Thursday, June 16-

Day trip to National Film & Television School

My face is cut out- but Sterling always has me cracking up!

To Beaconsfield we go!

CGI lab where newer students were completing their first assignment of filling in shot elements such as the entire image in the mirror along with other green screen portions. One student made her into a werewolf. Each's is unique.

Sound mixing studio at NFTS.

One of the composers' rooms at NFTS

The NFTS miniature set construction area -- three separate sets were being created whilst we were touring.

Leaving the NFTS TV studio, heading by what's called 'West Berlin' (it's the newest building on campus with offices, meeting areas, and a screening theatre.

Everyone that goes there is a graduate student and there are only 200 students. The talent that comes out of that school is amazing. So many mainstream movies have alumni from the NFTS. The director of HP 5 went to the school. Danny Boyle did too. They showed us a flim when we first got there about the school and work that the students and alumni produced. Never Let Me Go and Atonment had credits by NFTS alumni.

We were given a tour around the offices and studios tha the students work in. You have to know exactly what you want to do in the industry to even be considered and then there are only 100 open spots a year. You had to chose a position (editor, director, dp, sound mixer) and take a 1 to 2 year course with it and tuition I imagine is hella high!

Train Trip back- we were tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired.

After we return we run to Camden for dinner and for a beatles satchel for Lisa to take to Scotland-

Baby Stawberries- Strawberries are in season here!

Introduced Lisa to "Nevermind the Buzzcocks" a music trivia game on BBC. This episode they have the idiot twins "Jedward" who are the but of all jokes the whole episode and they don't seem to catch on. lol.

Wind up pocket watch I found in Camden on top of my NME magazine with the Smiths on the cover!

Saturday, June 11- Night of the Green Goblin!

Saturday, June 11

Naked Bike Riders & Night of the Green Goblin!

Missed the trouping of the colours and apparently Colin Firth was there. I'm glad we got to sleep in and watch the troup & the Queen on the tele. Much better view and more comfortable from our soft beds!

But... of course we did make it to the Naked Bike Ride 2011

in Hyde Park! I love the brits.

Then we went to Harrods and it was really a nightmare. The last time I went, every little department area was virtually empty and you could see across the way and enjoy viewing their displays and such. Since it was a Saturday I guess everyone was out and about and it was cramped, noisey, and an explosion of chaos.

We did love HMV however. Giant music shop. Ryan and I played these portal games and Lisa and I looked through all the DVD's we couldn't buy due to Regent Codes. Ed got really excited when he found the whole sci-fi section filled with the old Doctor Who's!

Bryan Ferry!

Doctor Who Section!

The current tops in pops- Hugh Laurie, Liza, J-Lo, Rhianna, Kasabian, N-Dubz, Adele, Coldplay, Lady Gaga, The Kills, La Roux, & Kate Bush

All the great english comedians: Jimmy Carr, Lee Mack, Russell Brand, Frankie Boyle, Bill Bailey, Ricky Gervais, The Boosh, Eddie Izzard, & Rob Brydon.

We sat outside in front of TOP SHOP eating turkish delights and saw a lady get hit by a car. She kinda just bounced off the front (it wasn't going very fast) and the man she was with yelled at the car, helped her up, took a photo with his phone of the license plate and everyone was on their way. Weird

We ate dinner in the Horse's stables in Camden Town.

Afterwards we drank a guiness and baileys at the World's End while they played Queen's "Under Pressure" and some other punk songs over the loud speaker.

Everyone went on home and we stayed and played in Camden for the night! We bought a few bottles of Green Goblin from Sansbury's all under 5lbs. Way cheaper than the pub! We parked ourselves outside a bar on a bench and were drinking and chit chatting when some locals sat with us.

They were something. Apparently the lady had 5 kids with this guy all under 15 years of age. Then we saw a whole group dressed as all sorts of characters pass by. I ran up to them and asked where they were headed and they said, "the electric ballroom"! So we headed on over there only to discover the line was hella long and a large bachelorette party with inflatable toys. We went into another pub that was playing the Clash's "Should I Stay or should I go" and met an irish bachelor party.

By the end of the night we made friends with many pub bouncers & astounded local brits with our texan twang and miraculously made it back home on the tube before it shut down at 11:30pm. I love Camden and it's costume wearing brits late night!