jacknife posters

pretty much all of the stalls at glastonbury were the same as you get at every festival, i.e. cheap shit... but one stall caught my attention - cut to jacknife posters - independent screen printers who are commissioned by bands/events/organisations to design and produce hand made, limited runs of screen prints. check out their website here. 

these are few of my favourites: 

i wish i had the skillz... X

glastonbury

in shocking news, i think i must be one of the only people in attendance to think that glastonbury was only 'okay' - maybe it was the incredibly inconsistent weather (varying from rain storms to blistering heat) maybe it was the uncompromising mud (prevalent, difficult) maybe it was the sheer size of it all (overwhelming, crowded) or maybe it was just all the idiots (unavoidable, everywhere).

highlights include some of the excellent bands we saw; tame impala, the kills, radiohead, battles, biffy clyro... and sitting on top of the hill at the park stage and watching the little ant like attendees go about their festival business. 

although in my head i am already romanticising the whole event, i doubt i will be returning to glastonbury festival soon. i get the impression that glastonbury has changed a lot from what it first set out to be, and i think i'd prefer to go to the festival that glastonbury wants to be, as opposed to the festival that it has become.

here are a couple of photos i took while i was there:

photograph 1 taken on a disposable camera, photographs 2, 3 & 4 taken on canon eos 300d with holga lens attached.

i've just lost an evening to this -

i was just having a peep at the incomparable Navy&Brown blog belonging to my new acquaintances, Sally & John, and i found a post about this project. have a look at the different things folks have selected to save from their burning houses. although its a sad concept, and some of the selections are a little bit pretentious - i find both sadness and pretentiousness pretty inspiring. here's some good ones:

i am now thinking very hard about what i would save.

wednesday

i bought this camera on ebay for an incredibly fair sum, and now that it's arrived, i'm even happier. it's pretty bulky, probably not one to take to glastonbury, but it takes killer photographs and get this, you can still get film for it. thanks fuji. 

here are the first attempts -

 it can take all 4 pictures the same... and supposedly it can take 4 different ones too, with the help of some manoeuvring & make shift bottle lid lens caps. i will be trying that...

the soundtrack to these photos is the doors' self titled first album.