[My tongue is tied and I'm singing songs]

Long-awaited

dashdashdot — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:57:52 GMT

I keep on neglecting this journal; I feel so bad! 2 months and no updates, I'm getting too involved in my graphics journal. I've been a lot busier recently too, I had a mound of uni prject work to do for the end of the year, but even since then I've been working my guts out in overtime and then going out a lot too. It's odd how I can do this for weeks on end and then will suddenly stop and not want to anymore; I'm such a libra it's untrue.

It's so fricking hot here. Really, I think I should have been born in Greenland or somewhere; I'm just terrible at coping with heat. They said if it reached 32 degrees, it'd be a new record or something or other, and I know people probably have far higher temperatures than 32, but this is coming from a person who is happiest wearing a scarf and jumper when it's 12 degrees! Never thought I'd say it, but I hope the sun calms down for a bit!

Recently I've been debating my icon account status. Since this new sponsored account launch, the possibility of many more userpics has been luring me, and yet I really really REALLY don't want to emerse my pages in LJ ads. So I've thought about getting a paid account, but then I really haven't been bothered to check the FAQ for prices and terms, etc. Can anyone that has one give me some advice on whether they're worth it or not? I bet they are, and I just don't know what I'm missing. Oh well.

Oh and after reading my old rambles over here, I realised I hadn't updated saying I've since passed my driving test! Woo! Third time lucky! I went on the same test route as my first one and everything, and I really slammed on the handbrake when I got to that stop sign. Yay for independence! Was expensive to get here, but now hopefully my bank account will actually be able to increase with my earnings. I kept forgetting I was paying for all those tests and lessons, and getting seriously stressed over my lack of money.

I did see a cool jumper in H&M yesterday though which I may run back and buy tomorrow. Retail therapy, even when you don't need therapy, is the best thing int he world!

Unimpressed

dashdashdot — Fri, 05 May 2006 21:38:56 GMT

Right then well i am so not in a good mood right now.

Failed my driving test for the second time on wednesday and still feeling somewhat shitty over the whole thing. £45 per test, plus 2 x £20 for the 2 hours of car use is costing me a bomb, especially when i seem destined to pay this infinitely as i never pass. Had some bloke in the car who was there to observe my examiner too. Didn't help as all i kept doing was catching his eye in my main mirror. Every time i looked in it. Which is like, every time i so much as turn a corner cos i am so stressed already!

*Huffs some more to self*

Oh and my mood smileys have all decided to ignore their layout and congregate around the top of my page. That's kind of them. A new layout on the cards, i feel.

That's all from me, bringer of optimism and sunshine to the world.

Frazzled

dashdashdot — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:06:56 GMT

It's been one of those weekends. Really, it has. Dear god am i glad it's over and i have May Day to sleep through! ^-^

And i've been abused at work again, abused i say! Tom decided it would be hilarious to squirt cream all over a saucer, and then come up behind me and squash it onto my nose. Right infront of a customer as well! I didn't know what he'd done it was so quick! Eurgh, so so gross! To be fair, it probably was hilarious to everyone else, but i was mortified!

Then ten minutes later he kindly opened a pack of butter and left a square of it on my shoulder. Grease all over my work shirt now, thanks Tom. Oh how Caroline will be impressed. She's the 'hygiene lady' who stomps around, and when she sees you, tells you everything that's wrong about you -- Tie your hair up! Where's your hat? Take your earrings out! Where are your safety shoes? -- &etc. Dodge her for an easier life, that's what i do, but a big lump of butter on my shoulder would probably send the woman into a spasmatic fit.

Went back to uni last thursday, but haven't actually had any new work set yet, since it's 'feeback week.' Ha - awesome. A.K.A. do-nothing week. That probably explains why i've made so many icons over the past few days they're popping out of my ears, but alas, no more. I'm considering making a post of awards i've won over at my icon journal, and maybe even making a new layout for this one, as it's currently in S2 mode and i want a banner damn it! Are awards posts a bit up-oneself though? Hm. And would i be bothered enough to update the thing? I struggle enough with my resource post!

Me and my brother pre-ordered Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children too, and it came this week! It was too exciting watching the thing. Really, really liked it. The music from the game had been reused (obviously, as it should have been) but it was such an amazing score. And the prettiness! Tifa was cute and Marlene was annoying yet also likeable. Reno was so so so awesome, though the front part of his hair reminded me of some kind of fat bird, lol. Oh, and Cloud has a very sexy neck, too ^_^ Some of the shots i was just like, how Tidus does Cloud look here?! Yuffie looked excessively Rikku-esque, and Tifa looked very much like Rinoa to me. It's odd how many of the main characters in FF have this moody, emo persona, and the female characters (love interests) all seem to be alike. Rinoa and Garnet and Tifa all look identical, especially with Tifa as she did in AC! And Sephiroth. It's odd how you say the names to yourself in these games, and are never corrected because there's no speech. Like listening to a Harry Potter audiobook and realising you've been reading a name completely wrong. Sephiroth with a soft 'ph' hm? Oh well. And in the intro, they subtitled 'Aerith' over 'Aeris.' I always thought the name 'Aeris' was the much nicer version. Luckily her name wasn't mentioned in the film so i didn't get annoyed. Aeris pissed me off though. She did in the game, too. I don't know why but she was just so so wimpy, with her crazy hair and pink dress and healing stuff and silly voice (which i imagined :p). Tifa kicked ass, though. She reminded my of Lulu in the film. Oh for god's sake, everyone's a reincarnation in the FF world!

Accursed octagonal plates of doooooom!

dashdashdot — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:59:20 GMT

Wow. I haven't updated this journal in like, FOREVER. Almost ^_^

I've been spending a lot of time updating my icon journal, though. I guess i should have expected this journal to get less attention as a result, but oh well. What can i say, i'm an iconning addict.

Got home a few hours ago after taking my driving test. Oh my god. I thought i'd done so so so well, but obviously not quite well enough. *Cries* I only got 2 minor faults, but unbeknown to me, apparently i didn't apply the handbrake when i came to a stop sign. I can't remember in all honesty; i guess that points towards me just completely forgetting once i reached the give way line. Hmph. But i only got 2 minors! 2! MINORS! *Wails*

I thought he was joking when he said i hadn't passed! He didn't write one single error down for about half an hour, so i assumed i'd got it in the bag. oh well, back to square one. Well, kind of, more like - back to booking lessons and stressing over upcoming driving test dates.

Have resorted to playing Mungo Jerry on loop in some vague attempt to lift spirits. It's failing miserably.

I'm such a fool for telling everyone i know. o_o

New layout for icon journal

dashdashdot — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:26:47 GMT

FFS I AM TOO PROUD OF MYSELF RIGHT NOW! Really, i'm so excited! I've just found a gorgeous layout by dooped and decided what the hell - i'm gonna go for it - i'm gonna make me a proper S1 layout for my icon journal! I've been wanting a banner here for so long but been afraid of launching into S1-ness; i'm such a newbie. Anyway first time i tried it screwed up, but when i re-customised it, all the links got sorted, everything looked fantastic and i was (and still am) ecstatic! Praise be to you, dooped for writing a wonderful FAQ as well as making and sharing such life-fulfilling codes. Okay so i'm going a little OTT here, but i am still very happy.

Still on the feeling of excitement, i decided i wanted a header for my layout, and i've always wanted to use my own; so i did! Searched me some gorgeous Kurt Halsey artwork and made a few simple banners from them (may post these later... hrmm...) and the coding worked first try. Woot! *Squees"

Scary how all this virtual stuff is making me so happy. Icons, banners, layouts. I mean technically, it's not real, is it? If i were to die tomorrow, no one could access it and see what i've been doing here, what work I've done, what icons i've made and stocked up over the months. Is this reassuring or concerning?

I dunno, i'm just glad my pretty links go yellow when you roll over them.

*Megasqueee!*

Changes to journal entries

dashdashdot — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:09:16 GMT

So i decided to make an icon journal. Sure, it's a little late, but necessary nonetheless. I feel that my icon posts and blog-ish entries were 'competing' with one another, and i can appreciate it must be annoying for users who are browsing for icons to have to sift through my garbage.

Therefore i've opened a new journal over atdashing_icons (check how the name relates, neat, huh!?) for all of my graphic work, and this journal will remain as my personal one. If you are interested in icon updates, please friend my other journal and not this one, as from now, no more icons will be posted here.

Thanks xxx

60 Peter Pan icons

dashdashdot — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:45:10 GMT

These icons were made using essentially the same style as my previous Disney entry; The Little Mermaid.

If you're viewing from behind the cut, each icon has a 4-pixel white border around it, which may not be visible. ONWARD!

[60] x Peter Pan

17. 42. 49.

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.
06. 07. 08. 09. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

If anyone could tell me how you put a basic grey box around icons so they stand out, i'd love you forever ♥

+Comment +Credit +Don't Hotlink +Enjoy

Batch 1 - 40 Goblet of Fire icons

dashdashdot — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:19:10 GMT

Right-oh; the ever-looming 100hp installment!

Subject: Goblet of Fire
Themes: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12-16, 19-21, 23-30, 32, 34-37, 40-42, 44, 47-50.
Number of Icons: 40
Total Icons: 40/100


01 Magic	03 Good	05 Dreams	06 Truth
08 Loyalty	09 Hero	12 Hope	13 Power
14 Weakness	15 Light	16 Dark	19 Friendship
20 Child	21 Adult	23 Chains	24 Trust
25 Lonliness	26 Lost	27 Longing	28 Sympathy
29 Humour	30 Pretend	32 Fight	34 Heart
35 Sport	36 Odd	37 Normal	40 Black&white
41 House colours	42 Unsure	44 Negative	46 - Party
47 Blossom	48 Belief	49 Sweet	50 Sour
Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice

As you can probably see, i had no shortage of choice for what to put in for number 40! So i like black and white, no biggie. White backgrounds, too. ♥

This batch appears very random because icons i made at the same time have been dotted about and separated, but there was a pattern as i went, honest!

Hopefully the following 60 won't take very long, especially as most are artist's choice ones.

+Comment +Credit +Enjoy +Don't hotlink

A Slevin jumper? Please?

dashdashdot — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:58:38 GMT

Had my 'JL outing' today! Work outings are so fun. I just got home and i had a really good time; i think i really needed it! We tried to organise for everyone from the cafe to come, but in the end only 5 showed, including me. The best 5 though, but of course! We went to Zizzi's for an italian and i ate far too much, and then we went to see Lucky Number Slevin at the cinema. OH MY GOD I think Josh Hartnett is just too hot in that film. I fell in love with his hair alone, and don't get me started on his array of wicked jumpers!

Was a very good film, too. Witty, y'know? And lots of gore. Well not Sin-City gore levels, but still enough. The plastic bags were not pretty, though. Eurgh. Still, a good plot and twist at the end. I'd recommend it, if only for Slevin. Whew...

The moon must like me; he follows me everywhere

dashdashdot — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:54:45 GMT

It's March already. It was pancake day yesterday. I forgot until about 11PM and so didn't have any. Lent began today but i was too lazy and/or depressed to think of anything to give up, or do so. I've been feeling pretty shitty lately really; suddenly everything seemed to pile up on top of me. I don't know why but i do go through these spells of pathetic self-pity. At least they do pass relatively quickly so i can't complain too much.

Some news to perk me up a bit though was an invitation from xxjaybabyxx and foxestacado to join elite_tutorial which was so kind. I think it's lovely when someone can do something like that, to just notice something you did because they like it, and tell you so. Hrmm, maybe i'm just in a see-the-good-in-everything kind of mood, fresh out of my pool of misery, but it was a lovely compliment anyway. And even though i haven't exactly posted, i'm very excited about that! My first tutorials went down well, too, which i was so pleased about. Sebastien is love and pin light is too, so a pin light Sebastien tutorial had to be good for one of my first tutorials!

Also claimed a topic over at 100hp which was 'Goblet of Fire' and also, more problematically, a potential mistake. It's only when i force myself into these corners i realise that i am a terrible person at self-motivation, and why-oh-why did i sign up for this? I could have been clever, or prepared at least, and made 20 or so icons before applying for a claim, but oh no, not me. Straight in the deep end. Oh well if all else fails i'll have to bow out, although i would really rather not. Thing is i take time over my icons and spend silly amounts of attention on colouring, selecting blend modes, etc. Yet when i made a few for this contest, i felt so obliged to mass-make that i realised i was just botching semi-skilled icons together to meet the criteria. I'd rather not sacrifice time and attention just to compensate for quantity.

Yay for icon contests, too. I got 1st and 2nd place over at losticontenders which was brilliant! So pleased! God if the world was about to be enveloped in macaroni, i'd still be excited at winning an icon award!

Tutorial 02 - Harry Potter - Emma Watson

dashdashdot — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:08:28 GMT

This is a tutorial on how to achieve the blend effect illustrated below

Made using Photoshop 7, only basic knowledge of blend modes required.

01/ Begin by finding an image that you want to use. I chose an image of
Emma Watson that I liked. Ideally use a hi-res image, to avoid
poor quality when we begin to re-size later on.

A note on cropping, I always find some icons that could look
awesome are often let down by people slapping images central, and
assuming they look best. No, no, NO! Experiment, be creative,
try chopping off peoples' eyes, heards, sides; put them along
the top or bottom of your icon, turn them upside down or on their
sides, do whatever, but be original. :-)

Okies so this was my crop. I just chopped her eye off :-)

02/ We're going to prep the base before desaturating it. I find that
doing so gives a better tone quality when you do eventually desaturate.

Duplicate your layer, and set it to 'screen.' For my image, I set
the opacity at 17%, just enough to lighten the shadows. Use whatever
you think your image needs. Next, duplicate your original layer
again and drag it to the very top of the layer palette. Set this layer
to 'soft light.' I left mine at 100% opacity, but again experiment
to find what suits your cap best. When you're happy,
flatten (Ctrl + E) your layers into one.

03/ Ok some optional additions, I sharpened my cap once
because I felt that this cap needed it after being sized
down from a large file size. After doing so, I zoomed right
in and used the blur tool on 30% strength
to trace over large areas of tone and get rid of pixelated
mess. Don't go anywhere near clothing, etes, lips, even
shadows, when doing this, it can be perfect if done
properly, but is also easily overdone. Here all I did was
touch up Emma's right cheek, chin and nose.

04/ Eventually we get to the monotone prettiness. Desaturate
your image. (Image > Adjustments > Desaturate).

05/ Now for the blend modes. The soft effect created in
this icon is done by combining blurred and non-blurred layers.

Duplicate your layer. Set the top one to overlay on 100% opacity.
Don't panic, I know it looks terrible right now, but it won't
for long. Click on the bottom layer and open the Gaussian
Blur window. (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur...). Now here I find
comes in the element of personal taste. Try entering values and
using the preview box to see what happens. The blurred image
adds tone around the overlay layer above it to create the softness.


blur level 5                blur level 8                blur level 15

Obviously the differences are subtle but it's up to you
how much blur you apply. Insert a higher value to blur out
the tone more, or a lower value to darken tone around features.

And you're done!

Other icons from the same batch I made in this way



My original batch including these icons can be found here.

Please experiment and post your versions below!

If I've missed anything or you have any questions, comment
and I'll reply as best I can.

We're all Lost icon-makers

dashdashdot — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:11:52 GMT

Yay! I just checked up on losticontenders and saw the Jack contest results had been posted. Wooness, i won and also had an icon come in at third! ARGH the excitement! Clickety

Icons submitted for the contest, and other assorted Lost ones are behind the cut below.

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10.

Tutorial 01 - The Little Mermaid - Sebastien

dashdashdot — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:22:08 GMT

Learn how to colour you icons like so:

This is a very simple icon tutorial which involves using different blend modes and gradients to achieve this effect.
You will need basic knowledge of Photoshop. I used Photoshop 7

Begin by cropping and resizing your screencap until you are happy with your base.
I personally find that placing points of interest at the edge or in corners works better than simply centering
faces, or whichever elements are most eyecatching. Experiment until you are happy with your crop.

This was mine

Obviously, this cap is very dark. Not only that but the colours are very blue, apart from Sebastien
himself, who is very bright red. Also the image is slightly soft from resizing, so now we'll prepare our base.

Firstly, we're going to brighten the image. Duplicate your base and set the copy to screen. While this
helps, the contrast is slightly overpowering, so I reduced the opacity of this layer to 65%. Each image
is different, so play around with opacities until you are happy. Some images are so dark, you'll need
an extra screen layer included, to brighten it up a bit.

Here's where I'm up to

Now Sebastien is clearer, and the red is less overpowering. Flatten your image (Ctrl + E). Ok. Now I still think the
image is too dull in some areas, and too bright in others, so we're going to alter the image's levels.

Image > Adjustment > Brightness/Contrast.

I wanted to make the image lighter and brighter, and get rid of some of the glare. Play about using
the preview and the sliders to see what you like, but for my levels for this icon, I set brightness to +38 and contrast to -20.

Like so

Much better! Now as the image is still slightly soft, sharpen it once. (Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen). If you
do sharpen photographic bases, I find a tiny amount of smudging to help pixelated areas, but because
this base uses solid colour fills, I didn't bother.

Ok now the fun part --- PIN LIGHTS! I LOVE pin lights myself, and use them like there's no tomorrow.

I took this gradient and dragged it from bottom left to top right.

(Brown = #866329 Orange = #DD9C40).

Make sure the gradient is above all other layers, and set the blend mode to 'Pin Light.' Leave it at 100% opacity.

You should have something like this

Sometimes I finish icons at this stage, but for this batch I felt a simple border would help, so create a
new layer. Then use the pencil tool to draw a white (#FFFFFF) 1 pixel-wide border around the outer edge.
Hold shift to prevent slipping all over the place as I always do. :-)

Barely noticeable diffrence, but yeh

Finished!

Other icons I have made using this technique

If you'd like to view my original icon batch, it's right here.

Tutorial originally requested by jesusphreaq

Each image will need prepping differently, and the pin light mode always creates
different effects. Go forth, experiment, and please post your own versions below!

If you have any questions or if I have missed anything, feel free to comment and i'll reply a.s.a.p.!

17 The Little Mermaid icons

dashdashdot — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:03:16 GMT

My first Disney icon post ever!

[17] x The Little Mermaid

09. 15. 17.

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17.

Numbers 14 and 15 are essentially the same, although 14 has a 1 pixel white border, while 15 has colours from the image itself.

| Comment if you take any icons please | Let me know which ones you like | Credit is a must | No hotlinking allowed |

Iconism

dashdashdot — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:53:02 GMT

Just a quick update today, i'll be off shortly to raid the fridge or get hindered in the process.

Firstly, yay, one of my icons won it's category over at hp_awards! Mirror of Erised... come on baby!

Secondly one of my Rikku icons came in at second in the challenge over at ffx_awards, next time it'll be first i tell ya... *Shakes fist* Joking, honest! No, really...

My desat-stroke-whatever HP cast icon batch was in hpicons_weekly too! Oh.em.geeness.

I recently submitted a few Jack icons over at losticontenders too, so i'll have to see how that one goes. For my next batch i'm planning a Disney regurgitation. That sounds quite vile but it's not meant to be!

Final Fantasy icon uber-post

dashdashdot — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:30:56 GMT

Ok these icons were originally meant to be a purely FF8 batch, all taken from caps of the intro sequence, but i've also included quite a few older ones which were one-offs, so expect a lot of different styles here! 32 in total.

[21] x FF8
[4] x FF9
[7] x FF10

01. 07. 12.
01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.

The newer icons are at the beginning while the older ones have been included after them, as you can probably tell :-)

Credit to my_givenchy for the polaroid brush on 2 of the Selphie icons.

If you take any icons, please comment so i know which ones are being taken.
If you like any particular styles, also please let me know. Feedback is love!
DO NOT HOTLINK.

Valentines Shit

dashdashdot — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:04:58 GMT

Very very mixed up today. It was my first day back at uni after having about 2-3 weeks of no work, which sucked seeing as we had to be in at half nine. Gawd was that painful. Got into uni and had some crappy lecture on abstract expressionism in the fifties by some BA student with dreadlocks. Heh Jase was going on about how 'fit' she was until she began the lecture; he soon changed his tune when it turned into the most boring lecture we'd had this year so far. We didn't have to stay for a seminar in the afternoon, which was good as we went to see Derailed at AMC, but was bad because i want my essay mark back, dammit!

Me and Nav, or should i say Nav and i, met Sean and we bus-passed our way up Broad Sreet only to find out we'd missed the start of Big Momma's House 2 (at the time this seemed frustrating, in hindsight i forget why...) but we were just in time for Derailed so that seemed ideal. It was a surprisingly good film, actually. Horrible, horrible scenes in it though; the rape one was making me screw my eyes up it was so horrible. I wasn't expecting it to be so good a film as to have a huge-ass twist at the end though, which worked amazingly. I'd reccommend it for sure! Plus it had Angel from Home and Away, like ten years ago in it! Frustrating i can remember crap like that and yet not life-helping things. Oh well.

So as of now is Feb 14th; Valentines. Traditionally a romantic day and yet here i am with my boyfriend off at uni, and we've already exchanged gifts and cards and somehow that all seems very sad and very lonely all of a sudden. I think this uni distance thing is really wearing thin now. Most romantic day of the year? Doesn't bloody well feel like it.

16 stroke HP cast icons

dashdashdot — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:18:50 GMT

After seeing the wonderful tutorial by _pinkvelvet, which can be found here, i was very much inspired to have a go at a batch of them myself! Textures are by _hakanaidreams and images from various HP fansites. There's one text and one sans-text version of each icon.

[16] x Harry Potter cast

01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

Please comment if taking and even when not. :-)

Credit is a must.

Hotlinkers will be eaten by carrot-driven fiends i will unleash. Yep.

Boo-sucks to you, health&hygiene!

dashdashdot — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:58:00 GMT

Ack my lips are all chapped. Accursed winter/coffee machines at work for drying my whole body out! i feel like i need to coat myself in moisturiser for at least a week to recover. Maybe.

Took my Food Hygiene test at work yesterday as well and found out that i passed today! I was so glad, the last thing i need is me, being one of the more long-term surviving part-timers, failing my top-up hygiene exam. The funniest question on the paper was:

In the context of food safety, a 'vehicle' is

A delivery van
An item which may transfer microbial bacteria (yes please, points for me!)
A HOT DOG STAND!!!! Dear god how i mentally ROFLed at that point, though maybe to do so physically would have been inappropriate seeing as i was sitting up the back of the restaurant at the time!

Anyway, posted my first Final Fantasy icon entry the other day and came in at 2nd, so i was pleased, yayage! Pin light is love

Have also finally booked an official date for my driving test. --OMG-- I am so scared. It's for March 15th which seems so far away, but i know it's going to creep up on me so fast! Eek! 11:41AM as well, you've gotta love their pettiness over exact minutes! Luckily i'm getting to the stage where i'm more consistent during my lessons now, my manouvres are pretty much spot-on, and i feel quite confident most of the time. It's just some fine-tuning, or so i'm hoping! It'll be awesome if i pass; i'll actually be able to drive while having music on, what a treat! Plus if i pass first time, i'll prove to my Joe and Ralph who passed first time, that girls can too, cos Tara and Laura have been letting the side down when they passed 5th try each or something crazy. God i hope i do!

10 Bonnie icons

dashdashdot — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:16:40 GMT

Well i thought i'd better be thorough... variety is the spice of life and all that :-)

01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

As originally requested by carolmp here...

Please comment if you like or take, credit, and never hotlink!

Pin Light i love you, the others meant nothing

dashdashdot — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:43:58 GMT

Seeing as the last batch went down so well, i decided to make some more of these icons.

[41] x Harry Potter Cast

...i reckon i got the knack for this batch about half way through, so persevere through some of the early dodginess :-)...

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41

These were inspired by my original batch here.

All the normal stuff; comment please, credit definitely, hotlink NOT ON YOUR NELLY!

Giant GOF icon batch

dashdashdot — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:05:15 GMT

Deary me this batch is huger than i ever expected it to be!

Here we go...

[77] x GOF

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77

Thankyou to teh_indy for the screencaps

Please comment if you're taking any icons or like any of them, credit me and don't hotlink!

Roll on tomorrow

dashdashdot — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:36:49 GMT

Ok so i'm handing in my whole 8 week module's worth of work tomorrow. And i really should be more bothered. Had my first assessment today and it went fine, tomorrow i have to only turn up and then leave my work in a room before disappearing back into town again. May go and watch Jarhead. Hrmm. Anyway i think the lack of finality to the module has completely sapped my energy for it; i really couldn't care less how i do, so long as i pass. Which i have done enough to do. This is odd because i've done 3 times the amount of work for my core module, and this little amount for the one i chose. How strange. Oh well within 12 hours or maybe a little less, i will actually have no work lingering over me. How awesome! Cannot wait!

After uni today when i was planning to go home relatively early and start working, instead i was dragged around what felt like half of the shops in town by the hat-hunting Anthony, only to find out he bought nothing during the escapade, while i ended up forking out £102. In one shop. OUCH. Still, it was on a very groovy pair of trousers, stripy top and green cardigan, so at least it was productive purchasing, rather than whimsical purchasing, which i am also, unfortunately, very good at.

And deary me, i have also begun tuning in to Big Brother on C4. I had been doing well to avoid it, but since my brother seemed to have the live shows on every so often, i have to admit i have been called by it, and i'm shocked i wasn't sooner. With pretty much every other reality TV show, i've remained addicted, while my other friends have become immune to its novelty. Pshht not me. I liked Pete at the beginning, but i think i've lost some liking for him after he started insulting Preston, and siding with George, that no good loser. I was so glad he went. I want Maggot to win, i think he's awesome and very nice, which is an underrated quality, i reckon.

*Debates with self whether to begin mass-upload of afore-mentioned icons...*

Squeeee

dashdashdot — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:08:45 GMT

Okay i am VERY excited right now. I just found out that one of my icons won its category over at hp_awards! It's really exciting as i only just started posting my icons as well! Thankyou so much to lyricalley for nominating me in the first place! It was session 50... *beams and points to Sunshine, Daisies*

Aside from that, nothing very exciting has been going on. I'm getting a bit 'jittery' about my upcoming 4 assessments though, a presentation on 2 pieces of digital media work ready for thursday, and handing in of 2 typographic layouts on friday. Luckily my tutor for fridays is going to be in Bangkok, of all places, so we don't have to present, we can just leave our work on the tables and run. Which is definitely what i plan to do.

I went into uni today (on my day off!) to try to get some of that work finished; had a DISASTEROUS journey in though as we had to queue around some morons re-laying the road, and then i was turfed off the bus in the middle of nowhere with the other passengers, so we had to wait to catch another bus into town. These TWM drivers, thinking they own the joint. *Rolls eyes*

A batch of GOF icons

dashdashdot — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:54:23 GMT

So i can do uni work or i can sit and make more icons. Well as these are here, guess which i chose...

[13] GOF

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Thankyou to teh_indy for the screencaps

Credit, please comment if you like or take any, and no hotlinking!