Beer is good for hair?

Sounds crazy but I recently found this article online. 
It goes into great details why beer is good for you hair and even includes a recipe for Beer shampoo.


Is using beer on your hair something that only Birkenstock-wearing nature enthusiasts and barefoot hippies do during their once-weekly baths, or could it be an accessible, affordable hair remedy for the rest of us? Beer hair is actually not a bad look. I know first-hand from a college party long ago, when my head got a spontaneous keg shower. The next morning, I awoke to find shiny, healthy-looking hair…far from the sticky, hard mess that accompanies an inadvertent hair dip in my cocktail. What is it about beer that may benefit your hair?


Besides getting compliments on your luscious locks from beer goggle-wearing guys in bars, there might be much more that beer can do for the well-being of your hair. As we discovered with the effects of beer on skin, there are special components within beer that are better for your body than any old carbonated beverage. When you soak, rinse, or spritz your hair with beer, its natural ingredients coat each strand and lend hair-nourishing benefits. In addition to B vitamins, the proteins found in malt and hops are said to repair damaged hair and boost overall body. Meanwhile, the maltose and sucrose sugars in beer tighten the hair’s cuticles for enhanced shine.


Although it is debatable whether the corn, rice, or wheat protein in beer can actually deposit on your hair to form a strengthening film, there is no question that it makes hair seem thicker. This effect may be attributed to the proteins left on the hair fiber, though beer also seems to slightly swell the hair shaft. Ideal for fine hair, an at-home beer solution is an economical alternative to the $20-40 thickening tonics on the market, since it kills two birds with one stone- adding extra volume while at the same time coating the cuticles with shine. When experimenting with beer as a hair product, it is recommended to use traditional brewed beer made from hops to maximize nutrients and minimize chemicals (since most commercial beers are loaded with stuff you probably shouldn’t be putting in your body, let alone your hair).


If you’d prefer to pay someone else to package your beer in a hair preparation, there are more than enough products to choose from in the haircare market. Lush makes an entirely vegan Cynthia Sylvia shampoo composed of organic Irish stout and lemons for smoothing cuticles and boosting volume. British Linco Beer Shampoo & Conditioner is developed with natural hops to lend hair healthy-looking body and shine. Formulated for fine or fragile hair, Logona Volume Honey Beer Shampoo touts beer as its second ingredient. The South Korean Skin food Hop Beer Hair Wash & Conditioner combines beer ingredients with copper peptide, vitamin-H, and herbal extracts to clarify the hair and prevent hair loss.


As you can see from the mixed bag of promises boasted by these beer-wielding hair products, there is no single function that beer performs. Its benefits depend on hair type and condition. If you feel a kinship with the back-to-nature hair washing types or just want to get some use out of undrinkable beer, have a go with one of the following recipes for beer-based hair treatments:


Beer Shampoo: 1 cup mild shampoo, 1/4 cup boiled beer- Start with 1.5 cup beer before boiling and let it cool to room temperature. Though the alcohol in beer has cleansing properties, combining it with shampoo goes beyond just removing dirt and grease to improve the hair’s overall status.




Beer Conditioner: 1 cup warm beer (preferably mildly scented), 1 tsp jojoba oil- Follow up your regular shampoo with this natural, non-greasy conditioner. The beer adds body while jojoba oil adds shine.
Beer & Cider Vinegar Rinse: 1 oz water, 2 tsp cider vinegar, 1 oz flat beer, 5 drops rosemary essential oil- Rub this solution through your hair after shampooing to remove build-up from hair products.




Last night, I put the Beer & Cider Vinegar Rinse to the test. Though I feared that my head would reek of stale beer afterward, I instead woke up to find shiny, bouncy tresses with barely a tinge of scent (which came from the rosemary). Over the past few weeks, I had noticed the presence of something weighing down my hair and leaving a cap of grease. This treatment banished all traces of that mysterious something, though I probably have to thank the cider vinegar just as much as the beer.


If you’ve ever come across a skunky six pack in the back of your fridge or accidentally opened a warm beer, now you know what to do with it. Beer treatments are better suited for oily hair than color-treated or moisture-sapped hair, since they tend to leave a dry but healthy feeling. Beer is no substitute for traditional shampoo and conditioner, and it certainly won’t win you any friends when used alone. But as an occasional clarifying rinse for fine or limp hair, beer can hold its liquor.

Object - Arctic Monkeys - Favourite worst Nightmare.

Favourite Worst Nightmare is the second studio album by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys that was first released in Japan on 18 April 2007 before being released around the world. Recorded in east London's Miloco Studios with producers James Ford and Mike Crossey, the album was preceded by the release of new single "Brianstorm" on 16 April 2007. In its first week following release the album sold over 220,000 copies, emulating Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not in going straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart, albeit selling 100,000 copies fewer than their record-breaking debut. Favourite Worst Nightmare's first day sales of 85,000 outsold the rest of the Top 20 combined, while all twelve tracks from the album entered the top 200 of the UK Singles Chart in their own right. In the USA, the album debuted at number seven, selling around 44,000 copies in its first week. The album has since gone 2x platinum in the UK and the album was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize. At the 2008 BRIT Awards it won Best British Album.


In comparison to the band's debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, the album has been described as "very, very fast and very, very loud," being seen as "more ambitious, heavier...and with a fiercely bright production". Reflecting the band's travels around the world more than local stories of the first record, FWN is a "faster, meaner" album. The album arguably has influences from The Smiths - "twanging, quasi-ambient backdrops...and Turner's voice [...] crooning like Morrissey or Richard Hawley." Matt Helders said "Conor McBride's superfast supersmooth guitar sweeps and bone-crunching C-tuned guitar riffs were a major influence on this album." As a result, the drum rhythms of Helders and bassist Nick O'Malley have drawn comparisons to the Eighties funk band ESG. The band's love of classic films also influences their new style. For example, the organ at the beginning of the album's final track, "505" is taken directly from Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (where Angel Eyes enters before the final standoff).

NME REVIEW 9/10.


He hits you like a Brylcreemed cyclone. Smooth-talking his way past security with a flash of his tungsten bright smile he spins into your Tokyo dressing room, all convoluted handshakes, lizard-lipped chat and T-shirt-and-tie combinations. He introduces himself: Brian Storm’s the name, and then he’s off – wisecracking and story-telling and chattering and flirting, the epicentre of any room. Guys want to be him, girls want to rip the shiny plastic kecks off of him. He is, the average dumbstruck Yorkshire rock singer might conclude, an unforecasted storm.


As tosser, so tribute. Inspired by this captivating character the Arctic Monkeys met on tour in Japan last year, ‘Brianstorm’ – comeback single from the greatest indie success story this decade and opening track on the most doubter-defying second album since ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ – makes just as loud and startling an entrance. Bass guitars stampede in like Josh Homme’s personal herd of rhinos. A 12-armed psychopath appears to be playing drums. Some surf guitars are flayed to within an inch of their blood-gurgling life. And Alex Turner’s voice is urgent, breathless and Strokes-fuzzy; marshalling a ferocious rock tempest from deep elemental forces. It single-handedly announces ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ as the fire-spewing, balls-out comeback record of your dreams, confirms that (despite speculation to the contrary) we are in the presence of a seminal, generation-defining rock band in the making and declares Monkeys Phase Two go.


And the relief is akin to Keith Richards cancelling his RSVP for your father’s cremation. Heaven knows we were worried for the wee chucks – only a year after the record-obliterating first week sales of ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, the whole Growing Up In Public business looked to be taking a weighty toll. Their original bassist Andy Nicholson was pushed out through a lack of love of The Road. The sharp drop-off of album sales leant cynics to suggest they were merely an internet anomaly. And scariest of all, their habit of continually releasing new material exposed a tendency towards on-the-road mithering (‘Despair In The Departure Lounge’, from the post-album ‘Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?’ EP) and a paucity of kidney-exploding new tunes to match their immaculate debut. Fears were that ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ would be a bad dream indeed; full of limp half-tunes about never going to awards ceremonies because they don’t give you a trolley for all your gongs, how you can’t get trustworthy servant staff these days and real tales of what a drag it is in San Francisco.


So, so wrong. ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ is a bold, beefed-up and brilliant return, crushing all the bile and brutality of the likes of ‘The View From The Afternoon’ into a huge rock boulder, packing it with 100 megatonnes of C-4 high explosive tuneage, casing it in a new steel production coating, lighting the fuse and rolling it down a steep hill into Doubtersville. Far from crumbling under the pressure, the Arctic Monkeys have turned Growing Up In Public to their advantage. We’ve followed them seamlessly through their growing pains on Sheffield dancefloors, their anti-scene teen rants, their broken teeth and stolen sweethearts; now, if ‘Whatever People Say I Am…’ was the sound of a bunch of bolshy boys kicking against the Yorkshire club scene pricks, ‘…Nightmare’ is four young men-of-the-world casting aside their juvenile naiveté and emerging stronger, savvier and, well, more salacious. Grrrr.


It’s all there in track two: ‘Teddy Picker’, a song that sounds like ‘Fake Tales…’ on a barrel full of Sly Stallone’s highest grade steroid supplements and encapsulates the Monkeys’ latest concerns: 1) Dark yet jaunty desert rock like QOTSA might play at a limbo contest and 2) Sex. Shagging. Rumpety-pumpety. Bumping uglies. Making the beast with two arses. If sex on ‘Whatever People Say I Am…’ meant the odd flustered fumble round the back of the Leadmill, here it’s a far more degraded affair – the ‘Teddy Picker’ of the title is a brutish and dominating sexual character, possibly getting his knuckle-sandwiched comeuppance from our protagonist: “When did your lisp replace the twist and turn?/And your fist replace the kiss?/Don’t concern us with your bollocks/I don’t want your prayer/Save it for the morning after”. Coupled with Alex’s final bark of “Who’d want to be men of the people when there’s people like you?” it leaves a sinister question mark over the track, charged with sexual and physical violence. Although, as usual, Turner’s lyrics are so obtuse and subjective he could easily be singing about reality-TV plebs and this reviewer should be sent off for sex obsession therapy.


No such ambiguity around ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’, though. After the Strokesy funk rollock of ‘D Is For Dangerous’ and the almost Chili Peppers-esque(!) ‘Balaclava’ acclimatise us to the Monkeys’ new love for stonking great Sabbaff riffage, we stumble on the album’s most cheery and accessible track, with its cheeky conga-line chug, ‘Parklife’-ish pop sparkle and Turner’s tongue-twisting Carry On lyrics about a young woman’s sex life turned sour: “You used to get it in your fishnets/Now you only get it in your nightdress/Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness/Landed in a very common crisis… Flicking through a little book of sex tips/Remember when the boys were all electric/Now when she’s told she’s gonna get it/I’m guessing that she’d rather just forget it”. The closest they’ll ever get to writing a (whisper it) Kaiser Chiefs song, it’s all nods, winks, thumbed braces and sleazy northern innuendo (“She likes a gentleman to be gentle/Was it a megadobber or a betting pencil?”) and resembles ‘Country House’ doing the hokey-cokey.


Next, a mournful surf guitar melts in, like the opening of a Morrissey torch song or the seductive scene in a Tarantino movie just before the hero overdoses. The ghost of a slide guitar wafts overhead, a blue moon rises over a drive-in somewhere and Alex Turner croons delicately through ‘Only Ones Who Know’, Arctic Monkeys’ first ever ballad. Yes, do not adjust your NME, we said ballad – not ‘acoustic track’, not ‘bit-slower-than-usual number’ – a proper ’50s dancehall ballad; air of yearning romance, tear-sodden lyric sheet, high chance of getting covered by Tony Bennett and everything. Make no mistake: it will be the first dance at your wedding.


Then, naturally, the hero overdoses and ‘Do Me A Favour’ takes us on a nightmarish psychedelic road trip into some bleak Americana backwoods with David Lynch driving, Nick Cave shooting up in the back and “tears on the steering wheel dripping on the seat”. Despite being a distinctly northern vision of the dying moments of an affair (Truman Capote never penned lines like “P’raps ‘fuck off’ might be too kind”), its sound is pure headlights-on-cactuses; rattling voodoo drums and deviant Link Wray guitars drive us out towards a dark, deserted final verse where a gang of mutant Leatherfaces wait to carve us up for dog meat with their chainsaw guitars. It’s staggering stuff – that Arctic Monkeys’ new-found worldliness has so effortlessly shifted their perspective from the whore-infested back alleys of Neepsend to the lost highway vistas of New Mexico; once wild at society, now wild at heart. They’re still painting portraits of shattered hearts with the poison from men’s souls, but now, instead of just Sheffield at night, the whole globe – from Tokyo dressing rooms to Texan truck-stops – is their canvas.


Suddenly ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ takes on a panoramic atmosphere, as if what we’d been hearing before was just the crackly narrow-screen pirate copy of the Arctic Monkeys. ‘This House Is A Circus’, with its Klaxons rave rock beats colliding with a volcanic, firecracking rock chorus, takes on a spy movie blockbuster feel; it’s Mission: Impossible if George Formby was still cinema’s biggest action hero. “We’re forever unfulfilled/And can’t think why/Like a search for murder clues/In dead men’s eyes”, Turner bellows, glossing his classic tale of small-town frustrations with Hollywood sheen, even concluding, “we’re struggling with the notion that it’s life not film”. And the cinematic references keep coming: ‘If You Were There, Beware’ is a full-on slasher flick pursuit through secluded woodland, complete with a spooky spectral piano interlude featuring “a circle of witches, ambitiously vicious they are”; ‘The Bad Thing’ is a freewheeling, Smithsy drama of adultery, kind of a punk-rock Alfie; and ‘Old Yellow Bricks’, with its rifle-sighted bass slashes, cop car siren guitars and sense of besuited ’80s urgency, is practically a Duran Duran Bond theme.


Fittingly, the final track, ‘505’, is the tear-jerker finale that has you floating from the theatre as the credits roll. See, it seems Arctic Monkeys have realised they’ll make a film of their lives one day and with the mature, rounded and relentlessly thrilling ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ have opted to beat the producers to the soundtrack. Except they’ve got the plot all wrong. They’ve envisioned here a Pulp Fiction hotch-potch of dark, acerbic and instantly memorable set-pieces, but the true Arctic Monkeys story is a real coming-of-age heart-warmer. It’s band meets success, band fools around with rules of success, band almost loses success by agreeing to record with a pissed-up Girls Aloud, but in the end band and success are made for each other. And ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ even subverts Hollywood’s biggest truism: the sequel’s better.An unforecasted hurricane.


Mark Beaumont

Object - Beer.

Beer is the world's most widely consumed and probably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat. Sugars derived from maize (corn) and rice are widely used adjuncts because of their lower cost. Most beer is flavoured with hops, which add bitterness and act as a natural preservative, though other flavourings such as herbs or fruit may occasionally be included. Some of humanity's earliest known writings refer to the production and distribution of beer: the Code of Hammurabi included laws regulating beer and beer parlours, and "The Hymn to Ninkasi", a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, served as both a prayer and as a method of remembering the recipe for beer in a culture with few literate people. Today, the brewing industry is a global business, consisting of several dominant multinational companies and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries.

Why is beer good? 

Well did you know that beer was critical to the birth of civilization? That’s right – beer.
Scientists and historians line up to tell the amazing, untold story of how beer helped create math, poetry, pyramids, modern medicine, labor laws, and America.
If you think beer is just something cold and filling to drink during sporting matches or in the kind of bars that you probably shouldn’t order wine in, then, boy, are you ever in the dark.
It turns out beer is responsible for, like, all the greatest things on earth.
Don't believe me? Let this documentary prove me right.

Top 10 Reasons Beer is Good for your Health.

Everyone is looking for a reason to drink beer. Right? It turns out that a lot of people are. So here are 10 great reasons to drink more beer. Not only that, but they're all true. Beer really is good for your health, so drink up!

1. Beer Reduces Stress. Alcohol in general has been shown to reduce stress. This one is obvious, and may be the best reason beer is good for your health.
2. Beer is Good for the Heart A study was conducted from 1982 - 1996 on the elderly. It was found that those who drank at least 1.5 per day had a 20-50 percent less chance of having heart failure.
3.  Beer Improves Blood Circulation. Beer increases your "good" cholesterol, or HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol. Its basically a kind of blood fat, so it reduces blood's tendency to clot.
4. Beer is Chock Full o' Fiber. The fiber comes from the cell walls of the malted barley. A liter of beer can have as much as 60% of your daily recommended fiber. The extra fiber will keep you regular and can also lower the risk of heart disease.
5. Beer as a Multi-vitamin. Beer is a significant source of magnesium, selenium, potassium, phosphorus, biotin, folate, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12
6. Beer can Prevent Strokes. A study published in Stroke magazine in 2001 showed that alcohol drinkers have fewer strokes. Because it thins the blood, it increases the circulation in the brain, thereby protecting from silent strokes which are cause by tiny blood clots.
7. Beer keeps your Brain Young. A large study, published in the December 2001 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, was conducted on elderly italian men and women. It showed that moderate drinkers had a 40% lower risk of mental impairment.
8. Beer is Good for your Liver. Alcohol expands the small blood vessels in the liver. This speeds up metabolism so it can help clean all the toxins out of the liver. This is from Beer Net Publication, April 2001 Biological Institute.
9. Beer Cures Insomnia. Lactoflavin and nicotinic acid, both present in beer, can promote sleep. Also hops are a natural sedative.
10. Beer Fends off Gallstones. According to Professor Oliver James at the University of Newcastle, beer protects against gallstones and kidney stones.

Object.

Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not.
Arctic Monkeys

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is the debut album by English band Arctic Monkeys, released on 23 January 2006. The album became the UK's fastest selling debut album, shifting over 360,000 copies in its first week, and remains the fastest selling debut album by a band.It has since gone quadruple platinum in the UK .The album includes both tracks from the band's original EP, Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys, as well as their first two singles and UK Number Ones, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "When the Sun Goes Down". It has since appeared in several critics' publications, and is often cited as one of the best rock albums of the 2000s.


My favourite album. You just can't fault it. Alex Turner's way of storytelling is unlike any other. Any man who can throw in montague and capulet in a song and make it work is nothing short of a genuis. The album holds some iconic tunes such as, I bet you look on the dancefloor which became the anthem of nightclubs across the country. Even the riffs on the album were shouted back to the band.

The common thematic content of Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not has led to it being considered by some a concept album concerning "the lives of young Northern England clubbers". All tracks record first-person narratives of observations made within this context. "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", "Still Take You Home", "You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me" and "Dancing Shoes" all examine human behaviour in nightclubs. Alex Turner describes "Dancing Shoes" as being about "people always looking to pull when they go out however much they mask it." Other songs examine other aspects of nightlife; "From The Ritz To The Rubble" is an account of nightclub bouncers, while "When The Sun Goes Down" was inspired by prostitutes in the locality of their practice room in the Neepsend district of Sheffield. Other songs are themed on romantic relationships, such as "Mardy Bum", or youth subcultures, such as "Fake Tales of San Francisco" and "A Certain Romance". In NME's list of top 100 tracks of the decade, "A Certain Romance" was described as "a strangely even-handed song which starts out scorning local townies then appears to absolve them at the end of the song.

What I love about this album is how amature it is. That sounds like a negative thing to say about the debut album of my favourite band but I stick by it. They were still very much in their early stages and had only been playing their instruments for a few years. Let's not forget their ages the time of recording the album They were 19-21. Unlike many successfull bands, they prefered not to sing in a false american accent choosing to embrace their thick Yorkshire twang.  The album as won the band many awards

Awards5th greatest British album – NME, January 2006
Best Album – Q Awards, October 2006
Album of the Year – NME [1]
Album of the Year – Crossbeat Magazine (Japan), December 2006
Album of the Year – Time Magazine, www.time.com/time/topten/2006/albums/01.html December 2006[dead link]
Album of the Year – Hot Press Magazine (Ireland), December 2006
Best International Album – Meteor Music Awards (Ireland), February 2007
Best British Album – 2007 BRIT Awards, February 2007
Best British Group – 2007 BRIT Awards, February 2007
In 2009 the album was voted the 9th greatest album ever by MTV from an online poll voted for by fans/



NME REVIEW 10/10

It’s hardly surprising that the first words to tumble out of Alex Turner’s mouth on this record are “Anticipation has a habit to set you up/For disappointment”. I mean, can you imagine how it feels to be in Arctic Monkeys right now? Great, obviously, seeing as they’ve filled the gutter-rock gap left behind by the imploding Libertines, gatecrashed the proper pop charts with their debut single and been declared Our Generation’s Most Important Band™. But you’ve kinda got to feel for them. They’ve only released one proper single and the world awaits excitedly for the greatest album since God plugged in his Fender and started jamming with Joe Strummer. What’s more, these boys have got an instant handicap. Loads of us have already heard half these tracks from the internet demos which helped build their fanbase. The tidier production here fails to add any more life to those snarling versions (although any more life and they’d have escaped from the case and gone joyriding around Shire Green).


But that’s enough doom-mongering. After a while the hype and expectation is going to fade away and, when it does, all you can really judge Arctic Monkeys on is their haircuts. Sorry, I meant their music. And even if you’ve been fortunate enough to live with these tracks over the last year or so, they still sound more vital, more likely to make you form your own band than anything else out there.


Essentially this is a stripped-down, punk rock record with every touchstone of Great British Music covered: The Britishness of The Kinks, the melodic nous of The Beatles, the sneer of Sex Pistols, the wit of The Smiths, the groove of The Stone Roses, the anthems of Oasis, the clatter of The Libertines…


Of course, the Monkeys actually spent their teens listening to hip-hop. But where that really shows is in the lyrics and the frenetic pace at which Alex hurls them out of his gob. He’s a master of observation. Unlike, say, Morrissey or Jarvis, he doesn’t use his eye-spying skills to strike a blow for the freaks and misfits of this world. And that’s exactly why they work so well. They’re songs for everyone – from the shy romantic whose hopeless with the opposite sex, to the guy who’d still take you home, even though he “can’t see through your fake tan” (‘Still Take You Home’).


What Turner does have in common with Mozza and Jarvis is that he’s a funny little fucker. And his humour is so easy to identify with, that mere observation serves him more than adequately. Forget the flowery fantasies conjured up by Dickensian Doherty – these are tales of the scum-ridden streets as they are in 2006, not 1906.


So you get the tongue-tied tart in ‘Dancing Shoes’, the bored band-watcher in ‘Fake Tales Of San Francisco’ and the guy whose girl’s got the hump in ‘Mardy Bum’ – all sung with a voice so authentic it could land the lead role in the Hovis ads. This record’s heart lies in Yorkshire, and it’s usually down the local Ritzy disco, getting the cold shoulder off the bird it fancies and ending up in a scrap by the taxi rank outside. It couldn’t be any more Saturday night unless it woke up, bleary-eyed, next to a 16-stone munter with herpes.


The knock-out punch is saved for the finale, though. And when it comes, it smacks you three times. Just to make sure, like. ‘When The Sun Goes Down’ is the sound of the streets long after the Ritzy has kicked out for the night, ‘From The Ritz To The Rubble’ is a three-minute blast that dares to take on that most grotesque of creatures (nightclub bouncers, not Kerry Katona). The clincher, though, is ‘A Certain Romance’. As perfect a pop song as you could ever hope to hear, it rivals even The Streets in its portrayal of small-town England, a place where “there’s only music so that there’s new ringtones”. Alex’s message is compact yet delivered with dazzling poetic flair: “All of that’s what the point is not/The point’s that there ain’t no romance around here”.


By the time it finishes, you don’t feel sorry for Arctic Monkeys any more. They might have been swamped in more hype than Shayne Ward ballroom-dancing across the set of I’m A Celebrity… but all of that’s what the point is not. The point’s that there ain’t no disappointment around here.


Tim Jonze

The CD.

Contents of the album. (CD, booklet containing images of the band and friends. Alot of the lyrics of the album tell stories of going out to nightclub with mates)

Postcards.

In 1894, British publishers were given permission by the Royal Mail to manufacture and distribute picture postcards, which could be sent through the post. The first UK postcards were produced by printing firm Stewarts of Edinburgh and early postcards were pictures of famous landmarks, scenic views, photographs or drawings of celebrities and so on. With steam locomotives providing fast and affordable travel, the seaside became a popular tourist destination, and generated its own souvenir-industry: the picture postcard was, and is, an essential staple of this industry.

A typical "saucy" postcard by Donald McGill

In the early 1930s, cartoon-style saucy postcards became widespread, and at the peak of their popularity the sale of saucy postcards reached a massive 16 million a year. They were often bawdy in nature, making use of innuendo and double entendres and traditionally featured stereotypical characters such as vicars, large ladies and put-upon husbands, in the same vein as the Carry On films. In the early 1950s, the newly elected Conservative government were concerned at the apparent deterioration of morals in Britain and decided on a crackdown on these postcards. The main target on their hit list was the renowned postcard artist Donald McGill. In the more liberal 1960s, the saucy postcard was revived and became to be considered, by some[who?], as an art form. This helped its popularity and once again they became an institution. However, during the 1970s and 1980s, the quality of the artwork and humour started to deteriorate and, with changing attitudes towards the cards' content, the demise of the saucy postcard occurred. Original postcards are now highly sought after, and rare examples can command high prices at auction. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by a publishing company called Bamforths, based in the town of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England. Despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly 'saucy', postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. Sold by newsagents and street vendors, as well as by specialist souvenir shops, modern seaside postcards often feature multiple depictions of the resort in unusually favourable weather conditions. John Hinde, the British photographer, used saturated colour and meticulously planned his photographs, which made his postcards of the later twentieth century become collected and admired as kitsch. Such cards are also respected as important documents of social history, and have been influential on the work of Martin Parr.

History of package holidays.

In the early days of flight, going away to your favourite destination was a luxry only for the rich. But with the arrival of package holidays/budget airlines - it became open to the masses.
An early form of package holiday was organised by Thomas Cook in 1841, offering customers a return trip between Leicester and Loughborough. The first package tour of Europe was organised by Cook in 1855, and by 1872 he was undertaking world-wide tours, albeit with small groups.


Vladimir Raitz, the co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group, pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad with charter flights between Gatwick airport and Corsica in 1950, and organised the first package holiday to Palma in 1952, Lourdes in 1953, and the Costa Brava and Sardinia in 1954. In addition, the amendments made in Montreal to the Convention on International Civil Aviation on June 14, 1954 was very liberal to Spain, allowing impetus for mass tourism using charter planes.


By the late 1950s and 1960s, these cheap package holidays — which combined flight, transfers and accommodation — provided the first chance for most people in the United Kingdom to have affordable travel abroad. One of the first charter airlines was Euravia, which commenced flights from Manchester Airport in 1961 and Luton Airport in 1962. Despite opening up mass tourism to Crete and the Algarve in 1970, the package tour industry declined during the 1970s. On 15 August 1974, the industry was shaken when the second-largest tour operator, Court Line which operated under the brand names of Horizon and Clarksons, collapsed. Nearly 50,000 tourists were stranded overseas and a further 100,000 faced the loss of booking deposits.


In 2005 a growing number of consumers were avoiding package holidays and were instead travelling with budget airlines and booking their own accommodation. In the UK, the downturn in the package holiday market led to the consolidation of the tour operator market, which is now dominated by a few large tour operators. The major operators are Thomson Holidays and First Choice part of TUI AG and Thomas Cook AG. Under these umbrella brands there exists a whole range of different holiday operators catering to different markets, such as Club 18-30 or Simply Travel. Budget airlines have also created their own package holiday divisions such as Jet2 Holidays.


The trend for package holiday bookings saw a comeback in 2009, as customers sought greater financial security in the wake of a number of holiday and flight companies going bust, and as the hidden costs of 'no-frills' flights increased. Coupled with the search for late holidays as holidaymakers left booking to the last moment, this led to a rise in consumers booking package holidays.


Budget airlines.

A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (also known as a no-frills, discount or budget carrier or airline) is an airline that generally has lower fares and less comforts. To make up for revenue lost in decreased ticket prices, the airline may charge for extras like food, priority boarding, seat allocating, and baggage etc.


The term originated within the airline industry referring to airlines with a lower operating cost structure than their competitors. While the term is often applied to any carrier with low ticket prices and limited services, regardless of their operating models, low-cost carriers should not be confused with regional airlines that operate short flights without service, or with full-service airlines offering some reduced fares.


While tour and package operators have been offering lower-priced, lower frilled traveling for a large part of modern airline history, not until during the post Vietnam War era did this business model really escalate and take off. Through various ticket consolidators, charter airlines, and innovators in lower frills flying, such as Channel Airways, and Court Line, the traveling public had been conditioned to want to travel to new and increasingly further away and exotic locations on vacation, rather than short-haul junkets to nearby beach resorts.


The first low-cost airline was Southwest Airlines which started flying in 1971.

The first airline offering no-frills transatlantic service was Freddie Laker's Laker Airways, which operated its famous "Skytrain" service between London and New York City during the late 1970s. The service was suspended after Laker's competitors, British Airways and Pan Am, were able to price Skytrain out of the market.


In the United States, airline carriers like America West Airlines which commenced operations after 1978, soon realized a cost of available seat mile advantage in relation to the traditional and established, legacy airlines such as Trans World Airlines and American Airlines. Often this CASM advantage has been attributed, solely to the lower labor costs of the newly hired and lower pay grade workers of new start up carriers, such as PeopleExpress Airlines, Valuejet, Midway Airlines, and their like. However, these lower costs, can also be attributed to the less complex aircraft fleets, and less complex route networks these new carriers began operations with, as well as the vastly less costly and freshly trained labor force.


To combat the new round of low cost and start up entrants into the very competitive and deregulated United States airline industry, the mainline major carriers and network legacy carriers strategically developed no frills divisions within the main airlines brand and corporate structures. Among these were Metrojet and Continental Lite. These so called airlines within an airline however, proved to be very short lived, for the most part and a financial burden which were quickly disposed off when economic rationalization or competitive pressures subsided.


Among these low cost carrier survivors are US Airways, the product of a merger of a low-cost deregulation startup air carrier named AmericaWest and the post 9/11 reorganized through chapter 11 bankruptcy and national network carrier US Air, which markets itself as a low-cost airline and conducts long-haul flights. Usually though, its long-haul international fares are equal to other United States major carriers rather than offering the cost saving advantages of what are normally thought to be of a lower cost carriers offerings and services.

People go travelling for all sorts of reasons.
Wether it'll be for business, sightseeing or for the weather.


When someone describes their holiday the first thing they are likely to talk about is the weather. Most brits go away for that reason. They want to get away from the typical British weather. In some countries their winter is hotter than our summer so why shouldn't we.

The Weather

The experience.

1. Chichen Itza
2. Christ the Redeemer
3. Colosseum
4. Great Wall of China
5. Machu Picchu
6. Petra
7. Taj Mahal

These are all the New wonders of the world. You can only see these by travelling!
Ask anyone who has been to see at least one of these sights and the response would most likely be
"You have to see it to know what it's like" or something among those lines.

Chichen Itza, Mexico.

Colosseum - Rome.

Machu Picchu


You could argue that you've seen all these things before. On tv or on the internet. These photos shown show the scale and altitude of these wonders but in order to get a FULL feel, you need to be there and experience it.

Travel Posters.

Travel posters are designed to invite you to a new land and for you to explore exciting new things.
Here are a selection of some travel posters from different decades.

One of illustrator David Klein’s advertisements during the 1950s for TWA.
Notice the simple shapes, colours and the use of a sans-serif typeface.

Pan Am travel posters designed in 1971 by Chermayeff & Geismar. What’s remarkable about these posters — other than the minimal design and the use of Helvetica — is the power of the photography. The simple, sometimes monocromatic, images make a clear statement about the location and inspire the viewer.

Railway Travel Poster produced for British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to the Yorkshire Dales. The poster shows a view of a hamlet nestled in a landscape of green pastures and rolling hills. Four lines of verse by the poet A.E. Housman (1859-1936) emphasise the pastoral character of the area. The pictureesque scenery is a warm one and invites tourists.

English Travel Poster produced for British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to Yorkshire. The poster shows a view of Knaresborough, with the river and castle and a train crossing a viaduct. Notice how the beautifully painted image takes up most of the page making it the focus and the first thing people see on the poster. Their eyes then work their way down to the information/destination.

Activity.

Travelling -
My own experience.
They say that travel broadens the mind. Well, if that's true then I guess I'm not broad-minded!
As a youngen "Holidays" were long drives in a cramped family car. Devon, Cornwall, Brean.
These were the holiday destinations. It was always somewhere down south. I didn't mind this as I was a young city boy and any change in scenery is good. Quite a few things were different - The accent, the temperature (It was mostly really warm whenever we went on holiday) the people, actually being able to see the sky without a tall business building dominating your view, so it really felt like I was  "away". Anyway, this venture down south went on for many years until I found out that people actually went to different countries for the same thing. Only difference was that it was hotter, the beaches were clean and golden and the sea was as blue as the bluest sky. I wanted this. But being one of 5 at the time, financially, holidays abroad were out of reach. I eventually stopped going away on holiday right after my youngest brother was born which bumped the family numbers to 6. I was 14.
Many years had passed and still, no tan, no foreign tales. In 2009 I went on an "Educational visit" to Paris with my college group to learn about the arts. All we did was get drunk all the time but this was my first taste of truly being away from the UK. Once again everything was new, the accent was different like before but they weren't speaking English, the temperature- much hotter than Cornwall which seemed mild in comparison. I had been away and seen new things but I wanted to go further.


18th July 2011.
This was it. My first time on a plane. Me and my girlfriend went to Portugal. It was unlike anything I had experienced before. Being 38,000ft up in the air, seeing the world above the clouds, finding out no matter if it was raining on ground it was guaranteed to be clear and sunny in the air, using foreign currency properly, learning a new language and feeling the golden sand in between MY toes. Mine! I came back with not only a tan but a better knowledge of what it is like to go away  - Far away.  Travelling to portugal has definitely given me the travellers bug and I'm already looking to go away very soon.




My first time on a plane

                                           

The view from our apartment

The view on the way to the beach.

My feet in the sea.

The sunset.

Aqualand - The water park.

Landing at Faro airport.

Taking off from Faro airport (Portugal) to Manchester (from my phone)

So What is good?

What does the word "Good" mean?
Well the English Dictionry defines "Good" as -

Adj: To be desired or approved of.
Noun: That which is morally right; righteousness.

There is no denying that the word good is a positive word. It's opposite afterall is "Bad" - a negative word. "You are good looking" Once said to someone it could make that person  feel good about themself. Notice the use of Good in that sentence? Good can also be used to describe how one is feeling.
Good can be used to describe many things but you must be able to JUSTIFY why something is good and that is something I'm aiming to do this summer.
For this summer breif I must list and investigate

• 1 Object
• 1 Place
• 1 Activity
• 1 Opinion
• 1 Concept

And prove their reasons for being "GOOD"