Sunday, December 7, 2014

So You're Interested In Or Thinking Of Getting A Tattoo

Tattoos have became a popular part of todays culture. The art of tattooing has existed for centuries and through out history the popularity of tattooes has fluctuated constantly.

For some people the decision to get a tattoo can be made in the moment on some drunken night. However for others it's a process which can take years. For those who like to educate themselves on some aspects of tattoos I've found a collection of videos which I have found to be super useful in not only gaining understanding but also making my decisions of what I want to get. They have been catagorised by topic.

Understanding what a tattoo is & how it works - 
TATTOOING Close Up (in Slow Motion) - Smarter Every Day 122
About Answers: What Happens When You Get A Tattoo? Video - About.com

Understanding the removal process -
How Laser Tattoo Removal Works - Smarter Every Day 123

Know the History - 
The history of tattoos - Addison Anderson
Traditional Tattoos: Fang Od and Kalinga Tattooing in the Philippines 

Tattoo culture -
Why We Love Tattoos
Skin Deep - A Youth Culture Tattoo Documentary
In Skin - Tattoo documentary by Flying Knee Productions

Understanding there will be pain & dealing with the pain -
How to Manage Tattoo Pain
How to Minimize the Pain of Getting a Tattoo
How to Prepare Yourself for a Tattoo | Tattoos
How to Prepare Someone for First Tattoo | Tattoo Artist

After Care - 
Tattoo Aftercare Products and Ointments
How to Care for Skin after Tattoo | Tattoo Artist

People do regret their tattoos -
Tattoo Regret - A Documentary
Common First Tattoo Mistakes | Tattoos

Questions to ask - 
Questions to Ask Before Getting a Tattoo

Other - 
People Get Tattoos For The First Time
Nibbles Official tattoo advice videos

I hope this has been useful to help you in understanding tattoos and deciding on what you want to get tattooed, and if you even want to get tattooed.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

6 Love Quotes From 3 TV Shows

In every TV series at one point or another there is at least one complicated romance. Some have more than other but in the end they are eventually worked out. This post has some of those moments that are so pure and that complexity of the romances just fade away. Those scenes that just gets me every time. Just pre-warning for anyone who hasn't seen or is currently watching any of the shows SPOILERS!!!

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 7 'Touched', Spike & Buffy: 
Spike - "You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I'd prefer you didn't. Don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. I've made a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of: you ... Here, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say "I love you", it's not because I want you, or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are. What you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand, with perfect clarity, exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the One, Buffy."

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 'Lovers Walk', Spike, Buffy & Angel:
Spike: The last time I looked in on you two, you were fightin' to the death. Now you're back making googly-eyes at each other like nothing happened. Makes me want to heave.
Buffy: I don't know what you're talking about.
Spike: Oh, yeah. You're just friends.
Angel: That's right.
Spike: You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight and you'll shag and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.

Moonlight - Season 1, 'Sonata', Beth & Mick:
Beth Turner: Look for months now, you've been saying that things can't work between us. That we live in different worlds. And I didn't want to hear you but maybe you were right.
[starts to tear up]
Beth Turner: You can't come back to my world. And I'm not ready to join yours.
Mick St. John: Wait a minute. *That's* what you think this is about? You think I want to *turn* you?
Beth Turner: Wouldn't you? Eventually... What happens when I start to get old? Maybe then I'd want it too.
[sniffs]
Beth Turner: I don't want to have to make that decision. Emma and Jackson made me realize that you were right. I don't - think I can do this any more.
[Mick leaves]
[last lines]
Mick St. John: [Beth's crying, her back is to Mick] Want to know what Emma and Jackson made me realize? That YOU were right! You were right all along. This *isn't* about being a vampire or a human! This is about *us*!How we feel about each one another. Right here! Right now!
Beth Turner: The night that we first met... met again, whatever, what was I wearing?
Mick St. John: Blue jeans, white striped shirt, cream jacket.
Beth Turner: [Beth turns around faces Mick] What about my shoes?
Mick St. John: You were barefoot.
Beth Turner: How can you remember that?
Mick St. John: Because I love you.

Dawson's Creek - Season 6 'Must Come To An End', Joey & Pacey:
Joey: What's going on in that head of yours?
Pacey: You're off the hook.
Joey: What?
Pacey: You're off the hook. I've never had much faith in that whole "if you love someone, set them free" crap, as evidenced by everything I've done in my life up until this very moment, but I am determined to be happy, Joey, happy in this life. And I love you. I have always, always loved you, but our timing has just never been right. And the way I figure it, time is no man's friend. Well, I have to get right with that and be happy now. Because this is it, this is all we got. If there's one thing that I've learned from losing Jen, that's what I've learned.
Joey: Pace, I...
Pacey: Actually, hold on, I'm not done yet, because I also want for you to be happy. So I want you to be with someone, whether it be Dawson or New York guy or some man you haven't even met yet, but I want you to be with someone who can be a part of the life that you want for yourself. I want you to be with someone who makes you feel the way I feel when I'm with you. So, I guess the point of this long run-on sentence that's been the last 10 years of our lives is that the simple act of being in love with you is enough for me. So you're off the hook.
Joey: You know what, for the record, I don't want to be let off the hook. Because everything I have done has led me here, right now, and the last thing I want is to be let off somebody's hook.
Pacey: Don't miss my point here...
Joey: And don't miss mine. Pacey, I love you. You know that. And it's very real. It's so real that it's kept me moving, mostly running from it, never ready for it. And I love Dawson. He's my soul mate. He's tied to my childhood, and it's a love that is pure and eternally innocent. I can't be let off the hook because I just might get the notion that it's OK to keep running.
(while the conversation gets interrupted there the clip shows the ending of the whole triangle.)

Dawson's Creek - Season 6 'Must Come To An End', Jen & Jack:
[Jen and Jack's final scene]
Jack: Jen I want her. I want her. I don't know what you and Grams have discussed.
Jen: Grams is aware of her own situation, her health and all. We both think that you would make an excellent father. Now Jack, please help Amy to find a place to be. I feel like I never really quite fit in.
Jack: Which is why we're us.
Jen: I know. I mean from the second that I stepped out of that cab onto the creek I was the instigator, you know, the girl who caused problems and rocked the creek and upset the delicate emotional balance of Capeside and I don't want Amy to be that person. I want her to belong, I feel like I never really did.
Jack: Jen. You belong... you belong to me. Don't you get it? You're my soulmate. Amy's gonna know love, everyday of her life she is gonna know how much her mother loved her. I'm gonna see to that. Ok?

Dawson's Creek - Season 4 'A Winter's Tale', Joey & Pacey:

Joey: This is about how you carried my bag off the bus yesterday. This is about how.. when we go to the movies, and you go and you buy popcorn, you always make sure you bring back a napkin so I don’t wipe all the grease on my jeans. And this is about how just last week when we were at miniature golf, you took all of the shots first so I would know the correct path. You taught me how to drive. And last year at prom, you knew that the bracelet I was wearing was my mom’s. You kissed me first, sweetheart. The second time, you counted to ten before doing it again, just in case I wanted to stop you. You bought me a wall. We were alone on a boat for three months, and you understood without a word why I wasn’t ready. Do you have to ask me now, why I am? Pace, I’m going to count to ten.. and then I’m going to start kissing you. If you don’t want me to, then you’re just gonna have to stop me … ten, my love.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Demon


 Demon was the first pet that was mine. Previously mum had brought me a dog (which she chose and named) and we got a cat (as family weren't going to keep it and we were moving into their old house), but Demon was MY first cat. The first pet I got to choose and I got to name and was brought for ME. He was my baby. 


He was cuddly but would play fight too. He curled up with me for cuddles all the time especially when I was sad.


But then about a year ago, when we got the kittens, he changed. He started to come inside less and less. When he was inside he'd eat and then sit in the corner by the door hissing wanting to leave.


 Then one day he just stopped coming home. For about a week he didn't come home, he never came running when we called him.  We knew of a few neighbours who's homes he hung around we went around to talk to them to find out he'd been staying in one of their yards. We brought him home for dinner and cuddles... But he just wanted to leave.

 For weeks we played it this way. Bring him inside when we could, feed him. He'd sit at the door and hiss. I'm be in ruins knowing he didn't want to be home, that this was no longer his home. He was no longer my baby....


 Now.... He hasn't been home in months. I hate it! It hurts because he was my baby! It hurts knowing he's out there somewhere but he doesn't want to come home! Seeing him in the neighbours yard and calling him just for him to turn the other way. Not knowing if he's safe or not, if he's still alive or not. I just want him home safe, to wake up to him curled up in bed with me like he used to. Even to be lying here writing this for him to suddenly jump up and curl up on my back while I'm writing. 

But I can't force him to be what he's not, I can't force him to be somewhere he doesn't want to be, it's not right. 

He's decided this isn't his home any more. He's decided he's not my baby any more. He's decided to leave.


I'm left with my memories of him and photos and videos. I can only hope that one day he'll decide to come home.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Photography

So because I haven't posted in a while I thought I had better get something up ASAP. However majority of what I have listed to post at the moment has a ton of writing and editing and structure. So I thought for something different I'd post some of my photography, which I'm loving at the moment. I hope you enjoy.