Month: <span>June 2008</span>

Published June 9, 2008 by

Starred Posts April-June 2008 Part 1

Crapsticks, here is when I remember that my Google Starred Posts have been mounting up. I will endeavour to feed them into AllSaidAndDone in somewhat more managable bites, with a short descriptor on why they were starred, this is as much for my record as for sharing some interesting links. Enjoy.

and that better do for now, the computer battery is fast running out. More to come. Oh dear.

Blogging

starred posts

Published June 9, 2008 by

A holiday mix

Holidays have come around again. I have 8 weeks off. It is time to be thinking about a new blog theme. I will be going here for some inspiration: Design Meltdown & Designer Portfolios. They are exciting and I’ve barely explored the site at all.

Other things I hope to get done in the next 8 weeks.

  • Get the house clean
  • Get the washing done (yes it is that bad – I was going to do it all today but the weather is pretty shonky and we don’t have a dryer. Bah!)
  • Print a stack of wedding photos – which I still haven’t done. I want to put some kind of album together, so that will either look like me setting it out myself or cheating and going an Iphoto photobook, that at least one big one for the wall (not that we can put anything up)
  • Get a new couch, ours is practically dead and hey, it’s orange. I won’t be sad to lose it.
  • Have some people around!
  • Use some ‘free’ time to get a bit more creative with graphics related stuff, it’s been a bit dry for anything hugely original lately.
  • Catch up with all the friends I have neglected
  • Visit the Solomon Islands (where I grew up) and not get Malaria while I’m there. I hate you mosquitoes.
  • Sleep a lot. Read a lot. (Stock standards for every holiday mix)

The list is by no means exhaustive.

Holidays Life

free time Holidays live somewhere clean lose the stress lots of glorious sleep relax

Published June 5, 2008 by

The extreme sport of printing an A3 document

Dear Communication Design Students,

A word of warning about printers. Bribe, plead, cajole, beg or beat the university printers into giving you what you want. Commercial Printers will charge you through the nose. I did it all but the uni printers would not cooperate this time.

This is how I beat being charged through the nose the day before my assignments are/were due.

1. Draw a mental radius and scour the yellow pages for printers.

2. Call them up

3. Get lucky in finding someone who doesn’t charge a download fee (or rather who gets it wrong and so has to go off their word). This mistake on their part saved me a lot of money. Usually it’s $10 a pop/file, this place it was $5 but they guy forgot because it was a ‘new’ thing and so they couldn’t charge me for it. That’s $50 saved.

4. Have an incompetent receptionist (I’m sure she’s good at her job, just not the printing stuff) take your work and follow your very clear typed instructions (badly). While you head off home to do other things while it’s being completed.

5. Return to the printers because of a phonecall. She has printed only two things of the many and the sizing looks suspiciously off.

6. She sits down with you (at the computer) to print the rest of the stuff. For some reason some of the stock standard PDF’s don’t even read on the shonky old PC.

7. She tries to print a simple 1-side A3 and the document is huge and half missing

8. She tries fiddling with the same old settings over and over and over again

9. She goes to answer the phone and lets you on the computer, you do some digging and find a setting that says 150%. You change it to 100%. The document prints fine.

10. Other issues when she goes to print more things. And so on… “I’ll print it in grayscale first so I don’t have to charge you as much”

11. There is a lot of excess paper, you have spent an awful lot of time at the printing place helping the person who should have completed your job.

12. Due to mistakes and files that wouldn’t open, I still have several things that need printing, thankfully they are only A4 and so I can drive to Ron and Anne’s (my parents-in-law’s) tonight to use their laser printer.

13. She charges you less than she probably should, only $30 – maybe because she feels bad and adds an just an extra $4 for ‘proof’s’/mistakes. Wow. Cheap

But worth the hassle?

No freaking way.

…oh and remember those prints that were done at the start? The sizes were wrong, had to redo those too.

Design Uni

Published June 3, 2008 by

Off

Geoff and I have an opportunity to go to the Alt Worship Nosh. But the timing is off, Geoff starts his new job on Tuesday. We have a youth-group parents dinner to run on Friday. And there are scant few Fridays left to hang out with some of the best kids in the world.

I’m very interested to see what it’s all on about and I even read Jonny Baker’s blog… but it’s not happening this time.

Church Experiments

alternative worship

Published June 3, 2008 by

Art and Chemistry

the-sound-of-bees-and-smlI had the opportunity once upon a time to do art in school and I didn’t take it. I instead opted for Chemistry, Biology and the like. Interesting certainly, but not really for keepers. I had to print out some uni Chem/Physics/Maths practice exams today for my boss’s son (Yep, that’s me with the time!) and in looking at them wondered why I ever bothered. Yet I enjoyed myself immensely – problem solving. I am a left brained girl with an earnest right brain,or perhaps I adapt to adapt?

But when I think that I had the chance to be taught art by this guy, I am disappointed.

Of course I didn’t know he made work like this back then.

Michael Peck’s work is currently in exhibition at the Metro 5 Gallery, I am crossing my fingers that I’ll get there before it concludes as it’s not too far from uni. My mum took my little sister (who is taught by him) there, and they came home raving. Now there’s incentive to get things finished by Thursday!

Culture Design Life Uni Work

Art Exhibition Metro 5 Gallery Michael Peck