Heres saying goodbye to 2011 ~ photos

Here are some remarkable photos I came across from a huge series documenting the most shocking, political and heart-warming moments of 2011. Here are just a few of my favourites:



1.A fisherman arranges a net as his wife paddles their boat in the waters of the Periyar river on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Kochi on 5 January.



2.Orich Florestal (left), 24 and Rosemond Altidon, 22, stand on the edge of their partially destroyed apartment in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the week marking the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250,000 people and wrecked much of the capital in 2010.

Researchers dressed in panda costumes put a panda cub into a basket before transferring it to a new living environment at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Centre for the Giant Panda, in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province, China. Researchers wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence.

A woman pretends to be gagged while taking part in a protest during International Women's Day in Mexico City. The writing on the woman's chest reads, 'neither a whore, nor crazy, nor a saint, just a woman.'

A wave caused by a tsunami flows into the city of Miyako from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck the area.

Police officers are splashed with paint in Oxford Street, during a protest organised by the Trades Union Congress, called The March for the Alternative, in central London.

Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, watched by bridesmaids Grace van Cutsem (left) and Margarita Armstrong-Jones, after their wedding in Westminster Abbey in London.

US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House. Also pictured are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

US President Barack Obama toasts with first lady Michelle Obama in Ollie Hayes Pub in Obama's ancestral home in Moneygall, Ireland.

Two-year-old chimpanzee DoDo bottle feeds milk to Aorn, a 60-day-old tiger cub, at the Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo on the outskirts of Bangkok.

Celebrations have already begun don under as this last picture shows the spectacular firework displays that took place 5 hours ago in Sydney! 

So here's saying goodbye to 2011 and BRING IT ON 2012!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Living life of lists...

For the past term all I seem to be doing is making lists and ticking off the occasional box. There just always seems like there is so much to do! Today may be my last day in Huddersfield so I want to make the most of it getting things done and seeing people before I head over to Manchester, to spend a few days with my sis, before going back to uni.

I made todays list quite late and ended up going off topic and came to the conclusion that 'THURSDAYS ARE ORANGE' and left it at that.


I'm not sure if that's meant to be code for something that in my tired state I thought I'd understand the next day, or a lil tangent I went off on which meant that it was time for bed... Who knows!! But I better crack on with this list today or I'm going nowhere!!

I'll keep you posted

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So it's Christmas eve already...

With New Years Eve just around the corner we'll soon be saying hello to 2012 before we know it!

I've spent the past term absolutely falling in love with my graphic design course at De Montfort University!!! It's been an amazing first term and I have so much to add to this blog - I don't know where to start! But I've been working hard to meet this first terms deadlines so I think a good rest is well overdue but I won't leave my blogging till the new year - oh no!

So much to to so little time ... I'm sure I heard that in Charlie and the chocolate factory the other day. Gotta love festive family films, speaking of which I better get back to some more of them now.

Happy Holidays!

i can make you fly

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Music Video: The Final Cut

The video follows the Golden Sun as she walks the fine line between what is real and unreal.

I first heard Fenech Soler on Radio 1 doing a cover of Jessie J's 'Do it like a dude' and from that moment I was hooked! So when I saw the opportunity to make a music video for their Golden Sun single I knew I couldn't miss out on this!!

Being an art student I soon rallied together some of my friends from the art department and we gave it a go! Unfortunately due to upload problems our entry wasn't able to be submitted! But competition or no competition we had actually done what we said we were going to do and made a MUSIC VIDEO!! So proud of us guys, and can't wait to watch the bloopers together soon at our premiere night.

Group Members:

Camera/Editing: Jadene Codner

Golden Sun: Jessica Kendall

The Tribe: Martin Healy, Jacob Gibney, Andromeda Rizvi, Sarab Amin

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Music Video: Editing

Just finished the final stages of our editing!! So the video shall be up as soon as it's been compressed and uploaded for the competition! :D

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Music Video: Filming (2)

Day Two

Yesterdays filming didn't finish till about 9pm!

Today we were feeling it.

And if we were feeling exhausted after one day of filming, we couldn't image how actors felt after days/ month of filming! But it wasn't all bad. We'd enjoyed a much deserved film and food after our first day filming and today the weather looked promising - it was sunny! :D

Plus, today's location was a 5min walk away from Martin's house, which had been our film base over these two days. It was also nice to see the amused or confused faces on drivers or passers by :')

The next few days will be filled with editing and meetings about the music video up until its completion and submission into the competition. Sometimes we forgot this was all for a competition, it's been really fun so far... maybe we should just hang out in futuristic tribal face paints more often?

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Music Video: Filming (1)

Day One

From 11.30am on Wednesday it has been all go - go - GO!!

There were people to meet and makeup to buy, so we didn't make it to our first film location till 3pm, but that was ok because we knew that we were in for a long day. Our first location was at Jacobs’s house in his pub/ basement. It was PERFECT! The basement especially because we had to use a head light on the camera when we went down and it had old beer barrels and cob-webbed stone walls, which made it very horror film-esque. Simple filler shots and hostage like footage was taken down here.

Outside we pulled off a more complex shot which involved burning a chair, poisoning a captured jess and smashing glasses which all worked really well on camera!

Even when sheltering from the rain we captured some really nice photo's and it gave that 'darker' tone to the footage that the band are looking for.

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Music Video: Makeup + Costumes

 

 Today we made the most of testing out a few looks for the types of characters in the music video, based around the idea of having a "golden sun" styled character and creating the look for the two opposing tribes that fight for/ hunt down the golden sun.

Can't wait to get filming!!

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Music Video: Location Hunting

I forgot to post earlier about a competition I saw online to create a music video for the new track 'Golden Sun' by one of my favourite bands Fenech-Soler!!

I was so excited after seeing the post I got organising straight away, which is pretty good seeing as the deadline is now twenty days away today!!! Me and some of my friends from college (the ons who lived in the art department that is) got together last week to watch a film when I shared the news with them. Tomorrow we'll meet again to get some serious ideas and early footage down.

In between all this my friend Jacob and I headed out to do some location hunting - and this is what we found!

Yeah... We like subways.

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Remember that advert...

So a while ago, I blogged about a little project myself and my fellow art student Ashley Cooke took on board during our exams:

Business students put an add in the bulletin wanting art students that work with video to produce a 30 second video to support and promote ‘CityHitch’, their entry in the PolyU Global Student Challenge, so me and Ashley rose to the challenge! They even said they'd split the prize money with us if they won and they were talking about $2500 between five of us, which didn't sound too bad at all!


The advert came together really well and they met there deadline and I thought that was that... Till a few days ago.

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I got a message from Ashley saying that they had infact won!!! They came in first for the Environmental and Sustainability theme and they were the only team from Europe to reach the final six teams and came third overall in the secondary division. We hadn't heard anything from them since they'd won so Ashley thought he'd send an email over and find out about the prize money we were promised, and found out that the buisness department had left a token of their appreciation with the art department that had been mailed out to us so all that was left to do was wait and see what this token was...

Token was a very select choice of words.

It wasn't the $500 we were hoping for or what ever that amount would be in pounds, but £25 and a thankyou card signed with all their thanks :P At first I was a bit miffed that we'd missed out on some serious money but when I thought about it if they hadn't won we probably wouldn't even get the £25 anyway.

I told this to my sister, she used to study busness, and all she said was that if something like that ever comes up again - get it in writing!! haha... Well at least it's kept my editing skills ticking over and I can always work it into my portfolio for uni. 

Below i've managed to add the 30 second advert I edited down for them and I must say i'm pretty proud of it myself :') 

- Enjoy!

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So where have you been eh?

WELL...