I can't believe its been almost a month since I last wrote an entry. I'm so sorry about that. I suck at keeping up with this thing.
Anyways I've not really been up to much in the past month. However, I am starting to get ready for my university interviews which are in a couple of weeks. I'm going to be printing my digital photography work tomorrow, which seeing as I don't really have a theme for it it will be a mixture of stuff I've taken over the last couple of months. I'm also going back to college on Tuesday to use the darkroom so I can print my film photography work. This will have a theme as it's a personal project I have been working on lately. I'll upload the photo's once it's all finished and ready to go :). One of my old tutors from college has been so lovely and is letting me go in so I can use the facilities. She's one of my favourite tutors and I had her for 3 years. She's so helpful and really encourages you and helps build up your confidence. Plus you can talk to her about pretty much anything.
I'm actually sat here multitasking right now. I'm typing this up for you whilst choosing my digital shots and also watching Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos. It's his newest one and it's hilarious.
Anyways I'm drifting off topic. I have interviews on the 14th and 15th of March. The 14th is my interview for UCS (University Campus Suffolk) my local university and one I have applied for a couple of times and was sadly unsuccessful. I have my interview for Anglia Ruskin University on the 15th. Thank god it's on payday otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford my train tickets to go there and come back. Which would not be good at all!
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| Tom Law |
Last month you might remember I mentioned I was going to a gig in London. It was amazing. I finally got to meet the lovely Tom Law, who is even more amazing live, and he is such a lovely guy. I got to take a fair few great shots, some had to be deleted due to the fact that I couldn't get the settings on my camera right due to the lighting. I eventually decided to try out shooting in Monochrome and Sepia. This one is one of my favourites out of them all. I sent him the "non ugly" shots as he asked and the lovely fellow that he is uploaded them onto his facebook page. He's even given me the go ahead to use a couple of the photographs in my portfolio for my interviews. My younger sister bought him a blueberry muffin simply because he has a new song called "Don't Go Saying" which includes a line about them. I'll upload the video below. If any of you haven't already you should really go check out his music. http://www.tomlaw.bigcartel.com/ - You can buy his CD and he even has stickers which he designed himself (bless him) his CD is still pretty much on constant replay on my ipod. The only times I don't listen to him is when I feel like rocking out to a bit of My Chemical Romance or Escape The Fate. Yes I know my music taste is very strange and very muddled. I have to admit I'm a bit of a rock-chick at heart but I do have my moments of wanting to listen to something a little more subtle. If you saw the music on my iPod I think you would actually get confused at how much my music taste can vary between one end of the spectrum (ie Tom, Adele, Andrew, Ed Sheeran and Charlie Simpson) to the other end (such as Blink 182, Sum41, Simple Plan and Taking Back Sunday) I actually confuse myself sometimes haha.
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| Andrew Balkwill |
Another person gigging was Andrew Balkwill, who was great as always too. They both met us at the venue Tom gave us hugs and said hello then went off to do his soundcheck as he was a bit late, and Andrew stayed with us and had a beer whilst we all sat and had dinner before the gig. We (me Abbie and her friend Leanne) made an afternoon of it as we traveled down to London on the train in the afternoon. We had to get the tube which we hated but we couldn't really avoid it.
Anyways back to the gig. Andrew played first, and I got a few shots of him whilst enjoying his set. I haven't asked him yet but I'm hoping he'll let me use the shots of him in my portfolio too. He doesn't have any new songs out at the moment, but he did tell us was recording his new E.P before he goes off to Texas. I'll definitely be getting a copy once it's released. Don't worry I'll keep you informed for those of you that have checked him out and like his music just like me. And those of you who haven't yet, he has a couple of songs on his youtube channel. My favourtie is "Lady Light the Way" it's such a great song. We'll get to see him again when he plays with Charlie Simpson on the 21st of March in my home town. Seriously cannot wait to see him live again. As of today it's only 18 days :D. We get to meet him and get a photo and a signed set list and a guitar pick. I'm definitely taking my camera again to get some more photographs.
I'm going to be off now, I'm getting tired now which is very surprising as I don't fall asleep til about half 2 usually but it's been a very long 2 weeks of very early morning, and I need to catch up on my very much needed beauty sleep.
Wish me luck for my interviews if I don't write before then.
See yars
