Wednesday, 4 August 2010

/welcomes self

For the record or past reference, I am a sixteen year old Scot living in a horrible village with a fantastic history. I make videos as a main hobby - from parody documentries to short films; I aspire to a lengthy career in the film industry.

My sixteenth birthday was a few days ago and so I decided to make this blog subsequently. 
With this blog, I intend to flamboyantly share my interests, rants and experiences.


I'm a bit of a wierd kind of nerd. This is because I watch movies and think about the cinematographic and editing techniques in play. My favourite musician is Hans Zimmer. I would often rather listen to the soundtrack of a game than actually play the game. I abhor generic behaviour. I use words like 'abhor' naturally. I find fun in making videos, attending energetic church events and belittling people that think they are better than me. 
I can also freely admit that if I read this in 5-10 years time, I will probably curl up into a cringing prune; because, predictably, 'Cool' will have found a new definition in me. This means also that perhaps my intelligence will decrease, given that I am able to make that prediction now.

I've had an interesting past. At the beginning, I was born with a gigantic lump on my head. I believe this lump was the symptom of having larger brain capacity than the norm. My personal evidence for the aforementioned lump symptom is that I seem to be able to remember moments from the days before walking was possible for me - unlike most people. I also remembered my house being black and green. The house was actually white and red - the opposite colours of black and green. 
I started using a computers when I was about five years old, making drawings on MS Paint. From then I have developed my computer skills. My typing speed is faster than anyone I know. I improved not because I wanted to be good with computers, but because I loved them and became obsessed with using them.
In my earlier days, we lived in a town nearer the city centre. My memory tells me that my life there was a pleasurable haven of fun and luxury - the reality is that it was a brown council flat spat on by intimidating anti-social behaviour: and the television was never on. Yet I thoroughly enjoyed my first two and a half years there. 
After this, we moved away from the city and to an enchanted bungalow in a small ex mining village. The move and my uncomplete potty training course meant that I missed a year of nursery - I had only one year. Everyone else got two.
Most of my Primary school career after this was a boring blur.


Brought up in a Christian family, I have never consciously, physically stolen. Admitabally I have downloaded some music illegaly, 'here and there', nothing out of a shop or anything though. In my lifetime I have sworn very few times. I am also really nice. Since birth I have generally referred to myself at least a 'Basic Christian'. People will say that being one only introduces limits to lifes enjoyment - but I have found quite the contrary. My social life, for instance. I have spent lots of time with degenerate underachievers that weren't Christians. Usually in this environment, you are targeted or forced to bully someone. The atmosphere isn't nice at all. Now, however, I have lots of Christian friends. When you spend time with them, everyone is easy going, no-one is bullied and we all have a fantastic hilarious fun time. Such an experience would require large measures of alcohol with those other people. Not only can I enjoy life without melting my brain, I can be with friends comfortably without the worry of being targeted or unpredictabally turned on. 
And those are just the social benefits.
Incidently, my current Non-Christian friends are great people. Most of them believe in a God but sort of, 'leave it at that'.


Three years ago, my nerdiness wen't through the roof. I found YouTube. It is absolutely the coolest website on the internet. At the time I had no social life (which is understandable) and spent most of my time on the computer, but this time earned me an audience of 1,600 people. By day a bully victim, by night an adored celebrity. Some of which absolutely adored me. I did this by making silly animations that people liked. The numbers got higher, higher. The hundreds of thousands of views allowed me to start making money for my videos. FOR STICKFIGURES! I was building a career! I was part of the most successful stickfigure animation group on youtube that I made with a friend. My accidentally popular memes had everyone savouring the stickfigure animation hayday on youtube.
But then, like most good things, it died. People lost interest in stickfigures. I left my legacy early last year. This is when I moved on to film work - and I am still working at that now. 
 I didn't visually reveal myself until last year as before this I avoided exposing my piglike self. Fortunately adolescent development and orthodontal support has fed me the confidence I needed to show myself. I had to start the climb from scratch again, entering into a different market, but I was getting there. At this point, there was high demand for me to begin animating again. So I said I'd make a comeback. And I was making it, right before my computer was hacked after I downloaded a trojan - like someone who hadn't been using computers for over 10 years. I had to start from scratch. For the third time. This time, I was lucky enough to have one of my favourite, top 100 youtubers subscribe to me on two of his accounts, tweet two of my videos AND comment on my videos! How awesome is that? My video made the front page of youtube for 30 seconds which gave me about 50 subscribers, and so on, I got back on track.


Then, I turned 16 and joined blogger.
Hello guys.



3 comments:

  1. :D awesomenesss xD i feel like putting a comment cause i like to be number one ;p cause i'm cool like that :D good luk with exam reults matey and i luv ure wee blog soo far it'll b epic for sures

    >FOrGOT my OniOn made me LOL so much the other day<

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  2. Omg daniel i actually have so much respect for yah dude you are a clever little guy and you'll go places don't let folk bring yah down love

    sammie xx

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  3. Lmao, you know me! Thanks guys :D x

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