Posted by Lewis on Sunday, October 31, 2010
Mwahahahahahahaha! And some such.
Well, I somehow managed to completely not find out that Most Haunted no longer exists, for some reason. It has, in fact, been replaced by... Wait for it...
Paranormal Investigation: Live! I don't know about you, but I sure can feel the drama. The thing's going live and on air at 9 tonight, which places it, at the time of writing, at just under two hours. Highlight of my Halloween, that. They're going to a castle somewhere.
Now, seeing as I've not had my drink yet, I'll resume this entry when it's live and I'm feeling tiddly! I the meantime, have Ashen's Halloween Special
SOME TIME LATER...
Well, it's live and I'm sitting here drinking a strange cocktail of vodka and red wine (it tastes... interesting). Hold on, Yvette's gone! [Checks wiki] ah, she...
Posted by Lewis on Saturday, October 30, 2010
Hello world! May I point your attention to my opinion of fireworks. But first, may I point your attention to my dear friend, Luke Clarke, epic and talented musician: http://lukeclarkeblog.blogspot.com/ I command thee to go there and follow him religiously, because he is very talented and has an awesome beard. I too have a beard, but that is besides the point.
The point is fireworks! Those lovely little things some people fire into the sky, where they explode into shiny colours. The key words here are:
Sky.
Explode
Shiny.
Colours.
You can see why they appeal to people, and I have no quibbles with them. I do, however, have quibbles with people letting them off in the middle of the day. The afternoon, specifically. When it's still light. 3 o'clock in the freakin' afternoon.
Why do these deeply...
Posted by Lewis on Friday, October 29, 2010
Browsing through deviantART, it's interesting to note just how... uniform most photography now is on there. As a whole it's largely 'clean'. Too clean, I would say. It's all very low contrast, with balanced exposures. Whites tend to be pure, and colours clearly defined. Composition is generally good, though the images tend to be flat and uninteresting. While there's nothing wrong with this style (and don't get me wrong, it's a style. There's never a 'right' way with photography), it is interesting to note just how saturated we are with these images now.
It's become so that images that try to be different and follow different styles stick out an uncomfortable amount. It's simply a question of style: most photographers nowadays will have learned by looking at the work of the modern 'greats',...
Posted by Lewis on Thursday, October 28, 2010
I shall attempt to post one of these every month. Unless I forget. Still, here we go, the best risqué joke I've seen this month!
King Arthur was getting ready to go on a Quest. He was worried about leaving his beautiful Queen Guinevere alone with all those lonely knights of the Round Table. So he went to his famous wizard, Merlin, for some advice.
After explaining his predicament to Merlin, the wizard looked thoughtful and said to come back in a week and he'd see if he could come up with something.
A week later King Arthur was back in Merlin's laboratory where the good wizard was showing him his latest invention.
It was a chastity belt... except it had a rather large hole in the most obvious place. "This is no good, Merlin!" the king exclaimed, "Look at this opening. How is this supposed...
Posted by Lewis on Sunday, October 24, 2010
I fainted yesterday while getting ready for a friend's party. No, it's not because I treat getting ready as an extreme sport... Parachuting from 5 zillion feet with my wardrobe while simultaneously getting out my clothes and putting them on. And showered, can't forget that. No, I don't treat it like an extreme sport. But it was almost certainly my own fault: I've spent the last two weeks feeling progressively worse with some sort of tonsillitis-flu-hybrid, and have afforded myself next to no rest during this time, due to the ridiculous amounts of work I've managed to get. Mum's had and got the same thing, and nearly fainted at work. No small wonder that I keeled over and then felt too weak to go out.
I did, however, use the time as productively as I could, and read a book. John Douglas' semi-autobiography,...
Posted by Lewis on Monday, October 18, 2010
Decay
Oh, why not show you this? For a project, I went out with my dear Sony a200 DSLR, and took 6 images in the same area that show a contrast between the old Photographic Pictorialism (that traditionally 'arty' and soft-focus style), and more modern chiaroscuro techniques. The contrast I have created could not be more obvious if I had tried to make it any more obvious. Enjoy the feast of RIOT-shrunk images! Because I'm not waiting a full week for the images to upload.
The names of the pieces (displayed under the images, which is really the simplest way to do it), are references to either the symbolism in the image, or the associations...
Posted by Lewis on Monday, October 18, 2010
An internet cookie to the first person who knows what brilliant show this is told in.
A rich man and a poor man are having dinner together, and their wive's birthdays are coming up. The poor man asks the rich man what he got his wife and he says, "A diamond ring and a Mercedes".
"Why'd you get her both?", asks the poor man.
"Because if she doesn't like the ring, she can still drive it back to the shop."
Then the rich man asks the poor man what he got his wife.
"A pair of slippers and a dildo", he says.
"Why did you get her both?"
"Because if she doesn't like the slippers, she can go fuck herself."
Baddum-tsch! And with that, I leave you until next time.
Until next time,
Te...
Posted by Lewis on Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Last night, I had a dream that Microsoft, Apple, Google, Valve, Blizzard, Facebook, Twitter,and IGN.com didn't exist. Or Metacritic.
And now I'm sad, because they do exi...
Posted by Lewis on Monday, October 11, 2010
I was thinking today, as you do, "What if I was a TV producer? What kind of stuff would I do?" Yeah, it's been that kind of day.
But it certainly got me thinking. Current comedy, in England anyway, is pretty decent, with the odd thing that's just not funny (Lee Nelson... the first three I saw were funny. The rest... Well, there's only so far you can push chaviness). So yeah, I'd likely not do comedy. Why bother anyway? We've got the Inbetweeners! That everyone keeps raving about. Incessantly. I can only conclude it's reached the height of it's popularity and will now slowly wither and die. There's only so much sexual innuendo, and so many words for 'vagina' in the world. I like it, true, but the number of people raving about it has just got silly. Now, Drama is rather a niche thing, and there's...
Posted by Lewis on Friday, October 08, 2010
Oh god, why did I not know this exist...
Posted by Lewis on Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Oh dear god, why did I have to start playing Silent Hunter again? Why must I punish myself?
Silent Hunter is a series of WW2 submarine simulators, occasionally hideously difficult to get used to. Sometimes like Flight Sim under the sea. With torpedoes.
The specific game in question this time is Wolves of the Pacific, with the U-Boat Missions expansion. I decided "it won't be as bad as last time, just ease yourself in with the Sub School, remind yourself how to play". Navigation is fluid as it always was, and clunky enough to mirror a real sub... Making close-range evasion or hunting exceedingly difficult and tense. Likewise, deck-gunning is the same as it always was, even though it took around half an hour to shoot down all the enemy planes, due to my appalling aim and misjudging how long...
Posted by Lewis on Sunday, October 03, 2010
If you don't know who Stuart Ashen is, he's a bloke from Norwich who's on the internet. Just Google his name, and you'll happen upon his website. Alternatively, if you're too lazy to: http://www.ashens.com
If, however, you go to his YouTube channel and watch his latest video (about Lego) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8_MrH6dDE&feature=sub or read his latest Tweets: http://twitter.com/ashens , you will learn that he has made a peculiar little Lego set in an effort to raise money for WaterAid - a very noble cause that gives death-free water to people that don't have it. Such as people in Grimsby.
All joking aside, this is a very worthy cause. The fund-raising effort is quite simple: he has put up one of his odd little Lego sets onto Ebay. The highest bidder by the 10th of October will...
Posted by Lewis on Saturday, October 02, 2010
No sooner do I set up a blog, that I get the most terrible of news... I must say, this is not a good start.I met Micheal Hanlon five years ago, when we were coincidentally both on holiday down south. We got talking, as you sometimes do, and got on incredibly well. So well, in fact, that we kept in touch via the internet almost non-stop. During these five past years, we became great and close friends, though our locations (I in the North, he in Maine) did much to make communication often awkward and slow.On Wednesday, I found out that he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour, and not early enough that it could be dealt with easily, as if they could be dealt with easily. This, of course, hit me hard and I became increasingly worried for his health. The doctors had informed him that there was...
Posted by Lewis on Saturday, October 02, 2010
Well, it was suggested to me a while ago, that I should write a blog. Perhaps it's because I'm opinionated. Perhaps it's because I can talk seemingly endless reams of utter rubbish. Who knows.
Well, I suppose I should flex my ego and talk about myself. Hmm... I'm sure there's a bio thingymidoodah somewhere around here... Ah, what the hell!
I'm a male gamer and let's player on YouTube. I'm an avid and enthusiastic amateur photographer with dubious talent, besides people who still insist I've got talent. I refuse to listen to their laiz. I'm very English, living in the North of England, where the sun never shines and the rain melts your face off. My sense of humour is dark and very twisted, having been subjected for many years to horror films, black comedy, heavy metal, and the strange and...
