Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuddddeee! Lost is back!
Check out this trailer for season 4, could be considered spoilery, but you know, it’s damn cool.
My Drawing Skills…
A few people have been curious about my drawing skills, I don’t draw that often so please excuse this, it could be considered rubbish, especially after that example i posted a bit earlier in the week.
Here we go…
That links to my DeviantArt account, which only has that on at the moment. I might update this and add another in a moment. Again, model is Evangeline Lilly.
Drawing Rocks…
Not actual rocks of course, but people, more specifically attractive female people…
Which brings me to a new piece of featured content here at gfxl. This is the kind of drawing I really love and it’s by Zindy Nielsen. i have put it side by side the original photograph by Tony Duran for comparison.
I absolutely love detail, so I try to mirror this style in my own drawing (I tend to draw from photographs too.) More on this later.
The model is of course Evangeline Lilly of Lost fame. Please don’t be surprised if you see more of her on this blog!
You can find more of Zindy’s drawings at her site Zindy.Zone.dk.
Lack of a Television
I lack a television. A few years ago, I’m sure, this would be ridiculous for someone like me, so in love with entertainment to force myself to go without a television. There are a few simple reasons why I didn’t, which follow.
- The Television licence is like £130, and I’m not the type to try and get away with it
- Most of what’s on TV is crap that I don’t watch
- I can’t schedule myself for anything, I missed most everything I like when I was at home.
- Most of the TV I do like is on Sky, which I can’t get in student accommodation, and is a stupid luxury I really can’t afford.
- I have a laptop, and I get a lot of entertainment from it.
Read on to read what crap I watch…
Back in black…
Well it’s time for me to say hello and apologise for abandoning LiveJournal for a little while, now I think I shall attempt to be a true blogger, and why not? it’s good for the soul, apparently.
My Weekend: I went on a march with my good friend Katie, we were marching to have nuclear power reinstated as we both passionately believe it is the energy source of the future… just kidding, I do, but she doesn’t. Well it was the climate march in central London, I would show you some pics but they havn’t been processed yet, yes I probably need a good digital camera if I am to be a true blogger, you’re right, but I will process them soon, and let you have a gander, promise.
I was very happy at the end of the march, because it turned out there was a gig afterwards, how exciting! KT Tunstall, and well 2 seconds of Razorlight for me, as myself and Katie had to hike (in some cases barefoot) back to land of dragons, southampton, nightmare.
Then on Sunday I went to the cinema with Freya (who may I add is delightful) and we went and saw Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan which is a documentary by a Kazakhstani journalist by the name of Borat Sagdiyev and his assistant Azamat Bagatov…
It’s Nice!
The film is widely misinterpreted as a comedy by some, who say that Borat is simply a creation of a comedian from England, but anyone who has been watching carefully will see that everything to do with Borat is desturbingly true. The racist underpinings of the film are widely seen in the east as not amusing, but frightening, where we might see comedy, in Kazakhstan they may see horror, Borat’s "crazy" attitude in the west may be amusing to some, but it is a desturbing view of the future to people like me, one day we will be flooded by many Borat clones, a nightmare world if I ever thought of one.
None the less this documentary, documenting Borat’s travels accross America in order to find a wife is well worth viewing, if only to see the attitudes prevalent in nations such as Kazakhstan and understand our worldly neighbours. Five Stars.
Up next movie fans: Casino Royale!
While I have been gone many things have happened, I got a laptop notebook in the form of a now defunct MacBook Pro…
(This is the new one but it looks almost exactly the same as mine)
(while it was still new, in August) and I’ve been playing around with it, now you must understand I absolutely hate the current iMac, urgh! So I’m put off of all Apple’s consumer line, so no MacBooks for me. But I love this, so easy to use, but I’ve currently clogged it up with Lost episodes, what I need is an external hard drive. Next on my wishlist is Windows Vista, which if you’ve seen pics of, actually looks really cool, it could almost put my mac to shame, for a screenshot look here and for those that are wondering, yes it is exactly like Mac OS 10.4 – with cooler looking windows, no dock and less security. Ace!
Ah but there’s always Mac OS 10.5 to look forward to… ok nerdyness over…
And I hope this brings about more bloggieness in the future! See ya then!
OK, I lied….
I’m sorry, I didn’t get to go see Superman Returns today, so I haven’t got a review for you. I did however get to watch Lost last night, most entrancing. Hieroglyphics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I plan to study Lost for my media coursework next year, and debate whether it and other dramas are becoming bigger than cinema. Clearly from what you’ve seen from me, I seem to act as if film is “excellent!” and that drama is a bit “weird” or “kooky” to talk about, I still enjoy it.
So will you get your Superman Review? yes, completely, next week I promise! Have a wonderful day fans.