Cupcake photos!

I meant to do this more periodically but I've only just gotten round to it and there's loads stored up!! These are some of the pictures people have sent me of their awesome rainbow cupcakes! (and some other random cakes too!) Thanks to everyone who sent me a cake pic! :D Hope they were delicious!

Iheartparamore13
Who sent about a hundred photos of them eating the cakes! <3




NKKnono
Awesome noughts and crosses cake and microphone cake!!



TheGreatPerhaps
Excellent addition of chocolate icing!!


TummyRoad
Who made an excellent "collection of criminals and misfits" click through for the larger sized picture to see the awesome eyepatch and cigarette details on these ne'er-do-wells!



TemariRocks97
I'm getting so hungry making this post! Those look so delicious!!

TelevisedBaggage
Lol sorry for not turning this photo around! I'm too hungry... must make cake....


MissMossXX
Who made these with her lovely nieces Elan and Eleri <3




IfAutumnEnds
who suggested mixing the cake with icing til it's all like a smooshy playdough consistency, then FREEZING IT to make cake-sicles! Ahhh this is such a delicious (and dangerous!) idea! I love it!



Lightangel103
Who assures me that these are brown, white and yellow inside...


SurfingNurse
This made me lol <3


Oh goshhh thankyou to you all! sorry I took so long to post this! It took foreverz! I have to find some cake now!
If you sent me some of these pics and I got your name wrong or haven't linked you properly, let me know and I'll put it right!

Britney Spears Saved My Life

I watched 'Britney Spears Saved My Life' yesterday (iplayer link here for UK watchers). It was a documentary about people who are huge fans of Britney Spears. It was kind of interesting, as the people followed in the documentary were quite diverse and the filmmakers did delve into their psyches a little, going behind their obsessive seeming shrines and actually finding out why they had latched onto this particular pop star so much.

This is a supercut of all the 'HAHA LOSRZ' parts of the video.



Each of these people had some sort of borderline insane thing about their love of Ms Spears- one had the receipt from buying one of her albums preserved in a scrapbook, others had dance routines worked out for each of her songs and every single one of her perfumes.

However, the people interviewed had genuine reasons for their love of this music. There was a boy who had been outcast by his friends at school and his religious family because he'd used Britney's music to get over the death of a friend, there was a girl who had been in hospital 'because she was sad', a gay guy who was 'lonely' and found solace in the music.
Of course there were also super camp* gay guys and ditsy girls who just loved her music and seemed not to have much of a psyche at all.

What irked me about the documentary was that the makers seemed to have really exploited the people they filmed, moreso than even regular 'crazy people who are weird' documentaries do. These people may have been 'crazy fans' but they each had a reason for being so into Britney Spears, mostly because they in some way related to her public struggles with their own lives. We're talking about a girl who was in hospital with depression who hinted that she may have attempted suicide, which is pretty powerful, yet the documentary seemed (to me) to denigrate them all with it's derisory tone. It kept the camera on them as they cried listening to her songs, the interviewer probed them when they were clearly trying not to 'go there' into revealing more about themselves than these clearly damaged people wanted to reveal.

It felt like they had looked at what they'd made at the end of filming and despite having these genuinely interesting stories, decided to go with a Heat Magazine 'HAHA LOOK FREAKZ' tone, which to my eyes did not suit the content of the show and was frankly insulting to the people interviewed, and to an extent, the viewer.

This got me to thinking about songs that have stuck with me in some way, that provoke an emotional response. There are way too many to list, and to list them would be pointless as the reasons behind my love of them are as diverse as the songs themselves. But I think it would be churlish to judge me solely on my to-the-grave cry-my-eyes-out love of 'Do You Know The Way To San José'.

*check the comments

The Edamame Bean Photograph

A chap called Felix sent me this very lifelike picture of the edamame incident!


Thanks Felix haha <3

Plush Squid!

I have been really into squids lately. They are so cool :D I've been painting them and drawing them lots. I made this squid last night and today... I'm going to make another one which is more anatomically correct, as this one only has 5 legs, rather than 8 and two tentacles. I should call it something...

I'm going to try to make a jellyfish next!

Naked In-flight safety video!

I've long been fascinated by 'body art' where they paint directly onto a naked body. It looks so cool! Also In-flight safety videos are usually so crushingly boring so it's super coolio that Air New Zealand made this video for in-flight safety- they're all naked but painted with their uniforms! :D New Zealand accents tho.. :S