Darren Shields, alias Arctoa. Twenty-something. Rather tall. Lives in Northumberland. Full-time procrastinator and an alleged full-time student. Something of a sickly child. Enjoys eating cereal and the partaking in general mockery of close contacts. Seeks motivation (and a pair of shoes). Takes photographs, creates photo-manipulations and writes poems. Uses a Canon 40D with 17-85mm and 50mm lenses, Photoshop CS3, Lightroom and Notepad. Occasionally has a good idea, rarely acts upon it. Tries to respond to all comments and actions.

1.618, Adaptation, All & Nothing, Alterior motives, Ancient civilisation, Architecture, Astrophysics, Being blunt, Browsing Wikipedia, Camping, Chaos, Coastlines, Comedy, Communication, Contradiction, Creativity, Daydreams, Déjà Vu, deviantART, Doubting everything, Download Festival, Downloading stuff, Doodling, Dreams, Dry humour, Dystopian stories, Early morning walks, Eating cereal, Editing databases, Evolution, Film, Forests, Fractals, Geography, Gigging, Honesty, History, Hitting rocks with other rocks, How things work, Inane factoids, Inspiration, Languages, Life, Light, Literature, Lo-fi photography, Love, Making sandwiches, Maps, Mob mentality, Mountains, Music, Natural patterns, Newcastle United, Nordic culture, Northern mythology, Northumberland, Number patterns, Peace, People, Physics, Playing football, Playing musical instruments, Playing with fire, Procrastination, Psychology, Rain, Reading at night, Reflections, Running water, Science fiction, Social Inadequacy, Scandinavia, Sitting around doing nothing, Someday, Space, Spacing out, Staring at the sky, Subconsciously instigating fucked up situations for myself, Sulking, The internet, The minutes before Sunrise, The truth, Time, Tomorrow, Travelling, Trivia, Understanding, Writing, Yesterday, You?, ...etc

(code), {miocene}, 65daysofstatic, A Perfect Circle, actors&actresses, Aereogramme, Agalloch, Age Of Silence, Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Amplifier, Amusement Parks On Fire, Anathema, And So I Watch You From Afar, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Aphotic, Archive, Arctic Monkeys, Arcturus, Arsis, Back When, Baroness, Battle Of Mice, Beirut, Beware Of Safety, Billy Mahonie, Billy Talent, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blackfield, Bloc Party, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Bon Iver, Bossk, Boy Hits Car, Brenda, Brian Borcherdt, Burst, Bush, Calla, Callisto, Capdown, Carcass, Carrigan, Cave In, Chicane, Clutch, Codeseven, Coldplay, Constants, ctrlaltdelete, Cubic Space Division, Cult Of Luna, Dark Suns, Dark Tranquillity, Daturah, Day Without Dawn, Daylight Dies, Deftones, Destroyalldreamers, Devin Townsend, Disillusion, Doves, Editors, EF, Emery Reel, Enter My Silence, Ephel Duath, Explosions In The Sky, Faith No More, Faithless, fbcfabric&reindeer, Fear Factory, Five Pointe 0, Fony, Foo Fighters, Frantic Bleep, Ganger, Gardenian, Giant Squid, Giardini di Mirò, GlassJAw, God Is An Astronaut, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Green Day, Helios, I Hear Sirens, iDLEWiLD, If These Trees Could Talk, iLiKETRAiNS, In Flames, Incubus, Insomnium, ISIS, Jakob, James Blackshaw, Jesu, July Skies, Junius, Katatonia, King Crimson, Knapsack, Kwoon, Kyuss, Lamb Of God, Led Zeppelin, Leech, less, Logh, Mar De Grises, Martin Grech, Massive Attack, Mastodon, Max Richter, Maybeshewill, Men In Search Of The Perfect Weapon, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Monkey3, Mono, Mooncake, Morgion, Mors Principium Est, Motek, Mourning Beloveth, Mouth Of The Architect, Mt, Muse, My Dying Bride, My Vitriol, Neurosis, No Knife, Novembre, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, Ocean Machine, Oceansize, October Tide, Opeth, Orange Goblin, Peach, Pearl Jam, Peccatum, Pelican, People In Planes, Pinback, Pink Floyd, Pitchshifter, Placebo, Plain Fade, Porcupine Tree, Primordial, Pure Reason Revolution, Quicksand, Radiohead, Radius System, Rapture, Red Sparowes, Red Stars Parade, Redjetson, Ride, Rival Schools, Rose Kemp, Russian Circles, RX Bandits, Sasha, Scarve, Sennen, Sigur Ròs, SikTh, Sinch, Slumber, Smashing Pumpkins, Solefald, South, Sparta, Stafrænn Hákon, Stellardrive, Strapping Young Lad, Subterranean Masquerade, Suns Of The Tundra, Swallow The Sun, Swervedriver, Swords, System Of A Down, Tephra, Textures, The Album Leaf, The American Dollar, The Cancer Conspiracy, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Evpatoria Report, The Hives, The Longcut, The Mars Volta, The Mirimar Disaster, The Ocean, The Offspring, The Pineapple Thief, The Postman Syndrome, The Rain Band, The Strokes, The Verve, Thine Eyes Bleed, This Is Your Captain Speaking, This Will Destroy You, Tides, Tool, TwinZero, Ulver, Unbelievable Truth, Vex Red, We Are Scientists, Winds, Wintersleep, Year Of No Light, Yndi Halda, YOB, YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO, Zozobra, ...etc

10 Items Or Less, 12 Angry Men, 21, 21 Grams, 25th Hour, 300, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Beautiful Mind, A Clockwork Orange, A History Of Violence, A Scanner Darkly, Ali, Aliens, All The President's Men, American Beauty, American History X, Apocalypse Now, Apocalypto, Apollo 13, Armageddon, Austin Powers, Be Kind Rewind, Being John Malkovich, Big Fish, Black Hawk Down, Blade, Blade Runner, Blood Diamond, Boiler Room, Braveheart, Brick, Bringing Out The Dead, Burn After Reading, Cashback, Casshern, Catch A Fire, Catch Me If You Can, Central do Brasil, Children Of Men, Cidade De Deus, Cidade Dos Homens, Clerks, Code46, Collateral, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Confidence, Cypher, Das Boot, Das Lieben Der Anderen, Dead Poets Society, Der Untergang, Diaros De Motocicleta, Die Fälscher, Die Hard, Dog Day Afternoon, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Dr.Strangelove, Eastern Promises, Enemy Of The State, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, eXistenZ, Fargo, Fast Food Nation, Fear & Loathing In Vas Vegas, Fight club, Flags Of Our Fathers, Full Metal Jacket, Garden State, Gattaca, Gladiator, Gone In 60 Seconds, Good Bye Lenin!, Good Morning Vietnam, Goodbye Bafana, Goodfellas, Hot Fuzz, Hotel Rwanda, Igby Goes Down, In Bruges, Indigènes, Inside Man, Jackie Brown, James Bond 007, Jarhead, Jerry Maguire, JFK, Kelly's Heroes, Kingdom Of Heaven, K-PAX, La Haine, La Science Des Rêves, Lawrence Of Arabia, Layer Cake, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Léon, Letters From Iwo Jima, Lola Rennt, Lord Of The Rings, Lord Of War, Lucky Number Slevin, Magnolia, M-A-S-H, Men In Black, Michael Clayton, Miller's Crossing, Minority Report, Mongol, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Nineteen Eighty Four, Nochony Dozor, O Ano Em Que Meus Pais Saíram De Férias, O Homem Que Copiava, Ocean's Eleven, Office Space, Once Upon A Time In America, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Orange County, Patton, Pi, Platoon, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Reign Of Fire, Renaissance, Requiem For A Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Revolver, Ronin, Run Fatboy Run, Running With Scissors, Salinui Chueok, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Serenity, Seven Years In Tibet, Shaun Of The Dead, Sin City, SLC Punk!, Snatch, Solyaris, Space Cowboys, Spy Game, Star Wars, Stranger Than Fiction, Sunshine, Syriana, Taegukgi Hwinalrimyeo, Talvisota, Tasogare Seibei, Taxi Driver, Tears Of The Sun, Thank You For Smoking, The Bank Job, The Big Lebowski, The Blues Brothers, The Bourne Identity, The Darjeeling Limited, The Dark Knight, The Deer Hunter, The Departed, The Fountain, The Fugitive, The Good Shepherd, The Hurricane, The Illusionist, The Island, The Jacket, The Kingdom, The Last King Of Scotland, The Machinist, The Man From Earth, The Man Who Would Be King, The Matrix, The Negotiator, The Nines, The Right Stuff, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Shawshank Redemption, The Sum Of All Fears, The Thirteenth Floor, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Truman Show, The Usual Suspects, The Whole Nine Yards, Three Days Of The Condor, Three Kings, Tigerland, Traitor, Tropa De Elite, Tropic Thunder, Under Fire, V For Vendetta, Vanilla Sky, Withnail & I, Zwartboek, ...etc