One Hundred Days - Days Twenty Four, Twenty Five, Twenty Six, Twenty Seven and Twenty Eight

Whoops. Quite a bit behind with my updates here. I blame the festive period. Lets crack on then:

Day 24: On the last day of my Lego advent calenders, the gift behind the final door on the City themed calendar was a Santa minifig with a fireplace and stockings. Then I realised I had two more Santas knocking about somewhere so I decided to dig them out. But now I have three Santas. What do I do? obvious answer: fight to the death! THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!


The vague red and black theme with the spectators wasn't planned. It just sort of happened when I was picking out the minifigs so I went with it . This was also the featured image for the HundredDays website on Christmas day too, so I'm quite pleased with that.

Day 25: Speaking of Christmas day, here it is! I was a bit busy this day, as you can imagine, so I just snapped a quick photo of the tree in the morning, while there were still presents underneath it.


Day 26: I had planned to draw something for Boxing day, but when I saw Frankie sleeping on the roof of his cube I couldn't resist a photo. He doesn't do it as much as he used to, but its nice to know some things never change. The top picture is the picture of the day, Frankie, just a couple of weeks off the old age of 16 months, and below it is a comparison of him in exactly the same place when he was just four weeks old.


Day 27: I'm not really sure what happened yesterday. Again, I planned on drawing something, but somehow time got away from me. Instead, I took a photo of our knitted nativity display...plus guest.


Day 28: Derwent has been bugging me to draw him an astronaut pretty much since Day One, so I finally decided to give in and have a go at drawing the Lego space man who was still hanging around and exploring my desk from christmas eve's Santa fight. Really pleased with how well it came out. May have to try drawing some more minifigs over the next few weeks...

One Hundred Days - Days Twenty Two and Twenty Three

I forgot to update again yesterday didn't I? I just snapped a quick pic of the days Lego advent calendar gifts. I thought the Pirates one and the City one went together rather well...



And today, here's Frankie with his own little christmas tree, also courtesy of the Lego City advent calendar.

One Hundred Days - Day Twenty One

Another drawing today. Little Frankie loves his chocolate drops :)

One Hundred Days - Days Eighteen, Nineteen and Twenty

Apparently I keep forgetting to update my blog. Will try to keep it up in future. I've still been doing my daily project, just about, so here they are:

Another attempt at the Doctor. not particularly happy with this one, but not sure why.



Nearly forgot on day nineteen, so I doodled a quick 'self portrait' in the last 15 minutes before midnight.


Spent a bit more time on todays picture. Borrowed a recent photo of one of Tara's ponies all wrapped up in the snow and used it as a reference to draw him.

One Hundred Days - Day Seventeen

Another quick snap today. This is my other advent calendar, and the far less festive of the two.


I only have a half day at work tomorrow so I will try and draw something. I did only have a half day today too, but time got away from me a bit so its just the photo.

One Hundred Days - Day Sixteen

I was determined to draw the third Doctor tonight, but another busy evening and tiredness means its just another quick photo. One of my Lego advent calendars, the City themed version and much more christmassy version of the two :)

One Hundred Days - Days Fourteen & Fifteen

Blarg. Didn't do an update here yesterday as I was bloody knackered after waking up at 5 in the morning, sleeping badly til my alarm went off at 7.30, then doing a full day of work at my first day of Express FM. While on the train to come home, which was sat at the platform for 40 minutes before it went anywhere, I realised I hadn't taken any pictures and I was far too tired to draw anything so I snapped an attempt at an artistic seat shot. Not sure how well it worked.



Other than being completely knackering, my first day was rather good. After sorting out some paperwork in another building, I returned to Express FM HQ and found that the guy I was meant to be seeing to show me the ropes had just gone home because he'd decided he was ill. Well...more that everyone else had decided he was ill and made him leave because they didn't want to catch it, which was understandable.
So instead I took the audio from the 3 hours of the urban music show which was broadcast last friday and spent the day editing it down to a 28 minute podcast type thing.

Today began as more of the same. Every tuesday morning, around 8.30, they interview someone from one of the local councils, so first thing this morning I took the 8 o clock hours from the tuesday shows for the last 7 weeks and chopped out the interviews into seperate files.
Then there was a bit of a lull. Vicki explained this is normal. Everyone comes in first thing and is very productive for the first hour or two, but then people start getting distracted and it all falls apart a bit, and then its suddenly lunch time. Everyones much more productive again after lunch.

I, however, didn't have a whole lot to do early afternoon, so I just listened to the soft rock show from the night before, which wasn't too bad. Rob said it was aimed at the older audience, but most of the tracks they played are currently on my iPod, and I enjoyed a live performance of Queen covering All Right Now by Free.

And then I was given a job to do.




I produced my very first radio show!

It was a prerecord for Dave Allen's Christmas Show which should be going out in the afternoon of christmas day, but not sure for certain yet. All I had to do was queue up the tracks, fade up the mic when Dave was due to speak and fade him down and fade up the tracks when they were due to play. Easy. And a lot less scary than I was expecting it to be. Quite fun in fact.

Need to make a couple of edits tomorrow. Just need to trim out a section near the start where I accidentally started playing the first track again instead of the second track, and then replace the start of the penultimate track as Dave started talking to me before I'd turned off his mic.
I still can't really believe something I've produced is going to be broadcast on the radio. Maybe it'll sink in closer to broadcast. Dave also mentioned me by name in one of the links too, which was pretty cool!

For my #100days photo I was going to get one of Dave in the studio, but by the time we'd finished recording I'd completely forgotten, and didn't remember til I was waiting on the train so I couldn't even get a shot of just the studio. Maybe another day...

Instead, here's a photo of the shows track list with a couple of notes, and the CDs with the tracks on. Not quite as exciting visually, but still exciting for me none-the-less.

One Hundred Days - Day Thirteen

Another quick snap today. This is the Triggs family's christmas tree. One of two actually. The bigger of the two. Personally, I think they could have got an even bigger one.



Its my first day at work tomorrow. Eep!

One Hundred Days - Day Twelve

Completely failed at drawing again today. Couldn't think of anything to draw, and then when I eventually did I couldn't draw anything I actually liked. So heres a photo instead. All ready for christmas.

One Hundred Days - Day Eleven

A lot happier with today's drawing. Both compared to yesterday's and my previous attempt at the Doctor. The proportions are better. Still not quite right, but still a vast improvement.
Don't really know what else to say now. I drew this over the last 2 and a half hours while watching through series 1 of Torchwood for my doctor who marathon.

One Hundred Days - Day Ten

Whoops, forgot to upload this yesterday apparently. I did post it through twitter and facebook though, so it still counts.

my sister requested something australia related so I did this, and it is rubbish. I guess I should have added some shadow or something, but i just wanted to get it uploaded so i could forget about it.

Koazilla


Oh, yeah, and the photo is of my sister from her honeymoon trip to australia last christmas

One Hundred Days - Day Nine

After I uploaded yesterday's picture, James Bailey, an old school friend, sent me a message through facebook:

"I request a photo tomorrow with a yellow theme."

So, I had a think about it. And I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do. I overslept this morning as I was up til 3 last night finishing Time Gentlemen, Please (an excellent and hilarious point and click adventure game, btw, and sequel to the equally excellent Ben There, Dan That) and then had to go on the weekly Tesco trip which inexplicably takes up the whole afternoon, so I didn't have time to go out and explore to find something suitable to photograph.

Luckily, while I was waiting for mum and nan to find birthday cards for my dad, I noticed a little something else in the card aisle and snapped a quick pic using the camera on my phone.


Surprisingly good quality for a phone picture, I thought. And Mr Bailey's response? "Supurb"

One Hundred Days - Day Eight

Today was my first request picture. 'Something dog related' so I drew my aunt's dog, Duke, based on a photo I took earlier this month:



Tomorrow's request is more of a challenge. 'A photo with a yellow theme'. Hmmmmm....

One Hundred Days - Day Seven

Today I decided to draw another weird robot as weird robots are always cool. When I uploaded the picture to Twitpic it gave it the link 'skugm', so i have decided Skug is an appropriate name for the little guy.

One Hundred Days - Day Six

Another rough sketch today, and another Whovian picture. Does anyone have any requests for things for me to draw?

One Hundred Days - Day Five

Again I had a terrible day for drawing. Everything I tried, i just thought it looked terrible and deleted it after a few lines. So I decided to go for a really rough and scribbly approach and was much happier with the results.

Giant Angry Robot:

One Hundred Days - Day Four

Ugh. Really not happy with how this turned out, but its too late for a second attempt now. The proportions are just wrong and the face isn't quite right. But I was determined to not just take another photo today, and it was too late for a second attempt so I just finished it and had done with it. Could be worse I suppose.

Here's to getting more practice in and improving over the next 96 days!

The Doctor:

One Hundred Days - Day Three

Today I decided to draw something. A few months back I drew a monster based on a rather large and twisty spring onion I'd seen. So today I chose one of the pictures of the city I took on monday with the intention of drawing the spring onion monster rampaging through it. Then i decided it would be a good idea to add one of the chinooks that are frequently flying around here, but it seems today was one of the few days there weren't any so I couldn't get a photo of one and that idea has been shelved.

Instead, here is a photo of my foam rubber toaster. The very same prop thrown at a zombie by Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead.

One Hundred Days - Day Two

Today's picture is of my little mouse Frankie, who was surprisingly happy to pose for it. Usually when you try to photograph a mouse you end up with hundreds of blurry pictures of their bum.
Frankie is starting to look a bit like an old man now. He is going to be 15 months old on sunday, so I suppose he looks like one because he is one.

One Hundred Days - Day One

ONE thing, done ONCE each day, for ONE hundred days


I have decided to take part in this project, so for one hundred days I will be doing a drawing, taking a photograph or somehow combining the two, and uploading them here and on Twitpic.
This will make me a better person as I frequently take photos or doodle things, yet rarely have the confidence to show anyone. Hopefully this project will change that.

So for day one, I walked up Portsdown Hill, took a phew photos and selected this one for the first picture:


In other news, I've found someone to employ me! As of 9.30am on December 14th I will be Express FM's Imaging and New Media Engineer, so you may hear more about that in the future too.

Dull, Dull, Dull

My life is currently very boring.

It mainly consists of sitting on my arse in front of my PC, browsing the internet, watching TV or DVDs, chatting to my friends around the country, working my way through the big stack of books i want to read and jobsearching.
Occasionally i'll cook dinner for the family, occasionally i'll see my friends or go to the pub. on wednesday afternoons i push the trolley round tesco with mum and nan, and on alternate weeks i go to the jobcentre to sign on.

Thats pretty much it. All the days are pretty much the same, just with varying degrees of boredom, and occasionally the boredom will stack up too much and i'll get depressed for a few days.

So until something blogworthy actually happens, i'm not gonna bother blogging.
Feel free to follow my updates on twitter though. Theres a feed somewhere over there on the right, ----------------------------------------------------------->
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So thats it for now. I'm planning to take MarkMark, Mary-Anne and Taz up to Stafford in a couple of months to see my uni friends who're still up there and have a BBQ, so i'll probably blog that if it happens.

TTFN.

Hokey Cokey Pig-in-a-Pokey

On tuesday I applied online for jobseekers allowance. Woo.

Thursday morning they called back:

Job Centre Person: Hello, is Matthew there?
Mum: Yes, who's calling?
JCP: I can't say, because of the data protection act.
Mum: Ah, you must be the Job Centre
JPC: *coughs*

After mum had woken me up and handed me the phone the job centre woman went through and asked me pretty much everything from the online application again, and made me an appointment at the job centre in cosham for 12 noon on friday.

The next day I went to the job centre, checked in with the security dude, got sent up to room a, where I checked in with a security dudette and was told to sit in the waiting area. At 12:05 I was called over by a grumpy woman who kept putting apostrophes in 'fees'. She asked me half of the questions from the online application and the phone call again, just to be sure, checked my passport to see if I was me, and photocopied my last bank statement and my nationwide book. Then I was sent back to the waiting area for a couple of minutes before being called over by another, much more cheerful and friendly woman.

This woman showed me the details I'd given over the phone to make sure it was all spelled right, asked what sort of work I was looking for and told me about the jobseekers diary and stuff, then told me to come back on the 25th when I might get some money woo!

I've also just applied for a Studio Technician vacancy from Pompey Uni so hopefully I'll hear something from that.

Welcome to the New URL

As the blog hasn't been 'Matts Movie Making Blog' for a number of years, the mmmb.blogspot URL was starting to annoy me, so here we are.

Things are going from bad to worse on the job front. There seems to be literally nothing going anywhere. At least nothing I can actually do that doesn't require a decade of experience.
I signed up on reed.co.uk on saturday. you upload your CV and what you can do and what cities you want to work in and it recommends jobs to you. Out of the 125,585 jobs they had on record, they recommended me......FUCKING NONE! A real morale booster.

Yesterday it had three for me, but two of them were the same job and I couldn't get to where either of the jobs were based anyway.
I've since signed up for Monster as well, and I'm still checking the job centre and all the local job websites.
I think I'm gonna have to start signing on before long.