Get some, Jetson.

'Stay Positive'.

Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul

Skateboarding in war torn Afghanistan, absolutely amazing that something so positive is happening despite such a negative situation.

The third 'thing that you really don't need to take a photo of'

Starting to realise why the ABC guys' photos only interest the people who went on the trek...

PS So glad I found Oatmeal, it's amazing!

http://theoatmeal.com 

Drugs are bad for dinosaurs

Credit to http://www.theoatmeal.com

Long Live Joe Strummer

PhoneShop

Only just got into PhoneShop, and it's costing me a fuckload of sleep! So funny though:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/phoneshop/4od#3126838

Flutes Are Rad Part 2

 

 Will Hewitt rocking his flute at the Swayambhunath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal

Wu Tang Clan!!!

Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' Ta Fuck Wit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvrZpkt7vZo


Gravel Pit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGS7I8_UXhM

Flutes are rad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6SHsF1n9Qw&NR=1



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBRyjMHO_Ew

Bon Iver

http://www.myspace.com/boniver

Get clicking and listening. You won't be disappointed.

Shuttles, dogs, and robots

Can't get enough of this!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd-xFRT1azE

France vs UK

Legal drinking age in Britain: 18
Legal drinking age in France: 16

Amount of beer cans and empty bottles of Lidl vodka on the pavement in the morning in Britain: uncountable.

Amount of beer cans and empty bottles of Super U vodka on the pavement at any time in the day or night: Next to nothing. I've seen just 2 beer cans, in a city, in 17 days of being here.

So we have a legal drinking age of 18, the same age you can have a say in how you're country is run, and yet we still have more street drinking and alcohol abuse than a country with a drinking age of 16? Makes sense.

Legal smoking age in Britain: 18
Legal smoking age in France: 18

So both have a legal smoking age of 18, the same age as when you're considered a fully accountable adult in a court of law. In France, you can smoke in public places, and despite also having a legal smoking age of 18, a much greater number of people smoke. And yet the streets aren't covered in cigarette ends and packets.

We might give France shit for frogs legs and running away before Dunkirk, but I'd rather be able to walk through town without dodging beer cans, fag butts, and the odd pool of vomit. The UK considers itself to be 'developed', but taking having enough pride in one's home to keep it in a decent state as a measure of 'development', as far as I can see, France is by far superior. Surely a 'developed' country doesn't have nearly as much alcohol abuse as the UK, and doesn't have residents with general and near-complete disregard for their own streets and towns. I know which nation I'd say respects and takes some responsibility for the state of its own country.

Surely the legal smoking and drinking ages in Britain are set at 18 because it's only at that age we're sure to be mature enough to deal with them? You can blame it on government, recession, or anything else you can think of, but really, you don't have to look hard to start seeing reasons why Britain is slipping. It's the people that're the problem.

La premier jour de la France

No wifi for the next about 16 days, I'm travelling in nearly 30 degrees in trackies, and I've forgotten my toothbrush. A good start.

Anyone in Nicholls' French set

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo

A little help with vocab.

Song for the last 3 months

And the next month as well:

"There's all the work that needs to be done,
It's late for revision,
There's all the time and all the planning,
And songs to be finished
And it keeps coming, and it keeps coming, and it keeps coming 'til the day it stops."

LCD Soundsystem - 'Someone Great'

Zombies

Hearing someone say "Yes I have seen zombies. I've seen someone who's died and come back to life" through my iPod at this time of night, whilst being the only one up and in the only room with a light on, is pretty spooky. Thankyou Nick Grimshaw and your damn good selection of music!

PS I might as well get a Twitter account for the amount of rubbish I regularly spew onto the Internet.

New iPod background - Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe. Pretty much wankable.

iPod wifi connection

Anyone know how to get my iPod Touch to stop going from full wifi connection to 1 bar and back up again randomly? It's all over the place; it's even on one bar when it's held next to the BT Home Hub, any ideas why or how to 'fix' it?

Random rugby fact

Bryan Habana (South African winger and one of the quickest men ever on a rugby pitch) once raced a cheetah for charity. Might sound stupid, but his 100m time of 10.4 would have qualified him for the Beijing olympics 100m semi-final, so even if he lost to a cheetah, he's still insanely quick!

App hilarity; download Titanic!

If you've got an iPhone or iPod Touch, I highly recommend downloading the Titanic app. It's free and addictive, but the best bit is the voices! Genuinly, if you loved the voices off of Worms, get up to the point on Titanic where they start trying to jump themselves into the lifeboats and buoys, and you'll hear some very Worms-esque phrases, in Worms voices!

"Here I go!" "It's all or nothing!"

Debit card dinosaur

Props to Hugh Findley for the doodle.

(Yes, the numbers have been blanked out, you dirty thieves)

Beardyman in the library

I'd become a librarian if this comes with the job!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttBO4SZpFc&feature=youtube_gdata

SNOW!

Thought I'd deleted the photos somehow, turned out I was just looking at one corrupted file and didn't bother trying to see the rest, which were fine! Anyway, here's the snow day, the reason I got grounded for a week, with no internet either...:

We didn't originally have sledges, rather we had the spare wheel cover from a Freelander, but upon meeting Connor's old friend and his mum later in the day, we ended up with the keys to their garage and access to a couple of sledges! (We did give them back!)

Starts slow...

gets quicker...

and ends in a steering fail!

This just started with a fail full stop!

Into the bush, sledge driving test fail

Still attempting to make it to the bottom

Many thanks to Lucy and Luke for the sledges! : )

The mind of Edward Lindley during a chemistry lesson:

Eddy followed Brandon's example (not the wisest move in most cases) and also wrote down his thoughts during the chemistry lesson. I think he did the work at some points though, as I don't think he normally thinks about hex-1-ene...

Thanks
I want that rubber band
Get off
FAIL blog.org      X2
Boring
Nice tummy Yak
Gimp
(The quadratic equation formula)
No
Give me my scissors
Ha Ha
Like Tombo
SAW V
Peter KAY
shining    (I think; it might be swining or stining)
Owned
RPG-7 (doodle about a centimetre long of an RPG)
St. Andrews day (doodle of the Scottish flag (it's really just a box with a cross in it)
Chris Moyles
Inbred
Yak's dead
Oh, maybe not
HA HA HA
Danny Faylin
I love those things
Paranormal
spank
Nice Fro
Parrafin alia
Hex-1-ene
Mentally retarded
Viking boat
The knowing
Fake legs
Gadget show
Mexico
Gay
(Drawing of a dick)
Gerrraphics
Garrigan
Reggae X2 sauce
Aunt Julia
YESSSSA
YAk smells haha
Inbred
Niall
What the
Hollyoaks
night after Simpsons
Ha Ha  He He
Poison pppp poison
We will rock you
Halo 3
Replian rangers of space (oh shit)
Navy
Planet science
Stairway to Heaven
YMCA
Aston Villa
Barrack Obama
Play your cards right
HIGHER!
anagram

At this point Eddy tried to think of anagrams for Brandon's name, Brandon Stephen James Stafford Wright Crane:
Steffan has brain and wrist acre ought premdod
(after realising this was rubbish:)
Steffan has wrist pain and Brun got goat creme re

Eddy thinks a lot. Of rubbish.

The mind of Brandon Crane during a chemistry lesson:

Brandon, instead of doing the work/ notes, decided to write what he was thinking down. Here it is typed exactly as he's written it...

ain't it just.
No
Shut up, im annoyed.
for fuck sake, I hate bough
Heh Heh Heh
I don't like writing my thoughts
why is kanye west the perfect 'black name?'
paranormal activity, I missed out
8 thoughts until now
9 thought, now 10
tom likes movies WAY TOO MUCH!
whaa... Brun!
Through the wire by Kanye West
Just changing song
what should I choose
oo, soulja boi! heh heh.
(drawn quaver note) kiss me through the phone (drawn quaver note)
Stop writing on my most prized posession
what are you laughing at?
gayboy!
Ive just noticed I dance without thinking
(drawn quaver note) da da da da, da da (drawn quaver note)
(drawn quaver note) hey!, what's wrong with you? (drawn quaver note)
why do I doodle on everything
Paedo?
hah.
I need a debit card. (want)
smeg.
(the face you get on MSN when you type :O ) Tombo just swore 'shit'
I (the heart you get on MSN when you type (L) ) Yak
Flavour video is now online, woooo!
half an hour is equal to 30 minutes
I can't be arsed now.
I hate hough for making me do this.

We all knew Brun's head was a land of wonder!

Geography field trip to Lincoln

Lukas <3 cameras. Fo Lyfe.

Devon's iPod, with the lyrics to a song from the first ever Techno band, apparently a German band who adapted stuff like pocket calculators to make music!

Splitting up to our areas, only to come back and ask where we do it...

Aston Martin!

It was soooo cold outside, so upon going inside a shop and finding this, Devon and I spent a good minute under it warming ourselves like it was a fire :)

Maggie's 4 innit!

"Excuse me, you can't take photos of the courts, if a criminal comes out you're breaking the law"

Another way Brun has impacted my life forever...

Permanent marker yo.

Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Assessed Expedition Photos

Whilst attempting the writeup for the expedition myself, Alex Clark, Hugh Findley, Tom Angus and Ben Bloodworth undertook many moons ago, I found a couple of photos I don't believe have been posted. Enjoy!:

Competitions are so sick they're disgusting.

Set for life sonnnn!

FarmVille

If, like me, FarmVille has taken over your life through no wish of your own, you'll want more stuff on your farm. http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-cheat-coins-and-exp-in-farmville-08-27-09-281140/ is what you need.

Brandon Crane's Nottingham Killing Rampage

Alex Shipman and I went to Nottingham the other day, and met up with Dom, Brandon and Brett (hmm...). Much fun was had, and we had the near-perfect day; getting kicked out only once (and that was after a while), finding all the spots we wanted to, and everyone getting all the tricks they wanted to. Even though Alex rolled his ankle, he said it was the best street skate he'd had, and I agree. His edit below:

More yak Skateboarding >>
http://video.mpora.com/watch/LLNxiyA0S/

America!!!

Just got back from a just-over-2-week trip to America; for the first week and 6 days we were in Orlando, Florida, and the last 3 days we were in NY! I learnt two things in general for America; everything goes by the rule 'Bigger is better', and often the reason for something being the way it is or being where it is was simply "Because they could"! However ridiculous these things sound, it actually made for several amusing incidents and realisations; not least realising that was what was once the world's tallest building (the Empire State Building) was built just because 2 gents felt like being a bit grand! The results were always well worth it, such as the extravagant decoration of the themeparks; no paper-mache rocks here! The rides themselves were excellent and most had some sort of story. The amount of themeparks there were in Orlando was also staggering; including Disney you could easily spend 2 weeks of solid theme parks, or a month if you were doing it like we did (which I would recommend!)

My camera broke before we left on this trip, and so my usual blogging frenzy was hindered somewhat. Actually, I didn't have much luck with cameras on the trip: I didn't have one of my own, I lost mum's memory card to the streets of NY, and I forgot to take it up the Empire State. Whoops on my behalf I suppose!

Anyway, all being well, Facebook will allow my photos to go up, and I'll put together an NY edit. And I'm wise enough not to put a time limit on it, because I know I'll never hit whatever I say, even if it's a month from now!

P.S. And I met Luke and Will at Universal Studios and Cropper in Orlando! The most random thing ever!

New videos!

As Movie Maker broke and wouldn't render stuff, I had to take some clips from the now-never-to-see-the-light-of-day Skeg blog from April. Here they are: