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As you know, I'm a keen photographer, and if I'm going out with friends, I usually bring my trusty camera; Natasha along for the ride. Here's a selection of some of my pictures, enjoy..

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At Roker Beach

Marta and Will, a day before he left

Me, my usual self

Marta at Barnes park, nice editing right?

Me at Barnes Park

The Boys, with serious faces L-R Rotimi, Julian, Vishal & Jamie

Celebration!

How best to celebrate finishing university than with great friends? The sun rose at 4:30 so we headed to the highest point in Sunderland to view the rising sun, and then went to the beach!

Heading up to Penshaw Monument

The Rising Sun...the sky was red!

Me, at Penshaw Monument

From L-R: Me, Vishal Tripathi, Rotimi Kuforiji, Jamie Mercer

On top of the world!

Vishal washing his flip-flops in the North Sea

Pulling Vishal out of the quicksand

I've completed my Degree !!!!

Consummatum Est

I handed in my last piece of work today.
Now I wait for Graduation.

So..enjoy pictures of me from the late 80s

Me as a newborn, with Mum and William

A few months old, with usual supporting cast

Me and Franca, my babysitter

Me at age 20! Still a kid at heart!

The Future of News

My good friends, Rotimi Kuforiji, Vishal Tripathi and Jamie Mercer have completed their final year broadcast journalism project, a documentary entitled 'The Future of News' I served as the researcher on the project. The documentary focuses on the impact of new media platforms on long established platforms i.e. how blogging, citizen journalism, the internet and news sourcing sites like Twitter affect the newspaper, TV and radio industries. They interviewed folks from the BBC, Sky News, Sunderland Echo as well as relevant lecturers from the University of Sunderland.

Please be sure to check it out.

http://www.vimeo.com/5119298

The End of an Era (but the start of bigger things)

So, today arrived, my good friend William Cunningham is leaving Sunderland for the last time, over the last two years we've had a blast. He's had legendary and not so legendary house parties. We've engaged in various philosophical and theological debates all the time keenly observing Sunderland life through our African viewpoint.
While he heads of to Edinburgh this fall, I'll be going to Newcastle University, so we'll only be an hour apart, even though we're in two different countries (as the Scots would love to emphasize)
Anyway, he's still in the air now, so I wish him a safe flight.

The End is in Sight

So, I just completed an amazing two weeks at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, I experienced the making of glass for the first time in my life, and it is an amazing experience. I saw space-dust..99% air, 1% silica: one of the most amazing objects you'd ever see, and I worked with some fantastic people in a fantastic building.
I produced these videos, which I think you should check out- http://www.vimeo.com/user1820558/videos
I mostly pleased that the problematic placement palaver that plagued me these last few months is over. I just have to complete the relevant placement related essays and I'll be done as an undergrad. So wish me luck in these last days.

...and I promise a childhood reminiscing blog soon, those are always fun to write, and I hope fun to read as well.

Sad News

My Creative Zen 8GB mp3 player got damaged on Saturday in unknown circumstances, after spending the day at the beach, I pull out my mp3 player from my pocket to find that the screen is damaged, I cannot read anything on it, in fact it's luminous white and there seems to be a black liquid in it. The actual screen isn't broken, but there seems to be a crack inside. I did not recall bumping hard into anything, so I do not understand how this could have happened. I have carried the device in its protective rubber casing for months now without incident, and I am baffled as to how this occurred.
I was consoled by the fact that it still played music well, although I could not navigate and choose what songs I listened to, ti was instead a large shuffle player with over a thousand songs to choose from.
However I come back from the radio studio today and find out that it has stopped playing music, it still turns on and syncs with the PC but no sound comes out when earphones are connected. I think it's well and truly dead.

With Friends Like These

Today was an absolutely beautiful day, headed down to the beach with Marta, William, and Ashmawy, these were some results:

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