Max Quinn

f11 is where most lenses are sharpest. So f11, lowest ISO and whatever shutter speed you need for that. Think about layers in the landscape. Think about where you want the viewer to be looking, and try and make the lines in the photo all lead towards that point.

Que everyone talking belgian waffle to make you look like an idiot at work haha

Yer to be fair I think Hodgson's done a good job all things considered, it'll be a right shitter if he gets stick for all this and doesn't get to have a decent crack at the world cup. I'm all for managers being given a bit longer to iron out creases anyway though. I'm not saying it went well, but that's more down to poor performances then his choices if you ask me. Only thing I'd have really changed at any point is the fact that Rooney was left on the field so long when to be honest he's just living off a name, and Milner shouldn't have been on either. You could tell Cole was gonna miss that penalty as soon as he put the ball down, looked so nervous and keepers thrive off that.

I think defensive football can work, and being a defender I appreciate the intricacies of it a lot of the time to be honest. But the problem is when you do get the chance to go forward and those breaks open up, you've gotta be clinical, and we're not. Personally I think we're stronger defensively sometimes so maybe we can gamble a bit more there in order to give greater chances going forward, and going on percentages that means a higher success rate. It's all good relying on breaks and good forward performances in order to snap those occasional chances in the back of the net for one game, but your not gonna get that form for a whole tournament.

Yer it is at five. Cue Simps sitting down to watch the game at 7 while we're all on here reflecting on our 6-0 win haha (actually scrap that there's no way I could type if that happened). I know what you mean about the goal scorers, there's no one in our team who you ever really expect to create something from nothing in the way Owen would have done in his international prime for example. I'm glad Gerrards still in there, guess I'm a bit biased being a Liverpool fan but I think he's still the only real option as a solid, reliable captain at the minute.

I think Terry and Ferdinand should have both just been left out. Not only to avoid the meda shit storm (yer I know you can't give in to the media, but there's enough unrest in our dressing room as it is) but also just because I wanna see less of Englands pre madonna old dogs and more hungry young underdogs. As for how far we can go, I'm gonna sit bang on the fence here and say it will either go really badly (knocked out in group stages) or we'll get to quarters/semis, and if you get there you just need things to go your way before you find yourself in the finals, could happen if EVERYTHING works out. Your right in that no other team has really looked that special, I know our defence hasn't been properly tested yet, but I haven't seen much in the other matches that would have tested it. International football makes me so lazy haha, we literally just sit on the sofa watching it with a draw from 4 till 10 every day.

New portfolio: http://www.maxjquinn.com Also, anyone want a Nikon 10.5mm? Spotless condition, no box, front & rear lens caps, £350.

Cheers mate! Yer listening back that's probably an idea, these are just bedroom recordings to get ideas down really, I know f all about processing/mastering etc. But yer, taken on board

Yer if you want to present something as more of a professional website, use Wordpress. If it's your little personal Blog use Blogger or something. Tumblr's an option I guess but I class it more as a social media type platform rather than blogs.

Bumping for a chilled, reflective track I just finished. I'd appreciate feedback... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZEooPdQTH4

I've fallen through two roofs in my time, never fun at all. Edit: I got robbed by a kiddy with a gun in Brazil and spent the rest of the night absolutely battered with no money trying to kill time till the morning busses in the most sketchy area, hiding under piers and in dark corners etc. I eventually found a toilet round the side of a hotel (for the hotel porter/security I think), locked the door and crashed in there using a security uniform that was hanging up as blankets. Woke up around 7am to banging on the door and two aggravated security guards talking Portuguese (I'd been there a week so hadn't exactly grasped the language) who called the police after shoving me about for a bit. Police arrived and mistook my drunken attempts to mime someone holding a gun to my head and robbing me as a threat saying I was planning on shooting them, and started to get VERY aggravated. Eventually I managed to convince them otherwise, they basically just threw me back into the gutter and I walked about 20 miles back to my hostel. And that is the maddest drunken escapade of my life.

People act like wanting time to yourself away from the constantly plugged in buzz of modern life is something that shouldn't be normal, it is.

That's not the impression I got, I thought the jury was literally there to apply whether, by the letter of the law, they're guilty. What sentence the judge then gives them is where morals and deserving comes into it? Otherwise for minor crimes surely they might just end up with a load of sympathetic people not going by the law?

Having just finished an art degree, I do agree with you there. A good 60% of my course aren't now planning on going into photography, or don't have a real plan within it if they are. Not to say that jobs would be ridiculously hard to come by because it's a good course, but it's not the kind of course people really go onto with a defined career path and it's no suprise a lot of them don't leave with one either. To be honest, I think uni's become a bit too much of a middle class right of passage and just 'what people do' rather than people really appreciating or thinking about what they're going for a lot of the time. Me included to some extent.

I've just been called up as well, and because of where I live (central London) it's a pretty major court where they mainly get high profile cases, should be pretty interesting! That said, I think I'll feel a bit uncomfortable in that situation because I'm not the biggest fan of the law/this system (tin foil hats!), seems pretty hypocritical to be judging sitting there judging someone else while I break it in my own little ways. I just reaally hope it's not for something stupidly minor and nit picky, or anything like cannabis/graffiti etc.

Good topic. I did 6th form, standard academic subjects, and then decided I wanted to do something at uni that was as little like school as possible, so did Photography. Ended up hating it for a bit in my first few years, mainly just because it teaches you more about chatting bullshit to support your work then anything else, but the uni life kept me going and it just provided a nice, relatively stress free, environment to persue other things like graphic design, illustration, making music, promoting music etc. Kinda got back into photography in my third year, so if someone wants to put my stuff in a gallery then cool, but I don't really have the passion about it to live that skint artist life tryina peddle my work. Last year I started a website Broken-Culture.co.uk about music/graff/art/lifestyle etc, so over the next few years the plan is basically to develop that into a company (advertisement, tees, club nights, record label, artist agency etc). I basically just wanna work for myself whatever I'm doing, so at the minute I'm kinda just jack of all trading it doing that alongside web/graphics design, journalism an stuff until I find somewhere i slot in. I've just finished uni now, so while doing that lot I'm gonna get whatever shitty retail/office job I can for the summer, then go travelling again over winter. Then either stay out there as long as possible, or simply come back and repeat that process for the next few years.

I've done this. Was pretty scary to be honest, feels like your gonna choke.

Cheers man! Easily my favourite too I wish I'd had more time to experiment with the simple ones like that. Meant to let you know by the way I blogged that Subvercity show. http://www.broken-culture.co.uk/?p=3359

Just finished a uni project with these an a few others as big prints mounted on aluminium inside concrete frames I made. Freedom at last!

I use Vidahost for all my hosting and they're incredible. Really reliable, decent speeds and very easy to get in contact with if you've got a problem (my website got hacked and they restored it for me within about an hour). Prices start at £17 annually and if you need more space in the future (which I doubt you will especially with things like Youtube etc available to you) you can upgrade to the £28 package easily. The smallest package also allows you to have 5 sub domains (real sub domains, so you can effectively run 5 websites off it, rather than ones that only link to a main domain). That comes with a free domain name, but yer, get your main one separately (although I trust these Vidahost guys it's best to be safe) and then just get a variation of it for the free one. https://www.vidahost.com/web-hosting/overview

That's the thing though, losing to West Brom and then beating someone like Chelsea's never really been an unusual week in the life of a Liverpool fan. Time and time again we beat those around us and thrive as the underdog, and then under perform against teams we should beat. And I have no clue why, but prem form is irrelevant when it comes to the cup.

Sorry, how many times have Chelsea beaten Liverpool this season? Yes, our squad is shit by our standards and not on form, but we can still beat anyone on our day, especially in the cup.

Ok so in rough relation to this.... I have a book, kind of like a diary but relevant to my thoughts rather than directly to my life, that I use to just get thoughts/stories/character ideas/lyrics/poems/pretentious waffle etc out of my head when I cant sleep. I wrote this in it last night, it's more a stream of conscious than any sort of theory, but food for thought all the same. Take from it what you will. "It strikes me that there are two ways to look upon time. It is in one way an eternal force of existence, a passage of the universe we are just a small spec within. Perhaps this definition of time has always existed, and always will, or perhaps there is something more (or simply nothing) either side of it. Perhaps existence without time, in inertia, is somehow possible, or maybe matter has to exist THROUGH time in order to be in existence. Time may just be a small element within a greater dimension, a long, drawn out, chemical reaction that on the face of whatever encapsulates it is over in an instant (although, outside of time it seems logical that an instant cannot exist). Within this definition, the only thing truly timeless is time itself. On the other hand, there is time as the invention of mankind; the seconds, hours, weeks, years and millenniums that we employ to assert some sort of structure, relevance and power on our otherwise meaningless existence. This is the child of the former definition, bastardized with the philosophies and definitions of the planets most developed species, but is a child that will be out lived by the more timeless side of it's ancestry. This element of time is an invention of humans, and cannot exist, at least with relevance, without them. Within this definition, we add 'The Clock' (or more technically, timekeeping devices, most likely those most resilient to the passage of technology and the forces of nature such as Stone henge) to the list of timeless items. Time in this sense fails to exist without a device to measure it by, and a device to measure time is irrelevant without a observer to read it, so you could say that the homosapien is also timeless within it's own invention. If we fail to live for all eternity, until the parent definition of time ceases to exist, then by this logic not even our own definition of time is timeless. Once time fails to be, has time itself been a waste of time?"

Not that.

Haha cheers man, well hard to keep a flow while putting on the accent. John Elwes is the guy that inspired Dickens to come up with Ebernizer Scrooge, so I'm gonna do loads of cynical tracks just ripping into stuff.