The You suck at photoshop series on Youtube is sooo good, it has everything, humour, sarcasm and some badass tutorials oh Photoshop tools. Even if you don’t learn anything new then at least you can be entertained by the videos’ storyline and character Donnie.

Some other amazing things to list:

• Experimenting in photography, I really really love trying out random things, sometimes it’s so damn frustrating but sometimes you just get some awesome results in the end.
• Doing stupid fun things in photography, there’s nothing like a silly even childish bit of fun for a shot or two, yeah emotional and intense are cool - but funny things keep you rolling
• Photoshop - I bloody love photoshop, it’s such an amazing piece of software. Powerful, vast and wonderful. Of course the tool only performs as well as the user’s ability, but still, just the things it can create are sooo good. Again, the joy of ’shopping some stupid immature thing is enough to keep you smiling
• Animation, now I’m not usually an animation freak, but there are some things I see that I can really appreciate the skill and ability involved in producing it. You can see why the creator would have put in hours and hours and hours, and then can sit back at the end with this fantastic sense of satisfaction at the result.

Why is there just SO much cool stuff like this around? It’s great, woo for times of the digital age!

In other news, I’m feeling quite tired and a bit oddly sick. And I don’t want to get up at death o’clock tomorrow morning. Mergh.

I had an idea brewing in mind for ages now, and today I actually talked it through with Uka/Nic for the first time. Since we were chatting about his new camera and considering trying to do a double exposure project.

Anyhow my idea was to have a few photographers, probably our fellow flickr friends etc to shoot a photo of themselves holding an A4 frame, then each image would be ’shopped together inside each other, in a series of shots that link together and eventually loop round.

Then I was going to take it the next stage up, and somehow in flash produce a looped flash version of this, so you could scroll through each image, or go backwards, and it would loop over and be never ending. This was inspired from a the infinite oz flash I have seen, amazing visuals, insane detail - amazing. Anyway I was discussing with Nic the logic of how to make images loop around like that, and he was very handy in thinking through a work around with me.

I don’t know how some people do it, it’s like this is how I know I could never be a proper hardcore dev or programmer, their minds just work a certain way, they see things in a certain angle that makes them come up with such solutions I could never ever thought of. I mean I consider myself a reasonable problem solver but some people just take the biscuit. THAT’S why they’re hardcore geeky devs or technical geniuses.

So yeah, after discussion with Nic, I’m so going to try this idea out, but with just images of myself first, it’s still going to be hard though. Hmm…

Oh and in other news…LEMMINGS ON THE DS!! Sqeee!

Yes…ahem..portfolio, I know.

BRB. Going to play in ’shop

The pen tool has always scared me a little, I mean in general I’m pretty nifty at picking up software and tools and what not. But the vector pen tool, nope nada - always looked at it and thought “what the hell do I do with this?!”.

Then one of my old work colleagues gave me the basic heads up and now I’m not so confused. But I’m still not very confident in it though it would be a valuable skill to have.

I need to practice.

I’ve decided to try and make a concept design for a website for Neil’s band ‘The Lice’ - I haven’t a bloody clue what I’m going to do for it, but I’m sure inspiration will hit me like a big tick that will cling on until I do something about it.

Must. Fight. Urge. To. Watch. Lost.