Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Monday, 9 May 2011

Blah blah.

Day 01 — Your favourite film
Day 02 — A song that makes you happy
Day 03 — Your favourite food
Day 04 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 05 — Your day, in great detail
Day 06 — Your favourite television program
Day 07 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 08 — Your favourite book
Day 09 — A photo that makes you happy
Day 10 — A hobby of yours
Day 11 — Your favourite song
Day 12 — An art piece
Day 13 — Your family
Day 14 — A photo of you taken recently
Day 15 — Your favourite actress
Day 16 — A recipe
Day 17 — Your favourite possession
Day 18 — A website
Day 19 — A song that makes you want to dance
Day 20 — Your favourite quote
Day 21 — A non-fiction book
Day 22 — Your favourite memory
Day 23 — A photo you took
Day 24 — What you can see from your window
Day 25 — A talent of yours
Day 26 — Your favourite actor
Day 27 — A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 28 — A fiction book
Day 29 — What you wore today
Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year

It's impossible not to love Adele's album, she seems to be there every time I turn the TV on. Apart from the incredible singing it helps that she's hilarious. If you didn't see her on Graham Norton with Miranda Hart and Jack Whitehall then quite frankly you must watch it. NOW.


"Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas. Sensible man. My mantra for justifying the amount of work I'm making myself do.

Non-fiction: Key Concepts in Victorian Literature (Palgrave Key Concepts). If I can just memorise this, the wider reading literature exam will be a doddle. If you happen to be taking this AS course, this is easily the best book I've come across.

Combine memories with pictures, some of my travels...
Barcelona. Trying to get pictures of the chimneys while on the roof of La Pedrera. Most people don't have their bobble hat and the sagrada familia in the same picture, but I asked if we could go in October so that it wouldn't be too hot... pathetic.


Ireland. My family has a farm, I'd never been before, it was lovely.



Favourite things in Paris: Pere Lachaise cemetery, Versailles and bizarre chewing-gum poetry on the metro.

Very old picture of me from an art project that, at a guess, was about anger. Just found this in the mess of folders that is my laptop. Too many pictures, too little organisational skill.

A post consisting of almost entirely unrelated things. Oh well, thankyou very much if you stuck with it :) 

Sunday, 1 May 2011

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.

Day 01 — Your favourite film
Day 02 — A song that makes you happy
Day 03 — Your favourite food
Day 04 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 05 — Your day, in great detail
Day 06 — Your favourite television program
Day 07 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 08 — Your favourite book
Day 09 — A photo that makes you happy
Day 10 — A hobby of yours
Day 11 — Your favourite song
Day 12 — An art piece
Day 13 — Your family
Day 14 — A photo of you taken recently
Day 15 — Your favourite actress
Day 16 — A recipe
Day 17 — Your favourite possession
Day 18 — A website
Day 19 — A song that makes you want to dance
Day 20 — Your favourite quote
Day 21 — A non-fiction book
Day 22 — Your favourite memory
Day 23 — A photo you took
Day 24 — What you can see from your window
Day 25 — A talent of yours
Day 26 — Your favourite actor
Day 27 — A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 28 — A fiction book
Day 29 — What you wore today
Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year

The last piece of art I did, probably over a year ago now, for my art gcse (really poor picture quality, taken sneakily with my phone before the end). This exam was one of the most terrifying parts of my education to date. 10 hours and one chance to get it right (eek!) I'd also managed to box myself into a corner of flipping miners on my project; who are some of the liniest people on the planet and impractically difficult to draw. I quite liked art at school but I'm not great and with all the busyness of a-levels haven't had chance to do more than some doodles and birthday cards since then.



My terribly modern family is far, far too complicated to have any photos or anything all together but never mind. I love my family, they're a little eccentric mostly.

Most recent photo of me which isn't already on this blog. All dressed up, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's style, for a friend's school thing.

My favourite actresses are more difficult to discern than my favourite actors. Not sure what it says about me but I don't get as enthusiastic about individual actresses as I do their male counterparts. There are lots I love in certain roles but very few who I consistently like.

Shirley Maclaine. For always being in things that make me laugh and cry like a baby.

Audrey. I don't think a girl exists who doesn't wish she was her.


Lillian Gish. Essentially invented film acting and had hair I've been obsessed with as long as I can remember.


Joan Fontaine. Aside from always being in films I love, she looks so much like my mum. It's the rabbit in headlights thing. :)

My preferences with actresses are pretty standard. I also love Julie Christie, Vanessa Paradis, Clara Bow, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Gene Tierney, Vivien Leigh, Brooke Shields and Sissy Spacek to name a few.