Afternoon in Flushing #1

I was very excited earlier to be going to Flushing, and I was not at all disappointed by the day (or afternoon rather) that was had. Me, Jo, Josh, sunshine, signs, little boats, hills, parks, stunning views, scenic cottages and a pint o' cider in a quaint little pub.

Flushing from Falmouth.
We spent some time looking across this way as it turned out there

wasn't a ferry at 1.15 and we had to wait until 2.15.

 

On board the Flushing Ferry!

 VW campervan for sale!

If you look carefully, you can see the Maritime museum.

One of many views from Flushing.

I loved this boat.

As you can tell, I got bored of writing captions.

And this isn't even all the best photographs - there are
more to come in a second blog!

Found lettering & signage III

Nice little sign found on my walk this morning.

Watchmen

I just watched Watchmen. Of course, not for the first time! I've seen it several times and the graphic novel is perhaps one of my most favourite of all graphic novels (alongside V for Vendetta and a few Wolverine titles). But I do really love the film.

I love how it is like you are actually watching a graphic novel, it's filmed/produced/whatever technical term so well. I also especially love the soundtrack, not only does it have brilliant songs in it but they are perfect accompaniments to what is going on in each scene etc.

The opening titles are, I think, the best opening titles I've ever seen. Plus, Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' is just beautiful.

I'm unable to embed the video but you can watch the titles here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=573XmVOdD2Q

Found lettering & signage II

I got a few more photographs today of lettering and signs I liked. And also the writing on a dustbin from a few days ago!

Mameshiba

My friend just showed me this video, it's brilliant.



And there's even a whole website of them! Mameshiba.

Is it a soy bean? Or is it a dog? It’s not exactly either. It’s a very strange, but very cute, creature that has the body of a bean and the face of a dog. It’s called Mameshiba.

Fringe

I am addicted to Fringe. It is quite simply brilliant.
The opening titles are pretty nice too:

Letters in nature

Yesterday, at Kennall Vale, I spotted some letters in branches and such. The most common I found were E, V, W and Y.
But I especially liked this one:

S

It inspired me, not only to try and find more letters in nature, but to create some sort of typeface in the style of branches.

Kennall Vale

Right, I finally have time to blog about yesterdays trip to Kennall Vale nature reserve. We ended up not getting there until fairly late on in the afternoon, after 3pm, as we stopped off at Tremough campus on the way there.

I've never really been to Tremough before (Falmouth and Exeter Universities' huge campus outside of Falmouth) as everything I need is at Woodlane (in the centre of Falmouth). It's huge and maze-like, modern and high tech. It would be nice to have all the modern features but I think the size would bother me if my course was there. Far happier with my little old art school.

When finally on the bus to Ponsanooth, we ended up getting off at the wrong stop. But it wasn't too far to walk back down the road and continue in the correct direction.

There was alot of interesting moss.

I developed a liking for the stuff.

I also like square-ish rocks.

There are lots of these remains of stone buildings.

Also very interesting, inside and out.

Black and white seemed better.

Some water.

And a bridge.

And as it started to get darker, flash came in handy.

The weather wasn't the best, it was quite dull but at least it wasn't raining. Although that doesn't mean that it wasn't muddy. It was very damp and muddy in places, slippery in some cases. But good time all the same.