100 things to do in my life.

Aswell as work related posts I also want this blog to be used to keep a record of personal achievements and goals. Earlier this year I wrote a list of 100 things I want to do in my life, including a few things that I had set for myself and already achieved in the past few years. I am going to place this list online and post when I do things on the list. The list will also be added to as I go along and can run over 100 if I come up with new things that I want to do. This list is for my life not just the next year so don't be suprised that most things probably won't be ticked off. I may even add notes next to each individual task adding in people who want to join me in doing those things.



100 things to do before i die.

1. Own a boston terrier

2. Stay at the alton towers hotel

3. Visit Japan

4. Learn to drive

5. Become a successful illustrator

6. Run around outside in a thunderstorm in my underwear

7. Change my name

8. Invent something

9. Get another tattoo

10. Skydive

11. Work or be somehow involved in a project for Jim Henson's company

12. Be in a musical

13. See little shop of horrors on stage again

14. Be a paid extra again

15. Make friends with a monkey

16. Save someones life

17. Sleep under the stars

18. Be an aunty

19. Audition for a reality tv show √

20. Spend a day in a recording studio √

21. Have a signiture dish

22. Publish a childrens book

23. Have a hot air balloon ride

24. Be a bride

25. Be a mum

26. Be a grandma

27. Be on a gameshow (preferabley a relaunch of the crystal maze)

28. Swim with dolphins in the wild

29. Visit New York √

30. Break a world record

31. Learn a circus act

32. Spend over £1,000 on a single outfit

33. Go in an anti gravity simulator

34. Shower under a waterfall

35. Wear and own a corset

36. Celebrate the festival of the dead

37. Go parascending

38. Meet someone with the same name as me

39. Build an amazing sandcastle

40. Build an igloo

41. Find out what my japanese books say

42. See a panda

43. See dinosaurs footprints

44. Stay in an underwater hotel

45. Stay in a windmill √

46. Stay in a five star hotel

47. Own a room with a view

48. Learn how to take a compliment

49. Send a message in a bottle

50. Create my family tree

51. Learn to be a pussy cat doll

52. Visit Hello Kitty world in Japan

53. See a Sloathe

54. Keep up my gloomy bear collecting

55. Make a time capsule

56. Dig up the time capsule i buried when i was 7 or 8

57. Go on a secret mission

58. Appear in a magazine with my work

59. Meet Mori Chack

60. Change someones life

61. Save more money

62. Keep improving myself

63. Leanr to be a masoos (masseuse)

64. Visit the playboy mansion

65. Visit an planes cockpit

66. Travel first class √

67. Ride in a pink cadelac

68. Have a pinyata

69. Go surfing √

70. Go to Lazerquest

71. Visit Go Ape

72. Go Sphereing

73. Learn to do the splits

74. Be a bridesmaid √

75. Pimp a snack √

76. Get a tan with no white bits

77. Go swimming before breakfast

78. Use a she wee

79. Spend a night in a treehouse

80. Get a degree √

81. Swim with dolphins √

82. Fall in love √

83. Be in a music video √√

84. Dance until the bottom of my tights wear through √

85. Do some modelling √

86. Have a big 21st birthday party with friends and family √

87. Live in another country for a while (NEW YORK?)

88. Visit Seattle √

89. Spend over $100 in a sweet shop √

90. Have my tonsils out √

91. Win an all you can eat pizza competition √

92. Get a Distinction for my Foundation Course and prove bitch dowman WRONG! √

93. Take trampolining lessons √

94. Take diving lessons √

95. Go on a zip wire through the trees √

96. Learn the Thriller Dance Routine

97. Audition for another reality TV show

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New Blog

I decided to start a new blog. Since graduating in July (Graphic Arts and Design, Leeds Metropolitan University) I have given myself a bit of time off to have a bit of a relax and break from all the hard work but I am now ready to thrown myself back into my work and ideas and carry on researching and developping my skills and improving the qualities in my work even further.

I thought a new blod would be a perfect way to document this to add in new skills and inspirations that i'm discovering.

I am an illustrator who uses photography, models, props, costume and situations, to illustrate stories, or create a narrative using the image itself. I like to encourage imagination in what I do and try not to restrict the thought tracks of the audience, by not over complicating my image or giving too much away.

I design, build, create, light, direct, glue, model, act, sew, and then photograph my final image. Almost everything featured in my photographs is made myself or very carefully selected. Once my photographs are complete I make very few alterations on Adobe Photoshop.

The key to my images is that they are set up and directed almost like theatre, and then this tableau is then photographed. My work is not just thrown together through lots of layers on a Mac, It is thoroughly planned out and everything in the image is physically placed in position, lit, and then eventually, after a lot of shifting around, photographed.

I am inspired by toys, train journeys, sweet shops, caffeine, carnivals, theme parks, stop frame animation, the seaside, circus, theatre, fashion, jewellery, costume, nature, colour, music, lyrics, stereotype, sets, magic, illusion, musicals, eighties films, people, animals, personality, puppetry, shadows, stencils, silhouette, designer toys, Japan, masquerade, pop up, and mischief.