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For The Logo Makers
I’ve made a fabulous present. It’s not me lap dancing whilst singing Kelis - I soon realised that I couldn’t dance or sing and decided to spare you all. Unless you’d like to believe that I actually sound like Kelis and am a lardy castrated black cat. BEHOLD! My mighty Flash skills will astound and bedazzle you!
Many thanks to Eilidh, Annie and Cecelia whom provided me with the logo mock-up’s to create the epilepsy inducing background. In all seriousness each of you came up with a fantastic idea and it’s got the cogs turning. I might churn something out later when I’ve got my branding unit later in April.
Of course musical credits go to the very unique Kelis who provided the wonderful (remixed) chorus you’re hearing a shoddy recording of right now. Not a truer word has been spoken in regards to what a logo is meant to do which is bring all the boys to the yard. Damn right it’s better than yours.
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A Challenge of Sorts
Recently I read a post on Just Creative Design on how to design a logo. It got me thinking about how I will eventually have to brand myself in order to put my lawl worthy skills on the market - it’s actually one of our upcoming units at university. My friends up in illustration had a briefing on a similar unit a while back and they were told to come up with a simple draft of a logo.
The concept was simple. Create a logo using your initials. My friends have some slick initials which bode well as memorable logos - RW, KL, RL - notice how the sloping kick of their first initial sweeps into the vertical construct that is their last initial. Wonderful. As a joke I decided to have a go at creating a logo from my initials.
Lilian Tula? LT? Then it hit me.
My initials are a typographical abomination. You can’t put L and T together in a way that looks nice. Box it together and it looks like a square with an ‘appendage’. Put it vertical and you get a freaky looking swastika. Put the T lying down and you get a U with a ‘protrusion’.
How will I ever get work with such hideous initials?!
So here’s a proposition - design me a logo using only my initials. Forget my middle name, it’s a lost cause and will make your eyes bleed from the horrifying aesthetic that is my initials in their entirety. The logo can be as stupid or as creative as you like, there are no boundaries whatsoever. The colours and size can be as you see fit.
Post your entries via this entry, or send them in an e-mail. Winner gets a lap dance from yours truly, whilst singing ‘Milkshake’ by Kelis. Whether or not that’s appropriate - or desirable - is up to you.
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A while back I changed my wallpaper to a bunny in a bubble with an octopus who lost his legs in the war, courtesy of Marie. It made her giggle that I changed it from a picture of a delicious construction worker. Said construction worker was helping to build a new block at the school my aunt works in back in Houston. She and her co-workers thought he was so yummy that they took a picture through a fence whilst he was conspicuously posing.
We aptly named him ‘Diet Coke Moment’.
Is that a hammer in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? Innuendo’s set aside I joked with my aunt about how he was posing and how stalker-like it was to take photos of hot strangers. I’ve had to bite my tongue. Recently I was rifling through some old photos from a university project that took place up in London. Lo and behold, like aunt like niece…
Look at those muscles! Also, unlike Diet Coke Moment I asked Arm Yourself to pose for me. I suddenly like London a lot more. Have any of you ever taken a picture of a total stranger simply because they’re gorgeous? Maybe we should compile them for research purposes…
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Recently I’ve been viewing more and more websites which no longer cater to 800 x 600 users. Quite rightly since the amount of people using that resolution has considerably diminished. That would be an appropriate view on the subject considering today’s technology - you can get big monitors relatively cheaply. So what does tomorrow bring?
There is a high demand for tiny digital devices with internet browsing capabilities. The iPhone has an intuitive way of browsing by reacting to pinching and poking in order to navigate a web page. For the most part devices don’t have that level of complexity and simply render the website the best way they can. Those devices tend to be the most affordable.
Recently I purchased an Asus EEE PC, and the resolution on that is a mere 800 pixels in width. The newer version has a larger resolution however it’s safe to assume that smaller devices such as tablet PC’s probably will maintain these obscurely small resolutions until it is cheaper to develop highly adaptive software such as the browser on the iPhone.
As with most desirable gadgets, within the next few years ultra mobile devices are going to drop in price and become a commodity for the general public. They already populate the technology market as some of the hottest merchandise. As such we may very well be seeing a come back in smaller resolutions.
Who knows - maybe fluid layouts will become a conventional fashion staple! 
Happy Saint Paddy’s
Out of Steam
I have around twenty drafts strewn across my dashboard like dead bumblebees (thank you Dylan Moran) and yet every time I sit down to write I end up procrastinating terribly. To those of you who keep providing me with links to places like Zefrank, you can burn in hell whilst I try to coax my dead inner creative back into the land of the living. It’s putting up one hell of a fight.
Do I lack stimulation? Perhaps it’s time I took up a hobby or two aside from the internet, pooping and Mike so that I would have something worthy to blog about. Alternatively I would love to blog about my theories on internet culture, blogging, art and design but I’m currently lacking the inspiration to form a linguistically fluid piece. I have all the coherency of a four year old with a thesaurus.
On the bright side I’ve been working on my novel which is starting to read more like structured literature rather than some form of emo wankery which vaguely resembles text. My characters feel like people rather than pawns for a plot motivated purpose. Yet here I am at square one again with no actual motivation to blog.
I’ll wrap this up quickly before you realise that I have just dedicated an entry to my incapability to manifest a useful entry - paradox much? I propose the question, what should I write about? Is there a way to cure the blogging blues when doing everything else possible simply isn’t cutting it?
Comments are offFourth Batch of Films
This has been the best bunch to date I’ve received in the post. I got Breakfast on Pluto, the Fountain and the Science of Sleep. My interest in foreign films is starting to expand, but I did not know that the Science of Sleep was of French origin and told in a mixture of French, English and Spanish. Anyway, on with the reviews:
Breakfast on Pluto was simultaneously charming, heart-breaking and entertaining as it told the story of Patrick a.k.a. Kitten - one transvestite from a small town in Ireland. It’s dramatic but realistic, and at times gritty as Patrick stumbles on the fine line between life and death. His innocent belief in love coupled with what I believe was sarcasm on his part make for a compelling, humourous and complex character. Oh and Cillian Murphy in drag is an instant win. He’d make a very pretty woman (in the same way he’d make a very pretty anything). Four out of five for the spellbinding performance by Cillian.
Soon afterwards I watched the Science of Sleep which didn’t really impress me much at first, but in retrospect it’s grown on me. Gael García Bernal is absolutely gorgeous (you can’t say no to his jawline) and also endearingly charismatic as the slightly deranged but adorable Stéphane. Coupled with the lovely Charlotte Gainsbourg they tell a surreal story of dreams, reality and how the two clash to form an unlikely romance and unique story. Not to mention the aesthetics are as wonderful as portrayed on the website - great for the creative within. Four out of five, only because I found the storyline a little simple, and felt it ended unrequited.
Lastly was the Fountain whose website by Hi-Res I’ve adored for years. It’s probably one of the best films I’ve ever seen, mixing together philosophies and realities concerning life, death and life thereafter - a particular fixation of mine. The film moves slowly, but only to better capture the melancholic dark mood which is then released in a mad fury of sublimity in the end. The three separate stories being told entwine like branches, growing slowly towards the devastatingly beautiful conclusion. Like the Science of Sleep, it’s simplistic and not something to be over analysed but enjoyed as a visual masterpiece. Five of out five, and a new addition to my most loved films.
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