I rulez @ Star Wars

Having the most awesome night right now! Whooped Sam's ass at Star Wars Battlefront 2 (we felt hyper and wanted something more realistic after playing the lego version) while snacking on fizzy peaches. We've moved onto the chocolate fingers now. Fruit becomes boring after some time. :P

SHE'S GOING TO EAT THEM ALL. O_O

Just saw the funniest My Chem comic about Mikey's swimming trunks getting stolen... WUZ SO FUNNEH. xD Obviously all credits go to the original author, but here it is:

HALLOWEEN SOON!!!! I can't wait, even though I'm not allowed to go trick or treating because my stupid aunt and uncle don't believe in adopting American culture -_-........ But I'm going to have the most awesome party! I'm going to be a bumblebee!!! :) I might make some kind of scary scary edit thing for the spirit of it. Just to make the season just that bit scarier :P as if it needs to be scarier! I almost made Sam watch Arachnophobia with me tonight (she is TERRIFIED) but instead we settled on Saw (which took a lot of persuading) and Donnie Darko to calm her down after the gory film...... O_o

NOW WE'RE WATCHING STAR TREK!!! This is how long it takes for me to post on my blog, especially when I'm being distracted by funny MCR comics, Star Trek and chocolate fingers. And Sam, of course. She's the most distracting of them all.

Note to self: Should I post my fic on here as I write it? Maybe it would give me more of a reason to keep going (because I'm the best at losing interest in one thing before I've even finished it and suffer from writer's block regularly)?

Catch-up 2

'Kay, so, more photos and art.

"They That Live Among Us"

A basic photo of Sam, and the tiny men are my own drawings. I didn't use a scanner to put them in, because I don't have one (yet), I took a picture on my phone and did some minor clipping on photoshop before pasting them onto the photo and placing them around a bit. Originally, there was going to be a little UFO whizzing across the screen at the top left, but I must have forgotten about it. I might edit it later to add the UFO.

Everytime Sam sees this, she quizzes me as to why she's being attacked by small men with spears. xD

"Friendship"

I'm a huge fan of spontaneity, and this was totally spontaneous, no posing involved. The best photos are spontaneous. I had my phone out, but I don't think anyone knew I was using it. The composition of this photo is fantastic; I wish I had such luck every time I took a photo.

"Natural Sunblock is the Best Sunblock"

Nothing much to say about this photo, because I'm aware that photos of the sun through trees are all too common, but it seemed nice at the time.

Taken in Spain on a basic camera. I may be a photographer, but I've not yet even got a digital camera (but I have got a couple of film SLRs for my AS course).

"Young But Not Youthful"

Sam again! No offense to her by the title at all; I'm going on the assumption that nobody knows who the hell she is (because none of my friends except a few seem to care about my artistic interests anyway).

Updating later. :)

Catch-up 1

I'll start by posting a load of art that I haven't had the chance to post before now. Mostly digital art, some is plain photography, but most of the photos have been digitally enhanced a little anyway. I have an unhealthy obsession with photoshop... :P

"My Shoes Are Nothing Special"

Me and my old converse shoes. Oh, how I miss those shoes. I bought them in America years ago - they are long since worn and ruined. :(

Still, I don't wear anything but Converse.

"The House That Cried"

Found this house on holiday in Spain and really did think it was a work of art from the way it looked like tears were running down it's face. I love Spanish architecture too; I can imagine how cosy it would have been inside. Edited the photo in a rubbish version of photoshop (the one I still currently own because I can't be arsed to get a new version - and I've fallen in love with this one).

"Christianity"

I'm not strictly religious myself (I don't believe in creation but I do believe there's some kind of higher being and I believe in Heaven, and I never went to church) but I love this picture. Again, taken in Spain. What's amazing about this one is that it was an accident. I was trying to take a picture of the cathedral you can see to the right of it, when my cousin pushed me, the eejit.

Currently unnamed!

A lovely edit of the sky. The houses are desaturated and I did my best to preserve the telephone lines. Original photo was taken in my lovely city Leicester. Love this city, but I'm going to move to London one day, I swear.

"Purple Legwarmers"

Simple enough. The original photo was almost so bad (in terms of quality) that I almost deleted it right there and then, before I said to myself, 'no, I can fix it!' They are the legs of my fantastic friend Krissy (who happens to have the nicest legs ever... hate her -_-) and it was taken in Leicester, in one of the high street clothes shops inside the Highcross. I think it might have been Topshop?? And no, we did not steal the legwarmers!

"This Is How The World Will End"

Cheesy title, I know. I felt cheesy at the time. Yay for cheese! :]

I used this for my art GCSE at school to create a really nice piece of abstract art. I have a tendency to take photos, edit them and then paint them. I suppose, in the grand scheme of things, it's still art, right?

I'm a photographer at heart. :) <3

"Moss Flows Like Water"

A pair, obviously. These weren't edited very much at all; I only really played around with them to improve the quality and I saturated them a little bit, but other than that, I didn't really do anything to them.

Out of all the pieces I've ever done, I'd say this is the one I'm most proud of. I've got some good memories of these photographs (taken on a very basic 2mpx camera phone); I was with my BFFs Sam and Emily walking down Great Central Way, when I came across a bridge that had high-rising walls that I couldn't for the life of me reach over. So they lifted me! It was hard work, it took us a long time and my ribs suffered for it, but it was worth it in the end.

For anyone who can't see what the picture is from just looking at it, it's the stream that was running underneath the bridge, and if the title doesn't say enough, the green streaks are strands of plant material (most likely stringed moss) being dragged along by the water.

Doesn't matter if you couldn't figure it out straight away - I like making things that you really have to concentrate on to understand. xP

More later!