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Well it’s been one hell of an Arctic related week! As a fundraiser for Greenpeace I spend 8 and a half hours a day, 5 days a week talking about the present threat that the high arctic faces and this week that time has most certainly increased. Shell intend on drilling the arctic, one of our last unspoiled ecosystems for oil. In a nut shell this is a terrible idea as there’s only 3 years worth of oil up there, a high risk of a spill and no known technology to recover oil from ice, so this week the global Greenpeace community have been taking action and running a live feed on their website of all the activity.

It’s not often that such a huge global community get together to fight for something they believe in and it has been extremely exciting, with Greenpeace activists shutting down shell petrol stations across the globe, polar bears being arrested and peaceful protestors being charged with ‘malicious mischief’ amongst other ridiculous convictions. Thousands of people have also been ringing up shells headquarters and speaking to their quite frankly incompetent staff, who seemed to know nothing about the malevolent company they worked and answered every question with the insightful response that ‘everything you need to know is on the website’ (this is however solely based on my experience I sincerely hope that not every member of shells staff are quite as ignorant) And last Saturday myself amongst many others headed to one of their local shell garages to let the public know what was going on.

The troops met up at half 10 at the shell garage in Swansea- I however was late as usual and arrived at 11. Once the flyers and placards had been distributed between the group we began our protest, informing shells customers and passers by of shells plans to drill for oil in the Arctic and letting them know the dangers of this quite frankly irresponsible decision. Some people cared and thanked us for informing them, turned their cars around and headed to a slightly more ethical petrol station; some people where less concerned about the planet that they live on and continued to fill up their tanks. We received a lot of support from passing cars tooting their horns in appreciation which was fantastic for moral however we also got flipped the bird a couple of times as well which wasn’t so great, but that was of course expected as such a vast majority of the population are ignorant arseholes and don’t care where their petrol comes from as long as it’s cheap. If something is cheap that normally means a lot of people have been fucked over in the process, surely it’s worth paying a bit extra? The police came down to give us a bit of a telling off as well we were told we had been obstructing people as they entered the petrol station and due to shells recent injunction they have taken out against Greenpeace- we complied, as we are extremely peaceful folk you know!

Overall the day was a success lets just hope the whole campaign is! We’ve only got one planet it’s about time we started taking care of it. If you haven’t already please sign the online petition to help save the Arctic on www.greanpeace.org.uk

#arctic #greenpeace #shell #words

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The Worlds Fucked.

We live in a world where morals are completely irrelavant, if it's considered legal it's ok. The use of recreational drugs is illegal and anyone caught in possesion of them or dealing them can face some serious jail time, we can't choose what we consume however large corperations are more than welcome too choose what we eat, drink and wear. The amount of adverts that bombard us every day is outrageous.

A few of the olympic games are going to be held in Cardiff this year, how exciting! But is this any need to rape the city with Coca-Cola banners, billboards and merchandise? Why the fuck is Coca-Cola sponsoring the olympics anyway? It is in no way healthy, the original coke is full of sugar and fat and the 'zero' and 'diet' versions (which are practically the same thing yet it seems men wont buy something thats diet and so the title 'zero' is more marketable to them) contain both aspartame and saccharine which are linked to the growing cases of cancer, MS, epilepsy etc. Aspartame is in almost everything nowadays, we don't really have much of a choice if we consume it or not- unless you fancy checking the back of every tasty item and putting it back down and finding an apple suffice. Actually forget the apple that was probably grown using man made environment-fucking fertiliser. But when it comes to drugs the person buying them- who is aware of the risks they may have yet chooses to do so anyway is committing a crime. In my opinion the people sat on their oh-so-powerful desks that tell us to buy these items and fill them full of chemical, cancer-causing, crap are the ones who deserve to do some time. The advance of psychological knowledge has ensured we can't go without these bullshit items, i cant wak through town without seeing countless things I 'must have' it seems all this psychology been used in the wrong way, knowledge is like the force in that way i guess, some will use it for good and other Darth-Vader like individuals will abuse, take Ronald McDonald for example- who ensures that his restaurants are colourful, magically-smelling establishments that entice you in but also makes sure the decor is so garish that you want to leave straight after your bigmac, making sure there's a table free for the next unsuspecting victims.

The flawed legislation that enables brands like Coca-Cola and McDonalds to take advantage of us is abused by almost every big, money-making corporation and the bastards running them have no morals what-so-ever. Shell, for example are embarking on a mission to fuck up the only place we have not yet fucked- the Arctic. The Arctic is home to 4 million people and a number of rare animals and all this climate change we've caused burning the shit out of coal and cutting down those 15 million hectares of trees a year that we just can't do without has caused the ice in the arctic to melt, now we can drill that previously frozen ice for oil, how bloody fantastic! No need to worry that the equipment shell intend to use is outdated and the chances of an oil spill are drastically higher as drilling in the arctic is rather risky business, or the fact that there is no known technology to recover oil from ice because theres 90 billion barrels of oil hiding under all that ice which is enough to keep us going for.. oh, about 3 years? If shell go ahead with this drilling we not only will have fucked over the animals and people living in the Arctic with global warming and overfishing but we will also leave their homes perished, Shell will never clean up the mess they make and once we've used all the oil from the Arctic and we've rinsed the planet of every barrel of oil it has what are we going to do?

You can email Shell through this greenpeace petition and stop them from exploiting the one untouched ecosystem left through this link.

http://act.greenpeace.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=18&ea.campaign.id=13413

And there are even more ways you can help unfuck the world! Greenpeace are launching loads of campaigns right now that everyone can get involved with just click on the link below.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/getinvolved/

#Arctic #Drugs #Greenpeace #Journalism #Shell #words

Cardiff Million Marijuana March

May 5th

I was surprised to see these two unsuspecting, snappy happy asians amongst the crowd of 800 proud ganja-smokers this weekend at Cardiff Marijuana March. Im use to seeing asians in town having their family portraits taken outside Topshop however their appearance at the ganja march was rather unusual and extremely comical. The contrast between the asians and the stoners isn't the only thing i find rather strange about this photo: Cardiff's fucked up skyline looks a bit eery as well. Cardiff is a wonderful city that: unlike the rest of Wales lacks hills. Yes, the absence of hills is wonderful and makes walking about much less daunting however the downfall of this is that when you look out of Cardiff into the distance, it looks as though it holds absolutely nothing at all and it can often feel like the end of the world. If your embarking on a hallucinogenic aventure through the wonderful streets of the city you may get a nagging feeling that nothing is real, partially caused by your trip but also encouraged by the fact that each building looks like a cardboard cutout on a tv program. Overall I think I've managed to capture what deceptively appears to be an asian excursion to a post-apocalyptic zombie movie set, starring an all-star stoner cast.

The day itself was great, however there's been a lot of commotion regarding the new route the march took this year:previous years have seen the protesters march to either the Welsh assembly or to the city hall- both places that have political significance. Yet this year we sat in a secluded children's park down in Butetown. It's logical to assume that the council insisted on this to keep us out of public eye but to route a group of theoretically 'law breaking' citizens into a children's park seems ridiculous. Instead of marching us on a loop or two through town and staying close to shops as we did last year, where places like McDonalds can profit from stoners suffering from a bad case of the munchies they took us through an estate past one local shop. This little corner shop was unprepared for the high number of stoners that bombarded it, eager to get the tastiest treats yet keen to keep up with the march, so the natural thought that came to everyones minds was 'fuck queuing in that' and resulted in good men throwing away their morals and stealing from local businesses... You gotta do what you gotta do!

Another disappointing factor of the day was the absence of a PA system combined with the presence of the local hero and notorious drug dealer, Mr Howard Marks. Howard had come to the march with the intention of gracing our high-as-fuck ears with one of his famous talks, yet the only means of amplification seemed to be the equivalent of a megaphone, which was disappointing to say the least.

Although the day did have a few disappointments it was a brilliant success: there was a great turnout and an even better vibe. Let's be honest, it's pretty hard to fault a day where the law is irrelevant and smokers are left to toke in peace, if only every day were like this.

#Asians #Cameras #Cardiff #Weed #words

Fuck heels how are you suppose to have fun walking around like a cripple? Yes they might make your arse look better, but if ur main intention on a night out is too get laid you should probably sort out your priorities. Trust me girls put on a pair of nikes and dance the night away and if you do go home with a guy at the end of the night you wont have to do the walk of shame in the morning in stilettos. Walking back in trainers is much more comfortable and a lot more subtle because lets face it, if your seen at 10am strolling the streets in a minidress and 3 inch Kurt Gieigers people will most certainly know what you got up to the previous evening, and you will deserve every comment that is shouted at you from chavy boys in passing citroen saxos.

#girls #shoes #words

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. (P.J. O'Rourke

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These were part of a series of 6 images for one of my university projects. I used 32mm film, multiple exposures and text to show the same thoughts all we smokers share, why the hell is drinking alcohol legal and smoking weed not?

Here's a pic I took when Bonobo came too Cardiff, and If you don't know who Bonobo is Shame on you!! Bonobo is one of DJ Greens performing names, he creates beautiful bass music taking influence from a variety of different music genres from all around the world. Bringing culture back into the electronic music scene! YES! and to top it all off he recreates his studio work with a live band on tour to make things that much better!

Thought i'd start from the beginning and pop a few of my early images up. Heres a few snaps I took back in October 2010 when everyones favourite beatboxer Beardyman came to Cardiff for his 'Where are you taking me?" tour! Accompanied by 2007 DMC champion JFB and Ed Solo. If any of you where there then I'm sure you'll agree that this was an absolutely fucking amazing night! I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing this crazy legend! This guy really did pioneer beatboxing and oh my he does know how to get the crowd going! With drum and bass musical statues, amazing live visuals, on top freestyles and a miniature remote controlled helicopter this was definitely a rave like no other!

My First Blog!

I've finally entered the blogging scene! It's about time i started to get my work out there, so here it is a catalogue of my stuff, thoughts, ideas and all the crazy and amazing people i get too meet and take photos of. Enjoy!

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