Darren Shields, alias Arctoa. Twenty-something. Rather tall. Northumbrian. Full-time procrastinator and a future University 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. 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}, :TWINZERO, 65daysofstatic, A Perfect Circle, A Storm Of Light, actors&actresses, Aereogramme, Agalloch, Age Of Silence, Amon Amarth, Amplifier, Amusement Parks On Fire, Anathema, And So I Watch You From Afar, Aphotic, Arcturus, Baddies, Bardo Pond, Bark Psychosis, Baroness, Battle Of Mice, Beware Of Safety, Black Mountain, Blindead, Blueneck, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Bossk, Brad Barr, Brenda, Brian Borcherdt, Burst, Bush, Calla, Callisto, Capdown, Caspian, Cave In, Chicane, Clutch, Codeseven, Constants, Corrosion Of Conformity, Cult Of Luna, Cyclamen, Dark Tranquillity, Daturah, Daylight Dies, Deftones, Devin Townsend, Dirty Three, Doves, EF, Emery Reel, Enter My Silence, Ephel Duath, Explosions In The Sky, Faith No More, Faithless, fbcfabric&reindeer, Fear Factory, Film School, Five Pointe 0, Foo Fighters, Fragments Of Unbecoming, Frantic Bleep, Fu Manchu, Ganger, Gardenian, Giant Squid, Giardini di Mirò, Glider, God Is An Astronaut, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Golden Death Music, Helios, Hell Is For Heroes, Hope Of The States, I Hear Sirens, iDLEWiLD, If These Trees Could Talk, iLiKETRAiNS, Insomnium, ISIS, Jakob, James Blackshaw, Jesu, JJ72, July Skies, Junius, Katatonia, Kayo Dot, Keep Of Kalessin, King Crimson, Knapsack, Kwoon, Kyuss, Led Zeppelin, Leech, less, Logh, Long Distance Calling, Mar De Grises, Mare, Martin Grech, Massive Attack, Mastodon, Max Richter, Maybeshewill, Men In Search Of The Perfect Weapon, Minsk, Minus The Bear, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Monkey3, Mono, Morgion, Mors Principium Est, Motek, Mountains Became Machines, Mourning Beloveth, Mouth Of The Architect, Muse, My Dying Bride, My Vitriol, Neurosis, Ningizzia, No Knife, North, Novembers Doom, Novembre, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, Ocean Machine, Oceansize, October Tide, Opeth, Pearl Jam, Pelican, People In Planes, Pinback, Pink Floyd, Pitchshifter, Porcupine Tree, Primordial, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rachel's, Radiohead, Rapture, Red Sparowes, Redjetson, Ride, Rival Schools, Rose Kemp, Rosetta, Russian Circles, Rx Bandits, Sasha, Self-Evident, Sennen, Shape Of Despair, Shora, Sigur Ròs, SikTh, Silversun Pickups, Sinch, Slint, Slumber, Smashing Pumpkins, Solefald, Soundgarden, South, Sparta, Strapping Young Lad, Subterranean Masquerade, Swallow The Sun, Swervedriver, System Of A Down, Tephra, The American Dollar, The Burning Paris, The Dears, The Evpatoria Report, The Longcut, The Mars Volta, The Mire, The Mirimar Disaster, The Pineapple Thief, The Postman Syndrome, The Twilight Sad, The Verve, The Walkmen, Thine Eyes Bleed, This Is Your Captain Speaking, This Will Destroy You, Tides, Tomàn, Tool, Tunturia, Ulver, Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC+Start, We Are Scientists, We Were Promised Jetpacks, wintersleep, Year Of No Light, Yndi Halda, 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

8 Out Of 10 Cats, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Beavis & Butt-head, Blackadder, Bottom, CSI, Dad's Army, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, Firefly, Life On Mars, Match Of The Day, Men Behaving Badly, Mock The Week, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, One Foot In The Grave, Only Fools & Horses, Porridge, QI, Red Dwarf, Shooting Stars, The Crystal Maze, The Fast Show, The Hogfather, The Hire, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Young Ones, Time Team, Top Gear, Ultraviolet, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, ...etc.

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
(Per Aspera Ad Astra)