Edinburgh Fringe

The last few years that I have been living in Edinburgh the Fringe Festival has kind of been something I just had to deal with and when you work in the center of town its sometimes becomes a nusance. I have wanted to take part but everytime you step out into it it feels over crowded and clostrophobic. I think I have found the solution!

Previously when I went out onto the Royal Mile it was becaue it was my lunch time and I had to get there get food and get back to work, impossible! This year I avoided that bit of the Fringe and Daniels sister Hayley and I actually took part, saw shows, ate at the street vendors, took flyers and had an all around good time!

We ended up seeing 5 shows we paid for and about 4 or 5 free shows, I would say all bar one of the paid shows was brilliant and all bar one of the free shows was shite. Not to say that all free shows are crap but the ones we kept stumbling into definately were.

The highlights of my Fringe were seeing Brendon Burns and Rhyse Darby, also the inside of the Tron Church, and getting to hang out more with Hayley. Can't wait for next year!

 

Black and White

I got a bunch of film back from the printers earlier this week and I am really excited about some of the pictures, plus some of them are a few months old now so its nice to see them again, but I really should start printing my film more promptly cause the events are more fresh in my mind.

National Museum of Modern Art

 

 

 

There Be No Miracles Here

Edinburgh

 

 

 

 

 

This film is the first Black and White I've done so it was fun to see the way they all came out.

Happy Anniversary!

Its already been 6 days since our anniversary but that doesn't make this post any less special. It was our second anniversary, but it kinda felt like our first as most of you know, Dixon and I were apart this time last year for what felt like forever. In reality it was 6 months, which feels like forever when you are waiting for something or someone. This year however was awesome! We both had to work, there was no point in me getting the day off to be by myself if Dixon couldn't get the day off too. But we woke up bright and early to exchange gifts! Daniel got me a Nintendo Wii and two Records that have yet to arrive! So naturally I have been spending most free moments playing Mario Kart or Super Mario Bros 3 it has been awesome!

Daniels Gifts

My Gift C:

 And in other news I got off my lazy behind and got some Holga photos developed, though I have one more roll finished and another half finished in my camera that I really want to get developed of Cramond Island! These ones date back all the way to when Caryn was here and some from down in Blackpool as well so those later.

And there should be a post shortly about the Fringe cause its winding down and a lot of the shows I was off to see will be done soon!

Rebellion Festival

For once I haven't been blogging because I have been doing nothing, now I have been so busy doing things that I haven't had the time to put together a cohesive post!
August is always a super busy time in Edinburgh more so when you are working during the largest international fringe festival in the world! On top of that every year Daniel and I like to go to Rebellion Festival down in Blackpool, and that is on exactly when the Fringe starts. Luckily I got it off again this year and we were off to see a fairly impressive line-up.
Thanks to Steven we had a lift down in his car, so no trains for us! Which is nice considering in a car its about a four hour long drive.
Blackpool is sort of a weird town where tourism really is its main source of income but people don't really go their for the sights it more for Stag party's and the like that make it down there and so the place really reflects that, with the centre being almost completely full of B&B's. But usually when I have been down before during the festival, the centre seems overrun with Punks! This year it seemed much quieter, which was a bit weird cause they had some of the biggest bands on it this year.
All that aside it was a really great time, and I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to but I suppose that is the price to pay for drinking too much and having far too much fun.

In the end I didn't see as many bands as I would have liked to but it was still an amazing time, I got to see Social Distortion, Star Fucking Hipsters, Rancid, the UK SUBS, just to name a few, though I only saw a a couple more haha.

After the madness was all over we decided to head over to Pleasure Beach the Roller Coaster Park for the day but I think I will talk about that a bit more later!