General Information

Darren Shields. Twenty-something. Lives in Northumberland. Part-time student, full-time procrastintor. 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 photomanipulations 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.

Basic Interests

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

Favourite Music

(code), {miocene}, 65daysofstatic, A Perfect Circle, Aereogramme, Agalloch, Age Of Silence, Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Amplifer, Amusement Parks On Fire, Anathema, Arctic Monkeys, Arcturus, Battle Of Mice, Bloc Party, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Brenda, Bush, Calla, Callisto, Capdown, Caspian, cave In, Coldplay, Constants, Cult Of Luna, Dark Suns, Dark Tranquillity, Deftones, Devin Townsend, Dirty Three, Disillusion, Doves, Ephel Duath, Explosions In The Sky, Faithless, fbcfabric & reindeer, Fear Factory, Foo Fighters, Giant Squid, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hopesfall, Idlewild, In Flames, Insomnium, ISIS, Jakob, Jesu, Katatonia, Knapsack, Led Zeppelin, Less, Mastodon, Max Richter, Mogwai, Monkey3, Mono, Morgion, Mouth Of The Architect, Muse, My Dying Bride, My Vitriol, Neurosis, Novembre, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, Ocean Machine, Oceansize, October Tide, Opeth, Pitchshifter, Pinback, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Primordial, Radiohead, Rapture, Red Sparowes, Redjetson, Rival Schools, Scarve, Shape Of Dispair, Sigur Ròs, SikTh, Solefald, Strapping Young Lad, Subterranean Masquerade, System Of A Down, The Album Leaf, The Postman Syndrome, The Prodigy, The Verve, The Walkmen, This Will Destroy You, Tool, Ulver, We Are Scientists, Wintersleep, YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO, ...etc

Favourite Films

2001: A Space Odyssey, 21 Grams, 300, A Clockwork Orange, A Scanner Darkly, Aliens, Amélie, American History X, An Inconvenient Truth, Apocalypse Now, Apocalypto, Bom Yeoreum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo Bom, Boiler Room, Brazil, Cashback, Children Of Men, Cidade De Deus, Clerks, Crash, Das Lieben Der Anderen, Dead Poets Society, Der Untergang, Diarios De Motocicleta, Dog Day Afternoon, Eastern Promises, Enemy Of The State, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, eXistenZ, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Fight Club, Full Metal Jacket, Gattaca, Goodfellas, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Hotel Rwanda, Igby Goes Down, Indigènes, Jackie Brown, K-PAX, Léon, La Haine, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Lola Rennt, Lord Of The Rings, Lord Of War, Lucky Number Slevin, Minority Report, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Mou Gaan Dou, Nineteen Eighty Four, Nochony Dozor, Office Space, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pi, Platoon, Pulp Fiction, Requiem For A Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Serenity, Shaun Of The Dead, Sin City, SLC Punk!, Snatch, Sunshine, Taxi Driver, Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski, The Chronicles Of Riddick, The Deer Hunter, The Fountain, The Jacket, The Machinist, The Matrix, The Truman Show, The Usual Suspects, Withnail & I, ...etc

Favourite Authors

Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Iain M. Banks, Ray Bradbury, Christopher Brookmyre, Dan Brown, Arthur C. Clarke, Douglas Coupland, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Umberto Eco, Dave Gorman, Rob Grant, Homer, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Robert Ludlam, China Miéville, Michael Moore, Grant Naylor, George Orwell, Chuck Palahniuk, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Robert Rankin, Alastair Reynolds, Eric Schlosser, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jeff Vandermeer, Nick Walker, Danny Wallace, ...etc

Closing Statement
De Profundis Ad Astra