February 2012
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Man Date III - Back with a Vengeance
Eh, guys from Kirkie in suits?! This can mean only one thing… Man Date is back.
Essentially, a gathering of our local hoodlums (err, friends) meet up, head into the big city after drinking a fair amount, have dinner, then drink some more… all whilst suited up. What could possibly go wrong with that?
This was my first Man Date experience, and...
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This is Molly. She came to Couchsurf last week. I’ve not had anybody stay in ageees, and I probably won’t be having too many for a while given the amount of stuff that I’ve got on, but I like to keep my eye on the ‘emergency’ couchsurfing group to lend a hand to people that are stuck for somewhere to stay last minute.
Being off work is pretty strange. Undeniably...
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Despite having a loan of somebody else’s Macbook, it’s not quite the same as having my own setup. Given that mine is currently in a pile of plastic parts and screws (God knows how they all fit back together), that’s not really an option. However, I’ve ripped out the hard-disk and managed to boot up from the OS into something resembling my own config, so taking the...
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Updates are going to be scant on here for a bit. After things being incredibly full on for a while, I’m having to take a bit of a step back from life before I wind up dead before the beginning of summer.
On a more practical side, the motherboard on my beloved Macbook of five years has gone and given up the ghost. As one may expect, to get this repaired through Apple would cost...
January 2012
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Birmingham - 35mm black and white
I finally got my finger out, replaced a broken thermometer and developed a few black and white films that had been sitting gathering dust for a while. (Absolutely nothing to do with putting off writing my disseration, for the record.)
Turns out that one of the films was from when I went down to Birmingham for a few days back in January last year (2011), which I...
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50 - Murder Mystery
Continuing on with the celebrations for my dad’s 50th (which he claims have to last the full month), a pile of us gathered at the house back in Kirkie for a gangland themed night.
With all of the cigars and cocktails kicking about, it was almost like being back in New Orleans.
Ever since I was wee and read a book on Al Capone, I’ve had a soft-spot for the...
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The Cathouse - Saturday 28th January, 2012
One of the best things about this nightclub photography malarky is the unexpected folks that you meet.
Keeping in touch is the hard part.
Pale skin, red lips and blue hair = awesome.
I do love coloured hair. Maybe one day I’ll dye mine a ridiculous colour again.
I think she could probably pull them off.
People...
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Cathouse - Australia Day
G’day. Tie me kangaroo down sport. Throw another shrimp on the barbie ya old cobber, etc… It’s time to throw on some ridiculous (and inaccurate) hats, drink pish beer and celebrate Australia day at the Cathouse.
This night only served to confirm that my memory is shot to pieces.
Not a good omen for upcoming degree exams probably.
This is a nice...
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Wisdom dictates that one should not act in the heat of the moment, or write and post something online whilst angry and in the throes of intoxication. It can often be unwise and ill thought out.
However, as I’m sure you wonderful readers will know, sometimes you have to give words to feelings that you have immediately when they occur, else risk losing the zeal for them forever afterwards.
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50.
It’s been over a week since I got back from America, and it all feels oh-so-far-away. Despite being a pretty private person, I’m often fairly open on here, which is probably partly because I feel like nobody reads it, so I don’t have any intended listener in mind. As a result, sometimes it’s a good idea to withdraw for a bit to avoid spilling out more truths to the...
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American Update - The Finale
This is written from the comfort of my own bed back in Glasgow, after returning from sweet home Alabama. Even though I’d successfully taken numerous flights between three airports and a myriad of security checks (as well as a bus or two), I managed to fall at the last hurdle and take the long train back from Haymarket in Edinburgh to Glasgow. You know the one...
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American Update #something or other - the penultimate.
So it’s come to that point again; that point where I feel the horrible lurching feeling about leaving people that I’ve met behind, knowing that I might never see them again, and wondering just how far distance can stretch relationships… that time where I piss everybody at home off by missing a time and place that they...
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American Update #7 - NEW ORLEANS
Wow… what a place. I’m not sure where to start. Anybody that gets half a chance to come here should definitely go out of their way to make it happen.
This American city is definitely my favourite so far. What Atlanta lacked in a bit of life, New Orleans has by the bucketloads: shops and bars and unique places round every corner, this is somewhere...
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American Update #6 - Nashville
Welcome to Nashville… ‘Music City’.
I like this place. It feels a lot more like a City than Atlanta did. Whilst the latter seemed fairly empty and lifeless, Nashville has a bit of soul, and a downtown area that actually has shops and bars to wander about in.
One of the cool things was walking past the various bars and hearing different styles...
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American Update #5 - Jack Daniel’s Distillery - Lynchburg, Tennessee
The time has finally come…
but first… Dan (my couchsurfing host for the few days I’m Nashville) and I had breakfast. Apparently you can’t go to the South without having at least one meal at Waffle House.
It’s funny how things work out.
Ever since I started drinking Jack Daniel’s,...
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American Update #4 - Post Hogmanay, and the City of Atlanta.
Hangover? Luckily the South have a love of deep fried food in common with the Scots. You can get all sorts of things battered, which is fine by me. I’d lost a fair bit of weight before I came to the States… I’m sure when I return to the homeland I’m going to be like the side of a house.
Behold… Deep...
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American Update #3 - Hogmanay
We begin slightly before Hogmanay, as that’s just how this whole blogging thing pans out whilst you’re on the move. We had a much calmer evening of drinking in Caroline’s flat, given the previous two nights’ shenanigans, and my ridiculous jet-lag.
We played some game called ‘things’, where you get a card like ‘things you...
December 2011
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Alabama Update #2
I’m writing this in the courtyard of Caroline’s apartment building with a glass of orange juice, feeling my head burning in the sun. It’s ‘only’ eighteen degrees (Celcius), and it’s about eight back home apparently, but the difference in the weather couldn’t be more stark. It’s like the summer here: not a cloud in the sky.
The...
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Alabama Update - Part One.
I have finally made it to Sweet home Alabama. (Oh come on, it had to be said at least once).
Braving the marathon journey from Edinburgh to the City of Mobile, flying with American Airlines was definitely not as grand as flying with Delta to Denver was. Despite the comfort of starting the first leg of the trip from Edinburgh (and so getting to listen to airline staff...
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The Festive Period - 2011
The bulk of the festive season has come and gone, with all the madness that it brings, and before I head off to the States, here’s a brief run-down.
In our family we’ve developed something of a tradition of having a much smaller, quiet dinner with just the immediate family unit on Christmas Eve. This originally started because my mum would be working on...
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Daz brandishing a shot of cherry brandy in a wine glass can mean only one thing: that we’re in the throes of advent… a time where all the normal social formalities seem to get that little bit looser than usual.
Ginger Steve has just moved in with Kaylie and Daz for a bit, and we combined the seasonal happenings with that to have a bit of a soirée with some different kinds of...
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Jolly Rancher Vodka
The latest instalment of my vodka related posts concerns those wonderful sweets that you used to get in the UK until they realised just how bad they are for you: Jolly Ranchers.
I’ve had piles of these things kicking about for ages, and even I couldn’t make my way through the mountain-load. The solution? Turn them into vodka of course!
Unlike the ubiquitous...
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Cathouse 17-12-11 - Voodoo Christmas Party
Ho Ho Ho. It’s almost Christmas, and at this festive time of year, nothing quite beats the sight of Santa Claus shouting abuse at the Unders and handing out onions as presents to unsuspecting kiddywinkles:
What’s an even better present for those who move in the alternative world?
A Justin Beiber CD of course!
There were some proper...
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Vodka Watermelon
Ever since I went to some party in St. Andrews when I was about 18 and saw a vodka watermelon, i’ve wanted to try one out for myself.
They weren’t exactly the easiest things to get a hold of in Scotland, and only recently have they started appearing in supermarkets for a price that won’t require extending your overdraft. That, plus the fact that Kaylie...
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Stop American Internet Censorship
I’ve obliterated the site’s logo at the top to draw attention to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which is currently going through the American legislature process.
This is a piece of law which is unbelievably draconian in nature, with huge repercussions for the internet across the world - not just the States.
The justification for this bill is...
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Just when you thought that you’d worked your way through every possible sleeping pattern oddity that you could, a new one creeps up on you out of nowhere.
The latest abnormality is that I seem to be waking up about three or four hours before I set my alarm. Today that meant switching on like a lightbulb at around 9AM, even though I only got to sleep at about 4.
Possibly because I’m...
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Moskito - Cocktails
Cocktails anyone?
There’s nothing quite so manly as a guy with oversized glasses drinking a White Russian… and if there is, I don’t want to know what it might be.
We discovered Daz’s great uncle in a painting as well.
Look at that handlebar tache.
One of the benefits of living in town means that you get to make use of the mid-week drink offers...
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Cathouse 21st Birthday
Glasgow’s Cathouse Rock Club has hit the ripe old age of 21, and it was packed to the rafters with drunkards out to celebrate with a pile of folk like the guys from Anthrax/Steel Panther:
and Irvine Welsh of Trainspotting fame (he’s the bald one):
and various folks like my good pal ‘legend’ who had blagged VIP passes simply by being around...
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Tonight we had a ‘Kirkie Christmas night out’ - not a Christmas night out in Kirkie, but rather a night out with out mob from Kirkie… in town. Bit strange living in town and coming out into town with folk that you used to live next to… being the only one heading back to the City Centre is always a bit odd when it used to be all of you getting taxis home together.
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December is always a crazy month, and despite thinking that it might be a bit less so this year than in previous, the past week has gone and blown that out of the water.
The squeeze on time by the sheer volume of Uni work that demands attention during this period is further compounded by the extra nightclub jobs that come up. It’s a cruel irony that exactly at the same time you’re...
This is my super sexy pal Andrea.
Despite meeting literally hundreds of people a week as a photographer, the personal and work worlds don’t cross over as often as some may think. Because of that, it makes it all the nicer when you meet people who can crash through that boundary and get on with you really well outside the four walls of the clubs.
I’ve been bumping into Andrea for as...
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Bloody hell. These full-size images are a pain to start off with. It better get less of a pain as time goes on…
If you happen to be the girl to my left in this picture… message me! I know you’re a Tumblr stalker ;)
Currently working a ridiculous number of nights this week to try and claw back some finances after a number of factors have culminated in being more broke than...
November 2011
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These are my two Latvian girls that I had come stay for just a night the other week, saving them from kipping in Prestwick Airport. Not that that would have been particularly dangerous or anything… Just deathly boring.
They were hitch-hiking to St. Andrews, which I thought was a bit crazy. Attitudes towards this stuff are pretty different out-with the city… and especially...
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This window is the best.
Glasgow, November 2011 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 - Elitar Soligor 25mm f0.95
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Cathouse 26-11-11
I woke up battered and bruised with bite marks on my neck. I wasn’t even that intoxicated when this all happened; slipping down the fire escape was impressive. Luckily I don’t think it was caught on camera, and I even managed to keep most of my Jack Daniel’s in the glass. That is a skill that takes years to master my friends. Years.
As for the biting -...
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Making plans when you’re drunk is always a dangerous game. Things seem like such a good idea at the time, and then either or both of you realise that you’re actually not so inclined towards actually carrying them out.
The other side of the coin is equally as bad: You actually want to make good on the proposals that have been put forward, but find yourself completely forgetting that...
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Instagram
Hello. Going by the above picture you might be able to guess, but I’ve managed to acquire a phone that makes me look even more of a hipster than I already do. Given that my Blackberry never worked as it should and fell apart at the slightest hint of moisture, I think it’s fair enough. It was almost like being back on Windows XP… on a phone.
Anyway, for the random...
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Couchsurfing in Newcastle
Finally finallyfinally getting round to posting up something about my jaunt to Newcastle a couple of weeks ago. It seems like months back in the distant past.
I was originally meant to be heading down to Hartlepool to meet up with my pals Hold Your Horse Is and jump on tour for a few days. Alas, one of the band also happens to be a photographer, and got offered a...
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I’ve resisted doing too much to this site in way of design or anything else. It does what it needs to do without being overly complicated.
However, the tagging and search systems are both fairly pish, and have meant that when someone has asked for a link to a specific post from a few months ago, it’s been nigh-on-impossible to find again.
As a result, I’ve compiled a list of...
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Cathouse Cathouse Cathouse Cathouse.
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The Glencairn Tower in Motherwell is being demolished, and as part of a foray into the realms of ‘theology, architecture and an urban site’, someone I know had developed a project to take memories and other thoughts and project them onto the building before the deed was done. You can check out the blog here, and follow via twitter #glencairn.
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I’ve not got the time or inclination to post up some of the shots that I still have to process from the past week or so, so in the meantime… have another of Olivia.
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I’m in a bit of a weird photographic limbo at the moment.
I have piles and piles of film to be used up, but I simply can’t be bothered with the whole development process. Even thought it’s never really as bad as I build it up to be, it’s an added block that gets in the way of actually doing anything.
Added to that is the fact that the pictures are just not coming out ...
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Another week, another night in the Cathouse which saw me get home and sleep in far too late the next day.
Oh dear.
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Was wandering round the University after picking up some books from the library and caught Al skulking about in the shadows.
That’s one of the nice things about Glasgow… despite being a fairly large city, you never know who you’re going to bump into when you’re out and about.
If Scotland’s just like a big town, then Glasgow must be like a Street.
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Four years in, it’s easy to feel like I’ve slipped through University without touching the sides. Because of this, I thought I should get some sort of proof that I actually have been to the Glasgow Uni’s Law School.