Maya. We forgot how much we detest its user interface. Seriously. When is there going to be a program which was written with artists in mind? SO MUCH FRUSTRATION! The cows actually left the room at one point, they were that worried. THE COWS!!!
All in a good cause, and we shall be blogging about it when it has finally been released.
Yes…today we have decided that Room 101 needs a new member. That new member is the word ‘Chill-ax’. This is by far the most offensive use of the English language, and clearly needs locking up and should never see the light of day again.
Worse, is it’s use in an advert currently on TV to advertise some form of gossip magazine, and worse still, is the fact that it is used in a jingle. The agency responsible for this advert should probably also be placed in Room 101, but it is possible that the client deliberately asked for it. We may amend our terms and conditions that this word may never be used in any piece of work that we produce. Money IS money, but pride is perhaps more important.
In more exciting news, today a radio station in America is using our A-Team remix trailer as their video of the day! Total result! Link to come later when they have woken up on that side of the Atlantic.
UPDATE: It’s up!! See the link here:
So…we have projects that are ready to start, we just need dates to start lining up. Watch this space. In the mean time, we have been doing some DIY around the office. The cows were not very happy about this (we can’t say what they said, this is family friendly blog afterall).
We also finally saw Avatar at the weekend. Disappointing is the word.
We had a spare morning, so thought that this might be fun…
Something new we are working on. Link
More soon…
Much as to our delight that this oversight made our job easier (we needed some logos, and had no way of obtaining the branding guidelines in time) having a PDF that is not protected in some way (especially if it is in the public domain, which this one was) online, is somewhat worrying.
Much as anyone with a real mind to ripping something off really only needs l33t Photoshop skills(z), leaving your PDFs this editable should be a definite no. We advise our own clients to be aware of this for any PDF content they create, and suggest they become familiar with the security settings they have available in whichever PDF creation application they use.
Yes, we have finally installed WordPress on our web server! Hurrah us! We will be tinkering a bit with the look of the Blog over the next few days, but it is now fully working with our site.
In other news, First Group has asked User Perspective and Design:bias to help implement a plan to make navigating at train stations easier. Watch this space…
Might be doing some work for the National Rail network! How exciting! All to do with safety and communication which should be great fun to do. In other news, Batman: Arkham Aslyum on hard difficulty, really is hard.
Still not installed WordPress on our server. The cows are investigating MySQL(!) (yes, that’s what we though as well) so that we can get it running, so bare with us. Then hopefully we can fully configure the CSS style (and still credit where it is due) to be more in keeping with our brand. Watch this space.
Twitter FAIL
We are gobsmacked. What is so brilliant that everyone is talking about it?
iPhone 4? Spider-Man relaunch? New freezer? 24 season 8? Chuck season 3? Yes, all things we are excited about. Not necessarily in order either.
Today shall be about recycling, adverts (more of them), considering installing WordPress on our website, plans so cunning you could stick a tail on them all AND call them weasels, new business and maybe, just maybe, some paperwork. Friday, weather permitting, we are going to sort out the garden outside the office. The cows have obviously been busy with technical things and have let their gardening duties lapse. Scandalous behaviour indeed.