I'm a clothes dork.

Hi. I started up a fashion blog because I keep buying new cute clothes and I need to be a dork about it and that stuff doesn't quite fit into this blog.

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South Suffolk and Essex Trip

Soo when my dad took a wrong turn to get back to my grandparent's home in Harwich from Colchester Tuesday evening, we spent an hour driving the country roads. I demanded we take those roads again Wednesday with a camera in my hands. We proceeded to take a 5 hour road trip across the border to Suffolk and back, seeing Manningtree, Pin Mill, Shotley, Mistley, Wrabness, and some other little places along the way.

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Take photos.

I am staying with my grandparents in Essex, in this little seaside town called Harwich. I really like taking photos at the beach.

adventure!

As a regular reader of my blog, you probably know my involvement with a certain Dan Simpson and a certain musical collective This Venture. Well, this weekend Dan organised a lovely little gig with the title adventure. It was Christmasy and fun and all organised by the bearded boy himself. Well, not entirely by him, that would be insane but I think he's taking most of the credit but is being most humble about it. I think I've expressed my pride in him about a million times.

This Venture rehearsals

So you know I take photos and video this musical collective I know, right? Of course you do, when do I ever shut up about Dan and the gang. Well, they've been rehearsing recently for a gig tomorrow and I've been sitting there causing distraction as usual...

Here's a video I did last week to promote them! It features Dan, John, Shanon and Matt and was super fun to film, edit and just generally be involved with. It's a great environment to be in with these guys and their music.

Eyes

These ones are mine.

Summer time and the Cat.

It's hot right now and I have a ridiculous cat who prefers to sit outside under the hammock than stay inside where it is so much cooler. It's also pretty dirty on the patio too so crawling around trying to photograph him in the sunshine is no walk in the park. Nevertheless, I played with a new lens accessory and damn, what a wonderful depth of field it gives.

Let's talk about Dan.

If you know anything about my real life (eg, you didn't just stumble across this blog when googling 'rupert graves cute') or have glanced at a blog post called Project Busking, you'll know I have a friend called Dan. So let's talk about him. He's got a great beard, all his instruments are left handed and he plays them to a decent standard too.

Because we are friends, I tend to spend a lot of time doing things for him. I'm not complaining, any excuse for me to get a camera out, I'll bloody take it, but yes. We make a lot of videos together. Well - he'll mess around and I'll put the hard work in. Just kidding, it's the best.

So, let's recap all the little projects I've done for him, a kind of master post, though I have more I haven't finished yet.

Boredom Photos

They happen far too often. And I spend more time editing the format of these posts, than I do writing them.

Update on that cool movie poster

I finished the whole DVD sleeve! I may tweak it a little more as I still have a week before I hand it in, but it's pretty much done. Just gotta do my production log and research.

Sometimes I do college work and enjoy it

My second favourite class at college is a class where I get to use photoshop a lot. I think it would be my favourite class if I had it more than for an hour and a quarter once a week. We've been doing this assignment since the beginning of January which involves creating an original dvd cover design. I was so happy when I got this brief, I was thrilled. I love photoshop. I may not be the best photographer in the world, but I can god damn manipulate multiple images in compositions. I am yet to get a firm grasp on typography but there's time for that in the future.

It was snowing so I picked up a dslr

Because literally every other person on my facebook was doing that and I hate admitting to being the biggest loser ever.

Cold? What is cold?

I don't really look out of the window very much. In college, the windows have the blinds down most of the time, for reasons I am oblivious to, apart from Film Studies class when we watch films. Most of the time in the mornings I'm not awake enough to care what's happening outside and by the time I get home in the evenings it's too dark to see. Sometimes when I sit in my lovely red computer chair I can see the frost on the tops of the houses opposite. And today I sit here and see frost on the top of the tree that grows at the end of our garden. And it is still. Really still. No wind at all. And no birds chirping, which was a godsend. It's not that I dislike birds - birds are beautiful creatures, I adore looking at birds! - but wow, they are noisy.

Rhii goes to Iceland

So I went to Iceland for three days back in April.

A Graves Story

On Monday 30th of January 2012, I met a great man, one I admire though I have not seen much of his work. You probably know him most recently as D.I. Lestrade in Sherlock. 

It's a dark early morning when my father awakes me to ask if I would care to join him at work that day - he's spent the last 10 days working on a Channel Four documentary about the sinking of the Concordia (airing Tuesday 31st) and it's the last big push towards broadcast. He's not particularly busy, my father tells me, just supposed to be there if anyone needs help. The editing for Tuesday's all done. That's his job, tv editor. Puts it all together, makes everyone happy.

I agree to go with him once he tells me there's going to be a special someone there. He knows what a big Sherlock fan I am...

There's a fine, fine line between the fault in our stars and humming

Today was chilly and frosty and I waited a long time until I woke up and even longer until I actually got out of bed. I sat and read one of my new books - "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. It was only released last week and I'm on page 129. I've wept over it only twice so far. It's about this teenage girl called Hazel who is has cancer and it all begins when she goes to a support group. I don't want to spoil it, but I think Hazel may be one of my all time favourite characters, though John Green is one of my all time favourite authors and vloggers (check out John and his brother Hank's youtube channel) so I would expect nothing less. John signed every copy of the first print of TFiOS. My copy has a neat green signature, and though green sharpie is my least favourite of all the sharpie colours, I am happy with this.