Government spending cuts.

I decided to make use of my blog for a good cause.




Recently thousands of students took to the streets of london in protest against the rise in tuition fees.


To my understanding the government have chosen to raise the fees drastically because they are cutting the spending money given to universities. 


Me and the other students on my course could not attend this march unfortunately due to the fact we have a deadline due, and we were and still are working hard in order to get a good mark and make the most of our creativity. 


We work this hard because our university has done for a number of years, taken part in London Graduate Fashion Week every year and every year, 15 students are chosen to show their final collection.


This is an amazing opportunity and we all work this hard because we aim to get into the 15 places. 


However on the same day as the march, we found out we aren't going to be going to GFW because our university doesn't have the funding to send us there because of the spending cuts.


You may think fair enough, it's just fashion. but it isn't just fashion, it gets us jobs, it gives you clothes, it gives our economy room to grow and without new graduates showing at GFW, the British Fashion industry will suffer massively! Not just that, our university will suffer because the fact we go to GFW is a big draw for the fashion design course and the fashion and textile design course. Without this at the end, the next generation of fashion students will simply chose to go to a university that does go to GFW and so the course will be dropped.


Look around you, what you are wearing is fashion, it was created by someone who studied at university with the funding provided for them to make sure they had the best equipment possible.




without it, nothing.




There are no photos in this message because that is what the future will become. 


dull and empty. Creativity will cease to exist in the most drastic possible scenario. 




what do you choose?

Natural photographs

I took this photo on a butterfly garden, it's off my friend Jess and i love it :) 

I have a slight obsession with taking photos of my friends and family without them knowing. i hate posed photographs, even though when someone points the camera at me i always pose. 

i think it's a natural instinct. you look in the mirror at yourself everyday and you see a good side of yourself, usually when you've moved your face or body into a position that you think looks pretty good. 

But in my experience it never looks the same when you try it in front of a camera with no mirror.

There is something so real about photographs of people who are unaware. They are themselves, they are the people you have grown to know and love. 

When i look at photos of my friends and family if it is a posing occasion, i tend to feel a little emotion, but generally nothing. it is the same position every other human being reverts to when a camera is produced.

For me i see a photo of a loved one i have taken without their knowledge and it reminds me of that moment. even the most little event can bring a smile to your face :)

so here are a few i have taken in the recent months :)

My brother features heavily :P

Actually i love this one of my parents. my mum always fusses that she doesn't look good but we think she does and this is a nice moment :)

My housemates having a laugh...maybe a bit of a neck snog?!

At glastonbury me and my brother spent a lot of time exploring and we can across this amazing craft field, you could make things and play games, it was just :) so while he made himself something out of stick! i played with my camera.

My brother james is quite photogenic, i love the photo above, he was actually really tired at the time. looks like his mind almost hazing over and going away with the fairies, but it also looks like he's thinking something over in his mind, and it make me wonder what. These thought provoking and questionable photographs are the ones that really matter.

Tim Curry = sex

                                      I love Tim Curry in The rocky horror picture show

I find him so deliciously sexy in this film. He is so flamboyant and knows exactly what he wants.




His hair is fab
His makeup is lucious
His attire, should be mine ;)
I LOVE his dirty laugh




But i am sad because after this film, his career never really took off properly. 
i see him playing small time villains in films. He should be king of the screen after his performance in The rocky horror picture show.




More people should dress as he does in the film, and sing as he does. 


so lush. 

Under Skin

It's so ugly, but i love it. 

i love how it shines

i love how the fingers are sprawled

i love the shapes of the tendons

i love the partial symmetry in the middle

The oddity of things

For some reason i always find myself drawn to what many people consider to be odd things. The oddity. 


the above image is not that strange or unusual to me or to anyone, but it is where i have taken it that is odd. 


I chose hands to look at, and then i decided to look under the skin, at the tendons, which many find repulsive especially if the person in question is squeamish but i find it incredibly interesting.
I love to make something that is usually seen as being ugly, into something that can be quite beautiful. 


you can work more with what intrigues you.


I hate using namby bampy cutesy objects and "things" as inspiration. it's just boring.


So this is why i say, long live the odd, the eccentric and the ugly things in this world! because those are the things that you can make beautiful :)