Italian Kitties
2011 | Mar 31 | 17:51
cats | Italy | photography | travel
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Firenze
2011 | Mar 30 | 22:41
art | art history | Italy | museums | photography | travel
My work here is done.
2011 | Mar 22 | 17:13
art history | Italy | life | travel
My internship ended on Friday, and after a few days to relax and fritter away my time, I’m headed off to Florence as of tomorrow afternoon! Four and a half days of art history overload, visiting places like the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Medici, which Professor Amy would have you believe is one of the most architectural-historically-important (more…)
Shiny Things
2011 | Mar 17 | 12:55
design | green issues | work
Work recently has involved photoshopping a LOT of photos of people for our clients’ publications, but somewhere in there I did a project to create a little callout “Störer” thing for an office supply catalogue’s eco-friendly products. It was kind of fun to make lots of shiny buttons, although there was a certain amount of head (more…)
Lyrical Wallpaper
2011 | Mar 11 | 13:40
I had a quiet morning at work recently and spent a certain amount of it doing abstract desktop wallpapers in Illustrator based on assorted lyrics I like. These are completely vector-based in Adobe Illustrator – I’m finally figuring out vector gradients! (more…)
Six Days of Drinking
2011 | Mar 9 | 07:57
entertainment | Germany | life
Thursday opened the Karneval celebration proper in Cologne. Several of my coworkers took Thursday and Friday off, either to spend more time celebrating or to run away from the city-wide party. So things were really busy while we struggled to make up for the missing people, so it was pretty much all work and no play. Nonetheless, (more…)
Orc Building
2011 | Mar 2 | 10:27
Last Shadowrun session, we spent a lot of time arguing about the moral and material advantages and disadvantages of kidnapping a boy from his family when three corporations are out looking for him and will get him one way or another. (more…)