Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Of doppelgangers

First up a quick apology for the lack of content and missing the friday weekly roundup but for the last week I have not had a computer other than my lowly laptop and my room mate's when she is out. But reguardless on with the post!

Doppelgangers, some of you may have met what you consider to be yours, others may have not. But I feel I have, to some disturbing results.

You see, I kind of wanted to *ahem* get intimate with mine. I didn't realise till later but basically what I wanted to do was have sex with myself. Is this the highest form of vanity? This caused me a bit of mental concern, but I got over it.

More importantly I could see so many places in my life and hers where we split. I could trace my life and see how small (and large) changes to my life would effect the end result. For example when we first met she was working for the RSPCA, the exact company I was attempting to work for when I finally found multimedia. She is vegan and I stopped being vegetarian when I first fell into the transgender teenage depression. Outside of life changes though we liked exactly the same TV shows, exactly the same genres and so much more. It was bizarre to meet someone like that.

I bumped into her again a couple of nights back, I still wanted to have sex with her -.-

Hopefully I should get my computer back in the next couple of days and post all my crafting pictures I have stored and ready to show.

- Fae

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Smoking -.-

So as many may know I gave up smoking about.. hrmm... seven months ago? It was moderately painful, I had been smoking for about... ten years? Wow I never realised that I had been smoking for that long. Probably a good reason to quite if any. But back to the point. It's not as hard as I thought it would be. Really. If you need to give up smoking, or if you just want to give up smoking, go do it now.

No really, it wasn't hard as I thought it would be at all. What did I use to help myself get over it? Nothing at all, no patches, no gum, no drugs, no replacement. I just stopped, and I encourage you to do it to if you want to give up! People are happier to see me, I get more done and I just generally feel healthier. I know, I know, lame lame lame. But wait, it gets lamer! You know what you need if you want to give up? You need to want to. Told you it got lamer.

Some people will never give up smoking, because in their heart of hearts they will never believe that they want to. Those that are told by friends, family, loved ones that they should always relapse because they don't want to actually stop smoking.

So why could I stop smoking? After all I had tried once before and managed to stop for a total for six months before relapsing. It was a simple answer, and probably one of the most common ones for a smoker to come across... health.

You see if you want to get gender re-assignment you must pass a series of stringent tests in order to go ahead and get it done. The hard part for most people is passing the mental tests, I have gone into this is past posts. But the problem I had was with smoking. The surgeon I want refused to do anything unless I gave up smoking, strangely enough I was told that about a month before I actually gave up.

So there you go, now some more lighthearted information!

Before I gave up I had one major problem, I lived with a super smoker. You know the kind, the ones that have a smoke more than once in a 22 minutes program. I decided that when he eventually moved out I would not have any temptation. Considering my three room mates I would left with after he moved out I thought this wouldn't be a problem (all non smokers). Flash forward to now. Out of those same three room mates two have pouches of tobacco sitting on their desks and the third just smokes the other two's.

-.- God damnit

(On another note, if you are one of my room mates and you are reading this no I am not having a go at you!)

- Fae

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Almost finished the semester!

This weekend I finish my second last semester. This means all I have left after this is two days a week interning at a large multimedia firm and two days a week doing project work. 12 weeks of this and I am graduated from university, so exciting.

I'm not sure exactly what I want to do when I get out of university, originally I wanted to freelance straight away because I hated the idea of working for other people, but I have been warned that to make a name for myself / learn things I should work for a larger company. Well at least I have my ABN set up so I can start my own personal business if the need be. But I want to do my own thing! But I want to make a name for myself! Gah! Things can actually be difficult sometimes.

Reguardless the next set of holidays will be used to set up my portfolio and portfolio web site for QANTM students. This makes me feel really lame when people ask me what my plans are for the holidays. It's even worse than the other possibility which is "I'm doing project work" >.<

This being the last week of uni there are a lot of people around me stressing out and desperately trying to do last minute work for their assignments. I may have done work in advance, leaving me sitting here on the last week with nothing to do. I have even done the optional work -.-

Still, later on this week I will have done all the work I need to so I will be able to look into writing more interesting blog posts and maybe even relaxing!

Hope your all good out there in internet land!

- Fae

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Spreading the joy of catnip

The day after posting that I would be focused on doing work for uni and how busy I was I went and did something awesome and completely unrelated to uni. Sorry about not posting it straight away, but at least it makes a good Saturday evening reading!

On Thursday I went over to Liz of Little Farm In The Suburbs's house as I had not seen her in ages. I was very surprised to find out that she had a project planned for the day!

We were going to go seed bombing.

Now seed bombing is an activity where you wrap up seeds and compost, protect them in a un-fired clay layer and then spread them out throughout the neighbourhood. The clay protects the seeds as they begin to sprout and when the environment / seeds inside break through the clay layer the plant has a little base to grow on. The most common way this takes place is with wild flowers on urban desolation. Things like old abandoned lots in concrete jungle areas.

But Liz had other ideas (which I fully agreed with). She wanted to bomb Brisbane with Catnip, as the cats themselves don't have the ability to plant it. I thought this was wonderful and promptly agreed.

So the ussual way you go about this is 5 parts clay / 1 part compost (or fertiliser) / 1 part seeds. Now I don't know even anyone out there in internet land has ever seen catnip seeds, but they are small, minuscule, just generally tiny. So the ratio was off, even though in each 6 gram ball we made were 40 seeds on average. But we didn't have any clay so an adventure ensued!

Three or so gardening shops later we were told we had no chance in finding clay (the clay I noticed in other instructions was a dried powder and I assumed it was used in gardening). Some of the people we asked for help from were flummoxed by our need for clay, and we ended up in Spotlight.

Spotlight is a dangerous place for me, and after purchasing beads which I didn't need we managed to escape with clay.

After a short crafting experiment at Liz's place we had 100 seed bombs ready to spread!

Me, looking like an idiot.

I left with 50 seeds bombs in my pocket which are now growing throughout south east inner Brisbane (mainly Stones Corner / Norman Park / Cooparoo / Morningside). So cats of Brisbane rejoice!

- Fae



Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Approaching the end of the Trimester

University is almost over again, I am currently in the second last week of the second last trimester of study that I may ever do inside an institution. So forgive me for cutting this post short.

The company website is at its final stage (all it needs is the character art completed and I'm just waiting on those files to be uploaded) so your all welcome to visit it as much as you would like.


Other than that I just have until the end of next week and I'll be free to work on my own work. This means all those side projects that have slowly let accrue will suddenly get a chance to get done! So soon QANTM students will have the ability to upload their portfolios to my web server, my portfolio will be complete and the database will begin to fill.

So hang on readers, soon there shall be more content!

- Fae

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Good crafternoon everyone!

So I spent this weekend entirely productive, it may be the second last weekend for my university semester but I could think of nothing but than CRAFTING! So these were my efforts this weekend, and also my first attempts at perler beads ^^

Baby Yoshi

Baby yoshi was fun simply because of the fact he is tiny and took little to no time create, these are the kind of projects I like. Taken from Super Mario World!

A wild Shaymin appears!

One of my favourite pokemon (other than togekiss, but I was afraid of running out of white). This character's design is based of the menu icon in Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver.

A fawn

This design was made for Chi (my room mate). Her boyfriend wanted to make her a deer and so I pulled up a rough image and shrunk it. This proved to be ineffective, so I rebuilt the pixels and handed it to him, this is the result!

A wild Caterpie appears!

This was made by the same guy that put together the deer and this time I had no hand in the design. Never the less I thought it was worthy to put up =) This one is based of the sprites for Red / Blue.

Shy Guy: He only wants a friend

Poor shy guy, so lonely. He's by far my favourite Mario character so I had to make him. This design is based off the shy guys from Yoshi's Island.

Boo!

Isn't Boo awesome? That's what I thought and my friend (known as Sketchy to some!) thought so too! So I decided that I should make her one! Design found from a google image search of "Boo" + "pixel".

Kirby

Ahhh kirby, was there any better way to use up the colour pink? I think not. He's based off the nes sprite since past there he begins to get a lot of shading. Based off another's perler design.


A wild Mew appears!

Damn mew! Hanging from lights and taunting people! This was for my room mate Chi as she was upset I couldn't figure out how to make a small dragon ball that you could actually make out the star on! Based off a Nintendo sprite!


Hair accessories

These two are powerups from mario games. The P-Wing is from Mario 3 and the feather is from Super Mario World. These are both now glued to the back of plain barrettes and are perfect for wearing out on a night on the town ^^ Both these sprites are pulled from their respective games.


Heart Necklace

Final piece! I'm happy to say that this one is completely original. I know, crazy huh? I had a bucket full of purple left and I love both purple and hearts, so what was I to do!

And there you have it, my weekend in review. Hope you found it illuminating ^^ If you have any questions about the beads or quite frankly anything at all please leave a comment.

Hope your all going well in internet land!

- Fae

Friday, August 6, 2010

Weekly web roundup #2

So I didn't do as well with awesome clips this week, but here is what we have!

Awesome advert, I don't know exactly how much is faked and how much is real, but never-the-less it is incredible. I would never trust my life to such a device. Found on Reddit.



Hilarious simply because the guy was asked to make it more 'obvious' when the server went down (it was obvious enough to begin with >.<) Found through reddit!



Amazing gecko, so small and impervious to water that he can ran along the top of it. I love how amazing animals can be!



Another one from the same guy that did the Cows & cows & cows. So cute yet horrifying at the same time!

You know I should really stop mentioning that I got them from reddit and just let you guys assume. Although some came from digg =P

Hope your all going well!

- Fae

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Productivity failure!

After almost a month of perfect productivity and ultimate work getting doneness (everything there made sense god damn you) I was immobilised in a sunbeam for upwards of three hours. But never the less I have things that arrived in the mail today that I will put to good use!

First up to the plate is my new laptop skin that I spent three episodes of eureka designing and I'm pretty pleased with it =)

Laptop sticker!

So now my little Eeepc is personalised and pretty and ready for a night out on the town! I'm quite pleased with myself.

The other delivery was a bit annoying, as two and half weeks ago I ordered twenty two thousand perla beads and two boards for positioning them on. The beads have not arrived yet though, so I'm sitting at this board imagining the great things that I shall make such as:

this

this

and this

I can't wait for them to arrive =)

- Fae

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Project work and other tales

First of all I have finalised my blog for my project work. This blog will also contain multimedia based features that are a bit to multimedia focused to go on my personal site. Things like code techniques, ways to speed up loading of files etc. For all future references please visit it at this exact address:

Ok! On to other matters! I have discovered a fatal flaw with my plan to get work done as fast and as efficiently as possible for my project work. I am running out of things to do. I have two websites as done as I can make them without particular content given to me (pictures and text). I have business cards, game logo, business logo, manual template and a box art draft all complete. Once I plan the presentation itself I have technically finished this trimester even though the end date is the 21st of August. So time to start working on making textures! (I'v always wanted to do that).

On the other hand my portfolio website is approaching creation date now that the mockup is 100% done! For anyone interested here is what I expect the front page to look like : grins :

New Growth Designs

Other than that social life has gone splat and no longer exists other than the wonderful time I spend at uni. Oh well I'm sure it will recover, it wasn't a fatal fall.

Oh wait I promised other tales! Umm... today I managed to restrain myself from being a total of seven things:

1. A t-shirt with the print "['hip', 'hip']" (hip hip array)
2. A t-shirt with two weevils separated by a less than sign (the lesser of two weevils)
3. An umbrella with a katana handle
4. A t-shirt with a L4D health pack on the back
5. A portal t-shirt with the words "Look at me still talking when there is science still to do"
6. A crystal firejewel
7. A pair of very very odd boots

Did I want all of these things? Yes very much but shipping to Australia is a bitch and the store I buy from must really have enough for me to warrant the purchase worthy before I pay exhorbatent shipping fees and sadly no store had enough merchandise to make it worthwhile.

Damn.

Hope your all going well out there in internet land!

- Fae