MOVEMBER HAS COME AND GONE

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED! I raised £30 to aid with prostate cancer research. But now the 'tache is all gone, and the beard is coming back.

IESSO

PS. I saw David Walliams from Little Britain today in Covent Garden.

MOVEMBER

ELLIOTT (in saatchi design)IS WILLING TO SHAVE HIS BEARD
AND LEAVE A HORRIBLY UNCOOL MO’IN AID OF PROSTATE CANCER!
BUT I NEED YOU TO SPONSOR ME. £1 MINIMUM WOULD BE NICE.
AND ON TOP OF BEING ABLE TO LAUGH,YOU CAN CHOOSE A RIDICULOUS STYLE!
WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
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HaPPy ThaNKsgiving Ya'LL

HaPPy ThaNKsgiving!
Originally uploaded by princessangel

HTGY!
IESSO

Everything is OK

London Olympics Site Fire
Originally uploaded by rgough

You might have heard there was a fire in London and thought the worst. But everything is OK. Soryi is fine too. She can see the smoke though... but we're fine, and there is no sign of it being a terrorist attack.

IESSO

WHAT KIND OF PIE DOES A GHOST LIKE TO EAT?

BOOBERRY! I know, genius. Thanks T-rex
Happy Halloween for yesterday everyone! We didn't do much, other than carve this pumpkin.

IESSO

HOME SWEET HOME updated

Here's some more photo's of Vienna.

And here's the post from the other night:
IT SURE IS GOOD TO BE BACK IN AUSTRALIA. Vienna is pretty cool actually, despite warnings to the contrary. I'm in my hotel room at the moment typing, having forgot my camera cable, so alas, no pictures untill tomorrow. I've only had a few hours to explore, but it has been fun. I've eaten a lot of food too (it's with company money!); goulash with boiled potatoes, weiners with mustard and horseradish and for a snack kasekrainer, which is a spicy sausage filled with pieces of cheese and served with mustard and brown bread! YUM!

IESSO

THAT'S LIKE A MAJOR NEWS NETWORK OR SOMETHING!

A WHILE BACK they put some grass down in Trafalgar Square. It was pretty nice actually. I was lying there reading my book when a reporter interviewed me and took my picture. It was pretty cool. Here's the web article. And here's a photo from my point of view.

Hilariously I purposely said the word 'tactile' because it's a good soundbite!

IESSO

A BELATED BIRTHDAY WISH

IT'S BEEN 3 YEARS SINCE MONDAYNE BLOG WAS STARTED. And it sure has been fun. Well, sort of. I guess in recent times the blog's been waning, and instead of making promises of changing all that, I'm just going to say that I'll update things when I can, or want to. But thank you to everyone for reading over the years. It has been good.

In other news; I'm going to Vienna on monday for business! Just for the day and returning tuesday night, but it should be fun. I'm going all by myself though, so I'm a tad nervous. I have a phrasebook though. And I promise to take a bunch of photo's.

IESSO

WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE OVER THERE?

I'M IN A CONFERENCE CALL TO NEW YORK RIGHT NOW, well, not right now, but a few minutes ago, and in a few minutes from now too. It's pretty cool. The power to speak internationally, without worrying about money, and to be talking someone through a photoshop technique while both of us are doing the same thing at the same time... it's pretty cool. But not really.

IESSO

PS. The people in NYC hilariously sound like and have the exact same speech patterns as my parents, and I'm not really used to people saying my name a lot (as these guys do, as well as my mom) so it's really weird and funny. I'm about to laugh (and/or punch myself in the face because it's really tedious!) as I explain this photoshoppery!

PPS. I totally ripped off Linus's 'A Filter Darkly' technique (version 1) to use in a project. But I changed it enough to claim it as my own. Which is kinda a jerky thing to do, but I was under pressure and didn't realise the scope of the project, and now it's much too late. So thanks Linus! And also, sorry that you won't get paid for it.

THAT'S WHY I CALLED IT MONDAYNE

Oddly there was a marching band downstairs. And whenever something bizarre like this happens to me, I'm the only one there to see it. It was very surreal. I was standing there counting my coins to buy a sandwhich and the walk right up to me and then spin around. It was very insane. Very.



My parents went to Canada years ago and asked for 'Canadian Bacon' (which is different to American bacon bytheway), the reply was that ALL bacon in Canada was Canadian. Similarly Dermo jokes that a Full Irish (breakfast) is just called a 'Full' in Ireland. I always thought that these were funny and jokingly wondering if they just called English Muffins in England 'Muffins'. Which they do.


The iPod touch is amazing. I would like one. I would very much like one.

Lastly; in the UK the term 'Asian' is very strangely applied. Soryi isn't Asian according to British meaning. People from India, Pakistan, Bangledesh, and places including the Middle East are called 'Asian' here. For what USA/Australians call Asian the British call 'Chinese'. And if you're not actually from China then you're called 'Other Chinese ethnicity'. Which is completely insane! Otherwise instead of Chinese they use the term 'Oriental', which I thought was outdated, old-fashioned and a littel racist. Soryi was shocked and appalled.

IESSO

JUSTIFICATION OF MY EXISTENCE

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. Basically because of legal reasons I can't actually show you any work I've done. But what I can show you is a bunch of pixels, showing that I have done work though! In the scramble is a cool brand, including logo, packaging, store design, several styles of ads and two custom typefaces, an identity pitch for a city, a typeface for a bank, guidelines for an investment company, work for a charity, illustrations for a phone manufacturer, bank brochures and a few internal projects including a book, a website and a poster.

All in that? Yes, it is true.

I'm sorry I can't show anything yet though. I'd like to, I really would. But I've signed confidentiality agreements, so I won't discuss anything further. Hopefully it's vague enough to keep me safe, but detailed enough to not just be "doing stuff".

IESSO

STILL SICK, BUT MORE LIKE A CAT NOW

I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT MEANS EITHER. But I'm well enough to be back at work, getting paid, but too sick to work hard enough to earn it. I've got a kidney infection. We both do actually. Dunno, how, when, where, why we got it but we do. And it's totally annoying. Can't eat, constantly feeling overly full, or hungry, and anything we eat doesn't stay for long.

But in other news, Chris Chong will be visiting sunny London in a few weeks. That is gonna be a load of funtimes. And the shall be had by all.

IESSO

ALSO: It's friggin October already? What is up with THAT?!

AS A FRIGGIN DOG!

WE'VE BEEN SICK FOR THE LAST WEEK, and it is not fun at all. Of course. But more than that, we can't actually go to the doctor. Which is kinda frustrating. The thing is: you need to be registered with your local doctor in order to get an appointment. But in order to be registered you need to get on a waiting list, which can be months long. And even if you are registered I asked for an appointment to see a doctor on tuesday and they said I could see on the following monday (this was before they found out I wasn't registered [and when they did find out they hung up on me!]).

Anyway if anyone knows a home recipe for fighting a flu, headaches, migraines, body aches, and other nasties, please let me know. I'm drinking lots of ginger tea, trying to eat chicken soup, and toast, but it is barely working. Also, we're heavily dosed up on medicines recommended by a pharmacist.

Anyway, it's back to work tomorrow. Need to be there to help out, to do some work (really interesting projects) and also to make some money!

IESSO

UPDATE: We're off to a walk–in clinic! WOOT! Hopefully we won't be surrounded by crack dealers, prostitutes and poor people. HA! Just kidding, poor people are fine. But those other two, I dunno. Anyway if this clinic is anything like the ones in ER or Scrubs we're in for a good time.

CALL ME CYNICAL

BUT... surely the UNDERGROUND trains still work in the rain right? And that I shouldn't have to walk to work in that rain? Right?

IESSO

MOOD: Grumpy

UPDATE THE BLOG HE SAYS

FINE. It's updated see? I don't really have anything to report though. Work is going fine. I'm still freelance but they're really pleased with my work and have told me they want me to stay for as long as possible. The head of S&S has seen my work and says many good things, apparently there were even talks of it outside of our office. But aside from work, I have done absolutely nothing. I didn't even get a chance to hang out with Linus while he was here. And I'm working today, a weekend, having worked yesterday too. Which is fine because the work needs to be done, but annoying because it's a weekend.

I did make a cool case for my iPod nano from a nintendo controller. I'll post that onto Flickr soon. Other than that... unfortunately, nothing to report. And it might be like that for a little while. It's quite busy at S&S. Very busy actually! BUT I should be able to post up my work soon... in the next month or so hopefully!

IESSO

В РОССИИ, ИГРА ИГРУШЕК С ВАМИ

DO YOU THINK Toys 'R' Us in Russia looks like this?
IESSO

LOOK MA! I'M ON TV...

LONDONIST used my image of the tube strike on their report. Cool. And I even got a credit as required by my creative commons license. Anyway; apparently there will be strikes again next week! HOOR-FREAKIN-RAY!

Here's the link if you're interested: http://londonist.com/2007/09/more_tube_strik.php (Sorry no fancy links today!)

IESSO

WORST. SIMPSONS MOVIE. EVER.

IT'S NOT THAT IT WASN'T FUNNY, WHICH IS WAS, IT'S THAT IT WASN'T GOOD. Well, no, to be fair it was fine. It just wasn't good. The story was ok, not bad at all. And it's not that it was stretched out, it's that it wasn't deep enough. There was no real depth to the storyline. It was developed fine, it all made sense, but nothing was developed properly.

As you'd expect all the jokes centre around Homer being stupid. Which is fine as a surface level joke, but there wasn't any truly genius jokes involving references to other films (like the epidsode with Marge in A Street Car Named Desire references Citizen Kane) OR any funny signs (like Hairy Shearers barber). Generally it wasn't up to the standards of seasons 4-8, as expected. It was however a lot better than most of the newer episodes... There was a single overall storyline at least.

And none of the other characters outside the family, with the exception of Flanders, said more and a single line. And I'm suprised on how many celebrities WEREN'T in it. Tom Hanks has a funny line though.

My rating is either: ★ if you expected a lot, or ★★★ if you expected crap.

IESSO

A SORYI DARKLY

I'VE USED (RIPPED OFF) LINUS'S TECHNIQUE for treating photo's to look like A Scanner Darkly (version 1), and modified it pretty heavily. It looks really nice though.

IESSO

NOPE!

THERE IS A TUBE STRIKE. 3,000,000 people are annoyed. I'm one of them. It'll be untill friday, but also possibly next week too. So hooray! It's the kids that are hurting most in this. Why won't anyone think of them?

IESSO

HOORAY!

HAPPY AUSTRALIAN FLAG DAY!!!! I'm going to the pub to celebrate.
Have you ever heard of it?

IESSO

THE LONG WEEKEND

WE JUST HAD A LONG WEEKEND! We couldn't go anywhere, no money yet! but we did explore London some more and saw some really cool stuff! Soryi's boss got us some tickets for the London Eye for her birthday back in July. So we did that! Also, we went to Regents Park to go to the zoo, but the line was really really really long, at least 500m, so we didn't bother. We could peak over the walls and see some animals anyway.

Also, we went to Greenwich, where The Royal Observatory is. It's a pretty cool area, it's a pretty big hill and you have a great view at the top. Cooler than that was the actual observatory. There was a great exhibition on space that was very interesting. AND educational!

But even cooler than that was The Prime Meridian! The actual line of 0º0"0' is taken from the apex of the roof of the observatory. And there is a line that represents the meridian. And a LASER beam represents it in a cooler way. It's all very cool. A cool mix of old-fashioned and ultra-modern. Very good.

The London Eye was pretty cool too. We were in a guided tour capsule, which was informative (although I already found it all out when I was making that video) but generally it was good. The capsule is packed full of people though, who weren't interested in listening to the guide, and talked really loudly, so that was a bit annoying. I mean if they weren't going to listen why did they pay more for the guide? I dunno. Anyway it was a great view and we somehow managed to go on a sunny day!

We also went to the Design Museum to see an exhibition on the 50th anniversary of Helvetica! We were expecting a full-on exhibition, but it was actually just a series of posters in the cafe area. Which means we didn't have to pay £7.00 to get in, but also that there wasn't any original sketches that I was hoping to see. We did get to see a great set of posters though. And one was by our friend Conor & David! Their's was a genius idea! Also, Rinzen did a really nice one.

I think we did some other stuff too, but I can't really remember. We did see Orlando Bloom though. He was in the West End launching his new play or something. There was loads of people around.

IESSO

THAT OLD TOMATO

SAW THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM LAST NIGHT. And holy crap! Without giving anything away I can give you a review of the movie by saying that several points in the film where everyone let out a "f*ck me..." in sheer amazment of how cool and tough Jason Bourne is. And what makes him tought and cool? No fancy Aston Martin. No Matrini's. No Walther PPK/7s. No McClane smirks either. He usually doesn't even use a gun. Especially in the cool fight scenes. And this isn't just the third one either.

TBU was definitely better than the first movie and second too. While the first one was cool, it just looks a little dorky and dated. The second was a little boring but looked very slick. This has the best of both. The action was so fast you're afraid to breath in case it distracts you. And it's like that from the very beginning.

My only gripe is that Matt Damon's character has no memory, so he doesn't really have much to say. He's left with a kind of blank but slightly annoyed face all the time. That's fine when he's doing something, but when he's talking to Julia Stiles's character in one scene, and she's got a permanently blank face too, and it's supposed to be emotional, it borders hilarious and awkward!

Ratings? ✭✭✭✭½. Very watchable!

IESSO

PS. Included here because it has nothin to do with the review of the movie: But it was also totally cool to be in the city that the movie took place in! There were totally loads of shots of London where we were all "that's just around the corner from where you work" and "hey, I know that place!" and "I catch that train all the time!". It was awesome. And hilariously the only other time that would've been possible was when I was in New York, because movies take place there all the time! But I saw Children of Men there, and that takes place in London! Anyway, it was totally cool.

PPS. I'm not sure what the posters are like where you are, but the ones here are totally friggin' awesome! There's black and white, with a split screen effect, one side has a mid-shot and the other a close up. The text runs across both. It's really cool looking, and different from any movie poster I can remember seeing. I think the USA ones are below. And they're totally stupid in comparison. They're exactly like what you'd expect them to be like.

2 YEARS

TWO YEARS AGO the UNG (who's name is Soryi of course) and I went on our first date. And it's been a great 2 years! We've grown so close together and travelled half-way around the world. Without any major problems. Hooray!

IESSO

PS> This photo is from last weekend, not our first date. It was cold and windy on the roof of the Tate Modern.

SIMPSON

I SIMPSONIZED MYSELF, and you can too!
www.simpsonizeme.com

IESSO

UPDATES

I'M THINKING OF UPDATING MY WEBSITE soon in order to make it more proffessional. But being my weakness, I'm not quite sure how to do that without making it really boring at the same time. Any thoughts? I was thinking of livening it up with some sexy Flash animations. Nothing too extreme, just some movement when you hit a button. I can't describe very well.




Anyway I can't even get the look right, I'm still experimenting. I generally like the cut-outs, but maybe it's to kiddy. I'm thinking I'll end up using the top image, and just have the work slide across when you hit next. What you reckon?

IESSO

FLICKR

SO IF YOU WANT TO SEE LOADS OF PHOTO'S head on over to my Flickr Page. It's very worthwhile. Sort of. Not really. Anyway the photo's are organised into groups and everything. Want to see photo's of our trip to Belfast? Well you can! Sets worth checking out are the fun ones like: I Heart Things, and Stuff. They're not just photo's of places, but collections of things that are slightly interesting.

Simply click on the image above to go!

IESSO

LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE. MUCH, MUCH LESS.

WE WENT TO SEE TRANSFORMERS LAST NIGHT and I just wanted to give my review. Before I start though, I should mention that I am not a fan of the 80's TV show or movie. Not because I didn't want to be, I just didn't get into it. Anyway with that being said:

Transformers was a very good movie. The action sequences were really cool! The fighting, the explosions. All totally awesome. Even the cheesy dialogue from the Autobots was bearable. It was really cheesy though. The human characters were very poor though. VERY POOR. Not so much the acting, that was fine, but they were just unnecessary. I appreciate that Sam/Spike Whitwicky was crucial, as well as some supporting characters, but overall there just seemed like too many characters with too little explanation about them.

That's all ok too.. I don't really mind that either. But another thing that bothered me was the direction the film went. At some points it was comical and funny, which was clearly based on the 80's stuff. If this style was throughout I would've had no problems, I wouldn't have liked it so much because I was never a fan, but I wouldn't have been annoyed either. Similarly most of the film is extremely serious and realistic, and that is great! It's a movie for people who grew up with the franchise and have now matured and want a mature film dealing with talking car robots. And that's fine too! BUT the problem is that right at the height of action they'd switch to comical farce mode and completely ruin the moment.

That's really annoying, but it's still not the worse part. There is a character that really ruins the movie for me, he's called Frenzy and was based on Soundbyte, but is smaller and thinner. Without ruining anything by giving away plot details all I can say is he is basically Jar Jar Binks. Remember Star Wars was pretty awesome untill JJB started speaking gibberish, well it's that all ovre again. You'd think Hollywood would learn it's lesson after him, but there was Golemn as well (not too annoying, but slightly) and now this robot thing. Very annoying. No-one in the theatre laughed at his 'jokes'.

Is the movie for kids? No, it doesn't establish what is going on at all and is very violent. Is it for diehard fans of the original? I don't think so, most of the characters have been radically changed! Is it for hipster kids who think it's cool to like Transformers for their 'ironic' values? Probably. I went to see it because it looked like a load of fun. And it really was, don't get me wrong, it was great fun! But there were a few elements in there that were it's own undoing.

What would I give it? Mixed reviews:

✭✭½ for the movie as is
✭✭✭✭½ for the movie re-edited to remove Frenzy's voice.

IESSO

PS. YOU CAN BUY ME ONE OF THESE IF YOU WANT.



But make sure it's the 24inch one with 4GB of RAM and 1TB harddrive.

SIGH

SO I CAN FEEL IT CREEPING BACK AGAIN. I'm getting that feeling in my stomach, making me move slowly, making the world go by too fast. I can feel it making me miserable. Making me want to curl up in a ball and hiding. Yes my friends, it's my good friend depression. Being out of work (basically), broke, and feeling like I've wasted 4 months and AU$20,000 is taking it's toll on my psyche. I got another rejection today. They were looking for someone with more 'experience' and more of a 'safe bet'. Whatever that means. But at any rate it's making me miserable. Where I am now is great, the work is good, the people are nice, it's hard work but worth it, but it's only freelance, so I can't rely on it.

And today's lunch summed it all up. Having forgot to pack a lunch (I say forgot but really I just didn't have the energy because I was up late the night before working) so I had to by lunch. I planned on doing that but didn't get the time, so it was a 25p pack of chips (crisps as they say) and naturally the vending machine in the office broke! So my chips were left hanging.

Luckily some people helped me shake the machine and they were freed (until they were eaten of course). Anyway it's not all bad, I just thought it was 'poetic' or something. Also, before you 'get all up in my face' about the poor diet may I remind you that we have a fruit bowl. So I'm eating apples, pears, apricots, etc all day.

Ok, talk laters.
IESSO

ONE-WAY TICKET TO LAUGHTERTOWNE, USA

SO DINOSAUR COMICS ARE FUNNY. Today's comic (01/08/07) is particularly funny and inane (good combination bytheway!) So anyway, I'm getting the sneaking feeling that you guys aren't reading it enough. So please make sure you read it everyday. It's got all the best elements of humour, I just don't understand why you're all not just constantly emailing me for telling you about it. Unless of course no-one is reading my blog. Hmmm. Sigh.

IESSO

PS. Linus is exempt from this because he recommended it to me.

STILL ENJOYING IT

YESTERDAY WAS A SUNNY DAY so we went out walking in the afternoon. It was nice. We ended up in the Tate Modern in South Bank. We caught the bus back, and took some cool photo's on the way. If you're ever in London, and don't want to pay for a tour bus, but do want to catch a bus that shows you everything, try the 139. It goes from Waterloo Bridge in the south to West Hampstead in the north. I've got a nice Flickr set to show you the journey. You can see Houses of Parliment and the Thames riverbanks, Trafalgar Square, St James Park, Piccadilly Circus and even the Abbey Road crossing. Pretty good no?

Check it out yo!

ALSO: We saw Sophie Ellis Bextor in Soho. Soryi was all "Hey!! There's SOPHIE ELLIS BEXTOR!" and I was all like "WHAT?! WHERE!" and she was standing like a foot away looking at us yelling about her. It was funny.


IESSO

Facebook

Yes, we finally joined Facebook too. I know. After all the criticism and constant requests we caved in. Anyway we joined together as Saul Greenburg.

That's some bad photoshopping if I do say so myself. Which I do. It is possibly the scariest thing ever. Except this (same result, different logic).

See you all there!

WES&SASO

A VERY ENGLIGH THING TO DO

TODAY AT 4.00PM WE STOPPED WORK AND HAD A TEA BREAK. Today's theme was Yorkshire, which doesn't mean anything to me, bit apparently it's in the north. And the tea was strong. Anyway someone made cakes and bought special tea to bring in. They take in turns. Last week was Devonshire tea. Very fancy. Very cool. Very nice.

IESSO

A CHALLENGE

I DON'T LIKE IT EITHER... why did they destroy a perfectly nice logo like the Qantas kangaroo? Apparently new plane shapes require a differently shaped roo, but they could have still kept the spirit of the old one.

The Qantas logo has changed over the years, loosing it's iconic wings in 1984, leading to the now old logo design. Perhaps they could've brought the wings back if they had to redo the logo. The part that bothers me most is the kangaroo's chest. It looks like something I drew as a kid, rather than a stylised kangaroo. Some people are saying pterodactyl, but I dunno if it's that yet.

But I'm putting out a challenge to anyone who wants to enter. Redraw the kangaroo as best you can to fit within the new triangle shape. I am determinned to prove that it's not the logo that's bad, but the poor rendering of it. Send me your images and I'll post them up. I'll do one too of course. You have 1 week!

IESSO

DAY 1

THE FIRST DAY WENT WELL. It was different from what I was expecting... equal parts more hectic and less hectic than I feared. The hours were long (8.30–6.30) and there's a lot to do, and it needs to be done well, but they pretty much left me alone to my own devices. I was expecting a team of PR-bots, as well as my bosses to be constantly monitoring me, but they didn't. When I showed them what I was doing they were pleased, but then just left me alone to continue.

There are a few unexpected things that I've never experienced in an office before:

- An elevator
- A fruit basket every morning
- A cafeteria
- A coffee maker that makes 7 kinds of coffee and 5 teas
- A Starbucks
- A reception area with sign-in sheets
- A mailroom with delivery people
- A phone book to contact people within the office
- 6 floors with well over 500 staff
- Ricky Gervais standing outside having a smoke

Today is now my second day at work, and it's going to be pretty intense I reckon. I need to get my work done today because I'm not going to be here tomorrow.
(I'm working on a freelance basis, so they only need me here for 2 days this week.)

UPDATE: They've asked me to stay on till the end of the week a few minutes ago. So that's more work, experience, and money!
UPDATE 2: I've had to remove some of the names and details. And officially I got it wrong when I said the workplace was a PR company. They're definitely advertising. And they company I'm in is purely design. Hope that clears things up.

Take care everyone.

IESSO

OBSCURE TO FAMOUS

I DON'T WANT TO SAY THEY COPIED but they're very similar styles. Watch the 'Finally' video by CeCe Peniston, and the original iPods ads (the black silhouettes on colored backgrounds) and tell me if I'm being crazy. I realise that they're produced in a drastically different way, and the CeCe video isn't really the same... but there is definitely a similarity between some of the shots!


iPod Commercial vs Finally

IESSO

A HOLE IN THE CLOUDS WITH THE LIGHTS SHINING THROUGH ALL EPIC LIKE

SO I START MONDAY. It's only on a freelance basis for the moment, because we're taking 'baby steps', but it seems pretty promising. They really liked my work and were excited to get me in before 'someone else snatched me up'. So I'm pretty excited. But I'm nervous. They're a freaking huge company, who is world famous! I've already got a project to work on and everything. For a phone company, working with (he's doing the TV ad) an English footballer with a squeaky voice, skinny wife and a new job in LA. But don't mention his name.

Anyway, hopefully it'll be a permanent thing, and I will no longer be a bum!
IESSO

MISERY OF SOUND

I'VE HAD A FEW INTERVIEWS IN THE LAST WEEK. The best and most promising, and of course most exciting was with The Ministry of Sound. I'd be doing CD's, records, posters, t-shirts, loads of great stuff... I went for an interview with the head designer and production manager, and it went really well! REALLY REALLY WELL! My chances were good. I had a second interview with the head of PR and their external consultant, and they basically bullied the head designer into going with someone else. DAMN!

I had a few more interviews as well, but that was really promising, and sounded like a load of fun! I was really looking forward to it. Like I had never looked forward to a job before. And now I'm about the same amount of miserable as I was a week ago. Despite the prospect of another job... but it's not the one I wanted! It is very organised and professional, and voted best place to work in the UK a few times, but it's not the one I wanted!!! (imagine a baby yelling that about icecream, and that's the voice in my head saying it as I type)

Maybe it's for the best. Maybe if that's the kind of tactics they use then I don't want it anyway. Maybe it wouldn't have worked out anyway. Maybe it's not my work, but my lack of experience. Maybe. I'm still really disappointed though. They really did get my hopes up. I was practically promised that job after the first interview. The second one was a mere formality.

DAMN!

IESSO

THREEDEE

THIS TOTALLY WORKS! Get yourself some 3D glasses and prepare to be amazed!
IESSO
PS. Fingerguns=cool.

ALL ABOUT ME

I'VE REWORKED MY PROMOTIONAL PIECE TO SEND TO POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS. It's got larger sample pages, as well seperate PDF's for the cover letter, as well as CV/resume. I've also changed the color from red to cyan. It's a bit friendlier and less agressive, but still strong and vibrant. Plus I love cyan. Best color ever.

Let me know what you think. Click HERE to download the promo PDF. Careful, it's 2.4MB.
I know it's a bit big, but it's print resolution. Kind of.

IESSO

SAME OLD, SAME OLD...

ONCE AGAIN I'M PLAYING AROUND WITH 1984. It's just so perfect for experimentation. I think. Anyway I sent a brief to Colin (from uni) about a project I'm playing with. How do you launch a movie remake of 1984 without advertising that horrible TV show 'Big Brother'? It'd be a really tough challenge. And I don't know the answer. But I intend to find out.

I don't think this is the answer. It's too realistic and too propaganda-ish. It needs to be much more over the top. I think more Nazi-like! And even more intense. To show that it's fake, it has to be hyper-real. But the project would be good for students, getting them to think about the message, about type, about images, about identities (of all the different goverment departments) and most importantly about how it's marketed! Should be interesting.

And I'll keep trying.

IESSO

A SILVER LINING?

I'VE BEEN TRYING TO THINK OF A GOOD TITLE FOR THIS POST, but I couldn't. Anyway in the past few days I've had a few more intreviews. They were with recruitment companies, not studios, but they were generally positive. The previous post was with another recruitment company, but it was very depressing, they weren't responsive, and I was just another candidate. These other three were much more encouraging, not just because they're better companies (they know more studios) and they were very encouraging. I have some work to do regarding my portfolio, mainly just doing a version without the magazine to distract! Although they do like the magazine too, it does make it more interesting/memorable. Anyway...

The most recent agency has a few studios in mind for me to send my CV/folio to, and we'll see what happens. I'm still terrified, but maybe things will get better. I might even get myself a proper job even!

IESSO



PS> This is gold.

THE EVERYTHING IS OK ALARM!

SO THERE WERE TWO BOMBS IN LONDON TODAY. But we didn't really know about it until we went to Piccadilly Circus (only a few feet from where the car-bomb was) and saw that the streets were blocked off by police. Everything was fine, no-one was hurt. But it was a bit alarming, and weird to be in a city that gets bombed.

Read more here.

We're fine. Don't be worried.
IESSO

WORST JOKE EVER.

A neutron walks into a bar. "I'd like a beer" he says. The bartender promptly serves up a beer. "How much will that be?" asks the neutron. "For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge"

HE'S HERE...

LINUS HAS ARRIVED IN LONDON with a bang! Not really, his flight was normal... Anyway it's great to see him! He's our first visitor since we've been here, and since we left. (I guess Bindy visited too actually) Anyway Linus also holds the record shared with my family of 'person I've seen on most continents'. Out of the four continents I've been too I've seen him on 3 (North America, Australia, Europe), and my family on 3 (North America, Australia, Asia)

So yesterday we saw all the touristy stuff; Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, etc... And for the next week who knows? He's probably end up getting on our nerves (which is his style) or drive us insane (with the same style) but at any rate it'll be fun. And it'll lift my spirits, which are at a record low since 'those days'.

I'll try to post up some photo's as they're taken of exciting adventures!
IESSO

"SO ELLIOTT, HOW DID YOUR INTERVIEW GO?"

MAYBE this will help answer your questions.
Make sure you click on the image for the full size.
IESSO