Mmm.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

Best congee I've made yet, there's so much food to eat before we start packing up.

Shawtie.

So I made it.
This is an attempt at POV shooting as well as a Day-in-the-life-of storytelling, this is what I did on the 28th May 2010. I only just edited it together now. I think I might make another when I'm doing something a bit more interesting than just grabbing a sandwich and going out. Plus there are a few things I missed out from the day that I wish I'd put in. But I'm quite happy with this, I just think if I were to do it again, there are definitely things I have learnt that will make the next one better.

Furor..

This is Moon clearly enjoying his lunch;

And this is my very sweaty back after the gym, gross;

I am in a 'record everything' kind of mood today and have begun to lay down the foundations of my short film, which will give me something to finish off tomorrow. Still stay tuned...

PLANETZ.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

I think I have the hang of it. :)

0282.

I made this this afternoon and sent it to a portrait studio.
It's not a masterful attempt at graphic design but it's slightly better than any other .doc CV.

It took far to long to say not very much. It makes me realise that I don't have nearly enough experience, but it's only by applying for things that I'll gain any.

0281.

I've had my hair lopped off for the summer season. It's essentially the same hair cut but much shorter, I am not that brave. I like it though.

After getting my hair cut, I took myself to Gunwharf and went to watch Street Dance 3D, on my own, this is because I had to come to terms with the fact that no one would ever want to see it with me. I am sad that I even watched it. Not only is it now forever the first film I saw at the cinema by myself but, it was just as bad as everyone who didn't want to see it with me said it would be. It was pretty wet, but I did enjoy some of the dancing, and because that's what the film is about, I guess it did the job. I think I have come out of the film liking street dancing less, just because the characters were so lame, they were either really 'street' or posh, but I won't ruin the rest of the story. For all the criticisms I could ever give it, the film does use 3D much more effectively than Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland ever did.
As for going to the cinema by myself, it was ok.

I could have watched this for longer than I did, I don't know why they're knocking this down, it was meant to be a new gym, but that never happened.


Here's another attempt at a little planet, it's a bit better than the last one, I like the seagull, even though it doesn't completely match, as I'm still getting the hang of when to use the right photos, I think it works a bit better because it's got more 'sticking up' things. Ha.

All images, © Ruth Johnston 2010.

La.

This is my first attempt at the 'Little Planet' effect. It's not perfect by any means but I was doing it in the most simple way, plus I haven't edited out the line connecting the two ends.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

Here are a couple of panoramas from yesterday on The Common, it was a pretty relaxing afternoon, I got unsuspectingly sunburnt, on one side, but it's not too sore.


We're having a BBQ later in the garden, it's going to be hot, it was pretty windy down on the Common yesterday, which is probably why I didn't feel myself burning. Yum.

Yawn.

I'm going to make a short film, within the next few days. Stay tuned.
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More Open Road Theatre Rehearsals.

So, it's the big day today and I was summoned to photograph the Open Road Theatre's dress rehearsal before the actual performance tonight, which it turns out, I won't be photographing after all.
There was still a lot that needed to be set up when I was there and they weren't completely ready and I had to go to finish off my second year(!), but I managed to get these four which I think are quite nice. There are a few others too which I may put up when I have time but I've got to get ready to actually go and see it now.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

These were taken on my G10, I would have used my SLR but it needed charging and I thought I would be photographing tonight, but it doesn't matter, these will do for what the group needs them for hopefully and hopefully the others are good enough too.

'Nother Exhibition.

So, these are my final prints up on the walls of Eldon, and they will remain there for the next year, so anyone in Portsmouth is free to go look.

I'm quite proud of myself, and at least this is an indication that I passed, as I can think of one person whose work wasn't 'allowed' to be put up, it doesn't even look like they left her a space, so it isn't as though she just didn't turn up.

Red.

Note to self; I am a mess but my hair is a nice colour.

Oh.

Original films apparently aren't the best.
I have seen three movies over the last two days and none of them were good.
Triangle - was unnecessarily confusing, repetitive and left no explanation.
The Grudge 3 (Girl in Black) - shot on a handycam, dull, with no scares whatsoever.
The Human Centipede - the less said about that, the better, I actually feel sick that we sat all the way through it. It's the worst film I've ever seen, in terms of concept and message - in that it has literally none apart from an underlying preachy one from the clearly disturbed writer, Tom Six. I do not care if this is meant to be a horror or a dark comedy, it's actually disgusting.

I have finished all my work for this semester, now I have to find some things to do with myself.
I think I'll sort and tidy when I've handed everything in.
We still don't have anywhere to live next term, which is a little bit worrying, but, there is still enough time and, like I said, I have nothing to do now anyway. The fact it's a bit worrying means that the unbelievably nice house we saw yesterday is even more disappointing, we would have had to move in now and pay over the summer, something we cannot do. Sigh, it was so wonderful and cheap.

Enjoy this. Back soon.
This blog is a year old next week. I'm pretty happy that I've kept it up.

Dissertation Proposal.

2:1, I am happy enough with this.
I'm glad to have been advised not to write it over the summer as well, just a plan, I can handle a 'plan'.

So very nearly finished with all my work for this semester and have confirmed that I definitely have no Project Report to do, which I feel takes away a bit of the academic aspect of the unit, but I'm happy to have 2,000 words less to write. I think if Daniel has eliminated all Project Reports that I will be sad to tell people who think my course isn't 'proper', at least before I could say, "Yeah, well, on top of doing all my other work I have to evaluate it in 2,000 at the end", now, at least for this unit, I cannot. I'm sick of defending my course anyway, I know how hard I work.

I have voted already, I'm quite excited to see the result tonight, I'm unsure whether to choose BBC One or Channel 4, it's obvious which one will be more funny and entertaining.

Blap, finished.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

So, I had a tutorial this morning, and changed a few things, my idea seemed to go down well enough so I was happy enough to make a few adjustments and it's not like they took long.
I also finally found a good quality copy of the advert that I was going to use, which is a relief because I'm printing now and the scanned version just wasn't coming up well at all, no one mentioned it in the tutorial, but it was something I was unhappy with anyway.
These are my final images, no more adjustments needed, with just a small amount of my RDB and mounting left to do and an easy target of Monday to get it all done by, I feel pretty good.

272.

Check out this sweet panoramic of my room.

I finally have my programme working again, it was a bit shakey with CS5 and a grew impatient. Really, it was only shakey because I was doing about a million things at once whilst trying to do that, but I made it using my other programme instead.
I can't wait to be done with my University work so I can finally play around with CS5, it seems a bit more stable than CS4 so far, but I've still got the two of them.

Moon and I went to Brighton yesterday for a walk round and a bit of relaxation time before he dives into the exam period, I'm so glad we did this. Feels like the first bit of actual 'couple time' that we've had in a while, everything was getting a bit stressful, I feel much better now.
The seagulls in Brighton are nuclear.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

I'm off to print out my final spread in a bit, I feel so anxious that it's not really what the course wants, I mean it's about body-image, but it didn't need to be, and even though it's the first time I've used the studio properly on my own, it's not particularly adventurous. I have a tutorial tomorrow, and that makes me very sad, it's less than a week until the deadline and if they don't like it and even if I only get 40%, I still have to put it in the exhibition, like a twat.

'Phwoarrr!~

Open Road Theatre
Yep. ♥

Reworked font colour.

..and size.
These details are of so little importance to both me and whoever is looking at this, that it almost seems pointless. Essentially, these three JPGs are the same as the ones below, but, I do think these look a bit better and hopefully it is something that Daniel will pick up on, especially as I'll be using black foam board rather than the oddly specified white.
Let it be noted I've tried to use as true fonts as possible as well.
I think this could be my final work. To the printers - on Tuesday.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

I have been left almost completely alone this evening, and after I finished up this (a task which took me the duration of Eastenders), rather than spend my time wisely working on my RDB, I was on the phone.
First to my Gran for nearly an hour, and then to my sister for two hours, ridiculous. However, I have had quite a busy day, so apart from the InDesign tweaking I probably wouldn't have been bothered to do much else anyway. It does bother me that I will still have the same pile of RDB work to do over the weekend, but if it's going to be as wet and rainy as they say - fingers crossed not for Monday - then I may as well make use of less distracting time indoors.

The band pitch went well, but I didn't get it, I think I've learnt from it though, hey ho.
I need to learn to think a bit more and worry a bit less.