MIM: Here and there

I hate not being able to post regularly anymore but since I'm pretty much either sitting at my desk working or out with my friends, I don't have much time to do anything mildly interesting and cultured. Hopefully once I'm more settled in at school and used to having to work so much, I'll be able to begin posting a lot more than I do now.

Having said all this, I did manage to go out today with one of my friends. She asked me if I'd like to go to Tent London which was recommend by one of her teachers.
Tent London is part of London Design Festival. It's focused to getting hundreds of independent and undiscovered talents noticed. As well as this, Tent London are showing Super Brands London, 40 global design brands in the UK market. All designers get to show off their incredible work to people like me and you. I saw some pretty cool stuff today which I wish I could own. There were items from wacky chairs and tables to blankets that control your body temperature and something that tells you when your tea is also at the right temperature.

Since it was in Brick Lane (one of my favourite places in London / world) we obviously went to a couple vintage shops but sadly I didn't buy anything apart from some yummy lunch, probably because I was so tired from going to sleep at 5am the night before. (I can hardly keep my eyes open now and will most likely finish writing this post tomorrow)

Again, apologies for the appalling photos, I still can't find my SD card and too lazy to buy a new one. I'm going to have to get it this week because I'm sick of iPhone pictures!

I'm doing Film Studies for one of my A-Levels and completely loving it at the moment. Of course we watch films but its not as easy as that. At the moment we are learning all about Micro Features, such as lighting, costumes/props, camera shots and angles and so on. It's so perfect for me and the more and more I learn about new films and ways in how they are made, the more I'm thinking of a career in some sort of filming. We just finished Fishtank, a gritty British film about a young 15 year old girl called Mia who begins a strange relationship with her Mothers new boyfriend, Connor. We're studying British films vs Hollywood so through out Fishtank we had to not only do close analysis on the characters but also looked at how this film represents British film. I liked Fishtank however wouldn't put it up there as one of my favourite films, but a good watch anyway.

We have now started The Last King of Scotland another British film but haven't finished it so I'll be talking about that one soon once we've reached the end.

Fishtank

The Last King of Scotland

I also recently watched Shame (in my own time) a film about a New Yorken named Brandon who had a desire and addiction to sex. This all gets disrupted when his disobedient younger sister comes to stay at his unannounced. I really enjoyed this film, something quite different to watch I normally watch but I still recommend it. Especially because its got the beautiful Carey Mulligan in it, and directed by Steve McQueen who has a film out soon called '12 Years a Slave' which looks absolutely incredible.