| Sorry!!! |
[Dec. 5th, 2007|09:54 am] |
I haven't been on LJ in about 2 months, I am really addicted to facebook.
What have I missed??
I miss you all! |
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| Geeky gamery |
[Aug. 14th, 2007|11:08 am] |
Anyone up for going to Omega Sektor in the day on sat?
C'mon! Gaming WOO! |
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| Missing friends... |
[Jul. 18th, 2007|10:21 pm] |
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Anyone heard from Alex yet??? |
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| Pimping my shit. |
[Jul. 4th, 2007|12:52 pm] |
Hey all, I realise I havent seen most of you in forever and this desperatley needs to be ammended. What do you all do for jollies these days?
Aside from the fact that I am a social hermit I realise that most of you are booze hounds. Which leads me nicely into what I am doing at the moment. Check out www.vinappris.com We are currently doing a new customer drive where we are selling wine below cost!!!
12 bottles of high quality wine for under £40 :) You also get a bit of my graphic design thrown in...
If you do buy off the site or the TV channel drop me a line! I wanna hear your opinions!
Mr Pot. |
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| I heard you had come back from the dead... |
[May. 15th, 2007|05:43 pm] |
Yes, despite the rumours of me being a ninja, sky pirate or ethereal god head I am still here. Still me.
Apologies for the lack of update but damn! I have been a busy boy.
The thing that has mostly been sucking up my soul is this: http://www.vinappris.com/ (I am redesigning the horrific site at the mo.)
A TV wine shopping channel. Who woulda thunk it would take up so much of my time launching a tv channel? Check the live video feed to see the awesomeness of my 3d - back end database driven graphics. Oh yes, I am an uber geek.
Aside from launching this I have been mostly spending time with the cutest girl in the world, hugging and giggling like a teenager on shrooms.
Life as a mid twenties graphic designer is good. More responsibilty than I could have possibly comprehended in my drug haze days but its kinda nice controlling something and making a difference from the ground up.
I do still read you all and miss you all!
Hope to catch up with you all soon :)
Mr Pot. |
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| Yikes! Help! |
[Dec. 19th, 2006|06:57 pm] |
People with animation experience (Rex, Mag) HEEEEELLLLP!!!
I just had a call from my soon to be boss telling me he has just brought an Aston 7 machine (apparently a top of the line TV 3d graphic machine) I have a 4 day training course in how to use the badboy, this is all well and good, HOWEVER I have only a small amount of animation experience and even though my page layout skills are the shit when I think about them moving my head goes all squirliee...
Any advice? I really think I should fire up flash and get some boxes moving around a screen, just to see what works and what doesnt. |
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| So.... |
[Dec. 10th, 2006|12:43 pm] |
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| |  chipper | ] |
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| | The knife | ] |
For my new job I get to spec out my computer.... I've decided I want a PC over a mac for network and file transfer issues (e.g if the rest of the company is using mac it saves the ball ache)but if you could have your dream design poot what would it have? The tv editor guy had a five screen setup... |
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| Fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk |
[Dec. 9th, 2006|02:26 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | GRRRREEEAAAT! | ] |
| [ | music |
| | New Young Pony Club | ] |
Ok, does anyone else ever wonder if they are trapped in their own imagination and the series of coincidences they call life are just elements of their dream narrative manifest upon their consciousness??
No?
Just me then.
I am supposed to move into a flat tomorrow and I have been having the usual uber stressy time that anyone would have with trying to move, work 45 hours a week and an do an art course. Somehow I have been holding it all together. I'm not sure how, it feels like my heart is going to burst outta my chest at points.
However when things are hard and crazy life does tend to have a habit of throwing a curve ball at you. I had a job interview on Tuesday and being the media whore I am, I aced it, beating people with 20 years experience yadda yadda yadda. So now I have a new potential job :) WOO!!!
Its really cool as well, combining 2 of my favorite things, alcohol and designing. Its a shopping channel designed for aspirers selling wine. As I am getting in at the ground level I get to do everything, the branding, wine labels, boxes, TV visuals, Everything!!! I would be dubious about getting in with a starting company like this but they do have a proven track record so... Nothings 100% yet but lets wait and see...
My only issue with it is that it is in Redditch. This sets alight to our moving plans, throws them window and then pisses on them from a very high height. I'm really not looking forward to phoning the estate agents tomorrow.
So yeah, basically everything I have been planning for the past month or so has gone up in flames in a day but fuck, I know its gonna feel great to get outta the day job. |
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| yikes! |
[Nov. 30th, 2006|06:18 pm] |
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| | happy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Joanna Newsom | ] |
I just realised i havent updated in forever and I feel kinda guilty about it...
So yeah, for everyone who hasn't seen me in forever, sorry... I kinda get wrapped in the flesh world when I am having muchos fun.
I guess the main thing thats happened is that i'm totally, stupidly, blissfully in love with mah girlie, we have been living together for around 3 months now and have our pretty little flat to move into in Mosely in 2 weeks :) Woo! Trip to ikea tomorrow to blow lots of money on everything we need (which is practically everything)
Its still going really really well between us, I spend practically all my spare time with her and she is the first person who I can spend longer with three days with without needing my own space or getting annoyed. I mean we have been seeing each other for around 5 months now and we havent even had a disagreement. See? crazyass big risks can pay off crazy ass big rewards on occasion.
Aside from the love life my working world is going ok, looking for a new job but I have just discovered the blissful joy of screenprinting, expect some tees up here soon :)
But yeah, sorry for fading into grey in internet land but hopefully I can meet up with a lot of you around xmas.
Take it EZ :) |
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| well, life is pretty cool again |
[Sep. 24th, 2006|02:25 pm] |
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| | cheerful | ] |
The craziness seems to have given me a temporary reprieve for a while and I am currently in a peachy mode of happiness.
Me and the cutie are gonna start looking for flats and sorting out finances and all that Jazz soon, its going super well and i'm a very very happy boy. It was a bit shaky for a while with me in confinement with laser treatment and her super ill but I figure if we can handle each other in our worst conditions its only looking good for the good stuff.
In other news Sutton College have approached me and offered me a job teaching design! Crazy! I didnt even apply they just found me! I like it when random good stuff happens. So yeah, I have to sort all of that stuff out this week
So yeah i'm happy, I have my girl and I could have a new job very soon.
Life is good. |
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| Why cant life be simple? |
[Sep. 4th, 2006|06:54 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | optimistic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Sunshine Underground | ] |
So I have found the girlie of my dreams (yay Pot!!!) and its going really well if I do say so myself...
But... She's in Ipswich and i'm in Brum. Still its going good and long distance can work in my experience. I think she is the one, I really do.
I just know we are going to have to work hard at the distance thing but then we are both willing... And crazy for each other :)
Yay!!!! I'm soooo happy! |
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| Yay! (but boo) |
[Aug. 10th, 2006|01:28 pm] |
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| | ecstatic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Digital Penetration | ] |
The mag have sorted me with Leeds tickets, which is fucking ace! The only bad thing is that they aren't photo passes, meaning I cant get all snap happy. They Won't even let me in with my uber camera :(
Oh well, I guess you cant have everything... At least I get to go see some awesome bands! TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Artic Monkeys, Maximo Park, Dirty Pretty Things, Raconteurs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tily and the Wall, Belle and Sebastian, The Cribs, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Klaxtons, Peaches, Guillemotts and Be Your Own Pet are just a few I wanna see :) Its a much better lineup than last year :)
Right, I'm off to book hotel rooms for me and the lucky lady :) |
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| This gave me a happy today. |
[Aug. 8th, 2006|06:48 pm] |
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| | happy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Flaming Lips | ] |
http://xkcd.com/c112.html
Who doesn't like Vanilla Ice and Venn diagrams? |
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| groo... |
[Aug. 6th, 2006|11:41 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | full | ] |
| [ | music |
| | bowie | ] |
3 barbeques, 1 full english and 1 bisexual ex who now has tattoos on the palms of her hands. I have spent most of this weekend on the grass somewhere wishing I hadn't had eaten so much. I am sweating beef and pork products.
Oh and NEVER go out with an identical twin. Its very confusing even years and years after the event. Especially if your drunk and stoned and she now has a welsh accent. It hurt my poor fragile brain. |
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| Its still too hot |
[Jul. 28th, 2006|06:39 pm] |
God. I really need it to stop being hot, I haven't had a decent nights sleep in weeks and its really getting to me now. I came home early today from work, tried to sleep for an hour, gave up and made this instead...
http://pics.livejournal.com/potguns/gallery/0000g0b3
Well it has been a long time since I took these and I thought I should share. Look at them big! The cropping is wierd on this site! Just some of my faves from the festival, more at some point.
I thought this week may have been the end of crazy stuff happening to me but at five tonight I had one of my employees phone me up and ask if I want to get involved in the rebranding of the Oasis market! Woo!!!
Ok, I guess its time to sort out what I am doing tonight... |
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| Well... |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|12:01 am] |
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| | cheerful | ] |
After having around 10 friends agree to see islands tonight ( http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=32687683 ) Eventually as everyone dropped out one by one I was left on my tod, still determined to go and see them.
Man I felt old.
I went to the gig and they did rock in a severe way but when did gigs become about not not moving and standing there still as I bounced around them? Have I become the older, uncool guy at gigs? I was left chilling out with one of my mates sisters who was too young to drink for christsakes.
I dunno, My Peter Pan complex still bites at me, I think (hope) I have at least 6 or so years until I seriously have to consider growing up...
I just dont want to. I missed a lot of my youth in a drug induced haze and even though I can never get that lost time back I at least want to make up for it you know?
Bah. |
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| GRRrrrrrr |
[Jul. 24th, 2006|07:48 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  confused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | CSS (who you should go check out!) | ] |
Well this weekend was boozy to say the least. 2 nights in a row I didnt get into my own bed past 7 in the morning... I just cant seem to get pissed anymore, I dunno whats wrong with me. No happy drunken feeling just scummy hangovers the next day. Bah.
In other news ive put a stone on since I came back from Vegas! Arg! How the hell did that happen!?!?! I think I dont eat when i'm depressed and at the moment I am uber happy which equals pies. I'm also not working myself to an early grave at the moment which could be part of it...
I guess I am destined to be a thin unhappy mr pot or a tubby happy mr pot.
Oh well, off to the pub now. |
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| It's too hot. |
[Jul. 19th, 2006|05:48 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  hot and grumpy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Seu Jorge- The Life Aquatic | ] |
I think this is the first time I have ever wanted to go back to work after finishing a day there. Air conditioning is essential in this silly weather. Its now offically hotter than it was when i was in Vegas and the fucking tarmac is melting. It was gross walking home in sandals. I also have to sit in front of the noisest computer in the world and do work all night when all I really wanna do is have a beer in the sun.
I may take my laptop into the garden in a bit and sit in the sun, if I have to work it should be outside. I need wireless.
On the plus side I spent all of last night drinking whiskey with my best friend in my garden talking about old times. I'm gonna miss him so much. |
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