Saturday 26 January 2013

Featured Photos


Elephant photograph taken by Chris Paul Daniels in Nairobi


I do love pinterest.  As a lifelong collector of postcards I have in the past had rooms with walls covered with random photos and postcards, so for me pinterest is a fabulous site which lets me share my walls and see other people! 

I also adore the fact that they can be organised in theme related boards. 

So in adiition to the lists of creative people on this site, I am also gradually pinning some images by my favourite phtographers (many listed here too).

http://pinterest.com/brummieblerd/photos-by-my-favourite-photographer-friends/

 

Tuesday 22 January 2013

Random Insomniac Limerick

I can't sleep.

I had to write an extended bio for my shorty award profile, a thing I only completed because I couldn't get to sleep.

Since my chances of winning a shorty are zero, and I hate writing bios, I wrote a limerick instead:

There once was a girl from Great Barr
Whose ambitions extended quite far
Films were her dream
And crazy she seemed
With creations quite strange and bizarre.

Unfortunately there is no poetry award!

In case you're curious so far I have voted for Lizzie Bennet Diaries in webseries (I still love you Awkward Black Girl - please don't hate me!  Issa Rae you'll get my actress vote) and failed to nominate Socially Awkward Darcy in the fandom category because she doesn't have a twitter. Feel free to comment if you can find a way around this.

I do like to rock an obsession!

To sleep, perchance to stare at my ceiling.

Oh and if you're bored you can nominate me by clicking the box below:

Nominate Esther Lisk-Carew for a social media award in the Shorty Awards!Nominate

Saturday 19 January 2013

Getting My Creative Juices Flowing

Happy January

As I said last year I shall be refocusing this blog on creative projects and creative people. I'll still talk about films I've seen but more in depth thoughts will move to the new film-centric blog with my fabulous friend Laura Bradshaw.  The first What Have You Done To Deserve This post is now up here.


I shall me adding some musings on the Oscar nominations and some films I've seen lately.  I have been working my way through the nominated films, and I can't be outright confident about any of the nominees, so far I think this is the most fun I've had watching the Oscar nominated films for a while.  Silver Linings Playbook had me giggling from start to finish, Brave's Merida had me thinking about my own princessy little sister more than once, and Tarantino's Django Unchained more than makes up for N-bombs and gratutitous violence with witty banter and some serious A-grade hammy acting (his own being the only low point).  Looking forward to the downers next with plans to see Zero Dark ThirtyLes Miserables (well the clue is in the name) and Lincoln.  Thank god I've already seen the marvellous Amour or February could be pretty bleak!


Back to my own filmmaking projects:

I will hopefully be working with a very talented playwright to adapt her one woman show into a film and I've recently read a script for a short film about the perils of not believing in magic.  I am hopefully going to get production moving on that very soon.

I also have a planned script of my own, I have been working on.  For a sneak peek at some of my inspiration I've been using Pinterest as an ideas board.

I've been pretty motivated already, and was helped along by watching the TED talk below given by Alex Day talking here about how he came to become a unique chart sucess and make his Forever Yours music video.  Take care folks and post your own projects below for sharing.  As always my stream of consciousness is also followable on twitter where I am @shegeekbham.