i will figure you out wordpress (and flash while we’re at it) mark my word.
much hath been afoot of lately. dust is gathering on my shoulders as i write and my computer chair is now an attached appendage. i haven’t seen my friends in weeks and my parents are worried. what fate has befallen me? portfolio. on the bright side- i’ve learned i can make it on very little sleep and realized exactly how much one can get done in a day if one does’t procrastinate, dilly dally, call her friends etc.
I turned in my motion graphics final today. This was a complete blast to make and I learned so much about using After Effects/lighting green screens/using a sony pd170 etc. Big thanks to Aaron for staying so still with acrylic ink running down his torso …I want to shoot another Tide commercial with more people, about five truckloads of wet mud and about forty cameras. I also need to license “Singing in the Rain” for this endeavor. Shockingly though the ol’ pocketbook will not allow for this so it will have to stew on the back burners for a while. Tide, if you’re out there, hire me to do your advertising. I will make it worth your while.
my portfolio website is almost done- for now. the css is so dirty i’d be ashamed to show anyone (I can vaguely imagine Mr. Batchelder fainting at the sight of it) so there’s some cleaning left to do. the content could also be buffed up and now that i’m almost done i’m sick of it of course so i’ll probably start redesigning soon. i always wondered why some people, wise in the ways of css and internet affairs, complained so fervently about dreamweaver. now i know. i almost lost my mind trying to figure out what was wrong with my code after viewing it in design mode. nothing was wrong it. it displays fine in all browsers (even internet explorer) yet somehow screws up unfailingly in design mode.
On the plate for next week is flash. Last week I attended a dreamweaver workshop last week hoping to learn more about effectively embedding flash but instead got a refresher on importing .jpegs and making hot spots (does anyone remember when these were called image maps?). oh well. There was a time when I thought Photoshop was only for geniuses so hopefully Flash will be the same way.
For now-
Lesley Jane
