#24 - Camden

Taken on the trip to see Sunny Day Real Estate and Saves the Day (which was cancelled)

#23 - The Shoe Tree

Taken today in Heaton Park

#23 - Glastonbury 40

Glastonbury tickets go on sale 3rd October. If you haven’t registered and are wishing to buy a ticket, you should do so ASAP. It’s a magical place.

This picture is from this years Glastonbury. This piece was at the very end of the Park area, the south of the festival site. It was put up to celebrate the 40 years that Glastonbury has been up and running.

#21

#20 - another picture from the same night as the last post

#19 - an oldie, but a good 'un

18 - Boiled Eggs

Sorry for the rubbish picture. I forgot to use the magnifying lens. I quite like the blurriness anyway. You get the idea. Boiled eggs. Who doesn't love a nice boiled egg? Always reminds me of childhood. I've nearly finished reading Get in the Van. Maybe after that I'll have some pictures that aren't inside. I took the instax out with me today as it was sunny. As soon as I set foot outside it turned cloudy. Boooo

#17 - Run in the Van

Less than a week ago I ordered the book on the left from Amazon. The package was left next door. Which is comical in itself as I'm pretty sure our neighbours dislike us. That wasn't going to stop me from getting my mitts on 'Get in the Van'.

I read about 3/4 of the book yesterday. It has made me think alot and probably gave me the pick-up that I needed. Good work Henry. I don't think I'm in a position to say anything more about the book yet. Maybe when I've finished it.

During reading the book on the right arrived for me (apparently). My name and address was on the front of the package however a different name and address are on the invoice. If this is your book and you want it then you can have it. The last thing I want to do is read a book that tells me how to run. I opened it for a quick skim and the first line I read was something about not being able to eat an elephant in one bite. How does this shit sell?

#16 - A whole week without anything

I got pulled up earlier for lacking with the 'daily' element. Truth is I spent the start of last week trying to get my head around the fact that I'm starting my third year of my university course. The last thing I wanted to do was talk to the world (or the few people that read this). I've came to the conlusion that I'm very nervous about it but I'm looking forward to working hard at something I enjoy doing, therefore all is good. This weekend was spent in Middlesbrough. I forgot to take my camera. Boooo. Some good things happened that I would have liked to photograph. Nevermind.

So until I get back into the swing of things and find some new interesting things for you to photograph I'm going to post some oldies. This one was taken at The Forbidden Corner. It was a lovely day. You can read my original post from the day here.

I hadn't noticed until the picture started developing that the colour of the tree leaves are pretty much split down the middle of the image. The left half of the picture with green leaves, the right with brown leaves. A nice little touch to an already beautiful photo I reckon. Not to blow my own trumpet. Parp!

#15 - The Naughty Knitwear Company's first appearence

The Naughty Knitwear Company

10am in Baltic Square, 12pm at the Star and Shadow Make and Mend Market

#14 - punch

#13 - The sun never shines on Baltic square (+ logo for the blog)

If you have had any interest in this blog over the past two and a half weeks you will notice that theres a new logo logo up there. I like it alot. It looks better on my blogspot layout so if you're reading on tumblr have a look at that to see it's full beauty. It was created by my mate Jade Newton who is really talented at stuff like that. Check her out. Thank you Jade.

Two pictures again today. It's seems really hard to get a decent shot of places in the quayside with an instax. The first one was taken using 'normal, 3m-infinite' settings. The second with 'lighten, 3m-infinite'. Either buildings are really dark and the sky is nicely exposed or the buildings are nicely exposed and the sky is whited out. Maybe another day. So to make up for the average photos I thought I'd put two up.

Enough about cameras an' that. It was a nice sunny afternoon. The Baltic had more and new stuff in from the last time I visited. My favourite floor was probably Tomás Saraceno. He bloody loves spiders. He studied spiders for ages and created a massive (apparently pretty accurate) spiders web. There is a back room that informs you of how he went about creating it. Pretty impressive stuff.

Also exhibited was Cornelia Parker who squashed loads of instruments down in a press, hung them from the ceiling and lit them with one bright bulb in a fairly dim room. The result? loads of class shadows on the wall. In her other room was loads of amazingly interesting rubbish she had collected. Like fluff from the House Of Lords/Commons and a vinyl before it has been pressed.

The othet two floors were dedicated to John Cage. My impression of him from the information the Baltic provided me with was that he was a jack of all trades, talented man who liked making music but also loved mushrooms (he was a 'mushroom collector' according to Wikipedia). He managed to do 860 watercolours and drawings in what I worked out to be about 10 years. Pretty good going (thats around one every 4.2 days) even if some of them were pretty rubbish. Seems like a nice way to spent your later years. I also enjoyed that he was a big believer in 'silence' being defined as 'ambient noise'. Good lad.

The ground floor was full of peoples work who had carred on John Cage's ideas and created their own art with it. To me it just seemed like what John Cage would have made if he had layed off the mushrooms.

You should definately visit the Baltic while all this stuff is in. Worth a look.

p.s. The first Naughty Knitwear stalls are this Sunday. GET WARM.

#12 - TWO instants?

I couldn't decide which instax to put up from my recent trip to the beach, so you're getting both.

I love pretty much everything about this photo. Especially the sky. It was a beautiful place. I can't believe I've been living in Newcastle for over two years and have visited the beaches so little.

This man is the face of The Naughty Knitwear Company. Look at him. Of course you're going to buy a jumper off him.

This happened last night. It was bloody fantastic. I had the biggest grin on my face all the way through the set.