SHOT CREDIBILITY

The actual tagline for Saw 2 is: "Oh yes. There will be blood."

What the?? I mean come on advertising people! Think a bit more. Unless it's a joke? WAY too lame.... even for me.....
IESSO

NIGHT TERRORS

OH MAN! I just had the worst dream ever. I dreamt I was at work. And that Lana was talking a lot. And that I had a headache.

That's all.


Freakin nightmare of Elm St. proportions that one.
IESSO

A JORB WELL DONE

Hyu finished the site we (he) was doing for Helen Lancaster, after many-a-month. Well done to him. It looks really awesome! And she really really likes it too. There are a few bugs that need to be worked out, but other than that a complete success.

Check it out HERE

IESSO

WHERE'S SHERLOCK HOLMES WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

Someone told me something in Khmer (the language of Cambodia) but she didn't tell me what it meant. I've been trying to find a translator on the interweb for many hours now. It's a fun little puzzle to solve, but still, it's starting to get a bit frustrating. Google offers a service where they translate many languages into English, or vice-versa but not Khmer. It wouldn't really bother me except they have a service that converts any and all web pages to KLINGON! but none to Khmer. Or Yiddish/Hebrew for that matter. KLINGON! That's not even a real language! Ugg....

IESSO

PS. I need one of the following people to help me with this one: Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones, Doc Brown or Macguyver. Shirley one of them would be able to translate it for me. I asked about 30 people through Skype, but no such luck.

MAD FOLD-IN STYLINS'

Here's the final CONCEPT design for the QCA Admission pamphlet I'm doing. This is only the cover, but heh, it's something. I didn't wanna bother putting the whole thing up, but copyright and laziness stopped me. The inside's got this mad fold-in style image which together. For those of you who don't 'get' the concept it's working with the Laft Brain-Right Brain theory, and by going to an art college we embrace or right brain way of thinking... or was it left?? Anyway yeah, hope they like it, even though I have my doubts.

A quick note about the colors: The brown is supposed to be less brown and more grey, but the monitor cant display pantone colors very well (pantones are a different type of color system, which is mucho differento from the normal inks like cyan, magenta, yellow and black... but thats too boring to type up... take my word for it)

IESSO

PS. When I typed the post I thought the image was really hard to see, but looking at it now, the image is pretty obvious and my post seems really patronising. Sorry about that...

PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON OUR POOR AND WRETCHED SOULS

The lovely little Smurf song, performed so horribly wrong.

"Singed" by: Elliott, Elvira and Jen
Filmed by: Lana
Click HERE to follow the links to Smurfsong heaven (or hell)
[UPDATE: Sorry guys, but we've got to wait for the video to be approved by the 'Archive Curator' before we can watch it. That apparently takes 1-2 days...]

KOALA TEE

This is payback for not posing. We're sorry, but we love ya!

CRUMBS of THOUGHT. Or perhaps THUMBS of CROUGHT

On an unrelated note did you know that the Mr Fusion addition to the Back to the Future time machine was based on a coffee grinder from Krups? Neither did I, but it totally was.



See?

Also, working on a Lichtenstein stencil. I'm post an image or two soon....

IESSO

PS. BEST WEBSITE EVER! Searching for a sound effect? Trying to hear a French police siren, or the sound of a tram bell? Well look (or listen as it were) no further than FindSounds-dot-com! YAY!

PPS. DON'T SAY YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING A SUSS COMMENT. But don't you think the game 'Heads Down, Thumbs Up' is a great euphemism for oral sex? I sure do. Another childhood game ruined. Success.

PPPS. Listening to multiple cover versions of 'When Doves Cry' and reading the archives of one of my favorite blogs. Here is one of her quotes that I thought particularly amusing at this time of night (11.30pm): "One more thing. Whatever happened to the days when you could end an argument by huffily saying, "Good day, sir!"

PPPPS. T'aking a page from Mimi I turned my home phone number into a word. WOW! What fun. KLO1RAK0. My mobile number is much less fun. 0G0B1XYUBO. Make-a-no-sense-a. I'm suddenly Italalian-a! ??-a

PPPPPS. A neutron walks into a bar.
He says, "Hey, how much for a beer?"
The bartender says, "For you, no charge."

PPPPPPS. If I was ever going to do a giant image combining two pop culture artist/icons/styles, this'd shirley be it. Or at least what it'd look like. This is not very big. YET!



PPPPPPPS. BEST COLORS. EVER! Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. So nice. So very nice. So pure or something. Damn you crazy primary school color system. Red, Blue, Yellow. Just seems so unnatural and gross. Cyan and Magenta are da booms.

PPPPPPPPS. BEST POSTING SYSTEM EVER! The post-script. Neatly sidesteps the need for literal thought and cohesion between those icky things called paragraphs. And totally looks less lazy than a numbering list type dealie. HA! The perfect scam.

PPPPPPPPPS. According to Freud (a relative of mine, by the way!) I have a major oral fixation because I was never breast fed. Which is why I chew pens (PENS! notice the lack of 'i') and smoke and etcetera. And why I'm so obsessed with other mouth related things like talking, kissing and of course dirty-nasty-kinky oral sex. Like. Duh. But anyway let's all get psycho-analytical on you ass. Which reminds me, you can't spell analytical, or psycho-analytical without ANAL. Ha! Read into that one Freud. Oh you did already? What? I'm in love with my mother?! And father!? Damn you, damn you to the max. I said good-day sir!

I GETS IT!

Ricks-Cafe-Americain
Originally uploaded by Elliott Scott.

I've got a nice juicy post to put up soon, I'm just waiting for some photos. If you have them feel free to email them! Jen had a party last night and it was fun. The photos are goofy as hell. Good stuff.

In the meantime: I watched Casa Blanca again. Its been about 10 years since I last saw it and was bored out of my mind then, but this time it all made sense. Good movie. The ending was unlike any other movie at the time, and is still different from most movies to this day. Well done.

Best lines:

"Play it Sam, play 'As Time Goes By'"

"Here's looking at you kid"

"This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

"Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life"

"I may not know much about anything, but the problems between you and me don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world"

"Round up the usual suspects"

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

"We'll always have Paris"

... I mean come on! Those are some of the most famous lines from American cinema, and they're all from one movie! It's crazy.

On that note: Here's some more famous movie lines.

IESSO

POP ART or GRAFFITI?

I am working on some more stencils incorporating the concept of street art. I'm taking a rather literal approach by using images of popular and famous artwork from America at the moment, but I might branch out to other countries. Perhaps even Australia, if I can figure out what world famous images there are. So no, probably not.

Anyway I've only drawn 2 so far, not cut them out or anything, but I have plans to do a Warhol and a Litchenstein, a Rockwell, a Hopper and even a Pollock stencil. The first two listed might be in color if I can make the effort, so no, probably not.





Keep checking the blog for updates of this nature.

IESSO

PS. Be warned: The next post is somewhat melancoly, so if you don't wanna read something like that, skip ahead.

PPS. If you have no idea which artists I'm reffering to it's ok, you'll totally still recognise the images. They're pretty famous. Also I'd appreciate some suggestions. Particularly American artists. But others are ok too.... I might do a Mona Lisa, even though she's been done to death. The slut.

PPPS. I've been addicted to Technorati's listing of my performance. Guess what? I'm ranked 284,000th best blog in the world! WOW! So if you wanna add a link to me in your blog, go right ahead, it'll totally improve my ratings. WOOT!

PPPPS. And now for the melancoly post:

THINGS

I got a letter from my ex-girlfriend today. It wasn't a bad letter. It was good I guess. But it's made me think. Actually it didn't. I'm only thinking about things now because it really had no emotional impact on me at all. It made me happy I guess, but that's about it.

I have absolutely nothing to say about her. But I have this nagging feeling that I should write something.

I wanted to talk to the unamed girl about this, but what is there to say? Nothing really. i wanted to talk to my friends instead but again there isn't anything to say. I really am nuetral about the whole thing, which freaks me out. if this was a year ago I'd probably be relapsing into the downward spiral of pain i knew so well, but im not.

I'm happy with my life at the moment. I'm doing some design work that people are happy with [and sometimes I am too], I've got a positive outlook on life, with the possibilities and potential to back it up. There is a girl that I really like. Things aren't too bad. So what's with this empty feeling I have in my soul?

Maybe it has to do with 'the meaning of life'. I don't feel right. I'm overwhelmed with things that are working for me, and have the potential to blossom into total awesomeness, but why then do I feel that something is wrong? I wish my shrink was here. Is a career the meaning of life? Love? A family? I don't know. Surely there is something more than these things. Even contentness with your own being seems to simple. Surely striving for an inattainable goal is better than reaching a goal and being happy with that. But that seems to pesimistic. Too sad to try your whole life to do something and ultimately fail.

As I've said I'm not happy with my design work. I can do better, and I will do better. But that's not all life is. So what about love then? Love seems to be much more important that a career. if you have love, it doesnt matter what you do. someone who loves you and is in love with you makes you blind to everything else. But that seems to naive.

And besides, my career has some potential to grow, as does my current [unamed and vaguely defined but nontheless wonderful] relationship. So why do I feel so strange? Maybe I need to take my meds. Its been a few days.


Please forgive me for this post. I dont want to upset anybody. I just needed to share my emotions. This blog was originally my online journal, replacing the now defunct physical journal. I hate the self-censorship i have to place on it, especially keeping it from the eyes of unamed persons. But some information needs to be written down, and this is the place for it.

IESSO

PS. Having a crappy day. Linus makes a list of good things on his bad day, so here it goes:

BAD

1. Didn't show up to work today, Sebastian is annoyed and worse; disappointed.
2. Got an email from Amanda, bummed out a bit.
3. Made someone catch the wrong train and then that lead to missing her train, and then catching another wrong train and eventually stretching the travel time to 3 hours instead of 45 minutes. Feel guilty as hell.
4. Dont feel worthy of going to a party we were supposed to go to tonight.
5. Generally miserable.

GOOD

1. Doing some good work at Liveworm, my portfolio is getting better and better.
2. Nice to hear Amanda is doing well, even if it does remind me we have nothing to talk about.
3. Good to spend time with a certain someone. Enjoy every second with her.
4. Not dead?

OH MY GOD, I WAS WRONG, IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG, YOU FINALLY MADE A MONKEY, yes we finally made a monkey, YOU FINALLY MADE A MONKEY OUT OF MEEEEeeeeee!

So, what do ya reckon? My first serious attempt at stencil art. I like them. Hope you do too. I might look into selling some shirts and bags and stuff, but that all depends on interest and costs. So if you want one, let me know. Or if you wanna request a design, that's cool too. No extra charge!


IESSO

CHOCOLATE CHIP or PEANUT BUTTER?

I went out with Tanner tonight to catch up and check out some cool bars. We succeded in the first, but being the Gold Coast inevitably failed the second. Anyway when we were out we were talking about some sort of crap, paying each other out for being gay or whatever, you know, the kinda stupid things guys do. Here's the best line from our conversation:

ME: Oh yeah! Well I'm not the one walking through the park with a gay guy!


Dammit I'm a fool.

Also on a similar silly talking topic. The two Japanese girls got back from buying their dinner. (For those of you who don't know, they're quite girly-girly with the giggling and cutesy voices and the whatnot, so anything they say is invariably taken in the wrong context)

AKANE: Want to eat my cookie? (with a sheepish grin)
ME: Uh, are you hitting on me? (shocked and confused)


Weird.
That's it for tonight. I guess you had to be there!

IESSO

PS. Welcome Dermot to the magical happy land of posting comments. Its nice to finally have you with us.

PPS. I don't mind so much substituting numerals for letters for aesthetic reasons, eg. D£RM0+ It's changing in a literal context that annoys me, eg. 'Homes 4 Living'. Eye-roll central baby!

PPS. I totally fell asleep on the train when I was meeting Tanner. At Beenleigh station I was thinking 'I might just... rest.... my eyes for a ... second' and then suddenly! 'What the hell!?' (phones ringing) 'Oh crap! I fell asleep on the train. ... blah blah blah'. Luckily the next station wasn't too far off course and Tanner met me there instead. He actually beat the train to the station. Which is nothing to balk at.

PPPS. Thought of another much-hated word, but I forgot what it was. So theres that bit of info for ya to chew on.

PPPPS. I love... lamp.

PPPPPS. I got me the mostest cool project EVER! It's (yet another) artist flyer/brochure/catalogue but for an exhibition in Shangdong CHINA! Wow, I can go to China. Well not quite, but it is in Chinese. I'm excited ever if no-one else is. That's cool! I am designing something in Chinese!!!! AWESOME!

A LITTLE BIT ELITIST

Ok, so you can accuse me of being elitist, or if you want, being a hypocrite because of my casual writing style BUT I do have some merit to my following statements.

I’ve finished reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, and was somewhat disappointed. The story was fine, and the subject matter was extremely interesting, but overall it lacked a certain something. There was no subtlety to it, no style no grace. His storyline was simple and dare I say crude. Nothing exciting really happened, it didn’t feel like a story, rather a vehicle to put it subject in context.

Now don’t get me wrong, in NO WAY could I write a better novel. I am no writer, I am just saying I’m disappointed, especially since it’s the topic of EVERYONE and everything. I’ve seen countless TV shows about the subject matter, which is the main element to his novel, which by the way; most dispute the accuracy of his ‘facts’. I just don’t think it’s worthy of the praise it’s receiving. It’s a popular book, not nessesarily a good book.

On the topic of books leads me to another equally pointless note. How many stories are there? It seems like only a small handful, and the rest are retellings of the same thing. For example; Alice in Wonderland, and Frankestein. Now lets look at George Orwell’s ‘1984’, which by the way I think is an amazing book. You can definitely draw some parallels between ‘1984’ and ‘Frankenstien’. You all gasp!? Yes, it’s true. Frankenstien is basically about a monster created by man, unleashed on the world, and in the end leads to his own downfall. Frankenstien creates his monster, lets it loose on the world, and it kills him in the end (spoiler, sorry). In ‘1984’ the monster is The Party (The Communist Party by the way) and it is created by men. It is let loose on the world (capitalism is banned and the worlds 3 superpowers; Eurasia, East Asia and Oceania are all Socialist states). The monster grows powerful and greedy and all-consuming and in the end destroys it’s creaters (by killing the human spirit).

But you can argue that Frankenstien is more than that, it’s about acceptance and compassion and longing to be understood. Yeah, ok, I concede it’s that too. But ‘Godzilla’ is this story, so is Jurassic Park, so are most monster movies.

Another example; ‘Alice in Wonderland’. How many examples of this are there?! Millions. Although I can’t really think of any off the top of my head. ‘Spirited Away’? Well what is ‘Alice’? It’s a young character who goes to a mysterious land full of wonder (sorry about the literal translation there) and experiences all sorts of wonder, but wakes up and it was all a dream. Or was it!? ‘The Wizard of Oz’, ‘The Matrix’, ‘Alien’ (you all gasp again? Doesn’t Ripley fall asleep at the end of the film and when she awakes she’s not sure if it was real. I guess she is sure, but there are never any remains [don’t argue with me on this one!])

BUT the worst offender is ‘The Matrix’. It has both stories wrapped up in it. The monster is of course the robots and machines and stuff, which ultimately destroy most of the human race and current way of life. At the same time they just wanted to be accepted (via The Animatrix films) and of course they were created by man. ALSO Alice is not so sublety used in the the first film; The White Rabbit tattoo, eating the pills, the mirror and of the characters actually mentioning the story. And of course there is that whole waking up analogy and not being sure if it was real or not.

So I’m not really sure if I have a point or not, but I THINK I might.

Speaking of ‘1984’ reminded me of a conversation yesterday and many times in the past, about the death of the English language. If this is a single pet-peeve of mine, it’s that phone/SMS/chatroom text or replacing numbers for words (LOL, ROFL, B4, CUL8RM8) they’re not only annoying but insulting. I understand the need for it, it shorten the character count, reducing the cost, that’s fine, it’s the use of it on signage, on TV, in everyday language, even in books! Space is not an issue, don’t patronize me by trying to be modern. Young people don’t appreciate it. I don’t think. It might be cool at the moment but it continues or gets worse we may loose something important in our language; intricacy. I love that we have a thousand words for the same thing, or that a single word can mean multiple things, or that a single sound have multiple spellings. It makes it exciting, it gives me pride to be able to use these different words (don’t say it, don’t! I do use the proper words when I want to). What I’m saying is; if we continue to simplify the language to make it ‘more accesessable’ to the younger generations then we will loose the pride in our language. If everyone can speak at the same level (a lower level) how will we distinguish intelligence? How will we have pride in what we say and how we say it? AND if some people hold on to the current language they will instantly be the upperclass, looking down upon the masses. They will be the Inner Party and the Outer Party, you will all be Proles. Have fun, suckers!

The reason I bring this all up is because we’re working on a logo for a company called ‘Homes 4 Living’. It makes me cry. Not only does it have letter/number substitution, it also has a really lame and obvious sort of name. IDIOTS!

Ok, my rant is done now. I can’t believe you ate the whole thing.
I’m Comrade Scott, signing off.

WITH ENVIOUS EYES

Someone I know got I brand new 15' Powerbook today. I was there when she got it, and damn it's cool. I totally want one. That's all for today, I know I promised the UN10 book, but quite frankly I forgot. And besides I doubt you really care anyway. You greedy bastards.... All you really want are dumbass images or insights into my lame life.

IESSO

PS. I'm just kidding, I love you all. Especially YOU

PPS. This is perhaps the worlds best AND worst nerdy-typo joke, EVER!

Ouch, after that one I dont think I EARNED the right to buy a new Powerbook. I might have lost my Powerbook status. Anyone want my current one?



there you go guys, the AWESOME! Uni10 Book. .... Unfortunately there are some sort of size restrictions so it's a bit small.

AN INSULT TO MILLIONS or a cool masthead, you decide...

I sure hope the new masthead makes sense. I translated from the widget in Tiger. Someone please tell me what it says....
Finished the UN10 book, FINALLY. Post up a finished copy tomorrah. Watch this space.

IESSO

PS. !!!!! R O S E b .. u .... d .....


Yes, I will re-draw the hand.... It isn't very awesome welles at the moment!

OH, SO YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME DO YA?

ADAM: Do you want some condoms?
ME: Uh, no thanks, I'm fine.
ADAMS: Oh ok, well I bought some the other day and they're too small for me.
ME: Yeah, gee, thanks.

ANOTHER LAME TEE-SHIRT

Yep. The idea worked a bit better in my head. Not much, but a bit. I might give it another go when I'm feeling less annoyed, aggrevated, agitated, a..... ? whatever. You know what I mean.

Yeah, so it was my brothers birthday. And as usual when my family gets together the stress levels were high. My parents seem to have this knack of getting really angry and bitter, but not actually mean to be, and don't mind when they're annoyed. So I don't think they were actually pissed off, but it seemed that way, and wasn't that fun.

And also I had a massive headache and didn't take my pills so I was feeling kinda crappy. So their usual antics kinda got me in a bad mood. But I was trying to be nice to my brother and I hope he had a good day despite our stupidity.

We went to a resturant in a hotel and it was nice, but getting there was a bitch! The elevators were f*cking up. People were crowding into them and whenever someone pressed the button the doors would open. The people inside were getting annoyed. The people outside just didn't get it, they kept pushing the button and the doors kept opening. We did this for about 5 minutes. All the while my rage was building. Finally I blurted out: "Use another f*cking elevator!". My family looked at me shockedly. The people in the elevator were embarrassed/annoyed and the old people outside of it looked at me unapprovingly.

I tend to have a short temper when I'm not feeling good + stressed + flustered from hanging with my parents + generally. Remember the great 'Passion of the Christ' disaster? Yeah, try ready the old post.

IESSO

PS. For the guys and gals at the worm: yeah, my brother liked the shirt. Good thing too... cuz he hated everything else. 'Cept the money. Gots to love money.
PPS. I'm totally not a golfer, but I figure the generic quirkiness involved, coupled with the pants might make it work on Threadless. If I redo it that is....

NO GARY, I'M ONLY TRYING TO HELP YOU

Went to lunch with Unamed Girl (who will be called UNG from now on [and also prefers not to be talked about in the blog, so I'll be sticking to events rather than feelings-type-things when it comes to her]) We went to the park to escape the stress of work, which is actually pretty damn stressful at the moment. It was nice to relax and enjoy time with someone interesting/exciting/other good things.

While we were there we saw a pigeon with some string tied to his foot. Poor little guy. I haven't seen a bird bound like that since I was working my way through Thailand (sorry one of my favourite things to say, along with 'That's what my ex-wife said'. I've never worked my way through Thailand) ANYWAY We tried desperately for about an hour trying to capture him. First we tried just grabbing him. Then luring him with food. They didn't work. I took off my jumper and was going to throw it over him. Some bread crumbs distracted him, and I threw it over him, but he flew away just at the last minute. All we were trying to do was help.

He flew back and we tried again. Eventually he learned that jumper = capture and whenever we even reached for it he'd fly away.

But he always flew back. I hope we can see him again, and help the poor dude. By the way his name is Gary. Dunno why, he just is. Ask his parents why they named him that. I dunno.

So yeah, ya try to help someone out, and what do they do? Eat your food and fly away. Moral of the story, don't do nothin' for nobody.

Speaking of insulting people (what?) Kat came into Liveworm today to 'talk to Sebastian'. She read my blog. And figured out the extremely complex coding system for Kat (K_t) so yeah. She wasn't happy. We worked it out. She apologised for defending Hitler, I apologised for insulting her. BUT still, I must say this; her elitist attitude isn't appreciated, apology or not. BUT with that in mind I am a bit of a jerk, and should maybe stop writing mean things about people.

Maybe.

ANYWAY

It's my little brothers birthday tomorrow (he's turning 19 and is hardly a little kid anymore but I'm stuck in my ways!) so wish him a happy birthday!

IESSO

MAYBE I NEED A JOB

I can't afford to go to work today. Pretty sad isn't it, especially considering recent events. But yeah, I'm fresh outta money. Like completely. So I dunno what I'm gonna do. Normally I'd ask my parents for some, because they're generous sometimes anc give me money sometimes (But not without a big lecture) but today they're arguing and I don't really wanna interupt that, and ask for money....

IESSO

PS. I was looking up ninja's to find a cool image and I found some wicked professional throwing stars. WHAT?! Who uses professional throwing stars in this day and age? Even assuming you're breaking the law and assasinating someone wouldn't throwing stars be a totally non-subtle way to kill someone. Wouldn't they (the police that is) be able to trace the throwing stars back to you with ease, because shirley throwing stars are not a popular way to kill people and the ratio of throwing star to non-throwing star murders is tiny. I mean come on people! Throwing stars! It's like having professional chewing gum. It does not make sense. What's next? Professional balaclavas? Or professional bags with giant dollar signs on them?

"For the cliche bank-robber with pride and integrity comes the new Professional Series Balaclava! And why not complete the package with the new Professional Series Money Bag, now with giant dollar sign in an easy to read sans-serif font. Only from Hacme"

That would be awesome!

INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE, INSANE IN THE BRAIN (or how I learned to stop sleeping and love the worm)

Todays was a long day! OH MAN was it!

Working on the ol' UN10 catalog, or as my peep's call it: Uno. And luckily it's nearly done! WOOT! I left work at 11.30 tonight after finishing laying out the text, doing all the illustrations, the crazy titling! the ... uh... other stuff (Shirley there was more than that!?) but anyway it took like 10 hours but its nearly done. Alls I gots to do now is inssert some photograph montages and we'll be cooking with gas.

Wow. Catchphrases abound!

I also managed to do some of the artist catalog I've been assigned much to the disatisfaction of some, and it's looking good to. I'd post screen grabs of these things but A) I am far too lazy and B) I cant anyway cuz theyre at work fool!

Ok, bed time. Gotta get up in 4 hours.. sigh.

IESSO

PS. Somehow I got lost of my primary blogging objective here tonight: I was trying to say despite all the work I have to do, and the lack of sleep and the stress and anxiety and all that stuff I'm feeling good. It's amazing how something like liking a girl and having them like me back (I think she does anyway [actually lets just assume she does for the sake of this happiness buzz I'm on]) can make on my outlook. I guess my shrink is right; I do rely on praise and reassurance to be happy, becuase I can't generate my own feelings of happiness and self worth. Wow. That was a total bummer way to end the post. Nope; how about this? I'm HAPPY! YAY. Deliriously tired, but happy. A bittersweet ending is good enough for me tonight.

PPS. Yes I'll shut up about being happy. What's with you Elliott? Either you do nothing more than complain about being sad and lonely, or you gloat and carry-on like some sort of school-girl with some sort of crush of a similar nature. Just be normal! - says you.

A LITTLE FROM COLUMN A, A LITTLE FROM COLUMN B

Yesterday was a sh*tty day! Everything went wrong. Damn Murphy and his damn laws. Anyway I found out that 3 days before the UN10 project was due that there were some MAJOR changes, basically forcing me to restart it all. Seeing as though it took me a week to get to where I was I wasn't too happy to restart and have only 3 days to do it. But whatever, clients are difficult sometimes, whatever. I had to come in today (saturday, and I'll be in 6.30am tomorrow as well, and all day monday to get this damn thing done). BUT it should be ok.

Unamed girl came in today to keep me company [sort of, her sister needed to use the computer, but for the sake of my self-esteem, we'll say it was for me :) ] I was really hapy to see her. We snuck out for a bit and went to go see an exhibition Kat designed the posters for. Design: not so good, exhition: okay, time spent with Unamed Girl: good. I'm really glad she came in today, it was really nice to have the company, especially hers.

Ok peoples [:P Jen] I have a bit of a confession to make; I am starting to censor myself a bit too much. For example writing Unamed Girl instead of _______, or not writing certain things because I know they'll be reading it. I don't know the solution to my problems, but the more people reading the less I can write. I guess I'll just have to resort to talking about myself all the time. HOORAY!

IESSO

Ps. I shaved my beard off the other day, and everyone at work laughed. Maggie asked who I was. HA! good one Mag's.
PPS. No photo's; camera battery flat.

PPPS. That bit about censorship wasn't intended to be a rant or anything. It came out a lot more annoyed sounding than what I wanted it to be. It's just something on my mind, rather than something I'm fixated on. At any rate I can totally respect the wishes of Unamed Girl for wanting to remain anonymous, it's more to do with writing about other people who read the site. Primarily people I don't like, such as K_t.

ONCE IN A WHILE

I'm having a lazy morning today. It feels pretty good, despite the things I was supposed to do.
1. Go to my Flash class
2. Work on the mountain of projects I've been assigned
3. Go on a date

So maybe that last one was a good thing that I'm skipping, but it's sorta hard to go out somewhere when you're not actually there. At any rate I'm sorry about that 'unamed girl who I wish I could write the name of, but she asked me not to'. Anyway I'll be going into work soon enough, hold yer horses. And besides I am gonna be working the entire weekend on these projects so there. And hopefully Unamed Girl wil be there to keep me company (and work on her own stuff too!) so that'd be nice.

What was the point of this post?! Oh yeah, I'm at home procrastinating. YAY!

IESSO

MY REPUTATION PRECEEDS ME

I APPARENTLY HAVE A BIT OF A REP. FOR MY SEXUAL INNUENDOS, DOUBLE ENTENDRES AND THE LIKE, SO WITH THAT IN MIND:

Jewish Guy

An elderly Italian Jewish man wanted to unburden his guilty conscience by talking to his Rabbi. "Rabbi, during World War II, when the Germans entered Italy, I pretended to be a 'goy" and changed my name from Levi to Spamoni and I am alive today because of it."

"Self preservation is important and the fact that you never forgot that you were a Jew is admirable," said the Rabbi.

"Rabbi, a beautiful Jewish woman knocked on my door and asked me to hide her from the Germans. I hid her in my attic and they never found her."

"That was a wonderful thing you did and you have no need to feel guilty."

"It's worse Rabbi. I was weak and allowed her to repay me for my efforts with her sexual favours."

"You were both in great danger and would have suffered terribly if the Germans had found her. There is a favourable balance between good and evil and you will be judged kindly. Give up your feelings of guilt."

"Thank you, Rabbi. That's a great load off my mind. But I have one more question."

"And what is that?"

"Should I tell her the war is over?"

DOES THAT SAY UNI10? UNO? WHAT THE HELL!?

I'm working on a booklet for Griffith University for a program getting kids of disadvantaged backgrounds into the uni system. It's a noble cause, and better than that; I get to have fun doing it! YAY! Experimenting! HOORAH! The only problem, and it's a doozey let me tell you, is that I;ve made it so much more complex than it needed to be, and therefore a heck of a lot more work. And the deadline stays the same. But I've got the designs worked out, all I gots to do now is actually do it. So stop distracting me!

IESSO

PS. A quick word about copyrights, don't steal these images (because they're so awesome I'm worried about plagarism [??] but yeah, if you do, I will f*cking hunt you down like a dawg. And besides, you wouldn't be stealing from me, you'd be stealing from those poor kids. And if you can just make one child smile, it'd all be worth it. Wait, that doesn't make sense. Don't steal! The rights are owned by me; Elliott Scott, Liveworm Studio and Griffith Uni. And Griffith is one bitch you don't wanna mess with!)

OF ALL THE BLOGS IN ALL THE WORLD, YOU HAD TO COME WALKING INTO MINE

If you were lucky enough to catch the fleeting post about a girl I like good for you. I was going to say I'm smitten over her. But I actually found what it means; To attack someone violently. And to be really attracted to someone. Weird that words can have such opposite meanings.

Yeah, I'm the latter.

STUPID POINTLESS FUN

At work today Jen asked what my favourite word was. Without missing a beat I told her it was MEANDER. I dunno why, I just like it. It's a cool word. And now, because I can, and also because I'm avoiding writing stuff of importance but is sensitive privvy information, here is a list of my favourite words. See if you can find a pattern in them.

Meander
Riboflavin
Rotunda
Flabbergasted
Nacho
Generic
Retort
Asertain
Simularcra
Prefecture
Presume
Oxymoron
Trapezium
Onomatopoeia
Triceratops
Mesopotamia
Oligarchy
Portabello
Hyperbole
Rasterize*
Rasberry
Rickshaw
Eurasia
Paleo-lithic
Mise-en-scene
and Double Entendre

Presuppose
Friscalating
Cromulent
(Fake words, but still cool!)

Most of 'em have R's and or O's in them. Any other patterns? Multisyllablic?

Post a bunch of your favourite words, and in particular your ABSOLUTE favourite, maybe it will say somethng about you as a person. Meander. Aimlessly meandering through life...
By the way the meaning is unrelated to the liking of the word. Just focus on the sounds of the words. But that probably self-evident. Oh and try to keep it in English if you can, I know, the last 2 words are French, but they're used in English all the time. So there!


IESSO

PS. My favourite word to use in sentences is METHINKS. It sounds like you're a dumbass, but really you're not.

PPS. For extra credit points tell me what words you don't like, or even hate! I can't think of any off of the top of my head. Possibly any thing with a Z instead of an S (eg. SkillZ) Or crappy contractions like synergy. They bug me. And lame-ass text messaging words like CUL8R or B4. They really annoy me. Just spend the extra 20cents and write properly! And 'bi-atch'. That annoys me too. And Phish. That really annoys me. 'Happy-snap'. That's a crappy phrase.

* I had to have at least one designish word in there didnt I!? Don't judge me!

PROMISES PROMISES PROMISES

I've got a longer post to write soon, so bare with me here. In the meantime have a ponder with this little nugget of quality thought. A chicken McNugget, and it's got some sweet'n'sour sauce to dip!

BLOG PERFORMANCE ART: I'm been thinking of this idea for a while. Sometimes I post a little entry and then realise I don't really want people to read it, so I delete it a minute later. But sometimes people see it.

What if that was the whole thing. I post things for only a few minutes, maybe an hour, and if people read it cool, if not even better! It's a lot more personal, you can say things that you wouldn't normally say (I really have some cool things to say, but I can't really say them on Mondayne because other people will read. It's a terrible form of self-censorship, and leads to bland posting about safe topics. And that just sucks!) But with this performance blog you can totally avoid all that because the post is fleeting. AND it's got this whole exhibitionist theme: Mondayne puts the info out there for the world to read, but the performance site only flashes the information. You have to catch the post while it's there. A crude and vulgar analogy would be to a flasher opening up their trenchcoat to reveal their nude body, as opposed to a nude beach of Mondayne, with all the info hanging out all the time. Which is more exciting?

Ok, so that's it for now. Just think about it, I reckon it's a cool idea. But maybe it's just me.

IESSO

I'M BACK, BACK FROM THE FUTURA

Yeah I might have watched Back to the Future a few minutes ago. And maybe, just maybe it might have influenced these concepts a little bit. But you can't prove anything.





Anyway I definitely need some help with these ones. I think the one with the sparks will work a lot better if I use my graphics tablet, but it's at work so that might wait. And the hover board one needs some text saying: "We're still waiting" but I couldnt figure out where to put it and what sorta style it should be in, so I left it out. Linus, if you would be so kind as to offer a suggestion?

IESSO

PS. Keep reading, there are 2 more posts below since last night. I've been a busy boy. A busy ANGRY boy. Intrigued? Read on.

DISHEARTENED

You know I'm not one to judge, but surely you can understand my disappointment and self doubt when I see these shirts posted up on threadless, but not my own gummi-bear design. I really liked it, and thought it was really cute and had some hope for it, but no, not even a response after the initial response saying they're received my file and will post it up pending approval.

Here's my competition. My heart sinks when I see them.


The drawing is kinda weird. She doesn't look right at all. And the concept is generic at best.


No. You'd find this at BustedTee's not Threadless.


Quite like the concept here, but the drawing style is sorta lacking.


Again, like the cute idea, but that stick-man kills it.

These ones aren't even that generic cool sorta style that I don't really like, but at least admit takes a lot of skill and is pretty good design. Yet they still get approval over mine. I'm hurt and insulted. But mainly doubting my abilities and whether I should really be pursing this career path.

A sullen Elliott Scott, signing off.

PS. Yes, it does make me feel better to insult other peoples work. But you see where I'm coming from here right???

YOU'RE CUTE WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY

Don't even get me started about today. Ok, too late, look what you gone and made me do. I'M ANGRY! I've just turned green and but not any more muscular. >sigh<

We selected the theme for out end-of-year graduation catalog, which showcases our work. That's fine, I had no problems with that. The thing that got me angry was a few peoples attitudes. They don't seem to have any sense of humour. (for the record 2/3 of them were German. Zee Germans are not a funny people. I'm not embracing stereotype, this is through observation only)

1. K_t - Will was standing on the stage of the lecture theatre: "I'm taller than you all!" He was obviously just being goofy. K_t replies with a little-miss-know-it-all attitude: "That's because you're standing on the stage." I'm shocked by this. Firstly he wasn't talking to her. And secondly we are well aware of that. "Yeah, no shit K_t. Thanks for informing us." I'm REALLY sick of her attitude. She's not better than us, despite what she think.

2. K_m - She's not as annoying, but like K_t a Nazi sympathiser, so I'm not exactly jumping at the chance to be her friend. We were looking at some of the concepts and we came across a REALLY cool one. The theme we all had to use was White Space, yes, shitty, but the theme nontheless. This person had a blank auditorium with a beam of light shining onto a single chair illuminating it. A good idea for several reasons: they are the chosen one in a design sense, they are the centre of attention, and also it plays with the space theme and aliens and all. A really nice concept. "No!", K_m says. I question her. "It makes me think of aliens", she replies. "Yeah exactly, it's a cool concept. It works on so many levels", people are agreeing with me... "No. I don't want to get abducted on our graduation." She gives me a look of disgust with a forced smile. Wait a minute, she thinks that by having an image that sorta could me alien abduction she's gonna ACTUALLY get abducted. Where's your sense of fun!?

3. J____n - 'Where's your sense of fun?' Applies to this guy more than anyone else. I REALLY don't like him. He censors people all the time. ALL the time. It's annoying. Anything moderatly offensive gets him angry, actually angry, and he has absolutely no sense of humour when it comes to sexuality, religion, politics, or anything and everything else in life. Don't get me wrong religion is fine but to wave it around and stop people from living a life that they choose is offensive. I don't tell him that what he believes is wrong, why should he. I think he's wrong, but I don't tell him.
So anyway we're selecting themes. J____n is the main voice for some reason. Probably becuase he's on the commitee. Colin seems to be listening to him and only him despite mine and Elvira's protests. Idea after idea are presented, some are really interesting and out-there, and he flatly rejects them because "they're not what we're about". For example there was an interesting one which the concept wasn't that great anyway but he rejected it based solely on the colour used. "As a bloke I think it's too feminine." I think it's really sad that A) as a designer he is afraid of pink. Surely he could appreciate the correct use of EVERY color, despite stereotype color notions and B) The color could easily be changed. And B2) It wasn't even pink, it was a slightly pinkish red.
Another idea he rejected was an awesome idea based on photographs of ultra-sounds of babies in the womb. We're about to be born and all that as a metaphor. It was beautiful graphics. Absolutely gorgeous. J____n rejected it straight away. Why? Because it could be related to abortion. No. I completely disagree. Mothers who love their children enough to go and get an ultrasound and keep that photo of their unborn child probably won't have the child aborted. Besides, it's much too late in the development stage to abort anyway. But despite logic he rejected it. I FLIPPED. NO! We can't be doing this. Anything slightly controversial can't be rejected straight away simply because it offends poor J_____n. Everything offends him! I put it in the yes pile despite what he said. We voted, it ended up getting chosen.
He also went out of his way to tell me he didn't like my design. Why? Because of it's references to drug culture, that offended him. I did a 60's psychadelic peacock that admittedly had references to drug culture, but so what? Just because the image references a certain culture doesn't mean we're all a bunch of stoners. I think people are intellegent enough to realise that graphic designers can use imagery and be influenced by other cultures without nessesarily being intertwined. But it just annoyed me that me made special mention of disliking mine. I thought his was an utter joke, as with ALL of his work, but I don't think telling him that is a particularly nice thing to do. He always criticises, never points out the good things. It's annoying.

Ok, fine, whatever! I'm making nothing into something, but I seriously was pissed off. I stormed into Liveworm, cursing and yelling and kicking up a big stink. I was annoyed. "We're all doomed! J_____n is choosing the catalog concept!" Everyone sighed. Sebastian looked shocked. No-one could understand how Colin could allow the ultra-conservative so much power in the selection process. It's just ridiculous. If we wanted to be conservative we would have been accountants. Artists are always liberal. Always. And they're innovative and edgy and exciting, and these themes should be in our catalog, not safe, dry and dull.


IESSO


PS. The reason I'm awake at 4.ooam is because someone decided to start drilling in the house next to us. Real nice. Thanks.

PPPS. I just thought I might elaborate on the nature of the Nazi sympathising. K_t got annoyed at me when I was randomly bad-mouthing Hitler, which I think is an ok thing to do (the badmouthing, not the defending). "You know really was an intellegent man*, who did a lot of good things for the country", she informs me. Yes, I am well aware that he brought the country out of major economic recession and was probably not too dumb, BUT he did order the murder of 6 million people and more if he had the chance and start some little conflict, what was it called? World War 1? Nah, that's not it... Maybe WW2?! F*cking pissed me off. I wasn't even being serious when I was talking about him. I can acknowledge that he did do some good, but I don't think it needs to be brought up as defense whenever I make a negative reference to him. He was a bad man. Don't forget that.
Also K_m said something even worse, but I can't quite remember what it was. Possibly defending the concentration camps and the gassing of people. I don't understand how she can defend this action while still claiming to not be racist. What a f*cking bitch. How dare she!?

PPPPS. If you want to post some sort of comment on how you love Hitler or something, or try to defend him I will delete it straight away. This is MY blog and I will determine what can and can't be said. With that in mind that and ONLY that topic will be censored. I am not willing to budge on this stance whatsoever. Everything else is completely fair game though. If you're religiously inclined and disagree with my stance on disestablishmentarianism feel free to let me know. Or if you think liberalism and art shouldn't mix, please tell me. But don't defend Hitler. He was wrong to do what he did, and that's final.

* There has been evidence that Hitler was not at all intellegent, as well as evidence that he was extremely intellegent. Intellegence aside; morals should play a role in determining the nature of a person

KNOWING YOUR PLACE

I'M THE EVIL ONE. Elliott replied back to my inquiry about a photo. It's kinda strange looking at the same name as you. You notice the similarities and the differences. We're generally similar, but with some good opposites that prove the doppleganger theory.

Everyone should find another version of themselves. Dermot has an Irish folk singer with his name! Ha, what a dweeb.

Anyway my doppleganger lives in England, but other than that I don't know that much about him. Wonder if he's in some sort of creative job. All the Elliott's I've met are, even the TV characters. Actually, maybe not. But whatever.

I-EVIL-ESSO

AWKWARD

I had a very sensitive subject with someone today. I bumped into an old schoolmate, not an oldskool mate, but a person I used to go to school with. Anyway she has just finished her degree in multimedia and had a hard time finding a job.

For those of you who don't know; we, the graphic designers look down our noses at multimedia people because of their inferior graphic design skills and knowledge base confined solely to the use of programs and not what to do with them. Simply knowing photoshop doesn't make you a graphic designer, despite what your cousin who downloaded it from Kazaa and made a logo for your company tells you. Long before photoshop was invented there was graphic design, and it's the principles used in these days that makes you a designer. Of course the industry has changed a lot, but you still need to know the principles not just the tools. Knowing how to paint doesn't make you an artist.

Anyway we were talking. And every time she tells me that she is a graphic designer I wince. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not bad mouthing multimedia for the sake of it, I know that multimedia is crap. It doesn not teach design. I know this for a fact. i spent 2 years of my life doing the course and learning nothing. So when she tells me she's doing the same job that I'm doing I tend to be insulted. What she does is the same as your cousin does; use programs.

In fact it gets worse. I asked her if she had any knowledge in print design because it's a lot easier to get a job doing that since the industry was saturated back in 99 with web designers. "No, I do graphic design". WHAT??! So apparently multimedia kids see us as something else, and they are practising the true graphic design. I think not.

Throughout the conversation I had the feeling that she was attaching herself to a name of which she doesn't belong. I don't call myself an artist, I am not an artist, we share different basic principles, different morals, it's just a completely different beast. Same with multimedia, it's not graphic design. She may do some web design, I completely acknowledge THAT is graphic design, and I have no qualms about her referring to that as graphic design, but when she talks, nay BRAGS to me about some corporate ID she did for her brothers wedding business I start to get a bit annoyed.

SO in conclusion: To all you desktop publishers, multimedia-ers, and cousins who download software: You are not graphic designers. I'm sorry guys but you're just not. You need so much more than being able to use programs (which by the way you don't do very well usually, do you even know about color settings or resolutions? This girl didnt. RGB 72dpi images and wonder why they don't print properly!) you need the knowledge. You need to know about color, about type about semiotics about understanding clients, about printing, about arrangement of elements on pages and a multitude of other aspects in order to be a designer.

Yes, a good ol' rant but I KNOW all my GD'er friends will totally back me up on this one.

IESSO

PS. I got an email from my evil twin* His name is Elliott Scott. I don't know where he's from or anything like that, but he emailed me because he found my blog when he was googling himself. Good onya dude!

* He is probably not my twin. But is most likely evil and is nearly certainly hatching a scheme in which he murders me and assumes my identity.

PPS. I posted a question on iLounge.com which unfortunately relates quite strongly to this topic. Here is the extract:


A baby sized iPod shirt thingo they're talking about

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Ok, this is kinda a dumb question but here it goes: HOW CAN THIS BE LEGAL? I’m a t-shirt designer who is about to enter the big, bad, scary world of post-college life and am terribly unsure of copyrights.

The company who produced this surely got permission from apple right? or because its an entirely different product from the iPod and it doesnt show the entire image or the product they can sidestep that whole thing?

Anyone know? Jeremy, you’re a smart switched-on sorta guy, can ya help me out on this one?

By Mondayne on 08.03.05 at 09:15 AM

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Mondayne

You had to go to college to be a t-shirt designer?

By Mtvkilledusall on 08.03.05 at 08:33 PM

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Mtvkilledusall

Yeah, of course!

I’ve had countless conversations/arguements about this topic, but simply making shirts doesn’t make you a designer. Anyone can produce a shirt, but it takes some knowledge and skill to produce a GOOD shirt.

By Mondayne on 08.04.05 at 02:40 AM

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I guess EVERYONE thinks they're a designer. It really pisses me off at times, and this is one of those times.

I'M GOING INSANE

LANA WILL NOT SHUT UP! But she's funny and in good spirits, but OH MAN! she's killin me here. Anyway here is a concept for the Swing Poster we have to do, which shares the same name as the random image I did a monthago. I dunno. I completely changed the brief and it's pretty cool, but yeah, something somethng. I have a headache.

IESSO