Cornwall.

Here's the long-awaited video from when I went to Cornwall a couple of weeks ago. I tried to make it a bit more visual than diaristic as I knew we would mainly be hanging out rather than seeing or talking about things that would be majorly exciting to anyone other than us, it's not like it was Glastonbury.

But anyway, I sat down this evening and made this, I hope you like it. I picked Tom the Lion for the music because he kept coming up on the playlist that I made for the journey down, and he is lovely.

I have a few Christmas-related posts that I'm thinking about, I'm feeling fairly 'in the spirit' now but I've yet to bust out 'The Muppets Christmas Carol'. Moon and I had a great overnight stay on the Isle of Wight at the weekend with all our university pals, it was swell. I have a couple of photos to share from that, I quite like the Isle of Wight.
Just thought I'd share this nice video with you and let you know that I'm still thinking about you.

Glastonbury 2011 Video Diary.

I'm waiting for a few of the nails that I messed up last night to dry from being re-done so now seems like as appropriate time as any to post my video diary/documentary of Glastonbury 2011. It's just that you know, I might be a bit busy later.. can't think why. I already felt bad that Twitter got the link first.

So if you have a spare 50 minutes, although I'd be perfectly happy for you to watch it in bits, I recommend you watch it. Particularly if you like me, it could be argued to be a bit self-indulgent, but you didn't make one so... Enjoy!

Glastonbury 2011 - The experience and the vibes. from Ruth Johnston on Vimeo.
Once again, if you want to be a creep and watch me graduate, you can go to this link at around 2:30 this afternoon.

Ed Sheeran meets ASOS.

Two things that I quite enjoy.

Speaking of videos, my Glastonbury video is looking to be at least an hour long at this rate, I hope I'll be able to upload it somewhere. I really like all of it, I suppose it's more personal anyway, I'd just like to be able to share it with my friends that are a bit further away from me, that's all.
When I thought about making it, I didn't think I'd get enough for more than 10 minutes, we're just arriving into Glastonbury when it gets to the 10 minute mark, so make your assumptions from that. I want to put it on Youtube, but I'm not sure I could deal with something so personal being ripped to shreds...

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.

Dressing up box.

I'd love to do a project out of this.
Maybe next semester with 'The Body' - I love dressing up!
Last night was 'OAP dress up night' @ Waster, I kind of dressed how I normally do, I don't even really buy stuff from charity shops anymore. Kind of looked like Ugly Betty before I put my hair up, that was pretty odd.
Apparently the glasses I was wearing were pretty shit-hot though, judging from the reaction that got... eugh.
Facebook album here to judge for yourself. ♥

Anyway, here are some photos I took of Moon and Long with my SLR before we went out, mainly because they had good costumes (no one else was dressed up anyway). I also wanted to test out my flash gun.

Badass.


This one is my favourite one.
I don't really like this one, but B&W was the only way to go...
Looks weird without the Redbull sign, but it was annoying.

The exhibition preparation stuff is going pretty well at the moment, I'm not too bothered that not everyone is turning up to the meetings because at least I am... I get to do the rough designs for the invitations. :)
Brief 2-wise, I've yet to start, I think I'm meant to write a proposal, I have 3 in mind.. I'll write all three, I suppose.

Things are looking better in frames at the moment.

I think it's a way of making bad things look a bit better.
Here are photographs from today, as you can see there are lots, there must be one in here that would do for the 07/08/09 project, I'm reckoning one of the queues and I can write about how annoying they are. Mind you (to me), they do work as some sort of set, maybe it's due to the continuity of the framing, but it shows the journey a little bit, might look nice in a book.

As you can see I was practicing my street photography today. Still got it, and it's much more fun with the bigger lens.




























Everything else is on my Facebook.

Money ah ah oh.

Cannot WAIT!
Editing photographs from London most likely for the rest of the day.
Unedited versions and the rest of the day are on Facebook here

Happy Three Years for yesterday..

So, seeing as we celebrated in Brighton, we did nothing yesterday apart from move things into the new house, which I need to ring the new landlord about as Gabriella gave me way, way too much stuff and it looks like we're taking the piss, even though it's all only been put in the one room of someone who isn't even living there anymore. Should probably be ringing him now..

Anyway, here are my edited images from Brighton, it took me forever to choose, and I still have over 20 here, I don't think some are as good as others, but I'm quite proud of how my editing progressed over the course of it. It's probably quite obvious which ones I started out with.
My whole photo album for Brighton can be found here
There's too many for me to put them into a specific order, but I will try..




















These were made from chocolate:

I got to eat crab ♥





As it's obvious, we went to the Sealife Centre, and it's probably quite easy to assume that my boyfriend and I love animals and looking at animals.. it's just a coincidence that we went to Marwell Zoo and an aquarium in the same week. Haha, Marwell Zoo was much better anyway. The aquarium was £2 cheaper but, we spent just over half an hour in it.. I think for the extra £2, it was nice to get a full day out of Marwell Zoo. I'm putting it in writing, Brighton Sealife Centre is dire, I discourage anyone from going there, it's teeny tiny and rapes you of your money, they don't even have massive octopi or sharks.

As I said before, it was a lovely weekend, I only wish we'd stayed there longer. I'm definitely glad that we stayed in a nice hotel as well, rather than opting for a cheapy cheap place, although budget, it still had a bit of something.

I want to live in Brighton, even though I'd be eternally poor, I'd be much happier, or be joining the hundreds of homeless people that seem to live there. Whatever the case, ha, I prefer it to Portsmouth, it was nice to get away.

On a completely different note, fans of The Maccabees should take a look at The Down The Front Sessions Myspace as it has a few nice "acoustic" - although that just means different if I'm honest - versions of tracks..

Also, I watched Human Traffic last night, it is literally an hour and half of nothing, where the hell is the arc? Or is that the point, not that it matters if it is, because it's a shit idea. Just seen that it was made in 1999, how untranslatable is that? No one is like that, ever. It's a shit, shit film. I condemn whoever recommended to me, because I don't even remember.

P.S. I recognise all the cliché images of Brighton - such as the West Pier, but it's got to be done, amirite?