Living in a Bubble

A little bit about life. Since I last (properly) posted I've done my A-levels, and passed, I'm now at the University of Exeter studying Renewable Energy at its Cornwall campus. It's an interesting course, taking knowledge from all areas of expertise, from mechanical engineering to structural engineering, from electrical engineering to government policy (well not quite yet, but we'll get to that eventually). It makes me realise that I don't think I could do a 'specific' degree as I find all these areas far too interesting right now.

The first year is nearly over, only 2 teaching weeks left of the first year, then the Easter break, and then exams...and then...that's it, it's summer again! Crazy.

I've been sort of a hermit in my time at uni however, so my photography has been lacking hugely. My photo albums are out of date on here, by quite easily over a year, so much has happened in between. Maybe I'll get around to uploading the photos or you could just view my Flickr page which is up to date with all the photos that I upload onto the internet (pretty much).

Hopefully I'll get out more sometime soon, possibly next uni year and get some more photography experience. It's a little daunting being a little hobbyist photographer on a campus full of art students! But hey, I enjoy it

I've also been taken on by xtech to work on Xmedia Online which is exciting stuff, so I look forward to sitting down and getting some work done on that. I have a 'development' blog over on Blogger which is even more out of date then this site, but I will hopefully, like this site, resurrect it and put it to good use.

That's it I suppose, oh, I have a 'personal' site on UoE's people space, which can be found here. That's by far the most up to date site I have on the internet and I'll continue to update that as best as I can.

So. That is really it for now.

A very long time indeed, nearly a year now, as it will soon be my 19th birthday, crazy stuff huh?

Lots has happened in between, and I'll hopefully update this blog with some updates. I'll also hopefully start talking about music again because I'm still increasing my collection at a fairly rapid pace!

Anyway, I'll leave all that for when I actually have time to update this.

Well I said I would post again before the week was out; so I'll do it now before I go and do some of that dreaded work.

Firstly there have been a few songs released recently by chart based pop artists which have been quite good, including Embers by Just Jack, Shake It by Metro Station, Jai Ho! by A.R. Rahman and Don't Upset the Rhythm by the Noisettes. I usually don't get interested in this stuff but Radio One's Live lounge has certainly sold these artists to me, its good stuff. Another good song that came from the live lounge is Pendulum's cover of Coldplay's Violet Hill



As well as buying those individual songs I've also bought Auch Männer sind Menschen by Brunner & Brunner and Kan Jy My Hoor by a Dutch Just Jack (I was pretty surprised I have to say). As well as obtaining this small collection of individual songs, my brother bought Fightstar's new EP, Mercury Summer. We both really enjoy it and he's looking forward for their album to come out later this month. There's a good electronic mix of Mercury Summer on the EP which my brother hates but I think it's excellent . So if you're into Fightstar it's worth getting (I can't really compare them to any other artists as I've not branched out there yet sorry).

Finally, my library on shuffle. Wow. I used to hate listening to my music on shuffle as I would listen to certain albums over and over again and get used to what songs came after what, and my brain would start thinking of the next song as the previous one came to a close. However because I've been less engrossed in indivdual albums I've decided to try the shuffle feature on iTunes (and any other media player for that matter). It's ace hearing songs I've either rarely listened to, barely heard before or songs that I used to listen to a while ago and grown bored of. It's so nice to switch from u-Ziq, to Boards of Canada, to Stars of the lid, to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, to Enigma, to Alphaville and so on and so forth. Having a diverse music collection really helps to, keeps the mind clear and open