It’s the new year and it’s February and here is the first post of 2010! I’ve been too busy (possibly lazy too..) to update and I had lots of materials to post but I’ll just put some snipets of my Christmas. I had an old friend visiting all the way from Australia. It was great because we get to see places that I normally wouldn’t have thought about visiting. I wasn’t sure if she was satisfied with her trip, but I think we did a lot around London and Brighton in two weeks. England didn’t show the best winter weather either. We saw How It is at the Tate Modern, changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square… We went to the Winter Wonderland Christmas Market at Hyde Park, The National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, V & A, Hampton Court Palace, Roger Hiorns’ Seizure exhibition, Brighton Pavillion, Sherlock Holmes Museum, Platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross and Jack the Ripper trail. The last one wasn’t an official tour so we had to follow a map that was part of an AA 1001 Walks in Britain file that my dad got me as a joke. However, it proved to be very useful. The tour will be the first and the last for me. The cold and the short daylight really gave the creepy atmosphere when you go through small, quiet alleyways.
Besides the events at Christmas, I did some animations for a company, sent CVs/showreel, got an interview, had the interview, nearly got the position but they wrote the loveliest rejection email so I wasn’t too disheartened, did a storyboard and animatic for Jon’s music video, looked at Escape courses, re-did my showreel, still animating things for the company, learnt something about php from boyfriend, met another old friend and did some catching up. Now it’s back to updating blog, sending CVs/showreel, character design for Jon’s MV and thinking of a new layout for website. The list is never ending…
Churros are freakin’ tasty.
Freaky panto window display at Selfridges.
Vero and I.
Mushroom-like trees on the grounds of Hampton Court Palace.
The start of the creepy trail of Jack the Ripper…
Roger Hiorns’ Seizure
Tourist couple posing as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.