JamEnslaver

A video game geek who gets to make games at an awesome company. I also sometimes make my own video reviews of games when I get the chance. Other interests include beautiful cars, striking architecture, ales of all colours and random trivia that I can impress/bore people with later.

name:

James

location:

London, England

gear:

Fujifilm FinePix F80 EXR
Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd
HTC Wildfire
Gorillapod SLR

started on:

9/14/09 (Day 977)

about me:

A video game geek who gets to make games at an awesome company. I also sometimes make my own video reviews of games when I get the chance. Other interests include beautiful cars, striking architecture, ales of all colours and random trivia that I can impress/bore people with later.
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A cool thing about living in London is accidentally stumbling upon interesting buildings, like the Guildhall.
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At the Royal Festival Hall watching the London Philharmonic Orchestra play video game music for Video Game Heroes. A really great evening, I loved hearing music from titles as varied as Final Fantasy, Zelda, Mario Galaxy, Uncharted and...Angry Birds!
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Moving Ruby out of her place we had to leave Marty the tomato plant behind. So long Marty, you will be missed!
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Daft dog :)
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The roof of Liverpool Street Station, a great example of the kind of ironwork that can be seen in several other stations around London.
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A very wet day today; Mum and Dad's garden started to look a bit like a rainforest!
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Finding myself with a couple of hours spare in South Kensington, waiting to hand in my project report, I headed over to the Natural History Museum. I've been there more times than I can remember over the years so I decided to try and see things that I might have missed before. I love the colours and patterns in this petrified wood.
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I really need to get more exercise, so today I rummaged around in my parents' garage until I found my bike. I used it to cycle from London to Brighton about four years ago and since then it's been in storage. Taking it for a test-ride today it seems okay, so I will be trying to go a good distance each day (with the help of Google's My Tracks for my Android).
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This stitched image of a man and woman in traditional Czech dress has been in my room for years. I quite like it.
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The burned-out pier at Brighton, on a weekend visit to Ruby's Mum's house. So lovely to walk around by the sea, and explore the town's little shops.
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Along the mud-flats of the river at Shoreham there are loads of old hulks that have been converted into houses. Some, like this one, are a bit more eye-catching than others!
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I bought this cool jumper whilst shopping in Brighton at the weekend.
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Whilst in Staines seeing The Troll Hunter (which is really awesome by the way) I found this really...odd statue. I'm not really sure what's going on here, it looks like they're dancing with a giant candle!<br> Edit: I almost missed mentioning that this picture marks the end of my second full year on Shuttercal!
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My cycle route took me past my old road today, so I made a brief detour to have a look at the first house I lived in. It's been built on and changed a couple of times since we moved out in December 1989, but some features, like the big wooden front door, are still very familiar after all this time.
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Having been casting around for a game to play over the past week or so, miles away from where my Xbox and PS3 are safely locked up, I discovered an old slim PS2 down the back of a TV set, and Okami to play on it. I'm just starting out but already I love the way the game looks.
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Tomorrow Ruby and I head off for a week in Rome. I've wanted to go for a long time and really looking forward to it. Bags are all packed and ready to go!
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A busy day traveling to Rome meant not a lot of time for taking good pictures. I thought these Imperial eagles on the tops of lamp posts pretty cool.
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On our first full day in Rome we just walked around to get the feel of the place, and ended up seeing loads of interesting stuff anyway!
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Day two: visiting the Vatican. After queuing for a surprisingly short time Ruby and I climbed all 551 steps up to the cupola at the top of the dome, giving this great view of St. Peter's Square below.
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On the third day we explored Rome a bit more thoroughly, including the spectacular Trevi Fountain.
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The Arch of Titus, one of the many splendid monuments that we saw during our tour of the Forums.
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Here's me at the Rome Botanical Gardens. It was very nice spending the afternoon wandering amongst the many different plants, although I did get badly bitten by mosquitos in the bamboo forest.
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Our dessert for our last meal in Rome was a fantastic mandarin sorbet, with loads of whipped cream and strawberry culis :)
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Flying home...
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Attending the Eurogamer Expo at Earls Court, in part to make up for missing PAX this year. Saw lots of interesting stuff, including a dev session talking about Guild Wars 2.
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The prize item out of the swag from Eurogamer yesterday: a real Ocarina of Time from the Nintendo booth. I've managed to work out how to play a couple of songs, but finding it hard to make a pleasing noise :D
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New Xbox and Gears of War 3! I'm resisting the urge to blast through the campaign straight away since I really want to finish Okami before moving back to London.
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Still very sunny considering it'll soon be October!
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More Autumn colours today. I have to admit, using my big camera for the first time in about a year I'm shocked at how bright and colourful the pictures are turning out. Need to take it with me back to London and use it sometimes.
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Maddie, poised to fetch another stick from the pond.
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