um.. balls? well. today im currently running in between flat and new place with parents. although the flat has rather a lot of issues, i never really minded much. its a great place to live and work and at a great price too. the new place.. well well. i think it deserves a blog catagory of its own soon. we spent a few hours trying to get the water to work. ive made enough 08 number calls to last a decade atleast. will be taking bets on the price of my phonebill. we have no gas. as in no central heating. there is low water pressure. what does this mean you ask. um. well. in this particular scenario no water upstairs. as in no water for bath. as in no flush for toilet. mmm nice. mm.. no cooker. and no washing machine. yep i’ll be boiling frozen peas in my kettle from now on and tackling supermarket pizza with hairdryer in hand. just kidding. don’t really eat pizza much. it might be a good time to learn how to bake bread in a rice cooker. hmm thats about it. no internet and no phone line also. which means my computer will all of a sudden get a lot less interesting. ahh and walking around a few rooms equals little match girl sooty feet. boo. well back to work.
Archive for April, 2009
yarrrhhh the sunlight! it buuurnns!
yeah thank goodness we have some sun. busy busy lately. backlog of work. moving house. backlog of packaging.. turns out i have 9 toothbrushes in the flat. three are mine but the other six? hmm .. moving tomorrow. class on tuesday. returning keys wednesday. diaphragm relax, thorax volume decreasing, pressure increasing, forcing air out. exhale.
hey pork chop!
Published April 25, 2009 BBC and cultural identity , general going ons , hohoho oddness , vid links Leave a Comment
For those who are wondering where my ringtone is from. the little boy pig on the right is my role model.
Just a little something i dug up after rumaging around badly named files. untitled-2.jpg asdf.jpg in various numbers and forms. Before i left for swansea I went on a little trip to the natural history museum and came across these amazing little things. Incredibily perfect repeating units making a beautiful structural, functional patterns. aka ruffles, why not. this just really makes me want to go buy yards and yards of lace and netting and just go crazy stitching ruffles goodness knows what for. they might make fairly decent neck scarfish ornaments. apologies for the noise/cctv screencapture wannabes, my camera really really struggles in low light. enjoy anywho!
representations.
Published April 22, 2009 chinese related stuff , design , film , inspiration , vid links 1 Comment
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ive been meaning to post about this for quite sometime. stills from THE BANQUET. a chinese film based loosely on Hamlet. visually its a stunning film the colour palette of scenes are beautiful, looking regal without overdosing on the shiny metallics like in Curse of the golden flower, (a terrible film in quite a few aspects in my oppinion). the fight scenes and the way the film is filmed also adds a different quality, and nothing in particular feels too cliched or predictable, the whole film just flows very elegantly.
Ru guo ai (Perhaps Love)
At the core a love based film that is set in an environment that seems very disjointed with the world in general. It has some vague similarities to Moulin Rouge and the story is told as a story within a story. All in a all, beautiful get bitter.
[from now on rambles will be posted in grey] I really should watch more chinese films, theres that arthousey feel about these two movies dispite what appears to be a huge budget. Its good to see films that don’t conform to the hollywood fomulaic cliches that aim to make the story ‘whole’ by leaving very little to the imagination, having everyone holding hands by the end credits. [A rather long while back the BBC did a documentry looking into the somewhat corrupt world of cencoring. The big name movies that we see are over cencoring and heavy control. Its content and age ratings versus trying to appeal a wider audience and therefore higher profits. ] Watchmen caused a bit of stir. kind of fresh. Its extreme and should i say, rather unforgiving? [loved the movie, it was working with great raw materials, the graphic novel is fantastic. I guess you could also say the choice of music is extra special too] There are websites cropping up, hatesites that are in my oppinion a bit too touchy. In this internet age, everyone who has an opinion can have it voiced, people have gotten over fearing and some, oversensitive, with overthinking and overestimation of self importance and political correctness. Rather than easing our everyday existance the fear merely causes additional difficulties for everyday good people trying to get by. Laws and rules are made to serve a community, but when someone is selfish, and work for their own benefits, others suffer in return. This is a bit of a sudden outburst. I’ve been watching Liar Game. A story where unsuspecting members of the public are selected to participate in a game. At the start both players are presented with say, 100,000 each. the objective is not to be tricked out of your money, if you manage to trick the other players money then it is yours. The loser of the game must pay back the loss, a debt. Another words the loser of the game provides the prize money. however if both players do not aim to earn any money then they don’t profit but as a result neither is put into debt. Its just a game, but if you think about it. The society works the same way, as long as there are people out for themselves, laws and rules made to help and protect us will only be so effective. [http://www.mysoju.com/liar-game/ if youre interested, its a reasonabily short series and worth watching like me, you’re fascinated by how things work)
sorry for the lack of pulse. i have a back log of about 70 emails from roughly a months absence. ive spend a month in the land where time literally stops. my parents place where the most strenuous activity, other than a nights shift in the chippy is eating and sleeping with sideorders of tv marathons.
lots of new things starting afresh. uni on monday. bums. my computer is a bit of a clean slate right now.. windows reinstallation aswell as some data kapoofing into digital neverland .. so quite literally clean slate. i also managed to reinstall the whole CS4 design package.. IN FRENCH. where pretty much the only word i can read is suivant. well nows a good a time as any to scrubadubdub on my franglais, although i do have a hard enough time trying to figure out how to do anything in english as it is.
also after a month of delays with contracts and paperwork being flinged aroundi finally have a definate answer. im moving out of my flat folks. sob sob. a bit reluctant to do so tbh. currently loving the place im living at, i’d gladly cling to it like a barnicle. the great sunlight, highceilings and plentiful space and make it perfect for working as there’s enough room to scatter paper onto every inch of the floor.. which is what i do on the night before every deadline. bad habit. the new place has a few issues.. its much more cramped.. which isn’t too bad.. it has no central heating.. as in no warmth during winter, or should i say british summer evenings and lastly the ‘kitchen’ is a small room with a two cubboards and a sink. grateful for the roof over my head however.. i see myself living out of my ricecooker/makeshift saucepan with heat and canned soup for a silly length of time. theres also an absurd amount of phone calls im going to have to make to my electricity, gas, water and internet providers oh. and the council.. and redirecting post for that matter.
anywho. sorry about the ubercenter orientated pic. was swung round in a car making a uturn.
