beardography.

by timbeck

diesel

I was shown this today, it's Diesel's new sales pitch and I think its BRILLIANT!!!

 

panda

I named a paper bag Brawn last night..

Panda

waltz with bashir

Lorna and I went to Hyde Park Picture House for the first time on wednesday to see a film called Waltz With Bashir, a documentary film directed by Ari Bowman animating his experiences with remembering the 1982 Lebanon War.

The film told how Ari, after a conversation with an old friend about a recurring dream about 26 dogs which he believes to be linked with the Lebanon war, is prompted to realise that he doesn't remember any of the war or massacre. The film is follows Ari as he interviews others who were in his troop, until his memories come flooding back to him. 

I thought it was brilliant, despite pretty harrowing at the end. As I didn't know much about the war in Lebanon I think I shall look into it.

trailer..

Oh yeh, it also had a pretty awesome soundtrack, stuff which I hadn't heard in ages.

P.I.L. This Is Not A Love Song

O.M.D. Enola Gay

dead good :)

cupcakes!

Ive been vegan for a whole 3 weeks and a bit now, so I thought I'd try my hand at a bit of baking, eventhough I don't really like cake. I found an super super good vegan and vegetarian recipe website and thought I'd try out one of the recipes for chocolate cupcakes. Putting vinegar in cakes did seem a bit weird.. but they turned out AMAZING!! All bouncy and soft and uber chocolatey :D

I'm so proud!

Check em out..

Knew my cupcake tray would come into use at some point, other than for cooking potato smilies.

encyclopedia dramatica

my new favourite website. basically, it's amazing.

 

"Insane," as it is normally used on both the Internets and IRL, is a general, typically harmless and nonspecific irregularity of thought or perception. It usually refers to lower level leftards, generic Christians and members of various fandoms."

british crazy:

korean crazy

german crazy

there's also plenty of links to outrageous websites, such as my personal favourite "The International Square Earth Society", a website specifically to persuade and back up the belief that the Earth is square, according to the Bible, but also links to a page teaching how the Earth is flat and standing on pillars :s

It's really sad, but I can spend a whole evening reading about this kind of weird stuff on the internet, usually American religious extremism, and in particular, Scientology. 

"Of all the nations on Earth today, God most loves the United States of America.  (This is evident from songs like "God Bless America," and from the fact that Pat Robertson, God's chosen spokesman, lives in the U.S..)"

I guess it's probably because I can't get my head around how people can become so brainwashed by books, which are completely fictitious, live their lives by them and believe that they'll be sent somewhere far greater when they die than everyone else, just by doing so. In this way I find that religion is purely selfish. Scientology is the most bizarre, for many reasons. To have to pay large sums of money to climb the levels in the religion (it is estimated that to reach one of the highest levels OT9, it would cost between $365,000 to $380,000) is utterly rediculous as an individual should not have to pay for a belief, living your life by a set of books including stories about time travel and aliens, whilst knowing the "founder" L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction author is just plain stupid, forcing members to "disconnect" from their family and loved ones (formally, writing a letter to tell them that they are never going to see or talk to them purely because they do not believe in or are opposed to $cientology), the list goes on.

"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is." - L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshbach, in 1949

"MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY." - L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 9 March 1972

Scientology isn't about making money..

Oh yes, I almost forgot one of the other crazy, slightly frightening rules of Scientology, "Fair Game". An individual can be classed as fair game for numerous reasons, primarily being opposed to the "religion" or interfering with Scientology's actions. Fair Game is no longer officially in action, but is still followed.

"ENEMY — SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."

Frightening stuff. I've read about several deaths/murders directly caused by Scientology, one being a woman locked in a room and being starved to death because she apparently showed signs of psychological illness after being in a minor car accident. She was taken to hospital but later discharged, and then picked up by Scientologists who then took her to their hotel and locked her in a room for 17 days without food or water. Scientology is strictly against medicine and psychology, yet believes any illness can be cured by a session with an "auditor" (a Scientologist asking a series of short questions, obviously at a price).

I could write loads about this, but its 6:00am and I'm still up for some reason. Here's one of the websites I found about deaths linked to Scientology, Why Are They Dead?.

Tom Cruise isn't crazy.

He KNOWS.

ultimate insult

"You are so clueless that if we stripped you naked, soaked you in clue musk, and dropped you into a field full of horny clues, You still would not have a clue."

Insult File Version 6.12

animal collective//:peacebone

I love this video..

ebay

Ok, so thinking about stuff I've done this week.. bought an awesome camera from ebay the other day and it arrived dead quickly. Think I'm kinda getting hooked on buying cheap tat from the internet. This cost me just aver £10 for the camera and shipping from Korea.

Can't wait to take it out with me on a nice day.. 

yessss!!! (Y)

Apparently it takes really awful lomo style pictures which makes it even better.. shame it doesn't have a flash though.

newcastle

It's been a little while since I've written in this blog, I've been kind of avoiding it because I don't really know what to write. And which blog to write it in. So, trip to Newcastle, the Baltic and round abouts the city was pretty good. I got to see one of my best mates Rowan which was pretty cool, and got lost in Newcastle a few times. Unfortunately I forgot to bring my digital SLR in my last minute panic so I didn't get many good pictures. I took my broken digital camera and my diana+ though, so when Jessops actually figure out what they're doing with my films I should have some nice pictures of Newcastle and South Shields to put up.

Oh, and yeh, took my diana+ film to Jessops to get it developed, then went to another camera shop straight after in town, found out that they process medium format for a tiny bit more expensive, and it's ready the next day :( Gutted! Never going to Jessops again.. I had to tell them what to write on the envelope to send it away, not so reassuring. Haven't paid for it either as they had no idea how much it costs, cos they tried to tell me that they would print my square pictures on 6x4...?!

pffft.

trips

Recently I've been really busy and have been somewhere new every weekend. First it was my grandparents in Boston Spa, then I spent the weekend in London for my cousin's 21st, and the weekend just gone I went home. Traveling to all these places on my own, especially finding my cousin's house in London, has made me feel much more independent and more comfortable with Leeds. Decided that I don't actually ever want to go home, when I went back on Friday intending to stay until Sunday, I came straight back Saturday afternoon because home didn't feel like home anymore :s

Hmm though, I finally got my diana+ photos back.. 17 days later and like £20ish here they are! I'm dead chuffed with them and cant wait to get my colour film processed, but after I've used up all my 120 film I think I'm going to convert it to 35mm, as this is far too expensive.

This is from Heather and Heathers Tubetastic Mission, when we went to climb on some concrete tubes in a field and look at a barn which had trees growing inside it. We didn't got there for any particular reason, other than we both had new cameras and wanted to go somewhere with our free Saturday. I think this picture is suuper as the light is spot on, and I missed her head out. Can't quite remember if I did it on purpose but I like it all the same.

This one is Jasmine and Rowan on Gooseholme back in Kendal. It's a small grassy plain/field type thing by the river and has benches to sit on and lots of trees. I seem to remember that they were just walking towards me but it looks like they're dancing haha!

Out of the top floor window at The Plaza.

I got my diana+ camera for my 19th birthday, when we were coming back from France on the ferry. Me and my little brother Nick messed about with it a bit and took a few photos of each other. Nick looking windswept ^^

This is just the ceiling of the lift in the ferry, when I scanned it I did it upside down by accident but then realised that I prefer it this way round. Just the pattern of bright light on the dark, and you can see the reflection of the lights in the shiny walls in the lift.

Think I've got around 25 photos from these films, the rest of the pictures are on my flickr here.

about me?/

I've decided to start a new blog about myself, a little more personal than my reportage:leeds blog, which I can use to record my feelings, emotions and day to day life whilst undertaking my first project at Leeds College of Art and Design.

So, so far I have really been enjoying college, especially the people there which has been super. It's taken me a little bit to get used to the course as it's completely different to my AF back in Kendal College, which I hated. I didn't like how we had to narrow ourselves into a category of either fine art or graphic design, as I like both. VisCom is really good because it means I can basically do anything, so at the moment I've really been enjoying photography and using the dark room, and also how I can annotate my work in a blog rather than just a sketchbook. It's much easier and cheaper than having to print everything and stick it in!

For my first year, I'm living at The Plaza, which is right by the centre of town and only about 5-10 minutes walk from college. Next year I should hopefully be living in a house somewhere near Hyde Park, ideally. I didn't really like it at first, because it seemed that all my friends we're living in different halls and it's also really quiet here, but I'm starting to enjoy it and especially living so close to town. Back at home it took me about 20 minutes to walk into town and here it takes about 5, so I'm getting to know the city centre quite well. It's a pretty good location for nights out, and shopping :D of course as well as for going out with my camera at odd times in the day.