My chunk of internet laid bare for all to see
"Who's going to film all of this?" A mockumentary that follows a film crew sent to document the life of a lonely aristocrat, Lady Isabella (Sian Clifford). For the first 10 minutes you get comfortable with the idea that this is going to be a David Brent style character living in a huge stately home, in desperate need of attention and lacking in all self-awareness. And it’s funny! But then the film…
"Is that a fucking dinosaur?" A family (Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor and kids) gets a nasty shock as their entire neighbourhood gets transported millions of years back in time. They have to fend off dinosaurs as they try to find a way to reverse whatever happened. Kind of old school Hollywood in that it is trash, and a bit one note, but somehow does get you interested. And you hate the kids. It’s…
Back for another dip into the archive. I think this is around when I left school. As you can see my shitty ebay camera habit started young. My dad’s old Punto. Quite a pedestrian car really but you still see this model around 20 years on. Probably me applying for some university stuff. Spoiler alert, I got in. My first or second proper gig, The Feeling at Delamere Forest. They were alright! I…
We’re back with a stack of photos from May 2007. The banner image back in the day I thought was awesome. I was just getting into Linux and messing with images in GIMP, which looking back is pretty much what landed me in my current gig. Now I look at it, I don’t know what I was going for! I can see it was my rugby shirt cargo pants era. I might go back to rugby shirts. Not so much cargo pants. This…
Some more pictures from the ancient archive. The banner I think was from an Easter trip over to France. This is a man made reservoir over in the Spanish Pyrenees, I think the Embalse de Búbal. My brother got a PSP. Worth a few quid now. This is me in my had-hair era. I think we were bored and I was posing for this photo. I wanted to post it because in the background you can see Bart Simpson with…
This is where the ‘picture of the day’ photos begin in earnest from my flickr backup. I do wish I’d saved some earlier ones but that’s life! I won’t be posting them all, just a select few. The banner image is of my bedroom back in Loggerheads. I’d forgotton how the light used to shine in like that, it was a tiny room but I liked it. That’s my first laptop on the desk, and in the window you can see…
I used to run a website, creatively titled “Ben’s Picture of the Day”. Every day, for ten years or so, I took a photo and uploaded it to my blog. It was a time of change for me, the blog starts with my final few days in school, goes through my last summer, through university, living abroad, getting a job in Sheffield and so on. I thought all these photos were lost, but it turns out I’d set up an…
"My name is Peter Parker. You don't remember me, but we used to know each other." You might remember from Spider-Man: No Way Home that nobody can remember who Spider-Man is now (it’s Tom Holland). Without his friends or girlfriend (Zendaya), he’s just a full-time crimefighter and is starting to suffer from burnout. Fortunately a new threat appears on the scene to take his mind off it. All over the…
"I can't promise you guys anything but at least this way you actually get to go home." There’s a new Spider-Man coming out, and I realised I hadn’t actually watched this one. Everyone knows who Spider-Man (Tom Holland) is now, and it ruins his life and stops his mates getting into MIT (er, that and maybe they just didn’t get in??). So he gets Doctor Strange to make a spell to make everyone forget…
"Do you give?" The movie version of Box Hill . Stars Harry Melling as the young protogonist Colin, and Alexander Skarsgård as the cool hot biker Ray. I’ll try not to compare this to the book too much because the two aren’t that similar; it’s set in the modern day as opposed to the 70s, the characters are older and Ray doesn’t die in the end. It’s still quite a bleak film but the reworking of it…