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Morning everyone!
Less than a week between blogs, you guys should feel special :P
It has been a very busy week for me. On top of work being in peak period at the moment, I have two year-ending assigments due on the 29th of November, and I tells ya, I'm just not feeling the pieces I have chosen to create.
In Typography 2 we have to create an A3 poster composed entirely of type. We had 4 subjects to choose from: Animals, Birds and Marine Life, Cars, Architecture and some other thing that I will be able to clarify later (not that it is really that important). Anyway, I chose the first subject: Animals, Birds and Marine Life.
My first idea was to use lots of news articles about anti-American sentiment and war stories and anti-Bush stuff
and portray a falling American Bald Eagle. As my tutor pointed out, that's pretty bloody hard to do. So I went with my second option: a dove with a gas mask and helmet on. Looks pretty cool. However, I can't think of a headline, or catchphrase for it. It's really starting to shit me, and therefore I'm resenting working on it. I'm almost at the stage where I scrap it and start from scratch.
Oh, the other topic was boats *rolls eyes*.
The other thing that is shitting me, is that we are working on these horrid eMacs that are 3 or 4 years old and clunkier than Threepio. So obviously when I'm working with thousands of characters the machine slows to a near halt, and half my class time is spent waiting for the machine to render and save things. So annoying. I might go home to study today. I shall see.
The other project I'm working on at the moment is a 4 page comic I wrote for Design Concept Development. The brief requests us to come up with 4 x 2 colour concepts and develop one of them. Me being me, I chose a comic. unfortunately for me, it's been a while since I've drawn, much less made a comic, so my work is rusty. And again I think I've bitten off more than I can chew. But I was working on the first page last night and it doesn't look too bad. It does need improving though. I also need to produce the other 3 concepts. Lol, I'm a goner.
I also have 2 freelance projects running at the moment. I have a corporate identity in the works for a merchandising company, and I have several hat designs to come up with for a souvenir company. The identity seems to be on hold for now, but the souvenir guy wants his hat designs urgently. Lol, yeah, I'm boned.
What else is the go in my life?
I'm on a diet and have been for 4 weeks today. I've lost 9kgs. It's called the Tony Ferguson diet and it's 1 protein shake for breakfast, 1 piece of fruit for morning tea, then 1 shake (or soup) for lunch, 1 piece of fruit for afternoon tea and then a small palm sized portion of low fat meat (small steak, chicken breast, fillet of fish, falafel etc) and at least 3 cups of vegies. You also have to drink at least 2 litres of water a day. It was hard to start off with, but after the first 48 hours to a week it was ok. I started at 85kg and I'm now 76kg.
The best thing about it is that you can be lazy and lose weight. I mean I'm playing basketball twice a week (not well mind you) so I'm not that lazy, I am getting exercise, but this shit works without having to drain yourself with exercise. If you wanna find out more, check this website out: www.tonyferguson.com
So yeah, basketball. I've been playing really, really poorly of late. I haven't hit a basket in weeks and it's really hard to get used to again. I crashed from a 9 point a game average back down to zero. Lol. And it's not like I'm not putting up shots either. I've been told to keep putting up shots, cos the theory is I'll eventually hit one. Things will probably improve once uni is finished. But that's another 2 weeks and I have plenty of stress in front of me before I can relax.
*sigh*
I started playing indoor footy last week with Scotty, who used to play in our wednesday night basketball team. I found it really fun last week and I dominated in my role as full back. I kept the lardass full forward to only 2 goals after quarter time. So I helped fill in again this sunday and I didn't feel I had quite as much as an impact. I rushed a bit, and made a few mistakes. But hopefully I can make up for that on tuesday night, because they asked me to help fill in again. Oh, we won both games, the first by a point and the second by 4 points.
At least I'm winning at something at the moment :P
Oh, if you guys happen to be bored, head over to deviantART and check out some of the awesome art being done over there. I tell you what, I find it inspiring and intimidating that there are so many good artists and designers out there, and that I am but a hack. But I aim to get better. Much, much better.
Anyway, that's it for me for now, I had better get back to work and get some stuff done before I leave for uni.
Less than a week between blogs, you guys should feel special :P
It has been a very busy week for me. On top of work being in peak period at the moment, I have two year-ending assigments due on the 29th of November, and I tells ya, I'm just not feeling the pieces I have chosen to create.
In Typography 2 we have to create an A3 poster composed entirely of type. We had 4 subjects to choose from: Animals, Birds and Marine Life, Cars, Architecture and some other thing that I will be able to clarify later (not that it is really that important). Anyway, I chose the first subject: Animals, Birds and Marine Life.
My first idea was to use lots of news articles about anti-American sentiment and war stories and anti-Bush stuff
and portray a falling American Bald Eagle. As my tutor pointed out, that's pretty bloody hard to do. So I went with my second option: a dove with a gas mask and helmet on. Looks pretty cool. However, I can't think of a headline, or catchphrase for it. It's really starting to shit me, and therefore I'm resenting working on it. I'm almost at the stage where I scrap it and start from scratch.
Oh, the other topic was boats *rolls eyes*.
The other thing that is shitting me, is that we are working on these horrid eMacs that are 3 or 4 years old and clunkier than Threepio. So obviously when I'm working with thousands of characters the machine slows to a near halt, and half my class time is spent waiting for the machine to render and save things. So annoying. I might go home to study today. I shall see.
The other project I'm working on at the moment is a 4 page comic I wrote for Design Concept Development. The brief requests us to come up with 4 x 2 colour concepts and develop one of them. Me being me, I chose a comic. unfortunately for me, it's been a while since I've drawn, much less made a comic, so my work is rusty. And again I think I've bitten off more than I can chew. But I was working on the first page last night and it doesn't look too bad. It does need improving though. I also need to produce the other 3 concepts. Lol, I'm a goner.
I also have 2 freelance projects running at the moment. I have a corporate identity in the works for a merchandising company, and I have several hat designs to come up with for a souvenir company. The identity seems to be on hold for now, but the souvenir guy wants his hat designs urgently. Lol, yeah, I'm boned.
What else is the go in my life?
I'm on a diet and have been for 4 weeks today. I've lost 9kgs. It's called the Tony Ferguson diet and it's 1 protein shake for breakfast, 1 piece of fruit for morning tea, then 1 shake (or soup) for lunch, 1 piece of fruit for afternoon tea and then a small palm sized portion of low fat meat (small steak, chicken breast, fillet of fish, falafel etc) and at least 3 cups of vegies. You also have to drink at least 2 litres of water a day. It was hard to start off with, but after the first 48 hours to a week it was ok. I started at 85kg and I'm now 76kg.
The best thing about it is that you can be lazy and lose weight. I mean I'm playing basketball twice a week (not well mind you) so I'm not that lazy, I am getting exercise, but this shit works without having to drain yourself with exercise. If you wanna find out more, check this website out: www.tonyferguson.com
So yeah, basketball. I've been playing really, really poorly of late. I haven't hit a basket in weeks and it's really hard to get used to again. I crashed from a 9 point a game average back down to zero. Lol. And it's not like I'm not putting up shots either. I've been told to keep putting up shots, cos the theory is I'll eventually hit one. Things will probably improve once uni is finished. But that's another 2 weeks and I have plenty of stress in front of me before I can relax.
*sigh*
I started playing indoor footy last week with Scotty, who used to play in our wednesday night basketball team. I found it really fun last week and I dominated in my role as full back. I kept the lardass full forward to only 2 goals after quarter time. So I helped fill in again this sunday and I didn't feel I had quite as much as an impact. I rushed a bit, and made a few mistakes. But hopefully I can make up for that on tuesday night, because they asked me to help fill in again. Oh, we won both games, the first by a point and the second by 4 points.
At least I'm winning at something at the moment :P
Oh, if you guys happen to be bored, head over to deviantART and check out some of the awesome art being done over there. I tell you what, I find it inspiring and intimidating that there are so many good artists and designers out there, and that I am but a hack. But I aim to get better. Much, much better.
Anyway, that's it for me for now, I had better get back to work and get some stuff done before I leave for uni.
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