mikao's world

Interview #12

This interview is from my favourite photoblogger, funkypancake:

1. What is the coolest place you have ever visited, and why?
10 Downing Street, London. in a previous job a few years ago i had to go and explain about broadband to one of Tony Blair's advisors. I got to go through the gates on Whitehall, knock on the big black door, mill around in the reception area (which is just like someone's front room). We went up the famous staircase with pictures of all the previous prime ministers and half way up i looked down and saw Tony Blair walk by with his entorage on the way to Prime Minister's Question Time !

We then had our meeting in a palacial room usually used for formal parties. we sat on a little gold and marble table with massive works of art on the wall which i recognised as being famous but didn't know what they were !

the coolest thing was that i was doing this as part of my everyday job.

2. Where did the name "funkypancake" come from?
"funky" as in upbeat and fun and "pancake" as in easter (the most important time of the Christian calendar). and most importantly, no one had registered the domain !

3. If you could go back a year and relive the past year of your life again and change things, would you? Why or why not?
There's always stuff you do wrong deliberately or accidentally and wish you could go back and do things differently. I'm made those kind of mistakes all my life (one of the problems of being human i guess). I'm happy with how things are now so the danger of going back and changing stuff is that you end up with a different 'now' when you play things forward.

4. Of all the photos you have taken and posted on your website, which one is your favourite and why?
i don't take much notice of what photos i've taken and am my own worst critic. so i haven't really got a favourite ! what a boring answer.

This is probably my best self portrait.

5. What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?
i'm not very adventurous food wise but snails and emu would probably be the strangest. i once inhaled a Twix by mistake once and was in agony for a few days as biscuit came out of my nose !

6. What is your favourite wedding memory?
the whole day was fantastic so there are too many excelent memories, but the random memory is my potty friend elton carrying a black rubbish bin bag around with him whilst videoing everything that happened. the video (which we now have a copy of) is fantastic !

The other bizarre memory is the whole place bursting in to mad Russian dancing for our first dance (which was Rasputin by Boney M).

7. If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life (it could be performed by a myriad of different singers and bands though in different recordings), what song would you chose?
i've had Leo Sayer's "you make me feel like dancing" in my head for about 10 years non stop, so i may as well have that one since it's going to be there anyway.

8. If you had to chose to live the rest of your life in perpetual daytime or nighttime, which one would you chose?
tricky. definately would have been the night time when i was a goth. probably be daytime now. you get a few more colours in the daytime. and more people are awake.

9. Tell us about something you have read that was life-changing:
my big bible moment was reading the bit about justification by grace not faith bit in romans. i suddenly realised that there was nothing i could do to earn my way in to heaven cuz god had done all the work through jesus. that totally blew me away ! i must have heard it said a thousand times before but that was the life changing time which reset my priorities.

10. Imagine for a moment. What do you see?
i see all sorts of pictures when i start imagining. but if we are just making things up, how about a frog carrying a calculator on the back of a yellow canary ?


i'm have a non-creative period at the moment (too busy at work at the moment) so we can blame that for the boring nature of all these answers.