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...

553.

In other news;
I'm very scared about graduating and not having a job. I'm currently psyching myself up for a couple of really neat-sounding jobs at ASOS, that I probably won't get. I just want to be normal and settled, and to not live at home forever.
I've had no replies from any jobs, aside from one that wouldn't have me because I couldn't drive, which is yet another thing that I need to get myself in gear to do.

Tomorrow, I'm going to work on sorting out my 'new' bedroom so I can have more of a work-space and be able to focus slightly more should anything important come up. I haven't actually ever lived in this house because we moved here while I was in the middle of university, so I've nearly always been living out of a suitcase whenever I've stayed here. It's quite odd to have everything packed away.
In terms of personal projects I'm also going to begin work on my Glastonbury documentary tomorrow, there are so many cool clips to sift through, generally I just can't wait to share it with my friends, although I'm also using it as something to feel as though I am keeping myself occupied too.

I seem to have suddenly had an influx of followers on Twitter, not an 'impressive' amount but enough for me to feel as though someone may actually be listening to me. All this spare time has been alright though, I won a couple of pairs of tickets to the iTunes Festival (yes, it is an annual thing for me now). I didn't go to Seasick Steve tonight though and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the Manic Street Preachers/Dry the River tickets that I passed on to Moon's brother and his girlfriend will work for them. I'm not a massive fan of either and I was stupid and hadn't considered how last minute the competition was, I won them on Friday afternoon... I really to hope I win tickets to see Ed Sheeran again though, I'm not sure how desperate I am about seeing anybody else.

I haven't really got much else to say other than continue to pine for a job, but consider this my entrance back into the 'world of blogging', now when I say I maintain my blog, it can actually be true!

Here is a video from this afternoon:

550; 35mm Photos.

So, I got my Glastonbury film processed this afternoon. I took half a roll in my SLR, not knowing what was on it already and another roll that I shot over the course of Sunday.
To my surprise there were photos from as long ago as Paris! There are also a few from mine and Moon's terrible visit to Wagamamas. Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with how the Glastonbury (I promise that I'll stop talking about it soon!) images came out, they definitely make me want to start using more 35mm again — although I say this nearly every time I get a roll processed and it barely ever happens, and I seem to have run out of my never-ending supply of colour film now anyway.

So, while I'm waiting for Moon to get here before we go out with some friends for a curry, I figured that I would share these with you because I quite like them.
Paris:


Wagamamas, Portsmouth:

Glastonbury 2011, Sunday:

Ok Go

Ricky Wilson, Kaiser Chiefs, The Other Stage.

Bins by stall selling Glastonbury Spring Water.

Beyoncé, Pyramid Stage

I feel that I must mention that I am slightly disgruntled over what I paid for these to be developed at Boots. Firstly, they were charging an extra £2 for a CD, which I bought because it makes things easier, and secondly, it would have £5.99 per roll for 6x4 images anyway, which seems quite steep considering they have the facilities and you can buy so much film for that amount nowadays. I might also add that Asda throw in a CD as an extra for free, which kind of adds to the sting a bit.

Glasto2k11 Photos.

So it's taking ages to upload the photos onto Facebook but for some reason the ones I've put onto Flickr were done hours ago. So here is my mandatory 'here are my photos from Glastonbury' post.

Despite the fact that I only took my Canon 90IS AND the fact that it practically fell apart (thanks Dan for the electrical tape), the photos actually look a lot better than I thought they would, even if I do say so myself. I was feeling pretty pessimistic after a quick run-through in-camera but it just goes to show that you should always have a proper look on your computer when working with digital.

So, I think my previous post pretty much said all I had to say about how awesome Glastonbury was.
I feel like I want to add how much I hate NME after reading it this afternoon; why the hell does it have to be so angsty about everything, hardly anything was positive, I think it's time NME grew up. I'm not a big reader of NME anyway and usually only browse it if they're taking about something I've been to and this weeks issue fully confirms that they are just wrong. The photos are brilliant though. I'm just all about event photography at the moment anyway, particularly from Glastonbury - obviously because I've been there, but also because there's such an eclectic mix of styles from each of the photographers, it's really exciting for me.

My favourite images so far can be found as part of Boston.com's Big Picture feature, the captions are a bit hit-and-miss, I think it's because it's American, but the photo selection is brilliant and I love the size and layout of the page. I love that each year usually has a couple kissing as well, nice.

© Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

I saw this man, it was pretty awesome initially but from behind, the manufacturing was much less impressive

© Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

© Matt Cardy/Getty Images

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Here's a panorama from Sidmouth, which we visited enroute to Bodmin.

Post-Glasto Laze.

We made good time today.

The 'film' has taken up most of my 8GB memory card. I'll start editing and whittling when I get back to Surrey on Wednesday I think. I also managed to shoot some film.

Glastonbury was great. I was definitely lulled into a total false sense of security last year. However, despite the incredibly strange, not to mention changeable weather, overall I saw some great music and had a nice time. I think Sunday was my favourite day because there was a lot of sitting down involved. I managed to survive the mud and didn't fall over! I did however lose my welly once, which was horrible but I got rescued by a stranger pretty quickly so it wasn't too bad.
I actually hate wellies now, I hope the next festival that I get myself to doesn't involve them (there isn't another Glastonbury until 2013, and judging by the state of the farm, it doesn't surprise me). I'm glad I snapped up my snazzy calf-length starry wellies from Office for £15 though because they were pretty comfy for what they were, and despite the fact I hate them.

My favourite acts of the festival were Mumford & Sons (of course), Paolo Nutini, Kaiser Chiefs and Beyonce. Coldplay put on an amazing show in terms of visuals though and despite not knowing many Elbow songs I think they were my overall favourite for crowd interaction. I pretty much enjoyed every band that I saw the whole festival. I also saw, The Midnight Beast, Ed Sheeran - who also had a brilliant crowd and sounded beautiful, Dry the River, The Joy Formidable, TV on the Radio, Eels, Ok Go and Those Dancing Days. I also managed to catch the end of Tinie Tempah and Bombay Bicycle Club, neither of which I'm great fans of but they both seemed to sound 'CD-quality'. I also saw Robin Ince, as per annual tradition.
I didn't manage to see U2 because I was too cold and wet by that point, but that's what iPlayer is for.

I guess it's back to reality now because once Glastonbury is over, despite the hype, it's over.
Stay tuned for some photographs and videos, it may take a while though because I'm covering Malden Fortnight again this coming weekend.

(Source: Glastonbury Festivals)

I'm leaving for Glastonbury on Tuesday..

... then I'm going to Bodmin to stay at Long's for the day then we're sleeping in the carpark on Tuesday night, unless Moon realises how stupid/pointless it is and that we can just wake up early on Wednesday after a nice sleep.

I'm so excited. I'm planning on - battery permitting - making a video diary this Glastonbury, there are loads on Youtube but most of them are rubbish. I'm going to edit the hell out of mine!

I'm so excited, I have basically packed everything apart from my washbag.

I did my nails yesterday and have coated them in anti-chip 7 day etc stuff so I'm hoping that they'll last the whole thing. I love them so I hope that I won't get bored.


Anyway, I was basically just blogging you to let you know to watch this space.
Basically straight after Glastonbury, I'm covering Malden Fortnight so I hope I can turn everything around quickly. Eeep!