Glee at the O2

As I had written about earlier in the year, I was very lucky to get Glee tickets thanks to my husband and yesterday the day finally came to see the cast live!! Yeah!

To get with the spirit, we went for Glee t shirts and the foam hands....yes we got sucked into buying the merchandise!  Well everyone else was!

And look at all these people who like us were eager waiting to see the 'New Directions'!

So enough from me, more info on the show later on

xoxo

Global Smurf Day

So today, Saturday 25th June was Global Smurfs Day.  It is a once in a lifetime Global event set up to smash into the World Records for the largest ever gathering of people dressed as Smurfs.

To help break the world record, the O2 were inviting people down dressed as a Smurf.  If you didn't have a Smurf outfit, not to worry, as they provided everything, the top, the trousers, the shoes, face paint and the hat!

There were hundreds of people, from babies to adults and everyone was having fun, what an event!

More photos to follow......

For more info see http://www.globalsmurfsday.com/

xoxo

La Sardina is on the Market!

Lomography has done it again...they've brought our a new camera for all the analogue fans out there!

Heres the Official Lomography press: -

La Sardina

The Fresh and Unique 35mm Fish Can Super-wide-angle Camera 

Fishy Fantasy

Straight from the La Sardina fish market, Lomography brings you four stylish cameras that will take 

analogue lovers' hearts by storm. Meet El Capit·n, Fischer's Fritze, Sea Pride and Marathon, the first 

four colorful clones (with a 1000 more to come) of the brand-new La Sardina camera. La Sardina is a 

point and shoot camera, using 35mm film and equipped with a plastic wide-angle lens that enables 

pros and beginners to shoot beautiful Lomographs easily. No need for long explanations at your local 

lab, the processing is really easy due to the regular format of the shots. As different as these four 

models may be, they all have one thing in common - a crazy wide-angle plastic lens and the best lens 

ring of all time.

El Capit·n and Fisher's Fritze are also equipped with Fritz the Blitz, Lomography's newest and most 

powerful flash. Not only is this stunning flash the most powerful Lomographic flash ever, it also 

comes complete with 3 unique distance settings that allow you to set the power of the flash - giving 

you maximum creative control. This flash is also packaged with yellow, red and blue filters that will 

drench even the darkest pirate adventure in colorful light.

While its designs are flashy and stylish, the technical features of La Sardina are humbly reduced to 

the basics to enable even the greenest of greenhorns to make a first step into Lomography. Say hello 

to your new favourite camera!

Get it now! shop.lomography.com/cameras/la-sardina-cameras

Read more about the La Sardina Camera! microsites.lomography.com/la-sardina

See the galleries! microsites.lomography.com/la-sardina/galleries

Technical Details

Film Type: Standard 135 roll film

Exposure area: 36 x 24mm

Lens focal length: 22 mm 

Aperture: 1:8 

Angle of view: 88 degrees 

Focusing range: 0.6m - infinity 

Shutter speed:  N (1/100), B (bulb)   

Multiple exposure: Independent MX switch 

Flash contact: Unique Fritz the Blitz flash contact

Flash Sync: first curtain X-type synchronization 

Flash Battery: 1xCR123A

Tripod socket thread: Standard 1/4" tripod socket 

Cable release: Universal cable release socket

Retail price: El C·pitan, Fischer's Fritze with Fritz the Blitz Flash: EUR 89 / USD 99

Sea Pride, Marathon: EUR 49 / USD 59

WHAT THE HELL IS LOMOGRAPHY?   

http://www.lomography.com/about 

The Lomographic Society International is a globally active organization dedicated to experimental 

and creative snapshot photography. Boasting over a half-million members across the world, the 

concept of Lomography encompasses an interactive, vivid, blurred and crazy way of life.  

Through our constantly expanding selection of innovative cameras & photographic accessories, we 

promote analogue photography as a creative approach to communicate, absorb, and capture the 

world. Through the efforts and skill of our Lomographic Society members, we seek to document the 

incredible planet around us in a never-ending stream of snapshots - literally a global "Lomographic" 

portrait as seen through the eyes of countless individuals and cultures.

The Future is Analogue! 

xoxo

Garden Treasures

Last year I started to plant a number of things in the garden and we managed to harvest a number of courgettes and then a number of small, tiny parsnips!

This year I decided just to focus on strawberries, and look how they are turning out...

Not edible yet, so have resorted to M&S instead!  Both at half price! yum yum!

xoxo

Hyper Japan 2011

If you have a free day between Friday 22nd July to Sunday 24th July, you should consider going down to Olympia Two at Kensington for Hyper Japan.  

As the name shows, this is all about Japan including cuisine and culture.  Along with this there are many other special events as well such as the UK Cosplay Award 2011 and Sushi Awards 2011.  

Cosplay is big in Japan, no one gives funny looks when someone goes past in Japan cosplaying.  Hyper Japan is the same, this is the opportunity to dress up and allow people to admire you.  If you go dressed up, chances are people will be queueing up to take your picture.

Japan is about cute and cool as well, so you are bound to see a lot of this around, whether its toys or posters or other things.

With so much on show and with it being bigger than last year, it is definitely worth a visit.

For more photos go to http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150292838135026.547248.793350025&l=7566d83e86

So check out Hyper Japan at http://www.hyperjapan.co.uk/ and start booking those tickets!

xoxo

The Fun of Instaxs

My Diana F+ got it's back changed recently.  It went from taking 35mm films to Instax minis.  Instax Minis are polaroids but are a mini version of 62mm x 46mm as opposed to the originals at 60mm x 99mm.

With the back changed, who best than to try it on a bunch of colleagues!  Look at how much fun we had, who would have ever imagined?

xoxo

What Car...Audi you say???

Saw this in the Metro last week and had to do a post on this.

So forget about that flashy BMW or Merc, here comes the Audi.  Did I ever tell you I drove an Audi? ;-)

xoxo