Like Amelie! And only $2 from the op-shop. Happy!
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I had an interesting experience yesterday. In my advertising class we do regular weekly pin-ups which means all your progress work goes up on the wall and you talk about where you’re at. So it’s week 4, most people have picked their ‘social issue’ that they will be advertising, a couple are still tossing up between several. I’ve chosen to do homelessness. Anyhoo, we get into class, put stuff up and to my confusion/horror/indignation one of the ideas that I presented last week is on the wall. AND IT’S NOT MY PIECE OF PAPER. Ironically it’s pinned exactly next to mine which is the idea + an expansion of the same. As the guy starts presenting I confront him with an, ‘Ahem, do you realise IÂ presented this same idea last week?!’. Apparently he hadn’t realised and ‘mustn’t have paid attention last week’. Perhaps it was subconscious? Anyway. Needless to say he’ll be leaving it well alone.
It was quite an odd feeling being ripped off right to your face.
Pay better attention in class kids.
Curiosity was far greater than our fear
It felt so simple, so prodigious at the same timeIncredible things are happening in the world
Magical things are happening in this worldAcross the river there are all kinds of magical instruments
While we really keep on living like monkeysIncredible things are happening in the world
Magical things are happening in this world, yeah-Peng! 33 (Iron & Wine)
While sitting in class I was imagining the possibilities of information design in regards to voicing stuff I care about when they suddenly sprung us with this link.
Information Visualization for Advocacy – John Emerson (Title will download the pdf approx 7mb)
I do value Swinburne for hammering on about stuff that matters, even if this particular example was more a general resource to kick us in to action with our assignments. I intend someday to have a crack at a piece, so if someone wants to throw some data or an idea at me, it would be welcome.
This was not just written for designers the lovely Ellen Lupton (I’m sure she’s lovely – not that I’ve met her, but she’s a twin like me so of course she’s lovely) goes on about making design accessible to all. You go right ahead.
Sometimes I wish I’d discovered information design sooner. On a side note, my assignment piece is on John Friedrich and I will potentially be mapping relationships between him and Iago from Othello (Shakespeare). Should be interesting.
I made this cake for my sister’s 21st party she is a patisserie chef in training, so it was a daunting task to begin with, she gave me tips for doing the cake covering, naturally things still went wrong, but the rescue attempt from my ever so vaguely artistic brain came into action and it came out not half bad. First time I’ve ever done something close to this (except make the tiramisu cake).
1. Make a tiramisu cake from this recipe. Carefully transfer to a nice plate, I sat the underneath of the pan outside of the edges (mostly because I couldn’t find the proper base) but it made it easier to get out. Cut your greaseproof paper to size (a little higher than the edge of the cake, use string to measure diameter etc).
2. Carefully remove the edge. Run a knife around the edge first, it should slide off quite eaisly. Squash any cake that goes astray back into it. The cake is made of squashed cake so it’s quite alright to be a bit ‘mud-pie’.
3. Nice. Not bad, but this is why we’re covering it in chocolate. You can serve it this way if you like. Dump some cream on top (or left over tia-maria cream) and coat with shaved chocolate. Or…
4. Find a metal or glass bowl and sit it over a saucepan of water, heat the water and stir the chocolate constantly. I used 1 pack of chocolate melts, there was plenty.
6. Looking good, keep stirring.
7. Spread the chocolate over the paper like a maniac, coat it, smooth it out and get the edge as straight as you can. In hindsight I should’ve spread the chocolate all the way to the edge to get it straight… why I didn’t I don’t know!.
8. Leave the chocolate a little bit, I think this is where I went wrong (left it too late) apparently just as it’s losing it’s gloss. Wrap the cake KEEP IT SMOOTH (here’s also where I kind of screwed up).
9. You can peel off the paper fairly quickly. Do it carefully. Cry if you break it.
10. Hmmm. kind of crinkly – not much you can do about that. But the top edge, ergh! That’s not how it’s meant to look. Search the creative depths of your soul for a solution. Attempt to crack off some of the top to get it a little more even. Vaguely better, but not much. Try a hot spoon on the top, that kind of helps… hmmm
11. Genius! After making funky middle strawberry. Brainwave hits to use cut pieces around the edge to hide the mess.
12. This was the mess of leaving the chocolate a little too late. Nothing can be done! So stop worrying and put that edge to the back when you serve it.
13. And it now doesn’t look half bad!
