Friday 27 April 2012

Post your memories below

We are looking for detail and imagination to allow people to be inspired to create art,
Simply click 'comments' below and share you memories! Or even just to have a read of some of the brilliant responses we've already had! Thank you so much x

49 comments:

Anonymous said...

Playing against the moldovan national team at rugby as the first british sports team to tour the country. Very few pictures were taken of the match and there were none of me playing.

Anonymous said...

my birth maybe?
would've loved to have a photo of me being born haha

Anonymous said...

In life there is always the question 'if you could go back and do anything again or see anything again what would it be?' Well I once scrunched up a piece of paper, tightly into a ball, i was on my own and in a massive studio at college. The bin, a good 15 meters from where i was sat down, i thought there is no way im going to get this, but i went for it anway, slouched on my chair i through the ball, i watched as it turned and rotated during flight. It landed straight in the bin, completely silent, no one was around, I stood up and looked around for recognition but alas. If i could go back in time Lexi i would watch myself do that one more time...

Anonymous said...

when i won the u16 rugby cup in bath :)

Anonymous said...

when I was about 5 I was riding my friends bike with him and he neglected to tell me the breaks didn't work.
I was caning it down a hill, then realized I had nothing to stop with so just when as softly as I could into this garage door.
Needless to say, I put a big ol' dent in the garage door and my head and smashed this bike to shit.
I'd have to say I'd love to see that one again!

Anonymous said...

Um the last time I went to glastonbury I didn't take a camera and that was a massive mistake not getting beyonce on camera or watching coldplay live right near the front when they released paper butterflies into the air and it was beautiful gave me goosebumps

Anonymous said...

Ok here goes: About to leave for a night with my uni housemates out once we had a drink or five. Whilst waiting for a taxi in the hall all of a sudden the noticeboard fell off the wall randomly then one of my housemates just started jumping on it as if this poor noticeboard had offended her family. Definitely wish I had caught this mentalness on camera! We had splinters for a week! haha xxx

Anonymous said...

ummmm concerts? i accidentally deleted all my photos i took at oasis and that was pretty annoying. hope that helps x

Anonymous said...

i don't remember drinking that much
but i was fucking slaughtered
the whole night is a blur
woke up.. and i'd wet my self
apparently i'd got with 4 guys
then told one guy to go away
because he tasted like vks
but i've got more stories

Anonymous said...

'When my Dad came home from working in Brazil for a month, like he did every other month, he tiptoed behind me, picked me up and swung me round. He put his hand out and so did I, and my hand fitted perfectly into his palm. Then he whispered in my ear "See, I always come back". He passed away when I was 10 and although I can't remember the majority of my childhood, that always sticks in my memory'

Anonymous said...

erm probs doing my sky dive in new zealand
was like 60 quid extra cos you have to pay for a photographer to jump out with you
but was skint at the time
wouldve been class because the view was amazing

Anonymous said...

Sex with all the women i touched

Anonymous said...

I guess when I went bunjee jumping in new zeland. I dunno if that's gd enough x

Anonymous said...

Erm...just little things like when I turned up at home for a surprise visit home because my dad was in hospital. My other sister went back too and he didn't have a clue or do you mean like drunken moments?

Anonymous said...

would me benching 150 be a memory i could talk about

Anonymous said...

Ha well when I went to dublin with the boys last summer I took around 100 photos of the first day, which was so much fun and then lost it later that night

Anonymous said...

Just time with mates in general, more pictures to go with memories

Anonymous said...

okay the way my mate, chats up girls! hes so bad its unreal like asking them if they have a dog etc. we are just there watching him and crying

Anonymous said...

i wish i had caught the NeYo concert on camera when i went, it was amazing x

Anonymous said...

definitely travelling - wish i had had an underwater camera at some of the islands because they were so picturesque!
Also in India when i wanted to take pictures of some of the poverty stricken conditions but didn't take any 1. because i didn't want my camera stolen and 2. because i didn't want to offend! XXX

Anonymous said...

I went skiing with my dad and his girlfriend, he hadn’t skied before and the instructor was showing him how to snow plow, but his skies actually crossed completely and he lost all control and stacked it down the mountain.

TheGeneral said...

Wrote this a few months back , when i met the only person that made me happy in years, but she had to go as she was just passing trough being on her holiday. I spend every day with her for 3 and half weeks and I can't go and see her cause i ain't go the money and the USA will not give me a working visa, so here it goes.

The Internal exile

Wow I’m sick of doubt, I’m sick of fear
I feel the concrete’s slowly creeping,
My mind is crowded, I need to go

I sense another broken heart is added the realm of pain
And as a fuse needs the spark, the heart needs to melt
Revolving in a whirlpool of lost dream, the actor’s soul rests on the poets’ guitar

Now he’s falling through the cracks and he can’t touch the sides,
Love is out of reach, Bybylon is burning
He’s grown to be one more statistic living the gigantic lie

He lights his last cigarette anticipating the shadow play to take place,
Illuminated fears spread around the fragile corners of his mind,
The dream is over, the internal exile has began

Anonymous said...

i think a moment in time i always wanted to capture is my dreams everything else seems fairly routine

jennieelizabeth said...

When I went on holiday to Kenya in 2008 with my family, through out the holiday I had tried fooling my mother by saying "oh look a lion" when there wasn't one. At first she started looking but she then caught on to my lies. Then one time, I was sat in the car by myself, my mother just outside. I heard the the russelling of a packet (we had bought some ginger nuut biscuits for snacking) so I began to look over my seat - concerned. Then I saw a monkey, a black and white one sat in the seat snacking on some ginger nuts. I started calling my for my mum, quietly telling her there was a monkey in the car eating ginger nuts. She didn't believe me. I then said "I'm being serious", my mother walked up to the open door (where the monkey got it). For a moment I saw his face look up at mine, with a ginger nut stuffed in his mouth, and I saw guilt mixed with fear in his eyes. Just as my mother realised a monkey was actually in the car and started to pull her camera up from around her neck, the monkey traded the pack of ginger nuts for a bar of Kenya's finest dairy milk and ran off to the trees to show his friends the treasure he had collected. You know what they said about the boy (girl) who cried wolf (monkey)

Anonymous said...

Apart from having a camera around to prove that my boyfriend was wrong in certain situations :) I'd love t have the moments on film, when i realised certain insights. For instance, things aren't always as bad as they seem, yu won't die if a relationship ends, you can't change someone unless they want to, the world isn't always fair and, i can be wrong, well, occasionally lol

Anonymous said...

i'd love to of captured the first few times that me and my boyfriend first saw eachother.
i can hardly remember them, party because our first few meetings were intoxicated but i would love to see his expression and what he first thought of me! this is a cool question i love this kinda stuff

Anonymous said...

when i was younger i moved to japan and i have no photos of this. i have a foggy memory and as a child i thought the city was like something from out of space, like so surreal it could of been fake or a movie. like i swear i thought i saw a spaceship.
would love some photos of this time

Anonymous said...

when i got mugged. i wish i got a photo of that

Anonymous said...

I wish i had more photographs of times spent with my grandpa when i was younger, so that now that he's gone and the memories are fading, i'd always have a photo to help me remember. My mum also says these were some of the best times but without a photograph there hard to remember.

Anonymous said...

I wish I captured more everyday happenings on camera and not just pictures from nights out. So many funny things happen from day to day but you never think to take photos.

Anonymous said...

i'd love to have captured the looks on his face, in particular, the look that's shared between two people when everything else is a blur. the look that says "i love you", and a whole lot more. the ones that noone else saw, but meant more than any words. whether it was across a room, or up close, i wish i'd captured those moments.

Anonymous said...

one time was when I was swimming at my beach house near Lorne in Australia and a pod of dolphins popped up and we played around with them for about half an hour, was fairly incredible.

Hope that's of use?!

Another Life Zine said...

THANKYOU EVERYONE!! KEEP 'EM COMING! XXX

Anonymous said...

that time i wasn't a rugby playing prick all my life

Anonymous said...

Watching my 17 year old daughter rush to the train to see her boyfriend. She looked so beautiful and confident and I was so pleased with myself on how she had turned out. A moment I will treasure forever....

Anonymous said...

in Malaysia, driving along a road when we got stopped by a load of monkeys in the street. we got out and started feeding them some nuts we had.. one monkey snuck up behind me and tapped me on the leg so I turned round and his monkey partner in crime ran up and stole the whole bag of nuts I was holding the cheeky..... he jumped in a tree and sat eating them staring at me, laughing

Anonymous said...

my dreams! i always want to capture my dreams for longer, there so random and wild but i can never completely remember them. if i had a camera in my head recording my dreams that would be the best thing ever

Anonymous said...

all the times i spent with my grandma. we use to spend so much time together, in the garden, making tents, cooking, playing games and no one was there to take photos and we got too carried away to think about a camera. i love my grandma

Anonymous said...

ha wen i went to my first rave and got absolutely fucked. mates were tellin me loads of stories the next day like i tried kissin my mates mum wish i coulda seen that. lad

Anonymous said...

easy. i always wanted a photo of my little sister standing outside my window surrounded with presents and balloons singing happy birthday to me for my 18th! shes such a cutie but i can never describe in words how adorable she looked!

Anonymous said...

OK, soppy central:

January 6th 2007- Kensington, London.
I was on a first date with a man who, in future, would become my live-in boyfriend and the man who inspires me every day. After a long walk round the V&A to see the vintage fashion exhibition (his idea!), we went for food at a little French cafe. I was SO nervous I felt like I would puke if I ate. He looked so gorgeous, so well dressed and I was literally swooning! I opted for a little almond coisant in the cafe. The coisannt was covered in icing sugar and, typical Hollie-Anne style, I managed to get it all over my lips. I wish I could have captured his smile as he told me I had a little something on my mouth. He doesn't know this but that smile made my heart skip a beat and I knew I'd do anything in the world to make sure I always had that smile in my life. In some ways, I'd want to capture that smile/moment on camera more than our romantic first kiss in the rain that happened later on in the day because that smile meant he accepted and like clumsy, silly and messy little old me.

The end.

Anonymous said...

last year me and my friends decided to backpack around Europe, i remember a lot of the photographs i took on the trip, purely because every photo looked like it belonged in a frame and couldn't wait to show everyone back home my travels, i remember a photograph whilst on a gondola in Venice of the open ocean at the edge of the city where it separates off, an amazing, one of a kind view, i felt so lucky to be doing that all summer, sadly i lost my camera after that day, would love to have evidence of this....

Anonymous said...

After being a Midwife for many years, I wondered how I would feel when I would hold my own newborn baby. I need not have worried, this surge of unconditional love came the very second the midwife placed her in my arms...

Anonymous said...

When you realise you're falling in love and there's nothing you can do about it!

Anonymous said...

Getting a divorce was the best and worst thing I have ever done in my life.

Anonymous said...

When the Consultant told us my mum had cancer, I felt as if my world came crashing down. I can only describe it as my world had 4 walls and then at that moment my world only had 3.

Anonymous said...

My daughter was playing rough and tumble with her dad. I commented her dad always made her laugh and I was the boring parent.

She said you're right mom, you dont make us laugh, you just make everything alright. Wonderful...

Anonymous said...

Watching your parents grow old is not nice.

Anonymous said...

I was moaning to one of my patients aboout the cost of a new exhaust on my car. A few hours later this elderly gentleman came back with an envelope stuffed full of money!. I declined and never moaned about money ever again at work!!