Mixtape Wednesday

im obsessed with this song right now

Mixtape Wednesdays Part

I missed mixed tape wednesday last week so to make up for it....




I love love love the specials

and here are two perfect tunes to pick you up on a boring afternoon...



I could post specials songs all day long...

UFO

I love these images of UFO sightings...
The last one looks like the tardis with a skirt, no?

Mixtape Wednesdays part 5

The one and only Bob Marley...

Mixtape wednesdays part 4

My current song on repeat while on the tube...

Phoenix- lisztomania

And I just fall in looooove with Bob Dylan when I see this video

Bob Dylan- Subterranean homesick blues

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Sophie Ristelhueber's photographs study the scars and destruction left behind after war

They say much more about modern war, and avoid the in-your-face gore of some war photography

I also love this photo by Donovan Wylie

Ice House Detroit

A while ago, I posted about 100 abandoned houses

Now Ive discovered Ice House Detroit.

An amazing installation freezing one of the many abandonned houses in Detroit.

Reminds me a little of Roger Hiorns' Seizure...

Ursula

From 'The little Mermaid'

Mixtape Wednesdays part 3

I love the Clash, they were my the soundtrack to a lot of my teens...
Here a couple of my favourite songs...




and I can't have Police and Thieves without a bit of Junior Murvin...

Jenny Saville

I love Jenny Saville's work, its inspired me a lot in my own painting.

Mixtape Wednesdays part 2

Two of my favourite ever songs,
Kinks, Waterloo sunset




and the Mystery jets- Flakes (there is also an awesome Florence and the machine cover of this song) I think they're brilliant, (I once saw Blane and Henry outside my window!-they grew up just down the road from me)
"this song, is one I never thought that I would play"

Happy Burns night!

A Rose-bud by my early walk,
Adown a corn-enclosed bawk,
Sae gently bent its thorny stalk,
All on a dewy morning.
Ere twice the shades o' dawn are fled,
In a' its crimson glory spread,
And drooping rich the dewy head,
It scents the early morning.

Shadows on the Thames

Buildings and trees casting their shadows over the Thames... Yet again, I've found some interesting images on Google maps!

Snowflakes

Images of the first ever snowflake photographs by Wilson A Bentley, from the late 19th century.

They are on sale at the moment, I think they are beautiful.

Five Things...

That I've been watching on TV

1. Celeb Big Brother

Loving: Jonas and Sisqo

Hating: Stephanie and Vinnie

2. Being Human

3. Babylon 5 (Now I live with my parents I watch my Mum's sci-fi!)

4. Take me out (TOTAL cheese TV)

5. The Wire (Kinda cheating cos its on DVD but I'm loving it)

Light at the end of the tunnel...

Love this installation by Yochai Matos.
Its so cool,
its like a rip in the fabric of reality, a gateway to another existence.
Its like the image in my head from reading loads of sci-fi novels...

love it...

Mixtape Wednesdays- Part 1

Noah and the Whale- Shape of my heart. (Brilliant Vid...)


Run DMC- My Adidas

Salt n Pepa

When clearing out my flat I found this single on tape,
it was one of my first tapes at about 7 years old!

Living with the parents...

I moved everything JW and I own into one room in my parents house this weekend.
It was stressful and dotted with arguements, but its done,
and I even managed to sell some of my furniture.
I just have to keep in my head the reason I'm doing this.
I have to keep reminding myself that I wouldn't be able to even think about travelling if I was still paying rent.
Everything is settled, but its all going to take some getting used to ( I got told off for leaving a cup in the living room, and having a long shower!)
It honestly feels like being a teenager again, only now I have to get up early and go to work :(

snow snow and more snow

I'm feeling a bit torn.

When I woke up this morning and discovered that there was yet again a fresh layer of snow covering London, my first reaction was that excited feeling somewhere inbetween my throat and my stomach.

But then the grown up part of me remembered...

1. I have to go to work anyway, and if the tubes aren't running I will have to walk

2. It is colder than a very cold thing in my flat because it is a 1930's built block, designed to be heated by a fireplace and has only one tiny radiator

3. I am moving house tomorrow. Eeek!

snow day please?!

London is covered in snow! There is a real snow blizzard going on (ok, so in comparison to some places its not much, but for London this is pretty impressive!)

My mean boss wont let us leave early though, so lots of of might end up snowed in -If we do I think we'll go to the pub ;)
AND, she said I should walk home if my trains aren't working! Mean, mean boss!!!

first day back :(

From modern toss

I heart Ida Maria

Happy New Year!

Five things:
New Years resolutions...

1. Be positive
2. Save money every month, don't spend money on silly things like random jewelery that i never wear and lunch at Marks and sparks
3. Be a bit healthier and more active.
4. Get myself organised, and don't leave things to the last minute
5. This will be the year of fulfilling my plans and dreams.

oh, and a couple more...
6. maybe drink a little less
7. Meet up more with friends I don't see often enough (actually that kinda cancels out number 6!)