Falmouth.

This weekend I will have been at uni for a whole MONTH. This is madness! I am doing an art foundation course at Falmouth, which incase you don't know is in like south south SOUTH Cornwall, and so a million miles from home. It is a dream though, we live by the sea, we do art all the time, and it feels like the Bauhaus. My flat mates are awesome, so thats cool. Life is just generally good! 
So here are some photos from the first few weeks, I swapped cameras with my mum to her film one, and the film must have been in there for at least 10 years, so the photos came out with some cool effects...

Our flat party for Georgia's birthday.

They froze our cutlery in a bowl of water...

Hope you like.

California.

We all know the saying "The grass is greener on the other side" don't we. The only thing that differs from person to person is what a person perceives as "the other side". I think for me California was one of the things on the other side. It has been my dream for years to go there, to that land of sun and beauty, to fall in love and become the most awesome surfer chick there ever was. (I think I probably I shared this dream with the majority of english teens) but anyway this summer I left school. I was free. So what was the first thing I had to do on my new improved free life...go to California of course! 

So off I went, jetting off from Heathrow on the 1st of July, parents weeping behind the barriers, my boiled sweets in hand. 

I spent just under 2 months in the states. I visited LA, Idaho (Sun Valley), and San Francisco, in that order. I stayed with friends of friends, and spent most of my time sleeping on sofa's, carpets, floors and the occasional bed. And I had the time of my life.

So here you go, the visual diary of the summer...

(they are all jumbled up in order, the computer stressed out on me..)

 
The views on the flight were so incredible. I didn't sleep a wink.

The view from the apartment in San Fran...the day I arrived in the city. It was so beautiful.

This was the best day of my life so far...I went flying with a pilot in an old original ww2 plane over LA. If I had died in that moment I would have still felt my life was complete. I felt like the luckiest person on the planet.

We flew in formation with 3 other planes.

Me inside... (yes I had to wear a parachute, it was terrifying!)

Little Sophie.

Idaho, Sun Valley, breath taxingly beautiful.

The Family I stayed with in LA and Idaho. The were awesome.

Moi.

Moi again...feeling like the queen of the world.

The coolest record store ever...sorry about the graininess..couldn't miss it out.

My friend Parker at the Getty museum.

The famous In'n'out. 

My old friend Lizzie, at the Marin Headlands, San Fran. Such an amazing day.

Lizzie and Me.

FIREWORKS on the 4th of July. 

Lizzie again...in her awesome mini.

My new american friend Whitney..such a classic LA chick. Love her.

An amazing view over LA. We watched the fireworks over the whole city from here on the 4th of July.

Me being a tourist in Beverly Hills...it couldn't be missed.

The Mission District, San Fran.

The hollywood sign...although you can't really see it, it is there though!

Flashin' ma dollars...(they weren't even mine!)

City hall San Fran.

And of course the famous Golden Gate Bridge, San Fran.

So there you go...the trip of a life time. 

Hope you like.

Say, Can you see the Sun?

Hello there fellow people. I hope you are all well. I for one am. Having said that, it is the time of year when I find myself sitting at a desk all day "working". Although we all know that half of that time is actually spent starring at the beautiful wall in front of the desk. 

So currently I am enjoying after revision recreation time, and I thought it has been a while, so it was time for another post. 

This post is a bit of everything, some photos from Tumblr (may I apologise in advance for the bad quality of the images), some music and just some general chit chat, so I hope you will enjoy this...

This first photo is of Wes Anderson and Jude Law on the set of Wes's most recent movie The Grand Budapest Hotel. I watched the film on Tuesday having been waiting to watch it for months. I was completely in awe of the entire thing, and I think Wes's films are just the most beautiful and mesmerising creations. It is fair to say he is my chief role model at this time in my life.

Essentially these photos show a sort of mood board of my life at the moment. I found them all on tumblr, I am sorry I do not know the original sources of the photos, but I like them all very much. Each seems to have an underlying story behind, and I love the ambiguity of not knowing what this would be.

Enough of that...moving swiftly onwards, Youtube kindly suggested this video to me today, and indeed I am very fond of it, so fond that I am sharing it with you. The music is very interesting but I found the combination of the film and the music together made the entire experience better. 

Until next time then.

Prada & Helena Bonham Carter. Need I say anymore.

I just happen upon this. It is so simple and just so great. Oh do watch it, you know you want to. Its only 3 minuets and 30 seconds. 

Hope you like.

Assemblage.

Half term has been mad. I have done all sorts and been everywhere. Well not quite but it feels like. Last week my mum and I took a 1000 mile road trip down south to go to my interviews for Uni ( TERRIFYING). Anyway on our trip we went to a number of different places, in a number of different counties, but the best had to be Cornwall. I love it so much there, it is so amazingly beautiful and the light seems so much clearer down there too...but that might just be me getting over excited!

Weirdly this photo really reminds me of the Hunger Games, being trapped in the dome in which the games are played. I find it so eerie that you can see the silhouettes of the trees outside.

My dad and I went on a day trip to a local museum of ours earlier on in the holiday called the Bowes Museum. Currently it has an exhibition on by Gavin Turk. It shows a series of colourful lights really.

The number represents the exact number of people on the planet the moment it was put up.

I thought this photo was so interesting, I don't know where the lobster on the left came from, but its quite amazing!

Hope you like.

Give it some perspective.

I came across Rafael Araujo’s work today whilst scanning through this website. I was literally blown away. As a keen and avid artist myself I feel a connection with most art work that I see. I always seem to put myself into the artists position and ask myself, could I ever do something like that?! Usually the result is that I wont know unless I try and consequently I find myself reaching for the nearest pencil and having a go. Basically what I am rambling on about it that work like this inspires me. It makes me want to look closer and imagine every line being drawn. 

I couldn't resist showing you all this, Rafael Araujo is an artist who works a lot, like A LOT with perspective, but his work has an interesting twist, because he adds insects and natural forms into it. He spends many many hours making these masterpieces. It is totally worth it though. 

Well here are some photos of his work, there is more information about them here, where I got the photos from.

Hope you like.