Aidan Williams - High Acuity

Late on Friday night, my girlfriend and I took a walk through St James Park, past Buckingham Palace and into town to meet up with one of my friends.

This is the Queen Victoria memorial fountain outside Buckingham Palace – it’s 8pm but still sunny.

Buckingham Palace from the bridge across the lake in St James Park.

We met up in Soho Square and chatted with some random people for a while.

We went to the cinema to see the French thriller ‘Tell No One” – you have to see this film if you get the chance – the atmosphere, story, plot and characters are all stunning! Before we went into the film though we spent some time in the bar – it’s probably one of the only cinemas in London where you can take alcoholic drinks into the film and also one of the only bars in central London that wasn’t packed on a Friday night. It’s a great place, too – filled with sofas, low coffee tables, some nice lighting and it was cheap! Well cheap for London anyway.

After the film, at roughly eleven thirty, my friend who works at one of the biggest film visual effects companies in the industry and I had a stealth mission into his office so that he could show me some shots from a few of the films he’s been working on recently. We had to sneak past the guard, up over the walkway through the atrium (they have a garden inside their building!) into his floor, using his electronic keycard – but as soon as we walked in there, we heard people talking – it was nearly twelve at night, and they were working late – or chatting in the kitchen at this point, so we had to sneak past them too. My back story was all worked out – I was Reginald Postlethwaight – a student from the Bournemouth Computer/Broadcast Animation Masters course, looking to possibly join.

I truly wish I could tell everyone about the incredible clips I saw from some amazing AAA movies that won’t be coming out for a while, including one particular film that has a fantastic amount of secrecy surrounding it, but I can’t. I love movies and it was an absolutely amazing experience though.

I’ve been doing lots of admin work, lots of talking to clients, and have been learning some new technologies lately as well. We got our business account sorted out last week after a meeting with an incredible bank manager who was recommended to us. Luckily she managed to get the account signed up and approved in 24 hours (which is better than the three to four weeks I know some friends have had to wait). Things have been going great so far and I can honestly say with no equivocation that I haven’t felt this happy and healthy in a long time.

Last weekend Oleg, Veronika, my girlfriend and myself went to see an early preview of the Transformers movie. I really wasn’t sure what to expect given that half the reviews say it’s brilliant and half that it’s terrible, but this film is incredible! if you want something that’s fun, has similar humour to the cartoons, and absolutely jaw-dropping visuals, then this film is for you. However, be warned: this film does have Michael Bay’s trademark cheesy moments where you can actually speak the lines just before they’re said on screen.

My girlfriend and I also went to see The Simpsons Movie very late on Thursday night and… it’s good… it’s just like a long episode and I’d even go as far as to say that I’ve enjoyed some 30 minute episodes a lot more than I enjoyed the film, but it’s still brilliant and worth seeing.

David and I met up early on Saturday morning at Borough market and walked along the south bank of the river Thames into town. I’ve created a new section showing some of the pictures from my time here in London so far.

Yesterday was the Ben & Jerry’s Sundae On The Common event. I can’t say I paid that much attention to the bands that were playing, but I enjoyed the ice cream and met up with so many people that I haven’t seen (at least face to face) in a long time. The weather cleared up, I got a little sunburned, and it was a really great day.

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This morning I went to a private screening of the new Harry Potter Film in Leicester Square – where it’s going to premiere next week – thanks to John, who has just spent the last few months working on the film at his digital effects company.

We grabbed breakfast and a coffee in the square, which was sorely needed this early on a Sunday morning, and headed to the cinema. Just as with the James Bond screening John invited me to, despite checking everyone around me, none of the security guards checked my bag, but they did take our mobile phones.

The film was stunningly well made, the effects and sets were beautiful and the acting is always improving in the series – perhaps I wasn’t too empathetic with Harry’s struggle, but that could be because it felt like we’d seen it all before in the other films so far. Gary Oldman steals the show completely – as he always does in every film that he’s in. Definitely worth seeing if you get the chance.

It’s been great catching up with John again – we’ve been meeting up every weekend for the last few weeks – we hadn’t seen each other for a while after we moved out of our last flat.

The first weekend we met up, we took a walk through St James’ Park late at night – I always thought the park looked incredible during the day, but it looks just a good lit up at night – another thing everyone should do if they find themselves in the area at night – just try not to get mugged.

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