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From Tales of Television Centre, Peter Davison recounts the first time he visited the iconic BBC production complex:

At school, I was 13. I think I did rather well in a science project, which is about the only time I ever did well in a science project. And the reward was a trip to Television Centre. So I visited the Z Cars studio, and it was this magical thing. Because you know, I watched Z Cars on the TV, and thought, well, they’re sitting in their car in a street. 

And there was the car, half a car. It’s just cut out. And just the seats were there and the back. And a sort of a backdrop of a northern street. And it was like a revelation to me. And I remember thinking, it would be fantastic to work in a place like this, never thinking I ever would.   

Finding out that Peter first visited Television Centre on a school trip made me happy, but finding out that it was for a school science project that was probably the only thing he ever did well on made me fangirl him all the more.

Stop with the cute, Peter. Please. Stop. ;_;

I found that really neat because in 8th grade, my science teacher Mrs. Tatum encouraged me and a few other students to enter an Georgia art contest. And Stephanie Moon and I were 2 of the 20 students selected to compete in the live drawing event at the High Art Museum in Atlanta. Now I got to see everyone else’s drawings and all of the kids were older than me and better at art than me… probably better than I am now. 

Parkview was the only school with 2 students selected from it and only 10 students got to win the contest. So naturally, I was a little freaked out. We talked with some of the people then we had 45 minutes to draw a still life they had set out. I had never used an easel before, so after struggling with trying to figure out how it worked, I just gave up and sat on the ground with the paper like I normally would. 

If you were one of the 10 winners, now I thought it was amazing I even got to compete since my drawing was honestly pretty crappy and all I actually ever drew were cartoons, but if I’m going to get that far, I want to win something. So of course I was humiliated when I was the first name they called. 

Along with 9 other metro atlanta teenagers, I got to spend a week in Italy basically having a better vacation than someone could pay for. I will never again have an experience like this and though it wasn’t the thing that convinced me to go into the art seriously, it gave me incredible confidence (earthworm confidence over here) that I might possibly be taken seriously. 

And of course I spent all year trying to get into GHP (governor’s honours program) (I was selected for writing and art and I picked art). I went to state, waited, found out I didn’t make it, was disappointed, and later was called down to find out I actually did make it. What. My reward is also all expenses paid, a month doing art at a college, which sound also sound incredible and inspiring for me but alack alack, it’s in the armpit of the United States… Oh well, we’re not allowed to leave the campus anyways except for church and I don’t usually go…ever. sometimes. 

And that’s my story. TL;DR. I won an exclusive art contest and went to Italy. I won another challenging art/academics contest and get to go to a college this summer for free. Huzzah. This should convince my mother to shut up about me being a scientist. Pffffff.

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Doctors ahoy! 

Oh God, they’d spend half the time arguing with each other…you know it. 
“ALRIGHT, let’s get things straight, I’m in charge and I’m the best, everyone else who wants to get out of this situation, listen to me, everyone else who wants a new dress size, go ahead and fxkcing try.”
“sdhjkfjklNO”
“Oh have a jelly baby and shut up won’t you?”
But it would also be the most precious.

Doctors ahoy! 

Oh God, they’d spend half the time arguing with each other…you know it. 

“ALRIGHT, let’s get things straight, I’m in charge and I’m the best, everyone else who wants to get out of this situation, listen to me, everyone else who wants a new dress size, go ahead and fxkcing try.”

“sdhjkfjklNO”

“Oh have a jelly baby and shut up won’t you?”

But it would also be the most precious.

(via ladyromanahasmoved)

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