Not content with prying money out of our hands to buy over priced studio cupboards for upwards of £100,000 that we may have an outside chance of re-selling when the time comes to cash in our investment, London property developers want you to pay their development and refurbishment costs by selling us the ‘Hotel room as an investment’ concept, whereby you can buy for £240,000, a hotel room and reap an investment of around 6% from this ‘asset’. TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY GRAND TO BUY A HOTEL ROOM!!!!!!!!! Take that money and buy a couple of real nice holiday villas…
If you are a UK photographer that works in public places then you may be interested in signing a petition over at ye old E-petitions site. Simon Taylor at Phooto.co.uk has created one specifically to enlighten the PM of our displeasure at the moves being made to restrict the ability of photographers to make work without specific ID requirements. To add your name to the petition go to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/
After a few months, I have decided to change the theme of the site here at Stirlyn.co.uk. Once again I ventured to Brian Gardner’s site as I saw he’s brought out a new Vertigo Electrified theme that really REALLY caught my eye. I love Brian’s designs, their clean and precise and aesthetically pleasing, as well as being easy to modify and customise to your own look. (Brian includes fonts and blank images so that you can change things like headers and logo’s etc.) I really loved the previous Eye Candy theme, but I needed more space on the page for…
I watched the movie The Harder They Come last night. It’s always been a great favourite of mine, especially since it’s a movie made and starring [tag]Jamaica[/tag]ns (my family are from this beautiful Island), however watching it with fresh eyes made me consider the deeper meanings embodied within it. Although the path taken by Ivan (the main character played by the legendary [tag]Jimmy Cliff[/tag]) is somewhat destructive, I was enthralled and moved by his ability, despite the odds, to follow his ultimate dream to be famous one day. He achieved his notoriety and fame through his primary goal, to make…
