Let's all go to the movies

I haven't been to the cinema for a while as it is a bit pricey in the capital but as I found out yesterday at Cineworld Cinemas it's cheap day Tuesday, so it was a bargain at £5.45 rather than the usual £8. I couldn't resist as it was a reasonable treat for the week. I always find it nice to get totally immersed in a film and forget about the stresses of London living.

Plus it's always a great time to see some new ads that are the extended version. One of the ads that did make me chuckle was the new Lynx ad. I wasn't much of a fan of the 'Billions' ad, probably because as a woman I don't really want to watch hundreds of scantily clad women running towards a man, ha ha. Anyway in the new ad a guy sprays himself with Lynx Deep Temptation which turns him into chocolate. The ad follows the new chocolate man as he goes through his day with women literally finding himself irresistible.



Anyway back to the subject of film I went to see, 'No Country for Old Men' the new Coen brothers movie which is amazing, you have to go and see it. I would be a bit bias as I consider myself a Coen brothers fan, counting Fargo as one of my favourites but really you should go and see it.

The basic plotline centres on Llwellyn Moss played by Josh Brolin, who stumbles across the aftermath of a drugs deal gone wrong. There are some dead Mexicans, a stash of heroin and $2 million in cash. He takes the cash, but without spoiling it for you, manages to leave a trace and a game of cat and mouse ensues. Unfortunately for this guy the cat is a sociopath hit man Anton Chigurgh played brilliantly by Javier Bardem and the other Mexicans. The story is held together by Tommy Lee Jones' sheriff trying to save Moss from Chigurgh and the Mexicans. The film's themes are not so much who gets away with the cash but the ideas of fate and chance and the motivations of the main characters. It is a film worth going for the acting alone, so go and see it.

Colds, colds and more colds!

Here at Other we've been a bit unlucky in the health department with various peeps suffering from the dreaded lurgy. I myself have been suffering since Thursday when I felt all bunged up and muzzy headed.

I tried to relieve these symptoms on Friday by going to have a really hot, authentic Tooting curry. Although it was one of the best curries that I've had, unfortunately it didn't do anything for my cold.


So I have a few tips to keep the dreaded cold at bay. Although it is mostly common sense, you'd be surprised by how little we follow them.

• Try not to touch your nose, mouth or eyes, cold viruses love warm, moist places.

• Wash your hands often as viruses are spread through contact ie person to person, on door handles and other surfaces where people with colds have touched.

• Stay happy, people who are often stressed have a weaker immune system therefore more succeptable to colds.

• Keep out of contact from coldy people. And coldy people stay at home if you can. Or if you want you can take a leaf out of the Japanese method of cold prevention and wear a mask. However I think they wear masks to contain their cold, that's because they are so polite. I think they're quite fetching, don't you?
  

A Piece of Art

Yesterday workmen came and took out two pieces of graffiti that were on a wall opposite Charterhouse Sq.

Why, you may ask, would anyone want to do that? Well they were by Banksy. The pieces were Banksy rats, one had 'go back to Bristol boy' scrawled on it, probably done by the few people who object his work. All that remains now are two badly cemented squares on the white wall. I'm quite sad as I was getting quite attached to them as I passed them on my daily stroll to get my lunch.

Just recently a Banksy piece done on Portobello Rd was sold on ebay for £208,100. The price included the removal and rebuilding of the wall that it was painted on, I don't know whether Banksy would approve of that. I wonder how much those two rats will fetch in auction....

Bring on the 80's

Today we're having a photoshoot and the theme is the 80's and how technology has moved on. I thought that would be nice to include a few things that were 'hot' back then. That fine piece of technology being used by the lady in the pussy bow top is the Epsom handheld computer, circa 1982. The bloke sitting next to her appears to be using a car phone, not quite mobile technology yet.
However this brick phone was the original hand candy and the thing to be seen with. It was available in black or grey and probably made a pretty good paper weight when it wasn't being used. Although I don't remember when they first came out, I like the retro black/grey colour plastic finish schemes the electronic goods had before they became all metallic and available in a myriad of colours. I say bring back the retro look!

A New Blog for Us!

Well I've just managed to set up our blog page and it actually looks alrite :) So hello out there, we are Other and we're a bit creative, yeah! Actually just thought that we would join the blogging community as there appears to be so many creatives who are blogging these days.