I have a feeling that my very first New Year’s Resolution has a chance of being achieved, if not for the sole reason that it has cost me a down payment of £320 already. And for someone who is currently living off the remnants of a student loan and £10-a-page freelance copywriting work, forking out such an amount does great things for your resilience and determination. So what is my resolution? Simply this: get a proper camera and learn how to use it.
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Why Are You Laughing?
In my 23 years of life, I have come up with a lot of ideas. As you'd expect, these vary in terms of quality from the questionable: marketing a range of gangster rapper cologne called ’50 Scent’, to the truly doomed to failure: opening a Monk-Chanting club called the ‘Monastery of Sound’.
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The Only Way Is...
Cultural anthropologist Stuart Hall once theorised about the notion of identity and how it is constructed. His position was dualistic, in that we have both a continuous identity, one that is fixed and rooted in the past like a shared heritage, one which we carry with us throughout our life.
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The Tourist Dilemma
Something that I did not expect to discover, sitting in the sun on the top of a rickety boat, ploughing through the azure water of Lake Titicaca in Peru, was how hard it is to be a tourist.
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