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I absolutely LOVE Amazon prime. Or, Amazon in general. Which y’all know because I have posts and sections on my blog completely dedicated to it LOL. I buy entirely too much random shit off there, and it’s my #1 go-to for shopping.

Zo, daar staat het: ik vond het hele digital nomad zijn maar één grote desillusie. Negen maanden lang probeerde ik het en eigenlijk wist ik het na enkele maanden al: dit wordt niet mijn toekomst. Ik hou van reizen en ik hou van schrijven en wil heel graag heel veel mooie reizen maken, maar poeh hee, niet meer als digitale nomade.   Enkele jaren geleden verscheen ineens de hype die ‘digital nomad lifestyle’ genoemd werd. Hierbij werden dan verhalen geschetst van ondernemers die locatie onafhankelijk werken en hierdoor op de meest tropische oorden ter wereld, nippend aan een cocktail, hun werk kunnen doen. Even surfen in je pauze? Bloggen vanuit je hangmat? Met de scooter door de bergen? Het kan allemaal. Net als velen met mij werd ook ik verblind door de hype. Ik wilde dat ook, een reizende schrijver zijn. Alles achter me laten en gewoon gáán … en dus deed ik dat. Negen maanden later kwam ik weer thuis, een illusie armer. Het leven als digital nomad was niet voor mij weggelegd.   Laat ik voorop stellen dat ik ontzettend veel respect heb voor digital nomads die deze lifestyle wèl kunnen volhouden. Langer dan een jaar of twee, that is. Ook voor mij gold dat het de eerste maanden geweldig was. Het allesoverheersende gevoel van vrijheid zorgde ervoor dat ik zonder problemen elke dag opstond en dat ik met volle teugen genoot van mijn nieuw gecreëerde vrijheid. Dat ik vol ideeën en plannen zat voor de toekomst en dat mijn leven niet beter kon worden. How wrong I was …   Mijn leven als voormalig digital nomad begon bijna een jaar geleden. Op dat moment moest ik mijn appartement in hartje Arnhem verlaten en had ik dus geen ‘thuis’ meer. Ik logeerde bij vrienden in huis, richtte mijn oude slaapkamer in mijn ouderlijk huis in als een soort van vaste basis en sliep zelfs nog een aantal nachten in het huis van mijn ex terwijl hij op reis was. Tussendoor vloog ik van hot naar her, letterlijk en figuurlijk. Ik ging op roadtrip in de Pacific Northwest, maakte bergwandelingen in Oostenrijk en lag aan het zwembad van een landhuis in Portugal. Het leven kon niet beter zou je denken, maar toch knaagde er iets. Net voordat ik naar Indonesië vertrok, keek ik een documentaire van Tony Robbins (I am not your guru, aanrader!) op Netflix en ik werd daar getriggerd voor het opschrijven van dingen die je over een jaar graag bereikt wilde hebben. Ik besloot een viertal jaardoelen voor mezelf te bedenken op het gebied van werk, privé en geluk en een jaar later te kijken wat de stand van zaken zou zijn. Terwijl ik aan het schrijven was, stond daar ineens de volgende zin op papier: ‘een appartementje of vaste woonplek hebben in Arnhem.’ Ik las het, las het nogmaals en daarna nog zo’n tien keer. Het was het moment waarop ik me realiseerde dat ik het hebben van een thuis miste. Al na drie maanden. Slik.   Dit was dus pas drie maanden nadat ik aan mijn ‘nieuwe leven’ was begonnen en mijn échte grote reizen (Indonesië, Nepal en Nieuw-Zeeland) moesten nog plaatsvinden. Het inzicht dat ik een thuis miste stelde me al direct gerust want ik was natuurlijk aan niemand verantwoording schuldig. Maar man, dit was niet hoe ik me mijn leven had voorgesteld. De reizen die ik maakte waren stuk voor stuk geweldig, maar tijdens het beklimmen van vulkanen en maken van trektochten kwam ik er achter dat werken op locatie nooit mijn passie zou worden.   Waar helaas nog steeds het leven als digital nomad veelal als hemels wordt gezien (dat geldt overigens ook voor het leven als freelancer, merk ik steeds meer) heb ik het totaal niet zo ervaren. Niet dat ik het reizen niet leuk vond, maar werken op reis is gewoon niet zo mijn ding. Ik zal je enkele voorbeelden van gebeurtenissen en een kijkje achter de schermen geven:   – In Nieuw-Zeeland was er nauwelijks wifi en als de wifi er al was, was ie tergend langzaam. Probeer dan maar eens foto’s te uploaden of bestanden te versturen. Vaak kwam ik uit bij een lokale bibliotheek, waar ik me al dan niet tussen de backpackers bevond die hier hun electronica gingen opladen of juist tussen de locals die het maar raar vonden dat ik daar de hele dag zat te werken. Plus de wifi was vaak betaald in de bieb, helaas. Een flinke aanslag op mijn vakantiebudget want mobiel internet was ook niet bepaald goedkoop.   – Je kunt bijna nergens ergonomisch werken. Oftewel, je rug, schouders en nek hebben het zwaar te verduren. Werken in een hangmat klinkt natuurlijk super cool, maar is eigenlijk allesbehalve dat. Sowieso werkt buiten met je laptop op schoot aan de slag gaan niet echt voor mij (voor de meesten niet) maar dat wordt op de foto’s vaak niet verteld. Regelmatig zat ik op een hotelkamer op een bed, achter een veels te hoog bureau of aan een bar te werken, verre van ideaal.   – Altijd maar uit een tas leven vond ik ontzettend vermoeiend. Ik ben echt geen luxepaardje maar werd uiteindelijk het bijna dagelijks in- en uitpakken echt beu. Altijd maar weer zorgen dat alles past, dat je niks vergeet en dat je alle snoeren, stekkers en dat soort shit weer hebt ingepakt, brak me op een gegeven moment een beetje op. Overigens is het enige wat ik tijdens die negen maanden ben kwijt geraakt mijn zakmes, dus ik mag eigenlijk helemaal niet klagen.   – Even ‘thuis’ zijn werd een enorme chaos want in de periodes tussen mijn reizen, wilde iedereen met mij afspreken. Logisch natuurlijk, maar ik rende werkelijk van hot naar her en probeerde iedereen tevreden te stellen door even hoi te komen zeggen en vervolgens snel weer naar de volgende afspraak door te gaan. En ohja, er moest natuurlijk ook nog gewerkt worden. Dit was niet de manier waarop ik met vrienden en familie om wilde gaan.   – Digital nomad zijn en de liefde gaan niet echt lekker samen. De meeste details houd ik voor mezelf, maar net stapelverliefd zijn en dan het vliegtuig in stappen en naar de andere kant van de wereld gaan voor drie maanden was allesbehalve leuk. Mijn solo-reis door Nieuw-Zeeland was op zich geweldig, maar ik heb heel wat uurtjes in mijn tentje enorm eenzaam liggen zijn. Hij was hier, ik was daar. Overigens ben ik er best trots op dat het ons gelukt is om drie maanden zonder elkaar te zijn als je net verliefd bent en dat we dit ‘overleefd’ hebben.   Need I say more? Ik gok van niet. Het geromantiseerde beeld van het leven als digital nomad bleek een complete illusie en totaal niet wat ik zocht in mijn leven. Wil ik dan nooit meer reizen? Zeker wel. Wil ik dan nooit meer ergens anders werken? Dat ook, want ik werk slechts enkele dagen per week vanuit mijn nieuwe thuis. Een thuis dat zich, zoals je eerder hebt kunnen lezen, in het bos ten noorden van Arnhem staat en waar ik helemaal tot rust kan komen en kan ontsnappen aan de hectiek van de dag. Een thuis waar ik mijn eigen spulletjes heb, waar ik me geen zorgen hoef te maken over in- en uitpakken van spullen en waar ik, helaas pindakaas, hele langzame wifi heb waardoor ik regelmatig buitenshuis moet werken. Een thuis waar ik soms ook wel een beetje eenzaam ben omdat er dagen zijn dat ik niemand spreek en een thuis waar ik soms veel meer moet plannen dan ik zou willen omdat ik nou eenmaal niet even een brood bij de bakker op de hoek kan halen. Maar toch, het is een thuis en dat heb ik negen maanden lang ontzettend gemist. Ik ben enorm dankbaar dat ik weer een plek heb gevonden waar ik me thuis voel.   En dus heb ik mijn doelstelling gehaald en heb ik weer een thuis gevonden. Toen ik die doelstelling schreef had ik niet verwacht dat het hier in het bos met de man van mijn leven zou zijn maar ik ben dankbaar voor hoe één en ander verlopen is de afgelopen maanden. Ik heb het leven als digital nomad uitgeprobeerd maar het bleek niet voor mij. Veel voormalige nomads die ik ken geven aan uiteindelijk weer naar een thuis te verlangen en houden de levensstijl niet langer dan enkele jaren vol. Alhoewel ik in eerste instantie wellicht een beetje teleurgesteld was in mezelf, overheerste uiteindelijk het gevoel van geluk. Geluk dat ik de mogelijkheid heb om te kiezen hoe ik mijn leven wil inrichten. Dat ik een partner heb die mij hierin steunt en dat ik de vrijheid heb om te gaan en staan waar ik wil. Waar mijn werk en mijn reislust mij ook naartoe gaan brengen, ik zal altijd, waar dan ook ter wereld, weer verlangen naar mijn thuis.   Fijne zondag allemaal!   Meer lezen? De volgende blogs vind je ook vast leuk: – Landen waar je als vrouw prima alleen kunt reizen – Hoe het met mij gaat … een jaar later! – 11 Dingen die ik over mijzelf leerde in Indonesië   Nieuw hier en benieuwd wie ik ben? Check dan mijn bio! Volg me voor een dagelijkse dosis outdoor & adventure inspiratie op Instagram en Facebook!   Dank je voor het delen!   Related posts..Mijn avontuurlijke leven van februari: laat ik het maar even rustig aan doenReizen toen en nu: 5 enorme veranderingen in 18 jaar5 Dingen die ik leerde tijdens mijn reis naar Nepal

Hello there! I'm popping in to review today's Newton's Nook Design reveal. We're at day two of the October release with more winter fun.                    * Hallo daar! Ik kom nog eens op mijn blog piepen voor de onthulling van vandaag van Newton's Nook Design. We zijn op dag twee van de oktober release met meer winterplezier. Today we're looking at the 'Dear Santa' stamp and dies. Perfect to send out festive wishes.                    * Vandaag kijken we naar de 'Dear Santa'-stempel en snijmal set. Perfect om feestelijke wensen uit te sturen. This really makes you want to warm up in front of the television with a blanket and some gluhwein.                    * Hierbij wil je opwarmen voor de televisie met een deken en wat gluhwein. In this post I colored all the illustrations with the Derwent Coloursoft pencils. Further, on the Santa card, I stamped out the sentiment with blue embossing powder. The 'nice' word was collored with a blue glitter pen.                    * In deze post heb ik alle illustraties ingekleurd met de Derwent Coloursoft potloden. Verder, op de kerstmankaart, stempelde ik de boodschap op met blauw embossingpoeder. Verder kleurde ik het woord 'Nice' in met een blauwe glitterpen. An other addition to the Newton's Nook Release is this "Nutcrackers" stamp and dies set.                    * Een andere set die we kunnen toevoegen aan de Newton's Nook Release is deze "Nutcrackers"set. On this card I used the coordinating dies as part of the sentiment. On the background I used the Distress inks. The whole panel was framed with the biggest die from the Frames and Flags dies.                    * Op deze kaart heb ik de coördinerende snijmallen gebruikt voor de boodschap. Op de achtergrond heb ik de Distress-inkt gebruikt. Het hele paneel is verder omlijst met de grootste snijmal van de Frames and Flags dies. Would you like to win the “Dear Santa” Stamp Set or the “Nutcrackers”  Stamp Set? We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set! Here's how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday October 22nd at 9pm EST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, October 23rd.                    * Wil je de  “Dear Santa” of de “Nutcrackers” stampel set winnen? Voor beide sets kiezen we ÉEN gelukkige winnaar! Je kan als volgt winnen: reageer op de NND blog en Design Team-blogs (zie onderstaande lijst)! De winnaar wordt willekeurig gekozen uit alle berichten die jullie schreven. Zorg ervoor dat je alle blogs bekijkt en een berichtje neerschrijft om een kans te hebben. Je weet niet welke blog is gekozen van deze hop, dus hoe meer je schrijft, hoe groter je kansen zijn om te winnen! Je hebt tot donderdag 22 oktober 03:00 uur in de nacht om een berichtje achter te laten - winnaars worden bekendgemaakt op de NND blogpost op vrijdag 21 augustus. Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:.                    * Bekijk alle geweldige blogs van de designteamleden hieronder om deel te nemen: Newton's Nook Design  |  Ellen (that's me)  |  Larissa  |  Samantha  |  Zsofia  |  Maria  |  Andrea  |  Tatiana  |   Amy  |  Amanda

Français en bleu MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS // MUSÉE DES BEAUX ARTS DE MONTRÉAL                                                           George S. Zimbel : a humanist photographer Although not an official part of Le Mois de la Photo, the Museum is presenting a rare exhibition of the black and white photographs taken by the American born photographer who now is a Canadian. You will see never before revealed photos from the iconic MARILYN MONROE Seven Year Itch promotional event that caused quite a raucous in those days. The exhibition focuses on the streets of New York in the early fifties. George S. Zimbel  : un photographe humaniste Malgré que l'expo ne fait pas partie du Mois de la Photo officiellement, le Musée présente une exposition rare des photos en noir et blanc prisent par le photographe né en Amérique qui est maintenant un Canadien. Vous verrez des photos inédites de MARILYN MONROE lors de la scéance promotionnelle du film Seven Year Itch qui a causé tout un scandale à l'époque. L'exposition se concentre sur les rues de New York au début des années cinquante. LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO La condition post-photographique / The Post-Photographic Condition Commissaire invité / Guest curator  Joan Fontcuberta Owen Kydd: Durational Photographs The upcoming artist is presenting a series of intriguing still life videos that mimic photographs of random objects. What I enjoyed was the extra-dimension his process adds to an otherwise banal style. The colors are dazzling. The artist told us he enjoyed the slow passage of time represented by his installations, that they were like going fishing, waiting for something to happen. Owen Kydd: Photographies Perpétuelles L'artiste émergent présente une série de vidéos représentant des natures mortes qui imitent la photographie d'objets insolites. Ce qui m'a plu est la dimension supplémentaire que son processus ajoute à un style autrement banal. Les couleurs sont spectaculaires. L'artiste nous a dit qu'il appréciait le ralentissement du passage du temps signalé par ses installations, qu'elles étaient comme aller à la pêche, une longue attente que quelque chose se passe. &+ Le Cercles des Jeunes philanthropes a élu un nouveau président pour 2015-2016, M. Philippe d'Etcheverry. Voici le nouveau comité exécutif: De gauche à droite, 1re rangée : Geneviève Blouin, Simon Touchette, Anne-Marie Savard, Véronique Thibault, Philippe d'Etcheverry, Dilara Buyuk, Anne Janody, Charles Assaf, Kevin-Alexandre Lavoie; 2e rangée : Pholysa Mantryvong, Émilie L. Cayer, Enrico David Cremonese, Isabelle Nadeau, Jean-Sébastien Bock N., Gabrielle Soucy-Girard, Renaud Martel-Théorêt; 3e rangée : Pierre-Olivier Herbert, Anne-Catherine Shoiry, Éric Prud'homme, Thoma Daneau, Antoine Cossé, Johanna Mancini et Gérald Kounadis. Photo Sébastien Roy MCCORD MUSEUM // MUSÉE MCCORD AFTER FACEB00K: IN LOVING MEMORY < 3 Since I have been on Facebook, I have experienced two deaths of very close relatives. In 2010, my brother Joe, and this summer, my cousin Joe. I keep coming up on posts where they commented, I have the last words they wrote to me on my wall. I have also seen and shared the loss of loved ones by my Facebook friends, the loss of beloved pets. This is what this installation is about. It is mesmerizing and effective. I do have one problem with it however, the screens are all set up so we must look up and strain our necks. It impedes the flow of the experience. The visit to the exhibition is free. Conversations about the Exhibition: AFTER FACEB00K: IN LOVING MEMORY < 3 SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 AT 6 P.M. Discussion with the artitsts Depuis que je suis sur Facebook j'ai eu l'expérience de deux morts de membres de ma famille proche. En 2010, mon frère Joe est décédé, et cet été, mon cousin Joe. Cela arrive régulièrement que je tombe sur des posts auxquels ils ont émit des commentaires, j'ai toujours leurs derniers mots sur mon mur. J'ai aussi vu et partagé la perte de personnes aimées de mes amis Facebook, la perte d'animaux de compagnie. C'est de cela que traite cette installation. C'est hypnotique et efficace. J'ai cependant un problème avec l'installation, celui de la disposition des écrans qui nous force à regarder avec le cou trop étiré par en haut. Ceci entrave le flux de l'expérience. La visite à l'exposition est gratuite.  JOYCE YAHOUDA GALLERY // GALERIE JOYCE YAHOUDA Paul Wong Multivers / Multiverse The multidisciplinary artist presents several video installations that align with the concept of "catalogue aesthetic", which is a "massive compilation of images"that move very rapidly before our eyes, a signature of our era. All the installations are in constant colorful motion. The title is well suited to what you will experience with the work, a questioning of the substance we call reality. L'artiste multidisciplinaire présente plusieurs installations vidéo qui s'enlignent avec le concept de l'"esthétique du catalogue", le résultat d'une "collecte massive d'images" qui bougent rapidement sous nos yeux, une signature de notre époque. Toutes les installations sont en mouvement constant et plein de couleurs. Le titre est bien choisi en vertu de ce que vous vivrez avec l'oeuvre, ce questionnement sur ce qu'est la substance qu'on nomme réalité. SKOL Christina Battle : The people in this picture are standing on all that remained of a handsome residence When we walk into the projection room we are met by splashes of moving colors that evoke the ocean. The artist compiled one on top the other images collected on the internet of Black Friday in Edmonton, Alberta, where a tornado killed dozens of people and destroyed many homes on July 31 1987. In our time, the catastrophes that affect one part of the world or another become media spectacles, "disaster porn", manipulated to compel us to consume the news product. She used "datamoshing" to de-spectacularize the drama, turning it into an abstraction. CHRISTINA BATTLE: LES PERSONNES SUR CETTE PHOTO SONT SUR LES RESTES DE CE QUI ÉTAIT UNE JOLIE DEMEURE / Quand on entre dans la salle de projection nous sommes interpellés par des éclaboussures de couleurs qui évoquent l'océan. L'artiste a compilé une par dessus l'autre des images receuillis sur l'internet du  Black Friday ( vendredi noir) à Edmonton, en Alberta, où une tornade a tué des douzaines de personnes et a détruit plusieurs habitations le 31 juillet 1987. À notre époque, les catastrophes qui affectent une partie du monde ou une autre deviennent des spectacles médiatiques, manipulés pour nous forcer à consommer le produit d'informations qui devient du "disaster porn". Elle utilise le "datamoshing" pour dé-spectaculariser le drame, le transformant en abstraction. Galerie SBC Gallery Isabelle le Minh Tous Décavés This exhibition is very neat. The artist looks at the classification techniques developed by law enforcement in the late XIX century but uses contemporary tools like Facebook to illustrate the various facial features, or images from iPhone or iPads screens to show the fingerprinting process. The title comes from Alphonse Bertillon, the inventor of forensic anthropometry, in his work "Manuel du portrait parlé". Cette exposition est très nette. L'artiste examine les techniques de classifications développées par les représentants de la loi au XIX siècle mais se sert d'outils contemporains tel Facebook pour illustrer les traits du visage, ou des reproductions d'écrans de iPhone ou iPad pour illustrer le processus de collection d'empreintes digitales. Le titre vient d'Alphonse Bertillon, l’inventeur de l’anthropométrie judiciaire, de son livre  "Manuel du portrait parlé". -LENA GHIO

20 QUESTIONS WITH ACAMONCHI. EYE CANDY MAGAZINE 1. How many people are currently members of the Acamonchi posse? Officially we are Havok from San Diego, Shente and Rafa DRO from Tijuana, Enrique Minjares from Ensenada, and myself. We have close ties with other people like ESM Artificial, Pop Lab both from Vancouver Canada, Alex Assunto from Los Angeles and Noam Kerr from Salamanca Spain. Anybody who is honest and willing to represent Acamonchi is more than welcome as a member. 2. What does a typical day consist of for an Acamonchi? It all depends if I stayed up doing computer stuff or Acamonchi art the night before. I have a very irregular time pattern, and I'm a night person usually and that's when my creative energy hits it's limit. Morning time; I usually help my wife to get her day up and running, then I go check my email, play with the cat, jump on the shower, check email, eat cereal, fruit and drink juice or I go out and get a bagel. I start making calls, check email or send pending packages out. I'll go to the studio for few hours then come back home check email and get lunch. Then, it's back to the studio or stay at home doing computer stuff (graphics or uploading shit on the server), make some more calls, check email, wait for wife to get home. We get dinner, check email, watch the Simpsons and King of the Hill together, maybe some PBS. Talk and cuddle for few hours, then when she's about to sleep I give her a good foot massage so she can relax and sleep well. I get back to check email, to work ie paintings, graphics etc. I also like to go out with friends, and go somewhere and skateboard. If I'm in Mexico I go out and bomb as much as I can. (stickers, posters or stencils) If for some reason I miss my chances, I get friends to bomb for me. 3. After viewing your website, I noticed that there are female artists in your group (How fucking cool is that?) - That's not very typical of urban street art. How many are there? Really? I use female characters for my graphics, but the only picture I remember having with a girl, might be my friend Martha Elisa, who helped me paste while I was taking pictures, she was part of Acamonchi for that particular installation. I usually keep Acamonchi as open and supportive of other individuals as possible. I have a bunch of female friends who are very talented artists like Andi Brandenburg, Lori Dee, Angeles Moreno, Gaby Nunez, Ana C. Ramos, Duende, Julie Peasley, Melody Owen and Monica Peon they all kick ass. I don't believe in all that sexist crap but I probably find easier to work with guys. 4. List the Acamonchi favorites types of food and beverage. Mexican, Italian, Indian, Middle-Eastern, Mediterranean, Asian.. my wife cooks marvelous.. We're vegetarians. We eat vegan at home for the most part, but we do eat cheese and eggs, especially when we travel or hang around with non-vegetarians, I don't usually talk to much about it or make a big deal. We support local farmers and we buy organic produce and organic products whenever is possible. I drink Coca Cola or Red Bull because they help me concentrate and I become more productive when I'm working late at night. I tend to drink a lots water to prevent dehydration from sugar and caffeine. I'd drink green tea but the taste of it is awful. 5. List some of your influences. Nick Blinko (the guy from Rudimentary Peni), Pushead, Andy warhol, Ray Johnson, Seth Tobocman, the Surrealists, Dada, Fluxus, Mail Art, Primitive art, Mexican folk art, the Muralists, Church of Subgenious, Punk, fanzines, skateboarding, Industrial Culture and Cyberpunk, B-Movies, street art, graffiti etc. 6. You guys do some serious postering. Do you prefer wheatpaste or glue? or other? Wheat paste is probably the most efficient thing to use for bills, If I'm running out of it I use Elmers glue diluted with water. 7. What do you listen to when not out postering or dropping stenciled-art around town? I tend to support my friends, The Nortec Collective, also keep an eye for new upcoming Mexican bands, especially the Tijuana scene. I really like electronic music. Right now I'm mostly into djs, breaks, drum and bass, I also go back and forth to the stuff I used to listen when I was a teenager weather it's cheesy heavy metal, 80s, or even hard core and punk rock. I recently got again into the british wave of punk stuff I used to listen like Discharge, Subhumans, Uk Subs, Rudimentary Peni, Crass and all those neat bands related to the Crass family. I think they're were amazing back then, I find them really inspiring even today. I personally hate to death all that prefab type punk shit that came in the 90s, just as much I dislike bad techno. I also like jazz and bossanova as well. I try to be open with my musical taste and I listen depending on the mood. Wouldn't be rare to find me listening stuff like Anti Pop Consortium, Pepe Deluxe or the Dub Pistols either. 8. If you could choose only one image to represent Acamonchi, what would it be and why? (The ONLY stencil or poster image you would ever be allowed to use and represent you) I guess it would be the basic Colosio face. It tells a lot of my background. Colosio was assasinated in Tijuana, his face will keep on reminding people how powerless you can be as a citizen, it doesn't matter if you're running for president, you can't stop your own party from shooting you in front of thousand eyes. Plus, there will be no justice if you get killed. I also think that Colosio's followers created a myth and for them he was like a true martyr that died for the sins he didn't get to commit. So much of that mystery cult still around in people's subconcious mind in Mexico, especially the North. I like using his image in my works, and then taking all the political association out of it. Then he is just a funny looking guy that is often sadly mistaken for Saddam Hussein or somebody else. 9. Are all of the Acamonchis from Tijuandiego? San Diego, Tijuana, Ensenada, Mexico City and Salamanca Spain and Vancouver Canada. 10. List ten words that best describe your environment? We live on a very diverse neighborhood, lots of gay people and all that comes with the rainbow culture (Mad dykes with Mullets too). Sometimes it can be really sketch with a couple of ghetto birds flying all over the hood. We live on a small apartment, and I usually create my own atmosphere between our place and the studio and whatever comes in between with family, friends, artists etc. We travel a lot so we're exposed to different environments, and we accept things and people as they come and go. 11. Raul Velasco or Regis Philbin? Why? (Note to readers: Raul Velasco was a popular culture icon in Mexico that hosted a long-time running variety show called "Siempre en Domingo") Raul Velasco, he sucks.. I think he's pretty pathetic. In 1994 I visited Guanajuato Mexico, in the state of Leon and I cursed the land by saying: "I can't fucking belive this amazing place also gave birth to that son of a bitch.." 12. Shakira or Britney? Why? Can't you pull a better question? lack of imagination my friend, Let me say they both suck regardless of where they coming from. Please give me somebody who is more interesting to talk about, How about taking Julieta Venegas or Dolores O'Riordan from the Cranberries instead?! I met Julieta when she used to play with "Tijuana NO" back in 1991, she was very cute and very shy, I think Dolores O'Riordan is pretty hot too, loved her short black hairdo the freckles and her blue eyes. I don't care Dolores is not popular anymore, I still like her. I often wonder what does she looks now. 13. I know from your website that Acamonchi means "to piggy back" and that there is no particular reason for choosing that name - but what would have been your second choice? I don't know.. but Eye Candy wouldn't be for sure. 14. What is the most common stereotype Acamonchi encounter being Mexican guerilla artists/visionaries? Most people think I'm into drugs of some kind. Heavy drinking and/or that I'm a party animal. Some kids also think I'm into gangs and often make gang references. Girls think I'm available when I'm by myself at the artshows and feel free to flirt even If I keep my wedding ring at all the times, I guess the most common thing for anybody to think about Acamonchi would be that I have a lot of free time on my hands. When in fact, I don't do drugs or drink and I don't have time to party. I'm also happily married. Gangs? no thanks.. Don't need one as I'm pretty confident about myself and I'm pretty busy for the most part. 15. How could you best disspell that? By talking to them straight up and being honest. Kids can fool around and talk shit, but my work and my actions talk even louder. I keep it real. I prove myself with action, no more no less. I work hard with Acamonchi and I always find time to support others that needs me. 16. Have any of the Acamonchis ever been busted for their criminal art activities? Havok is been busted a couple of times for graffiti related crimes but that was few years ago. Shente had some trouble in Tijuana, not much that good $20.00 can't fix. . I've been really careful about hitting spots, I feel pretty lucky so far. I have a couple of friends that are lawyers and I keep their names in mind if I ever get into trouble. For legal status reasons I do not do any graffiti related stuff in the US. I strictly keep all my street art activities in Mexico. I also think it is where they need it the most. In the US, Acamonchi is more about an art project at the fine art and gallery level. 17. Who is your most beloved Mexican pop-culture icon/personality? (Please explain why for our gringo readership). Wrestling is such a cliche now, so I'll pass from the Lucha Libre subject. I like El Mago Frank a lot, he's the guy that appears with "En Familia con Chabelo" Sunday morning show, he's a silly magician with a dumb white rabbit. He's pretty tacky. I even have a poster of him on my wall. I also like Kaliman, the comics and the movies, he's some sort of a Mexican super hero. The story is based on a Middle- Eastern guy that has supernatural powers. Think of Kaliman as Superman with a turban. Kaliman is a must for the Mex-kitsch enthusiast. 18. Same as question #17, only American. Bob Dobbs of Church of Subgenious. If you don't know who he is, you deserve a Mullet haircut, if you have a Mullet already, then a hard kick in the butt with steel toe boot will do. 19. Eyecandy magazine is considered somewhat of a "dirty and perverted old man" in our town, because of our underground subject matter. Oh yeah, and ocassionally we do photoshoots of individuals in various states of undress - erotic photography and exhibitionists who want to be featured in our magazine (we see nothing wrong with nudity) - Any ideas on how we can influence our audience/town on how to fucking relax and not be so conservative and uptight? I watch porn sometimes, It helps me understand sexuality and other people's lifestyles. I like observing everything and I really find it fascinating for the human behaviors. When I used to work at Black Market Visual Communications in downtown San Diego, I used to see homeless people having sex and other crazy shit on the street, I remember laughing at those kind of random little surprises. I've also seen homeless taking a dump in public places, so between being grossed out and insanely curiousity I'd say I get a kick out of it. As long they don't shit in our alley entrace or they try to force me or my wife to get engaged in their activities, it's all up to them. After all, those individuals are part of everyday life. You can't tell then how to live their lifes. I guess they also deserve to have their pictures taken, so you can always show it to your kids and say, look son; this is what will happen to you if you don't go to school blah blah crap like that. 20. THE BIG FINALE: Would you be willing to send us the most visual "eyecandy" photo - that you can think of - of the Acamonchi posse? (If it really kicks ass, we'll put you on our cover!) Neat.. I'll choose some of the digital flicks I've taking lately from the studio or the new Acamonchi works.

Climate news is incredibly overwhelming right now. All regions of the Earth are either burning or flooding right now, at rates we’ve never seen before. The IPCC report that came out last week only confirmed everything we already knew, but with all of that information in one place combined with the events of this year, it impresses the situation more urgently on us. We all need to be taking action in whatever capacity we can. Here are 25 things you could be doing to help tackle the climate crisis. These aren’t necessarily things that are accessible to everyone, but the point is to do whatever you can. Maybe pick 3-5 to know that you can do and commit to ensuring you do them. Many of the actions I have included on this list aren’t things that should be done once and forgotten about once you’ve given yourself a pat on the back. Make sure you’re continuously doing things and make that as easy for yourself to do (however that may be). The important thing is that we all do something.   1. Sign the Stop Cambo open letter (UK)   Oil giant Shell are currently trying to seek approval from the UK Government to build a new oil field off the coast of Shetland - as you might have guessed, the field would be called Cambo. These plans are currently going ahead, with apparent approval by the Government (despite claims of ignorance by the Prime Minister). It is expected to extract up to 170 million barrels of oil from 2025-2050. 2050 is the year the UK has pledged to be net carbon neutral. This proposal goes against all the environmental pledges the UK has made, including its signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 and declaring a climate emergency in 2019. If Cambo went ahead, it would be catastrophic.    Check out all the links in their linktree, which contains loads of information, resources, and ways to take action. These include the open letter, emailing representatives, and joining protests.  2. Email your MPs   This one gets brought up all the time but honestly, if you have political representatives you need to be communicating with them. They are the ones with the potential for influence and to make larger impacts, let them know you want them to act and act now. Email them constantly, badger them, hold them to account and fill their inboxes. They should being doing more, they should be doing better – they need to be doing better.   If you’re not sure what to do or how to contact your MP, you can check out the websites Write to Them for their contact details (as well as those of your councilors), and They Work For You for their voting records and previous offices held.   3. Support the Stop Line 3 Campaign (USA)   Over the years there have been many, often and frustratingly successful, attempts to build new or expanded oil pipelines through indigenous lands in North America. You might have heard about the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines in this context? Well the new pipeline on the block is Line 3, which is proposed to run from the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada through to Wisconsin, USA. In the same vein as Cambo, we cannot be extracting any more fossil fuels. This needs to stop urgently – it needs to have stopped already.    Head to their Instagram and campaign website for ways to get involved.    4. Join Green New Deal Rising   Green New Deal Rising are a youth campaigning group aiming for the implementation of a Green New Deal in the UK. It’s aims are: to decarbonise, fast; jobs and a just transition; transform the economy; protect and restore; and to promote global justice. For more detail on all of these points and what they entail, they included detailed explanations on their website.    Their strategies are to disrupt the political system, force politicians to choose a side (cough, Keir Starmer, cough) reach out into our communities, and to elect inspiring green new deal champions. They have already been doing this, with amazing work holding politicians like Nicola Sturgeon and Keir Starmer to account and challenging them directly in-person on issues such as Stop Cambo and the Green New Deal.    It’s free to sign up and they have regular welcome calls to help get you involved. And you don’t have to be a young person to get involved with the campaign for a Green New Deal – have a look here for ways to get involved.  Image source 5. Donate to get Unite for Climate Action to COP26   Unite for Climate Action are a group of young people from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, who have been either directly or indirectly affected climate change trying to get to COP26. These are the people we need at the decision-making table. They need to be at the heart of the discussions and to be leading the way in strategies to tackle this crisis.    Unite for Climate Action are aiming to change whose voices are heard at COP26, as previously most young people at these international conferences have been from the Global North – not representative of the people who are most affected by the climate crisis. They are also starting a new educational series which I for one am looking forward to taking part in – knowledge is key to tackling the climate crisis!    They need £70,000 to get to COP26. If you can please support them to get there.     6. Turn up to protests in your local area   Direct action has been proven to work time and time again throughout the years with so many different causes. In fact I don’t think you can say any cause has achieved anything without the use of direct action, in whatever form. Protest and direction are crucial to tackling the climate crisis and ensuring governments listen. Countries like the UK claim to be democracies but fail to act when citizens call for change. We must make them listen and act. Join in wherever and however you can.    Before Covid you would regularly see protests in city centres on all sorts of issues, particularly the climate crisis. These included the regular Friday school strikes started by Greta Thunberg. Now, they’re a bit rarer but still happening. Covid has still changed things – I would frequently turn up to protests before Covid but haven’t attended one since the pandemic as it’s a prospect that’s still pretty terrifying to me – even though I am hoping to be able to attend protests in a few months depending on case levels. If your mental health and capacity to other actions will be compromised through being around a large group of people, skip this and focus on other ways to make change. But still support protestors, stand up for the right to protest whenever it is under threat (as it is in many countries all over the world, including the UK), and attend whenever it is accessible for you to do so.    7. Demand fashion brands sign the Bangladesh Accord   On 24th April 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, killing +1,330 people and injuring over 2,500. It was the worst industrial disaster the fashion industry had ever experienced. In its aftermath, over 200 brands, along with several workers’ organisations and trade unions, signed the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety. The Accord is legally binding and ensures basic health and safety measures in garment factories in Bangladesh. It is huge and makes real impact on the welfare of garment workers. It is the bare minimum and it is also under threat.    The Accord is due to expire on 31st August, and the progress we have seen since Rana Plaza could go down the drain. Workers’ rights and the environment are intrinsically linked, and garment workers deserve to know they are safe in their workplaces. So far, only 12 brands have committed to renewing the Accord. That’s an unacceptable number. Brands who still refuse to renew the Accord include H&M, Zara, Primark, American Eagle, M&S, Aldi, Matalan and a whole load more.    To take action, tag them in social media posts, comment on their social media posts about it, and send them emails directly asking why they haven’t renewed the Accord. For more information and ways to take action, head to Remake and Clean Clothes Campaign.    8. Donate to Choose Earth   Choose Earth is an offshoot campaign from Earthrise and Choose Love – an organisation you’ve probably heard about who do loads of amazing work with displaced people. Choose Earth however raises funds specifically for indigenous Environmental Human Rights Defenders in Brazil. It’s a great way to directly support those on the front lines of climate change, and those who know how best to take care of the Earth and to live in harmony with it. Head to the Choose Earth website to donate as well as to find more educational resources on the climate and indignenous rights.    9. Talk to the people around you about the issue   While everyone is somewhat aware of the climate crisis, I don’t think everyone truly gets how far it has gone and how much needs to be done to lessen its damage. Talk about it to literally everyone – friends, family, flatmates, grandparents, a random person in a coffee shop, on a first date, teachers, students, anyone and everyone you can. Talk about it, spread awareness of the facts and encourage everyone you can to take action.    This can also count with sharing articles, magazines, books etc. with people in your life. Even if that is sharing an online article with those people on Facebook, or casually suggesting someone can borrow a magazine on climate issues (like Shado Mag, Atmos, and It’s Freezing in LA) that you’ve finished reading.    10. Challenge mainstream media depictions of the climate crisis   Lots of mainstream media are getting their climate coverage incredibly wrong. Specific cases come to mind of BBC Newsbeat interviewing Boohoo CEO John Lyttle about the fashion industry’s polluting nature only for him to defend his horrifically toxic company, and on coverage of the recent heatwave in the UK, asking how we get used to this heat with little mention of its causes.    Reporting like this is not okay. We need to be shouting at every moment that this is down to the climate crisis and to hold our governments and billionaire CEOs accountable for their actions. Call media outlets out for their portrayals. Write to them demanding better. We deserve better. We deserve for the climate crisis to be covered like the emergency it is. It should be on the front cover of every newspaper every week if not every day and should be highlighted in every news reel.     11. Support legal campaigns like Paid to Pollute   Legal challenges tackle our governments head on, and the Paid to Pollute case gives me so much hope and motivation. It is currently going to the High Court, and the UK Government has made many attempts to quash it, but has so far failed. This case, brought forward by claimants Mikaela Loach, Jeremy Cox, and Kairin van Sweeden, says that the UK Government is not living up to the promises it made by signing the Paris Agreement in 2015. They are using the evidence of public payments to big polluters such as Shell and BP, and the proposals of new oil fields such as Cambo (which I mentioned in number 1).    To show your support, follow them on social media, donate to the case, spread awareness of the case, sign the petition, and write to your MP telling them they have your support. The Paid to Pollute is something to celebrate and has the potential for huge impact.   Image source   12. Read, learn, take in information on the climate   In order to tackle an issue effectively, you need to understand the issue properly. I’m not saying I’m perfect when it comes to knowledge on the climate. I have specialist knowledge to the fashion industry in particular, but I’m trying to have more basic understandings of other areas. But ultimately we don’t all need to be experts on every single factor, we just need to know the basics.    Books I’d recommend include This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein, We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer, and Stitched Up by Tansy Hoskins. There are loads others, but those are some of the ones I’ve recently read and would recommend. I’m also particularly looking forward to Aja Barber and Leah Thomas’ upcoming books!    As I mention earlier, I’d recommend also reading magazines such as Shado Mag, It’s Freezing in LA, and Atmos who have lots of detailed articles both online and in print on these issues.    There are a whole host of podcasts to listen to as well. Some of my favourites include Idealistically, The Yikes Podcast, Drilled, Outrage and Optimism, and Remember Who Made Them. Reasons to Be Cheerful have also started a series of episodes on the climate crisis in the run up to COP26.  You can also check out documentaries such as Earthrise's The Breakdown series and Remake's 'Made In' series. There are so many relevant documentaries out there so see what you can find. With everything, make sure you're thinking critically about the documentaries, books, podcasts, etc. you're consuming. Research what other people (especially more marginalised people) are saying about them - for instance, think twice whenever David Attenborough mentions overpopulation. Image source   13. Donate to support people displaced by extreme weather events   Thousands of people have been displaced by the recent extreme weather events. As well as campaigning for their international protection (see number 17), it you have the funds, give to support people in the immediate aftermath of losing their homes. They need direct and urgent support. Organisations seeking donations to support people are often shared after these disasters occur so if you see them and have the means, please do support them. Sometimes they get shared by larger accounts too. Basically keep your eyes open and support where you can.   Places currently dealing with the aftermath of climate disasters include: Greece, Turkey, California, Algeria, and Haiti, along with a whole load more. If you have any fundraisers or organisations seeking donations you want to recommend, please share them in the comments of this post so other readers can access them. Similarly, if you know of fundraisers having more direct impact than the ones I've shared please contact me so I can highlight fundraisers with the most possible impact.   14. Change your bank to a more ethical one   This is something that can be relatively easily done by most people. Most of the big banks are awful, with investments in fossil fuels, arms trades, and a whole host of other all-round bad things. Not something we want to be supporting and not something that’s good for the planet. Have a research of your current bank’s ethics and of those of prospective banks. I would also recommend reading Besma’s post on ethical banks as a shortcut!    *Note for people with student/graduate accounts!* You may have more restrictions on changing banks if you have these kinds of accounts. In the months leading up to my graduation, I was researching more ethical banks and was hoping to switch from Santander (we all love the free railcard with that one) to Nationwide. I was then told that I couldn’t switch to their graduate account as I’d not had an account with them previously and that to change my student account to another student account I would need to do so while I was still in the first 18 months of my course. This was when I was 2 months from completing it. As I still want to keep my free overdraft that comes with a graduate account, I have to stay with Santander for a bit longer, but I’ll be changing completely as soon as I feel like I can do without it.    15. Sign the Make My Money Matter petition   Make My Money Matter is a campaign which aims to make pension funds kinder for both people and planet. I’ve just graduated, I don’t have a pension right now, but it’s something that a huge number of people do have and a way that you can have significant impact. Just like big banks, many pension funds are invested in industries such as fossil fuels, tobacco, and weapons without us ever really realising. Not great. With so many pensions in existence, they have the potential to help change where gets more money.    As well as signing the petition, check out the Make My Money Matter website for help on how to take control of your own pension and more information on the issue itself.    16. Slow down your fashion consumption   This is something I have written extensively about, both on this blog and in articles elsewhere. Have a look through my slow fashion posts to learn more about how and why the fashion industry is currently so damaging to both people and planet. You could start with this one, or this one, or this one. After you’ve informed yourself a bit more through those posts, try and ensure you wear your clothes for more times than usual and think more closely about how often and where you’re buying clothes.  17. Show your support for migrant and refugee rights   Out of basic human empathy this is something you should be doing anyway, but this issue is going to become more prominent as the climate crisis worsens. We are already seeing climate refugees, as thousands are displaced by extreme weather events all over the world. Kiribati, an island in the Pacific, has almost been submerged by rising sea levels and a recent case in New Zealand denied someone from Kiribati asylum there last year. However that case did leave potential for change in future cases once the situation has worsened. The issue of refugee and migrant rights was already essential and urgent, but with the climate crisis steadily worsening and displacing more and more people, it will only become more so. We need to stand up for people to have the right to live somewhere safely and to be given provisions. Everyone deserves safety.    We also need to change what we think determines someone to be a refugee – the climate crisis is not currently a factor considered, conflict is the main factor recognised when granting asylum. In addition to being displaced by extreme weather events, the climate crisis is also known to increase the likelihood of war and conflict in regions most affected. In fact it has already impacted current and previous wars. The rights of people fleeing these areas in order to survive need to be protected. To achieve climate justice, we need to ensure the people most directly affected by the climate crisis are at the heart f our actions, strategies, and policies.    In the UK specifically, this means challenging the racist policies trying to be implemented by Home Secretary Priti Patel. Patel has several bills currently going through Parliament which would be incredibly harmful to people seeking asylum as well as all migrants. Her Nationality and Borders Bill goes against many human rights set out by the UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948 and the UN Refugee Convention 1951. Particularly under threat is the principle of non-refoulement which essentially means that it is against a person’s human rights to be sent back to a country they have fled where they are under threat. Just basic human kindness and empathy, right? Well that’s what our Home Secretary and entire government are lacking. This bill is one of the most horrendous pieces of legislation to be put to Parliament, and it needs to be challenged. It is currently still in the committee stages in the Commons, so add this to your list of things to write to your MP about and to challenge in protests. It is not okay.  Image source   18. Check the sustainability of your energy suppliers   Energy is a common topic of discussion when it comes to the climate crisis – whether that’s on larger scales or the individual brands we use in our own homes. And it’s important to discuss.    This is not an area I can claim to be an expert in by any stretch of the imagination, but it is something I want to learn more about. Octopus Energy is a name that gets brought up regularly, and has People’s Energy and Bristol Energy. Have a bit of a dig, question your current suppliers to ask what they’re doing to reduce their impacts, and try and find a supplier you’re happier with. And yes, this is something I’m going to try and make more time to research myself.    19. Sign the petition for a Wellbeing Economy   We need to move away from an emphasis on GDP to evaluating our state success in terms of the wellbeing of the people and planet. What’s the point of having a shit tonne of GDP if 4.3 million children are living in poverty? We need to rethink the way we see success. Ultimately that would mean moving away from the capitalist system all together, and while that is a bit of big step for the next few months, this is something that might help.   This petition is spearheaded by the likes of Caroline Lucas MP and seeks to change our focus on growth to a focus on ‘health and wellbeing of people and planet’. It currently has +40,000 signatures, and while the government has responded with something a bit vague and non-commital, it would need 100,000 before the 26th September to be debated in Parliament. Help get this debated in Parliament and bring it to the attention of friends, families, and your local MPs. In discussions with people you know, bring up the idea that would should be prioritizing health over growth and profit, start changing attitudes on a smaller level as well as bringing up on a national one.    20. If you can, try and eat fewer animal products and eat more plant-based   This is something that gets brought about time and time again when discussing individual action, and while it’s not accessible for everyone to do completely, it’s something that is important as we do know that eating fewer animal products is better for the environment. As someone who has been vegan now for over 3 years (!), I can tell you there is lots of very tasty vegan food out there for you. Cutting out meat and dairy doesn’t have to mean sacrificing flavour. If you’re still not convinced, have a read of We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer.  21. Call out greenwashing wherever you see it   In the past year greenwashing has reached new heights. Honestly, it’s ridiculous. Particular offenders include Amazon, H&M, Shell, and now Boohoo are upping their game too. If you want to learn more about the new tactics of fashion brands, check out this article I recently wrote for Remake!   As I’ll go into in more depth in a future bog post, greenwashing is essentially when a brand spends more time, money, and resources on marketing its products as sustainable than actually making its products sustainable. Take H&M for example. They launched their Conscious Collection in 2012 and have recently launched a new campaign highlighting child climate activists, and yet there is no proof they pay their workers a living wage, they have refused to renew the Bangladesh Accord, and at the beginning of this year 21-year-old garment worker Jeyasre Kathiravel (who made clothes for H&M) was raped and murdered by her factory supervisor after months of sexual harassment from him. What was that about being ‘Conscious’ H&M?   Green-trolling is our friend here. Call them out online. Brands care about their reputation. Their reputation has a lot of impact on keeping their profits high. Drag them down publicaly, in private conversations, in emails, share that article about their latest ethics scandal to family and friends. Express your outrage in whatever way you and encourage the people around you to boycott them if they can (spoiler alert: many people can, or can at least start slowing down their consumption). Again, express this outrage to your MPs and call for legislation about what brands can claim in advertising campaigns. Currently it’s like the Wild West when it comes to sustainability claims.    22. Sign the petition to prevent oil giants from attending COP26   While groups like Unite for Climate Action should be the ones leading the conversation, the main instigators of the climate crisis should not. Frankly, they shouldn’t be driving the narrative as that way they avoid accountability. They need to be interrogated, face consequences, and ultimately forced to change. Not attending a COP summit should be part of this wake up call for them.    23. Look for local organising groups for you to get involved with   There are so many climate activist groups out there, and within those so many roles as well. There truly is a role for everyone, even if, as Tolmeia Gregory says, that’s simply making tea in meetings. Search something like ‘climate action group’ and the name of your local area. Try different variations and see what comes up. There are lots of different larger organisations who will have regional groups as well, and ask around people that you know either in person or online for information about how to get involved. Hey, you could always create your own group!    If you’re a student, check out what societies are at your uni. Groups like People & Planet are doing great work targeted specifically for students to hold universities accountable.    24. At job interviews, ask what your prospective employer is doing to be more sustainable   If you’re like me and feel like your life is mostly made up of job applications right now, this will be relevant to you! If you get interviews at some of the jobs you’re applying for, ask your interviewer what the company is doing to tackle the climate crisis? Even if they don’t have a good answer, it will bring the issue onto their agenda and show that this is something jobseekers care about. I saw someone mention this on a Facebook group and honestly think it is brilliant.     25. Ensure you have joy in your life   If there’s no dancing in the revolution, I don’t want it. I can’t remember who I’m paraphrasing there but the point is true. We need joy in whatever world we live in, and ultimately an ideal world would not be ideal unless it had joy. Joy is what sustains us, if that’s in the form of a late night dance party, our favourite takeaway, or laughs with friends. We need joy, otherwise none of this will be worth it. Have joy to keep on going.  If you like my work and have learned something from it, please consider helping support me (so I have more time to write posts and articles like these!) by buying me a virtual cuppa!  If you liked this post you might like: 5 Quick Ways To Learn About Fast Fashion When You Don't Have Much Time Instagram | Bloglovin' | Pinterest | Twitter

Hi there, my names Timofiend, or Tim as that's my actual name, and this is my explanation of how I created the Xbox 360 and PS3 in a PC case mod. Its still a working title, as the project remains unnamed as of yet (suggestions welcome) I apologise in advance if I tend to ramble sometimes and randomly change subjects, but I will try to keep it as ordered and clear as possible. Also sorry it took a day or two longer than I said it would to get this online, I moved house yesterday and did not have much time to write up. Also I have no internet at this new house, so I have a wireless tether to my phones 3g connection -which made uploading photos a nightmare. I hope I manged to let everyone know who asked to be notified, sorry if I missed you I had a very long list of people to message and was rather tired when I wrote it. My contact details are at the bottom of the article. Also I warn you this is quite a long article, but I may have skipped over parts or not gone into enough detail at points by accident, so feel free to email me with any questions regarding any part of the project, or if you want photos of specific things, or anything else you might want to know for that matter. First things first, for the most part this is not a tutorial on how to do this project yourself, but an explanation of how I did it. I am by no means a professional, and if you choose to follow what I did that's fine by me, but don't hold me responsible for any dead consoles or ruined cases that might result :) Having said that, I will try to explain exactly how I did everything step by step and give helpful pointers so that if anyone is looking to recreate this, they should be able to follow it almost as a step by step guide - and I am sure many improvements could be made by a determined individual ready to take on a project like this. A little bit about me and the project to start with. I have been on summer holidays, after having just finished my first year studying Computer Games Technology at the University of Portsmouth. I was contemplating doing some kind of console modding for fun during my free time, and after a few different ideas I decided on this. As I have not been working much this summer, the project was done on as tight a budget as possible, although as you will see it did not go totally to plan in the budgeting department. The project was solely for fun, just to see if I could do it - so please don't bother telling me its a pointless or stupid thing to do, because I don't care. Okay now onto the good stuff - how this creature came into being. Firstly, this is a list of tools I used throughout the project, in no particular order. If you were looking to recreate something like this, these would be your best friends. Basic tools: Pliers (I had a good strong pair of needle nosed pliers, they are absolutely invaluable) Side cutters (I had a large pair for clipping bits of plastic etc, and a smaller pair for cutting wires etc. one large pair would do really) Screw drivers. You need a lot of these. A set of many varying sizes of phillips and flathead screwdrivers would be good. Also Torx screwdrivers, for opening the consoles - I believe both sizes 10 and 8 are necessary (will confirm this later in the post) but it would be good to have a set of multiple sizes) A really long phillips would also be handy, but may not be an absolute necessity. Hammer (you always need a hammer.) Sets of nuts and bolts, I will go into detail later on about particular sizes that are useful. Glue - Epoxy, super glue, contact adhesive. They are all very useful at times. Electrical tape and lots of it. Wire strippers would be good, but if you're handy with the side cutters they aren't totally necessary. A vice is also quite useful for bending metal along a nice straight edge. Scalpel good for cutting and shaping plastic, amongst other things. Sand paper for cleaning up edges of plastic etc (files could come in useful for that as well). Rulers and pens etc for measuring stuff Electric tools/more specialised ones Electric drill, with a set of different sized drill bits. This is an absolute necessity, you will get nowhere without one of these. Soldering iron - I used a 50w adjustable heat iron, although any one would probably do, it is mostly used for soldering wires together. You would also need solder, but I figure if you've got as far as owning a soldering iron you probably already know it needs solder :) Dremel rotary tool. If you are as inexperienced as I was with a dremel then you will need a nice amount of replacement blades heh, and other ends such as ones designed for sanding etc. I think usually a Dremel comes with these, but I am not 100% sure, so you might want to check if you are buying one. Im pretty sure that was all of the tools I used. One more thing you will need is a lot of space. I commandeered my mother's dining room, which had a very large table I used as a workspace, although this quite quickly spread to include most of the floor as well. Somewhere outside to work would be good as well, as cutting metal and drilling etc tends to leave quite a mess and is best done outside. As for materials needed, I will list what I used here (plus where I got them, although if you are not in the UK this may not be that helpful), although at later points I may mention something I forgot to add here. Most of the raw materials can be found quite easily online, and if you know a local model shop (such as somewhere that sells parts for model railway enthusiasts and model builders) these shops are a goldmine of random useful bits and pieces. Main materials: Xbox. I originally began this project with an old xbox I had lying around, although I was forced to change this as halfway through it decided to die on me. I ended up buying a new 4gig Xbox Slim for £135 from Amazon. For anyone attempting this project I would suggest using a slim, as it not only is smaller and easier to fit in, but the stock heatsink/fan assembly is a billion times better than that of the original Xboxes. PS3 I used an 80gig full size PS3, if possible I would suggest using a slim, purely because everything is smaller and would be easier to fit in, but what I have documented here is an older full size PS3 because I already had one and I was not up for buying a brand new one. Tower case I used the cheapest case I could find with a design I liked, it cost me £18 from ebuyer, I will link to it below. I would suggest buying a slightly more expensive case if you can afford it, as the low price of the case I bought was noticeably reflected in the build quality. A full tower case would be good, but I fit it all into a mid case. Most cases have a pretty similar design anyway so what I did could most probably be quite easily replicated on a case of your choice. This is the one I bought http://www.ebuyer.com/160913-casecom-shiny-white-mid-tower-case-with-front-120mm-blue-led-fan-kj-3392-white ATX PSU This will be used to to power the consoles. Depending on what model of Playstation you are using, you may be able to power both consoles from this PSU and forget about including the playstation psu in the case. I will go into more detail about this a little bit later on. I used a 450watt supply I stole out of an old computer I had. It has an AC in and an AC out, meaning you can plug it into the mains but also plug another appliance into it. This is not strictly necessary, but it means you dont need to have more than one plug going to the mains. I will talk more about this later. The main thing is to make sure it is poweful enough for both consoles, whether or not you end up using the playstation's psu as well, it would be good to have one that can power both. 450 watt is enough. 2 lcd screen temperature sensors One for each console, I bought these ones - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/White-LCD-Temperature-Display-Sensor-/120763801157?pt=Computing_ComputerComponents_Fans_Heatsinks_SR&hash=item1c1e155e45#ht_2892wt_905 Set of nuts and bolts of varying sizes I bought something along the lines of this http://www.maplin.co.uk/224-piece-machine-screw-and-nut-set-504421 it will be invaluable. Other materials that are useful: Strips of brass (or other kind of quite malleable metal), these can be used to make all sorts of useful things such as frames to hold drives, latches to keep stuff together, etc etc. Sheets of plastic. I bought a few sheets of thin white plastic from a model shop, which I used to make the back plate for the case. They were only a pound or so each, about 40cm by 15cm or so, just make sure they are big enough to cover the back of the case. A couple of switches. I bought a couple DPDT switches (dual pole dual throw), although I only used one in the end and used it as single throw rather than double, but the DPDT ones were easier to get hold of and are useful in case you want to use them for another purpose as well. I bought them from a local model shop, but I'm sure you can get hold of them online very easily, they cost next to nothing. Wire. I bought 3 types, 2 thick gauge rolls for high power lines (you could technically do it with one roll, but i bought red and black so I never mixed up cables with disastrous results) and a thin gauge wire for extending various cables for components of the consoles, so they could be moved to other locations. The thinner gauge general purpose wire I bought was 16/0.2 gauge ( such as this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/equipment-wire-16-0.2-6197 ) and the thicker wire was ... a thicker gauge.. which I cannot remember right now - but I shall mention it when I talk about actually using it. The main thing to remember is when extending the wires is that whatever new wire you are using should be at least the same gauge as the wire you are extending. Cables and other stuff I bought/had lying around Sata cables - I used two, you may want to use 4 if you want to move the xbox hard drive (if you have one, i didnt) and the ps3 hard drive ( I left mine plugged straight into the mobo) Usb Extension Cables - As many cables as ports you have. I used two, but bought 4. The xbox is conveniently placed so that I didnt need to extend the usb ports anywhere, and I only need the two on the back. The two on the front I dont use, but if you want to use those as well, remember to get extension cables for them. I bought 30cm male to female USB extension cables, you can find these quite easily by googling. 30 cm should be long enough, although if you can get 50 it would probably be useful, just in case your case is bigger than mine. Ethernet port extension cables I bought two 50cm extension cables, only used one, they can be quite easily found on google. HDMI Extension cable I bought one 50 cm extension cable, just remember you need male to female not male to male(that goes for the other extender cables as well), you can find it on google. Okay, that pretty much covers the tools and materials, if I do mention anything else while documenting this and forget to add it to the list, feel free to email me and ask about it if you want. The Build Now down to the actual building part of it. I tried to photograph every part of what I did, but there were points where I forgot to photograph stuff, and as I wasn't really thinking of writing something that could possibly be used as a guide/tutorial some of the photos are not as close up or step-by-step as they could have been. I will try to describe as best I can, and possibly go back and take more close up photos for certain parts. If you do want to see something in better detail that I havent covered well here, just email me and let me know and I shall try to do it for you. My email is at the bottom. First things first, time to pull apart the PS3 I did this first because I hadnt pulled one apart before, and was excited to see what it was like inside. I wont go into detail about how to strip down the console, as there are many resources online which show you how to do that. My stripdown of the ps3 is fully photographed in this imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/xVDlr (sorry the pics on there seem to be in the wrong order, I dunno how that happened, but it should be quite obvious which order they were taken) If you want a full tutorial on how to take it apart, gilksy has a good video tutorial of him stripping down the same model I used, an 80 gig PS3, that can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KDMeQMwXhU. I gotta mention here I started the project using an old xbox from 2005, and switched to the new slim partway through because my old one died on me. I will go through exactly what I did before switching them over anyway, because it was good to learn. So having stripped down the PS3, I pulled apart the old xbox. Which as most of you probably know isnt exactly the most complex of tasks. Get the covers off and then all you have is a motherboard, dual fan thing, and a dvd drive. I have no photos of that, as I've done that enough times that I didnt even think to photograph it this time. I moved on to powering the xbox with the ATX supply, which is relatively simple and just involves soldering the correct wires from the ATX supply to the same wires from inside the xbox cable. There are loads of tutorials online to do this, so I wont go into it much, although when I switched to using the new xbox slim I then had to redo it, and as I hadnt seem a tutorial on doing the new one I documented and photographed it as I went. You can find all of that in an xbox-scene post I made here: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=734590 Heres a random photo of it working with the newer xbox, for people who dont really care about the tutorial but like seeing pictures of stuff :) Having got the xbox working with the ATX supply, I started trying to get the playstation to run off the atx supply as well. This proved to be rather more of a problem than I had anticipated. Having seen quite a few people do it online in youtube videos etc, I figured it would be easy. The problem I ran into was a small 3pin white plug that runs from the playstation psu, to the motherboard. With some models it is 4 pin, some it is 5, with my model it is 3. The problem I first ran into was that no one had done it with a 3 pin plug before, and so I needed to figure out what exactly was going on with the 3 pins. By bridging the two outer pins, you can turn the psu on, and measure whats going down there. After some very confusing results, I gave up trying to figure out what was happening, as my multimeter was giving me less than simple information. I cant remember exactly what it was, but it was not just standard 5vsb/12v/ground or something along those lines which was what I was expecting. I decided I would not be able to accurately replicate whatever that cable was doing, and so it would be safer just to put the ps3 psu in the case as well, to avoid possible damage to the mobo from me ignoring that cable, or trying to replicate the inputs and not doing it right. To be able to have the ps3 psu in the case, I needed to run cables between the plug on the motherboard and the socket on the psu. I used the thicker gauge wire to do that.The wire is soldering onto some thing strips of brass, which have been slightly bent with pliers so that they stay in the plug sockets. You may be able to just make out that I marked on the psu which hole was which so they didnt get plugged into the wrong sockets. For those of you thinking this looks rather dodgy, I did create a slapdash sort of plug using tape to hold them safely in the socket and to ensure they could not come into contact with each other or anything else. I also extended the 3pin cable that went from the psu to the motherboard, with the thin gauge wire, by literally cutting each wire and extending it by 15 cm or so. I pulled the socket out of the ps3 case when you would usually plug the mains cable in, which you can literally just push out of its holder. I then extended the cables to the psu, so that the plug could be at the back of the PC case and the psu further toward the front: Next on the list of things to do was deal with the case. The very first thing I did was cut out the 2.5inch drive bays in the middle of the front of the case, and the 3.5 inch bays below those. This was done using a the Dremel, and cleaned up a bit with a sanding tool and a drill (some of the bits of metal were riveted in) The end result looked like this: This gave me a bit more room to manoeuvre and make plans. Although, I just read through my "work log" and pretty half of the shit I was planning in there got changed halfway through or completely reorganised, and so I shall pretty much just document what I did rather than half made ideas that didnt come to fruition. The next step I took was to mount the xbox motherboard on. This meant drilling corresponding holes on the side of the case (the bit you can see in the pic above) with where the mounting holes on the motherboard were. I then used a few standoff screws (3 stacked on top of each other) at each hole, to hold the board up off the case. Ignore the power supply randomly in this picture, I'm not sure what I was doing at the time but it seemed worth taking a picture apparently. I positioned it as close to the back as possibly, mainly so the plugs on the mobo would sit close to the back of the case and save me trying to extend them to places. The next step was to cut the top 5.25" bay off, to make room for the ps3 bluray drive. It is, awkwardly enough, wider than a standard bay. But still thin enough to fit in nicely, as long as you cut the bay sides off. So I cut the sides off, and used a spare piece of metal from the other bays I had cut out, to create a shelf for it to sit on. heres an action shot of me rocking the dremel like a pro. The gloves arent totally necessary, but it makes it easier on the hands when holding a dremel for long periods of time. Also I do not recommend using sunglasses as safety goggles as I am in this picture. If you are going to do this use real safety goggles, because metal dust is bad for your eyes. Also if the cutting disc breaks, it pings out at quite a high speed and has sharp edges, so you could well blind yourself. The result was a shelf like this: Which happily fit the blu ray drive like this As you can see the xbox drive is also in there. This drive is slightly thinner than a normal drive, and so doesnt fit in the bay well. What I did was use another spare bit of metal I had taken out of the case and shaped it into a tray (wide enough to sit in the drive bay nicely) and then screwed the xbox drive onto it (using the screws that hold the dvd drive casing together) With the old xbox drive, I had to cut the plastic legs off to do this, the legs can be sawn off with a small hack saw, I just dremeled them off because I'm lazy. When I replaced this drive with the one from the new slim xbox, theres no need to cut legs etc off, as it doesnt have any. You just need to drill the holes and screw it in :) I then screwed the drive chassy I had made into the drive bay to hold the drive there securely. Having sorted the two optical drives, it was time to put the ps3 psu in. I literally used two brass strips and some screws to hold it in place, using two handy screw holes in the psu that were there already, and drilled a couple more into the bottom of the case, measuring how far over I could put it to make room for both the xbox and ps3 pretty much either side. Now the major problem, having done all that, was to somehow mount the PS3 motherboard on the other side of the case from the xbox board. I still needed to be able to get to the xbox though, in case problems occured. And I didnt want to mount it on the actual case wall, because i would want to be able to pull that wall off. So with some help from my dad's magic well of ideas he calls his head, we created a hinge design, so that the ps3 motherboard would be able to swing open and closed. Its quite hard to explain how the hinge worked, so heres a picture and a (bad) drawing which should hopefully explain it all. Also ignore the poor spelling of screws, the fact that I first put an e in there, then replaced it with an apostrophe - both of which are appallingly wrong, shows how late it has got while I've been writing this.. The photo is before the hinge got cleaned up and painted, but that's the essence of it. This allows the ps3 motherboard to swing out to access everything behind it. It is supported underneath by some blue plastic feet which can be seen in quite a few of the pictures of the case when it is almost finished, and also held by a metal latch to stop it moving around. So the project so far had looked like this. The random metal strip on the blu ray drive holds it in place, and the power cable from the blu ray drive has been extended with the thin gauge wire and 15 mins with a soldering iron. Then after attaching the ps3 mobo to the hinge, it now looked like this: It was now time for the first official test, to make sure I hadnt accidentally destroyed both consoles somehow. Ignoring cooling for the moment, I plugged it all in to see if it worked. Success! So now thinking I was all in the clear, I started considering cooling methods. Unfortunately, I tried turning the xbox on again shortly after, and was struck down in the blaze of glory, by the dreaded RROD. Thinking it was probably something I did, I turned it off for a while, tried it again, same problem, checked all connections etc, but couldnt figure out where I had gone wrong. I checked the secondary error code, and was given 0141 (if I remember correctly, it may not have been exactly that one). Having seen the same error before with a few other Xboxes over the years, knowing it is usually the gpu problem all the old ones had, I came to the conclusion that it had literally been on its last legs anyway and it probably wasnt something major that I did to finally cause it to die on me. It powered up normally again once or twice, but went back to the rrod soon enough. I decided enough was enough, I did not want to complete the project just to find the xbox was dead, and so after a little browse around online I ordered a new one. 2 days later this arrived! I turned it on just to check it worked, redid the atx power supply mod using the new cable they brought out with this new Xbox Slim (linked to the xbox scene post earlier on where I documented that part). Then straight away ripped it open to see the insides, with a little help from Anandtech's article here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3774/welcome-to-valhalla-inside-the-new-250gb-xbox-360-slim Unfortunately, in my excitement at having a brand new toy to dissect, I completely forgot to take photos. The only one I have which shows the new xbox having been taken apart, is this one, which isnt particularly good but its all I have of this part of the project. So having recieved and dissected the new xbox, I replaced the old dvd drive with the new one (pretty much just unscrewing the screws, changed the drive over, screwed back in, job done) and extended the power cable for that drive as well. I then decided, as Microsoft had been so good as to create a chassy to hold the motherboard, I would just use that to hold it, and attach that in the case. Much easier than remounting the new board, as it was smaller than the old board it was rather awkwardly placed and would not have had enough support. So as you can see in this picture, the new xbox went straight in the case, screwed into the bottom of the case, with a spacer halfway up the case (in the screwhole where the fan dampener's leg would have screwed in) which holds it steady and at the right distance from the side of the case. I placed it close enough to the back that I could use most of the ports without really having to change much. The nut you can see toward the bottom left of the fan is part of the spacer arrangement holding the xbox chassy at the correct distance from the side of the case. The casing on the bottom right has been slightly cut away to allow for the psu to fit nicely. The blue plastic things are the feet that the ps3 motherboard rests on. Also, as you can see, I removed the fan dampener and plastic hard drive holder. This was because the dampener was awkwardly sized and placed, and I had no hard drive to put in the hdd holder. These could probably be left it, although a few bits might need to be sliced off with a scalpel to make it fit properly. If I want to put a hdd in for the xbox, it is a simple case of mounting it in a drive bay, under the xboxes dvd drive and then running a sata cable to it etc. To set up the front panels, it was literally a case of taking each panel out and measuring/cutting holes to fit. As you can see in the picture I simply cut a hole the same shape as the xbox drive tray, and it slides in and out easily. I used a dremel to do the basic cut, and then sanded it down to smooth it out. The same was done for the blu ray drive in the panel above, and it was sprayed black. The PS symbol was just taken off my ps3, drilled a small hole in the panel and glued it in place. The two temperature sensors were quite easily fitted, just cut two holes the right size in the panel and stuck them in. They are powered by the atx supply. Another point to mention was that, as you can see in the picture above, the blu ray drive (although not actually in place in the picture) has been moved down a bay. This was because it is nigh on impossible to find an extended version of the 60way 0.5mm pitch flat ribbon cable Sony used to connetc the bluray to the motherboard. Where the drive was originally, in the top bay, the cable was rather strained and I thought it would not be able to handle that stress for long. I just unscrewed the shelf the drive was sitting on, cut off the sides of the bay below and reattached the shelf as it was before, one bay down. This gave the cable a little more leeway. Also, if anyone has any ideas on how to get hold of an extended version of that cable, I would appreciate you letting me know :) I heard someone did cut down an 80way cable to a 60way, and apparently it worked. I could not find any 80way 0.5mm pitch cables either, so I couldnt try that. Cooling I know this has been a major issue a lot of people have mentioned. The general opinion seems to be that it will overheat very quickly and easily. I disagree, although running Uncharted 3 and Gears of War 3 on both consoles for hours at a time might not be a good idea. The way I have attacked the cooling problem, is by throwing fans at it until it went away. There is a 120mm fan on the front (the blue light) which sucks air in. There is a 90(?)mm fan on the back blowing air out. The top fan out of the two black and red side fans is connected to the atx supply, and blows air in. The bottom fan is connected to the playstation 3's fan plug, which I connected by cutting the plug off the old fan and connecting the 12v and ground to the new fan. This also means it runs at full speed continuously, rather than the controlled speed of the original fan. I cut the grid of holes in the side that the fans are blowing through using the Dremel rotary tool, having marked them out beforehand. The bottom side fan has a shroud on the inside of the box, as you can see in the picture below, which redirects air to flow through the heatsinks. It may not be quite as efficient as the original setup, but it keeps the playstation cool which is the main issue. The shroud was built out of thin white plastic bought from a model shop. Much kudos to my dad here for major help with the design and actual building of the shroud. The new xbox slim's stock fan and heatsink assembly, which can be seen in a few of the photos above, is a lot more efficient than the previous models. I left that on, and shall be monitoring closely the temperatures of both consoles to make sure it is not overheating. This is the cooling system, and I realise some people will probably say it is not good enough etc. It is working, and I have had no problem so far with excess heat. Having said that, when I inevitably try to do something like this (but better) again, I may try to water cool everything. The backplate was not shown in the original pictures, there wasnt really any reason for that I just didnt think to put it up there at the time. I should have done though, as it did look like the wires were just loose and sticking out the back, which they were not in the final product. The backplate was cut out of white plastic as well, and then sprayed glossy black. The holes for each plug were measured up and marked out on the plate before cutting them out and attaching the plugs. The area around the plugs was reinforced with a short brass rod, and a strip of metal holding the plugs together/in place. The main problem I had here was that the hdmi extender was quite poorly designed, and quite a lot of effort had to be put in to push the plug in and out. The plastic was not strong enough to take this without reinforcement, so the rod and metal strip were epoxied in place to strengthen it. Although you cant actually see the strengthening measures in this photo, they are on the other side of the plugs. The backplate was glued in place, at first using contact adhesive, and then again using superglue as the contact adhesive was not sticking well. Pretty much almost finished So that is pretty much everything I did, if there is anything you think I missed out or you would like clarification on or any questions at all, feel free to email me. My address will be at the bottom of this post. There are a couple of issues I still want to work out, and so I would not consider this project completely finished until I sort these out. The main issues are: Lack of physical button to turn on either console or to eject discs. This is probably the largest problem with the mod as it is at the moment. I do plan to try and add these in though. The reason I havent done it yet is that i was having a lot of trouble extending the ps3's touch screen buttons, there seemed to be a lot of interference and other stuff going on that would mean the button was constantly turned on or didnt work at all. I still need to play about with those for a while before i will be able to get it to work. The new xbox slim also has touch screen buttons, which are even harder to mess about with that the playstation's as it seems. They are connected via a ribbon cable to the faceplate, and I have not worked out how to replicate what is happening there. If anyone has any idea on how to do this, or anyone knows a lot about these buttons, please send an email my way :) 2 Power supplies - although I slightly worked my way around the problem of having to plug it in twice, as you only need to plug the atx psu into the mains and the atx psu sends power to the ps3's psu. I would still prefer to have both consoles powered by the single atx psu. I plan to accomplish this in the next project when I get around to it. Have to take side cover off to get to xbox sync button. Although this is relatively simple, as it is not the fan side of the case but the other side, and the button can be reached easily, I would like to have that extended to outside of the case somehow. Cooling system isnt quite as efficient as it could be - maybe water cooling next time. I think that's about it for main issues. If anyone has any others feel free to let me know (apart from the issue that you might not like the case I picked, don't bother letting me know about that.) So if you succeeded in reading through the whole of that, well done, it took me long enough to write that hopefully someone will read the whole thing and make it worth my while :) I will update with answers to questions and more detail in places if people ask me - that's if i can update google blog posts. This is my first one so I'm not quite sure, but I shall figure something out. Thanks very much for the love and compliments I received, was much appreciated. I shall let you all know when the next project is on the go :) If anyone wants to contact me, you can email me at [email protected] or message me on reddit, my username is timofiend Hope y'all enjoyed reading and seeing this as much as I enjoyed making it, cheers :)