A clean slate. .or something like that.

After my last host went down the proverbial shitter, taking my site with it, I never really got it back up and running properly, having started a new job, and then it just fell to the sidelines. Maybe if I hadn't have lost databases and backups I would have carried on, but stupidly I didn't make my own copies. But oh well, now isnt the time to dwell on the past, I'm told, now is the time to move one, its a new year, a fresh start, etc. etc.

I'm not entirely sure why this is always the way, and people feel the need to wait until a new calendar year to make a fresh start etc, but, as it happens, I have a couple days off and the inclination to do so, I'm going for it around this time :P 
The whole New Years resolutions business always seems like a good idea to me, but I've never really gone at it with much gusto, as I couldn't be doing making false promises to myself and then making excuses when the fad wears off.

However, this being said, I'm all for goals, and after reading a friend's blog post along these lines, I feel inspired to create some reaslistic goals and work towards them.

For a start, I do want to more stuff 'for me' kinda thing. Past couple weeks I've been getting back to designing and doing photography purely just because and I love it. I want to work more towards that area of things and keep it fun.

That being said, I still want to work towards a job in the design or photography arena, and as I will more than likely be out of a job by the end of January, I have been looking and want to carry on working hard towards it, the goal being by the end of the year to be working at least part-time as a photographer. If I can, with my own studio space of some sort.

Publish

But I do hope you all had a great Xmas Holiday, and all the best for 2011, whatever your plans are for NYE and the rest of the year! :D

Lydden Hill Car Photography

So this morning was pretty cool. Well bar the fact that for some reason I woke up at 5am -.-
Having never looked at photographing much in the way of vehicles, I was invited to a track day at Lydden Hill to take photos by my friend Jon.
I probably should have looked somewhat into how to photograph fast moving cars, but hey, I'm all for some trial and error! :D Camera at the ready, we left at 0730h and got to the track before 0900h. To be fair, upon arriving, it was not at all how I had imagined really - primarily because the place looked empty, and from having only seen footage from event days before I guess I thought it would be packed. We met up with a couple of Jon's friends (Joe and James, a couple of awesome guys) and the three of them went to sign up for spots. Having only been once before in the novice group, and this group being full, they signed up for the next group up which provided for some interesting viewing :D
Now me out there with my DSLR kinda feeling a tad out of my depth, as I only had very brief amounts of time in which to capture photos of the cars. I picked out a spot as James and Jon went for their first lap - and Zoooom! they flew by! Using that which I've learnt over the years, i decided on a method to try out and started snapping away. 
While I found it was not too bad capturing the cars as if still, adding something to the images was harder! I've seen all the images you get of cars with the awesome blurry backgrounds and this is what I was aiming for - and is a hell of a lot harder! In the end I decided that shutter priority mode was the way forward, with the shutter set to about 1/60 ish - then it was just a case of panning the camera along with the car and keeping things in focus. I say just, but this was a challenge, which I loved! :D 
And while I did get some pretty nice shot, I definitely need more practice and would love to try again sometime!

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Lydden_Hill_Car_Photography.zip (266 KB)

:)

Just an old photo I found in my catalogue. :)

Mmmonday.meh

Okay so today, I couldn't stand to wait about the house to see if I would get a call about the job I interviewed for on Friday! I would have gone nutso!
So this morning I got up, grabbed my camera bag and headed to Canterbury! 

Back to the land of signal!

okayy, so i meant to write this Yesterday after I had actuallly got back. But . . . well  . . nope! I have no reason, I just got lazy! xD
So the weekend gone, we had a Bank holiday, and so I went on a mini-break in Wales for the 3-day weekend! 

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All aboard the Fail Train,

Now this isn't really a blog as such and I dont really expect anybody to read this;
it's merely a record of some of the shit me&friends chat. It keeps us amused at least :D
Last night's FAIL (20/12/09) -- Myself, Graham, and Richard in skype convo:

[19/12/2009 23:16:20] kai: i hate that damn film sooooo goddamn much

[19/12/2009 23:23:37] kai: rich stop playing stupid barbie polly pocket hello kitty meow barney worlf of failcraft!

[19/12/2009 23:24:14] Graham: FAILC RAFT

[19/12/2009 23:24:17] Graham: FAIL WHALE

[19/12/2009 23:24:17] Tyax: lool

[19/12/2009 23:24:19] Tyax: as if

[19/12/2009 23:24:21] Graham: FAIL 0 TRON

[19/12/2009 23:24:29] Graham: ALL ABOARD THE FAIL TRAIN

[19/12/2009 23:24:34] Graham: HELP

[19/12/2009 23:24:43] Graham: IM DETECTING LARGE QUANTITIES OF FAIL IN THIS SECTOR CAPTAIN

[19/12/2009 23:24:49] Graham: INITIATE PROJECT FAIL

[19/12/2009 23:24:56] Graham: THE FAILOMETER IS OVERLOADING

[19/12/2009 23:25:02] Graham: shall i continue ?

[19/12/2009 23:25:22] kai: please do

[19/12/2009 23:27:15] Graham: im out

[19/12/2009 23:27:18] kai: lol

[19/12/2009 23:27:42] kai: GETTING PWNT BY FAIL HAIL!

[19/12/2009 23:27:53] Graham: HELP THE SKY IS FAILING UPON US

[19/12/2009 23:28:01] Graham: MOUNT FAIL IS ABOUT TO ERUPT , TAKE COVER IN THE CARE SHELTER

[19/12/2009 23:28:18] Graham: sir our reports are telling us large NUMBERS OF FAIL WILL ATTACK AT MIDNIGHT

[19/12/2009 23:28:21] Graham: what is our orders !

[19/12/2009 23:28:25] kai: FAIL

[19/12/2009 23:28:28] Graham: STAY BACK AND DEFEND THE FAILTRAIN

[19/12/2009 23:28:33] Graham: BUT SIR ISNT THAT SUICIDE !

[19/12/2009 23:28:35] Graham: NO..SON

[19/12/2009 23:28:38] Graham: ITS FAIL !

[19/12/2009 23:28:46] kai: looool

[19/12/2009 23:28:58] kai: all aboard the fail rail!

[19/12/2009 23:29:40] Graham: IM TOO OLD FOR THIS FAIL

[19/12/2009 23:29:46] Graham: LUKE ....I AM YOUR ...FAIL

[19/12/2009 23:30:00] Graham: NOW THIS BEING A 44 MAGNUM THE POST POWERFULL HANDGUN IN THE WORLD YOU GOTTA ASK YOURSELF THIS

[19/12/2009 23:30:09] Graham: DO YOU FEEL FAIL....WELL DO YA PUNK !?!?!

[19/12/2009 23:30:36] Graham: SEIG HEIL ! UNT FAIL-O-HEIMMMMZZZ

[19/12/2009 23:30:58] Graham: ON THIS VERY DAY WE SHALL GO FORTH AND DEFEAT THE FAIL THAT SMOTHERS THIS ONCE BLESSED SKYPE CHAT !

[19/12/2009 23:31:03] kai: HEIL FAIL!

[19/12/2009 23:31:09] Graham: lmaoooooooo

[19/12/2009 23:31:21] Graham: u realize our convos are so full of bs sometimes xDDD

[19/12/2009 23:31:29] Graham: LIGHT , GRANT ME FAIL !

[19/12/2009 23:31:30] kai: hahaha

[19/12/2009 23:31:34] Graham: BY FAIL BE PURGED !

[19/12/2009 23:31:53] kai: AND ON THE SABBATH GOD DID REST< FOR HE HAD CREATED TOO MUCH FAIL

[19/12/2009 23:31:57] Graham: ALEXSTRASZA GRANT ME FAIL !

[19/12/2009 23:32:03] Graham: LMAO

[19/12/2009 23:32:25] Graham: AND I SHALL SMITE DOWN ANY WHO ATTEMPT TO POISON OR FAIL MY BROTHERS

[19/12/2009 23:32:36] Graham: AND YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME IS THE LORD WHEN I GRANT MY FAIL UPON YOU

[19/12/2009 23:33:45] kai: Every man dies. Not every man really FAILS!

[19/12/2009 23:34:49] Graham: r4ofl man at tihs

[19/12/2009 23:34:53] Graham: is rich even reading this lmao

[19/12/2009 23:35:58] kai: idk, but he better do

[19/12/2009 23:36:10] kai: i'ma print it out and put it in an xmas card

[19/12/2009 23:36:35] kai: It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly FAIL!

[19/12/2009 23:36:50] kai: - from the FAILfather

[19/12/2009 23:37:09] Graham: LOLOL

[19/12/2009 23:37:23] Graham: AND ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...FAilllLLlllLll

[19/12/2009 23:37:31] Graham: AWAYYYY IN A FAILLLUUUREEEE

[19/12/2009 23:38:19] kai: Good King Wenceslas looked out

On the feast of FAIIIILLL-URE!

[19/12/2009 23:38:28] Graham: HEYYYY

[19/12/2009 23:38:32] Graham: WHATS WRONG WITH YOOUU

[19/12/2009 23:38:38] Graham: YOUR LOOKING KINDA FULL OF FAILLL 

(music)

[19/12/2009 23:38:46] kai: LAST CHRISTMAS, I GAVE YOU MAH FAIL!!

[19/12/2009 23:40:53] Graham: HEY FAILLLLLLLL

[19/12/2009 23:40:56] Graham: DONT MAKE IT FAILLL

[19/12/2009 23:41:01] Graham: TAKE A FAILURE

[19/12/2009 23:41:04] kai: Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you'll land among the fail!

[19/12/2009 23:41:05] Graham: AND MAKE IT BETTARRR

[19/12/2009 23:41:14] Graham: REMEMBER

[19/12/2009 23:41:15] Graham: DONT FAILLL

[19/12/2009 23:41:19] Graham: THEN YOU CAN START

[19/12/2009 23:41:22] Graham: NOT BEING A FAILURE

[19/12/2009 23:41:32] kai: LOLOLOL

[19/12/2009 23:43:29] Graham: yesterdayyy

[19/12/2009 23:43:37] Graham: ALL MY FAILURE SEEMED SO FAR AWAY

[19/12/2009 23:43:41] Graham: you realize

[19/12/2009 23:43:45] Graham: this could go on all night lol

[19/12/2009 23:43:54] kai: FAIL & CONQUER!

[19/12/2009 23:44:15] Graham: CALL OF FAILURE 4

[19/12/2009 23:44:17] Graham: MODERN FAILURE

[19/12/2009 23:44:50] kai: FAIL HERO 3!

[19/12/2009 23:45:11] kai: Oblivion: The Elder Fail

[19/12/2009 23:45:31] Graham: GUITAR FAILURE

[19/12/2009 23:45:42] Graham: SOCOM : COLD FAILURE

[19/12/2009 23:45:53] Graham: FAILURE AT THE APPOLO

[19/12/2009 23:45:56] Graham: and my personal fave

[19/12/2009 23:46:00] Graham: MOCK THE FAILURE

[19/12/2009 23:46:08] kai: haha

[19/12/2009 23:46:10] Graham: is anyone keeping track f this ???

[19/12/2009 23:46:15] Graham: we should write a book lol

[19/12/2009 23:46:56] kai: i'ma do it fs

[19/12/2009 23:47:05] kai: done!

[19/12/2009 23:47:30] kai: HONEY! I SHRUNK THE FAIL!

[19/12/2009 23:47:35] kai: BACK TO THE FAIL!

[19/12/2009 23:49:21] kai: IF YOU HAVING PROBLEMS I FEEL BAD FOR YOU SON! I GOT 99 PROBLEMS BUT FAIL AINT ONE!#

[19/12/2009 23:49:22] Graham: LOL

[19/12/2009 23:49:33] Graham: HOW I MET YOUR FAILURE

[19/12/2009 23:49:35] Graham: FAIL ELISE

[19/12/2009 23:49:45] Graham: PRISON FAIL

[19/12/2009 23:50:07] Graham: ALL THESE THINGS THAT IVE FAILED

[19/12/2009 23:50:18] kai: when fail met sally

[19/12/2009 23:50:29] kai: YOU GOT F@IL!

[19/12/2009 23:50:33] Graham: LMAOOOOOOO !

[19/12/2009 23:50:45] Graham: awww i liked that movie :( my gf aND I WATCHED IT LMAO

[19/12/2009 23:50:58] Graham: THE FAILURE STRIKES BACK

[19/12/2009 23:51:02] Graham: RETURN OF TH FAIURE

[19/12/2009 23:51:12] kai: FAILWARS! REVENGE OF THE FAIL

[19/12/2009 23:52:38] kai: Pulp Failure

[19/12/2009 23:52:56] kai: The Dark Fail

[19/12/2009 23:53:08] kai: FAIL CLUB!

[19/12/2009 23:54:21] kai: A Spoonfull of sugar helps the failure goooo doowwn (music)

[19/12/2009 23:55:21] kai: Resevoir FAIL

[19/12/2009 23:55:41] kai: ahaha! Monty Python and the Holy FAIL!

[19/12/2009 23:56:00] Graham: lawl

[19/12/2009 23:56:03] Graham: LOAWLOL

[19/12/2009 23:56:33] Graham: im a failure get me outta here

[19/12/2009 23:56:54] kai: thats actually whats its called these days isnt it?

[19/12/2009 23:56:56] Graham: REVEGE OF THE FIALURE

[19/12/2009 23:57:01] Graham: YEAH LMAO

[19/12/2009 23:57:03] Graham: washed out starsa frtl

[19/12/2009 23:57:10] kai: BATMAN FAILS!

[19/12/2009 23:57:19] kai: Fail Runner!

[19/12/2009 23:57:31] kai: The sixth fail

[19/12/2009 23:57:43] Graham: UNFAILABLE

[19/12/2009 23:57:49] Graham: THE FAILAGE

[19/12/2009 23:58:32] kai: Fail Hard!

[19/12/2009 23:58:36] Graham: ROFL

[19/12/2009 23:58:55] Graham: FAIL-O-COP 3

[19/12/2009 23:59:05] kai: Failspotting

[19/12/2009 23:59:07] Graham: FAILHEART

[19/12/2009 23:59:10] Graham: LOL

[19/12/2009 23:59:22] kai: ahahaa

[19/12/2009 23:59:30] kai: FAIL of THE DEAD

[19/12/2009 23:59:55] kai: The Failure before Christmas

[00:02:24] Graham: hmm that reminds me of a move i once saw :O music by dany failman

[00:02:27] Graham: FAIL BRIDE

[00:02:35] Graham: AND A PERSONAL FAVE

[00:02:40] Graham: EDWARD FAILURE HANDS

[00:02:56] kai: oh nais!

[00:03:20] kai: Harry Potter: and the half fail prince

[00:05:24] Graham: DARA O FAIL

[00:08:22] kai: Race to Fail Mountain

[00:10:10] kai: Bring it on: Fail to the Finish

[00:10:55] Graham: FRANKIE GOES TO FAILYWOOD

[00:12:47] kai: 

I'm never gonna fail again

guilty fail have got no rhythm

though it's easy to fail

I know you're not a fool

Should've known better than to fail a friend

and waste the fail that I've been given

so I'm never gonna fail again

the way I failed with youuuuu-ooooo

[00:12:53] kai: (music)

[00:13:00] Graham: LOOOOOOL

[00:19:24] kai: we like an hour into this and i still got plenty of ideas lol

[00:22:09] Graham: LMAO JAMES BOND ON MOCK THE WEEK

[00:22:11] Graham: scottish james bond

[00:22:14] Graham: A FUKIN LOVE U MAN !

[00:22:15] Graham: lmaoooo

[00:22:18] Graham: GOLDENFAIL

[00:22:21] Graham: LIVE AND LET FAIL

[00:22:27] Graham: QUANTUM OF FAIL

[00:22:32] Graham: CASINO FAILURE

[00:22:38] Graham: DR. FAIL

[00:22:43] Graham: GOLD FAILURE

[00:27:09] kai: EVERYBODY'S GONE FAILINGGG, 

FAILING USA!

[00:27:29] kai: (music)

I think thats enough of that, it continued for a while :D
But to nicely round this off, some pics courtesy of the FailBlog.org:

Phone/Uni/Games and stuff

So hai guise, again its been a while and not done much noteworthy really, so just a general post really.

Conceptulisation

So its been a while, Not been doing much excpet go to uni/do uni crap, drink, play aion and the odd run now and again >.<
Uni, as much as i hate it, has been going alright even despite my lack of motivation and lack of main brief still!

However one short project I did, was to construct a digital narative that had something to do with me, and I went all in for it, unfortunately I kinda ran out of time for what I wanted to do, as I only had the week to do it. Nonetheless It turned out semi-decent I think, and my tutor seems to like it so all good!

Take a mosey and let me know what you guys think :)

Test

Just wanted to test this all out. :)