Please go an watch this!

This is the new video from my band Ball of Mayhem.  Produced by Director David Hall and the Media Company it's going to accompany the single which is also available to buy via our Reverbnation site (www.reverbnation.com/artist/ar…)

We shot the video a few weeks ago and had the premier last night before it was unleashed onto the general public.  This is the first time we've had a video like this made so it was great to work with a pro film crew and all of the accoutrements that go with that such as camera dollies and tracking rigs.  It also meant a long day of playing the same song over and over to get all the different angles covered but I'm sure everyone agrees with me that it was totally worth it.

Anyway, without further ado, here is the video for "Obliteration Imminent" by Ball of Mayhem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em1DRD…

I really am good at not spamming people with photos and journals.  So much so that you must think that I keep disappearing off the face of the planet.

I briefly mentioned in my last journal that the stuff with the band was going well, and also about the Sofia Talvik project.  so a further update, In June we were given the opportunity to open for Anvil at the O2 Academy in Newcastle.  The gig was amazing(packed to the rafters) and we got to hang out with Lips and Robb from Anvil after the show(and I didn't act like a fanboy).
Based on that performance the Academy promoters put us in a little competition they were having and we aced the first round.
The final came along ON THE MAINSTAGE of the academy and lo and behold we had sold the most tickets in advance and so were given the honour of Headlining the final.  As it happens we came 4th overall but I'm writing that off as Strategic Voting by the other bands' supporters.
Didn't matter to me that we didn't win as just being up on that stage was enough of a prize for me.

You may have noticed some photos have appeared in my gallery.  Do Not Adjust your Internet, this is not a test.  My cousin from Leicester came to stay with me last weekend for a visit/camera lesson and so we went for a drive up the North-East coastline.  We aimed to get to Bamburgh for sunset and we did just this.  A slight positioning miscalculation meant that the sun was going down behind us but it was good practice with the cameras all the same.  The lesson was mainly in using filters and long exposure anyway so it's all good.

That's enough from me though.  next Journal will be in 2012 probably.

Well it's not been a year since my last journal entry on here but it might as well have been.

What have I been up to:  TOOOOO MUCH! That's what.
The only time I've used my camera it's been for promo materials for the Newcastle Roller Girls and so nothing I'd really use on here (most of it had loads of photoshopping done or was passed across to a designer to make into a poster).

The band has gone mental and we have been recording and gigging like no-ones business.  We started the year by being propositioned by a Swedish Folk Singer called Sofia Talvik (check her out she's amazing www.sofiatalvik.com).  The gist of this project was to take her latest E.P. and make it metal. Not just make it heavy but totally re-arrange it. We did and it was released on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and the like.  Go have a listen and buy it if you like it.

We're back in the studio now recording our own stuff which is why I had the chance to take some photos the other day.

Anyways, enough of the excuses, I'm back and I intend to post more stuff more often.  Promise.

Hallo there watchers,

I've been very quiet on here of late due to a number of factors. The main one being that I've been super busy with other aspects of life/work.

Roller Derby has saved my soul and wrecked my knees...
I've been heavily involved with the Newcastle Roller Girls as a referee and announcer and it's while training for the former that I keep falling over and smashing my knees.  Not good when I want to be going out walking with my camera.

I have been taking photos but just not uploading them to dA.  This is probably due to a massive amount of laziness on my part as for some reason I can't upload pics from my PC anymore and so once I've developed them I have to transfer them to my laptop and upload them from there.  I'll hopefully have something to upload on here in the next few days as I did a fun photoshoot
with my brother last night for a top secret project.  I'll be able to reveal more about this when I upload the photo as the secret will be out by then.

A while ago I set myself a bunch of challenges over a month and one of these was to try and 1 deviation per day for a month.  I actually did this but didn't get round to putting a journal out. The pics I faved are all at the bottom of this journal.  There were some other challenges but they fell by the wayside with dying laptops and more expensively dying cars...

My Internet has also been fairly unreliable lately so if I haven't said thanks for a or a I will get round to it when my connection behaves itself.

Anyway onto some Features
These are all deviations that caught my eye for one reason or another.  Some of them I found by searching on certain themes and some just happened to jump out at me when I was browsing through randomly.  Enjoy, and if you see something you like give it a fav and a nice comment.


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Sven

Hey there folks,

N1ghtf4ll3r, Calypso8888 and I have started writing a web based photography magazine and issue 1 is out now misphirephotography.wordpress.… reason we are building this is to learn new things and to pass on any hints and tips we find as well as featuring new talented artists.  At the moment we are writing this ourselves but we would love contributions, ideas and feedback from others.

If you want to contribute or feedback please drop an email to misphirephotographymagazine@gmail.com

Issue 2 will be out at the beginning of September.

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