Don't go into the light

Its said that before someone dies, one shall see a great light at the end of a tunnel.

Today I saw a great light down the end of a shopping isle in Tesco; a fire-exit of St Peters golden gates and the shadows of souls that await.

Big fUCKing mistake

Took a risk and showed my recent photos of Amy to Pete (the miserable antique clock), what a fucking mistake.


Thought maybe there's a slim chance of him appreciating my lighting attempts to make a nice picture but he just threw it right back in my face, just negative criticism and attitude. Worse still he then went onto rant about me to Darren IN FRONT OF ME as if I was special needs and like I wasn't there! He was chucking my pictures around and rudely pointing at me while talking to Darren about me.
(Darren my photography teacher and a cool guy)

Proper pissed me off, I always have respect to people older than me, but what Pete did tonight was arrogant, humiliating and dis-respectful...and I have lost respect for him.

I refuse to let him see my work anymore.

I'm now starting to feel the same way some of the girls do about Pete and his relentless attitude.
After a good discussion with Darren about the project criteria, I put my head down and drafted loadsa critical analysis and shit about my work. Put forward how much time and film I wasted and how politely pissed off I was about the pictures I produced.
I was never happy about any of the pictures, all I see in them are images from an inexperienced photographer who has a shitload to learn. But also...I see photos captured by an enthusiastic young photographer who's enjoying this photography experience; but I fear that enthusiasm has been hampered for the last time.


FUCK YOU ASSHOLE

Conscious Sleep - Free Will

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Welcome to the second of a dual part music video.

This song is one of my most favourite that was made by Free Will, mainly because of its vintage feel and also because of the deep meaningful lyrics behind it.

The main chorus lyrics ask one of life's questions:
"You wanna succeed, you wanna be free but what does that mean?"
My treatment approach for this videos narrative was to follow the story of a protagonist performed by the lead singer.

As mentioned in my previous blog, this second music video has many connections to the first as our protagonist crosses paths with the homeless character.

A lot of the performances by the lead singer Luke are simply a theatrical representation of the lyrics.

The lyrics themselves are vague and impartial to anyone, it could really be open to all sorts of interpretations. The visual narrative helps put things into perspective as the protagonist reflects on himself through the homeless character of the previous video.

I get the feeling these two music videos are one of a kind as they both go hand in hand with visual connotations and they each serve a key purpose for both comical 'toilet humor' and exploring human faith.

The previous music video blog is for 'Clearly Beautiful' and you can view it here


myspace.com/freewilluk

OCD poem from yours truely

OCD sounds clostrophobic to me, its like your restrained with no control over your actions and this restraint is like an emotional panic that you cant escape from no matter how small the room gets

Akon - Right now na na na (YouTube Live disaster)

[Video Director] Anthony Mandler
[Video Producer] Gina Leonard
[Producer] Aliaune "Akon" Thiam
[Producer] Giorgio Tuinfort

This is such a beautiful video, its not just about having bling and money, but about what one man has lost that's worth more than fame and fortune.

You never fully realise what you have until you lost it.


As much as I love this music video and grown to love the song itself, I cant help but ask what the hell Akon was thinking when he threw himself at the audience of YouTube Live while singing this song.


Of course he's just trying to promote the song and himself (in one way or another), but to perform a deep and emotional song at a YouTube venue is not cool, especially when he ends up throwing himself at an unsuspecting audience.....TWICE !

I honestly thought that Akon, in his smart looking suit, would actually reserve a dignified performance to end the show but instead lead me to question what kinda crazy spaz possessed him to kill the song like that.

Like I mentioned earlier; you never fully realise what you have until you lost it, and tonight Akon lost it.