The 28th Year of Skinny

I made it, 28 years on this planet and I am still here.

Today I spent a lot of time thinking about the year just gone, What did I do with my 27th year?

This year has seen much happen but most of it I cant remember, there is of course the big spit that happened a few months ago but there was a lot more. Shoots and raving, festivals and friends Holidays and time in Sweden, Weddings and guests.

Another year older, a few more grey hairs and lines on my face but I have a good feeling about this year to come, I have amazing friends and have my health. After a chat just now I feel even more positive about an amazing person in my life, witch I througt I had lost.

I hope that this year is a year of smiles and happiness, Something I have lacked for a while!  

Ted... Not worth the hype!

Tonight I got a stack of DVD off a friend of mine... So with a whole load of new movies I sat down to watch some... 

First on the list was Ted,

I remember seeing this film coming out, from the makers of Family Guy aka Seth MacFarlane and I through this could be fun, And a year later I can tell you!

From the looks of all the trailers it looked funny and sharp. When I saw clips of it it looked even better BUT I just finished it and boy was it a let down, The acting was crap the animation sucked and the story was something outa a 7 year old's screen play. I love the idea of it but as a full movie it just drags on to an ending you can see a mile off... 

Here is the girlfriend - there going to spit only to get back together again.

Here is the bad guy - his going to do something bad

Here is the funny gay joke - not funny gay joke

Im sorry but this was just a live action film of a family guy episode and it just does not work.

Maybe this is not meant for me as I do like a movie that makes you think but even in my stoned days this was not funny... The pointless cameo with Flash Gordian is just boring and they keep bring him back.

Mila Kunis who is not a bad actor really sucks in this, shes played down and I am sorry but is far to hot to be with both Mark Wahlberg the person and the character in this movie.

Unless your a heavey pot user or have the mental age of a 12 year old then I would say give this one a miss, This is time you cant get back... just watch the trailer a few more times and let that be that.

New Ink Comte!

Tomorrow I am going to see my tattoo artist to go over the final design for my arm, From the things that we went over I am looking forward to seeing what she has planed and I can work out a few of the details.

I am hoping that its going to be most of my slevies and have a really cool look to it, with a hint of old school design, We will also find out just how much its going to cost and in how many sittings it is going to take.

After tomorrowI will have a better idea of what is going to come on the day after my birthday!

Filming TLC!

Last week I shot an event in north London called TLC (the London juggling convention). I have shot this event before but this time there was a difference, I was shooting Video!

Now I am not know for my video shooting and I have never dont that much with video but I really would love to get into this kinda work, I love motion and I use it in many of my still photography but shooting using an d-SLR is not very easy, They are not made for this kinda work and as such lack some features like a body that you can hold easily, A tripod is a must and the screens are not the best for checking if the image is sharp.

With the new frimwear that I just got it is made a little easyer but I did not have that at the time.

Anyways, Tonight I had a look at some of the footy and put together the 1st draft of the video. just over 6mins long at 720p and its already a 60gb file (God knows what it would have been at 1080p)

I feel like i got the idea of the event but the best act of the night I cant post as Feeding The Fish do not wish it to be on the web, I have done a very sneek peek of there act but each of the 5 clips are less then a second long... I will upload it when I feel it is good enough and that upload will take the better part of a day after the last vid I shot for spit took over 5hours!

A Bit of Good News

This week Gangnam style became the most watched video on youtube beating Justin Biebers "baby baby" 

This makes me so fucking happy and i really dont know why, the fact i love Gangnam style and was one of the 1st outa my friends to hear it and spread it between my friends.

Plus anything that slaps Justin Bieber is always going to make me smile!

Long Lonely Nights

Is this feeling going to pass? 

Sleeping alone is a funny thing, Not having another body to warm you in the bed and to not feel skin on skin. To only feel your own hands upon your body at night. Knowing that when I wake its going to be dark and cold and alone again. 

This is something I still need to get used to, I have my cat beside me and for that I'm thankful that I have that. We are pack animals and I do think that we all sleep far better when there are others around us. Because the nights don't not seem so lonely when you have someone to share it with.

Good night world... I will see you again in the morning.

Magic Lantern for Betty!!

The other week I herd that the guys over at Magic lantern got around the trouble with the duel prosessers of the canon 7d. Today I through I would have a little look and guess what!

YES!!!! It was there. An Alpha but its grea that  its even up!

So I just formatted my card and carried it over, Updated my frrmware and now I have it on the memory card  in my camera, It has some great feachers but as an alpha there will be more to come. The one think I really wanted was the pecking mode.

This gives you a small screen within the rear screen with a zoomed in bit for checking foucas, and this stays while recording so my foucas should always be fine.

2 problums are that its only saved on the RAM so if you turn off the camera you have to re-install the magic lantern and the other is that if i format my CF card, I lose it all together. 

If you wanna download the softwear then use this LINK and there are many videos on youtube to see how to install

Skinny Love The Song

Its funny how one song and make you think, even so when it has your own name in it...

The lyrics seem to talk to you and mean so much more than other songs... it has meanings to it should not in my own life but when you have something like...

"Come on skinny love, just last the year

Pour a little salt, we were never here"

How is that not meant to be talking to me when it is telling me about my love or about the past.

"I tell my love to wreck it all

Cut out all the ropes and let me fall"

After this time apart I am still thinking of her and I am thinking hard, reading blogs that are ment for me and reading in between the line is what has always got my into trouble, Asking the the questions that I know will not lead to the places I want to be.

Winter Is Coming

Pinch push 1st day of the month... Yep its now december and that means 2 things, one is the holiday I hate above all other and the other is my own birthday.

That right, Skinny turns 28 on the 10th of this month and wow thats making me feel old, trouble is in my mind I am already 30 from all the 30th bdays I have been to and done this year. So far im not really doing much for it, having a few friends over and nothing much as I am getting inked on the next day. That day being a Tuesday means I will be at spits and I wanna really have my party then. Around all my trippy hipper spinning friends and to make it even better the spinn@ xmas parety on the sat after (15th) so I can really have it then.

I have an open mind about my new year to come, there is going to be a lot of changes to years before my I plan to make my 28th year on the earth a dam good one!

Missing out but not missing out!

Tonight I have missed out on the burn but in a way that burn came to me, Some of my friends came back to mine for a chilled out session, With music by Paul Oakenfold and entertainment with the xbox its been a great night.

I do love these chilled nights with friends and gaming, Child of Eden seems to be going down well and my corn stry fry was really nice tonight. Now everything starting to wide down, the arts and crafts are out and the girls are drawing amazing images while the sex is getting his head around Edens amazing visions.

And little old me is happy to have my friends around. That really do fit so well in my life that its almost un-real