I'VE GOT ME AND LINUS two tickets to see Late Night with Conan O'Brien when we're in NY! That should be totally great. I'm totally excited. My dad has a friend from NBC who is the director of the show, and he said we could have some tickets. Totally awesomes.

IESSO

COUNTDOWN: 29 Days

15 SECONDS

Too late, you missed it! The link was up for a total 6 hours!
IESSO

PS. It'll still be in the archive, but no longer on the main page. Inceidentally, it had top billing for 10 minutes! NewsToday sure does move fast.

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So I nerdily put Mondayne on Wikipedia as well.

HA HA! Wikipedia deleted it for 'blatant advertising'. Nice!

SO YOU MAY BE WONDERING what the hell is going on with Mondayne.blogspot.com? And you'd be right in doing so. See, the thing is, I was TRYING to get the blog into the 'New Millenium' with an updated look and some new features like tags. But I totally screwed it up and we're now left with this hideous looking monster. But hopefully this is only a temporary measure, and in the near future things will be back to normal, only SEXIER!

IESSO

BLAST FROM THE PAST

SO I'VE SORT OF MADE IT MY UNOFFICIAL POLICY to not dwell on past events (of the negative variety) from the last few years, I did have a refreshingly pleasant visitor from the past, and Australia come to Dublin for the weekend. Bindy, whom you may or may not know, who was a good friend of mine, aside from being best friends with A.

Anyway, she's travelling around the UK and is in Dublin for the weekend and it was great to see her again, after 3 or more years. We didn't talk about the past too much, instead both focusing on a positive future, which is great.

I had weird nightmares last night, but everything worked out well. It was good to catch up, and aside from all the issues, I cared about her a person and counted her as a good friend caught in an unfortunately sticky relationship. But aside from all that it was really nice.

IESSO

PS. Happy Austrlia Day everyone in Oz, or who's been to Oz, or has watched the film.

COUNTDOWN

WEEKS: 5.1
DAYS: 36

Things I'm looking forward to: Taco Bell, Hotdogs, The Subway, Times Sq, Statue of Liberty, Manholes with steam coming out of them, Yellow Cabs, Grand Central Station, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Buying a I HEART NY t-shirt, going to Central Park, Jazz in Harlem, ... and seeing Linus.

IESSO

TYPO: HOT OR NOT?

I SAY THE NAME SAYS IT ALL. Who here likes this typeface? Let's battle it out right here, right now.

PHOTOSHOP MYTH 103: SOLVED!

SO I HEARD THIS RUMOUR that you couldn't scan in money through Photoshop, that the program could count the number of repetitive lines or something and simply not allow you to do it. I also heard that it will let you but only up to a certain resolution.

So in the name of science (well, not science, more mild entertainment) I tried it! I scanned in an American $1 bill, because if any country would be banned by Adobe, it'd be America, at full size, at a resolution of 1500dpi (monitors are 72dpi, and most printed material is 300dpi)

CONCLUSION: Disappointingly, and obviously as you can see the scanned image; it didn't work. Or rather it worked fine. The program allowed me to scan, no watermarks appeared and the resolution was fine. I wanted to be slapped on the wrist by Adobe. Ha! What a push-over.


IESSO

IT WAS THE BLORST OF TIMES?

I LIKE THIS. I LIKE THIS MORE THAN I LIKE THE ANALOGY IT REPRESENTS.
If you have an infinite number of monkeys, sitting at an infinite number of typewriters, randomly bashing keys for an infinite number of years, they will write the complete works of Shakespeare. Moreso, they will write it correctly, word for word on the first attempt. In a matter of hours. Crazy no?

It's much the same as my Pi theory from way back when. (November 05?)
[scroll down till you get to the picture of Keanu 'If Keanu Can, so can-you' Reeves...


IESSO
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WHY EVEN BOTHER (updated)

DERMO FAR SURPASED MY FEEBLE ATTEMPTS at creating a NY themed playlist. With thorough research and music covering the entire spectrum of NY-iness, it's got it all. What an awesome friend.



AN ALTERNATE OPTION. Opinions??
IESSO



ANOTHER OPTION

IT MEANS FRIEND (updated)

SO IF ONLY I HAD A BUBBLE TEA PLACE to pitch my ill-conceived, poorly executed, not worked out idea. Keep watching this space (which you already do right? RIGHT?) for further updates, better work, and maybe even something not horrible. As you might have guessed, work isn't fulfilling me as creatively as I would like, so I spend more time doing personal projects. I'd much prefer personal projects that paid me, but this is good enough for now.

NOW BEFORE you jump up and say something like: "HEY! YOU! Why aren't they holding bubble tea?!" I'm going to quench your answer thirst, or quelch any questions, by pre-replying: "These guys are icons for the website" and complex versions of the logo versions, so they will never be used as part of the logo, so they don't have to be doing or holding anything! ALSO; please raise your hand if you want to ask questions.

ALSO (mainly aimed at Mr. Typo-judgey) don't criticise me for the poorly formed letters, they're ROUGH concepts. You can however criticise the appropriateness of the letterforms, which if you choose to do, I completely agree with. They're not appropriate at all really. Something more suitable would VAG Rounded with negative tracking (maybe -200) and either all-caps or all-lowercase! Hooray! Don't forget maybe a thick keyline around the letters (maybe 2 or 3 if you're feeling nuts) and maybe a drop shadow too. Although I am making a 'subtle' statement about the crappiness of 'fun' design, it really is appropriate and probably what's needed. Oh, and tilted on an angle to make it 'casual'!!!!!




IESSO

PS. Nerd-talk was fun. Not entirely nerdy enough for my liking though.



PPS. THIS IS WHAT I MEANT: Kokeshi or Kokeshit!? Looks like a toilet paper brand.

PIPELINE, IN THE

NOT SURE HOW, but I'd like to use these ideas one day. They're a Kokeshi doll, which is a Japanese doll that friends give each other. We saw some in Paris, and were VERY expensive, they're just made of wood! and we saw some in Dublin too. Maybe someone in Japan (hint hint) might want to buy one for their super special friend.

Yes, I mean me.

Yes, I know it's a doll.

No, I'm not going to dress it up.



THIS WAS AN OLD PROJECT way back in 3rd year university (so very long ago). I think this might have been Linus's pun at the time, but I can't AND WON'T give him credit. Also, in no way is this a racist joke. In fact if you think about it, it's a criticism of the common practice of giving Thai resturants, which otherwise would have been very classy, ridiculous pun names. Eg. Bow Tie (it's in The Valley). Either that or some dreaful COLOR+FLOWER combo: Blue Orchid, Red Lotus, White Orchid, Blue Lotus, etc...



LASTLY, here is an ad I did for a property company. Originally my boss asked for something different than the usual property ad, and like a fool, came up with this concept. We both knew the client would never choose it, because clients are normally boring, but unlike most clients, they totally loved it! I had done 4 other alternatives, mostly grid based, image based, not relying on any clever idea. I'm glad they chose this idea. I'm actually proud of it too, which is odd for an ad. Ha ha ha! Get it? Last shot? Hunterswood! The pun-ishment is awesome!

IESSO

IT'S LIKE A SOUNDTRACK TO LIFE (or somethin')

I'M TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER A PLAYLIST for the trip to New York City. I want songs either about NYC or by bands famous for being from New York. The top of my list is that song from Midnight Cowboy... Also, obviously, New York, New York by Frankie (Sinatra that is, not Goes to Hollywood).

Does anyone have any recommendations?


IESSO


COUNTDOWN: 6 Weeks, 2 Days (44 Days)

PS. So it seems that the song I said was on the top of the list wasn't actually on top, but it was the song that inspired the playlist.

OOPS

"Her name is class. eh?"

I called dcoy demanding an explanation!
"Can I speak to Gavan please?"
"Speaking"
"Hi Gavan my name is Elliott, I'm just calling in response to an email my girlfriend got from you. She sent you a letter of application and her portfolio, and you said that you weren't interested, AND THAT'S FINE. That's not the issue. The issue IS why you would write in an email: 'Her name is class. eh?'."
"Oh, uh... well... 'class' is an Irish word for nice"
"Uhuh, and it wasn't sarcastic at all?"
"No, no. Her work is wonderful..."
"It's not about the work at all. I want you to explain why your personal comments were attached to a professional email"
"Uh.. that's a good question. I don't know"
"I think it's extremely unpro.." *CLICK* He hung up on me.

I called back.
"Hello?"
"DON'T YOU F*ING HANG UP ON ME!!!"
*CLICK*

It takes a lot to really make me mad, but this was enough. And when I'm mad, I get very mad. How dare they make fun of her name, and attach that to her email! For those of you who may want to criticise me for my overreacting antics, Soryi was upset about the email. And unprofessionalism is not cool. Especially when a comment like that may be taken as an insult (even if what he said was true and it wasn't an insult{which is don't believe for a second}). The point is Soryi and myself (and everyone I showed the email to took it as an insult) and she deserved an explanation at least, and preferably an apology.

I'm Elliott Scott, steam blasting from my ears, signing off.

PS. Passion of the Christ ALL OVER AGAIN!
PPS. Victoria Beckham's new book title: "The Poshion of the Spice!" (Hilarious, I know!)
PPS. (About the censoring of the image) Soryi has asked me to block out her personal email and email address. Which is fair enough, it does not affect the understanding of the situation by being blocked out.

PROOF OF LIFE

We were talking about the best and worst jobs we'd had. I told everyone at work that I was on a TV show called 'Bush Patrol' and they didn't believe me. I had no way of proving it until I goggled the episode:

Bush Patrol 55
The Ugliest Frog in the World. Unfortunately I was the ugly frog. Sigh.
Now I might have the nickname Froggie. Double sigh.

IESSO

WELCOMES!

THERE'S SOME NEW ADDITIONS to the links;
- Chris's website has been restored, and
- Soryi's portfolio is up.

Also, after much badgering (minor amounts really) I took down the masthead and replaced it with something much more bland, generic and keeping with the mundane look and feel (L&F in design-wanker talk)

IESSO

IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU MEDDLING KIDS

AN OLD MAN (long-time alcoholic) IS IN THE CORNERSTORE BUYING A PACKET OF CHIPS AND A PACK OF CIGARETTES:

OLD MAN: (looking at his chips) I've never heard of any crisps called Hungry Dogs!
SHOPKEEP: No, actually they're called 'Hunky Dorys'...
OLD MAN: (to person entering store) Are you a hungry dog?
PERSON: Uh, no?
OLD MAN: (looking at the money in his hands) Where'd this money come from?
SHOPKEEP: It's the change from your crisps and cigarettes.
OLD MAN: Oh ok. (walks outside)
OLD MAN: (To person outside smoking) Could I trouble you for a cigarette?

IESSO

THE APPLE

I'M GOING TO NEW YORK CITY on the 28th of February untill the 6th of March! I'm gonna meet Linus over there and we are going to have awesome times! We've talked about this for 3 years now, and going to NY has been a dream of mine my whole life, and my biggest goal for the last year. And it's FINALLY going to happen! I just booked the ticket €105 each way, €352 including tax for the return! AWESOME!

But I wonder what kind of NY experience we'll have. Personally I hope it's the Woody Allen NY, but there are just so many different New Yorks:

- Andy Warhol (artistic and bizarre)
- Jack Kerouac (50's beat era romantic)
- Louis Armstrong (speak easy's, hooch, dames)
- Friends (Sit-com easy)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (Classy but poor)
- Frank Sinatra (sleazy & tough, but cool)
- Raging Bull (seedy and dangerous)
- Seinfeld (funny but simple)
- Miracle on 34th Street (childish romantic)
- Beastie Boys (funky but try-hard)
- Midnight Cowboy (rough and sleazy)
- Ghostbusters (scarily fun)
- Rumble in the Bronx (jackie-chan-ariffic)
- The Godfather 2 (depression era italian)
- Superman/Spiderman (epic)

... and last but not least:
- King Kong (most likely)

If you have any other NY's you know of, let me know.

IESSO

AT WORK

PAUL ASKS ROB: What did you do with your mighty mouse?
P: I gave it to Elliott, I wasn't using it.
R: Oh, well it's good to see it go to waste.

He says he meant "Good to see it NOT go to waste" but we have our doubts. Funny though.

MORO THE SAME

BACK AT WORK TODAY. Not much going on... this is more of the same as the logo's below, nothing to do with work.

IESSO

+1 & -1

ON THE LAST DAY of the year we went to the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin. It was beautiful. They had the majesty of nature indoors! And there was squirrells! YAY!








ON THE FIRST DAY of the year we went hiking around Glendalough. When we started out it was very cold but pleasant. We were a bit hungover from the night before but generally in good spirits. We then climbed the mountain next to the river and the icy rocks took all of our energy. We looked down to the valley seeing how far we came... there was a stream running from beneath us and mountains on either side. We then found out the trail went around the mountain, not down it! A 9km walk was ahead of us! And it was getting dark... And cold.

AND DARK!


Scary, exhausting, picturesque fun!
IESSO