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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I look good on you.
Phew, Wednesday is always draining. I have two computer classes on Wednesday; Digital Publishing and Introduction to Multimedia.
Neither class is particularly difficult, but the sheer act of being on the computer all day is a bit much. When I'm at home on the computer, I am often not literally sitting here staring at the screen the entire time. I take frequent breaks and I often find myself getting into conversations with people around the house -- which is why I'm sometimes a bit slow to respond. ~_^
I just find that I feel extra tired when I get home on Wednesday. It's great that I have Thursdays off though. But tomorrow I have some investigating to do, regarding a current project.
The project essentially involves creating a small booklet or bound-object of your own, using your own stock and content. Of course, you are expected to do research on binding and bind it yourself. You're also expected to actually create your composition using Adobe InDesign, and then have everything printed to industry-standard specifications (ie: you have to ensure that everything could be mass-printed in industry).
So, it's not really a difficult project, it's just a bit time consuming in terms of going out there and getting all the right stock that I want.
Originally I had wanted to take my first story on The Reanimatrix (Caine's Awakening) and print up a small book containing it. However, we're supposed to have around six pages or so...and based on the style of book I want to do, my story simply won't fit.
Instead, I am going to make a little booklet that includes various samples of my digital art. This may include anything from OtakuBoards banners/avatars I've made, to photography, to logos, parts of site layouts, etc...
I thought it'd be nice, because I could focus on making the book beautifully tactile; the web is nice, but there's nothing like flipping through a colourful book with a variety of high quality stock. You can buy some amazing stock from various publishing houses -- I know of a paper company north of Melbourne who specializes in thousands of varieties of paper.
One type (my personal current favourite) is called "sticky paper". It's sort of thick, and almost furry. And when you touch it, it feels kind of sticky. But it's not actually sticky. It leaves nothing on your hand and it doesn't actually stick to anything. It just...feels sticky. It's an odd thing, but I love it. It's so unique.
Gah, getting excited over paper of all things. Next I'll need to buy a berret.
...no, I'm not doing that badly just yet. Ahem.
I am thinking of using some of the elements in my current myOtaku in this book. In particular, I am really keen on the whole red/yellow/grey/black combination right now. So I'd love to actually use this type of style throughout the booklet. Hopefully I can take some photos of the booklet when it's finished, to show you guys on here.
Despite the fact that schoolwork is as nasty as it's ever been, I think I've been getting my online mojo back lately. Perhaps it's just the fact that I've been tinkering with myOtaku a bit, I'm not sure. On that note, do you like my current myOtaku style? It's not as safe or welcoming as the indigo style, but I guess that's the whole point. It feels like it suits me more than the purple one anyway. I redid the avatar, to include my logo on my little Samurai's armor; I felt I should have my logo somewhere on here afterall. ~_^
Hopefully this weekend I can get stuck into that myOtaku.com main page again, too. I'm eager to get that coming out right. But I have to discuss it with Adam first, and I haven't really seen much of him this week. It's a bit unusual for me not to speak to him regularly, so I hope we can catch up tomorrow.
Anyway, this post is getting way too long. So I'll end it here. I guess the good thing about it being myOtaku, is that I can ramble as much as I like about anything and you guys don't have to read it. It's nice to get my thoughts out there, even if it's boring the pants off all of you. ~_^
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