106th
Sep

I was originally going to go to Offset Festival, as a few of my favourite bands were playing (like Kap Bambino and Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster) but I decided against it in the end due to money and having been to two festivals the month previously.
So imagine my joy when I got an email from GigJunkie asking if I wanted to photograph and review it! I said yes straight away, and on the Saturday morning I got a bus with a friend to Hainault Forest Country Park.

Offset is a wonderful small festival, with a main stage set in the middle and a number of smaller tent stages around in a circle. The bands are mostly up and coming acts, with a few bigger name headliners, and there are other activities going on including a vintage market and sports day races.

We had a great time drinking cider in the sunshine, wandering from stage to stage, dancing in the Trailer Trash tent and watching a drunken space hopper race!

I saw far too many bands to go through them all, but favourites were:

Athens Polytechnic – Not so great punk music, but a very enigmatic frontman who ran around in the audience and had his own dance routines.
Kap Bambino – 35 minutes of non-stop bouncing on the barrier, with Caroline pulling grotesque faces and sitting on photographers shoulders.
Art Brut – Singing along to songs I felt I had known forever.
Monotonix – They play in the audience, and after each song they pick the drumkit up and move forwards a bit. So chaotic and brilliant.
Atari Teenage Riot – Eighties Matchbox were a bit of a disappointment, but ATR made up for it with their infectious digital hardcore and political screechings.

See the rest of my photos at Flickr

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1018th
Aug

It was my 23rd birthday last week, so I decided to get myself a haircut! I went for an asymmetrical bob, a bit different to what I usually have.


(Sorry I look a bit shocked, not quite sure what’s going on there!)

I also realised I’ve amassed quite a collection of Tatty Devine jewellery. It’s not going to stop me buying more though! They have a new collection out in a few weeks and I’m itching to go and visit their Covent Garden store.

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1013th
Aug

Kidrobot are doing a countdown on their website at the moment for the Dunny 2010 series, revealing one figure per day until the release date. At the moment I’m really loving the Damarak, Sketchup and Travis Cain designs.

When I compare them to the latest Qee offering from Toy2R (The Designer Collection Series 6), they are just far superior in design and originality! Out of the Qee’s I’m only really keen on the Peskimo Melee Cat.

I’ve also been checking out rumours on the Canon 60D this week. It seems like it might be announce at the Canon EXPO in September and released in October. I’ve been thinking about upgrading my camera, but the 5D seems a bit too big and expensive, and the 50D has been out for too long, so the 60D release is perfect. I’ll start saving my pennies now!

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1011th
Aug

I went to Scotland over the weekend to visit a friend, and although the weather was mostly rainy and cold we managed to have a good time. Here are some photos from Glasgow, Alloa and Stirling.

In other photography news, my Fisheye 2 broke a while back (I lost a 2/3rds full film) so I hadn’t been using it, but I managed to fix it the other day. It wasn’t winding on after shots, so I taped the end of the film to the spool and it seems to be ok now. Fingers crossed I don’t manage to break it again and lose another film.

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1027th
Jul

Right now is about the time that people start posting details of their San Diego Comic Con toy hauls on blogs and forums, and usually I am inextricably jealous and vowing that I will make it to comic con next year.

This year, however, I have my own haul! A lovely friend from Livejournal picked me up a set of the Rocket World Star Trek exclusives, and I’m really excited about them! I’m still jealous of all the people that picked up the Mustard Dunny and Skelanimals Hellboy plush exclusives, but there is always next year.


(They are 7.5″ tall, no idea where they are going to go. I have some good ideas for photos involving lightpainting though)

I also ordered a black and white Capee and a series 4 blind boxed Labbit last week, plus my Forbidden Planet Doctor Who boxset should be shipping next week, so I have lots of new vinyl to photograph and play with.

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