Published February 28, 2008 by

Thursdays at Uni

concept_enviro_web.JPGYou should read Tuesdays with Morrie. Which has nothing to do with anything but I thought I’d just say so anyway….

It’s been an interesting day. I amazingly have classes all day with my friend Kellie – of which I am very pleased about.

Currently Thursdays mean Package Design, a lecture then a tute. It’s totally different to anything I’ve done before. Our brief is based on a fair dinkum real package design competition, we are still looking at last years brief as the new one hasn’t quite made it out. Bizarre. I’m a little strapped for ideas. Basically we have to create packaging for an existing product that is: economically, environmentally and socially sustainable. So… know any products that are packaged badly then eh?

The lecturer is quite unusual… in that he doesn’t really endear himself in the usual way (if there is one?). Slagging off other uni’s??? I frankly wasn’t that impressed. I believe that you can have perfectly healthy competition without being rude and elbow-like. He clearly doesn’t. I also don’t care if I’m not mean enough for the corporate design world, that’s not who I want to be.

The afternoon bought Interactive Design for Web Technologies. Quite the contrast. It’s being tandem-taught by two guys and seriously, it was the best and clearest (as well as slightly entertaining) taught tech-related class that I’ve ever come across. And I’ve had a few now. Today did bring very basic html but I’m sure forcing me to go over the basics can’t do too much harm.

As it so happens, our first assignment is to create a html/css based portfolio of our work. Damn. Check what I’ve been doing lately (unofficial launch). Here we go again. No happy little blog platform to lean on now. Gosh I love WordPress.

I am slightly dreading the second half of the semester as all prior interactions with Flash have never been pretty… I’d love to be able to use it, I seriously would, but oh to get my head around the thing. Animation and I aren’t the best of friends.

Or perhaps it is just my lack of patience?

image from here… yes I’m getting better at this!

Design Uni

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Published February 28, 2008 by

Wedding Music Answers

originalpianosolosartonly.jpgWhat song did you walk down the aisle to?

Remember this?

It took us a very long time to decide (or maybe it was my fault) but this was our ‘yes we’ll use it unless we find something else that’s ‘perfect’. Ha. It was just right and no we didn’t find anything else – I was not disappointed, I think I kind of wanted it to be this underneath everything.

What song did you walk out to?

It was imperative that U2 featured somewhere in the day and you might as well watch it with the amusing video clip. It was just a fun song to walk out with and did hold some meaning for things we believe and agree with.

What song did you sing during the service, and why?

We went fairly traditional here, with a hymn (shock horror). We were originally going to have two songs, one hymn – because Geoff loves it, and one probably more modern familiar. The second didn’t happen because we couldn’t find one we wanted and came to the conclusion that we’d keep things shorter but just going with the one. We had friends help out with the music and Robyn lead a beautifully upbeat – How Great Thou Art, skipping the woods glades verse. If I could’ve had one more hymn (and really one is enough) I would’ve liked Be Thou My Vision… but then my parents used that, so I’m not sure.

What about the music through the signing of the registry?

My little sister Hannah and her boy Dan and another mate, Steve sang an adapted version of a My Friend the Chocolate Cake song. Geoff and I actually didn’t know the song very well at all. More Heart Than Me is actually on their Myspace page at the moment. Hannah sang a ‘more cheerful’ version and they interchanged a few shes with he’s to fit us. It was fantastic – I heard more of it during their practice than on the day.

What an odd post…

image from here

Music Wedding

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