Game on!

Twelve days to go. It’s like the twelve days of christmas, except each day only adds more stress.

It sucks.

I’ve taken the next seven days off to do all this stuff, I hope it’s enough. Luckily I’ve left the website until last, I should be able to knock it over in good time. I’m extremely happy with my print stuff, my supervisor compared it to some of Mark Farrow’s work (Pet Shop Boys, Manic Street Preachers, Levi’s Engineered Jeans packaging etc), which is a HUGE rap! Having seen some of his stuff, I really don’t think I’m of the calibre, but nonetheless I’m quite impressed with the compliment!

I got a bunch of new stuff in the last week or so. Firstly, new glasses. Thanks to a sharp eyed friend who spotted a brilliant deal at a city optometrist, I now have a new pair of glasses for less than I paid last time I got new lenses. And I can see! Bonus! Also, I picked up a MSI Mega Stick 1 (stupid name, great device). It’s a USB flash storage device, MP3 player, Voice recorder and FM radio all in one, it’s half the size of my mobile and only weighs 40g or so. Bloody brilliant I tell ya, and it’ll run for a good 8 hours off one AAA battery. What will they thing of next…?

(A 120Gb iPod under $400 that can do all that perhaps? Wink wink, nudge nudge.)

Right, must get back to it. Game on!

Microsoft’s Dave Fester on the Windows iTunes Music Store

I wouldn’t be able to say it any better than The Register or John Gruber, so over to them:

The Register: blank” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker.trackPageview (’/outbound/www.theregister.co.uk’);”>”Microsoft monopoly says Apple monopoly is too restrictive” John Gruber (Daring Fireball): “Closed is open”

And it’s always funny to see the wintel fanboys in action on slashdot (although I prefer them over the mac fanboys over an macslash)!

Top 5 most embarassing song/artist in your music collection

And the responses were (in no particular order, and the owners know who they are!):

  1. Hanson - Middle of Nowhere
  2. Wilson Phillips - Hold On
  3. Spice Girls - Self Titled & Spice World
  4. Boyzone - Love me for a reason
  5. Take That
  6. Richard Marx - Self Titled
  1. Atomic Kitten
  2. Spice Girls
  3. (and by extension) Emma Bunton
  4. Bardot
  5. Mariah Carey
  1. M2M - What Do You Do About Me?
  2. Mo Money Mo Problems
  3. West Life - World of Our Own
  4. West Life - Queen of My Heart
  5. Christina Aguliera & Rick Martin - Nobody Wants to be Lonely
  1. Spice Girls - Self titled & Spice World
  2. Britney Spears - I’m a Slave 4 U
  3. Linkin Park - Paper Cut
  4. Bardot - (Found it for a dollar, and has a signed single)
  5. Star Trekin’ (Across the Universe) Alternative No. 5. 50 Cent - Inda Club
  1. OMC - How Bizarre

(Enough said.)

  1. Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time
  2. Billy Ocean - When the Going Gets Tough
  3. Danger Zone. (Oh Yeah!)
  4. Vanilla Ice - Ice, Ice Baby
  5. Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely
  6. William Shatner - Mr Tambourine Man
  1. Peter Andre
  2. Girlfriend (on Cassette)
  3. Chipmonks (on Cassette)
  4. Roxette
  5. Elton John - Candle in the Wind, Diana Version (Unopened)

The Australian Cultural Revolution…

…as dictated by Hollywood.

Hell on earth?

Time better spent

Creativity, for me, requires continual exercise. Leave it idle for a week, it’ll go and find it’s own amusement. Which is a little inconvenient, especially when I like taking week long breaks. Hence the new website header, all in an attempt to get the creative in sync with everything else. One could argue that it was just diverting time from my project, but then I was feeling rather uninspired before, so to get any work done was a victory in my books.

And I rather like the mess that I’ve created, kinda like digital paint splotches with a name tag pasted on top….

Time is marching on at it’s usual pace and fervor, and I’m finding it increasingly difficult to concentrate. I feel like I’m grappling at straws, not sure how to go about certain things and not knowing where to look for directions. I think I’ve stared at it for so long that I’ve lost all perspective. I’ve always known I work better in a team scenario, I like being about to bounce ideas back and forth. And I think my talent lies in coming up with concepts and polishing work, but that part in between where you start production and create the first images have always stumped me. Just like writing - I think I’m a much better editor than writer. I know this, because it just took me the last 10 minutes to figure out how to end this paragraph. If childbirth is as painful as hammering out a sentence is for me, I’ll have none of it, thanks very much (luckily, being a man, I’ll only ever get the peripherals. There is a God….).

Shortcuts: 4th October

Yeah, what he said! ++ The Mac Cost - I couldn’t have said it better myself. ++ The Stupidity Cost - Flame, flame, flame!