Teenage Wasteland

Sorry to swamp you with pictures but I went to the SPLENDOUR festival in Nottingham at the weekend. We saw acts like Calvin Harris, The Noisettes, Athlete, OKGO, and The Pet Shop Boys. The Noisettes were incredible live! And we met one of the members of OKGO backstage - he was so friendly and down-to-earth. When you see people on stage it's like they're put up on a pedestal - like they're more than human, but when we spoke to the guy he just seemed... normal. I don't know why I was so surprised, I always thought that fame changes people, but he seemed pretty humble. You've all heard of OKGO right? Video with the treadmills? If not you absolutely have to check it out here.


This is the top I wore - when I first saw it I thought that it wasn't exactly my style but I tried it on anyway and really liked it. I've been trying to put a limit on my spending lately... as you can see, it's not working. Sometimes I feel like the girl from the movie 'Confessions of a Shopoholic' - living in a material world, where everthing I own somehow defines me. Except I don't imagine the manequins are whispering in my ear like sirens of the super store... not all the time anyway ;)
Do you ever feel paranoid that the manequins come to life at night? ...Nope? Oh, me neither then.

x x x

Where the wild kids are

THIS is the face of EVIL


So it's 7:45 am and I am sat in the garden because once again a daft pigeon has fallen down our chimney and knocked the gas pipe... hopefully the house won't explode but there is a deffinate leak (not a great idea to be using my laptop then :S) - but this has happened so many times now (twice, it's happened twice!) it's become a regular occurance so evacuating is kindof passe - I only grabbed my laptop this time; instead of grabbing four, essential, obese bags of my most precious possessions (my ice skates, clothes, sketchbook and various electrical things (I even remembered plugs! Who remember's to bring their phone charger out during an evacuation?? ... well I do obvz), and my friend's guitar that I'd been borrowing (so if he reads this I hope he knows I'm taking good care of it... even though I've had it for like 5 months, so technically I've stolen it)

Geez, I didn't even save my violins! (I have two, they're called Rosie and Florrie - don't laugh, I like naming inanimate objects).



Rosie was my first violin, which we'd been renting from my school the past 5 years then at the end of yr 11 I simply 'forgot' to give her back, so now she lives in my bedroom. And Florrie we bought when I was 14, as I insissted I was serious about playing the violin (I really wasn't...) she's been played twice (the second time I broke the G-string... ooh that sound's naughty ;) and since then she's lived a lonely existance in a green violin case on my mother's dresser.
But don't feel bad for her, she'll see daylight again... maybe.


Anyway whilst I'm here I'll tell you about my day yesterday (because it was pretty epic... probably in a 'you had to be there' way, but still...)

I had a picnic with my girlies - as we're trying to embrace the good weather while it lasts ;D well this is England - if we have too much fun we might scare it away :O
Which once again, meant I was putting my cwk off... ah well, they're just letters on a piece of paper, it doesn't really matter if I suceed in my dream to become a busker ;)

So we were strolling through the park listening to the meoldies of Marina & the Diamonds and New Young Pony Club on Toby's i-stero ('cuz we're cool like that)....I'm dressed as (what can only be described as) "indie kid, meets madeline, taking on a morris dancer"




but eventually we get down to the river and feel a bit happy-snappy :)



Then we end up in this under-growth of tree's so we decide to take some more pictures... we climb up onto this tree branch (here it comes...) I put the camera on timer, run over and the jump up, all of a sudden we hear an almighty "CRRRRRRK" and the branch breaks. I jump off in time, but dear Jazz does (what can only be described as) a backward sommersault and lands flat out in a pile of leaves with her legs waving around in the air. We were hysterical for agess!
What's even more immense is that we have a photo of this, but I won't post it here, cuz I'm nice and won't embarrass her like that... I'll just post it on facebook instead ;D (ilu Jazz, still very sorry I broke the tree!)


Oooh good news! One hour later and the gas leak is fixed. I can go back inside (because for sunny weather, it's freezing out here!)

Excuse the sarcasm deary

This week I've been raving to...
Ellie Goulding's CD 'Lights', which I bought last week, which I have not stopped listening to! I love her all her songs, but the one going through my head most atm is 'Wish I Stayed' :)

Feeling Creative

I'm very proud of myself lately- seeing as I 'lack motivation' with my artwork it's been one of those rare ocassions where I actually managed to focus and make a mask for my festivals project! It took me ages but it was soooo worth it :)

I could only upload the pic of the motif, but anyway - ta-dah!

Filmaker Extrodinaire
In media we've been working in small groups to make a short horror movie.
We were quite panicked as we had to reshoot part of our film last week, but we've finished editing and now we're just syncing the music and adding the title sequence, then voila!



Here's a sneakie peak of our future blockbuster ;).....

The real thing's not in black and white, but I think the photos look spookier that way.

We were meant to have eerie, children's laughter at one point but everytime I hear it the laughter reminds me of the sun baby from teletubbies (c'mon, you know you used to watch it!) and suddenly I'm drawn back to the days when teletubbies were cool (face it dear, they were never 'cool'... now pokemon - they were super cool! It's not like you could find and collect a thousand different species of teletubbie...)

I'm as mad as a hatter
Ooooh, I saw the Alice in Wonderland movie at the weekend, in 3D!
It was amaziiiiing! Johnny Depp is a total legend, although I didn't quite get his on/off scottish accent, but I guess it just added depth to the character.
I'm still a little hyper because we went to pizza hut afterwards and we made the epic discovery that toffee popcorn + ice-cream = yummm!