An 8 year old boy's poem

HAMSTERS ARE EVIL!

Attua Aparicio Torinos Mugs

I really want one of these! http://www.thorstenvanelten.com/products/?category_id=8&product_id=243

Iconic Banksy mural is painted over in error

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1680504.ece

I thought this dissapeared a while ago?

Hot Dog Aquarium

http://www.pbase.com/josefiend/crab

Meaty Treats!

Rodriguez/Tarantino Double Bill

The Rodriguez/Tarantino "Planet Terror/Death Proof" double bill is excellent, critic say......

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/03/grindhouse_is_brilliant_brilli.html

Dark Lord of the Sky

Benoit Lambert -- member of the Belgian 501st Legion FanWars Garrison -- takes over the skies in his amazing Darth Vader hot air balloon
http://starwars.com/community/event/celebration/news20070417b.html

So Twitter can actually be useful

http://trisignia.com/2007/04/17/twitter-and-the-virginia-tech-emergency/

Miranda July's low-tech book promo site

Miranda July made a promotion site for her book, 'No One Belongs Here More Than You', by writing on her stove top with a dry-erase marker and taking a bunch of snapshots. It's brilliant!

http://www.noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

A Silver Mt. Zion

Could've moved mountains...

Pan's Labyrinth

Lastnight Rhys and I went to see Pan's Labyrinth at the cinema. It was only showing for one night and so many people had said how good it was so we thought we'd check it out.
It is no suprise that it has won so many awards as it is just brilliant. A dark, disturbing yet beautiful film that combines fairy-tale fantasy with the horror of war.

Switched on London

This weekend, Rhys and I are going for a little adventure round London and we will deffinitely be taking a look at the new 'Switched on London' exhibition.

These computer generated pictures here show what some of London's riverside landmarks will look like lit up using the latest technology.

The Landmarks along the Thames that will be illuminated will include - HMS Belfast, City Hall, the Tower of London, London Bridge and Tower Bridge

They will be lit up from 4pm to midnight each day until 16 February using environmentally friendly low-energy lights, meaning the cost of powering the week-long spectacular is just £20.

The Guggenheim

The Guggenheim was by far the best part of the trip. I really liked Jenny Holzer's 'Installaion for Bilbao, 1997' which consisted of nine double sided LCD columns. The messages convayed themes of intamacy, deception, loss, and death and runs in Basque, Spanish and English. Although this photo doesn't do it justice at all.

Another peice I really liked was Richard Serra's 'The Matter of Time' which is a huge permanent installation there. It consists of eight bent steel sculptures that swirl and glide together, creating spaces while imposing upon the space they are in. The sculptures invite the viewer to become participant: to explore around them, to find the spaces within, to play with sound, to stop and start at any point, to move at any speed. Because of its mazelike structure, this installation leaves a different impression on every person that passes though.

But my favourite exhibition by far was Gerhard Richter's 'Atlas'.

The Atlas is Gerhard Richter’s ongoing encyclopedic work. It is comprised of approximately 4,000 images, reproductions or cut-out details of photographs and illustrations, grouped together on over 600 separate panels. The Panels contained all sorts of subjects from landscapes to people and pornography to holocaust victims.

This exhibition really inspired me. Take a look on his website at some of the work in The Atlas - http://www.gerhard-richter.com/art/results_atlas.php?ss=1

Bilbao, Spain

Here are some photos I took in Bilbao, Spain on the college trip. The rest are here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jayneeeee/

Toys

In the last 2 weeks I have bought myself these two lovely little toys. A pink nintendo ds lite and a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens for my DSLR. I'm yet to play with either but they will deffinitley be a lot of fun!

In his silent sound was the peace I found.

"MeWithoutYou do a one-off headline on February 14 at London Water Rats"

This was announced today and I have already bought tickets!

I'm so excited, a headline show!!! On Valentine's Day aswell <3

Fishy London

Today I scanned some negatives onto the computer. These are from a day out in London with Rhys. He took all of these with my Lomo Fisheye camera while I used my DSLR. We discovered the flash didn't work but besides that it produced some good results for a first effort. It might take a few attempts to get used to as the viewfinder is obstructed by the lens so it's point and shoot and hope for the best really.

This is my favourite photo above.

This are the first photographs I took using the fisheye camera to test it out

Rainbow Pencils