My Wall Clock 01.02.2010
Posted by TabitaW in thoughts.Tags: clock, halls, newest project, photos
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I actually got the idea for this way back in September (found the actual clock in a cheap shop where it originally came with matching numbers but it just wasn’t interesting enough), started the project sometime in October and then let it go stand-by as I was missing a 9 o’clock. So for a few months it was just hanging about with the missing 9 (not that it mattered that much, you could still tell what time it was) until I finally got nine things to put up. But now it’s finished! Probably one of those projects that should really be seen in real life but so far a photo will have to do. Here’s a list of the things the clock is made up off, just because it’s interesting:
- Letter
- Cars
- Buttons
- Signs
- Keys (two kinds)
- Butterflies
- Tickets
- “Gemstones”
- Animals
- Coins
- Postage stamps
- Eyes
The clock is ticking away.
Internet and Timetables 27.01.2010
Posted by TabitaW in in general, tsk, uni.Tags: henk, internet, time table
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1. My internet wasn’t working when I got back to Halls but yesterday it suddenly went all “Internet Connected”. It’s not completely stable (or indeed on the whole time) and apparently it won’t let Chrome (my favourite browser!) through so I’m stuck with Internet Explorer. Great. I’ve imported all my bookmarks (IE isn’t even useful for that) so I can feel a bit more home till Chrome hopefully gets back through.
2. Other than that, I went to the media office at uni and the following will be my time table this semester (still subject to change though):
- Wednesday 1-4: Art in Context 1
- Thursday 10-1: 3D Studies, 1-4: Animation 1
So it looks like I’ll have some long weekends again. Not that I mind. At all. Currently trying to figure out whether or not I can do Digital Photography as an evening class just because I don’t get to do it on my course.
Squirrel 24.01.2010
Posted by TabitaW in in general.Tags: avatar, Martin, photos, squirrel, walk
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Since last time, nothing impressively interesting has happened. I would have written a little update anyway but my internet died for a few days (I’m at Martin’s just now so it might still be down, who knows?) so there was none of that. Instead I finished a book, watched some films and tidied my room. It needed that.
Went for a walk at Dean Park with Martin yesterday, just because we could. Was lovely and there was loads of squirrels. Later we went to see Avatar. It was amazing. The first thing I said when we came out of the cinema was “I want to see it again!”
Just a week till I start back at uni now so I should probably find out exactly what day I’m going back and what subjects I have. All I know is that it’s sometime in the week starting with 1 February. Actually I thought I knew what subjects I had but read somewhere that they were something else so now I’m not sure which is right. Will have to ask someone about that.
More time off 18.01.2010
Posted by TabitaW in in general, people, thoughts, uni.Tags: ayr, film & tv production, friends, Martin, snow, zombies
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Okay, technically it’s still the same time off but it feels like it’s a whole new break seen as I spent most of last week doing uni related things.
Thursday we finished our film, added some music and things and just polished off the last details. I’ll see if I can get it uploaded somewhere but just now I only have it on dvd and it’s not the right format. After finishing the project, we walked to town (people were getting the train and bus, I was going to the bank) and decided to take the longer walk down by the river. It was full of snow and such a nice walk. Of course there was also throwing of snowballs (but ha, British gentlemen don’t shoot at women!) almost all the way and because of the ice under the snow we all slipped and fell over at least once.
We handed in everything on Friday, including the massive amount of paperwork we had. And now we’re off for two weeks! Friday afternoon I went out for a meal with Martin, his uncle and grandparents because it was his gran’s birthday. Lovely. At that point all the snow had melted again and the colour scheme outside was back to grey and brown.
On Monday, we went to Glasgow. Martin had a uni meeting and I wanted to go to the sales. They were taking down the Christmas lights in George Square. I was there when they put them up as well, so that was interesting.
Zombies 12.01.2010
Posted by TabitaW in people, uni.Tags: film & tv production, friends, Martin, snow, zombies
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I’ve been back in Scotland for almost a week. Other than a few trips to the shops I haven’t really been doing much else than zombie-related things. Our latest (and final!) Film & TV project is due in on Friday so that’s what we’re just finishing up these days. We did a lot of the preproduction work before Christmas but noone really had time to get it shot till Saturday. So that’s when we really did some work. We got our film and sound kit, made up some friends (we cast Martin as the lead, Zed Maroon, zombie private detective, he was awesome!) as zombies and spent hours and hours in the freezing cold snow getting everything shot. When we were done, I don’t think any of us had any feeling left in our toes but we managed. Yesterday we were at uni all day cutting and editing and now the only thing missing is music. One of the others has a brother who’s good at that kinda thing so he’s composing a little soundtrack for us to use. We’re going back in on Thursday to get that sorted and then we’re just about finished.
Apart from that, I don’t really have a lot of things that need doing so I’ve got plenty of time for my own projects. More about these when they go past the just-an-idea stage.
Cake 05.01.2010
Posted by TabitaW in well done.Tags: cake, eggs, explosion, mattias
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Right, so I decided to make vanilla sponge cake. I started off miscalculating the recipe (which was in my head in first place) and accidentally made four times the usual amount rather than doubling it as I’d planned. Not that this was a problem, there’s plenty of ingredients in the cupboards and the fridge.
Most people have probably heard that if you hold an egg in you hand and make a fist around it and just squeeze it, it’s designed to not break. I tend to try this every single time I’m making something with eggs in it and nothing ever happens. It just stays perfectly nice until you give up and break it the traditional way. Anyway, this time Mattias was in charge of the eggs so of course I had to dare him to do it. I knew nothing would happen but told him to hold his hand over the bowl anyway. Just in case. And then it happened – it exploded! The next few minutes were all fits of laughter and insides of egg dripping from everywhere in the kitchen. Most hilarious thing that’s ever happened to me while baking sponge cake. Maybe you had to be there.
Also, the cakes are just fine, just took them out of the oven and they look lovely :)
2009 31.12.2009
Posted by TabitaW in in general, people, thoughts, uni.Tags: denmark, list, Martin, new year, photos, scotland
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- January: Moved to Viborg, started classical drawing at The Drawing Academy
- February: The Drawing Academy
- March: The Drawing Academy
- April: The Drawing Academy, Martin came to visit at Easter and we had a road-trip round Jutland
- May: The Drawing Academy
- June: Finished The Drawing Academy, moved back home, went to Holland with my family
- July: Went to Scotland, went home, turned 21, Dutch family visited
- August: Worked as a temp receptionist, dad turned 50, went to Jutland with the family
- September: Moved to Scotland, parents visited, moved into halls, started uni
- October: Uni
- November: Uni, Blackpool weekend with Martin
- December: Uni, Cardiff weekend with Martin, finished first semester, went to Denmark for Christmas
Here’s some photos from this year:
Christmas 29.12.2009
Posted by TabitaW in people.Tags: christmas, denmark, family, friends, Martin, see me, sherlock holmes, snow, theatre
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Since the last post, we’ve been busy with all kinds of things. We visited friends on the 20th, made biscuits the 21st, went to the theatre with my parents to see Les Misrables on the 22nd and visited Louise and Mikael on the 23rd. Actually we were baking for days as we made about six different kinds of biscuits plus a lot of other Christmas sweets. The kitchen is still full of biscuit tins.
Christmas Eve we were just me, Martin and my family. Oh, and the guinea pig of course. Went to church, put the presents under the tree while watching the usual Christmas Disney Show on tv, had roast pork for dinner and walked round the Christmas tree singing before opening the presents. Plenty of biscuits on the table, of course. Lovely Danish Christmas.
On Christmas Day Martin and I went to the Anglican church in town so he could have at least something that was a bit more like home (actually we had Christmas crackers at dinner, with hats and jokes and everything). After that we decided to go see Sherlock Holmes at the cinema. Not very traditional for Christmas, but a great film.
We went to Jutland on Boxing Day to see my mum’s side of the family. Big dinner at my gran’s house, then lots of games, sweets and playing in the snow. At night my parents drove Martin and I to the train so we could sleep over at my aunt and uncle’s place. The rest of my family stayed at my gran’s house.
The next day we spent playing Bob and eating biscuits indoors even though we’d actually planned to go for a walk down to the frozen fjord. It was raining too much though, so we didn’t go outside till we had to catch our train back to Copenhagen.
Martin had to go home on Monday so we got his stuff packed and him driven to the airport. Still not a huge fan of airport goodbyes but it’s getting better.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t win the See Me photography competition. Not that I’d expected to but it would have been cool. Thanks to those of you who voted for me anyway.
Also, I don’t usually encourage reading my Danish blog on Google Translate as it makes much more sense translated by me but seriously, this one has some hilarious nonsense in it.
