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.

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.

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

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.

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. 

Something Plastic

So that Iron Man figure I was raving on about a few weeks ago turned up. After a week in transit from Hong Kong it arrived in surprisingly good condition and even more surprising was its authenticity. EBay can quite often traffic fraudulent items, even something as obscure as a 'San Diego Comic Con 2008 Exclusive Iron Man Mighty Mugg' but I was lucky and got the real thing. Certainly a mouthful and certainly a very nice, shiny, well made figurine that stands shoulder to shoulder with Boba Fett atop my tower of video games and Nendoroid's. I haven't taken a good enough (or Flickr worthy) photo of Iron Man yet but as soon as I do I will post it on this here blog page.

Mighty Muggs: Collection Initiation

This was rather unexpected. My brother returned home from town and brought back a Mighty Mugg, for me! Boba Fett, king of bounty hunters, is the first Mighty Mugg character to start off my collection. I thought it was going to be the SDCC Iron Man that I mentioned in my previous blog but I'm still waiting for that to arrive.