The moment you start hearing voices in your head, your rational thought should be 'I need to see a doctor pronto!'. However David Icke ignored any rational motion he may have had and instead chose to share his crazy rants with the world.
Icke's theory is almost on par with Scientology, and are both suprisingly money making theories.
The 'religion' of Scientology takes donations, and is tax exempt in America. Its followers actually have to pay money to become privy to the secrets behind the religion about how aliens came to earth 75 million years ago from a Galactic Federation called Xenu. In the same way, Icke's followers are paying money to read his books and attend his talks, meanwhile feeding his fortune.
Icke is either god damn insane or a very intelligent, exhibitionist conman. Personally I believe he's the later. He started out his career as a sports presenter, ie. he likes performing for the camera. Acting like a crazy man claiming the he knows about a supposed political conspiracy simply attracts him more attention, which he obviously enjoys. As it was said in Jon Ronsons documentary 'The Lizards and the Jews', Icke's argument is all plusible right up until he hits the punch line. So why go and ruin his well thought through, credible conspiracy theory with "and...they're all 7ft scaley lizards".
He knows that a little bit of craziness will bring in the crowds and therefore create revenue. Its the money he's interested in...its got to be!
A third year Journalism student, studying at University of Winchester.
Thursday 8 October 2009
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Catherine Hayes Photography
I am currently working on getting a website for Catherine Hayes Photography up and running very soon. I will post a link on my blog once it is set up.
For those of you that don't know, I run my own photographic studio from home. I do portrait/fashion/beauty shoots, both in the studio and out on location, and I will hopefully soon be moving into the world of wedding photography.
If you are interested in having a shoot done, please have a look at the prices below. The prices include the shoot, plus images on disc, allowing you to purchase your own prints from a local photography shop such as Jessops. My prices are very reasonable compared to other photographers.
PRICE LIST:
INDIVIDUAL SHOOTS-
(price includes photo shoot plus up to 30 images on disc)
Studio shoot (3 hours)- £60
Location shoot (3 hours, around Southampton)- £70
Studio and location shoot (4 hours)- £75
GROUP SHOOTS-
(price includes photo shoot plus up to 20 images on disc EACH)
Couples (4 hours)- £90
Group of 3 (5 hours) - £120
Group of 4 (6 hours) - £150
***each person coming for a group shoot is entitled to a 30 minute individual shoot as well as the group shoot, hence why the duration of each shoot is extended according to how many people are attending. Maximum of 3 outfit changes per person.
EXTRAS
Full make-up - £20
Images (on top of what you already receive)- £3 each
STUDIO ADDRESS
63 Avenue Road
Portswood
Southampton
(off road parking available)
***My studio is set up at home. Nice welcoming, friendly atmosphere. Food and drink available.
I can do all kinds of photography including portraiture (including family shoots), fashion, prom, underwear, expectant mothers, new born, infants, etc. You name it and I can probably arrange it.
Please feel free to give me feedback, it would be much appreciated! :)
A little bit about me:
I studied photography at A-Level and now I'm doing a degree in Journalism.
Before setting up Catherine Hayes Photography I had done photo shoots for friends and compiled a modelling portfolio for a friend which got her a modelling contract. Other friends have also asked for shoots with me. So, instead of doing to odd photo shoot here and there, I have decided to set up a business and spread my wings further ( as they say).
At the beginning of May 2009 I pitched this idea to my Mum (actually I just mentioned it) and she has agreed to fund me to get me started out :).
Can't think of anything else to say...
Oh yeah...I have recently bought a shiny new Canon EOS 450D (yay!) so your photos will be taken on one of the latest models out at the moment.
Photographer: Catherine Hayes
Link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=85492077130
SEO
Horrie is today teaching us about the wonders of search engines such as Google.We started off the lecture by looking at a website called Alexa, which is a Web Information Company that provides an 'unparalleled database' of information about websites, including statistics. By searching a particular website on Alexa - such as the website for the University of Winchester - we can view its traffic statistics, the search words driving traffic, where it's users come from and where it ranks around the world. As it turns out, www.winchester.ac.uk isn't very popular, and Horrie predicts that this is because of it' poor SEO - Search Engine Optimization. It's keywords are rubbish and it doesn't have any links, etc.
For my blog to incur lots of traffic, it is essential to improve my SEO.
Search engines such as Google do not 'search', instead they are a filing system. This filing system is compiled by special software robots called spiders (a process called web crawling), which build lists of words from websites in order to index them. Once spidered, your website will appear on a search that hits any of your keywords. To improve your ranking on the search (SEO) you can:
1. Use your keywords in your domain name
2. Make your content relevant to to the search results
3. Update your content regularly, which will increase how often your website gets 'crawled'
4. Link your pages internally to ensure all your pages get spidered
5. Get others to link to your site - this will improve your ranking as Google perceives sites with lots of back links as high quality
6. Research what keywords are searched when people search fr your product/subject of interest
7. Keep your code clean
8. Avoid using flash (spiders can't read flash)
Photograph: Tube Spider
Photographer: Catherine Hayes
Link: http://www.redorbit.com/ed
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