Yup.
So yeah I’ll admit that it’s been a while since I’ve updated (roughly two months for those sharpening their pitchforks) and I could say that I was super busy what with my end of year projects totally consumed my life, or that I was a tad busy moving countries, or that I haven’t had real internet access since being here, or that I was just a lazy prat who found loads of other excuses to avoid writing something.
You know all of those things are true, so let’s just move on, yes?
First off: The Photoshop/Photography assignment what consumed my soul. I, along with my group member created a calendar featuring some of the T-shirts we own (and in some cases bought specifically for). It was a gruelling process that involved a lot of photo taking, a lot of photo fixing, and an ungodly amount of channel masking and photoshop trickery. Hell I learned how to do things I didn’t know you could think of doing in Photoshop. I’ve published the calendar up on Flickr, so you can go check that out, if you want. I’ve also pushed up a lot of the raws and rejects up, which you can find here, if you want.
I had a lot of fun doing this project, even though it consumed way way way too much of my time (somewhere in the 50-70 hour mark). We got to have complete creative freedom with the project, which was one of the few times we really got that opportunity in school. There were some technical requirements that needed fulfilling to get the marks, but other than that we were free to do whatever we wanted with it. I have yet to send anything to Threadless themselves, not that they would really want much to do with it.
Item number two: I’ve moved.
More specifically, I’ve moved countries. I am now a fresh-faced member of the British Union. Even more specifically, I am now living with Theresa, the long-time girlfriend in London, England.
This is, of course, not my first time being here. I’ve been a couple times before, and this shouldn’t come as a shock to the negative 15 of you that still have my blog on your RSS feeder slowly collecting dust. I have mentioned this event before, so this isn’t shocking news. If it is, you’re probably a new reader, and I refuse to apologize to you for anything you may or have already read on this site.
Getting back on topic, as I sit here eating a candy necklace in the middle of the afternoon, I cannot help but think that I have refused to do any of this the ‘easy way.’ That is to say that instead of moving into my own place back in Canada; moving in with a girlfriend over there; or basically doing ANY of the things I’m doing now in a safer environment; I just up and do it all overseas.
No problem, right? Well actually, yeah, pretty much. I’m not saying it was a cake walk: there was the whole passport incident back in January that I’ll try to write about one day, the difficulties selling my car, the not having anyone to meet me at the airport because the tube was stopped, the not actually having a place to live yet thing, the getting kicked out of the place I WAS staying at thing, the car accident thing, the not having a job to arrive to thing, or the lack of Internet thing. There have been some unique challenges, but overall it’s worked out alright.
I have a new place with Theresa, the Landlord is super great, the flat is fantastic, and we’re getting Internet sometime today (fingers crossed). I’m working on the job thing, so that’s going well.
This leads me to item c: I have a new blog! well sort of. I’ve developed a Tumblr account for my day to day things that I see/do/experience in London and the rest of the EU. You can keep tabs on in at http://dutsoninlondon.tumblr.com/. I’m hoping for it to be mostly a photo/video posting area, but I’ll post occasional sound bites, quotes, etc. that come to mind there.
The reason for my doing this is to create a separation between my work and my travels. No one would want to see all those silly things posted up on here, and I wouldn’t write these long-winded grammatical wonders over there. Is your head still attached to your shoulders? Or did I just blow it away with my fantastic wordsmithing? I’m like a level 28 Word Smith. Don’t fuck with that. I have a hammer.
I should probably stop eating this candy necklace soon.
Item the fourth: I have an iPhone now. This has changed the way I ride subways and how I poop forever. Oh look the necklace is finished. That’s probably for the best. Anyways, you can be sure that within the next little while, I shall be gushing over the apps that I have actually found useful.
Last item: We’re still waiting on a fridge and washing machine to be delivered. Argos is dragging their ass in actually getting the washing machine so they won’t deliver the fridge. Apparently having to wait two weeks is quite alright to get a goddamned fridge. We make due by buying fresh every dinner, but seriously you can only have toast so many days for breakfast before that knife on the corner starts looking like it needs a friend. Or maybe it’s you who needs the friend.
Anywho, that’s me pretty much up to date. Believe it or not I actually have a couple of posts lined up for the next little while. Yes, that’s right, pick that jaw up off the floor. I said pick it up, damn you.
I can wait all day.
Better. Yes I actually have a couple posts, some of which are useful, some of which are awesome. Just to give you an idea, if I had drawn a venn diagram showing which are useful and which are awesome, you would see nothing but a circle. Have a think on that.
P.S. Edinburgh Rock is to quote a brilliant man ‘crazy delicious’.
P.P.S. I am planning a blog re-design in the nearish future. I’m very not happy
Hi Corey
Checked out your photoshop calendar on Flickr. Good project result.
It definitely has that Threadless brand style too it.
We also had to do a calendar project where we we actually set up a street with numbers painted onto different objects. Then photographed each number and put it into a street scene collage.
What camera did you use?
Nice stuff
Derek