A bit quieter this past week and weekend. Uni as usual, things generally don't change much with that. I'm getting better at color printing, it's still very hard, especially when you can't see the incredibly subtle slight hue of green cast but I'm making due.

I haven't been working as much, which is good for uni but not so good when I'm trying to make money for traveling. I did work on Saturday in time to watch the Australian rugby team beat England soundly. It was my first time watching a game and it was so exciting, I have to say, better than American football. Since the pub is Australian that's who we were cheering for and it paid off. 

After the game was done most of the boys headed up to our function room for a poker tournament which left kiwi Jemma and I to hold down the bar ourselves. Luckily it didn't get too crazy so after 9.5 hours I was finally done and could sit down for a drink of my own, which was very well deserved.

Sunday I decided to not lie around in bed all day so I headed over to Shoreditch

 (A north east area of London in which I've decided I want to live when my lease is up. The area is still a little down right now but i

t is very much up and coming with many warehouse conversion flats. There are tons of little indie like shops, pubs, restaurants which will be perfect for weekend brunches, and lots of studio and gallery space). I went to go see a show a Scottish photographer by the name of Rankin who did a summers worth of polaroid images at the 

Macallan distillery. He did a lot of work there with his muse, Tuuli, pictured above. They are releasing special bottles of scotch to accompany this, so if anyone has an extra $1400 lying around this would be a good investment. There are going to be 1,000 bottles of 30 year old Macallan scotch, in special boxes, each label will have a different one of the images on it and inside the leather case it comes in the original polaroid will be included.

It was an interesting exhibition, especially due to the fact that polaroid film has, sadly, been discontinued this year.

After the gallery I took the bus into the middle of London and got see many interesting sights as I went along. That is my favorite part about running around London, everything you get to see from the second level of the bus. I saw a pimp, this little Mediterranean man in a grey suit that was stripped with more shades of grey and shiny, it reflected light all over the place. To go with that he had a grey fedora, a big gold pinky ring and a gold chain with jewel encrusted note hanging off it. And the most important part, he had the swagger. I almost laughed out loud when I saw him. I also got to see a film in the making, I'm not sure what it was but there was a courtyard closed filled with horse-drawn carriage and people dressed in victorian costumes. 

After a day full of running around Ellie and I decided we'd go see a movie Sunday night. She and I walked to the high street to see "Zack and Miri make a porno", the new Seth Rogen movie. It was much funnier than I expected it to be, and a nice evening treat for us.

All-in-all a good week. I've moved all my images to my newly created flickr site.