Year of the Rabbit

Year of the Rabbit from Frater on Vimeo.

Happy Chinese New Year.

The evolution of Photoshop

You're going to have to enlarge this image, by clicking it. But it's pretty cool/interesting. I can tell from the start up screen that I used to have Photoshop 6, on my Windows computer a long time ago. Since then, I've jumped right up to CS3 and now CS5 - the whale.

Japanese typography

"Designer Masaaki Hiromura has combined typography with symbols and signs in this wonderful Japanese food type, which replaces specific portions of kanji words with the food ideogram that the word embodies. The result is a clean, iconic look that communicates ideas without a need to understand Japanese characters– in other words, type that has replaced words with symbolism." - jeaniejeanie


I am so surprised no one has thought of this before, or if they have I have never seen it.

Great stuff.

Revival tour with Chuck Ragan

This has got to be one of the best touring acoustic musician collaborations. Founded by the brilliant Chuck Ragan, The Revival Tour features other amazing musicians such as Frank Turner, seen in the video above, Tim Barry and Ben Nichols. And soon, Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem.

I read this this morning, which makes me very happy.

Chuck Ragan: We just did a European tour with Gaslight, and we had planned to try and record the record on that tour. We were all so busy on the tour and just running hard that it was tough to record [a full-length album]. We messed around with a little bit of stuff and started doing some songs together, but the two of us decided it would be better to hold off because we want to write more together. Brian will be doing the Revival Tour this fall over in the UK and Europe, so we’ll probably put something on the Revival Tour compilation or maybe do some seven-inches." - The Rebel Yell

Gotta love that loads of my favourite musicians/artists are friends and make music together. Reading this extra detail on Wikipedia makes me think that if it's true I will be overcome with happiness.

"A revival tour with Brian Fallon and Frank Turner is planned for late 2011." Eeeee! Please be true. And please be somewhere I can get to, at a suitable time.

Essay submission

Essay is due in this Thursday. I had pretty much completed it over the Christmas break, so there was very little that I need to add to it. I basically just added an extra quote or two, shuffled some bits around and made any grammatical/spelling corrections after two of my friends read it through. I am pleased with it anyway, so I hope I get a decent grade.

A few people mentioned laying out their essays in InDesign, which I hadn't planned to do, but this evening I thought "hey, why not?"I didn't do anything over-the-top, just set a simple grid and four columns. Keeping certain information to the left hand side on each page, in its own larger margin.

Note the similarity index - the lower number the less you have copied and the

less "plagiarism". I'm impressed, that means I wrote an awful lot myself! Haha.

2551 words

Tree book

I have been working on some graphic design work for myself, yay! As you no doubt are already aware, I really like trees. I have quite a collection of tree photographs, most of which probably aren't great by photographic standards. But they show the shapes, colour and general interestingness that I found in the tree in the first place.

So, I'm making a little book with them in. At the moment, I'm designing it season by season with 20 photographs per season. I have started with Spring which looks pretty good and varied at the moment. Hopefully by the time I get to Winter the variety will still be there.

Some spreads.

Not sure what to do for season pages, yet.

Alternative route to Tesco

I took rather a long detour to get to Tesco Express this morning, but it was intentional as it is such a beautiful day in Fal town. And it actually has been for most of this week, it's just I have been stuck inside my daylight-less studio at uni (which is not actually a bad place to be), for the majority of it.

I walked along the seafront, all the way past Gylly, off up through one of the side roads towards Melvill Road, then across in Fox Rosehill Gardens. I walked through the gardens, ending up at the centre of Woodlane (uni) and then off up a hill onto Woodlane (the street). Towards the church, up some more hills, to where you can see across the bay (if that's what you'd call it) from Flushing to the Docks. Then picked a random road and walked down into town, and back to little ol' Tesco. And home from there.

I ♥ Falmouth.

Never miss a tree opportunity.

 I swim at this hotel.

I was interested to see how far I walked, so I calculated the route! 2.5 miles – not bad!

Now I need to do some work...

Veggies

We had a lecture from Slightly Different today. They are a web design focused studio based in Falmouth. It was alright, not really my thing 'though, but twas at least interesting to see a Falmouth design studio. As you would be able to tell from my (minimal) lecture notes, or doodles, my favourite part of the presentation was the vegetable characters in a campaign to get kids into gardening.

And thus I decided these must be re-created with my vegetables and some googley eyes. The veg has since been cooked and eaten.

Unfortunately, the mushroom was a failure and does not

belong with these fine creatures.