Tag, you're it!!

Lindsey tagged me to write four interesting facts about myself, now I have to think.

So, here it goes.

1) I have incredibly dark brown eyes and hair. When I was born my hair was jet black, and my eyes turned from blue to brown in less than an hour.

2) I am a medicated depressive with anxiety and panic disorders, as well as a self destructive personality, this is where I believe my artist side comes from.

3) My favorite composers are Danny Elfman and Elliot Goldenthal.

4) Many of my peers at some point or another have questioned my sexuality, this also, not so obviously includes my parents, and it is down to my admiration and love of this chap.



He is my all time favorite fashion designer and I would love to intern with him and design clothes with him!!


Well, there you go, four interesting facts, well, I hope they are interesting, there are probably many more interesting things I could say, but I have been limited to four. So now I nominate.......

Jeannie

and

Katie



Tomorrow I am doing a shoot with a friend, it's all experience. I am mainly reaffirming myself with my skills and refreshing myself. So it should be fun.

Today I return to training.

Well, today I return to training, and it's going to hurt, I know it will, haven't been for 6 weeks, 3 as it was Christmas break, and the others because I was iced in, and injured.

Apart from that, it should be good fun.

AVATAR was amazing, I truely cannot think of any words that can describe how amazing it was.

I am getting ready to get my new laptop, and then I will be set. I have some friends that are going to model for me, so all is going well.

Soon I can mix video/ photography/ illustration/ art and writing into something full of what Katie would call "Awesomesauce".

After hunting through Youtube, I have found the video for Gaultier's autumn/ winter 09-10 women's collection. I love Gaultier, I really do, he is such a fantastic artist, and his new collection shows this off.

A quick entry

Well, here's a quick one to keep the motions going.

I have my new camera, I have bought two lights, the next on the list is a new laptop.

I am going to start shooting some stuff soon enough, and I am also back to writing shorts again, properly. I am going back through my old Sci Fi short ideas and reworking one of them, and another one I am going to rework into a trailer. There going to take some time, but the end result should be worth it.

Tonight however I am off out with people from work and finally, my dreams ocan be fulfilled...why? WE ARE GOING TO SEE AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am going to wet myself!!!!



Catch you all later, but for now, I leave you with this...

Thank you WETA!!!

Flickr is up and running!!!!

Yes, I paid for my Pro account today, so I can upload all of those photos that I have been taking lately, and there have been allot, so click here to see a new set.




It was a really glorious, yet bloody cold walk home.

Just remembered I have a Vimeo account!!!!

I have just remembered that I have a Vimeo account, so I present you with a video, one of a few, but here's the taster.

Myself and my friends Charlie and Mark went on a Extreme Tarping adventure on Portsdown hill where I live. It was dangerous but bloody good fun.

The main voice is Mark, he held the camera, Charlie screams, and I swear.

Extreme Tarping GONE WRONG!!! from Daniel J Cook on Vimeo.

We did manage to loose the camera for a short while at the end, hence the sudden cut off...painful, but fun!!

GO TEAM!!!! from Daniel J Cook on Vimeo.

We went a bit higher up the hill, and it was awesome!!!

Extreme Tarping Take One from Daniel J Cook on Vimeo.

It was a glorious day of dangerous experiments on an Ice covered hill

Only a few more days

Yes, a few more days till I get paid, then I can upgrade my Flickr and grace you all will new pictures and such like.

Well, at this moment in time it's really cold, and the heating is on, and I am watching some dire straight to DVD thriller/ action film, why did I rent this??? Probably because it was free. BUT!!!! It does feature that gloriously underused actor Michael Biehn.

Well, here is my plan for the next two weeks, these are providing I can get out of suburbia and into town. My plan is to go and buy my new camera, and then go and look at new laptops. My intention is to be able to go out and take photos and then automatically download them to my laptop and see what they look like before I start screwing around with them. I am also thinking I will need a new laptop to help my future prospects.

I also need to go and sort out my PC and remove all the crap that is on it clogging up the hard disk, there is so much junk on there that it needs a real clean up!

Well, that's about it for this afternoon, if I can grace you with more, then I will.

From Ian to Deborah

I finally found it, it's printed in the front of 'Toutching from a Distance' and said by Sam Riley in 'Control'. So, I thought I would share it with you.

I wish I were a Warhol silk screen
Hanging on the wall
Or little Joe or maybe Lou
I'd love to be them all
All New York city's broken hearts
And secrets would be mine
I'd put you on a movie reel
And that would be just fine.

St Valentine's Day poem
From Ian to Debbie, 1973

I felt inspired at work today, so I grabbed some paper and a pen and scrawled something down, I won't post it for a while.

See you all soon.

Snow becomes Ice!!

Yes, the snow is now ICE!!! And as much fun as it was throwing myself down sheets of ice on the hill I am now pretty pissed off with it, it's now really hard to walk to work!!! Damn it!!

But well, I have taken shed loads of photos walking too and from work, and as soon as I update my flickr account I will post them, my free account is now full, so I need to wait till I get paid to upgrade it.

I will get my new camera soon!! I am looking at the Lumix G1, something I can take work with that has manual focus and the DSLR capabilities.

Almost finished making my journal too, it's been a while in the making, but all is well, just need to start writing in it now. It has a few bits and bobs inspired by San, so should go well.

But for now you will have to wait till I get some cash, no piccies..sorry.

SNOW DAY!!!!!

I couldn't help it..I just had to!!

SNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes my dear readers, there is SNOW!!! We haven't had snow like this since I was 11. So here are a few pictures, there are more on Flickr.

Touching from a Distance

For those who aren't in the know, but I am sure you are all taken by the wonders of this band, here is the trailer for quite possibly the most honest biopic ever made.

The Eleventh Doctor.

For my fellow "Who" fans.

Happy New Year

Well, January 1st is almost at an end, so I thought I would post a photo of our Christmas tree.



For comedy photo's go and look in the set.