To come to terms with the fact I'll be hitting a whole quarter of a century next year, I thought I'd make a special effort to document it - I guess even more than usual along with everything else. I did almost manage to do one once before but didn't quite make it, I think sharing it on a monthly basis will allow me to keep up with it a little better.
I feel with practice it can only help to improve my photography further and really like photo challenges, whether it's my Photo An Hours or The FMS Photo A Day, I like the idea of having set parameters and guidance sometimes and even though there's not particular theme with this Project 365, I'm looking forward to carrying on with it as I have been.
So, yesterday I took my first trip to the big Westfields in Shepherds Bush, I don't think I ever want to go back there again, it is far too huge. I have a new appreciation for quiet Primarks though, I finally found some pink tea towels to match our pink kitchen, I'm very pleased. I think the amount of pink things I've accumulated is few enough that I don't look like a mad person, but enough that you can kind of get the idea.
I did what I guess would be considered an outfit post on my 365 today. I feel like I should be wrapping up, what happened to the summer? I do hope that September is warm, or at least that it's a bit warmer further south.
I discovered this this afternoon, being a big fan of the original, I was a bit skeptical, but I've since found out that Chloe Moretz (Hitgirl from Kickass) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Boy from The Road) will be taking on the roles of Abby and Owen (the renamed Eli and Oscar). So I'm a bit more optimistic, and although the trailer doesn't give too much away, from what I can take out they've stayed true to a few familiar scenes, so I'm actually quite looking forward to seeing it. It's quite a while (at least it feels like that now), until Hallowe'en weekend, but I'm sure it will fly by.
This is a photo of a Snog that I got in Westfields yesterday, it was pretty tasty, but it was one of those things you can definitely make at home, and it probably would be identical to what their selling, so I'm not in too much of a hurry to get another one.
I've been deceptively lazy today, but I've done a lot, I found out that my duvet is double and everything, which means I can buy some pretty new sheets. My laziness is down to being too full of dimsum, but my accidental two-hour nap didn't cause too much damage.
I really like 5/7 of my Project 365 this week, the two that I don't like really aren't very good.
As it's wet and horrible today, I think I'll stay in with Big Love, again. I hope the weather brightens up again soon, or snows, either would make me happy.
Haven't posted in a while, plan on updating soon, but haven't had many opportunities to take photos over the Easter holidays due to a horrible work load. It's the last term of my second year(!) I have a photoshoot coming up next week for Andy, he'll be using my work in a brochure he's doing for his coursework, it's unpaid and a bit of extra work, but people will see it, even if they're not majorly important, it's a starting point.
I've not got anything of real worth to show you, this is a cake my cousin made for another cousin's baby naming party, she's into cakes now, alongside being a personal trainer, ex-restaurant manager and thinking about kids. I was kind of hoping it wouldn't be nice and was secretly annoyed when it was.
I didn't really take many photos at this event, my sister took a hold of my camera, I was too busy looking after Moon as it was the first time he was meeting the Chinese half of my family.
I promise my 'future self' that I'll do something interesting soon. In the mean time my Project 365 has been chugging along nicely.
I'm re-jigging my website, it would look more up to scratch, but I don't think MrSite can keep up with the rate I am updating everything, so I'm leaving it for tonight, one page has got photos on, so if you've got the time and it's sorted it out by then, you could get lucky.
I managed to finally drag myself to the Eldon building - which isn't even far - and sort out my contribution to the Photo Exchange project. It's a great idea, I was slightly disheartened when I noticed that hardly anything had changed since I saw it last week, but maybe it's because no one has really been in. I exchanged these,
It's probably fairly obvious why I chose the second one, someone has to love all these abandoned beds and mattresses. My pinned up images can be seen here as part of my 365 project. Now I wait and hope someone picks my work.
While in the Eldon building I also decided to take a look at the Dark Forest by the BA(Hons) Fine Art students, it was ok, they were all different responses to the idea of 'dark forests' and global warming. This is the only piece that really interested me,
I'm not really sure why, the smell was surprisingly over-powering, although I suppose aesthetically it's quite an interesting piece, it makes you wonder how much thought and effort went into it when you consider some of the other work surrounding it. I'll level with you, I only really liked the fluorescent light.
This is currently on display in the Eldon building too, I'd quite like it for my own, it's beautiful, it looks like it's made from nail polish. It is for sale, but it's £30 per square, and one square would be rubbish.
'Collection 100', from the series, 'Janus' - Michelle Jeanette Littlewood (2010)
Other than taking photographs of other people's art, I also took this,
I guess they're a bit of a luxury in some ways. Now I have, there seem to be a few new movies that I'd really love to see. Nowhere Boy. The Lovely Bones. Spread. Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire - may watch this in a minute, it's probably a bit wrong that I only want to see it because the main character is a proper tank, but it does actually look like it has a really gritty storyline too. Might be a bit ghetto in parts though.
Finished the case studies for my Exhibition RDB, I have to get down to real research tomorrow. What I really wanted to do was go shopping but, I don't think the weather will permit that.
Here are some photos of when people came over for drinks last night, I'm not really too sure what happened, but I think that is usual, I would have used one of these as part of 365 but it was either too later or early, not quite midnight, I reckon that's actually a bit shameful overall.
These two didn't make it to 365 yesterday & today. Here is my rearranged room.
I hope you are enjoying the nice carpet as much as I do.
Here is a bubble that Moon found on a piece of chicken while we were wrapping up everything to put in the freezer. It's pretty horrible, the feathers are also quite gross.
I have created a separate blog for it so it doesn't get cluttered with other work and days out. And it means I will definitely only put one up at a time. Click here to take a look. I'm into continuity like crazy now, I'm working on making my website similar to this as well, although with no teal, because that's probably unprofessional or something, apparently anything that isn't black, white or plain looks messy. My website won't be touched until everything is handed in though, which is a pain because I wanted to show it off for the exhibition.
I am back in Portsmouth until Easter now, although there is talk about going back for a family party at the end of January, I hope my head is in the right place by then. My loan came in today and I am very pleased because it's the first time that I've just paid off my credit card and not had to want for anything else, although I am spying on some boots and did just spend £83 on my exhibition image - but that completely doesn't count.
Thinking about starting a 365 project. Watch this space. I think it would be good for my portfolio as well as help me get better at just selecting one image at a time. Although I'll still be carrying on with the same style of blogging I'm doing now, just with intermissions of 365.
This is mainly due to the fact that I see so many others selecting just one piece of work for something, and I am uploading tons, when it's not even like I think any of it is even particularly good.
I'm taking inspiration from Flickr user, Ansy, who I recently looked at again. Hers are far more staged and creative that mine will be. But I figured what with yammering on about how good 2010 is going to be and the fact that it's only just started, it would be great to try and document it day by day.
It will probably be hard at first, but I'll get the hang of it eventually, and try and build it into my routine. We'll see how Day One goes tomorrow. It's the big move back down to Portsmouth. I should probably get some shut-eye. Moon's Dad is calling for me at half-past nine - I'm not leaving for Portsmouth until the afternoon though.
UPDATE: Just realised that Blogger allows for multiple blogs per user, could create a separate one for 365.
