After wiping out my phones memory card I copied over all the photos and here are some that were lying around.
Featured photos
This was the sunset a few days ago at home. The mist gave the sun a very strange look.
My birthday treat from last year.
Something I am looking forward to doing a lot in a few weeks. But on actual sandy beaches.
Enjoy the show.
Ok, my birthday is now 9 days old, the next weekend is closer then the previous weekend but if I didn't post these now I never will.
So here are some extra photos from my birthday weekend, my family (and new nephew Dylan), travelling - we spent about 10 hours travelling over the weekend, thats alot of time sitting - and other random photos.
The running theme for this birthday was "Eyes Closed."
Everyone was getting in on the act. I think it all came from this one guy.
All in all I had a very fun and tiring birthday. just another 340 odd left till the next one.
Enjoy the slideshow.
*Ok, I really should do all this in date order, but seeing as my flickr basic account only allowed me to upload a batch big enough for my Justice gig photos and that I couldn't be bothered uploading the rest on Picasa, my Justice gig thing will have to come first and the rest of the weekend will follow.
PS my apologies to anyone on dial up, I've not worked out how to do the READ MORE link through Blogger yet, so all photos/vids are going to be on front page.
The lead up to the gig was pretty rushed. After limiting myself to just a few drinks with my pops in order not to be too drunk and sleep through the gig, we managed to get a pizza, rush home get changed, scream at the downed internet, find address of gig and ticket reference via phone, running to bus stop while eating said tiny pizza we made it to Liverpool on time. (Although I was a little dazed when going for pregig drink having fell asleep on bus and still being groggy)
Group shot
The light show was pretty intense at times. The lighting guy did a great job.
There was much dancing.
And Justice made me think this was what a DJ set by the Mighty Boosh guys would be like
And if you haven't bought it, Justice's album Cross is pretty sweet (if you like that Daft Punk electro dance kind of thing)
Infact you may of heard there track D.A.N.C.E, which I tried to record.
PS apologies for the jumping camera, do you know how hard it is to not dance while a really dancey track is being played?...Very hard!
Here are all my photos from the night.
(Some guidance on the above slideshow. Move cursor to top of frame for skip/speed settings. Move cursor to bottom for thumbnails of set. Click photo for more info/link)
Also big shout to Fancy, the warm up guys for Justice. They had possibly the campest lead singer since Freddie Mercury. Just think of a rock band and their lead singer singing like that Chris Rock character in 5th element and you have an idea. They were very very good, even if the crowd didn't get them.
PS If anyone knows any good free software I can use to chop down mp4's if they could let me know that would be great, thanks.
What a packed, tiring but pretty awsome weekend.
Due to the prebooking ways of Lazer Quest Inc, I didn't get to have the lazer gun shooting evening I hoped for, although it was nice just to have a few drinks with some old friends who I hadn't seen in a while.
I am currently trying to upload about 100 photos from the Justice gig from Saturday. I am also uploading a video and trying to figure out how to edit too long videos to stick on youtube, if anyone knows how to chop up mp4's gimme a shout.
Also I'm pretty tired. My new nephew was allowed home at the weekend. Welcome to the World Dylan.
He was quiet most of the time, but kept us all up a bit too much last night/this morning, so I'm feeling a bit tired.
Also just to prove to my dad that this is my blog, who found me after adding me to Skype and joing the 20th Century, "hi pops."
I'll have more photos of the Justice, travelling and the weekend throughout the week. Now it's rest time.
Three words;
Lazer. Quest. Night.
This is going to be so much fun. More fun then having a Nintendo 64, a few friends round and a copy of ...
Although the last time I played lazer quest I was only 12, I hope I've not out grown the arena. It would be annoying if I kepy banging my head.
Anyway, I'm off to practise my barrel rolls, slow motion diving through the air and quick draw.
So I had a really good birthday and got some really cool presents. A very generous gift from the missus parents and a new shock and water proof camera off the missus.
The new camera, an Olympus 725 SW, has some pretty cool features, for example it has 25 or so different shooting settings for example potrait (someones face), landscape (nice mountains), potrait and landscape (for photos of the face of mountians?), candle (for erm candles, possibly birthdays?) museum (which just basically mutes the camera).
It also can take photos under water. Which we have tried by sticking the the camera in a full sink and took some shots, but really I need to try this out in really underwater conditions ie a pool or the sea....only a few weeks.
I also have a trip back up North coming up at the weekend. Mainly to celebrate two birthdays. My own, plus my sister is having a baby today. So good luck to her, Paul, Megan and Megans new baby brother Dylan Jack.
But I'll be able to test out the camera fully at the weekend (except for the underwater tests) and hopefully at a Justice gig that's happening that my friend has told me about.
In other news, after my gratitude given towards popbitch in a previous entry, more good news has come for the World of gossip sites;
A statement on the Holy Moly site said there had been a "definite change in the perception of paparazzi pictures".
It will no longer publish photos of stars being chased or in "distress", while photos of celebrities with their children will also be banned.
However, photographs of celebrities at press launches and premieres and "idiots who go to places like The Ivy" will continue to be included on the site.
A shortie list of things that I should be doing today;
Going to party (not done yet)
Tasting Bacardi (not done yet)
You know I don't give a .... it is my birthday.
