Here is today

I came across the website a few weeks ago and I've been meaning to share it.


It's called 'HERE IS TODAY' and shows you how you are such a small part of a huge existence.

It shows you in a illustrative form the extend of time. It's so great.

Have a look, it will make you seem small, almost insignificant (but in a humbling way).

HereIsToday.com

Sam Winston Placement // Day One

So I had my first day at work placement with the talented Sam Winston yesterday. It's been years since I've been to London, and I've never travelled there on my own so there was an awful lot to take in yesterday. Sam was kind enough to take me out to lunch with a friend. We went to happy kitchen which is a beautiful organic little food shop. The food tastes wonderful. They have strong morals about where their food is sourced from and it's all organic. I've never eaten any where like that do it was like a whole other food culture for me. Sam then took me next door to a salt bread shop where they bake everything in house- niiicee! Sam and I shared a sandwich from there. It was delicious. My train was cancelled in the evening which was a tad annoying but I eventually made it to Bishops Stortford. All in all, a great day. It is a privilege to meet Sam Winston and work with him in his space. I will be taking as much from this trip as humanly possibly and making myself a human sponge and absorbing literally everything. Here goes the next few days....!!

London Liverpool Street

Le Gun Studios Entrance

The wonderful little Salt House Bakery

The organic little 'Happy Kitchen'

What's it worth?

My latest university project has given me a quote. The quote is 'What's it worth?' We have to interperet this and produce something/anything which we see relevant to the quote.

I started thinking about how different things are worth different amounts to different people. I tried to think of things that we don't really value or even know how to value and settled with the human body. How can you put a price on human body parts that make us who we are?

After a lot of thought and discussion (and crying my eyes out at the movie '7 Pounds' starring Will Smith) I decided to do my piece on how much organs are worth. Then my boyfriend mentioned the black market.

After a lot of research I finally made the decision to do my piece on how much human body organs are worth on the black market. And, it's surprisingly very interesting but also sad and worrying.

The black market is simply an illegal 'underground' market in which organisations buy and sell human organs to those that need them. However, this isn't just about taking a kidney from someone who is deceased, oh no no, this is about an ongoing market for taking organs from living donors, and not always by the choice of the individual. Some people in under developed countries are kidnapped, drugged and literally cut open and left to die in some cases. It is horrendous.

There's actually a village in an underdeveloped country known as 'The Kidney Village' because almost every man had sold his kidney for money to provide for their family. Can you actually believe it? It sounds crazy but goes on in literally every country in the world.

Anyway, if you care to know how much your body on the black market is worth, take a look below at a poster info graphics piece I've created on the topic. 

I hope you find it as interesting as I did learning about it.