Passport photo (Taken with instagram)
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two days ago would have been my dad’s 62nd birthday. He never celebrated his birthday much, he used to say how it was just another day, though he had no objections for someone buying a delicious cake the same day every year.
My family and birthdays are a bit unusual I think. From as young as i can remember I’ve been told ‘happy birthday’ for 3 days. My birthday and then the two following days. I guess it’s now just a bit of a tradition that birthdays last three days now.
Last year I was in bristol when my Dad had his birthday and I forgot to text him or ring him. I missed the first, second and third day. Worst yet I only remembered when I next came down to london a week or two later after a hint from my dad. Even then I said something stupid like ‘oh it was your birthday last week! happy birthday!’ I’ve never been very good at remembering birthdays, If it wasn’t for facebook I’d probably never even say happy birthday to the majority of the people I know.
A birthday is just another day, if it’s an excuse to have a party brilliant but I’ll have a party for waking up in the morning all the same. It’s funny the things you dwell on when you don’t have a chance to make amends. I don’t really regret forgetting his birthday, I regret missing the chance to wish a great and wonderful man a good day and ask about his cake.
I would like to say a proper happy birthday to him.
Happy Birthday Damian.
I’m going to have a slice of cake.
“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
— He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven - William B Yeats
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The new toy (Taken with instagram)
“In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold.
Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind.
Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two.
‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’
‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’
‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’
So tell me- who lives and who dies?”
— A Clash Of Kings - George R.R Martin
Your move (Taken with instagram)
Love this photographers work… I feel like i’ve seen it before (or something very similar to it) but… still makes me smile when i look at it!
check more of it out!
http://irinawerning.com/bttf2/back-to-the-future-2-2011/
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I have an amazing conversation with this man who ‘hated film’ at Annie’s going away goodbye. I don’t think he really hated film as he said he saw one film a dozen or so times (doesn’t sound like the actions of a film hater to me!) But he had a very interested perspective. His view was that film tries to be real, It tries to mimic reality but, ultimately fails for we as a viewer are always removed from the experience. He turned my interest in creating more ‘immersive’ pieces of work (for example using base speakers to shake people during my Run For Cover Installation) as trying to create something more ‘real’ something that would stay with the audience member, as if they had been part of the story. I’m not sure If I completely agree with him but he definitely has an interesting point of view, surely creating a story that your audience doesn’t just view but feels they were part of. It’s an interesting goal to try and achieve I think.
So… This week I’ve been working for a company called BlinkTv and have been helping organize and grabbing footage for a concert for a man call Vangelis or as he likes to be called… The Maestro, for a big concert out in Doha. He’s done sound tracks for Blade Runner, chariots of fire etc. so he’s pretty big in the game. The screen they are projecting onto is 90m by 35m (just had an e-mail and apparently they just made the screen bigger then that) … now that’s BIG. they wanted basically the visuals that are in Tree of Life but… that’s pretty cool for a concert of pretty epic music. Probably my first sole ‘production’ roll, but I think I did ok, but I guess we’ll see by if I get called back!!!
Last weekend I was in Italy visiting the Italian Man, Mr Andre Chekka V1 with Darren and my bro. Italy was pretty sick! We went time lapsing down San Marino where Andre studies. San Marino is on this massive hill/mountain which overlooks Italy really… It’s a wicked place for a time lapse and although our shot compositions were good unfortunately my timelapse remote ran out of battery and me clicking down on the button ended up shaking the camera equaling a rather shitty time lapse :| but I got some other pretty interesting stuff shooting out of Andre’s car window which will hopefully be pretty sweet once I start editing that together.
In Italy we ate like kings thanks to Andre’s mum, we had some damn good pizza and ice-cream too (the rumours of their deliciousness in Italy are true!). Defo need to move to continental Europe soon, food’s much better… and it seems to be actually sunny. Who woulda guest eh ? and I need to learn a new language…
This week I’ve been down Dalston doing some editing for a guy called Jude who used to be part of the Light Surgeons. It’s gone pretty well so far! Just waiting on this dang thing to color files to render… Hopefully my future life will consist of super computers and less of twiddling my thumbs while my computer renders.
At least it gives me time to come up with genius plans like an ice cream cloud (that’s right… it’s exactly how it sounds).
oh and just cus this is H-i-l-a-rious….
http://textsfrombennett.tumblr.com/
Brother’s Work College: You’re pretty posh aren’t you?
Brother: … Ok
Brother’s Work College: Yeah. Yeah you are. You know how I can tell? Because you think before you speak.
Brother: ….
Friend: I go jogging 3 times a week you know? Just to get my heart beating fast. I run about 5km, what’s that in miles?
Me: About 3
Friend: Yeah about 3 miles. But I never get ill! You should do that. Go running, gym, some type of excise that gets your heart beating fast. I only get ill… maybe once a year?
Me: Yeah… well I know what you mean. When I’m playing Call Of Duty online and I’m the last guy on the team but there are still 3 enemies left my heart starts beating like crazy! …. It’s pretty intense.
Friend: …
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