Chavin it up!

So had another pretty good few days! especially on monday night when I got to dress like a chav for a night! Its very surprising how much fun acting like a chav can be. I did feel like wearing what I was wearing I couldn't talk normally (as did rest of the people who were dressing up) so there were alot of sentences like 'wot ya chattin bout tho?' 'get outta ma space' and 'wot is up wiv ureself?' and for the first time on this blog I am putting some pics! so you can take a look at us chav's!






Something I have been thinking about recently is all the little stupid things I have learnt at uni and little things I do at uni! So here are some of them I thought I would share with you!

1. I now know most of the words for these songs:

• 'I am the one and only' Chesney
• 'Sweet child of mine' Guns N' Roses
• 'I would walk 5000 miles' The Proclaimers

2. Phil and Fern (this morning tv) have become my friends!
3. Closing the grill door (even if it is only a few seconds) whilst cooking lamb chops will cause a fire!
4. Cleaning your room can become a form of procrastination (instead of doing uni work)
5. You learn the art of having a good nap!

Theres loads more but I will share them with you in another post!

bye for nowXXXX

Lovely!

Well these past few weeks have been good, they actually have been some of the best weeks I have ever had at uni! and to be honest I dont know why. Maybe because I have felt really relaxed there, or that my project is going quite well or that this is the best living situation I have been in since I went to uni! but it has been good.

Also I am happy because I have come home to sunny Worthing for 3 weeks! there is something about this place that I will always love and I am trying to put my finger on it. Obviously its the people! my great friends and family but also I guess when I get here I always feel super relaxed, I know my way round and well its always lovely hearing the sea in the morning! and weirdly I love the sound of the seaguls! so its nice to be home! and like Dorethy said in wizard of oz 'There's no place like home'

I know this post my sound boring and is very short but a good friend said to me the yesterday 'a blog can just be a diary of even the mundane things that have happened to you' so I thought I would talk about how nice my week has been!

anyhoo thats all folks!!!

Life as a Photography Student!

Ok so I said weeks ago that I would talk something about what I actually do on my photography course, so I have decided that i'm gonna explain now!

Well to start with I just want to explain that my course is very conceptual, so all of the photographs we do have to be explained with a deeper meaning and we have to be able to justify in quite a lot of depth why we have taken that photo the way we have. Which sometimes I find very frustrating because I just want to pick up my camera and take photos purely because I wanted to! and nothing else! I do find that it can often suck the joy out of photographing, because if you can't find an idea that is meaningful and interesting enough then it can become this HUGE! chore to find that idea and can become so frustrating! However if you do find that interesting idea it can be soooooooo much fun! Although I do admit the work I do on this course might not be where I want to go when I finish as I LOVE photographing people but because I cant find an interesting idea that I can clearly explain my reasons for doing, which I can use people I have chosen to go another route with my photographs.

So what do I photograph!? my practice at uni is mainly under 2 titles! Autobiography and Narrative, for the last two projects I did (one end of 2nd yr, the other beginning of 3rd yr) I looked at a time in my life that was quite stressful and upsetting for me which was when I was getting bullyed. For the first project I photographed the physical effect it had on me, by photographing the walking journey from school to home. This was horrible for me as the girls would shout insults at me. The way I captured this was I shot the streets as I looked back, as this expressed me looking back at the girls to see how close they were. These photographs were produced in a poster like form with sentences written underneath each photo that expressed my thoughts as I walked. Sentences like 'why cant they leave me alone' and 'only 2 minutes left and i'm home'.

The 2nd project was the mental effect it had on me! during this period I would have a lot of sleep terrors due to the stress of the bullying and I would sleep walk every night in the school term. To express this I had 10 small prints in a line on the wall like a story board, taking the viewer from start to finish of my sleep walk in the night the photos were of places in my house I slept walked, they were blurred as my vision was there but not being use normally cause I was in a dreamlike state!

Now finally the project I am doing at the mo! I am looking at the idea of claustrophobia, as this is something that came up in my last project and I am interested in it as I am effected by this a little! At the moment its a work in progress so I think I will explain what I did when I finish! Also I think I have explained enough about my work already! lol!

I do apologise once again if you cant understand what I just said and if I rambled! I realise this was a lengthy post! but I just felt like I needed to explain what I do as I understand I dont often talk about my photography work!

Thats all I guessXXX

Plodding Along........

So i've been sitting infront of this laptop now for flippin ages! trying to figure out how to put what i'm thinking into words, so here it goes! if you dont understand it, find it boring or if I ramble I do apologise! So these last two weeks have been pretty interesting! my project at uni is really coming along and i'm really enjoying it, which is really good because there is nothing worse than trying to do a project that you dont enjoy because you never have any good ideas and then it becomes this mega struggle to produce anything worth showing. So I am really chuffed that my final project at uni is an enjoyable one, not only this but I really feel like I have learnt/been reminded of a lot of things in these past couple of weeks.

Well the first thing that I have really been thinking about is how I should be enjoying every moment more, lately I have been plodding along with everything not taking much in. Which I shouldn't be doing because I only live on this earth once and I only experience uni once and I should be taking every moment of it in and experiencing these last few months to the fullest! I guess its so easy to get to the end of things that have taken up quite a chunk of your time and have such a routine about it. So something that I am going to try and do is take in every last moment of uni as I wont get it back once its finished!

Secondly God has been really speaking to me, because of my plodding along attitude I haven't been as close to God as usual and he has really been bringing me close to him again! It was amazing a few days ago I got a lovely facebook messege from my lovely friend Nicola that gave me real reassurence about my future and how God is going to use me in the future and then literally 2 mins after reading that I recieved a text from my other lovely friend Kirsty explaining how she felt God was reminding me to fix my eyes on him. Wow isn't amazing how God speaks to us!

Anyway I think I will stop going on now, but I just want to say one last thing!

Thanks God your Amazing!

God blessX