rolls of camera film - 100/200/400/800ISO and a Redscale film.

Anyway, made a playlist for my short time visit and thought i'd share the list :)

1. 'Gives you hell' - All American Rejects

2. 'You know I'm no good' - Amy Winehouse

3. 'The Gift' - Angels and Airwaves

4. 'Crown of love' - Arcade Fire

5. 'Only man ' - Audio Bullys

6. 'White winter hymnal' - Fleet Foxes

7. 'Electric bloom' - Foals

8. 'Everlong' - Foo Fighters

9. 'Old white Lincoln' - The Gaslight Anthem

10. 'C'mere' - Interpol

11. 'Phantom' - Justice

12. 'Phantom part. II' - Justice

13. 'Read my mind' - The Killers

14. 'Another brick in the wall part 1/2/3' - Korn

15. 'Krwlng' ft. Aaron Lewis - Linkin Park

16. 'Stockholm syndrome' - Muse

17. 'Dead star' - Muse

18. 'In Your World' - Muse

19. 'Citizen erased' - Muse

20. 'Sunburn' - Muse

21. 'Everyone nose (All the girls standing in the line for the bathroom' - N*E*R(*D

22. 'Want you bad' - The Offspring

23. 'Defy you' - The Offspring

24. 'All I wanted' - Paramore

25. 'Hallelujah' - Paramore

26. 'Propane nightmares' - Pendulum

27. '1901 (demo)' - Phoenix

28. 'Gigantic' - Pixies

29. 'Killer Queen' - Queen

30. 'The show must go on' - Queen

31. 'When doves cry' - Quindon Tarver

32. 'Skin on skin' - Queens of the Stone Age

33. '"You've got a killer scene there, man"' - Queens of the Stone Age

34. 'Paranoid Android' - Radiohead

35. 'Karma police' - Radiohead

36. 'Scar tissue' - Red Hot Chili Peppers

37. 'Otherside' - Red Hot Chili Peppers

38. 'Lights out' - Santogold

39. 'I'll let you live' - 'Taking Back Sunday'

40. 'Down river' - The Temper Trap

41. 'After hours' - We Are Scientsts

42. 'Undone (the sweater song)' - Weezer

43. 'Crystalised' - The XX

44. 'Save myself' - Willy Mason

45. 'Date with the night' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

46. 'Maps' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

47. 'Y control' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

48. 'Isis' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

49. 'DON'T TRUST ME' - 3OH!3

50. 'Kings and Queens' - 30 Seconds to Mars

51. 'Breathe me' - Sia

52. 'I am not a robot' - Marina and the Diamonds

Enjoy and i'll be back with pictures galoooooore!

xxx

Paris list

2010-06-15T03:46:00.007+01:00

I'm quite anal in my personality, despite the hoarded mess that is my bedroom.

I love making lists. I get that e

xcited that I can't wait for most things and make lists while imagining whatever is coming up.

My trip to Paris (the one i'm constantly going on about - twitter) is coming up in just less than 2 weeks. Ya haaaaaa! This isn't everything i'm bringing. It's certainly most of the things.

What to bring to PARIS:

DAY 1: Black BikBok top - tights/Black H&M dress - blue leggings

DAY 2: Jean shorts - red AA top - blue tshirt/ZARA dress

DAY 3: Jean shorts - peach tshirt - white vest (tucked underneath)/Blue BIKBOK top - (over) Stripy H&M dress

Sleepwear/lounge:

AA "Legalize LA" tshirt - Batman pink shorts - leggings

3 x knicker/pants TOPSHOP

3 x bras - Strapless black/nude - yellow

Shoes:

1 x H&M flats

1 x Black Mary Janes flats

1 x White CONVERSES

Bags:

Free REISS bag

Elephant bag

Cameras:

Digital CANON IXUS 100IS

Diana Mini

Polaroid

Film:

1 x Polaroid pack

1 x Redscale film

1 x 800ISO

1 x 200ISO

Books/Entertainment:

The Devil Wears Prada

Time Out Paris

Professor Layton and Pandora's box/DS Nintendo

Extra beauty products:

1 x Suntan location (spray)

1 x Aftersun

1 x UV hair shampoo

1 x Face SPF moisturizer

1 x Body moisturizer (Firming)

This is a 3 day trip. I hope to edit things out clo

ser to the time. I already took out the Fish Eye and my ActionSampler cameras :(

('paris pont neuf' via elisevatin flickr)

I come out of nowhere bearing information...

2010-06-13T02:42:00.004+01:00

I'm back. Temporarily. As are all my posts and how I roll.

I have a draft post dating from a few weeks ago, planning to be about the Sketchbook exhibition... but err... this post definitely not about that.

Just wanted to do a quick mini-post...

Two weeks and a day until I go to Paris!!!! Just very very excited! I went last year, but it was only for two days and.. well, that friendship pretty much ended soon afterwards... strange things a mini trip can do, eh? This time, the friend i'm going with, we're much closer and its for three days! At the moment, I need to call up Eurostar and try and arrange my first train (to Paris) to an earlier. Staying somewhere in the Mo

ntmartre area, near the Sacre Coeur :)

I have FIVE possible cameras to bring..

1. Digital camera - Canon IXUS 100

2. Diana Mini (no flash, sadly)

3 Fish Eye

4. Polariod and

5. ActionSampler

I want to take the first three, makes sense, I have plenty of 35mm film and digital photos is convenient and easy. Diana Mini, the style of pictures I want and Fish Eye is the same.

The Polaroid... I don't know.. I brought it with me last time.. it's just clunky to bring with me everywhere.. but I have a few packets of very much expiring Polaroid film in my room unused... and my worry is that the ink is drying up sooner than I want. It's already about a year expired... and ActionSampler.. I have it.. I should use it...

But to take ALL five cameras...

Perhaps leave the ActionSampler.. Paris will always be a possibility as a holiday.. I am going Barcelona this september.. perhaps i'll bring all my cameras then because I have four days...

Does anyone want to buy some Polaroid film off of me? If there are any takers, i'll only take them from the UK i'm afraid.. and preferably in London so I can meet in person and hand it over.. rather than go through the hassle of sending via post -

now I come to think of it... money is a issue too... but it can be sorted out... I dunno.

('Paris Diana Mini' - Sarah Chapman via flickr)

Thoughts about the camera situation?

Sketchook magazine's first Pop-Up exhibition!!!

2010-03-10T16:43:00.004Z

The facebook event can be found here and please DO RSVP and come!

(Illustration by Susan Keys and her blog)

Here's a section of the press release and info:

"Nestled in the East Quarter of Carnaby, the Newburgh Quarter is a treasure trove of unique projects and inspiring people. The area is packed with independent boutiques showcasing unique fashion, art and design. It is here Sketchbook will be holding its hugely-anticipated Pop-Up Shop, in celebration of Carnaby’s 50 years of fashion and music.

The Sketchbook Pop-Up Shop will run for a limited period of 3 weeks following the launch of the second issue of Sketchbook Magazine. This community driven project offers visitors a chance to interact with a series of Sketchbook’s contributing guest bloggers, artists, designers, illustrators and editors who are all key figures in the contemporary fashion and arts community. These guests, including Sketchbook’s covergirl Susie Bubble, will be holding scheduled educational workshops, lectures and panel discussions, which will be digitally streamed through an interactive live thread.

The Sketchbook Pop-Up Shop will be selling several limited edition prints and illustrations as well as kitsch one-off art pieces by a select group of our Sketchbook contributors.

There will be a main gallery space as well as several themed rooms with custom made illustrations on the walls, created especially for the event by our contributors. There will also be 2 screening rooms showcasing Sketchbook TV episodes and other short films.

Visitors can join the Sketchbook team and our special guests for
tea and cake between 5 and 6pm.

A competition will be running throughout, offering visitors the opportunity to submit illustrations to be used on the front cover of a future issue. The winner will be announced in the following month.

Visitors are also invited to help document the events, with cameras available and a large blank canvas for people to illustrate, write their thoughts, stick photos on and show their support.

Sketchbook is a quarterly magazine with a print run of 10,000 that showcases established and emerging creative talents in fashion, design and culture with a focus on features, photography and illustration. Sketchbook is not just about the product itself, but also about the beauty of the process of conceptualisation, creation and appreciating the means to an end.

The mission is to inspire youth to path-find, allocate their passions, understand how the creative industry works, what opportunities it provides, and pursue it full force using online resources, digital media and publishing as tools for success.

Starting from the 31st March, join Sketchbook for the first exhibition at the Pop-Up Shop , showcasing the work of key contributing illustrators.

10 Newburgh Street, Carnaby, London W1F 7RN.

Wednesday 31st March – Monday 19th April 2010
Monday to Saturday: 10am-7pm, Sundays: 12noon-6pm''

Invite everyone and do come have a look yourself! I'll be around the exhibition myself, partially because I am technically 'staff'' and because the exhibition, as well as being Sketchbook's, it's a collaboration with my friend's uni project so the more people that turn up the better! Plus it's bloody well exciting in general!

I'll remind and update with news closer to the time, but 3 weeks isn't very far! I'll need to go and physically help before the grand opening so hopefully pictures from that!

Seriously guys, from one blogger to another and if you're based in London. Go. It's great. Fashion, art, music and fun fun fun in one cool place? YES.

Alexander McQueen

2010-02-13T13:26:00.007Z

Yes, cliché, cliché.

In the wake of his death, everyone is talking/writing/blogging about him.

This will be the only post on him that will be about the death.

I've seen the brief posts from people just saying an 'RIP' which is fine by me, etc. I don't want to start typing out his biography and shit like that.

I'll write something short and brief, then post what I wanted to post.

I heard the news at work on thursday. A friend read it out loud on twitter out of shock. In the quiet studio office, we all heard it. We stopped what we were doing and turned round to face in shock and ourselves trying to search for any news, hoping it was just some cruel fake tabloid news. Being at work were 99% of the time we're stuck in front of our laptops, we were one of the first to find out the news. I had to message the editors who were in New York, where it was still early and news hadn't reached them. Yet. The rest of the afternoon was quiet and just in shock, I texted close friends of the news. Most of them having been told about the news via me, so I was the first to hear their reactions. 3 days on, it doesn't feel right still, but it has just started to sink in. A true Fashion/Creative/British icon. I may not have like the 'armadillo' shoes, or may have been a little freaked out by the A/W 2009 big lips on the models, but I still knew of his other collections/pieces and respected him.

Like someone has written before, the fashion world will go on, the lights will shine, but now, just dimmed.

Condolences to the family and friends to have to lose two people in such a short period of time.

But the reason for this post, I had only found out about this interview after the news, and only now have managed to find some time to search for it. I thought this was sweet and in my own way, a nice way to end this 'tribute' of a post.

Alexander McQueen being interview by his Mother - The Guardian.

"Joyce McQueen: I would have liked to have invited the late Peter Ustinov for dinner, for his wit and conversation. Who would you like as a dinner guest and why?

Alexander McQueen: What, if I could choose anyone?
JM: Anyone in the world.
AM: Elizabeth I ...
JM: Why would you want Elizabeth I? The history maybe?
AM: 'Cause she's an anarchist.
JM: She's an anarchist?
AM: She was an anarchist, yeah. Do you want to have a bit of debate on this?
JM: Well, not at the moment, no.
AM: Because, y'know, she kind of founded the Church of England under her father, with all the upheaval from the French and the Scottish ...
JM: Who are your other ones?
AM: Jesus of Nazareth, to check if he really exists, and it's not just we've been reading some Peter Pan book for the past 2,000 years. Or Mel Gibson, to be there if Jesus wasn't true.

JM: If you could live and work as a designer in any era, which one would it be?
AM: Any time? Future as well?
JM: Future as well. But particularly the past.
AM: Let's stick to the past then. I'm thinking cavemen and loincloths.
JM: What about Tudors and Stuarts?
AM: Er ... I'm answering the questions! Most probably ...
JM: What about -
AM: I'm thinking ! Fifteenth-century Flemish, Netherlands. My favourite part of art. Because of the colours, because of the sympathetic way they approached life.
JM: Simplicity, you mean.
AM: I'm not going to get into a big art debate with you.
JM: No, I'm trying to get to the bottom of why you like that.
AM: 'Cause I think they were very modern for their times, in that period and in that part of the world.
JM: You spend as much time as possible in your beautiful cottage in the country. Do you find that the inspiration you get down there features in your work?
AM: I don't find inspiration there - it gives me a peace of mind, Mum. Solitude, and a blank canvas to work from, instead of the distractions of the concrete jungle.
JM: Right. So it does inspire you in some ways then.
AM: Not technically. Not country life or bobbing rabbits. It's the peace and quiet.

JM: As you know, I'm a Simply Red and Elton John fan. Who are your favourite artists?
AM: As in singers?
JM: Yeah, well, y'know, groups, whatever. Because at one time, you were very much into classical music.
AM: Beyoncé. No, I'm only joking.
JM: He was about, what, 15. I know because I've still got them at home.
AM: I think composers. People like Michael Nyman, who compose an original piece of music - believe it or not, the artists today are inspired by people like Michael Nyman and Philip Glass, who come up with unusual sounds.
JM: I know, I know, that's where pop music comes from ...
AM: Nah, it's like the architect who designed the Gherkin [Norman Foster and his Swiss Re tower in London] inspires people, or Alexander McQueen does a collection that inspires other people to do different things and move things forward. Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
JM: You haven't given me an answer there. You haven't come out with a group.
AM: I have - Philip Glass and Michael Nyman.

JM: All right, then. I'll ask another question. You have travelled extensively around the world but still have not been to the Isle of Skye, which is the root of your McQueen history. Will you ever visit that area?
AM: Mmm ... yes.
JM: In the near future?
AM: Yes.
JM: Right. And that follows on to my next question: what do your Scottish roots mean to you?
AM: Everything.
JM: Well, where do I come in?
AM: [laughs] Oh you're from the Forest of Dean, yeah. What do you mean, where do you come in?
JM: Well, your Scottish roots mean a lot to you. So where does your mother's side come in?
AM: What does my mother's side, the Welsh side, mean to me?
JM: I'm not Welsh! I'm Norman!
AM: All right, Norman! Where does this Norman come from?
JM: Well they come from Viking stock.
AM: That answers a lot for an awful lot of people, I think. I feel more Scottish than Norman.

JM: You recently got your deep-sea diving certificate, didn't you?
AM: Yeah, underwater diving.
JM: Well, two of my family discovered the wreck of the Marie Rose, deep-sea divers. Just explains that you've taken up deep-sea diving as well. It's a follow-on really, isn't it?
AM: So from the McQueen side I've got anarchy, and my mum's side, underwater diving.
JM: The calm part. You are often described as an architect of clothing, and I know that you have a keen interest in architecture. What is the most breathtaking building you've ever seen?
AM: Ronchamps, by Corbusier.
JM: What do you think of the modern buildings in London?
AM: I love the Gherkin.
JM: You do?
AM: I think it's fantastic.
JM: But you don't like any of the old architecture in London?
AM: Well, yeah, but it's not as nice as it is in Italy or Paris.

JM: If you hadn't trained on Savile Row, how would you have entered the fashion industry?
AM: I'd have slept my way there.
JM: Or, I don't know ...
AM: Other ways. I'd have found other ways of getting into it.
JM: Do you look at something else and say, "I could have done that as well"?
AM: Photo-journalism. It's art for the modern times. I think it captures a moment in time that is spontaneous and that reflects where we are. The one I couldn't have done is be an architect, because I don't have the brain capacity or the patience.
JM: No, you haven't got the patience, have you? You mix with VIPs, celebrities, aristocracy ... How does coming home and being the baby of the family make you feel?
AM: I'm never fazed by it, because whenever I get home, Dad will always ask me to make him a cup of tea. So it's just normal.

JM: If you were prime minister or in government, what policies would you implement to make the UK a better place to live?
AM: More politically correct police officers on the streets. And more focus on the north of England instead of just the south, on not so developed parts of the country.
JM: What do you mean, "politically correct police"?
AM: Well, not homophobic police, not racist police, you know? The police need to come down to street level.
JM: Success has brought you financial security. But if you lost it all tomorrow, what would be the first thing you would do?
AM: Sleep. I'd be pleased.
JM: I said you'd go on holiday.
AM: What with? I'd lost it all!

JM: When you received your CBE last October, you told me and Dad that you locked eyes with the Queen and it was like falling in love. What was it about her presence that captivated you?
AM: I made a pact with myself that I wasn't going to look into her eyes.
JM: But you did.
AM: I did. There was a simultaneous lock, and she started laughing, and I started laughing ...
JM: It was a nice moment, wasn't it?
AM: It was. We caught it on camera where we're both laughing at each other. She asked a question, "How long have you been a fashion designer?" and I said, "A few years, m'lady." I wasn't thinking straight - because I'd hardly had any sleep.
JM: You were nervous.
AM: I was really tired. And I looked into her eyes, it was like when you see someone across the room on a dancefloor and you think, "Whoa!" It was like when I looked into her eyes, it was obvious that she had her fair share of shit going on. I felt sorry for her. I've said a lot of stuff about the Queen in the past - she sits on her arse and she gets paid an awful lot of money for it - but for that instant I had a bit of compassion for her. So I came away feeling humbled by the situation, when I wouldn't have even been in the situation if it wasn't for you.
JM: I thought it was a great honour.
AM: I didn't want to do it.
JM: It was an honour for you ...
AM: Yeah, but I had my views on what it stands for.

JM: What is your most terrifying fear?
AM: Dying before you.
JM: Thank you, son. What makes you proud?
AM: You.
JM: Why?
AM: No, no, ask the next one: "What makes you furious?" You! [laughs]
JM: No, go on, what makes you proud?
AM: When things go right, when the collection goes right, when everyone else in the company's proud.
JM: What makes you furious?
AM: Bigotry.
JM: What makes your heart miss a beat?
AM: Love.
JM: Love for children? Love for adults? Love for animals?
AM: Falling in love."

RIP Lee Alexander McQueen

Calvin Klein clothing campaigns

2010-02-07T18:48:00.009Z

I always mention not posting enough, but with every let down post, I like to add a picture.

Back on topic, new year, new Calvin Klein underwear campaign. Thank you.

It's been around on the web for a few days now, but if you haven't seen it yet, then you're in for some wonderful imagery.....

'Mark your spot' campaign 2010:

Images from here.

I've really like most of the Calvin Klein campaigns of the recent year, such as the one shown above, Eva Mendes with Jamie Dornan, Kate Moss and Jamie Dornan (these two campaigns being for CK jeans) and the one that first comes to mind, this:

Image from here.

The one with Eva Mendes doing the underwear was fairly hot too:

Image from here.

Really great campaigns from CK. Even just check the website!

The 'X Marks the spot' campaign will be officially releasing more stuff the 15th Feb. Loving this campaign quite a lot.

Four guys from the four corners of the world, to appeal to at least everyone. Except straight guys. Probably. But i'm not a straight guy, so more for me.

Thank you to those at the CK underwear who are in charge with these campaigns. Thank you.

Just because I'm barely posting anymore...

2010-02-02T14:08:00.000Z

An excuse I'm giving is that I'm at a work placement :)

For any writers who are NY or will be NY based for Fashion Week

2010-01-28T17:31:00.002Z

Feel free to repost this and let your friends know :)

This is purely for my work placement, i'm just helping out. Soon i'll make a post about what i've been doing for the past weeks or so...

Just a C+P from twitter, written by yours truly so it's still oh-so-very personal...

"NY BLOGGERS/WRITER AND/OR CONTRIBUTERS NEEDED to assist Sketchbook editors at NY Fashion Week!

Editors will be in NY from 9TH - 19TH FEB - email hayleylau@sketchbookmagazine.com with CVs and WRITING SAMPLES"

Good luck to all who apply!

The post that would wrap up 2009 into 2010..

2010-01-12T00:55:00.003Z

is finally here :) taken me nearly two weeks of procrastinating. Mmm.

I hope 2010 is going well so far for everyone. Its been treating me ok, not great, but could be worse.

Where to start? Because it's my blog, and that I never had any particular type of subject that the posts were about, i'm going to mainly going list crap that happened to me. Unless I figure out something better.

2009 in a nutshell:

Met and made some brilliant friends,
First wedding attended,
Paris - a holiday without family,
Saw a LOT of films at the cinema - I made a list of films I had seen a few posts back, and not knowing which was the last, I would like to add these three: Nine, Where the Wild Things Are and New Moon.
My first real pair of heels,
Interview for a workplacement and got it :D (I start next monday!)
Really regret taking out an overdraft,
Get my lovely MacBook!
Said goodbye to my teenage years,
Have some and the worst experiences in my life.

There is only so much you can say, to talk about. Its all in the past and i'm going to try and live from the mistakes and at other times, know when to fight back and say something.

It was a pretty bad year overall i think, not including the external things like war, and going through tough times with the recession. But I had plenty of friends, or many people I knew, go through deaths of loved ones. But there were good times, like the time I didn't want to go a gig but was persuaded to go by a friend, and really enjoyed the night or finally realizing what I was aiming for and my strengths - career wise.

For 2010, i'll hopefully be going to New York! I've been planning for a while and am just trying to get friends to go along with me now! I had plans to visit Roma this year (finally!), but, I decided not to as I really need the money as i'll be moving out for my 3rd year :D I can, in theory afford Italy too, but I'd rather save the money for my trip to NY and for rent. Roma can always be next year.

I do this every year, but to be honest, I never have any concrete goals to aim for, but now I do (NYC), but I'll hopefully lose some weight and then just be this skinny crazy chick with the weird ideas. Yeah. Something like that.

My other goals for the year are to be much more positive and less passive, as well as make a much better effort at uni and try and get some work placements during the summer. This is after my postponed jury service. Gaaaaah.

I'll have a subject based post for next time. I'm really backtracking.

2010

2010-01-02T20:57:00.004Z

Happy New Year all!

I'm now going to be working on a post to end things with 2009 and the wonderfully interesting beginning of 2010, but not before a small car journey to find some half price Ben and Jerry's.

I hope everyone is safe and had a good enough end of the year into the new.

I'm also slacking on everything, and blogwise, slacking on making posts that have been semi-promised and commenting on posts that I usually would have.

Also, the Christmas period, hope everyone had a brilliant time, it really is the best time of year. Unless you don't celebrate it because of religious reasons, I hope you all had fun too!

Taken sometime during November 2009. '3D' glasses 'borrowed' from careless cinema that shouldn't have left their glasses hanging outside on a door handle.

Pop Life at the Tate Modern

2009-12-18T02:59:00.009Z

Long time no blog.

Once again, i'm back with excuses. This time, uni. Again. But i'm finished for the term so it's great. I'm slowly updating all the stuff i've meant to have had updated many moons ago.

Plus it's snowing where I am. Woop. Hasn't snowed near a Christmas for a looooooooooong time.

This was taken just 10-30mins ago, depending on when I get this post published. Not the best photo, this was taken from my dad's room, by semi hanging my Mac out of the window. Risky. Yes, a camera could and would have been a better choice, but the Mac has it's own mini camera. Less hassle of having to upload :)

And so. The title 'Pop Life'. Oh so great! I finally got to go last weekend. So brilliiiiiiiiiant! My favourite bit was the Murakami bit. The video of Kirsten Dunst doing 'Turning Japanese' by The Vapours was the best bit in my personal opinion. Especially the ending scene that starred Murakami himself!

(Images from here, here and here)

The weekend I went to, was coincidentally this. In a nutshell, it was great, I spent an extra £30 and got to fangirl to Zara Wood! Off of her stall thingy, I bought some postcards, two badges and a tee.

But this 'flea market', besides the Zara Wood stall, to me, it seemed like recent grads trying to sell some of their hard worked work. Thats the only way I can describe it without trying to sound patronizing.

This creased tshirt with the wonderful fox illustration was by two guys - well, the stall was just two guys, under the name of 'We make t-shirts'. (I couldn't find a link to their site/blog, but they were just recent grads from illustration at Nottingham Trent... if anyone knows a link, let me know and i'll put one up.) The picture kinda looks like I could be wearing it. But come on, it's fairly impossible. Unless i'm flat as heeeeck. I'm just holding up the tshirt, hence the flatness. They also sold canvas bags and jumpers with very cool other various designs, but from my wondering around and coming back a few times to the stall, I felt that most of us 'buyers' were most drawn to the fox designs.

It's nice to support my fellow artists :)

Hope all is well. I know i've neglected the blog and not really been commenting on anyone's. But I promise that I do read, even if I dont comment.

I'm going to try and do another post at least, before the year is out, just a conclusion of 2009. Plus i was tagged agggggggges ago by the lovely Girl With The Golden Touch, and i've yet to even reply to her tag let alone do the actual post! But i will! I'm just looking for the right time!

Lots of things have happened since I last posted. I got my work placement for uni in January (another day, another post)! I've seen New Moon and Where the Wild Things Are. Something involving me being picked for Jury Service, aaaaaah! And other petty little things. But they'll be in the next posts or three.

If, if I don't post before Christmas, I hope everyone has a good one and be safe. 2009 has been a crazy year, it's made me fairly paranoid for reasons that i'm allowed to have :)

I'll post soon indeedy.

Oh, and now it's friday (for me at least, good ol' UK), the countdown to Christmas begins!!!!!!! Just a week away!

In nearly a month.

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Wow. This is one of the longest since i've last posted something.

Sorry for the AWOL, I haven't left left, i'm just stupidly busy with uni. If I have to think about anything fashion/art based, anything fun, it's going to relate to uni. The less time I think about it, the slightly easier i'll sleep. Hopefully.

I should be back to normal occassional blogging after I break up for the holidays. Or when I hand in my work to be marked, which is mid december.

Aaagggh.

Harper's Bazaar, October 2009.

I'm mad at myself about not finding out about it sooner and buying the magazine.

I'll post when i'm less stressed.

Happy Thanksgiving to all. We need something like this in the UK.

My sense of time is lacking.

2009-10-28T14:29:00.006Z

I thought I had posted something recently. That was 10 days ago.

I still haven't done anything that I planned to

do. Its so bad that I didn't even go into uni today. I'm sitting in a Starbucks, using their free wi-fi - technically not free as you have to register a Starbucks card with them, having topped up at least £5 before said registering. But i'm a well recognized customer at 'local' 'Bucks so its fine. I deserve the 'free' wi-fi. I've spent many hours and hard earned pounds there.

The more time I spend outside of my house, the more i'm starting to dislike tourists. I think it's just the dislike of having so many people around me. I saw recording a video on the corner of Tottenham Court Road station. Why, Mr Man, why? I just find it incredibly strange. Especially the concept of them filling Primark up. No matte

r what time it is, that place is filled. Primarily with tourists. I know London is expensive, but come on. You stock up on places like Topshop and/or H&M. Clothes that will last more than once and you won't get at home. You don't buy your cheap basic everyday clothes on holiday, that's just crazy.

'An Education' is coming out on friday :D

I'm so excited for this film to come out.

This is another part of the unregular postings from me, where I mention and question whether i've mentioned a certain something before. I may or may not have mentioned the film and how I watched a trailer for it when I was waiting to watch 500 Days of Summer..

Peter's accent in the film... ah. He does a pretty decent english accent. And he looks scarily young too. Not that he's old.. (later edit - Ok, he doesn't look scarily young, but look at the film poster and tell me he doesnt look YOUNG there! Oh jesus. Photoshopped much?)

I'm trying to mentally memorize how many, and what films I've seen at the cinemas this year... So don't mind me while I list them here... (I'm trying to list them in order, but it's not working...)

Revolutionary Road,
Twilight (for the 2nd time, and it was hilarious),
Coraline,
500 Days of Summer,
Marley and Me,
He's Just Not That Into You,
Confessions of a Shopaholic,
Harry Potter (twice),
How to Be (I watched about 20minutes of it, but the audio to the filmed screwed up),
Wendy and Lucy,
Rachel getting Married,
Little Ashes

It's not overly much considering it is within a 9month period. I had planned to see a lot more of them, but I never did. Compared to last year, it's like a 1000% increase, I saw 3-4 films in 2008, and that was quite a lot. Usually, on average, its about twice. I tend to watch them online or wait for the DVD to be released.

Owls

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I like them. I have a pendant of one that my friend gave me for my birthday last year. No chain though. I'm kinda still on the look out for a real proper chain, but I don't really know WHERE to find one. A thin chain, cheap one. I'll find it eventually.

Inspired by this jumper: (I couldn't get a decent sized photo so I had to screen paste/dump my screen of the image, but stupid shortcut controls kinda zoomed on it while I was doing said action.)

It zoomed a little, it looked more 'zoomed'. Don't judge me by the mini shortcuts I have on my laptop. I'm going to call it either Beatrice, or Arthur. I like the 'old' names.

It's an long jumper with a dodgy drawn cat. Lovely in real life. But £45 for a jumper? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME TOPSHOP?! Even with student discount of 10%, it's still amazing expensive.

So, to save money, i'm making my own version. With an owl. And i'm going to embroider the thing. I can hand embroider quite well, but i've never done anything bigger than lettering. Like this size maybe, this size I think. I don't know how big it will look when I publish the post, but hopefully the text will look huge. Perhaps 2-3 finger height, but text, so I didnt really embroider very big. And i'll be embroidering an owl. But it would take a LOT of embroidery thread, and quite awkward to do so. Maybe i'll only embroider the outline and machine stitch the inside? These types of planning thoughts, they are what goes on in my head every single day. Making random stuff in random ways.

Maybe I could get some slightly thick material, like maybe fuzzy felt, and appliqué it on?

It's also going to be finding the right shape of jumper. As you've established, i'm doing it on the cheap. I don't want to go to the cheapest shop for clothes known to man in the UK, also known as Primark, so i'll settle for second cheapest, Peacock, and get a man's jumper.

(I might get two and make a second jumper with my OWN dodgy cat. SUCK IT, SIR PHILIP GREEN. Maybe when I make my disaster of a jumper, he'll see it and offer me work experience? I do need a months experience in january.... *winkwinknudgenudge*)

But the trouble with men's jumpers are that they are not usually very long, and when they are, i.e XXXXXL, they are just as wide. Not good. But women's are fitted fits, and I was baggy and LONG.

Here are some cute owls for inspiration.

I also got the bag in this post :)

I found the image somewhere here. Blogger won't let me upload anymore because of some 'internal error', but thats what it did when I tried to upload this one the first time... but you get the idea. Owl on jumper. Very cute. Potentially. In theory.

Don't think i'm obsessed, i've seen it. In my friend's mum's house. She has owl ornaments, pictures, a stained glass window with one, plates.

Managed to get another image in :)

Diana Mini

2009-10-16T02:29:00.000+01:00

I ordered it in a late night/early morning trying to avoid work thing.

I've wanted a Diana for ages. For at least a year, but I've always been put off because of the price, and that they use 120mm film. Soon afterwards, there was a wonderful thing called the '35mm back', which is what it says, a back of the camera for 35mm film which you use for the Diana so it takes that instead of having to use only 120mm. That meant more money, so for a while. I asked around friends if they wanted to split the price of delivery. Sadly, all being students, money is shit and when it all comes down to when and if we have enough to spare for something that's not exactly important.

I gave up the idea of having one for a while, and then on sunday night, I took another look on the lomography shop site and found the Diana Mini.

I don't really know the differences between this and the normal sized one, only that it takes 35mm film and not 120mm, that if there are any.

I'm really excited at the idea of square shots or having half and half on one 'shot'. That's either 72 half shots or 36 normal square ones on a roll of film. Then there is the long exposure thing - I want to try out the long exposure and 'drawing' in the air with glo-sticks/sparklers. And of course, the dreamy/exaggerated colours you as a a result. It'll be my somewhat replacement for the Polaroids. Until they get back into production that is. Save Polaroid.

I will shed a little tear when I finish my last stacks of Polaroid. I'm selling of two double packs and then i'll have about 40-50 left. I read somewhere that they should keep up to a year after their expiry date. That was in september. Starting to get a little worried that they might not last until my 21st and New York. Though it would save luggage weight not bringing the Polaroid cam.

Diana Mini picture from here.

That image makes me want to go Paris. Definitely want to go traveling. My parents are going to Hong Kong for two weeks next month while I suffer at uni :( I'm going to try and go somewhere up north for a day, maybe Brighton? But thats not north and i've been there before. Ooh, I could go Scotland! For the day.... Not really worth it.

When I finish a roll of film, i'll be sure to post some up on here and my other blog :)

I watched this alone.

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Is that sad? I've watched a few on my own now. It's weird. I don't watch the overly popular type films on my own, usually smaller type films. Ok, I kinda lie, kinda. Exaggerate, really, not lie. I'll go on times when I hope kids should be in school and not watching the same film as me.

On friday, I saw '500 Days of Summer'. I loved it. I really did. I would happily see it again.

Another crush to add to my list, Joseph Gordon Levitt. And he's jew. I sure know how to pick 'em.

Seth Rogan, Jason Segel, Andy Samberg... I also 'heart' other jew actors too, but I won't name them now because this post isn't about them at the moment.

I won't ruin the ending for those who haven't seen it, but I really fucking recommend you do!

The film is great. Thats what I'm trying to say.

I watched Lost in Translation back when it was released and didn't get into it. It was shown on tv a few weeks ago and loved it. I bought it on DVD and watching the 'bonus material' now.

I want to go travelling so so so so so much.

My parents are going Hong Kong at some point next month. I want to go, I need to sort out my passport card thing. For those who have some sort of close relation with Hong Kong, you'll understand, but for those who don't, it's pretty much your passport. When you go HK, you fill out a form for immigration purposes, it's like applying for a visa, but you just do it there in the airport or on the airplane when you're touching down soon. I have mine so I don't have to got to the 'immigration' line, I go straight to the other one, because I have the card. It's power. But yeah, when you turn 18, you're meant to change it.. like an upgrade? I'm not that sure myself, but I know I need to 'change' it. There is the whole thing of having to go back every 3 years because of this changing. I haven't been back since 2008. I was 17, too early to change it when I was there. I won't be going HK this year because uni. So if I go past my 3 year visit limit, apparently I can't be Prime Minister/President of Hong Kong - i'm not sure if it's PM or Pres, I tried googling, but it confused me a little bit more. I''ll have to wait 7 years before I can do so. That's ok, I can wait 7 extra years until I partially rule HK. Just a little bit longer until my start of world domination starts.

I heard a rumor that my course tutor wants to take 'us', I'm not sure who my friend meant by 'us', as if could count for the 3rd years, or even the 1st years, but yes, she wants to take us to Paris Fashion Week? That would be so fucking amazing. She showed at LFW, she designs hat and accessory wear. I would post a link, but I won't. Maybe when I finish this course i'll mention something. Or just email me and i'll send you a link.

Then there is the infamous NYC. It really is too early to start booking flights, mainly, because they're not showing up. I'm constantly looking for something less than £300. It's possible. I'll find it. Or get someone else to help me find it.

Back to the topic. Of films. I'm debating whether to buy myself a unlimited cinema card thing.

Oh, and I ordered the new Professor Layton game. Pandora's box. For my DS. Yay. Just waiting for the postmen people to stop going on strikes so they can send my shit.

This post was very off-topics. I had a idea for something last night, but I can't remember it.

Lovely wallpaper.

I didn't make it clear, but 500 Days of Summer was the film I saw alone. Amongst many other films I saw alone earlier this year.

Dr Martens

2009-09-25T00:26:00.000+01:00

Long johns post will be coming up soon.

Soon.

I've been wanting a pair for a few months now. But every time I imagine myself purchasing them, I've been questioning whether I should actually buy them or not.

(Luella S/S 2008 - LOVE this collection.)

I'm totally undecided still.

Today, I got to have another proper look at them. They're fairly stiff and heavy. Yes, I know they're boots so that is what is to be expected, and they have be broken in to be not so stiff.

I love the idea of boots. They look cool and they're definitely going to keep your feet safe from a lot of things.

But girls in boots? They're fairly masculine, not the dainty, girly, little shoe type. Somewhat recenetly, they're becoming more in fashion, generally being worn with girly outfits, floral skirts, cute stuff. To balance the masculine style of course. I've looked at a few links with answers of what people think of girls in boots. Mostly, the guys were idiotic anyway, and disliked the idea, most girls were pro it. One of my friends were them pretty much most of the time, she gets by fine, no problems with getting boyfriends.

(Image above and below, Daisy Lowe for DMs.)

Different strokes, difference folks, right?

The original reason for me not to buy a pair was because I have ma-hoo-sive calfs. I'm really aware of them, though it doesn't stop me from wearing skinny jeans and leggings. But if the shoes end from just the calf, that isn't going to be flattering, it'll just make them look bigger. And now, the added dilemma of looking too butch. I dress kinda grungey now anyway, not particularly girly. So added boots aren't going to help.

BUT I WANT THEM!

Despite my crappy body shape - apple if you must know, weight mainly shift around the middle. The worst shape of course. Thanks fate.

Luckily, despite this, my legs are fairly skinny, hence me just wearing leggings all the time. Because I can. I don't show cleavage, I show leg. Short little legs.

I'm making an effort to lose weight, so hopefully by the time I wear them all the time, i'll be this skinny asian chick with boots.

Agy Deyn is a good example for a constant boot wearer. Quite a few images of her wearing them around.

I just want to go NYC now. Fuck uni. NYC.

And I have a shitting headache.

Twisted Princess

2009-09-22T19:34:00.007+01:00

Disney + Marvel comics =

I don't really care for Disney, nor much for Marvel Comics. Yes, i've probably watched quite a lot of cartoons/films of both.. companies? Is that even right to call Marvel that? It just doesn't sound right.

Righty ho.

Until just now, i've only heard about an illustrator named Jefffry Thomas. I love illustrations/things to do about illustrations, so why i've not heard of him is crazy as I usually do stumble upon the most random people, but again, i'm not very into comics, and some things to do with comics. Ok. I'm just contradicting myself a lot here, and perhaps offending comic fans. Disney... meh. Not so much. I mean thanks for High School Musical, but you also gave us HSM 2 and 3 - I would like my money back please, and Miley Cyrus.

I found this gem.

Most people stereotype themselves and say, "Oh, i'm (insert your hair colour)" or "Oh, i'm (insert Disney Princess) because i'm just like her." or something kind of annoying like that. Oh come on, just because you DYE your hair blonde doesn't-make-you-god-damn-Cinderella.

By all means, I would say i'm fucking Mulan. And allegedly, she wasn't even a Princess. Thanks. Just take that away from me. Like the time in secondary school when my close I hung around with 3 other girls (they were one group I hung around with, I had many, the art freaks, the music freaks... etc,) and the two girls named themselves after either the two caucasian (is it wrong to call them 'white girls'?) re-make characters of Charlie's Angels, and giving my other friend Lucy Liu. I got Bosley.

But none-the-less, if I have to be Mulan... It's not too bad, look at the arrow in my leg. I'm badass. Plus i'm thin, get in.

Now, nothing wrong there. I love people of all races and so on, but my 'other friend' was black, and i'm the asian one. See what we got th

ere? So what the FUCK girls, WTF. It's ok, I didn't like one of them... she surely didn't like me. Perhaps it was too much swearing from me, and too much blasphemy perhaps?

Nope. She don't like. It's ok, me and said other friend have found solace, in that we are Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker of Rush Hour. No-one will take that from us.

BUT, i'm so going off topic, my favorite is Alice. The eyes are scary as hell, but I love it. Oh, I found one who is scarier, Cinderella. Omg, if she comes running after me, I hope someone will tell my family and friends I love them.

If you've missed the link where this came from, here it is again.

Mr Jeffry Thomas Man *insert fist bump*

Change of name

2009-09-21T00:38:00.002+01:00

Title says it all.

I changed the name from 'Art Music Fashion and Random-ness'. It's a fairly long name yeeeeesssss. And the new one, 'Midnight Snackings' was something I briefly named my LJ account, which is just me swearing a lot, nothing fancy, but its not.

Long story short, i've been wanting to change the name for a while, its better to change the name than start a new one all together. I mean, the layout has changed, why not the name while im at it?

Plus, if it all goes as it should have done, if you look at the times I've posted posts, it's not at a normal time... i.e, I post at 3-4am, yes, got a problem?

Thank you for reading and business will continue as usual.

New York, New York

2009-09-20T03:24:00.001+01:00

I'm coming, bitches :D

Well, its totally not official, I haven't booked the ticket and i'm no-where close with the money to book it. But come march/april, i'll be booking it. Or booking it asap. Hopefully in the next month or so, i'll be booking it. Just to make it official.

Its hard to want to make it official when your travel buddy is being a queen by refusing to stay in Brooklyn or hostels.

I want somewhere cheap, preferably in a upper area, or not involving the two former mentioned factors.

We're, well I say 'We', it's me, because I'm the one who really wants to go. Its just unlikely i'll be able to go alone though.

Watching Sex and the City doesn't help the

dream of going there NOW. Oh, and a little film called 'New York, I love you' comes out in a little while. I'm sure that will come to cinemas/DVD before I know it and by then my head will have exploded with the urge to book my flight.

Still looking out for cheap flights though, so far it's £304 for a return and the date is just under a year away. Bastards. But then it could be because i'm booking it for a 'peak' season. But I can't go during desired times like jan because of uni. I've chosen september to go because I kinda want to go coincide with NY Fashion Week, but I wanted to go when its cold... it sucks.

If any New Yorkers are reading, or people who know of NY well, can you email me or something? I want to know how warm/cold/hot NYC is in mid/late september.

Oh, and I'm thinking maybe I should go C

alifornia so I can go see the Ellen Degeneres show. I love her show. I love Dory.

"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."

Plus, maybe I can go pick up some cute jews with my 'cute accent'. Plus the crap theory that all guys love a asian girl, I should be like the fucking Queen Bee.

I'll be doing a wonderful post involving long johns next.

Yay.

Just to get this rolling..

2009-09-15T02:06:00.001+01:00

It's not easy wanting to blog, but having nothing to actually blog.

Well, there are millions of possibilities of subjects to blog, but I want to actually not make people want to die/fall asleep.

I'll post random listy posts until it gets back again. I miss blogging properly.

This is stolen from (Ice Cube Confidential - an old post, but fun post.)

List 6 unimportant things that make you happy:

1. Stationary

I sure do love it. Especially when its back to school

time or anytime you get those ideas that involves having to 'plan' thigs. 'Plans' mean writing down in lists on nice clean notebooks/paperpads. Pens. Oh. Love them. I prefer the fine liner type, 0.5mm. It's a good thin line, but not too thin or thick that everything looks messy and massive.

2. Food Porn.

It is especially enjoyed by those who like food. Food eaters and food voyeurs. My main two favorite blogs are The Girl Who Ate Everythin g and Serious Eats. One is a self run food writer/blogger who works for Serious Eats, the

other is Serious Eats and just amazing. It doesn't help having posts like these or

these (NAFV/V - Not appetizing for Vegetarians/Vegans). Yes, not all posts are from writers of S.E, they do do posts that are outside of S.E-land, but I love it all the same

. Its a shame i'm not a native of NY (Where Robyn of T.G.W.A.E is based, or even the US) because the things like the burger

s look sooo good.

3. Hollywood Jews.

Mainly these two guys, Seth Rogen and Andy Samberg. Funny and adorably cute. If I could have chosen to be brought up in a religion, it would be a flip between Buddhism and Judaism. Happy New Year my lovely Jews!

Seth.

Andy.

4. References to Jack and Karen, Will and Grace.
I aspire to be Karen. Pill popping alcoholic. With a Jack to my side, I'd be unbeatable. And totally fabulous.

And rumors, but rumors, nonetheless, that there may be a SPINOFF show with the two of them?!?!? Rumors and nothing official, I hope this is true. If so, it really should be debuting soon, like this autumn/fall.

I love them. Yes yes yes.

5. Alcohol.

I don't drink often, only when i'm out at parties or at clubs. I was lucky to not be brought around drink - my parents barely drink - so i've brought up used to not drinking, which has been a great positive. It means I can go out and not drink, I don't have to have one. But because I don't tend to, I like to when I can. I don't go too far though. Good to know i'm a good semi-drunk.

Drink of choice? A simple Vodka and coke. Or simple blue cocktails. Why the blue? Because it's blue. I don't like wine/beer or cider. Vodka based stuff is fine by me.

6. Harry Potter and Twilight.

Honest to blog, I do hear about the two being compared and it does bug me a little. The two are totally different. Although both based on books first before being made into films two 2+ directors, and both involving the supernatural of some kind.

One was well written with decent explanation for loopholes, and the other, one so great and crap explanations for the loopholes. But I do love both.

Although I prefer Robert to Taylor, i'm more of a Team Jacob.

Oh, and if anyone is into FanFic, let me know! Especially if you're a ff writer too!

- Oh, it seems I may have done something of this type of list before. Well, it'll be nice to see what things have changed since then!

Off-hiatus

2009-09-08T00:57:00.004+01:00

OFFF.

Yes. Over.

It's probably jinxed now. Ooopsy.

I was always cautious not to go over my 100th post. The 'hiatus' post was the 100th. Dang. And we never got to 'celebrate'.

I barely got to celebrate my 20th too, but lets not talk about that anymore.

Lets post a pretty picture and distract everyone while I work on an oooold vintage draft of a old post that I saved from deleting-town.

(500) Days of Summer.

This was my desktop background at one point, it isn't anymore. But it's a great picture.

Hopefully, despite all the stuff that is going on in my life, i'll be seeing this on thursday *fingers crossed*

I'm back bitches.

Video post

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'Pull My Heart Away' - Jack Peñate.

I've also opened a tumblr account, i copied I Get Sassy, I Get Randy... im not really sure where it will go... i'll definitely keep blogger, even though i hardly post. Blogger is for longer posts i guess, tumblr for shorter ones?

Here's the link regardless.

midnightsnacking/tumblr.com

On unofficial hiatus.

2009-08-11T23:23:00.003+01:00

I'm really sorry for neglecting this blog for so long, i havent done what some bloggers do and just disappeared.. Not that there isnt anything wrong with that, it's their blog and their decision, so its not my business to judge. Ive said plenty of time that i should blog more and im just going to blame uni for it all :D

Like the title says, ''On unofficial hiatus', well, it isnt 'unofficial' because im actually telling you that i am on 'hiatus'.

One main reason really, despite actually having time to blog, im too lazy at the moment and i should be trying to do re-submittion work for uni that will ensure my entry into 2nd year. Although there too is a summer project, a place in 2nd year is much more important. So, i guess, it isnt so 'hiatus'-sy as i will, from now and maybe the end of this week, i will be perhaps, posting something, a small blog or a picture, or a link or two. There sure will be a post after this, so.... perhaps the 'small break' is a bit pointless and im waffling, but for that i'll blame the hilarious comedian dude, Tim Minchin. Im watching one of his tapes shows and he semi waffles, except his 'waffles' are his acts and they're hilarious.

How long my 'break' is, well, hand-in date is 25th August, and because my birthday is the day before (20!!!!!!), i hope to have it done before then so i can somewhat enjoy and relax. I'll hopefully start on thursday.... Get it done asap, so many birthdays in august.

So yes, this post was meant to tell, the small numbers of readers, thank you guys :) - that i will be back. If you carry on commenting on my posts and whatnot, i do promise to reply and comment, etc. I do read blogs still, but its just laziness stopping me from commenting and im dont really know what to say, i tend to sound like a fangirl when i comment so... you know... and if you dont reply to people... your blog.... goes to shits.... :D

Just whatever happens, im still reading blogs. I lurk a lot. Its great.

I hope this isnt my 100th post yet. I'll have to delete some other crap posts so i can do the, ''Gosh, wow, a suprise 100th post party for me?!?!?!?''

What have I been doing this summer...

2009-07-14T23:35:00.007+01:00

nothing. No idea why blogging has been avoided for so long. Its nice to type without pressing the letter 0-n-e-b-y-o-n-e.

I am, of course, back from Paris :)

My brother is graduating tomorrow, and then by cousin is getting married next sunday. I dont get a lot of chances to get drunk, so this away from where i live thing and spending two nights with your best friend and a secret stash of epic alcohol and mixes in great proportions, is making me dribble at the mouth.

So, Paris.

Two night isn't enough! It really isnt, i've planned already to go back year, but with different company. My friend that i went with, kinda went all weird, her mood i mean, and she's that kind of person that will go all quiet and funny, i

ts something that isnt in their usual normal behaviour, but when you ask, she will bite your hand off, well, gnaw at it, and tell you that she's fine. I've never spent much time with her alone, when we have spent time alone, its usually in the comfor

t of her house, or its just a few hours and we go off our seperate ways. And by few hours i mean.. 5hours max. Or we've had some sort of gap and never, in a foreign place where you kinda have to stick together. But other than that, it was good. It was when the UK had the heatwave, and Paris is a few degrees hotter than the UK.

Staying in the area of Monteparnasse, with the nearest metro station (Ravin) about 4mins away, located near the Catacombs and a graveyard

which name i can't remember. The main purpose of the trip was to do touristy things and go see the sights. This is what we saw:

-Jardin Du Luxembourg - massive park, didnt explore most of it, which was my fault, it was too hot to move, we ventured in here while waiti

ng for our room to be cleaned up before offically checking in.

- Notre Dame cathedral,

- the Louvre,

- Eiffel Tower

- Moulin Rouge, which i was expecting live Can Can dancers outside, but nope, nada, but it was cool nonetheless. See, touristy.

That was the end of day one, the second day was meant to be visiting the rest of the places i wanted to see and shopping, only about half got done.

Day 2, we got to see the Design Museum thing, like the Pompidu Museum, but green, this was seen while on a train to the Bastille. Saw that, and then went off to trek to the graves of Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde. Took aaages to navigate our way to the graves, but due to my lack to tolerance to the heat, we only got to see Oscar's. Plus i got the grave number wrong and because of me, took ages finding Jim Morrison's wrong grave. Next time.

I think that was it... that day started off with two naps, checking out and then looking for Man Ray's grave - unsuccessful, La Bastille ,idea of going to the Pompidu but making do with the Design Museum instead, search for Oscar Wild and Jim Morrison's grave at the Pére Lachaise Cemetery, shopping - which turned out a waste of time as there wasnt anything i really wanted. Except the Marc Jacobs bag that i didnt buy because i couldnt afford it... :(

I also wanted to look around the area of Gare Du Nord, which was were we were getting the train back home, because that was the area of where Amelié was filmed.. or something like that, but there is a bridge, Saint Martin? That i wanted to see. Next time, hopefully next year, with my best friend, who didnt go this year because i knew he'd be away so i asked another person, and we'll go for a bit longer and i'll visit the places that i never got to see :)

As much as im bitching now, i did enjoy myself and there were some good times. Such as the conversation with the taxi driver, telling me that i was indeed, chinese, repeatedly. Asking where we were from, London/England, "But you're chinese, you're not english". And then saying 'Hello' to me in Mandarin, which, am home, i speak cantonese, but it knew he meant well, so i replied and for him to get all excited and start laughing his face off. It was fun, he said things that we didnt understand, but the telling me that i couldnt be British because i was chinese was hilarious. Or the time me friend - who has a fairly high pitched voice - telling a souvenir vendor 'No thank you' and while we walked away, he mocked her high pitched-ness. That was quite funny, but she didnt seem to like it. She said nothing so im not sure what her reaction was. There are a LOT of Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince film posters in Paris, about 9.99 out of 10 stations with a poster of it. The doors are quite scary to open, most of the having you to open it yourself, with a scary metal latch. Omg, DOUBLE DECKER TRAINS. Wow. Scary train barriers too. Next time i go, i will film it. Unless you can youtube/google it, i advise you to do so if you havent seen it in real life.

I bought my first pair of heels today. Its for my cousin's wedding, i bought a proper dress and everything. Nothing fancy, about 2.5 inch heels. Baby steps. Ive walked around my room fine, but stairs are fairly intimidating.

I finished watching my Six Feet Under boxset. True Blood is coming to the UK soon, can't wait. Trying to do a lot of reading this summer, re-reading as many Harry Potter books as i can get my hands on. Today, the release of the new HP film. It makes me SUCH a geek :)

One week until Paris..

2009-06-23T02:29:00.003+01:00

in one week's time, i'll be on my way to the train station to go Paris!!!! Its the first train from King's Cross... then an overnight stay in Paris, yeeeesss!

This week, i generally have something planned everyday. Today, im going shopping with my friend - the one im going Paris with. Wednesday, picnic in Hyde Park with some uni friends that i wont see a lot over summer. Thursday, friends i havent seen for a while. Friday, im free, sleeping perhaps. Saturday, crashing a friend's birthday party, not so sure yet. Sunday, packing up. Following monday, buy last minute things, snacks, go over to my friend's. Tuesday, PARIS!

The hotel im staying at is situated opposite a cemetery, until now, i thought it was the one Jim Morrison was buried in. I wikipedia'd it... the only person i recognize on that list, without reading the little bits telling you who they are, was Man Ray. Fail. My friend is adamant that she must have 7-8hours sleep. NOooo!!! Two days in Paris, less than 48hours mind, and she needs to sleep properly! I plan to sleep little, which most likely means me wondering around the area of Montparnasse... which is where im staying... me wondering around means, hopefully taking photos? Im planning to buy a little book so fill up with sketches, doodles, whatever. But how many polaroid packs do i bring? Is 3 too much? Yes. Yes it is. I'll only bring 2. All this holiday stuff is getting me excited.

Aaaages ago, sometime last year, i was tagged to list 6 unimportant things that make me happy, well, here they are, at long last:

1. Making lists, something about it somewhat satisfies the OCD within me, like this trip thing, making lists of what im bringing to the mere 2-day trip!

2. Watching SATC, i have all the series on boxset, except 1, but that was not the best, so :)

3. Harry Potter.

4. When all the songs, album, podcasts on my iPod has all their album cover art. Again, another OCD thing. A need for order perhaps.

5. Puppies and kittens.

6. Wonderful blue skies.

I got stuck after the list thing. Nothing that makes me happy is ever 'unimportant'. Plus, im not so good at thinking of very specific personal things under pressure.

Not yet my 100th post..

2009-06-07T02:34:00.007+01:00

because i have quite a few posts in their drafts stages that will never get posted.

Have i really not blogged in so long? Seems much shorter, since last week or so.

A weird itch is trying to develop into a rash on my foot/leg, more of the ankle really, but if i refrain from scratching, maybe it will die down, seeing as the scratching caused it to develop into potential scariness.

No particular idea where im going with this post as usual, so here's an A-Z type list to get you through the bi-polar english weather.

BTW - MacBook :) its nice to have wireless/internet in my room. My old laptop screwed up even more, coincidentally the days leading up to the purchase of Mr MacBook, i said my goodbyes, caressing it a little... maybe it realized what was going on and

decided that parting on good terms wasnt good enough, so it died on the inside a little and decided that having a decent quality desktop picture wasnt interesting and having it pixilated, or perhaps the occassional missing background was a brilliant way to go out.

But im here now. On the MacBook, which i am tempted to name 'Arthur', but i have a feeling ive named something else an 'Arthur'.. too new to vandalise it with stickers and labels yet.

My mind has gone *blank* i guess the next post is my little A-Z thing, its nearly 3am here, im beat, tired, kaput. Watching 'Bridget Jones: The edge of reason', waiti

ng for the bathroom to be free. Yes, my family work on slightly later bodyclocks compared to the genral public, or maybe its an asian thing, my parents work in the self-employed catering based company, so therefore in the evening/late evenings, which means they are up at night and asleep in the mornings. Not so great that this is how ive led my life and uni is in the mornings. Im a night-bird at heart, all these early mornings, i can wake up and eventually drag my arse out of bed, but its so hard when everyone else is awake and im just tempted to mooch around online all through the wee early hours.

This picture is in honor of those who have just showed at their last year of uni gradate shows. I had to help mine on the private view night, i didnt have a particular person to help, so i was left being bored out of mind for a few hours, but when i did help, i mainly helped the fashion tutor with something un-fashion related and then partially helped stand by the door when letting people in for the fashion show.

The picture of the weird little things are my final major project, the one i did for my art foundation course last year (- have i already posted these pictures?). These little rag dolly things, were meant to represent each person in the class. Alright, its not quite degree standard, but this is the closest ive got. The idea of making something, rather than 2D stuff that i usually do. Of course, my 3D skills are pathetic. Its too soon to think of what i want to do, thats if i get as far as the 3rd year! But im thinking of something 2D, mixed media, 2D pop-up world. A mix of Rob Ryan and The Science of Sleep.

8 Things....

2009-05-19T21:13:00.002+01:00

I stole, 'stole' this from anther blog. Oh plagurism, how i do admire thee.

8 Things I'm looking forward to:
1. Finishing uni for the summer, techically im kinda finished now, but my tutor has made my class bitches/slaves/minions to set 3rd years, helping them in creating/finishing their graduate shows, then i have a tutorial with them on the 17th, then im done :) hopefully.
2. Paris. All i need to do is compare and contrast hotels i prefer to stay in with my friend's choices, then actually book the fucking thing.
3. My one night stay in Manchester, as said in the previous post, its my cousin's wedding, yeah, a lot of alcohol is planned to be drunk in a hotel room that night. By me. And my friend.
4. Roma!!!! This STILL needs to get booked!!!
5. GET MY MACBOOK!!!!!!
6. Ugly Betty, season 3..?
7. Getting fit, this is getting crazy now, the past week or so, mentally forcing myself to get off my arse and do something.... this on my arse.
8. Snow. That means its around Christmas. Yessss.

See how im not mentioning my turning of 20? Yes, i dont really look forward to it, my counting down days of being a teen.

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. Be there for my friend before and after the breakup of her relationship :( She had to do it, she wanted to, she had to do it, but its a tough thing, its never fun breaking up with someone.
2. Watch the Gilmore Girls episode of the aftermath of after Emily tells Christopher that she doesnt like Luke and that he should be the one dating Lorelai, not Luke.
3. Eat wholegrain rolls with Dairylea cheese.
4. Found a new Paris buddy after Plan A bailed.
5. Think about exercising.
6. Pay off a little of my scary library fine.
7. Sneak out of the house.
8. Freeze in the cold/drizzle of rain waiting for the bus.

8 Things I wish I could do:
1. Measure myself and say, ''Hey, im 5''10 with great long legs''.
2. Skate and breakdance.
3. Sing. Sing well.
4. Be good with languages, i can pick little tidbits up, but nothing enough to speak in a coherent, correct sentence.
5. Not go red when i drink alcohol....
6. Not go red/blush easily, or at least hide my nervousness.
7. Robert Pattinson. Oh come on, its not like most of you wouldnt.
8. Go out and stay out, and just party party party. Without the parents on my back.

8 Shows I watch:
1. Desperate Housewives.
2. Green Wing (I miss it!)
3. Skins.
4. Gilmore Girls.
5. Greys Anatomy.
6. CSI - Vegas and NY
7. 30 Rock.
8. The Big Bang Theory

Now go, shoo and copy this list but change MY answers to yours!

Location, location, location.

2009-05-15T00:39:00.004+01:00

I want to do a lot of things year, too many to mention here, some too personal to mention.

But this year, things that are pretty certain..

I'm going Paris,
Rome

and

Manchester.

Ok, Manchester, not that interesting because it's still in the UK, but i've never been so that gives it some excitement and it's for my cousin's wedding.

Paris, not official, it was just a thought i had on wednesday night, about going to Paris, alone, just spending a day though, taking photos with my various cameras (digital, Fish Eye and Polaroid - nothing fancy, i do want to buy a Diana), but i thought it would get pretty lonely, so it's best to go with a friend. She's interested, and although she's yet to reply to my facebook wall post thing, i plan to go late june, early july. Just to get uni out of the way, totally. I also want those 'I *heart* tees', i would love me one of those 'I *heart* NY' ones, like a tourist, but i'll have to go there myself. I went to France briefly last year, just a small place in Lille, and because it was a fairly small quiet town, no tourist shops selling such souveniers. In the lead up to this trip, i'll be watching Paris, Je t'aime over and over again, i'm so excited already!

Rome, again, not official, but i was meant to go last year, it was a idea i had for a while, and is the place i want to go to before i die. Last year was a we'll-see-when-it-gets-to-summer kinda idea, now it's a we're-going,-sort-out-the-flights/hotel. This will be around early summer, although i've read how the Romans (the residents of Rome, duh), leave for a long holiday in august, i hope that they haven't left by the time i arrive. (Would it be too fangirly if i went to stalk out the area that will be used in the New Moon film?) I'm not looking forward to the crazy heat though, here's hoping that there is air conditioning.

After all this, i'll be awaiting my 20th, it sucks it falls on the weekend/aftermath of the Reading/Leeds Festival, as some friends will be away. No idea what i have planned yet, maybe another trip away somewhere, i do want to go Liverpool at one point... or perhaps a day out in Brighton? There's plenty of time to think about that....

Oh, and i love me some french/italian accents, preferrably the french :)

How To Be

2009-05-09T00:30:00.003+01:00

Im flogging another Robert Pattinson based film. I sure am. I - like the NERD i am - have just booked a ticket to see How To Be :) (also see here)

Im not really sure what the film is about still. Ive read quite a few reviews from fans who have seen it, but im still a bit ......

Its at the Clapham Picturehouse on 20th June, but im seeing it alooone. I havent seen a film on my own for a while, its weird when there are people in the screening room.

I should have been working on my portfolio that is due on monday, im going to regret it later.

So, after my Gilmore Girls episodes finishes, im going to go shower, read my Atonement book, which is taking me a while just to get through one page, i dont know why, doesnt help im reading it around 3-4am while im knackered. The film i enjoyed though.

A few more days then its over :) well, im being forced to help the 3rd years on my course put up their space for the up-coming graduate based shows. Apparently, im in with the group who are putting IKEA furniture together. Oh yeah, cant wait!!!!

Also, after i had in my portfolio - 10:30am deadline, we're having a small meeting with the stylist/designer Thom Murphy who is doing a project with us in the 2nd year, if i make it that far!!!! I bought 3 supermarket Red Bull ripoffs in preparation for sunday night!!!

We're getting a step closer to me posting proper posts!!! Ooh the giddiness!

Lots of swearing

2009-05-07T02:26:00.006+01:00

Havent posted in nearly a month, dont give up hope on me, im still here. Oh crapping bollocks, i hadnt realised that i hadnt posted for THIS long.

This is pretty bad.

Fuckery.

Uni is taking a toll and therefore i havent even thought about my blog until about an hour ago and when i started commenting on blogs i read - which is about 3, and i just commented on 2, yeah, i cant be bothered with some blogs anymore, they get so many readers and then they go all *blech* and change their style, this is like a mini bitch but its not on purpose, the blogs i stick to these days are still themselves and yeah, thats why i still read them. Its like a compliment that sounds like im sucking up to certains blogs, ok stop talking now.

Fashion is making me all bi-polar with how i feel about it. In a way im just trying to avoid it if i can, when in uni all im thinking about it fashion and how to make/design/create stupid things!!!

Personally, although i do it, i feel weird posting pictures that arent mine to fill a blog/apologise for lack of posting/breaking promises, but in the next/upcoming posts - WHEN i actually post them, i have work to actually show, i have to submit my portfolio for the whole year on monday and im planning to do quite a lot of illustration type work so i'll get to show it off here, and maybe update my incredibly-worse-than-blogger-blog-deviantArt profile. There is so much to do, so little time.

Today i went to a gig, yeah, i went on the WRONG day, its tomorrow. What a freaking twat.

I need to stop going on facebook so much, that is a big reason why im not on blogger, ever since facebook chat, its so distracting.

This picture makes me happy. Im mainly posting for that little ginger kid you see right in the middle. Dont question WHY, but ive developed a little love for the kid, even though i swear he's like 16 or so. Not sure who Pable is, but you see on the right, Tom, yep, same Tom as this guy. Arthur is from here. Its pretty hilarious from the video ive seen on youtube, and it has the other little kid from Son of Rambow - Will Poulter - if i could, and i will, im going to adopt him as my son.

Ok right, its 2:44am, regardless what the time blogger says, im off, I in theory, should be sleeping to get to uni early to do some work for said portfolio, im sure i can fill in a post there.

Fingers crossed.

If i had actually posted when i said i would...

2009-04-08T13:28:00.003+01:00

which i didn't because im crap? Yes.

Well, i was going to promote this little film :)

And no, im not promoting it because there is, *swoon*, Robert Pattinson, but because it is actually a pretty good film!

I went to see a preview of it on the 29th March - which makes me realise how long ago i've not posted... - and it involved a Q+A.

I saw it at the Cine Lumier in South Kesington somewhere, it took me about 45mins to find because i kept walking away from where it was, and afterwards, walking to the station took me about 4minutes, i was late to the preview...

Anyway, the film is basically mainly kinda talks about the relationship between artist Salvidor Dali (Robert Pattinson) and poet Fedorico Garcia Lorca (played by Javier Beltran), and its set.. back some time, but at a time where being gay is illegal and stuff, and both are gay. Theyhave their ups and lots of downs, but mainly is about their little moments together and moments where they have to hide any romantic feelings for each other. I dont know, i went to the screening not knowing much about the characters, but came out knowing a lot more.

Yeah, as you can tell, film reviews are not my thing, im just trying to promote this! But i really did enjoy this film, i did go to see this film mainly for RPattz, but i personally enjoyed seeing the Lorca role afterwards. Its a really nice film, there are serious and funny moments, and a sad moment towards the end. Its only on a small release so go see it if you can!

Out of the 8th May, UK and US and semi worldwide?
Yes.

Where The Wild Things Are

2009-03-24T00:17:00.007Z

Gah! Im dying inside, this is so just fluffing amazing. Im not sure how i felt about the story as a kid, i was a bit 'meh', kinda got annoyed by the little boy. Dunno, its just a feeling i've kept since reading since i was little even though without google-ing the title itself i hardly remember the storyline.

But have you SEEN the posters/pictures for the film?

Directed by Spike Jonze.

Of course, if you hadn't read the title of this post, it's 'Where The Wild Things Are'

I LOVE the images, im quite glad they didnt make it into an animation and used puppets or whatnot and a real life kid to play the main boy, Max. Just check the film poster out for it! Imagine this in your room, well, i think its fluffing amazing and i personally cannot wait :) weird to say, but one of the coolest film posters of all time i say.

- images all taken from google images.

(I went to 'The Boat That Rocked' premier earlier yesterday (23rd March) and although i didnt really take many photos or get anything signed - mainly out of personal choice, - I SAW SIR PAUL McCARTNEY. He stopped to sign a few autographs - not on my side of the barriers although i was fairly near the entrance of the cinema and red carpet section - but i did, i did see the legend and get some blurry pictures that show nothing. Although i got a decent picture of maybe Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. But still, Sir Paul McCartney! But i was mainly there to see Tom Sturridge and i got to see him so that was good. Shame he was up on the red carpet right after Sir Paul.M so i was like :O :O :O and didnt know where to TRY pointing my camera at.

The film comes out on friday but as i have deadlines coming at me from everywhere until next thursday when im just about off for Easter i'll have to watch it after then. But it's going to be goooooood!

I think i'll be making a post on saturday... just wait for it...

It's been a long time coming.

2009-03-09T00:38:00.005Z

Damn. I've not realised how long i've not blogged for. Maybe i'll try aim for a one-post-per-week thing. That's a good thing to aim for yup.

Strangely enough, my course isn't making me draw or design wonderful ideas which makes it hard to create somewhat 'original' post as i try not to post things based on just images on the internet. Not that there is anything wrong with that... and i do that quite a lot myself...

The only thing going for me in current life is watching films. So.. i guess i could do posts on that... but not today.
Herrrre is where i got the image from.

This is about Little Red Riding Hood as you can see, i'm just playing around with ideas for a new project at uni, its about a setting up a exhibiton and having to decide where im having it, what it is about etc, the usual, - this is all theoretical btw, we dont actually SET UP a real exhibtion, it's all make believe - and this is one of the ideas i have, this was is the last one i came up with that i might use, the others being Lolita, Russian Dolls and the thing with grannies dressing up in like 'young people' clothing, like Mutton-dressed-as-lamb, or something similar, to the extreme. Like this:

But it's early days. I'll think more on it when it's not 1am and my arse isn't on fire from sitting in one spot.

Styling Shoot

2009-02-10T22:24:00.007Z

Nothing in particular at the moment is interesting, well, my class at uni is setting up a catwalk show for tuesday.. not everything is sorted out still which isn't good, and the models are coming in on thursday for fittings or something, but i can't make it :S im being called to help on a real shoot! I guess its not too overly important that i be there for thursday, though its not good that i miss it, but this is a real styling shoot that is experience and something my course is about. Hmm.

Well, last week i had my first shoot for my own project, i havent got any final pics, but i did take some while i didnt do my job and watched the designer do it herself and the photographer do his thang. We're all uni students, so when i mention 'photographer' or 'designer' in this post, they're either 2nd or 3rd years in my uni. This was a collaboration project.

The model is just a normal girl, goes to uni and happens to be tall and skinny that people ask her to model for them as a favour. Being my first shoot, i never realised how much you just stand around, of course, i wasn't meant to, the designer wasn't meant to be there and i was meant to be art directing/styling instead, not her. But otherwise, it is generally quite a stressful thing, setting them up, getting the location, its not very glamorous, the weather was freezing but you need to get the shoot done.

Im excited for the shoot on thursday, im not sure what im doing exactly, all i know is that im helping out, dont know if i'll be able to take photos but if there are, i'll find the link... this will be explained later :)

Soon after this last shot was taken, snow started falling. Then came the infamous Snow Day of february!

I AM HERE!

2009-02-01T00:57:00.006Z

I am indeed. Im constantly apologising for lack of posts and that i will post more and at the same time stop apologising.

Ive been thinking of something to post, unlike some brilliants blogs, im not constantly creating AMAZING art - inside the cabinet of wonder is one main blog i can think of that does said things. BUT, finally, i have something! In a few hours, im onset for my photoshoot for uni - im only the mere stylist and concept person so my role isnt that impressive. But this means i shall have photos. I owe a few people other photos of things so that is an excuse to upload pics from my camera which i dread doing when i do take photos. Its lazy-ness on my behalf basically.

Ive seen 3 films in the past 3days (not including today), i saw a preview of Revolutionary Road on thursday, Rachel getting Married on friday, and Twilight again yesterday :) i had planned to see Nick and Nora's infinite playlist on friday but i didnt arrive early enough for the showing - i had planned to see two films that day - on my ownsome, its not too bad watching films on your own.. but thats a different less-rushed post - and then yesterday, after Twilight, but the nearest cinema that played it, well, me and my friend wasnt sure where it was.. so we'll see it together sometime next week, but im seeing it on monday though.

This post doesnt make sense, im trying to just brief through things ive been doing but this is an 'epic fail' and i need to stop typing. Its currently around 1:07am as i type - regardless of the time blogger post thing is telling you and i need to be up around 5:15 to get my 5:54am bus - i dont even know what time my first bus is! - so i can be on my location shoot thing for 8am. Long story, i shall explain later. I really will

Ooh, i also recieved my long-awaited full series of Six Feet Under! Finally! I saw a small part when i was younger but i never really paid it attention because my mind was elsewhere, but i do love three of the male actors, um, sorry for spelling mistakes, Peter Kraus, Freddy Rodriguez and Michael C. Hall. I love them, i may not be able to spell their surnames right on first try but i do love the shows they star in.

So long, fare well, auf weidersehen, goodbye.

Flickr and Weeds.

2008-12-29T01:06:00.007Z

Just to fill in the blanks for not posting enough and probably not knowing when my next post is, just typing in phrases to flickr and finding some nice and interesting images. Some are kinda obvious to what i might've typed in......

Love

Junkyard

Mission Accomplished

Ok, so maybe not so obvious, but they involved: Jelly Castles, Glowsticks polaroids, Glowstick writing and polaroids of Robert Pattinson. The crush will not die! Everything is getting all Vampire related in my life! Its wrong.

If you dont know about this show, i do suggest you try watch it, its sooooo good! I now own all three series that i can get my grubby hands on in the UK!

I present you, Weeds,

Basically, Nancy, mother of two has just been turnt into a widow and deals weed to maintain the lifestyle she has and to pay her bills for her family and stuff. Something like that. Its veeeeery good and the dude who plays her oldest son, Silas - Hunter Parrish is HOT.

Biro illustrations

2008-12-29T00:37:00.001Z

* This was meant to be done AGES ago, my laptop has FINALLY decided to let me upload pictures!

Hopes you all had a very nice Xmas :) *

-STILL working on the happiness tag!-

Ages ago, much more before the tag, i said i would post some images of my work. Im just going to show some biro drawings. There are some more things i think i could show but i'll take photos of them later and do another post with those. For now this is what i have currently uploaded on the computer.

Yes, i understand her hand/arm is a bit odd but it looked good at the time.

Bad laptop.

2008-12-17T01:43:00.003Z

Im trying to make a post, im TRYING to upload photos but my laptop doesnt seem to want to!!! Im working on an alternative way as i type dont you worry!

I've finished uni for this term - woo! - but im going back to do some last minute research for essays/projects due after Christmas which does suck a little but its fine, make the most of my weekly travelcard. How sad.

Twilight also comes out on friday! Like a NERD i will be there. On the first day. For the first showing, but i HAVENT booked my ticket. Now that a slightly teeny bit obsessive, even for me. But i have got my friend hooked on the book, i lent her the first one and she seems to have nearly finished it in one day.

Christmas is next week! I cant wait, not really sure what im doing but it usually has involved going to see family and seeing friends on Christmas Eve eating ice cream. They're selling Ben & Jerry's in Sainsburys for like £2 so... GO!

I also bought a Fisheye camera the other day, still on my first roll of film but its nearly finished. Is it kinda evil that i scared a poor innocent squirrel with the flash? Mind, you never realise how BRIGHT the flash is until it goes off... Oh, and i has a Nintendo DS too now. Its very geeky, it was a small gift for myself for my finishing work. I dont like that this post doesnt have pictures so thats why im not putting links to things. Crappy me.

Better standards next time.

Hope all is well.

Remember, TWILIGHT on friday :)

Boo.

2008-12-03T20:03:00.002Z

Today was the Twilight Premier. And i didnt go! Well i did, i went there briefly but didnt really want to wait on my own for 3-4hours. Plus i got there quite late in terms of premier so i wasnt really in a decent spot by the barriers, although it was quite small as some STUPID funfare thing was in the way in the Leicester Sq park where the you have most premiers and it was showing at Vue not Odeon - Vue in on the side and is tiny compared to the other cinemas there - Odeon and whatsitface.

I basically took two photos but only of the bit on top of the cinema with massive images of 'Edward' and Bella and it saying something about 'UK PREMIER'.

Sorry for the small talk, i really shouldnt even be online, i have my final assessment for uni due monday and i have projects to do and a portfolio to create and sort out.

I NEED SLEEP.

And Twilight comes out in less than two weeks!

Random Things.

2008-11-26T01:57:00.006Z

I wasnt tagged. But im stealing this off Rather=Robyn's blog post thing.

Something to do with random things - i found the source, and its 7 things. I say a lot of random crap on this blog already so im sorry if i repeat myself.

1. I too, like Robyn, has a Harry Potter-like scar. Unlike him, mine is REAL. And i had stitches, i assume in the Wizarding world they dont 'do' stitches. This is my memory behind the scar, though im not entirely sure if it was a dream or not, but its the only memory i have. I was in reception and im running towards those crappy kiddy now-you're-all-grown-up-legs-included-you're-suprised-how-low-the-tables-are kinda tables, and im kinda as 90-degrees angle as one can be, charging towards the table. BAM. (This is kinda like the pensieve thing in Harry Potter books, the memory thing, where the memory is continuous in a badly edited kinda way.) Im getting into the back of what i think is my headteacher's car? I have something on my head. BAM. Im holding a can of Tango(?) and walking into the hospital. BAM. Nurse is kinda doing something on my forehead, it kinda feels weird, i thinking (or asking?) why or what she is doing... memory fades and i am no longer roughly sure of what i was thinking/saying to her. BAM. My mum is needing to buy bandages and im kinda on my way home. BAM. Im home and there is something involving ham and pineapple pizza which i am not happy with.

I also have a weird memory of wearing just my pants, with my mum in the room and getting on the table for a X-ray?
This is one of the memories, rather its completely true or not, but as memories go, its pretty vivid and its something ive never elaborated too much on, its its either true or unconsciously made up.

*BAM = blackout/fade/next scene.

2. I 99% have to read something, preferably a book like 90% of the time, before i sleep. Maybe something like a nap i'll just try and sleep, but if i can, doesnt matter how late it is, i will try and read. I dont know why, but its a habit. Ive often lost LOTS of sleep, averagely 30minutes of sleep, just by reading instead of sleeping. The main reason i stop to sleep is because it might be too late to carry on reading or my eyes wont stay open anymore.

3. I can make paper orgami Cranes. Not cranes as in the mechanical type, but in the bird Crane. It doesnt really look like a real Crane, but thats what they're called in the Origami world. I was taught by my mum's bff's daughter in Hong Kong like.. years ago... 2002? I was like 11 back then.. it was random. I still remember how to do it and along the way i've taught a few people and bedazzled many with the odd 'talent'. Ive retired from making them but am willing to make them for those who ask. (In a later edited version, i shall add a photo of one i especially made and then photo-ed for this blog.)

4. I have Grade 1 in the flute. YEAH. Random right? I was too scared to do Grade 2 as i probably just about passed the first one. I was sooooo nervous. This was back in year 5 i think. I carried on lessons until year 8 - obviously, my flute teacher changed after changing to secondary school, and i stopped mainly because my second teacher was a *insert really bad word*. I still have it around in my closet, i can just about remember how certain notes are played.

5. I love The Sound of Music. I helped out briefly backstage at my secondary school's production of it, and i think from there, i learnt to love it. I didnt really know the film but thought it was brilliant when watching from behind the curtains. I have the singalong version on DVD. Oh yes. But i dont understand why my friends wont go see it with me in theatre :( do any bloggers want to go see it? I would happily go and see it with you... if you havent seen it, its soooo good. The songs are just genius.

6. I miss maths. I just miss counting up stuff and the mulitplication stuff. Aaah. It took me ages to learn all my timestables but i still remember them quite well. But GCSE maths though, not too complicated. Besides Art, Maths was my second decent subject. Not that i did overly great. Didnt like things involving shapes though. Just numbers.

7. Im on my second re-read through the Twilight series - ive suprisingly not mentioned anything to do with my favourite Vampires until now. Im on the third one, just a bit ahead of the big fight-based scene - dont want to spoil anything for those who HAVENT read it, seriously, go buy the book. NOW. After you read this post of course. - and like the first run through, i dont like that im towards the ending of another of the vampire books, - its like Harry Potter, i love both series, i love the worlds thats been created, i want to LIVE in those worlds - i try 'prolong' the fantasy-ness by distracting myself with a different book. Last time i read... the 9th Princess Diaries book - the 10th is the last one! - and now its Wicked (some may know of Wicked: The Musical, but the book is what the musical was based on).

Finally, its over. I know you didnt really elaborate on the subject on random-ness.. and i did.. i rambled on a lot. Its a bad habit.

Films

2008-11-23T01:59:00.005Z

Im in the process of another post, im just trying to mass blog. If i can. Because you never know when the next post from me is coming.

I've given in 3 projects for uni already, 3 doesnt sound like a lot, but i have another 2-3 due in within the next month and thats not including a essay and a on-going project due in march, so anyway, i had a week free along with this weekend - well, i have a project due monday - 2 actually, - and well, instead of working on my sketchbook, i watched a bunch of films. I mass bought films a few weeks ago and watched most of them very recently. Woo. Along with some very brief film descriptions.

Here are a selected few of the ones i watched:

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Man get dumped by girlfriend, he's upset and she's already dating. He goes somewhere to try and get over her and she's there. it wasnt too bad, some nudity i didnt see coming and i loved the Dracula parts!

Notes on a Scandal - Narrated from the character played by Dame Judi Dench, a new teacher to the school has an affair with student, another teacher who has befriended the new teacher catches them and from there it begins, like blackmail. I really liked it, brilliantly acted, to me it was like watching Robin Williams for the first time in One Hour Photo. Now i really need to read the book, as for those who dont know, this film was based on the book of the same name.

Freedom Writers - based on the real story of a teacher encouraging her class that they can do a lot better than the gang-based life that they live in. Its really quite inspiring. At first i did not like most of the characters, but as the film progresses, you hear and see their background and they start to open up and you start to see through their harsh exterior. Something like that.

Into the Wild - I've been nagged to watch this since summer, or a little before. Dude from rich/well off respectable background ditches his materialistic background - including changing his name - and just travels around with the things he has and very little money because he burns it. His main goal is to get to Alaska. The film is partially narrated through his sister and is too, based on a real story. The ending made me CRY. This film i seriously DO recommend, Emile Hirsch played the guy brilliantly. Kristen Stewart of my favourite Vampire film features in this film too.

The Bad Mother's Handbook - Based on the book of the same name, im not really sure how to describe this book without giving too much away, basically just seeing a mother going through some life changing events of her life. Pretty bad synopsis i know. Catherine Tate didnt annoy me as much as i thought she would, but this film was quite sweet, not sure if it was worth me buying though to be honest. But my favourite (Vampire) Robert Pattinson - or as hard-corey fans like to call him, 'R-Pattz' - is in this, the reason i bought this film of course. It thought it was pretty awkward to watch him play this character who is extremely awkward, but verrrrrry sweet. And the hair, oh dead, please Robert, NEVER do that to your hair. Or anyone else for that matter.

Son of Rambow - i've seen this film three times already. Basically, some kids recreating parts of the first Rambo film. Its soooooo sweet this film. I didnt really like the ending, got a bit too soppy, but i enjoyed it thoroughly. 'I AM THE SON OF RAMBOW'. And Didier. This was my favourite of the bunch, the main film i was looking for when in the process of mass buying DVDs, i enojyed this more than seeing Robert in The Bad Mother's Handbook. This had a mainly non-speaking part with Ed Westwick. The illustrated bible was sooo cool, its something that im going to try and re-create, not with a bible, but with a large book at least. Southbank usually has this book stall/tables selling books, i might just buy one or two of those books and just destroy it with my drawings. Or i'll just get one from charity. Which reminds me to donate my old books to my local Starbucks :)

So that was the first in my list of badly described films.

I have In Bruge, Quadrophenia and The Chronicles of Narnia to get through still.

Might do a book list next. When you see the Tagged post you'll understand why.

Just trying to educate the masses.

Also, its meant to snow soon! I live in the crappy south and we dont get as much snow as the north generally does. I love snow. As soon as there is snow falling, im going to be mass Polaroiding.

Im starting to run out of titles...

2008-11-15T00:37:00.002Z

Im baaaack! For a while anyway.
I definately passed one project, one is pass/fail and the other is definate fail. I have final assessments later in december so im going to try and not worry about it too much this week, the only week im not having timetabled lessons and lectures with random guest people. Woo.

I was planning to put some photos here, ok, like two, of these illustrations i did - just to show i WAS actually working and to share with everyone, but my camera today has decided to not want to upload photos. Bad camera.

Here's something... Ok, right. The uploader thing has decided to fuck up too. So this is just a nothing post.

There is another post that i need to get sorted out so i'll just go ahead...

Just briefly...

2008-11-07T00:09:00.007Z

Im sorry i havent been posting recently, ive got two projects due in the next couple of days and therefore extremely busy even though i planned to do work tonight and ended up going drinking..... i gave in a project a few days ago.. one down, two to go.

Here's some stuff of recent:

Duh, Barack Obama being the future president!!!!! Yay, im so fucking glad its not the republicans winning.
I got tagged by Robyn of 'Rather=Robyn' and i WILL do the tagged post :D because i can gush about Twilight, it'll have to be after thursday at the very earliest.
Anyone found the winter issue of V Man? The one with Chace Crawford on the cover... It's this issue im looking for, if anyone has seen or got a copy and lives in the UK, particularly near-ish London... please let me know where i can get it so i can get a copy. Ive been looking for AGES, none of the Borders or main magazine shops have a copy or know about the Winter issue regardless of what they say. there IS a winter issue, its their first winter issue.

Yeah, thats it for bulletins, i havent been up to much, just uni work, so much work with so little time. But my last crit in the upcoming week is thursday - i have to film/design and edit a 60 second film, and crit for tuesday is to design a shop with all the bits inside, advertising and make a model. Hmm. But its over soon. The week after i have a 'Fashion Events Week' which i have no idea what it involves... but it means no crits and hopefully a few posts.

I am still reading the blogs even though im too not myself to comment, be very sure that i AM reading your post :)

OOOH, also, ive bought 'The Bad Mother's Handbook' - it has Robert Pattinson (and Catherine Tate), as well as a bunch of other dvds from the previous two weeks but im waiting until next thursday night to watch them!!!! Its nearly over! - the crits i mean.

Phew.

Twilight

2008-10-18T22:08:00.010+01:00

This post was soon going to be written anyway.

For those crazies who havent heard of 'Twilight' as the book/film, then.... click here, books written by Stephenie Meyer.

But for those who have.
Ahem.
OMGITSSODAMNGOODIMOBSESSED

Basically, girl moves to new town and is 'drawn' to this particular family of brothers and sisters who go to her school and then falls in love with one of the dudes. And the family are vampires. Woo. Vampires.

I LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOOVE the book. Twilight is a series of 4 books in total: Twilight, Eclipse, New Moon and Breaking Dawn.

But i hear there will be a book called 'Midnight Sun' which is told in the view of main vampire Edward. Words cannot describe how much i LOVED the book.

Im not going to try and give away too much, but im going to gush. Im currently a chapter or two into the third book. I started reading Twilight (the first book) last sunday... and now on the third. I finished the second in like two days. And the second book is im guessing AT LEAST 450pages. Thats how much im into this series-majig.

The first book has been made into a film of the same name and is being released in November somewhere. I HAVE to go to the premier. If i can. I dunno, im getting geekly depressed thats its all nearly ending and going to the premier may send me off the edge because im so full of excitement.

Here are some pictures while i try to think of some coherent sentances to type.

All my images were taken from here.

The main film poster:
The 'Cullens' and 'Bella'.

And a not-the-most-flattering-picture of the two main leads.Im kinda a twat and i dont really know or can be bothered to find out/know all the actors and actresses names, well, only of 'Edward' - Robert Pattinson - omg, my crush for him is starting all over again, some may know him mainly as 'Cedric' in the fifth Harry Potter film, or for my 'old school' bloggers, some may know or have even seen the images, that Robert used to be a model, at one point i think Bliss (UK) magazine... yes.. like a WEIRDO, I, for some reason kept his poster. Hahaaha, its sooo sad. Again, this was many years ago, PLEASE say someone remembers this too.... it was him along with some other guys and you was meant to vote which one was the cutest... as you can guess i thought Robert was, but i DIDNT vote. I swear. Anyway, getting back to subject, i also know the actress playing 'Esme', Elizabeth Reaser? She was 'Jane Doe/Ava' in Greys Anatomy.

Here's a imdb link for the film.

So in this new obsession, i think my last was a quickly faded Michael Phelps based one, though he is still very cute in a scarily tall dorky way, ive badly researched what potential mags are doing the promo for this film, and all i got is V Man. I dont care its a dude mag, this obsession has no bounds when it comes to magazines. The pictures in V Man are pretty cute though, the ones with the fangs.

If you are a fan of the said series and want to talk about them. Because i cant get enough and i only know ONE other person that knows about the books, but she's still on the first book and i shant see her until like wednesday - well, my email is available, feel free to obsess with me :)

(Later edit: silly me, here's the link to the film website and, if you've seen the trailor, is it me, or does Robert Pattinson look SOO good in Ray Bans?)

Herro

2008-10-08T21:35:00.004+01:00

I havent posted in ages. Shit. Oops.

There isnt really an excuse for it, except im in uni now? But i'll also blame my laptop being weird and my camera uploading pictures in being weird.. i'll try it tomorrow because i have LOADS of pictures to upload/show you all. And having a scanner too woul REALLY help as i have polaroids.

So sadly, no personal pictures, but this is for everyone in the UK, just a small tip, Nike have a 'Pop Up' shop, which is basically just a temporary shop set up anywhere, and it being 'temporary', the amount of time it being there can range from a week (or even less) to a few months or so. This Nike shop is on Curtain Road, near one of the LCF campuses, nearest station being Old Street. Im not neccessarily a sportswear fan, but i friggin loved this place, especially the walls outside which have been painted/spray painted with different designs of Nike designs... i'll try and upload pictures in the next post, but here are some of the pictures from inside...

The place really is AMAZING. Its on until September, and i got those images from here. It's just soooooo cool, you really have to have a look yourself if you can. A quick story behind the last two pictures is that the room (the last three pictures are in the same 'room'), are that it is constantly being changed, artists are coming in and adding artwork to it the room, everything design is done by a different artist, like i said, you really have to see it for yourself. Its wonderful and inspiring from an artistic and fashion point of view, but from the view of someone in the public, its just sooo cool. That this place is just temporary, but yet so different from other shops. Im just rambling now :)

Im still reading everyone's blog even though im not constantly updating my blog, im always online... i think my email is availible on my blog profile so its not as if you cant just email me.... i have friggin' SIX projects for uni! Its not totally hectic schedule but its a lot, so when im not being distracted or worrying about work i will try and post as much as possible.

Things to do.

2008-09-21T23:08:00.003+01:00

Ive got a few things to do this week, hence the crappy title. Feeling a bit scummy too, sore throat and weird headache thing, i suspect i has a fever?

So, this week i need to

Enroll at uni,
Get my money stuff and spend it on clothes, stationary, books, magazines and Polaroids.
Call up the gym and sort out a induction thing, woop free gym for 3months,
Go to the Supremes exhibition at V&A and finish off my summer project, the one that has gone horribly wrong,
See some friends before uni starts,
Sort out my 18+ Oyster card,
Pay off a fine,
Pay my friend back for tickets for a gig,
Upload the images from the gig and email them to her - Gym Class Heroes

and that i think thats mainly it. Not a lot, but im never too good with thinking straight on the spot off the top of my head.

Lipstick Jungle and America's Next Top Model starts in the UK tomorrow!!!! ANTM has started to get sooo cheesey, since about series 5-6 and after, its gone dooooownhill, yet i still watch every episode.

I think my laptop has a virus too. Its had this weird thing popping up since yesterday, after about 20mins on the laptop, it will start popping up loads of this symantic thing, - antivirus software? - and yeah, i have to disconnect the internet thing... but i dont really use my laptop much anymore, mainly for internet and Spider Solitaire. Im getting a new laptop next year so maybe finally THEN i can upload and change around my ipod which has had the SAME songs since feb/march of earlier this year.

Had a shitty interview this week, i was LATE, so bad. Think of the worst shop - clothing based - to work in, cheap shitty clothes, thats probably the shop i had my interview, im ASHAMED to name the place, i hate the shop even more than i already did, i just need 'retail experience', but now i just need a job in general.

My eyes are kinda hurting from the light so im gona give up, I'll post some Gym Class Heroes pics later or something, because this post is boring and ranty.

Blah.

2008-09-13T23:03:00.004+01:00

I didnt really take photos of my time working with the Barry Manilow show thing, i do miss it, but my friend did take a little video with my phone, i thought she was taking PHOTOS, not filming hence most of my actions, if you imagine me thinking she was trying to take a photo and trying to avoid 'having my photo taken' you can therefore hopefully undestand why i was being so weird......

When you see my waving/shaking something at the camera, its a shoehorn. Please dont judge me by this video, and no, i wasnt touching myself. It's a pretty unflattering video of myself but its quite funny.

Btw: Pineapple Express, not bad, could have been better, but if you enjoy the Knocked Up/Superbad/stoner humour then deffo go see it :)

And the song being sang in the background, 'Looks Like We Made It'.

I <3>

Oh shizz.

2008-09-05T02:21:00.001+01:00

I hadn't realised i hadn't posted in so long.

I'm also starting to re-use correct puntuation, as much as I can bother to remember to do so.

I had planned to post a day or so ago, but im currently kinda helping out on a theatre show thing in local town theatre place, and I wanted to post a proper post then, but that's over a day and half away, I hate neglecting this blog.

I'm being totally serious, but the show is called 'Can't Smile Without You' and for the normal people who don't know, it's a Barry-fucking-Manilow musical. The show is ending in town on the 6th - i'm helping out on the second to last show, which is basically the matinee show on the last day - before it goes off to another town. If you like/enjoy/LOVE musicals, and/or the idea or Barry Manilow songs makes you LARF, I advise you to check the show out, even if you get the cheap back row tickets. And the show's main star is CHESNEY HAWKES. For those SICK people who love a bit of Chesney for the eyes, i've seen in topless. He's fairly skinny, someone needs to feed him.

I'll elaborate more about this on a post after saturday when I can get some last show (for me) photos if that is possible.

Top end this, I was trying to find the image/dress she wore to THIS year's The Venice Film Festival, but alas, I can only find this, Diane Kruger at The Other Boleyn Girl film premier.

I think she looks cute, not entirely sure about the ruffled skirt/bottom, but I definately love the top jacket and bow tie combo. Partially liking the shoes.

Look, it's 2:21am, it's never a good time to blog especially if you've literally been up since 8:15am, 8:20am and again at 8:24am (curtisy of my phone's alarm clock/snooze). Wow, I hadn't thought of that until just now. Kids, don't follow my footsteps in this late night stuff malarky, it's not good, not as bad as drugs but not good.

I miss cheese. Melted cheese. Stringy cheese on pizza.......

Lula Issue#7

2008-08-26T23:34:00.006+01:00

I think i've gushed about Lula somewhere in this blog before.

For those who dont know, Lula is just this really pretty wonderful magazine, bi-annual, but worth ever penny. Low in advertising, but high in originality. This issue is fairly different from the last as the colours are much darker - and a lot of black involved, but thats perhaps because its the A/W copy.

The latest copy, weirdly, had two covers. At first when my friend showed me in the shop, we got extremely confused about it, but both ended up getting the same cover:

As i dont own a scanner, i have to rely on the internet to find (good quality) scanned images, and i got these from the facebook LULA group - if you look through all the uploaded photos on that group, you'll find MY version of a photo they had in issue #6, dunno, thought i'd tell you :)

Seriously, Lula is REALLY worth it, especially if you're into the arty/dreamy/fashion photo styling. I got my copy from Borders.

Last bit, regardless of what time it said i posted this, its actually about 2hours later because i went late-late-night food shopping with the parents, and uh... you know, we paid for it, me and my dad walking out to put bags into the back of the car, and well, just as we were coming out, i usually run with the trolley and then 'fly' my way to the car, i FELL. Oh man, i dont know what happened but right near the car the trolley rolled, causing me to roll. My knee still stings a tiny bit. I must've scared the crap out of my dad but all i was thinking was 'this is embarrasing/shit, get the bags into the car before my mum sees this and goes ape shit/i hope i get into trouble/man, that was pretty jokes'. I was deprived of that falling of my bike and hurting myself stuff. Now i need to fish out my old skateboard out and give it another go, i didnt react as badly as i thought i would in a flying-off-somewhere-to-the-ground type situation...

Thank you for the Happy Birthday stuff, my birthday SUCKED although my friend got me this really cool Owl necklace pendant, i just need the chain, i'll take a picture of it soon :)

Seriously though, Lula is worth buying!!!!!!

Just hanging around.

2008-08-23T23:48:00.001+01:00

Been neglecting this blog as usual.

Nothing really interesting really, this week has mainly been a build up to my birthday so ive been putting off things until the big day comes.

Last saturday i went out to my friend's pre-birthday do - her birthday is only a week before mine, and we went out to Black Sheep Bar which is like a alternative type bar, but it does some hip-hop type music while mainly focusing of the rock side. It was the first time i went there, and here are some of the pics i took, mainly because no-one was taking any.

Trying to get this post done before 12am - aka my birthday but it seems impossible as i type its 11:57pm.

The girl in the second photo, that was the pre-birthday girl.

Hoody:H&M, top:Urban Outfitters, bag:Topshop.

This thursday i re-went to the Black Sheep again, this time getting very nearly pissed and i havent uploaded the photos yet to my laptop. Oooh. Its nearly 12....

Going to be having a picnic i think for my birthday.. and getting drunk in the park too... DRINK RESPONSIBLY KIDS.

YES IT'S MY BIRTHDAY YAY!

Happy 19th to moi :) and there is a random fly in my living room.

The Olympics are ending like any hour now, which is strangely making me feel kinda sad.. the passing of the torch to London is happening later too, i would probably like to go, just for the fun of it, but my friend did wisely tell me that is probably would be very very busy.... but Michael Phelps is going to be there! Not that i will see him. Im getting over this mini obsession/crush but its still funny. I cant wait until the 2012 London Olympics, but i'll be 22!!!! I feel weird enough that im now in my LAST year of being a 'teenager', i dont really want to be 20... im am honestly just ranbling here. Just wanted to share those photos :) im also slacking in the commenting of blogs, i am honestly reading them! I dont comment as much as i would as im not that articulate most of the time when im reading a blog, hence my 'wow thats cool... hmm... umm..*' type comments.

Im going to stop and open a birthday card and watch more tv.

Here is my friend's very cute baby :)

Isn't he cute? This was taken like 3weeks ago and he's 10months. The goo around his face is a mixture of Dairylea and Doritos. Mmm. E-numbers.

Michael

2008-08-17T23:18:00.004+01:00

From my last post, i was talking about my weird crush on Micahel Phelps. WELL. Not so much anymore. Yes, he betrayed me with Lily Donaldson!!! I cant 'compete' with models. Darn. That really sucks, this from Bryanboy has partially broken my heart, but on this post, you HAVE to watch the WHOLE little video at the end. If i could and there wasnt family behind me, i would have pissed my crappy pants. At the end of a shit day, that little video has made me smile.

Hint: Firebreathing.

There was also this picture in one of the posts, brace your eyes, he's looking SERIOUSLY HOT.

(taken from Sister Libby at Ice Cube Confidential)

WOW.

I could probably stare at him - i was going to type 'image' but unconsciously typed 'him' - for a long long time. I dont know who that girl is.

I found where the image is from. April 2008 issue of Vogue, the one with Gisele and LeBron James dude, i remember the mini hype about it having a black dude on the cover and i remember seeing it and thinking 'i cant be bothered to get this issue', NOOOOO!!!!! That really sucks. There is a market thing near me on thursdays that usually has old (like just last months) magazines, hopefully if i go thursday there will be a issue lying around. OMG! I never knew he did Vogue. I never knew who he was until the Olympics. I didnt know who he was until i looked at the screen of the games after constantly hearing my brother and Dad mentioning some dude called 'Phelps'.

But that picture. Wow. Im used to seeing some pretty unflattering yet still cute images of him. My, my, my. He looks sooooooo hot. Like properly hot, not weird dodgy crush hot, but properly hot without having to be like 'hot but...', just HOT.

I'll do another post later with what i did last night - no biggie, just went out, got creeped out by my friend's cousin who has a crush on me, sadly he isnt hot :( - just to show i do get out and not just lust after hot swimmers (there was another hot dude somewhere in that team swimming relay race). I took pictures too, especially because i said i dont take enough pictures to share with everyone and no-one was taking pictures last night in general. But that is another post.

I would end this post with a picture, but if anyone can send me a link for a hot image of Michael then we'll have to make do with the Vogue one.

*sigh*

Harry Potter

2008-08-16T00:54:00.011+01:00

The new film is being pushed back until next year 2009 :( in July sometime...

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Im a fairly big Harry Potter geek and uh... its a saddening moment. This is a bit of a miscellaneous post but i wanted to share my sadness. And some pictures of the film that i googled up, hahah.

Not a lot of pictures i know but i cant be bothered to put some mini trailer thingy in here.

Oh man, im quite saddened by this, i was really looking forward to the premier - it was meant to be mid-November as the film was meant to be released Novemeber 17(?) - as i went to the last one. It was SOOOOO fun and im re-reading the books because im very antsy about the films coming out and now i find out its being pushed back. I understand it because something about blockbusters and already having the Dark Knight there is no point of Harry Potter coming out and taking in more money. Or something, i read it from here - finding the link to it from E! website. Also sucks that i have to wait ANOTHER roughly one year for it, they could have done it like maybe march or something, but nooooooooo, its pushed back to summertime, also known as familyandkidsandeveryoneinthebloodyworldhastimetogoseeit so WHEN i go, i'll still be surrounded by little kiddies or people who wont shut up. This is why i STILL havent yet seen the Dark Knight. I guess i'll have to get it when it comes out on dvd, but, as a consolation to Harry P film being pushed back, the dvd wil l likely be released by Christmas :)

.....of next year though.

Not really sure what this blog is about, i say i'll do one thing and i never seem to do and there isnt really a theme except it being extremely weird and random.

So here's some more.

Please dont judge, and im not a groupie-fame-seeking-trend-sheep person, but im developing a extremely dodgy crush on American swimmer dude Michael Phelps.

I know i know, he is a scary 6''4-5 - i dont know his exact height, this is what i read in the newspapers - and considering im like 5''3..., massive hands, feet, nose, CHIN - im sorry, but its kinda too big for his face, ears and this shoulders are like soooo broad, something about him is strangely kinda hot. Not really my type - i *heart* the musicians but i dunnno.. i need to get out more and meet new people.

But to fuel this even more, look what i found on Pink Is The New Blog! (the last bulletin takes you here).

The link is about 'baby pictures' of him, but there are some BAD pictures of him as a teen and they are BAD. Like, if i saw the guy like that and not as he is now.... maybe its just bad photos? But he was a seriously cute baby and little kid though!!!!! When he's on tv and screaming and shouting out of happiness because of winning more swimming medal stuff, meh, not so flattering on him, pretty huge mouth, but he's sooo cute - i DONT KNOW WHAT.

After this current subject and the last post, i think i need some serious help.

Now and again i'll get these weird crushes and this time of my life is when it pops up. Maybe its a partially mid-life crisis? Im not even mid-life yet... though i am turning 19 next sunday!!!!!! My friend's birthday is tomorrow - she's only a week older than me, but as a pre-birthday thing, we're going 'pubbing' and hopefully i'll take a few pictures as i hardly take photos nowadays. And my birthday is pretty boring, going to Greenwich park (UK's Greenwich) to have a picnic. Oh and the weather is meant to be raining on that day. Oh. Will try to make most of my last few days of being 18!!!!!

One last thing, my friend - i did that 'Naddy' post for him a while ago, we met on my art foundation course, him - he's been seen to post a comment or two before on this blog although he has no blog of his own - is back from his home in Portugal, arrived in the UK just yesterday as he has a interview with LCF (London College of Fashion) on monday and came down just to attend that interview which he will hopefully get in!!!! Its a Foundation in Pattern Cutting or something or rather. I'll be going with him. You can check out me and him here, its just an old post but with a picture of the two of us :) i think he wanted both the polaroids but i gave him the one with me (on the left) while i kept the other (on the right), he's like my little brother. Will try and do a video post in the err, next post.

Ta ta for now.

(here's one last random image from my personal collection)

An extremely old picture, maybe from october/november 2007 - our first picture together! Taken at the Tate Modern (by who???!!?!?!) by the Doris Salcedo's 'Shibboleth' - its better to find the proper name for the exhibition than saying ....'s 'crack' like i was going to.

Jumper:Dorothy Perkins, Jeans:Primark, Red Converses, Bag:Topshop (from like 2002/2003, its one of my oldest bags that i still use and love - the inside lining are cute cartoons of apples!) and tee:H&M. Holding a blue A3 sketchbook.

Mary-Kate Olsen

2008-08-11T04:22:00.000+01:00

I've been trying to avoid doing posts on something that i feel is 'common', as in a post that you probably have already read on another blog or in magazines, but this post has been itching to get out. Well, the post subject which you can see is Mary-Kate Olsen.Here she is with Irina. Im afraid i cant crop the picture at the moment so... i guess you'll have to get over it if it bothers you so.

I really do love her style. She's on the cover of Elle UK September issue, and because i subscribe i get a slightly different cover compared to the one image of MK currently on normal issues - just go over to the subscribe link button thing and you'll see the cover that i have with MK in three different poses.... and the cover... she looks so cool. I LOVE the current cover.

Less about the cover and more about my gushings of M-K O. As i was looking through images with her and Ashley and as well have watched their style form over the few years or so, it seem that MK's style is more... 'messy' and kinda wild, while Ashley is slightly more 'cleaned up'. Thats how i see it, because than otherwise i cant really tell the apart. Except that MK is looking like she kinda needs some sleep and look a bit less crazy. And that she seems pale compared to Ashley.

MK does, i have to say, really look kinda crazy with the pale face but she makes up for it with the cool red and white, while her sister looks lovely and tanned in a weird zebra-ishy dress.

Like i said earlier, i do oh-so LOVE MK's style, im gona try and use her as a partial influence when i start dressing better for uni. I should really descrive Ashley's dress a lot better than 'zebra-ishy' but im kinda crap with describing things in a 'proper fashion' and do often resort to using words like these. As you can tell. I love MK's style because of the scruffy but put together in a way you know the clothes are clean and havent been found off the streets in a rubbish bin. Even in the Elle interview she says something about just putting clothes on without really bothering or realising that she's got other stuff on. Im like para-phrasing? Is that the correct term?

Ok, here's the whole paragraph for you lucky people:

"Mary Kate could probably fit a few close friends inside her orange vintage flannel shirt, open to the navel and which, on her barely five-foot frame, seems almost Brobdingnagian. The sheer quantity of precious metals she is wearing would be preposterous on anyone else. Around her neck are four necklaces; on her tiny hands are five huge rings (one which opens like a locket to reveal a skull being strangled by a gold serpent); and around her wrists and up her arms are about 30 bracelets and bangles, which, at one point become entangled. ('Oh my God, I've handcuffed myself!' she says laughing.) The outfit is rounded off by a black seude Pedro Garcia heel and black Kova&T leggings. I've actually been wearing this for about the past 10 days, she says laughing, the jewellery jingling gently on her arms. It's natural for me to throw on whatever I'm going to wear and not think twice about it."

Im gona get sued for writing that arent i? Oh shit. And i know its NOT neccessary to type that whole paragraph but i thought i would share it with everyone.

Im not going to apologise for the poor quality of this post because i always do that but you know what im thinking.. i feel bad for not posting interesting things and for my lack of posting in general.

Will try and post up those pictures i got from Skin+Bones. Maybe that'll be a better post indeed. That post will come up sooner than later. Maybe later today or tomorrow or so.

Images taken from Style.com and GoFugYourself. And of course that article from Elle UK September issue 2008.

I really want some flannel shirts now (- i've wanted some for aaages like since 2006 but i had a few friends who wore them and i didnt want to feel like i was copying them. Then i watched Juno and my lust grew). And also some proper skinny black jeans. But i cant go out in just leggings. Im not thin. Even if my legs are the 'thinnest' part of myself it just wont work, my arse is just gona hang out.. hang? Well.. its pretty cold in the UK... my arse will FREEZE off... As much as i really would love to just go out in leggings, a long flannel top/shirt and some Converses. I see New Look are doing Flannel shirts... i might buy one on tuesday... i have one, but i got it from Topman. And its very blue based. And i look kinda lesbian-chic with it on.... so if i do wear it, it'll have to be with like a dress. Something extremely girly to take the masculine-ness of it away. And im meant to be a fashion/styling/promo student. I really should be doing outfit posts and stuff because of my great sense of style etc....

HMMMMMMM.

Thank you for getting so far. If you ever see me in the streets when im famous and you mention this part of the post, i'll buy you a Starbucks or something. Im suprised you got this far. I'll send you a hug as a way of saying thanks.

Last few words. This late morning thing is really getting to my part of the brain where i STOP typing. Its now 4:20am. Now 4:21am. Its taking a while to edit and re-edit this post. Im not making a lot of sense. Grrrr.

Oh wow.

2008-08-04T20:36:00.008+01:00

Im getting antsy about not having yet received my copy of Elle Uk - i get a subscription - and remembering being told that Zooey Daschanel was on the cover of Elle US and curious to see what the cover was like... Jessica Simpson is on the cover?!?!!? I wonder where Zooey came from.. unless the image on Elle US website is old and have not updated the image of Jessica on the cover.. in the corner where it says subscriptions? ANYWAY. I saw this

and i HAD to see what else there was....

The third photo, there is another one in the slideshow of pictures you can see, which is similar to this, but from a wider angle and looks what Ashley Tisdale's legs.... like it was one of the many shots for idea and probably accidently put it in the slideshow because the pose from Zac and Vanessa are pretty similar in both photos (- did i just repeat myself?).

I've never been one of the millions of fans that are like 'OHMYGODIT'SZAC/VANESSA/ASHLEY/HSM1/2/3', although i DID watch the movies - well only 1 and 2 so far, and 2 was SHIT in my opinion. And, for a larf, i will try and get to the High School Musical 3 UK premier - whenever it comes out over here..... if i can past the crowds of screaming kids and their pushy mums.

These are my favourite two pictures. I really love Vanessa's stare/pose and the purple-y/pink background. And the last photo, i love the images that all three are together in. But the one with Zac and Vanessa seperated by a fence is kinda cute as they're a couple in real life. Until they break up. If they do. I didnt want to add any photos with Efron (yes, we're on last name basis's now) as i said before, i dont really *heart* him. THOUGH, the pictures with him buffed up does make me think 'Mmm..' but otherwise nah.

Im going to the Skin+Bones exhibition tomorrow and i bought my sketchbook today so all i need is a few pens and im ready. Will try and take loads of photos for a friend and for those who wont be able to make it. The exhibition is £6 for students and ends THIS sunday (10th) so hurry!!!!!!

(I hope by the time i post this no-one else has already done a post on this!)

EDIT: Dapper Kid has told me that there is a fountain!!!!!!!! In the Courtyard (i googled it like a LOSER). Im going alone so it may be hard and may even break my camera, but i am determined to at least run through this and even take a photo while inside. If that is possible. WOOOOOOOOP!

Alas

2008-07-31T20:11:00.006+01:00

a new post!

Yes, im finally posting. Just really trying to find interesting things to think of. I really cant wait until the September issues of magazines come out!!!! But im seriously low in money so its kinda hard....

Been applying for jobs so hopefully something will come along, and my students loans.. oh god.. not going so well. Long story short, waiting for them to ask me for passport stuff etc still which, compared to my friends, im ever so far behind. Which is worrying.

Applied for a few jobs so hopefully will hear from them with an interview? And then i gets job.

Got my Uni sumer project! Finally! Its not as fun as i hoped. Basically have to go to three different exhibitions (Skin+Bones at Somerset House, The Supremes at V&A and the one im looking most foward to, Viktor and Rolf at Barbican) and under three different headings of texture, line and form, i have to find garments under the headings (oh, texture has like beading, crochet, knit and some others) and draw them etc. I dont mind it all so much, but in my crappy situation, i have very limited funds and i have to buy a new A3 sketchbook and then pay to go see these exhibitions. I'll save money by taking the bus (free travel!) instead of train so i can save money on a travelcard, although it ill waste sooo much of my time. I would usually do what most people do and leave it until last minute, but the Skin+Bones exhibition ends next friday? (10th August is all i know) so i HAVE to go see that one at least. Kinda sucks though. Probs. go like on tuesday or wednesday. So if any fellow bloggers are around in London, please do come and visit, say hi, but not in some creepy way, i'll be on my own... going to be a long day.

Didnt really do much this week, seen some friends, potentially got a job somewhere... but i dont have any photos of my own to share. I brought my camera out yesterday and when i turnt it on, NO BATTERY! Nooo! But im going out again in saturday so hopefully i'll take something there...

So to pass the time, here's a photo of the ever-so cooooooooooooool Karen O. image taken from here.

I do love her, she's so cool like i just said earlier.

Apologies for the crappy posts. Im working on it. It will get better.

Interesting/boring things about me

2008-07-23T22:41:00.003+01:00

Not sure what to post, i dont have any interesting photos that i can show so im going to talk - in bullet points - about stuff that has happened lately that you might be interested in and perhaps would like to comment about. I'll add a random picture at the end too incase it gets too boring.

Still antsy and waiting for my Uni to send me stuff, but i checked on UCAS and they congratulated me saying that im officially in or whatnot.
Dentist today, had a filling and have to cut down on sweets :(
Trying to find a certain, very cool magazine shop, RD Franks and failing miserably, i went to John Lewis and bought some lovely navy tights. I CANNOT wait until A/W starts so i can change what im wearing and start dressing my part as a styling/promo student.
Last week, tuesday to be exact, i briefly followed/stalked We Are Scientists, and Keith's hair is yes, very grey. But he's still hot. Sadly i didnt see them properly, only their backs -my friend pointed them out to me after they walked past - but Chris did turn his face to talk to Keith and i saw that. I wanted to run after them and get a photo but my friend was being crap and wouldnt 'accompany' me in my time of giddyness. Then i tried to wait for them to come out of whatever shop they were in so i could get a polaroid, after a few minutes i decided to give them their privacy and i gave up. Next time. And it was at Covent Garden. *sigh*

Err, thats the main things. Im always bad at thinking things off the top of my head.

Batman movie comes out tomorrow. Would like to see it soon. Heath Ledger looks SOOOOOO cool as The Joker.

Hopefully i'll have some new pictures to show tomorrow, i'll be going out to town in the horrible heat, the temperature keeps changing, earlier it said tomorrow would be 24, now its 28. Thats stupidly hot. Although my heritage is from a hot hot humid place, i was born and bred in London, i love the cold, hence my love for A/W seasons.

Stop. Picture time.

I did not take this picture, from google, or i guess musichead.com.au to be exact. This picture is neither very recent, or as recent as last week, Keith's hair was MUCH more grey and Chris' (on the left of Keith of course) hair was shorter. But they are as skinny as you'd imagine. And skinnier. Some SERIOUSLY skinny legs i saw on Keith at least.

Handwritten

2008-07-21T15:45:00.004+01:00

Its annoying trying to write a decent post and then deciding that its crap. So last night i was bored and ive been planning on doing handwritten posts for a while..

(for those who cant read my writing: "I'm not sure what to say. Fill up the silence with actions. What does this all mean? Fuck it, im off to shower." Twas bit in a weird/bad mood, still kinda am. Grrr. Hate summer. At least its my birthday soon.)

That was done last night. Blogger is being really shit, took me ages to upload this one single image.

Need a job. Anyone hiring? Like UK based. want someone i dont know, to do some meaning-less chores for them in exchange for money?

Filler post2.

2008-07-18T15:02:00.004+01:00

I havent posted something new for a while... just dont know what to post, well i have a few things but i want to make the posts interesting and not bore you too much.. ive been knitting and trying to figure out what im going to do as a summer project.... still havent heard from Uni yet... my friend who's going CSM has been told that she's getting a summer project.. and thats all. But I want a summer project!!! It feels weird not having a deadline and something to do. Internet and tv is getting old, im trying to avoid the library because i have a fine on my card and i dont yet have much money to pay that off so i can read like 100+ books.

Watching a lot of dvds though, mainly SATC boxset.

Oh and i bought the KARL LAGERFELD tee that was shown on the previous post :)

Want to get the new NYLON mag, but my friend is going to America tomorrow and she said she would get me a copy from there. Mainly because it is a LOT cheaper buying said magazine from there than here in UK. Stupidly overpriced in the UK.

Taken from here.

The dress is Doir? I cant remember.. Galliano for Dior? I will check later on. But this was the dress from Season 6 where Carrie was in Paris and she was waiting for The Russian and he never turnt up, she fell asleep, and the dress!!! If anyone who has seen that particular scene when you see her kinda asleep with the dress all around her.. like a massive circle and she's in the middle...

T-shirts

2008-07-15T08:53:00.001+01:00

I want the Karl one!!!!!!!!!It also comes in Michael Jackson,
I've seen the David Bowie one before but i cant find a photo, but i KNOW it exists... i think it does... currently on sale at Urban Outfitters (look under 'Graphic tees'). Im off to go London now so i'll hopefully be able to get the Karl one if they're still availible!!!!! Otherwise i'll buy a plain white tee and make my own Karl tee.

Its too early to be bloggging. Friggin' its not even 9am!!!!!!!!!

Zac Posen 08

2008-07-13T13:05:00.003+01:00

Oops, sorry for the recent lack of posts, i didnt know it had been so long! Doesnt help that i dont really know WHAT to blog about - its that 'bloggers block' thing...

I was going to do this on Luella A/W 8/09 but i know another blogger did a post on her already.. i cant quite remember who...

So this post is obvs. about Zac Posen.

(Images taken from Style.com)

I've always liked Zac Posen, i dont really pay attention to his work but when i do see it i tend to like what i do see (if that makes sense?). This collection - or the pictures ive shown at least - remind me of Luella, they have that Luella-style. But then maybe because im not that familiar with his usual style/designs. LOVE LOVE LOVE the Mary Janes. I love ANY Mary Janes. I dont wear heels but if i did? Mary Janes most of the way.

Awardy

2008-07-13T12:46:00.004+01:00

I got tagged by dearest Dapper Kid for Premio Award Tag.

Yay. I think someone needs to make some badges or something. But yay.

And the tagging rules are....

When received, you may post your Premio award on your blog.
Link the blogger you received it from.
Give it to 7 other bloggers.
and link those bloggers.
Then leave a comment about the blogger receiving their Premio award!

Ok, im going to try, but i doubt i'll be able to tag 7 bloggers that havent been tagged already.. but i can think of some blogs already :)

And the bloggers im going to tag are.... Inside the Cabinet of Wonder, Yonctopus Is The Bomb, the tea drinking english rose and thats it so far... i would tag Dapper Kid if i could. I'll edit this post if there is anyone new.

Righty ho, off to sort out another post and then do some knitting!!!!!

Mosaics

2008-07-09T14:56:00.006+01:00

I was tagged by fellow Londoner/blogger Dapper Kid - im reeeeally curious at what his answers were!!!! I cant figure them out!

Anyway, the rules of the tagging was:

- Type your answer to the questions into Flickr search,
- Using only the first page, pick an image,
- Copy and paste each of the URLS of the images into the mosaic maker.

What is your first name? (Hayley)
What is your favourite food? (Tuna and Cheese)
What high school did you go to? (Ravensbourne School)
What is your favourite colour? (Blue)
Who is your celebrity crush (Ed Westwick)
Favourite drink? (Apple juice)
Dream vacation? (Rome)
Favourite dessert? (Ice Cream and Cake)
What do you want to do when you grow up? (Creative Director)
Who do you love most in life? (Books)
One word to describe yourself. (Weird)
Your Flickr name. (Hayley.Laaau)

So here's mine.

(My answers and my images - most of them dont match. But I like the images. Except the third picture on the third row, they are some randomly weird people and was my only choice as an answer.)

Ok.. so i think im going to tag......

Head In the Clouds, Inside the Cabinet of Wonder, Sugar Pop and Style Rookie.

French films

2008-07-08T01:12:00.006+01:00

I've been watching a few recently.... well i dont actually own THAT many french films, just only Amelie, Paris, Je T'aime and some weird some called C.R.A.Z.Y. In a tiny nutshell, the plot to 'C.R.A.Z.Y' is boy has a 'gift' in healing people, gets caught dressing in Mother's clothes as a young kid, potential gay experiences, um.. druggie brother, wedding, random trip to somewhere random, Morocco?, Christmas Mass and a black eye. It's a really odd film.

My french is BAD. Like seriously crap. I guess i can get slightly by as you kinda recognise a few words, but in school i was always in the average/middle sets for french. I rely on subtitles, but regardless, those films are pretty good in their own way. But yes, im going through HMV website to look for some film bargains, and er, La Vie En Rose is on sale. 2dvd and only £3.99. Not including that 10% student discount... its soooo tempting! But im not sure whether to buy it or not. The only reason i can think of to buy it is PURELY because of the price... but i need something to watch and i am kinda going on a role with all these french films.

I would buy Juno but i still need the price to go down! I dont think Harry Potter would make me feel any better... i really WANT to buy something now...

Chronicles of Narnia? I want to see the new with, Prince Caspian but i need to see the first one first.

(Oh and now i think of it, The Science of Sleep is partially in french, ANOTHER french-ish film..)

Ok, its between La Vie En Rose and Cats. Yes, Cats the MUSICAL. I remember watching it like in year... 5? And since then i've always longed to watch it again.. But i dont have enough money to buy both!!!!! Or do i? But it would be ALL the money on my debit card... Or Memoirs of a Geisha? It looks soooooo pretty. And the weather is pretty shitty these past few days.. it would be nice to eat some warm microwave popcorn watching a potentially b-o-r-i-n-g but visually stunning film.. i need to get the book. I always feel fake not reading the book and just watching the film.. i cannot wait for these students loans to arrive!

Ok, enough words, and less 'ok's too. Here are some lovely pictures.

PEACOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know, i really am like i child :) These pictures - stills from the film of course, just sooooo stunning!!!!! And i ordered La Vie En Rose and Memoirs of a Geisha. Now im off to re-watch Paris, Je, T'aime and Corpse Bride.

EDIT: I cancelled La Vie En Rose yes despite the 2dvd and chose Cats (the musical) instead. Hahah, I do love a musical though.

Movies.

2008-07-06T23:25:00.004+01:00

I miss Alien Ant Farm. I cant really care for them nowadays, but the song 'Movies', makes my heart cry a little. 'Cry'. I miss the old days of secondary school (aka high school).

I've only watched a few mini stories already, but if you havent already, you should all go out and buy (or go online) and watch Paris, Je T'aime.

It's meant to be about little stories of people showing off Paris...? Or something.. some of the films are SOOOOOOOO weird, but they're really cute and sweet, regardless of some of the language..... but i love the one done by Gus Van Sant... the guy chatting to the guy in french and it turns out the dude doesn't understand french!!! But starts running off - to find the french dude? - but we'll never know.. because it cuts to another film. Seriously, the films are sooo adorable and they're not very long.

Tomorrow im hopefully going to the Topshop sale, i will hopefully buy some clothing and hopefully will get the FIRST, actually, i'll say SECOND image of me somewhat 'dressing up' or whatever you young kids are calling it these days...

This is the closest thing to me dressing up so far, since i got my hard-drive replaced ages ago all my old pictures with me dressing up have long gone im afraid. This is me with Josh, and i'm trying to hide from the camera all pointing at me wearing my friend Kelly's (not pictured) hat.

Lovefoxxx

2008-07-02T22:26:00.005+01:00

Lovefoxxx - Lead Singer of CSS.

Trying to think of someone to post about, someone not too obvious, well, she is fairly obvious depending on how you see it, but to me obvious is Alexa Chung and The Olsens. I do want to post about them, but i'd rather just read it on someone else's blog rather than repeat similar ideas... so i racked my brains and thought of her......

I love love looooooooove her. At first, i thought she was overhyped so i paid no attention to her, then CSS grew on me.. and Lovefoxxx did especially.... why wouldnt she?

Here are more pictures.

Pop Magazine, 2007.

Fringing:Glastonbury 2007: Rocking the rainbow sparkle and headband. Alphabet dress: Soooo cute.

Drawn on glasses? Tick. With the guy you love? Tick.

Taken these images from Flickr.

She's wicked. I love how she's just dresses.... different. And that she has fairly faint eyebrows. But i guess thats partially an asian thing.

Stupid mumbles

2008-06-28T13:16:00.008+01:00

Blogger is being weird. Its that 'Edit Html' and 'Compose' bit that is confusing me. Like when its on the Edit Html you wont be able to change your font and font size via the little button or drop down list, though you can on the Compose bit. My laptop has now changed it to Edit Html everytime i go to 'post' - it usually turns into a shitty draft that i'll delete -

BUT ANYWAY.

Ive tried to blog something in the past few days that ive not posted anything. But the blogs will usually turn out shitty hence the draft, then it'll get deleted. I want to post fashiony pics, but i want to do posts on someone interesting and not too obvious of a style/fashion icon. I dont tend to take pictures of my own style/outfit because its kinda crap and pictures are not flattering! There are not a lot of photos of myself on this blog. There really isnt. So here is a polaroid image/s of me and a friend that i took on monday. He's keeping the one on the left. He's from Portugal and is leaving next tuesday!!!! He's leaving for the majority of summer, but will hopefully be back in time for my birthday. I just realised earlier that its on a SUNDAY not the saturday that i thought it was. Great, one day further. Maybe i'll go to a club or something... it'll be cooooool.

He's like my little brother. My little foreign brother. We layed on the floor to do this. With my NYLON magazine. We are sooooo weird. He'll be on the runways of London/Paris Fashion Week one day. I actually did a post dedicated to him actually...... CLICK ME FOR THE LINK.

Im going to shut the fuck up now and have a shower. Went to a lovely mini BBQ earlier were i got partcially sexually harrassed and unsuccessfully persuaded to go clubbing...

Going to watch 'Across the Universe'.

I love The Beatles.

Music Video

2008-06-25T22:43:00.004+01:00

I love this song,

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Audio Bullys - Gimme That Punk.

I hope it works now.

Chanel S/S 2008

2008-06-23T21:05:00.007+01:00

Uh huh. Thats what the post is about today.

I tend to do a lot of random un-fashion posts so here is the second of many many many to come! - Get myself ready as being COMPLETELY fashion obsessed Fashion (Design/Styling/Promotion) Student come September. Plus this is meant to be a Art/Fashion/Random-ness blog, the former and last are the ones the posts on this blog tend to be about, so i owe it to you that i have fashion images and fashion-ness.

Paris-Londres 2008

I love this collection. Chanel is one of the few designers that i can find few faults with - Karl is a legend. I think the Amy Winehouse inspired hair also helps, but the outfits alone are just amazing.

Oh, and it was Karl's first London show! Ooh.

Images taken from here:

I love love love the collection, especially these 5 pics (and a few others because blogger only lets you upload 5 at a time and there is about 7 more i love love, but 7 images in a row (with no writing in between) is a bit too much. ).

The purple one - just because its in purple!!! It reminds me of a russian doll.
The grey pops out quite a bit and the little bag is so cute!
Daisy Lowe.
Fuzzy puffball.
Devon Aoki - im going to do a seperate post on her.

Buying stufffff.

2008-06-23T01:33:00.005+01:00

Action Lomo Sampler.
I dont know if i'll get it in that exact colour but it would be fookin' cool to get it!!!!

I've always lusted after one of these babies for at least a few months now but i kinda put the idea on hold when i had the art project, but now its over, i've ordered it and am now waiting for it to arrive. It should arrive roughly wednesday/thursday. Hopefully.

As i was waiting for my friend to arrive i went around looking for some Polaroid film. I bought the film and some normal film. The film will be for my Action Lomo Cam.

If you dont know about the cam, the quick explanation is that it basically takes 4 pics at a time on the same photo, and would show a moving shot basically. Take one shot and the image you get in split in 4...

Both images can be found on Flickr by typing in 'Lomo Action Sampler'.

Im reeeally tired now, so im going to watch a few more minutes of my tapes Heroes and then shower and sleep.

Night.

Baaack.

2008-06-23T00:47:00.005+01:00

Indeedy i am. Hence this new post.

Its taken me a while to post as i dont really know what to say.

My Foundation course has finished!!!! I finished the dolls - i made one of everyone in my class - and my sketchbook, well, i rushed it and wish i had a few more days to finish it. But hopefully it'll be ok. There's always that referral but i dont really want to be referred. Today is monday as im writing this so in about 8hours all the tutors will start marking everyone's work... i wont hear until at least thursday if i passed or not. If i dont hear anything from my tutor on thursday/friday then that means i have at least a pass, but if i do, then i'll be referred.

My exhibition is 2nd-5th July at West Kent College in Tonbridge, if any readers or passers by read this post and are somewhat near and able to come see it, please do. The 1st is the Private View which i cant wait for!

I saw the Sex and the City film earlier..

And i just found out the girl who plays Lily York Goldenblatt (Charlotte's adopted daughter) is played by TWINS!!!! I love them! They are just SOOOO damn cute!

The film.. im not going to talk about the plot incase some people havent seen it so i dont want to spoil it for them, but it wasnt as good as i thought it would be!!!! I think it was knowing that it was the movie and not an episode so i was expecting it end all happily as it was the movie - which apparently there is talks of a sequel!!!!!?!!???!!?!! The part about Samantha... :O and the Charlotte thing, you know what im on about, that was SOOOOOOO funny. But i would give it a 9/10 if i was rating the film. I cant hate it, i love the SATC girls and most things they do.

I received the Moleskine notebook i ordered. I received it on friday, but i was fairly disappointed, i was expecting the same normal paper quality im used to and not the thick-ish paper, plus it was a bit smaller than expected too. Im considering buying a slightly bigger one, the size was my main problem.

Wow, im nearly falling asleep as im typing!

(Radio)

2008-06-18T12:04:00.003+01:00

(Im not meant to be posting, but i was on the radio!!!!!! I wanted to share this with everyone. I was on XFM 104.9 if you ask, and the DJ man Rick Shaw had this mini comp. of giving out some flag for someone who had done something/an achievement they were proud of in the past 7days, I texted in, talked about my dolls - making them in 2-3ish days, getting just about no sleep, then i got the call! But it wasnt live! The call was slightly edited but i dont mind i was in SHOCK, and i managed to record myself on the radio. I sound so weird. Not as dudey as i'd thought but deffo not a girly voice. YAY. I was on the radio! Ive made the dolls, now i need to add hair and paint clothes on and then sketchbook. I need to go dry my hair now im meant to be leaving soon to go my to my friend's so she can help.

I made an XFM appreciation group for the DJ, it's called XFM's Rick Shaw and his Well Done flags appreciation group - both links are same. Listen online or normal FM or DAB - shameless promotion indeed. Its a facebook group, he's on 9am-1pm. Join my group or something please, im the only member!

Anyway, new post on friday!)

Warning.

2008-06-16T21:43:00.003+01:00

(Insert song by Green Day yourself because i cant remember the lyrics)

Just to say that i probs wont be updating my blog until at least friday night. My project, oh god, its due in friday 3pm and my dolls that im making are not going well, i plan to make about 20odd by tonight - my tutor (and most of the people who know im making dolls, just raggy cloth dolls, nothing special) keep asking me how they're coming along. To my friends i tell the truth - the progress is bad, but to my tutor its like 'Oh yeah, they're coming along.. ok.. i guess..' that kinda response. I was thinking earlier what my tutor must think i get up to when im at home.. i dont do a lot to be honest, watch tv, do some work, go online, facebook, check out blogs and eat. Plus i dont get home until around 6-7ish which doesnt usually help. I only got 2hours sleep last night and got a 40minute nap earlier. I plan to do the same tonight - more late nights until the project is handed in. I have to make 30odd dolls in total, hopefully 20 tonight - if i can find all the fabric and get them finished tomorrow - the 20ish dolls at least, tomorrow night is focused on sketchbook, wednesday going round my friend's so she can help, and then sketchbook the rest until friday 3pm.

Although i wont be posting anything new, i'll still probs be checking out the usual blogs and the occassional comment of come friday and you'll get a bunch of comments from me.

Ok, off now.

Brap brap.

Bedcovers

2008-06-16T21:34:00.004+01:00

This will be a partially rushed post so i do apologise in advance but i have been meaning to do this post for a while now.

Dedicated to the tea drinking english rose because she has friggin lovely taste in bedcovers, here is one my two sets of sheets.

Ive had these sheet since i was about.. roughly 7-8? So thats a good 10, nearly 11years now. I would post pictures of the other set i own, but im in a rush and my camera takes at least 15-20minutes just to upload pictures i dont see no point of it right now. Or in the up-coming days. Even uploading pictures to upload here via blogger is taking ages.

I think i had pillow cases to go with this duvetcover - Pongo? - but i havent seen them for a good couple of years so maybe during the weekend i might go have a look around...

It can be kinda embarrasing when people come round, although no-one says anything, i know they're thinking 'why does she have 101 Dalmation covers?'

Moleskine

2008-06-15T02:20:00.004+01:00

I was planning on a post about some sort of clothing outfit i was planning to buy once they hit the sales, but Topshop has already been done - and my letter of complaint to get the free stuff needs to be written, and H&M doesnt do that online ordering thing, there arent many shops i shop at that have online shops so i decided to have a look for more Moleskine journals.

Ive already got about 4 books ready in my basket on Amazon, just waiting for a small delivery of money on tuesday (i think, should things go my way) and they will be ready to be a 'confirm order' and ive already ordered one off Play.com. But ive found another website that does them. By now, im starting to think they're all roughly the same price, but im trying to avoid the actual Moleskine website and go to other sites, dont ask why, but going to different websites NOT Moleskine's, each site offers different selections of the journals/diaries/planners, so this is another reasont to justify why the fuck im doing this :)

I do apologize for the *ahem* bad language, but in real life, i do swear like a pikey. This blog, ive kept the swearing to a very low percentage.

Im fairly obsessed on this Moleskine journal buying thing. Ive already got 10 sketchbooks ready for Uni in sept. Its crazy. I have to stop going into Cass Art. My next obsession was Polaroids - i have 5 'spare' packs, and now this Moleskin, if, everything goes to 'plan', i will have 5. Possibly more.

If you think this is bad, i own 10 pairs of Converses and i only started buying them in 2002. Ok, 6 years and only 10 pairs, but last year when i went Hong Kong, in ONE 2 week trip, i bought 4 pairs.

I really want some Pigma pens too. That calls for a trip to Cass Art though... I was planning to go London next saturday, but i cant remember why. I was thinking of it earlier, go to London to do something, it wasnt go to Borders like i usually do... Could it be Cass Art? Ok, i will shut up about these soon, but i think it was about the Pigma pens i was going to go London for. Its kinda one of the downfalls of living so close there, its just a train away.

I think i need to stop going on flickr so much too.

I promise the next post is bedcovers based.

My heart melts.

2008-06-13T23:12:00.008+01:00

This isnt the suprise post that everyone should brace themselves for, but i HAD to put this little one in.

jr__nal

Moleskine on flickr

I just discovered Moleskine - the link is for the UK, but obvs. for those in the US, just add .us to the end.

Ive always loved graphicsy/illustration things. Even though i'll be doing fashion design/promo. course come september, im a illustrator/visual imaginator at heart. Though my illustrations are not the best nor consistant. I do better with drawing random things when the time feels right. Which reminds me that i need to update my flickr and deviantART.

Since i was about 7-8, ive kept diaries/journals. I dont religiously write in them all the time - thats when i did keep them, i havent kept one this year, mainly due to college 'commitments', but now its (soon to be) summer, great time to keep one.

So these Moleskin books looks really nice, especially when you see them in this kinda style...

Yes, i do tend to get a lot of pictures via flickr too.

Moleskin sketch 026
When Will It Be Larger Than The Pocket Moleskin?
My internet is being pissy and not letting 'display' flickr anymore - its probably a sign, so i'll just leave at these two pics. I have roughly £6 something in my bank.. i think im going to buy one of these babies despite my low funds. They are soo cute. I'll pop into WHSmith, Sussex Stationers and Paperchase tmoro too to have a look around. I have overdue library books. I dont want to be fined! I cant afford it! I bought two packs of Polaroids today.

It was also the last day of my Foundation course :( we got the studio all cleared out - i never realised how much CRAP my little tiny space had, so much paint - but afterwards we went to 'Spoons (Wetherspoons) and i go to take some good ol' Polaroids. This is mainly for my project and the exhibition coming soon. I cant figure out how i want my space to look like, all i know is im having two white boards and two shelves holding my dolls.

Anyone been watching the new Gladiators? I dont usually watch it, but just watched one episode with my bro, and the little chinese man.. He's a tiny little man and the 'Gladiators' are like twice his size, it is ever so funny. Plus they pulled his little shorts down. The embarrasment.

Late night blogging. becomes Late night rambling.

2008-06-13T01:22:00.005+01:00

I should really go to sleep.

Its either the early morning or late night re-checking of blogs.

I would like to share this with you all.

I read a LOT of blogs. Roughly (scamming through my 'favourites') 15-odd so blogs. The content of the blogs vary - did i spell that right? - mostly fashion, and from time to time there are what the blogger - usually the bloggette will talk about a 'girl crush'. This is not a 'girl crush', oh no, this is a I-dont-even-fancy-girls,-but-her-hair-is-so-cool-I-'would'. And by would is to make her my trophy 'wife'. And by 'trophy wife' is parade her around showing her off, i wouldnt even touch her, we'd have an open relationship of course :)

This is a hair crush. Her hair. Just SOOOOOO cool.

For those who dont know who she is, she is Katherine Moennig from The L Word. Her hair, seriously, wow. These were the most decent pictures of her i found off google.

There has been a time where ive seen her hair look bad. Not like 'bad hair day' bad, like 'i cant even look past this, why are you doing this to yourself, what was your hairdresser thinking?!?!?'

I cant a picture, but has anyone seen the film 'Art School Confidential'? If not, please. Do NOT buy this film. Dont bother renting it. Or buying it on pirate. I will GIVE you my copy, but to be honest i dont want to give you the pain of owning the copy and having to watch it and seeing it for the CRAP it is. Thats a personal review. I couldnt even get through HALF the film. I only bought this film for two reasons,

Because Katherine Moennig was in it, thats how i found out about this film and
The name says it all, Art School. The film is so bad. Ive generally BLOCKED out my feelings and memories of watching this film. Its cheesy and involves Sophia Myles being a life drawing model.

Katherine.M i think has a mullet in this film. It was so bad i was embarrased for her. Im glad i didnt buy the accompanying book that came with this film.

My Appletizer isnt tasting right. It doesnt have enough apple-y taste. I really should start complaining. Get some free complimentory stuff. Topshop would be on the top of my list.

My next post will be on my bedcover i promise. Prepare yourself.

Filler post.

2008-06-12T19:46:00.002+01:00

Here are some random polaroids ive been taking recently...

Even though it looked like this outside...

It looks a lot darker in real life - the polaroid i mean. The sky a bluey green and the yellow much more yellow than the photo. Or in the photo i took of the sky.

Another post late tonight.

Midnight Snackings

Paris 2010 (Part 1 - day 1 and 2)

Paris playlist - 2010

Paris list

I come out of nowhere bearing information...

Sketchook magazine's first Pop-Up exhibition!!!

Alexander McQueen

Calvin Klein clothing campaigns

Just because I'm barely posting anymore...

For any writers who are NY or will be NY based for Fashion Week

The post that would wrap up 2009 into 2010..

2010

Pop Life at the Tate Modern

In nearly a month.

My sense of time is lacking.

Owls

Diana Mini

I watched this alone.

Dr Martens

Twisted Princess

Change of name

New York, New York

Just to get this rolling..

Off-hiatus

Video post

On unofficial hiatus.

What have I been doing this summer...

One week until Paris..

Not yet my 100th post..

8 Things....

Location, location, location.

How To Be

*Lots of swearing*

If i had actually posted when i said i would...

Where The Wild Things Are

It's been a long time coming.

Styling Shoot

I AM HERE!

Flickr and Weeds.

Biro illustrations

Bad laptop.

Boo.

Random Things.

Films

Im starting to run out of titles...

Just briefly...

Twilight

Herro

Things to do.

Oh shizz.

Lula Issue#7

Just hanging around.

Michael

Harry Potter

Mary-Kate Olsen

Oh wow.

Alas

Interesting/boring things about me

Handwritten

Filler post2.

T-shirts

Zac Posen 08

Awardy

Mosaics

French films

Movies.

Lovefoxxx

Stupid *mumbles*

Music Video

Chanel S/S 2008

Buying stufffff.

Baaack.

(Radio)

Warning.

Bedcovers

Moleskine

My heart melts.

Late night blogging. becomes Late night rambling.

Filler post.

Lots of swearing

Stupid mumbles