| XD Lyrics.. |
[May. 20th, 2009|10:30 pm] |
The song kinda sucks, but still...
Electric Six - Graphic Designer
She's a nine-to-fiver
Got evil up inside her
She's a- she's a graphic designer
Nobody does it finer
Photoshopping tiger
Simplification messiah
Cropping suicider
She's even redesigned in China
Taking your shit higher
Running something by her
She's a- she's a graphic designer
And she knows her designs of me are graphic
And she goes into work early to avoid traffic
And she don't need prose and she don't need pride
And she don't need your feedback to know where it's at
And she don't need a resume to get through my door
You better bring your A-game when you wage your war
A designer, designer!
She's a nine-to-fiver
Got evil up inside her
She's a- she's a graphic designer
Taking your shit higher
Running something by her
She's a- she's a graphic designer |
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| Procrastination, my old friend... |
[May. 19th, 2009|12:39 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
| [ | Feeling quite |
| |  creative | ] |
Well I have 3 essays to write, all of them are due ASAP.
So of course I'm procrastinating. I have to go into town to buy some paint for Una, but instead of spending an hour writing my essay, I've been sloowwwllyyy drinking a cup of tea.
The best thing that procrastination is good for, is making me do other things I keep putting off. For example, I was avoiding my two other mini-branding type projects (one for my mothers' chocolates, one for my craft things) but now that I have essays to write, my brain is coming up with heaps of sweet ideas for both of them. Packaging for both projects will make me jizz in my pants.
Anyway. Shower time. |
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| Money Love |
[May. 10th, 2009|07:09 pm] |
Bontrust banking advertisment. Not really safe for work. Fucking awesome. |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 6th, 2009|02:50 pm] |
EXHIBITION TONIGHT!!~
Omg! I set up and then everything fell down so somethings have creases and crumpled corners but then i stapled their asses to the wall! BITCH!
Now i'm all set up and heading out to mums to make cupcakes. then i will pass out.
love from roisin. |
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| I love you all, you know that, right? |
[May. 4th, 2009|05:30 pm] |
Hey people!
I got a table for my exhibition. Turns out my parents had an ideal one and my dad dropped it in to college for me today.
I have another request, though...
Does anyone in Chch have a cupcake stand/tier/tower.. thing? You know, they have different tiers and they hold little cakes or cupcakes or whatever?
I only need it for the afternoon/evening of this Wednesday, 6th May. (Although if you'd be willing, I'd probably like to keep it in my display until the 20th or so, just for the look).
I can pick it up/drop it off. Any help would be awesome!
x-posted to kaosians |
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| Veni Vidi Vici |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|07:57 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | design hell | ] |
| [ | Feeling quite |
| |  accomplished | ] |
You are cordially invited to Veni Vidi Vici, the Stage 3 Fine Arts graduate exhibition.
We came. We Saw. We Conquered.
We also worked really hard, sweated and stressed all year for this, so come celebrate our success at our awesome exhibition opening.
6 May, 5.30pm.
Ground Floor Gallery, Design and Arts College of NZ (116 Worcester St, Christchurch)
Drinks and nibbles provided.
(I didn't design the invitation, it's not my fault.) |
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| Print statistics |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|02:17 pm] |
My print statistics for the period of time since Jan 28, 2007.
Trees: 1.155% of a tree
Carbon: 8.0 kg of carbon dioxide
Energy: Equivalent to running a 60W bulb for 263.5 hours.
Total print jobs: 506
Total pages: 930
Can anyone tell me whether that is a lot carbon or not very much? Is that a lot of energy, or not very much?
I'm not worried about the tree... since I'm very economical about paper and always try to fit in as many things as I can on one page. |
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| Table request |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|04:11 pm] |
My graduation exhibition is on the 6th of May and I was wondering if anyone in Christchurch had a round table I could borrow between the 5th and 21st May. It won't be damaged, I can arrange picking up/dropping off, and it will be covered with a table cloth.
The kind of table is a round table you might see in or outside a cafe, or on your deck, or in your garden, or sitting in the corner of your room with a vase on top of it.
Something like this:
or
Something like that... doesn't have to look exactly like that.
Any help with this would be AWESOME! |
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| Trimming.. |
[Apr. 25th, 2009|08:48 pm] |
Trimming by eye is always never a good idea. |
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| Print babies! |
[Apr. 25th, 2009|06:49 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | white room, college | ] |
| [ | Feeling quite |
| |  silly | ] |
| [ | What's that sound? |
| | throw it in the fire - the whip | ] |
Printing is like having a baby (not that I know what having a baby is like.)... You work so hard on developing your ideas for days.. weeks.. months.
You know it's there. You can see it on the screen, you can see it in your head, but it's never truly, really there until you have it in your hands.
You hand your baby to the midwife/tutor and they say "It's a healthy baby! It will grow up to be successful and healthy all it's life!" - this is the equivalent of getting an A
they might say "It's a healthy baby! It will be moderately successful, but has some flaws, such as having a huge nose that prevents it from ever getting laid" which is the equivalent of getting a B
you're hoping they won't say "Your baby is pretty healthy, but I'm sorry to say that it was born blind/deaf... it'll get along okay but it will always need help" which is the equivalent of getting a C
and you dread them saying "I'm sorry, but your baby is stillborn" D/FAIL!
I have a special relationship with the printer at college. I have always taken care of it - canceling the files that are too big for the server to deal with, clearing paper jams, yelling at other people for feeding it the wrong types of paper or kicking it. I know if you set the mood, and stroke it the right way, it'll give you exactly what you want. One of the best things about it is that you have absolute control over it, you can manipulate it to your will. I hate the idea of prostituting my design to a commercial printer because they always get the colour wrong or fuck up the trimming.
Our relationship has always been tumultuous... I've been having an on-going affair with the tudor smooth ivory 340gsm paper, and I've always had a thing for the silk coated 220gsm paper downstairs. However, the printer is always there for me when I need it, with it's steady whirring and stacks of regular paper... tudor smooth ivory 340gsm and silk coated 220gsm sometimes run out on me. :(
The most beautiful thing in the world is when my steady, always-ready printer and my flirty, flighty paper get together. Paper is so white and smooth... like a virgin maiden ready for the taking. Printer is big and strong, wanting to take you in it's arms and have it's inky way with you. When paper and printer get together, paper's innocence is torn from it. Paper is bereft of it's whiteness by the harsh, unyielding printer!
Printer takes it in, processes those 0s and 1s into colour information and jizzes on paper's smooth white surface! The printer then throws paper aside to dry off and moves on to the next job...
I then take those fresh new creations and cut them and mount them!! Borne out of this horrifying process, fraught with stress and emotion is something new, something fresh: Printer babies... ready to be handed to the midwife of judgement, ready to be shown to the world, and to be cradled in my arms, and coo-ed over by friends and family.
*goes off to hump the printer* |
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| ARGGGHHH!! |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|06:11 pm] |
On another note:
WHAAAT! Whoever decided it was a good idea to have Overprint automatically turned ON in Illustrator is fucking retarded. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 27th, 2009|05:40 pm] |
Does anyone have experience dealing with workbridge? Were they helpful? Skeptical of your condition? Particularly stingy or generous?
I'm making an appointment with workbridge for next week and will go there with my mum. I'm going to see if I can get a desk and chair for home, transport money, and a part time job that involves sitting down. However I'm pretty skeptical about getting help, because in my experience people are skeptical about my condition... it's pretty much 'invisible' because I can walk, talk and smile. One time a doctor told me he wouldn't sign my invalids benefit form because I was smiling. WTF.
Anyway, comments, advice about workbridge would be awesome. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 26th, 2009|02:53 pm] |
Does anyone have a round table I could borrow between the 5th and 21st of May?
I need it for my exhibition which runs from 6th to the 20th of May. It would be covered with a table cloth and be sitting in front of the panel showing my work in the Design and Arts College foyer gallery. And I can probably get my dad to transport it for me.
The kind of table I'm thinking of should be tall enough to easily pick things up off, with minimal bending to reach things.
Here's a photo of the kind of shape I'm thinking of:
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| Rita Angus, Life and Vision |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|04:06 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | college | ] |
| [ | Feeling quite |
| |  impressed | ] |
| [ | What's that sound? |
| | The Presets - Beat On/Beat Off | ] |
This is such an amazing exhibition. I recommend it to anyone vaguely interested in art, women in art or new zealand artists.
Rita Angus had an amazing life and is truly an inspiring woman. Her distinctive style introduced New Zealand to modern art (along with other notable artists such as Colin McCahon). She continued to develop her style and explore her personal philosophies on art and life, despite great struggles such as separating from her husband, having an affair and a miscarriage, and developing ovarian cancer - which ended up being the cause of her death. Right until the very end of her life she maintained her pacifist views and her right to paint as she wished to paint. |
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| Coz everyone loves an ego boost... |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|09:21 pm] |
Stolen from some people
One little compliment can make you feel great. So give me a compliment, anything in the entire world, even that my shoelaces are pretty. Put this in your journal. Once you get some comments, put that entry in a memory or tag and when you are feeling down, just go to that entry and this will remind you how great you are.
Comments are going to be screened so none of you will know if I'm uber-popular, who gets over 100 comments on this, or who's a total loser and doesn't get any. Anonymous comments are also accepted ;) |
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| Art & Craft stuff... |
[Feb. 15th, 2009|12:17 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
| [ | Feeling quite |
| |  melancholy | ] |
| [ | What's that sound? |
| | The Mars Volta - Cygnus.... Vismund cygnus | ] |
Stuff I'd like to learn/be better at
-knitting
-crotcheting
-jewellery making
-bead looming
-lacemaking
-sewing
People I love
-william morris
-ivan chermayeff
-stefan sagmeister
note to self: email stefan sagmeister. ask if he needs a wife? |
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| OMG |
[Jan. 29th, 2009|08:16 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
| [ | Feeling quite |
| | sad | ] |
| [ | What's that sound? |
| | The Horrors - Jack the Ripper | ] |
Dan and I broke up last night. It was mutual, amicable, we're still friends and all that stuff.
It's gonna be really really weird adjusting, though. I'm trying to look at all the positive things about being single (clean room! not doing someone else's laundry! staying up as late as I want!). It's tough, though.
But seeing as ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aleph_naught is going to have to move out, Chez Homer is going to need a new flatmate!
So please if you know anyone needing a flat, put them in touch with us.
Today is sandcastle day, but I'm not sure how social I want to be, so I might just go shopping instead. I'm going to be late for Art History but let's face it, I don't give a fuck :) |
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drained
okay