Rudeness Embodied

Film, Photos, and Ruby from Matthew Rudy

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All the food in the world stuffed into London
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Consistently hotting up your monitor!
Funch For Lunch
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RudyGems
MatthewRudy on Ruby
The Firehose
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I get all my films from Lovefilm

My Macbook Pro looks different to yours!

I finally did it.

My two brothers also have 15 inch Macbook Pros.

And everyone at work has Macbook Pros.

If I lived in America, I’d probably have got a ColorWare job done.

But I don’t.

I got mine done by Skinizi.com (cost about 15 pounds, shipped from France)

It’s great.

Shiny with vivid colours.

They didn’t have a template for positioning the apple.

But next time I’ll think about it more.

Your Macbook Pro need never be the same again!

the right colour of pants

One of my worst kept secrets is I’m not an ambi-colour-underwear-wearer

I only wear blue pants!

So every so often Mummy has to make some for me.

But this time I thought I’d join in, and document the process.

£4 for a pack of white Marks and Spencer’s Briefs

they’d look good

but they’re the wrong colour

luckily Dylon have an answer… “ocean blue”

take a photo of yourself while you pre-wash them

mix the dye with 500ml of warm water

the mixture looks rather pretty

fill a bucket with 12 litres of warm water, and 250g of salt

add the dye, chuck your white pants in

stir them around

or perhaps get your mum to do it

for about 15 minutes

take them out after another half an hour

then rinse them thoroughly (3 or 4 times maybe)

and we’re almost done

a spin in the washing machine

and dreams have been acheived

BOOM SHAK A LAK

6 pairs of blue pants for only £8 + £2.95 of dye!
 

LPL C7700 Enlarger for Sale (update: sold!)

I am selling my LPL C7700 Colour Enlarger

With Nikkor 50mm f2.8 enlarging lens

It also comes with;

  • an enlarging easel
  • 35mm contact sheet frame
  • a full set of ilford multigrade filters
  • a darkroom red light
  • an exposure timer switch
  • a focus finder
  • a durst CM50 colour meter
  • a durst DES 100 colour analyser
  • and various other accessories

I have only ever used this for black and white photography,

so I cannot attest to the colour meters working… but you should be buying this for the quality of the enlarger. the rest of it I’m kind of just chucking in.

Let me know if you’re interested.

MatthewRudyJacobs@gmail.com

I am a Girls Generation Super Fan… it seems.

I am a Girls Generation Super Fan… it seems.

It takes 10 days to unsubscribe from the financial times’ mailing list?

It takes 10 days to unsubscribe from the financial times’ mailing list?

Am I from Hong Kong?

Am I from Hong Kong?

Movember Asian Poses

based on the classic set from Vivi over on AsianPoses.com

Shanghai Dreams (Qing Hong 青红)

This has to be the best Chinese film I’ve seen for a while.

An intimate portrait of the displaced, Qing Hong takes place in a world where dreams are unlikely to be realised.

Whether it is her father’s wish to leave the mountainous town of nowhere, or Qing Hong’s wish just to be left alone, none of these dreams will ever come true.

Shanghai is nothing more than a dream.

I wonder what will happen to my own dreams of Shanghai.

Will they be tossed out of the window, like a pair of red stilettos?

The President’s Last Bang

The President’s Last Bang 그때 그사람들 - 2005 - Im Sang-Soo

Korean films are always heavy on sexual content.

So, naturally, seeing a film called “*** *** bang”, I thought it was going to be about sex.

And there were some girls brought into the “Blue House” to entertain the President and his friends.

But The President’s Last Bang is very much a political film, depicting the 1979 assassination of Park Chung-Hee.

The film is quite clear on its viewpoint. As far as it is concerned President Park was a drunken womaniser, whose sycophantic Head of Security (read “drinking buddy”) didn’t even have a gun on him, at the time of the assassination.

But it’s also quite harsh on the plotters, who seem to have no plan beyond the murder.

The film is ok,

but perhaps what is most interesting is the story that surrounds the film.

Whatever Park Chung-Hee was as a president, he still exudes power.

The film was forced to be edited, and the production company have been ordered to pay $100,000 to the family of President Park.

If I ever made a film about Park Chung-Hee I’d make sure he looked like the victim… maybe I could even get his family to fund it.

I’d call it “nice chap gets assassinated”, and I’d get Keanu Reaves to play him, with Vicki Michelle playing the young korean girl snuggling up to him at the time of his murder.

Thirst - 박쥐 - Chan Wook Park

I’ve been watching Korean films for a while now (I guess I got hooked with Kim Ki Duk’s Samaritan Girl)

but Thirst was my first Korean experience inside a cinema.

Sex, violence, comedy, and tragedy.

A mixture of “frickin’ awesome!” and “what the f**k?”

Being a vampire may be cool,

but having random hallucinations of your murdered husband appearing in bed with you is a bit annoying.