Lilula
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Relaunch Teasers
Infrequent blogging does not mean I’ve been inactive as of late. I have reached a pivotal moment in my rebrand - I finally have a name, desired aesthetic and colour scheme pinned down for the remake of my online identity. I’d say that I’m about halfway through and absolutely giddy with excitement at what lays ahead.
Despite the blog title I must confess I am misleading you all - this post contains no teasers. However I do have a little surprise in store. Let’s just say I got a Twitter account and am planning on using it to document my progress as well as leaking snippets of entries to come. Follow if you wish, as I may be releasing a relaunch date soon.
Comments are offIn Good Ol’ Cambridgeshire
Another week and I would have gone one month without blogging. Although I’m definitely not setting any records I have to say this is probably the first time I’ve gone without blogging for a long period of time and genuinely missed it. Here is a quick Q&A regarding the last entry and what I’ve been up to in a nutshell.
“Why not just have a separate site for all that professional stuff?”
I feel I’ve already embraced my professional identity in most aspects of my life - my website is just going to be updated to reflect this. However the tone will remain rather informal - after all my views on design and art are still my own personal views. There will still be a few personal entries based on my life and the happenings within it, they just won’t be as frequent.
“[name removed] from [website removed] has stolen ur (sic) layout idea and images.”
I’ve e-mailed said person asking if they could kindly take down the images they took from this website. It doesn’t really bother me since this layout has no real significance for me and the young perpetrator only runs a small blogsite. If it were portfolio work, or a well planned layout it’d be a different matter altogether.
Progress on the re-branding has come to a temporary standstill since my sketchbooks and materials have only just recently been unpacked. Mike and I have moved into an adorable little flat just outside Cambridge. It’s only up until the end of August whilst I work locally but we’re very pleased.
Work itself has been an odd arrangement. When I arrived I was promptly told that they weren’t ready for me and sat me down to do some icons. Not exactly my ideal line of work and perhaps the dullest thing to do from nine till five thirty but at least they’re keeping me busy for the next few weeks. When they are ready for me I will be doing some interactive design on a cutting edge application. It’s an exciting prospect!
Back to the re-branding, there will be blog entries highlighting key points which I’ve found interesting. There are some things I’ve found out about myself which I didn’t realise until scrutinising everything I like and why. It’s returned some surprising results!
On a final note I wanted to thank all of you guys. Everyone has been very supportive of my project despite it being under wraps. I look froward to sharing it with you all.
Comments are offLife Prevails
That is over blogging. I’m sure a few of you - or maybe just me - have been wondering why I left the same post up for almost two weeks or perhaps even longer. There have been many changes in my life that have hindered my blogging progress. They’re particularly good excuses too!
Firstly, we have our final major group project at university. We’ve been told to create a design team, which doesn’t mean come up with a website with swirly shit and make some shoddy graphics to order. It means a lot of hands on, hard work all day and every day. I’m glad my group consists of my easy going, ambitious, creative friends.
As such I’ve been maintaining a secret blog where we’ve been posting our work. Since I’m active on there, I’ve been rather inactive on here. The work we post often takes us a lot of effort to make and so it leaves me with little time to do much else.
I’m tempted to share the URL since it’d be awesome to kick the arses of people who think they know what graphic design is - namely those who think it’s about making blends or vectors of Ashley Tisdale. However the raw and high quality our work means it could easily be stolen and worked in alongside vectors and blends of said Miss. Tisdale. I doubt the group would take kindly to that.
So that’s what’s been taking up my time at university. As for my free time it’s been dedicated to arranging my summer job and driving. I’ve landed another contract with the team I worked with last year meaning I’m going back to Cambridge. I’m extremely stoked about it all, especially since it means that I’m moving out for the summer.
The best part is that the kitchen won’t be shared and drunk neighbours won’t be setting off the fire alarm at stupid o’clock - like in halls. Just a little space for Mike and I to make our own for the summer. My enthusiasm cannot be expressed in words so just try and imagine me squeeing in one breath for about an hour. If you haven’t got the time, eat a bag of sugar and you’ll get the same effect.
Despite all this good news there is but one problem.
I will have to cook.
Comments are offQuestions on Blogging
1. Do you try to look hot when you go to the grocery store just in case someone recognizes you from your blog?
Totally. I stroll right on in with my nose held high and my ass unusually pert. If I don’t look good whilst wrestling with the heavy freezer doors guarding the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream then I fail at life.
2. Are the photos you post photoshopped or otherwise altered?
I crop them and add borders. Sometimes I even sneakily photoshop in frowning naked mole rats to see if people will notice. Some people have, but curiously they identify these inclusions as my face.
3. Do you like it when creeps or dorks email you?
Of course. I send myself emails all the time.
4. Do you lie in your blog?
OK, I confess. I am actually a house cat by the name of Billy and my only interests are maiming the people around me.
5. Are you passive-aggressive in your blog?
Quite possibly. I presume being anal is synonymous with that sentiment.
6. Do you ever threaten to quit writing so people will tell you not to stop?
I try and make my writing more obscure and banal to test the stupidity threshold my readers have. They seem to be able to take a lot.
7. Are you in therapy? If not, should you be? If so, is it helping?
I probably should be - see the passive aggressive question.
8. Do you delete mean comments? Do you fake nice ones?
It really depends. Sometimes I get comments that say ‘Ur blog sux’ and whilst I agree with them whole heartedly I also find it funny to change their comment to something equally inane such as ‘I wuffles u!!’
9. Have you ever rubbed one out while reading a blog? How about after?
Always whilst reading my blog. I am egocentric and narcissistic like most bloggers. Next time you comment, bring tissue.
10. If your readers knew you in person, would they like you more or like you less?
Probably less. I’m more difficult to get rid of in real life.
11. Do you have a job?
I used to work for my dad in a programming firm. It was fun but then I had to return to university.
12. If someone offered you a decent salary to blog full-time without restrictions, would you do it?
At the moment blogging is the only thing I thoroughly enjoy in life in terms of a hobby, so I’d snap that offer up faster than it takes to feel bitter about it.
13. Which blogger do you want to meet in real life?
There’s not many bloggers I want to meet. Personally I find most of them dull, irritating people - no I jest! Rachael is pretty cool, and we have met before 
14. Which bloggers have you made out with?
Does Daniel Craig have a blog? Well, maybe not…
15. Do you usually act like you have more money or less money than you really have?
I think the first sentence on my about page states I am penniless.
16. Does your family read your blog?
I’ve asked them to a couple of times, but I think they’re intimidated by it. I don’t know if it’s in a ‘where did we go wrong raising our child’ sort of way or in a ‘we can’t be arsed’ way.
17. How old is your blog?
My blogging history is too much for any one individual to take (since around 2003).
18. Do you get more than 1000 page views per day? Do you care?
I have no clue what my statistics are. I checked them for the first time ever a while back to see how many people visited my site using Internet Explorer 6 - just wanted to know if it was worth tweaking the current design to accommodate them. Which I did.
19. Do you have another secret blog in which you write about being slutty, or a liar?
This is that secret blog.
20. Have you ever given another blogger money for his/her writing?
Not that I know of. Give me ure monehz.
21. Do you report the money you earn from your blog on your taxes?
I wish I earned money from my blog. Any rich billionaires out there that want to invest?
22. Is blogging narcissistic?
Of course. All personal blogging is about feeding the ego, despite what people say. A website is a publication hence personal blogging is just an advertisement of the self whether it be on a shallow or insightful scale. Some just accept that fact better than others.
23. Do you feel guilty when you don’t post for a long time?
Sometimes. I get paranoid thinking the same entry has been up for a long time and often try and counter this with stupid posts that make people wonder why they ever come back. This is one of them.
24. Do you like John Mayer?
Whom? Isn’t he like Jack Johnson or am I confused?
25. Do you have enemies?
My neighbours. Some people at university. My cat.
26. Are you lonely?
Probably. I do have a happy life, but sometimes I wonder why I blog about my personal doings and if it’s because I crave attention from strangers. Hi there! Have any candy?
27. Why bother?
I don’t know, in the end I’ll probably be disappointed.
Vaginas and Technology
I’m glad my somewhat transparent April Fool’s joke went well I didn’t have anything planned for the occasion so just came up with the first thing that popped into my head - silly and hopefully entertaining.
Yesterday I gave my presentation for my Play 2 Create project - we had to design a spacial interpretation of a film. I went with Videodrome so naturally the first thing I said when I went up was that “Videodrome is a sci-fi horror directed by Cronenberg, who has an acute fear of vagina’s and technology…”
Even before this casual remark I was already creating a lasting impression. I slammed my bag onto the table accidentally - it’s considerably heavy - and excused myself saying it must be all those dead puppies I carry around. Then we all got into a lively debate about the sound dead puppies make when you slam them on a table. I wonder if I’ll get extra credit for that.
My presentations always warrant responses from the audience. I love getting people engaged in my work. However, yesterday was probably my weakest presentation to date because I was exhausted and ended up forgetting the key points of the design. However I prefer to be memorable - it pays when you’re in a course amongst extremely talented budding designers!
My project also sent someone running out of the room. I forgot to warn people that the piece included some very gory footage of a man having tumours burst out of his body and head. As well as someone being shot in the face. I felt really bad, but ended up having drinks with her later so all was forgiven
Least I didn’t include the clip of the gun growing shrapnel and then piercing the flesh of the main character - you could see the metallic tendrils running under his forearm. Wicked.
This is my second attempt at posting this entry - I got hacked and lost my most recent entry being this one! I suppose a disgruntled visitor was let down by the lack of technology and vagina’s. Sorry no Robocop action here guys.
Eggs and Stuff
Smile, You’re Hot
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…
Comments are offOut 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?
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Ego ‘Plodes
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