December 2011
17 posts
The End & The Beginning
When thinking about the end of this year and the beginning of the next I’ve been thinking of the opening line on M. Ward’s Stars of Leo: “I was born on the first day of December, that means the beginning of the end”. I mean, the song talks the month of December but if you think about it these last few days of the year have also been the beginning of the end.
It’s...
Christmas Eve
Covent Garden, Sunday 10th December, approximately 6pm. That’s when it all started to feel festive, everyone was wrapped up warm and watching a show put on by two men who were doing all sorts of backflips and limbo tricks. Christmas was round the corner.
That was two weeks ago but seems further away. Time has gone by quick and now, 24th of December 7pm I am getting ready to go and...
Busy Time
Christmas is a busy time. I think I’ve had a lot of things planned from the moment I got here. I haven’t had time to take a lot of photos so the latest ones are from my shopping trip to London two weeks ago. Above is Camden Market in the sunset.
So yeah, things are very busy lately. I got back to Gibraltar on Sunday morning and since then I’ve been doing things every day,...
Feels Like Home
I’m at home now. I say home but I’m not sure really if it’s home. I don’t know, Gibraltar is home but really living on my own most of the year and having to come back to living with my parents is not the best of things. But yeah, I’m in Gibraltar, I’m at home. I haven’t slept since Friday night because I had to stay at Gatwick all night and I’m...
Fin
This photo was a mistake. The past two rolls I’ve made a mistake with a photo. Basically my camera has (like all digital SLR’s - although it’s film) a shutter button with two positions. So I was exposing and over-clicked and it took the photo…underexposed, out of focus…but I like it. I took it in the launderette when I was waiting for my stuff to dry. If you want be...
Seafront
Here’s a photo from last week’s trip to London. It’s taken on Kingly Street in Soho. I can’t find what the restaurant is called but it was taken at about 11am and the chefs were preparing stuff in the basement, I think it was a right place right time situation, I love these photos. So today I didn’t go to class in the end. I really should have but I wasn’t...
Early Starts
OK I admit it, I don’t have many early starts. Well, lately I have been having early starts…well, for a student I have. Today I got up at around half 10, for a student and considering I didn’t have to wake up until later on it was early. Don’t judge me.
So it’s been a long day, I handed in my work and now I’m debating whether to go out tomorrow. Some...
Work
Despite the hard work today has been a good day. I got to wake up at an earlier time that normal, kinda fixing my sleeping pattern. I was shattered yesterday and I don’t know why, maybe still from London on Sunday, is that possible. I was re-watching Woody Allen’s Manhattan, it’s my favourite Allen film, and couldn’t finish it, I was falling asleep halfway through. So I...
Record Hail Storm
Today’s photos are probably my favourite from the whole roll, I love them and I hope you like them too. I particularly like the first one here because it was playing my favourite Cat Stevens song.
A little about the title: Today we planned to head to Campus at about midday, grab some lunch at The Registry (because we broke out Monday tradition but couldn’t resist) and do some...
Winchester Continued
This morning after yesterday’s crazy tiring day I had a bit of a lie in. I didn’t have to come into class until 4pm so I got out of bed at around half 1. I woke up to find that my article went on the Europa Sur website today, so I sat in bed and read it. It’s so fantastic, check it out here. I’m really happy for that. So, on a good note I got out of bed, had a shower and made my way into the...
LDN
So I just got back from London, this is what we did today.
Me and PA got up at about quarter to 8, got showers, grabbed a taxi and grabbed a train. Fratton to London Victoria. We then went straight for Picadilly Circus from where we walked to Carnaby Street. We definitely got there too early, the guy at Ben Sherman was shocked we were up so early on a Sunday and most shops were still closed. We...
Sofa Time
It’s Saturday and what we planned to do didn’t happen. What did happen was that we stayed up until 5am last night playing Empire Earth in the living room, we played for about six hours or more. Crazy I know. We stayed on the sofa all day, had some lunch, did some laundry and just got back from the dryers. Now it’s time to get something to eat and watch a movie.
Three photos...
Freitag
Today I’m going to be brief, don’t fancy saying much and I want to play some guitar. About the photos:
PA on the top, Ale trying on a tweed jacket that he didn’t buy on the bottom. Check the rest out here.
About today: Woke up very early, spent the day working in Uni but done stuff which is good. Gibraltar has a new government. Don’t want to mention anything else...
Regular Thursday
It’s been just a regular Thursday. I’m enjoying being in UK these days, but just because today is not a regular day in Gibraltar. Today is Election day and I’m glad I’m not stuck in the whole thing, it’s a bit too much. So instead of stressing over governments I completed and handed in an assignment due in for tomorrow. It might be the first time I hand something...
TATE
These photos are from the TATE Modern and I love them. All but one of the photos I’ve uploaded here today are from there actually. Lately I’ve taken a few more vertical photos which is interesting, I think Alessandro Venerandi, Brian Ferry, Marcos Rivas, etc., are all to blame. Might be able to get some awesome diptychs done soon.
I’m feeling good today,...
1950's
Today I’m resting. After being quite productive this morning but going all the way to University to work having forgotten my worksheets at home I have decided to relax. I’ve got the blues today. I’ve been listening to a lot of 1940’s/1950’s music lately, it’s got me in a Christmas mood. I just can’t wait for the 18th to land in Gibraltar, go home and...
Andata e Ritorno
It’s also been two weeks but I’m back. It’s been a long two weeks and two more long weeks coming up until I fly back home on the 18th.
Where to start? I don’t know. I’ve done so many things, but I’ve been working really hard too (for a change). Well, today I had a presentation which went well. But that was after a magnificent lunch (large beef burger with...
