What is he……? He’s a real arty one ! His name is Greg, “film-maker/writer/cultural self improver and one day I’m going to win an Oscar.” as he described himself. As part of the Lomography Gallery Store team Greg has collected many films from me, so I can’t help it but sponsor him in his run for charity when he told me about it. He is running for Sport Relief The Mile, “There’s no better way to rise to the challenge than by entering the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile. It’s all set to be bigger and better than ever before, with 16 fantastic Flagship Miles and hundreds of other Mile events taking place across the UK on Sunday 21st March. And the really great bit is that all the money you raise by getting sponsored will make the world of difference to people living really tough lives both here in the UK and across the world’s poorest countries. If you want to enter the Mile – there’s no time to waste! Online entry for Flagship Miles closes at 5.30pm on Friday 19th March and local Mile entry is already closed. But you may still be able to enter in person on the day – check your nearest Mile to see if you can.” – Sport Relief

[Go sponsor Greg - here - every little bit helps]

“I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I’m not sure that you realized that what you’ve heard is not what I meant” – Alan Greenspan

[Don't think I have a relevant photo to go with this, but here it one. She kinda look like she's thinking I suppose]

What I’m about to babble on about pretty much applies to EVERYTHING ! Everybody have certain things they like, whether it is music, books, films, foods, phones, shoes, shirts, even simple thing like socks, you get my point, anyway these things are all different and not everyone else in the world will like the same things you do. However it is NOT “crap” in any ways, a lot of people still doesn’t understand the simple concept of how different mind works differently and that not everyone’s going to think that, that certain thing lets say its music, is “crap”. The thing you have to keep in mind is that by all mean to your opinion you have all the rights in the world to say that it is “crap” or it is “cool”, but when sharing these opinion you have to bare in mind that theirs might be far off yours.

A simple situation of one of these would be:

This is the [what I think] is the more civilized way of handling the situation. If someone was sitting in a room listening to music doing whatever they’re doing and you enters, all is well, on the other hand you’ve notice the music and does not like it. Now it is not wrong or right for you to not like this music, you may ask the person to change it, turn it off, or put a head phone on. Simple and everybody is happy.

Now this is the [what I think] is the worst way for someone to handle the situation. Let’s say it’s the same scenario as the one before, music playing you enter the room, doesn’t like it. This is where things goes wrong, first obvious thing that the person enters the room will do is say something like “what is this ?” (usually with the word “crap” or “shit” at the end). Which is fair enough if you want to know, what is this sound made by the vibration coming from the speakers, produced by the electrical current submitted by the programing of the computer/iPod/phones/etc. But you know its making noise at a certain notes, with certain beats to go along with it must be music of some sort. Unless you find it hard to recognized music, at which point I suggest you see a physiologist or a doctor. Okay now after the person already in the room explained the music t them, the usual response is “This is SHIT!” This is where a argument starts, not because either wanted to cause a fight, but it’s because both different people have different interests. Sometime the person who dislike the music (in this case) knows what reaction he will get by expressing how much he dislike this music. By doing this he purposely provoking the person who likes the music to explain their reason for liking the music, just so that they can once again express how they feel in a different way to they and persuade that person to think how they do.

Now what they have to know is to act correctly in situation like this, like I said anyone have the right to hate/like anything they want. On the other hand it’s not right to just presumed that everybody’s going to like/hate it too. The simple facts is if they don’t like it, you going to them “This is the shit man, its amazing have a listen[look, watch, etc.]” isn’t going to change their mind. In-fact it might make them hate/like it even more than before. It is that simple thing you can do to respect other people’s opinions. Yes, discuss it with each other but also keep it in the discussion that it’s each person’s opinion, not the whole group will have the same answer to something. I think that just throwing your opinion out there not discussing the differences, likes and dislikes. then take in consider other people’s opinion in any ways shape or form and just expecting it to be find is just unacceptable.

So please people, respect other people’s opinions too. In the end yours is not the only one that matters when it comes to living in the world where different opinion matters too. There are many different way thing are being seen by many different people. “Wow” I’ve put a lot of “different” in here.

Don’t you just hate it when you look at your text/email and it says:

“Once you have opened this e-mail, there’s no turning back. Below are true descriptions of zodiac signs, with traits from a book written
thirty-five years ago by an astrologist predictions. Read your sign, then forward it, with your zodiac sign and label on the subject line. This is a real deal, try ignoring it, and the first thing you’ll notice is having a horrible day starting tomorrow morning – and it only gets worse from there.”

Now isn’t this just a pile of horse sh*t ! I mean yes superstitious believes are perfectly fine. Things like breaking a mirror will give you seven years bad luck or if a black cat cross you path that a bad sign is more like “Myths”, these “Myths” has been around for many years giving itself time to be established by our society. Understandable that is why some may believe is such statements. But on the other hand these chain letters/messages which its main purpose is probably to spread a computer virus, they don’t even have a real source of where it begins isn’t something that’s needed to be acknowledge. In the end superstition is just credulous belief or notion, not based on reason, knowledge, or experience. Therefore before buying into the point that the letter/message is making, you should consider analyzing how would the situation be possible before acting upon what the text is telling you. Yet some people fail this simple step and skipped straight through to the action. I mean it’s as simple as thinking in your head “how would a random 9 years old dead girl from America gonna come out of my cupboard and kill me in a horrible and terrifying manner?”

“Some threaten users with bad luck if not forwarded. There are many forms of chain e-mail that threaten death or the taking of one’s soul by telling tales of other’s deaths, such as the Katu Lata Kulu chain e-mail, stating that if it is not forwarded, the receivers of the message will be killed by the spirit. Another involved an email involving a homicidal Mickey Mouse[murderer], who will intrude the recipient’s domain to kill him or her unless sent to the number of recipients. Any lower [than what is commanded, the recipient] will suffer death, injury, paranoia, and bad luck.” – Wikipedia. Tell me you don’t think all sound perfectly capable of actually happening from simply opening an email ? I mean if so why the hell open it in the first place ? Most of the time it said in the “subject” don’t open. Yes sometime these things are sent by a viruses, but for the last time stop forwarding them !

A longer better and funnier version of my first Analogue stop motion……….

Remember my earlier post about making friends ? When I mentioned that I made some new friends from the Lomomission ? Well this brilliant musician just happen to be one of them….

[Yes the mysterious man behind the sandwich is the man I'm talking about]

His name is John Budding, a Student, musician, songwriter & photographer. John have some of the best music I’ve heard in a while, so why not have a quick listen. John have a website of his own www.johnbudding.co.uk go and check it out….. I’m sorry i can’t really say too much in this blog, like I said he’s a new friend.

Alright this is just one of those subject that don’t apply to everyone, but you’ll probably end up in this situation at some point. Mobile phones are used for mobile telecommunication (assisted transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication to or from a mobile device). However some people just seem to missed the purpose for this technology, mobile phones to some people are not for the purpose of communication but are an accessory. It’s become a fashion statement, it’s something that is used just to show and in some circumstance give an illusion of having a high social status.

Now the reason I wanted to write this blog is because, today when I left my Graphics lesson to go to lunch i tried to call my friend who did not pick up her phone. I have a free lesson after lunch that i thought would be very brilliant to use for filming some Media work, however i could not get a hold of her. So i tried another friend, she did not pick up/text back either and another, and another. Non of them picked up but one texted back and this make me think why have a mobile phones but never actually using it when it’s needed ? Or having a phone but never picking up just using it as gaming device, camera, entertainment etc.

Yes a mobile phone is not only build for calling but also have additional services, and accessories, such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, gaming, Bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video, MP3 player, radio and GPS. However those are only accessories to the main function of the mobile phone, which is to allow you to communicated wirelessly where ever you go ( within the coverage distance ). No one seems to be using it only for this purpose anymore.

Having a mobile phone myself I know that me personally I only use it mainly for calling, texting and emailing (communication). So I think that people to have fancy looking phone that have 1.7GHz processor, or a multi touch function on their touch screen , or an App that can tell them what the cat is saying needs to know the real purpose of having this device. But not to have it only so they can say “Look at this awesome App I got” or ” Look my phone is faster than your computer.” I want it to be use as a mobile telecommunication device not a fashion statement. This way when someone really needs you they can get a hold of you, rather than panicking over the fact that they need to do the work but doesn’t have the people they need to do the work with there.

I think my Graphics teacher hates me. Reason for that:

I don’t like kids ! Not like i hate them, but well it’s more like I’m scared of children. Yes I’m not so far from a children myself being 17 but I’m talking of the really young children. I don’t like them because 1: I’m afraid I’m going to make them cry & 2: I don’t know what to do when they come up to you, being the youngest in my family I haven’t had a little brother/sister to looked after. Now to why I think my graphic teacher hates me, I say she hates me i don’t literally mean that she “hates” me. I have a pretty solid idea that she knows I don’t like children, yet we have came to a decision to do my exam work on Toys. Which the idea of doing it on Toys, to me, sounds like a great fun. However this will mean I would have to spend a great amount of time either, go to places that sells toys (this usually involve kids) or visit children’s museums.

V&A Childhood Museum is the first place that came to her mind. Yes it’s “Childhood” Museum, of course that place is going to be full of kids.But i gave it a go. I went there on the Wednesday 24th (the day LC-A Instant back+ was launch) the museum itself is very nice and simple, literally just toys in a glass cupboard in some sort of a massive warehouse. However there is this big piece of Art work at the entrance that caught my eyes. It was a “bridge/rainbow thingy/some sort of a shelter/who knows what” made from just wooden chairs !

[Look at the little devils running towards me.... "arrgghhhh"]

This was amazing as you can see, not the most exciting thing but I just wasn’t expecting something like this in a museum that sounds quite boring. It not only the chair that amazed me at this museum, the boring toys i was there to take photos of were not as boring as I thought. The toys were not just old teddy bears and wooden cars, there were all sort of toys thing like game console to collectibles. If you don’t know this I am a bit of a Star Wars fan and have a massive collection of unopened action figure from Star Wars, back home in Thailand. So seeing them was nice, also things like the Play Station 1 (the original one) brings back memories of when I’ve played those old games with my brother whom I haven’t seen in a while.

Conclusion: if you have free time why not visit this place, it might be a little far(ish) if you live in Central London. It only took me about 35-45 minutes to get there and I say that’s not bad. It’ll bring back memories when you look at those old toys if you do see ones that you’ve had in the pass like I did.

Another thing that I should mention is their cafe looked very good. I didn’t have time to see it because I was rushing to go to the Lomo Store to get the brand spanking new LC-A Instant Back+ & The “No Nukes” LC-A+. Which by the way is an amazing addition to the LC-A, as amazing as the Diana Instant back is, it’s nowhere near the result you’ll get with the LC-A Instant Back+. With its signature vignetting and the crystal clear images (with a Tunnel Vision like effect ) made by it’s glass lens still included in the instant photos that comes out, its a “must have” for LC-A owners. I really do highly recommend this LC-A Instant Back+ !

[Just see what I mean when I say it's a "must have"]

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