Monday 24 November 2008

NENDOROID GET - Gatchapin

A friend of mine recently got back from Tokyo and brought back with her a nice new Nendoroid for me. Gatchapin, from a certain Japanese television series (my minimal understanding of Katakana fails to bring you the title in English), cost less than ¥2000 from Amazon JPN. I'm not really pleased with the photo I have up on Flickr, perhaps I will update this page when I take a better one. Have a look at the Good Smile Company website to see all the other great figures they make.


Friday 21 November 2008

Fable II - Signed

Lionhead Studios recently released their latest and greatest action-rpg, sequel to the original multi million selling Xbox game, Fable II. I have a very bad habit of buying the Limited Edition version of games and Fable II was not going to escape the custom. Originally, the Fable II LE was a bit more interesting than the LE that was eventually released. Disappointed by the lack of little extras that might somehow validate spending £10 extra, I decided to make my Fable II Limited Edition even more 'limited'. Luckily for me, I have a very kind neighbour who happens to work for Lionhead Studios. He agreed to get a few 'paw prints' on my Fable II cover from some of the team that actually worked on the game and yesterday I received it back through my letterbox. I'm quite pleased with the result, my copy of Fable II is without a doubt a limited edition now, living the rest of its life on my already cramped shelf of Xbox games...not eBay.

Tuesday 18 November 2008

Nugget

I don't eat meat, but I do read their blogs. This little chicken nugget has started a particularly interesting blog about his travels around the world. Were I more adventurous I would love to do something similar but I'm afraid my adventures don't really travel farther than my local post office. Do take a look at his blog, it's far more interesting than mine Nugget On The Road

Monday 10 November 2008

Something Musical

Music lovers, Smiths and Morrissey fans and people with ears: I urge you to go to this website and download some free music which actually happens to be extremely good. I first stumbled across Daniel's fabulous tunes through YouTube. It was here that I became very fond of his covers of songs by The Smiths, my all time favourite band. I was excited to discover that he also conjures up his own Smiths-esque music which I have been playing over and over again thanks to the free downloads with iTunes. I highly recommend his brilliant debut album 'Stigmata Playing Up Again' with great songs such as 'What's It Like To Always Be Wrong' and 'Twenty Easy Payments'. Go listen. Now.

Sunday 9 November 2008

New Job. New Shoes. New Blog.

Did you think I had forgotten about this page again? Never. Although admittedly I have been pretty terrible at updating this thing. So a couple of things worth writing about, firstly a new blog I have just started - Lunch Hour Doodles. I figured wasting an entire 60 minutes between 1-2pm during my working week is a crime and I should do something in this time other than window shopping. The inspiration sparked from another great blog up on the internets, rather than drawing on lunch bags though I will spend ten minutes or so doodling in a sketchpad and post it online daily. Now, this can go one of two ways. I come to realisation that in my ripe old age of twenty I have lost all creative imagination after drawing 30 consecutive pages of myself throwing up, or I will draw something fairly interesting every day that I can look back at one day and think "wow I really am crap at drawing". It's a lose-lose situation but I'm still going ahead with it. 

Remember that Photoshop tutorial I was doing? It paid off. I have just been offered my third job with my wonderful employer Explore, this time as a 'Marketing Services Media Executive'. Being an adventure travel company, it is important for Explore to have the best images to market their product... that's where I will come in. I will be tweaking photos in Photoshop, maintaining camera equipment, giving photo briefs for training trips, looking after the massive image library and fulfilling various other marketing/media duties. I'm really excited and happy to be starting this role, although to my disappointment that won't be until January. Still, it's a wait worth sticking out because this job will really put my career on the path I want it to.