SO it turns out we've been asked to keep a blog for university on how we're doing with our projects, what feedback we've been having, what feedback other people have been having, etcetera etcetera, and I'm just gonna complain about how useless it is. Yet, the updating of this blog has now become another mindlessly boring aspect of my mundane life amongst watching Back to the Future 1 2 and 3 over a weekend, or playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance until kingdom come, or just to shuffle things about reading 3 Sin City's in one afternoon. And for some reason unbeknownst to me, the blog one is the most uninteresting of them all.
After one particularly special critique session at university (which overran by an HOUR) we were told that keeping a blog is a good idea. In second/third year (i forget which) we are marked on a blog and getting into the habit of keeping one is a good thing to do. So we were all recommended to go home and make a blog. And being the good little boy that I am who always does as he is told, I scurried off home and made a little blog to write things in.
And then I wondered: what is this blog actually FOR?
NOBODY cares. Literally. Nobody in the whole world will care about my poster about Franklin Gothic. And sure enough it's been nearly 4 weeks and nobody's read it. NOW, the critics will say this is because the "welcome" note at the top of the page is negative, discouraging, etcetera, but I don't think it's anything like that, I think it's purely truthful:
"ANYWAYS, so there I am, all in Leeds, getting some research stuff done on my font and starting to play about with it and its sexy g and Q letters, and then I'm told that apparently we all have to go home and start a blog about our graphics. Hence this. Now, I'm not entirely sure who is actually meant to be reading this, but I was sort of told to, and I thought, wellllllllllll WHY NOT. So here is my blog on my graphics-y stuff. If you're not bothered, then maybe just don't read this blog, ever?"
Let's be honest, nobody at all really actually cares.
Anyway, I've kept it up so far, but not to the standard I'm expected to. They recommended at the end of another long sesh that overran by, yes, another HOUR, that we make feedback notes for OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTER?! So apparently, when James is told that he has to make the Y bigger on his poster and get rid of all that red on the left, I'm supposed to jot this down keenly in my notes and then go home and make my Y bigger and get rid of all the red on the left. OH WAIT. I DON'T HAVE A Y OR ANY RED ON THE LEFT!
AND, this is really just a digression based purely on anger, WHY ON EARTH DO WE OVERRUN BY AN HOUR?
Fair enough, 5/10 minutes. On a bad day it might extend to 15, if they're really pushing it. But NOTHING overruns by a whole HOUR. And especially not TWICE! If you make a mistake one time and it overruns by a whole hour then don't try and do the same approach to your critique sessions again, because it will just overrun by a whole hour, again. Maybe next time it overruns, you might like to try jotting down where you went home. Hey, why not keep a whole freaking blog on it?
BUT i guess i can shamelessly plug my blog anyway. If you really wanna know what makes my Uni tutors tick, then why not go to http://pasqualedesigns.blogspot.com/
and have a nice old look at everything on it. I'm sure it will make you want to weep/die in a bucket.
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