Portfolio Complete (nearly)
Posted on 04/09/08 at 02:59:11 PMSo my portfolio is finally complete. I've been working on it for awhile and have, of course, gone through about ten different layouts. It's up at centraldown.com/portfolio, or you can just click the "Portfolio" link at the top of this page.
I'm pretty happy with it. I still have a few things to add to it, but it is, for the most part, done. Let me know what you think.
In other news, only three weeks until I'm finished with school for good. I can't even begin to tell you how great that feels. It's about time, too. Any longer in academia and I'd probably turn into a foaming-at-the-mouth-and- raving-about-politics-art- and-like-omg-coffee idiot.
Online Lessons IRL
Posted on 02/11/08 at 02:01:53 PMBack when I used to play World of Warcraft and various other MMORPG's, I'd always run into a million beggars. They exist in pretty much all online games... players who are too lazy to go and play the game to make money and would rather make fools of themselves by screaming "HAY, ANY1 GIVE ME MONYE?" in town. My tactic for this was to say, "Sure, I'll give you money." So we'd open trade, I'd drop some huge amount of cash (to a newbie) in the trade window (for example, say 300 gold in WoW), fail to hit the "Accept Trade" button, and then simply walk away from the computer for a half hour. About nine times out of ten, they'd still be there, waiting for me to accept, when I got back.
This has proven to work in real life as well. My phone (not my cellphone) has been targeted by a lot of telemarketers lately. Now, I never give my apartment phone number to anyone. I don't even know the number. I use my cellphone for everything, and since it's on the do not call list, I hardly ever get any unwanted communication. Somehow, however, my super-secret apartment phone number has gotten out... which makes me wonder if Comcast sells phone numbers.
Anyhow, here's a fun tactic for dealing with telemarketers. They call. They offer you some OMG AMAZING deal on something you really don't need (for example, cheaper long distance... which is retarded since mine is free). You say, "Wow, that sounds like an amazing offer! Can you hold on while I find my wallet?" They will, of course, be overjoyed. So set down the phone, and head out for an hour or so to get a burger. Come back and see if they're still on the line.
Now here's an interesting fact, most places telemarketers are not allowed to hang up on you. So you've got maybe a 50% chance that the person is still there. If they are, you say, "Oh, wow, sorry. Couldn't find my wallet. I have it now. What was the deal again?" They'll probably repeat it, whereupon your response should be, "Oh, that's not as good as I thought it was. I'm not interested, thanks."
Works (nearly) every time.
Two New Wallpapers
Posted on 01/30/08 at 08:05:42 PM
I recently made two new wallpapers for the hell of it.
The first, "Red & Panda" is based off of some work I did at Ripe. Client decided halfway through that she no longer required our services, and thus, the project was never completed. However, I produced some pretty spiffy vector art in the process. The panda is just that. A panda.
The second, "Paper Mountains" was thrown together last night. It's some mountains... made out of paper.
They can both be found on the media page. Also, I've decided that anyone who doesn't use a widescreen resolution is undeserving of wallpapers. So if you're not using 1440x900 or 1680x1050, well then you dun get notin.
New Hostee
Posted on 09/27/07 at 07:27:53 PMCentral Down has its first new hostee in about a year now. Huzzah! However, it's not really a completely new hostee, it's a current hostee's new site.
ConAnime.com.do is a non-profit organization based out of the Dominican Republic promoting the great art known to us Westerners as anime. It's run, in part, by Fernando Bordas of DZDesigns, along with a massive group of others who I don't really know (sorry guys!) There's not much up at ConAnime at the moment, and the entire site is in Spanish (so a good 3/4 of you may be screwed), but it's worth a look-see. Especially if you're from the DR.
Here's wishing them the best of luck!
In other news, I'm in the process of reworking my portfolio. The one that's up right now is about as beautiful as a motorcycle accident. Of course, the new portfolio probably won't be up for another year or so, so don't wear out your clicking-finger refreshing the current version.
