DIABETES-A-LICIOUS

MY PARENTS SENT ME 11lb's OF CANDY FOR HALLOWEEN! 11 pounds is 5kg! It's crazy! CRAZILY AWESOME!!!! Thanks mom and dad! And never do this again! I can't eat this much! And all of my friends over here hate Root Beer. I have 5 pounds of Candy Corn, 5 of Root Beer Barrels and 1 of Tootsie Rolls. It's great.

I am still debating whether to give it out to the local kids, but I think they are too stupid to appreciate it. Plus it costs nearly US$80 for the whole lot, AND it came from America, went to IRAN then to Ireland. (My dad selected the wrong country!) Totally awesome.

IESSO

FORT POLIO (UPDATED 22/10)

WORKING ON SOME STUFF FOR MY FOLIO (like the Mobii + Glow IDs), so in the next few weeks there will be more of my work. This poster is a make-up-brief as a way of getting some more color into my folio. At the moment I have for posters in there, all brown. So I needed to get some color in. I'm working on an Adidas campaign as well (just another make-up-brief).

Gimme some feedback if you can. And maybe some suggestions too....

IESSO



Here is a sample of the adidas thing I'm doing. It's to celebrate the 35 Year anniversary of 'The Superstar'. So it's a CD-case with some stuff and stuff. Basically I just wanted to try the type. What do _you think?

IESSO

THE PLAN

WE'RE GOING TO APPLY FOR AMERICAN AND UK WORK VISA'S ON MONDAY. The plan is if UNG gets rejected from the US visa (which is likely; you need a job before you can get a visa, and you need a visa before you can get a job!) we'll go to London. From there we can travel around Europe and north Africa. But we still plan on going to New York first, and travelling across the country. We'll be leaving for NY around mid-to-late-January.

I'm really nervous about the money, but REALLY excited about travelling.

IESSO

U2b

There's some pretty good videos on You Tube (yes, THIS is the best I can think of posting). Anyway you should watch some sometime. I like these:

Original Michael Jackson Thriller: CLICK HERE

Bollywood version of Thriller: CLICK HERE

Lego Thriller (best thing ever!): CLICK HERE

Corny, but well done CG Thriller: CLICK HERE

IESSOrry about not writing anything better.

WHERE ARE YOU BATMAN?

I DON'T WANT TO DWELL ON THE BAD, but... I'm getting sick of the neighborhood kids. So far we've been egged twice, saw someone selling cocaine, I've been picked on for being Jewish, UNG has been teased for being asian many times (normally they think she's chinese), we got off a bus and someone was beaten up right in front of us, fireworks are constantly going off and lastly and most excitingly; a car was blown up. Fun times for all.

IESSO

WELCOME TO JURASSIC PARK

I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT THE BLOG WAS TWO YEARS OLD TODAY. So, um, yeah, the blog is two years old today! Happy Birthday Mondayne! Hooray for trivial mondaynity! Uh, that's all. There's cake at the back, take a peice and some punch too.

Hey. Thanks for taking the time to read this so called 'blog'.

I don't really have much to say, now that I've been put on the spot. I just want someone to hear this. Even though it's really nothing. But isn't that why people do this anyway? They want to be heard.

So, I guess the purpose of this blog is to tell some jokes, share some laughs, and all the etceteras. But I have a feeling it's gonna be either a lot of me whinging about crap, or I'll never post a new message again. Either way, it's a good waste of time, for both me and you.

Well thus concludes POST #1 of the Mondayne Web Log.
I'm Elliott Scott, signing off.

I guess a lot has happened since this time last year huh? Met a girl. Fell in love. Recovered from depression (pretty much). Graduated. Moved to Ireland. Saw an old friend I hadn't seen in years. Moved in with the (unamed) girl. Got a job. Left the job. Got another job. Went to London. Went to Belfast. Went to Amsterdam. Saw an old friend I hadn't seen in years. That's about it I guess. It seemed like a lot more in my head.

Thanks for reading!
I'm Elliott Scott, signing off.

WORKIN'

LINUS ASKED ME TODAY WHY I HAVEN'T SHOWN ANY OF MY WORK ON THE BLOG. There's a few reasons:

1. It's not interesting, and it's not work showing.

2. I'm not allowed. I didn't sign any confidentiality agreements, but I don't want to get sued either.

3. I haven't really finished anything either. I've been working on the same projects for months, not getting anywhere fast. There is one project that I'm working on for a spa-treatment and it's working really well, and it even looks un-horrible, but we're not anywhere near complete. The client has requested the 19th change to the logo, and we can't continue with the inside until the logo is worked out. I was hoping to have it done by the time I left, but I don't think that's going to happen.

In the meantime, I will be updating my portfolio, incorporating lots of new things, so you can a look at that when I'm done. But that won't be until we get back from Paris.

A bit bored, IESSO

COUNTDOWN

4.5 WEEKS. 39 DAYS. 924 HOURS untill we're sitting on the Eiffel Tower ('on' I say) eating frogs and snails and delicious pastries. I can't freaking wait! I hope they're unexpectedly rude!

IÉSSO (hoh-hoh-hoh [french laugh])

AMPSERSAND PHOTOS

And just for the record, NO I did NOT smoke any pot or visit any prostitutes. I did walk past loads of Coffeeshops (as opposed to Coffeehaus's which actually have coffee) and got a bit of a headspin. AND we did walk around the Red Light District which was weird and awkward, and nerdily we were talking about exestentialism and philosophy. NERDS!

IESSO

&

AMSTERDAM WAS FUN. I'm tired though. I'll write more and put up some photos after I get some rest.
IEZZZZZZZZZO

COUNTDOWN

2 HOURS (We're at the airport now [called Aerophort here]

COUNTDOWN

19 HOURS

A YEAR TOO LATE

Remember desiging the mobile phone identities for ComDes4? There was the fancy one (Glow/Ginza) and the cheap one (Mobii/Mobilize), well I was never really all that happy with the work I did, so I'm doing it again, with one years experience under my belt.

I've only being playing around for an hour or so, but I've done the Mobii identity with beautiful textures and rich colors (making it classy instead) and some whizz-bang graphics for Glow. Tell me what you think if it all so far.

IESSO

COUNTDOWN

Two days

Getting sick of Dublin. Of working. Of wasting time. Missing home. My friends and family. Logical banks. Sunshine.

NINTEEN-8TY-FOUR

WORK HAS BEEN A BIT BORING RECENTLY, which is why I'm doing a personal project. I've been wanting to do something with 1984 for a long while, and have been working on things in the past, but without ever finishing. This time will be different though. This is going to be the best Spring Break EVER!

No but no, what happened was that I started out doing the normal futuristic Designers Republic style typography and imagery, which is great, and I totally love that look, but can't really do it, and besides, it's been done to death already. So I was just playing around and somehow found myself doing 1960's style type. Not the psychadelic stuff, more of the Saul Bass Vertigo/Dial M For Murder stuff. And it worked well that 8 and 6 look so similar. So I played around a bit more and tried cutting out the numbers and placing words in them. And then I put 'EIGHT' in the 6 and I decided I liked it.

I want to do a bunch of imagery, and indepth typographic studies, and see where this leads. No doubt it's going to be in my portfolio, if it's done, but I'd also love to get it nicely screenprinted onto posters. That'd be gorgeous.

Gimme some feedback if you want/can, I'd love to hear from you guys.

IESSO

MOVIES

I WENT TO SEE THESE MOVIES THIS LAST WEEK. And I strongly recommend them to watch. Both far surpassed my high expectations, and were some of the best movies I have even seen.

COM: Amazingly shot. Clive Owen was a great hero. Very beleivable as someone who doesn't care. I can't begin to describe the terror and realism of the film. Just amazing. Go watch it. It's very depressing and terrifying in its realism and potential, so be warned. ♡♡♡♡♡

LMS: Brilliantly funny! Moving. Uplifting. It was the saddest funny movie, or the funniest sad movie. ☼☼☼☼☼


IESSO

AMPERSAND

378 HOURS (Just shy of 16 days)

Red Lights. Wooden Shoes. Big spinny things. No drugs.
And we're gonna meet an old-friend from 'The Old Days'.
It's gonna be great!

IESSO

... MORE LIKE OLD-GRANGE!

WE WENT TO NEWGRANGE AND THE BRU NÁ BOINÉ archeological sites. It was cool! They were built in the freakin' STONE AGE! Thats borderline paleontology stuff baby, which is probably the best of all the -ologies.

Anyway the largest tomb is in a site called Knowth, with one 95m diameter tomb and about 10 satellite tombs. Each one has huge boulders moved from the river 50km west and the mountains 80km east. Basically it was totally cool. And 600 years older than those wussy pyramids and 1000 years older than lame-ass Stonehenge.

We were able to go inside one of the tombs (the body was removed by Victorian bastards) and it was pretty neat. The way the tomb works is it has a lightshaft inside it and at 8.58 to 9.17am on December 21st (the winter solstice) the light shines directly into the central chamber. Which is where we were standing.

Unfortunately I couldn't take any photo's inside the chamber, no camera's allowed, but it was pretty interesting. The 'recreated' the sun shinings into the chamber with a flashlight, which wasn't entirely impressive, but they assured us the actual thing was.

The bottom photo (the dark one of the tunnel) was taken inside the chamber at Knowth (which is not the big one with the sunlight. It was actually closed to visitors because it was too unsafe and too Indiana Jones like for us. Which incedentially we had watched the night before which made everything 10x cooler.


IESSO

PS. The tombs totally look like Hobbit Houses or a Smurf villiage. Tee Hee! ^_^



PPS. This photo was taken in Dublin after we got back. UNG isn't upset, I just caught her thinking and she just LOOKS upset. Don't worry, I didn't upset her. But I don't think you'll believe that.

BACK TO LONDON...

ACTUALLY IT WAS BELFAST IN NORTHERN IRELAND! It was a very very cool place. Really cheap to get to, and stay as well. Everything was very interesting, 'The Troubles' wasn't much trouble at all. We saw some murals with girls with machine guns, but they were all Loyalist and Unionist sided ones. In fact from our hostel window we could see a British pub with loads of flags flying and someone beat a Republican up. Crazy. Also the bus station where we arrived at was right next to the Europa Hotel, which has the record for the place most blown up: a total of 43 times!

There was some cool similarities to both 'The South' as they called it (or 'The Republic' they proudly call it down here) and to the UK. The accents we a lot different, closer to Scottish if anything. There were Black Cabs. They used Pounds, not Euros. But they were proudly Irish, regardless of being part of the UK or not. Interesting, regarding the money, each bank has it's own set of notes! I withdrew some money from our bank in ROI at a branch up north and it had the banks logo on it! We bought lunch and got a note bank with different pictures and another banks logo on it! but they were both £10 notes! It was cool.




We wandered the streets that night (against the people at works advice) and it was totally safe. Aside from the usual drunks. And we found a giant entertainment complex in the equivalent of SouthBank; called 'The Odessey'. There was a movie theatre, theatre for plays, 5 bars, resturants, bowling alley, Ice Hockey rink (home of the Belfast Giants) and lots of cool lights and stuff. It was totally cool, and in the middle of a big field. It was a lot like the Crowne Casino if you've been there. But without the casino bit. We has a delicious Spanish meal (no, no bloody Irish stew. YUCK!) Tapas instead; the fresh anchovies we so good.







We didn't just stay in the city, but also explored the north coast going to a volcanic rock formation called 'The Giants Causeway'. The legends are that it was built by an Irish hero; Finn MacCool, but I'm a bit sceptical. Anyway it was great to get out of Dublin, and out of cities in general and get some fresh air. It was great! We walked 5km's on the cliffs of the coast. The air wasn't very cold though, which I was looking forward too. We could see Scotland though! SEE IT!

IESSO


PS. Here's a poor map of where we've been in Ireland. Not much huh? But not a little either. We plan on seeing more of the country soon. And more of Europe too! Including CONTINENTAL Europe!