Day 5 of The robmuch 7 Days of Xmas

So Day 5 of The robmuch 7 Days of Xmas is now up on YouTube and this one is a talky blog as I would usually do on Saturdays. This can be viewed below.

This blog is about the proposed internet censorship plan by the Australian Government, and specifically about "pro anorexia" or "pro-ana" or "thinspiration" websites which are under consideration for censorship under this proposal.

I've recently signed a petition to try to stop this proposal from going through parliament. If you are from Australia and would also like to sign this petition then please follow this link: GetUp Save The Net Campaign

Day 5 // Thinspiration / Pro Ana / Pro Anorexia

Day 3 of The robmuch 7 Days of Xmas

Merry Christmas!

Day 3, the Christmas Day edition, of the robmuch 7 Days of Xmas is now up on YouTube, and you can watch that below. Also below is my video for the5guys this week, which happens to also be on Christmas Day!

Hope you all have an amazing day and get lots of presents and eat lots and drink lots and party the night away!

My Christmas Day is now drawing to a close. We've had the hot barbeque breakfast followed by the big seafood lunch followed by the afternoon nap and evening walk through the streets of Canberra. I'm now considering watching a movie or some True Blood before a light fruit salad dinner and dessert!

I wish you all a happy and safe holiday season and I hope you enjoy the videos below!

Day 3 // Merry Christmas!



[12/25] Merry Christmas!

Day 2 of The robmuch 7 Days of Xmas

Happy Christmas Eve!

The video for Day 2 of The robmuch 7 Days of Xmas is now up on YouTube, and can be viewed below. Make sure to get the collab responses in by midnight Saturday (GMT). Enjoy!

Day 2 // Moving Out / Collab Invite

Male Make-up

I've touched on this topic before, so I won't linger, but I found this video on YouTube today, and for some reason men (or teens as in this video) wearing make-up intrigues me, especially when it is for enhancing facial features (rather than changing who they are, as is the case with drag queens). It doesn't intrigue me because I want to do the same thing, it's just that it is different from my personal life experience. Although I grew up with 3 sisters, I never really experienced that side of their lives. I was always the one who would be ready to go somewhere in 20 minutes, whereas they would take an hour (or more!) and I would never venture into the bathroom when they were getting ready. So to see what goes into doing one's make-up is intriguing in itself, let alone seeing a 16 year old boy doing his own make-up.

Comment question: Have you ever dabbled in men's make-up?

GregoryGorgeous on YouTube

New robnscotty Video

Here's my newest video on robnscotty. I talk about Australia's reaction to the 9/11 attacks, what my passion is in life, and my question for Scotty is "Who would you choose to be in your impossible music festival?" Feel free to answer the question yourself and leave comments either at the bottom of this post or head over to YouTube and leave a comment below the video there.

Thanks for watching!

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Back in the library...

So I am back in the library for another day of study, listening to Beethoven's 9th to try and make me smarter. Don't know if it's working, I guess we'll see during the exam tomorrow...

Tomorrow's exam is for the subject Steel Structures, mostly a design subject (maths design, not the fun designing you might be thinking of). So for the exam we have to deal with designing structures for tension, compression, bending, and also a combination of bending and compression. We also have to design connections.

If you are still reading I congratulate you, and I reward you with a hilarious video of a bedtime story from one of my favourite YouTubers kaysea81

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Pace Bailey

Here is a kid who has his head and his heart in the right place. He is intelligent, socially aware, tolerant, accepting and is only 14 years old. This generation will have a lot of influence in the world one day, and it's only a matter of time before allies (straight supporters of gay rights) like him start voting and make some real change in the world.

I personally cant wait.

Until then, we have to support the tolerance that these kids are learning, so check out his video on Prop 8 and leave a comment, subscribe and let him know that we appreciate his support.

Study Week

So this week has been study week, and my first exam is on Thursday. I've been a little absent in posting any blogs lately because I've just been so drained from studying, even though it feels like I've done hardly any study at all...

I'll be posting a short video later this afternoon talking about the bans on gay marriage in the States this week, so look out for that

Back to pretending to study!

Men's Fashion

So I am in the library at Uni, and I really should be studying for my two quizzes tomorrow worth 15% and 20% respectively, but I thought I would distract myself by writing a blog entry!

So there has been quite a bit of media hype recently over the controversial use of traditionally feminine influenced items in men's fashion. Things such as skinny jeans, cardigans, jewellery and feminine colours (e.g. pink and purple) have been deemed acceptable in men's fashion and have been included under the headings of metrosexual or indie. But other developments in men's fashion haven't quite received the same approval. Such items include men's skirts, tights (mantyhose), corsets, long tees (labelled as dresses by some), eye-liner (guy-liner) and other make-up, and fake eye-lashes.



As I have previously stated in my "Breaking Down Stereotypes" blog on YouTube, I believe these developments in men's fashion are fantastic. They force people to question what it means to be masculine, and also points out that gender roles, gender identity and sexual identity can and often are mutually exclusive. A heterosexual male can wear feminine influenced clothing, and that does not make him any less masculine. A HOMOSEXUAL male can wear feminine influenced clothing, and that does not make him any less masculine, or any less of a "man".

Once these stereotypes, linking particular gender roles with particular gender identities and particular sexual identities, are broken down, then one's sexuality will cease to matter (other than for dating) and there will be much less intolerance in the world.



So I'll get off my soapbox now and get back to studying...

Please comment!!!

Happy Halloween!

So I've been preparing my blog for next weekend, and I realised tonight that I will completely miss Halloween (in terms of posting videos). Not that Halloween is a very big deal here in Australia, but thought that I would wish all those Americans celebrating a very happy Halloween and not to eat TOO much candy (just enough).

I don't know if anyone reads this blog yet, so it's a little weird thinking that I may be talking to nobody... It actually feels like when I first started video blogging on YouTube, and realising that very few people were actually watching. So if anyone is reading this, please leave me comments saying what sort of things you would like to see here, I'll be posting topical things and my comments on them, and my everyday happenings, and random thoughts, and recommended videos and channels on YouTube, and extra stuff not included in my posted videos... but let me know if there is anything in particular you think I might be able to comment on, or anything you would like to know about me... I feel I'm rambling, so will leave it at that.

Have to do an assignment now... Wish me luck.

"About me" video extras

Here were some things that didn't make it into the "About me" video:

In my family I have Mum and Dad and three sisters, two of which are older, one younger, and everyone in my immediate family still lives in Canberra.

I only really keep in touch with a small handful of people in Canberra, really just my closest friends from school, most of my friends now aren't from Canberra.

I recently changed to using iMovie on my MacBook to film my blogs, and I truly don’t know how I survived using a camera and windows movie maker before that.


I often follow the crowd.

I’m a bit of a kid most of the time

Walking along a footpath I can only step on cracks with my left foot, and can only step on straight joins with my right foot.

Some would say that I can be a bit naive at times, but I like to say that I'm idealistic

Everyday Answers

Mitchell Davis is one of my favourite youtubers. He is creative in ways that make my brain hurt. Check out some of his videos, he's hilarious and has so many fantastic videos!

New Blog

I've decided to start up a written blog to complement my video blog on YouTube (find it here)

So what better way to introduce myself than to post my 'About Me' video from my robmuch YouTube channel.

Hope you enjoy, and I welcome suggestions for the sorts of things you would like to see on this written blog as opposed to the video blog.



Captions:

Hi, my name's Rob, I'm 21 years old, and I've been making YouTube videos for about 3 months now.

I'm Australian, and I grew up in Canberra, which is a fairly small city and it also happens to be the capital of Australia.

I now live in Sydney and I go to University or Uni as we call it here. I'm in my third year of a Civil Engineering Degree, and I want to be a structural engineer. So one day I'll be designing bridges and buildings and tunnels and stuff like that.

At the moment I'm working part time supervising a call centre, and we ring people up to do surveys, so it's kind of evil work, but it's really well paid, so it helps through uni.

So that was the boring stuff about me, now I'm going to tell you some random facts about Rob.

I collect postcards, and so far I have about 3 shoe-boxes full of them.

I don't watch tv.

I'm a perfectionist.

When going up and down a staircase I like to start with my left foot.

My nicknames in the past have included Bob, Bobert, Roberta, Bert, Robbie, Bobbie J, R, Robyn and Regina.

I procrastinate a lot.

I try to be socially aware.

My first car was a hand-me-down 1980 orange Toyota Corolla (it went corolling along, ha!)

I named my MacBook 'Charlie Mac'.

I tend to spend a lot of time on the internet, so I've got a Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Stickam. I also frequently go to samesame.com.au, sydney morning herald (smh.com.au) and apple movie trailers.

I'm a bit of a control freak.

When I'm home alone I listen to music and dance around my apartment.

I don't play a musical instrument, but some day I would love to learn to play the piano.

I love chips (crisps), chocolate and icecream.

I've never broken a bone.

I have 8478 song on my iTunes, so I have a very eclectic taste in music. I like indie, electro, pop, alternative, house, rock, soft rock, chillout, brit pop rock and french electro.

I used to work in a cinema and would eat popcorn when no one was looking.

I like the volume on my stereo to be a multiple of 5.

I played tennis for 10 years when I was in school.

My bedroom fluctuates between being really clean and really messy, and at the moment it's really messy.

I was a prefect in high school.

And one last thing, I'm gay.