MySpace suicide

It's been going around a lot these days. Not really, but both my friend Adam and I have decided that MySpace just isn't the place we want to call home on the Internet. In fact, I don't know that I really call any place "home" while I'm on the Internet, but that's hardly the point. The point is that Adam and I have moved from MySpace to facebook.com and I have totally overridden most of the code on my MySpace page so as to change my background, the visibility of mostly everything on my page, the placement of the navigation bar links, my picture, my display name, my One and Make Poverty History campaign banners (which now conveniently cover up some ugly links that followed my profile picture around), and I added in some promo text for facebook.com. I'm not sure why I'm suddenly so against MySpace, but...oh well. Whatever. I guess I picked a cause and now I'm just going to go balls-out with it. That's the news from Lake Woebegone where men are men and so are the women.

film fest

I'm designing posters for a guerilla film festival at my college. In fact, it will be the first ever such event on this campus. What it is, in case you don't know, is a festival of films that are all made in like a week or a weekend's time. Most of the films will be around 5 minutes. As an added piece to the fun puzzle, each team is given an "inspiration packet" which will contain lines, props, characters, etc., that must be used in the film. I am actually planning to participate in the festival with a team comprised of some good friends of mine who, like me, have taken Intro to Video and really loved it. But, along with the excited anticipation of this upcoming event, I get the privelage of designing the posters that will go up all over campus and foretell of its blessed arrival. The person in charge wants the posters to look like some old school, European postcards so that they will have that sort of soft, painterly look to them. She also was wanting them to look like an example she gave me (as seen here). She wanted there to be two people on the beach with a projector in between them that was projecting a movie onto a screen which they would be watching. Seems simple, but getting a bunch of photos together and Photoshopping them into the scene AND applying a bunch of filters to make the whole thing look painted could take quite a bit of time, energy, planning and creativity. I'm not saying I can't do it, I'm just saying that it's been over a month since she asked me to do the posters and they still aren't done. Patience is a virtue, but being on time is professional.