Everything from my old blog.......

Right guys, below are my previous blogs from my previous blog account. Why I have changed it, I won't say, both because it's boring and I can't be bothered to say why. There should be some videos there, but they aren't really that interesting.... But you haven't missed much, and what you have missed is pasted below... see, full circle....


Thursday, 29 November 2007
Porn for Media Designers.....

Hello... thought I'd check out Drawn website first thing today, and saw something beautiful.....

The Wacom Cintiq 12WX graphics tablet...

waaaaaaah if only I win the lottery eh?....

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Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Tonight, Tonight.....

T'was a good day at Uni today. Started doing some research into my new brief, which is to produce a title sequence for a programme/film. I'm still undecided between The Culture Show and a News at Ten type of programme. I fear that if I do choose the news programme that I may just go all out 'The Day Today'/'Brass Eye' on it... but that's no bad thing - Chris Morris you are a genius. But The Culture Show seems a good 'un, although it seems to be the choice of the class and I'm thinking 'I wanna do something different'... but probably won't...
So yes, I have just started looking into title sequences and watching a few on good ol' Youtube. Kyle Cooper (Seven, Spiderman, Mimic, HP Printer adverts) is a Genius - master of title sequences, just like the amazing Saul Bass - see, I have done my research!
Whilst researching I came across a minty mint website - http://drawn.ca/
It's a blog/showcase for up and coming artists and many that are established but I haven't heard of. Amazing for inspiration and ideas. There is so much talent out there and this site showcases it - I discovered Meomi on it - check them out, so cute!
Also had an awesome Contextual Studies lesson with Monsieur DeVere about Surrealism - which came from Dada don't you know ;) Showed us some clips showing the different art styles we have been studying. Good lesson. Shame it was followed by me having to stand in the rain for 20 mins waiting for my bus... oh well.

Tomorrow is the Student Rep meeting, where hopefully some stuff will be sorted out for my fellow peers.....

Also I apologise for the appalling Emo background and general layout of my blog currently. I am in an experimenting phase as someone showed me how to create my own background and put it up... so sorry, hopefully all will be sorted out soon.

Safens people

p.s. Kirk is a vehicular menace.......

Posted by Helmosneakers at 15:26 0 comments

Saturday, 24 November 2007
Let's see.......

Reeto, have uploaded my animation onto Photobucket, so here it is for your viewing pleasure... or not.....




obviously I know now that you can upload videos straight onto blogger.... but I wanted to do it the long way round.... as usual.......

Posted by Helmosneakers at 14:25 0 comments

At Last.....

This past week saw me finish and present my first proper college assignment. The project was to produce a 30 second or so animation about my least favourite subject: myself (which, I know, begs the question, why the hell did I set up a blog about myself... but I have done it as part, and to support, my course, so... ner). Anyhoo, back to matters at hand, I finally presented my animation on Wednesday 21st November and got a Pass! Hurrah!
This Unit was more about the design process so I made sure my sketchbook displayed all my ideas from start to finish, and all of my drafts. I made my animation to look like a journey through my life so far, kind of a timeline if you will. I started with the Hong Kong flag (where my parents are from) and moved onto the flag of Holland (where I was born) and moved onto a path showing Manchester (where I moved to and grew up in starting from about 1984), to where I used to live and where I live now and things I like.... but all done in an arty or so way. Starting with the flags gave me chance to work the colours together and gave it a starting point. When I finally figure it out, I will post it up on here and you can all have a look and see what I mean... or just a laugh at how silly it looks! I found this brief to be enjoyable (woohoo I'm making an animation, go me!), and frustrating (getting used to the software - Photoshop and Final Cut Pro - and getting it to do what I wanted was time consuming). Also from this task I made the mistake of not managing my time better so, yes, some parts were rushed and I think it shows in my animation, but I know this is something to learn from and do better next time.
In other news I have Critical Studies work to catch up on and I have started to use my sketchbooks more, mainly for doodling, but you never know, one of those little pics may be used in the future.
This past week, again on the Wednesday, saw the band I'm in play at gig at the Retro bar in Manchester, with our good friends and awesome band Married To The Sea from Liverpool. MTTS were as usual on form, playing their indie/poppy/happy riffage to our delighted ears.
A good set from them with an excellent mix of songs and an awesome cover of Fugazi's 'Waiting Room'.
So it's not been a bad this past week, though it has come to me becoming ill - chesty cough, sore throat - bad end to a not bad week.... oh well :)

Posted by Helmosneakers at 13:27 0 comments

Monday, 29 October 2007
First Post!!

Hello people,

Here is my first post.

On here you will find my randomness, ramblings, roamings, reviews, etc.

Hope all is well!

xHx