Tattoos

ah, tattoos, ink, tribal markings.
i my self have 11 now and am always trying to save up for more. but what is their appeal? this is the question that my group aim to answer in our short documentary on tattoos. Megan, Fiona, Ciaren and I aim to interview a few tattooed people and find out about their tattoos, why they got them, the history of it.
ive been doing a bit of research and brushing up on the history of tattooing and have come across the following resources.
6 Pages of information from the smithsonianmag.com website.
a discovery new media video on .
Vanishing Tattoo
Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
also i found the documentary 'The Vanishing Tattoo' on youtube.

stills vid?

cannot remember who the artist is but the track is 'holy, holy, holy' and can be found on mp3.com

EXPO!?!

we went to the BVE expo last week and i had a good look around. i felt kind of like a kid in a toy store, anything that remotely interested me i looked at or asked questions about if i could get a word with one of the stand minders.
i got the most photos of the 3d HD camera rig company, and having tried making a rig before to film in 3d it didnt work found it quite interesting.

now this company originally only did 3d film and graphics work but after being plagued by customers about where they could buy a rig for filming in 3d decided to start producing their own. im not too sure where 3d
stands in the future of broadcast really though. i mean who owns a 3d tv at the moment and how many are they?
the popularity of 3d films may be making a come back in a small way but to translate that kind of scale into your average consumers home with their 37"(nowadays maybe a bit more) TV will take a bit more advancement in the technology from what i can gather.

Frustration

my pc is broke, the motherboard decided to blow a fuse and so i have had to buy a new one, along with memory and a processor in the process of determining what was wrong. damnit.
also my xbox360 decided to flash the red rings of death at me so now i have no xbox.
flaming testes!
testes, testes, one, two, three?
testicular cancer is no joke.

anyway, i havent posted on here in a while, i keep having thoughts of making a short film, but well, you need a cast and ill be damned if i can find one right now, and what exactly is classed as a young person/student? i have found a film festival occuring this june, films must be made between the 1st of jan and the 1st of march for submitting on the 20th of march. a short time frame in which to make a movie, but alas, i might be able to do it.

everyone on my course looks like they have been finding the photography thing we have been doing good fun too, (i cant afford batteries for my camera if i am to make it to uni this week due to the amount i have had to fork out in trying to fix my pc and so you wont see any photos of mine on flickr at the moment, also i forgot my username and password, now i know them again but still, besides the point [also it sounds like im making excuses, maybe i am, but my pc is more important to me and my uni work than going out in the cold after work and taking photos]), a good pointer here for framing shots that i would like to point out is to look at films, especially robert rodriguez's films as he seems to pay special attention to the framing of the shots (check sin city, once upon a time in mexico, and even the second spy kids movie) the way the main charcters stand out, or the way the background is used to frame the action that is happening. also he uses this in reverse, to draw attention away from the main character to something that may be happening in the background by framing that within the frame.

i could go onto frames here but it would be in the old web 1.0 terms and not the new web 2.0 new fangled bollocks .php and javascript based web sites. but i wont

enough for now
this is a man old before his time signing out
rice and peas ahbuh! BO!