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5/21/2013
Dancetour schmanzetour
Couple of days ago there was a free festival in the city where I live. Usually I never go there, because the people that do, are not really my kind of people. However, a friend of mine does - so I went with her anyway. We drank some alcohol in the park beforehand and I became a little tipsy, which made enjoying the crappy music much easier for me. Overall though, I still had a good time.
5/13/2013
Damn you, Lazy Oaf
Fuckkkk, every time a new Lazy Oaf collection is out, I can't help but drool. I wonder how many times I've mentioned this brand on my blog already... A LOT. Why does this shit have to be so expensive? CHECK IT OUT:
5/12/2013
Concept document shite
God, time for me again to keep my fucking blog up... I say this everytime, whatever. Anyway, I think I'll write another post soon about my highlights of the past 5-6 months, but right now I just wanted to share something I worked on past 20-25 hours for school. Me and my group didn't make the deadline, because the file was too big (1.06 GB..). Eventually, I compressed the file and someone else managed to upload it anyway, so I hope the teacher won't mind. I'm really hoping he won't.
The assignment is to create an Android application with jQuery that centers in a city in the Netherlands. We picked Eindhoven for our project. Our deadline this week was to deliver a concept document and we were allowed to be as creative as we wanted to be. I'm the creative supervisor, so my task was to design the concept document. The name of our project is still a working title, so we're still going to change that later on. I worked for 12 hours non-stop - because I had to make a deadline - so a few sloppy mistakes were made. I only had an iPhone template on my laptop and I didn't know - nor did I have time to figure out - you could download an Android phone Photoshop template on the internet (which I now have anyway), so I used the iPhone one with an Android search bar pasted inside, lol. So yeah, that part is kind of sloppy (I only had an hour to make that page) but I'm still satisfied overall though. Managed to improve my Photoshop skills a little, hehe. The rest of my group worked on the text and because I was so busy with the design I didn't have the time to go all grammar-Nazi on it, unfortunately.
Also, I took my inspiration from the Effenaar and Dour Festival website as well as another concept document a friend of mine made once. If I look at the pages now, I see a lot of sloppy mistakes... meh. So, here goes nothing:
The assignment is to create an Android application with jQuery that centers in a city in the Netherlands. We picked Eindhoven for our project. Our deadline this week was to deliver a concept document and we were allowed to be as creative as we wanted to be. I'm the creative supervisor, so my task was to design the concept document. The name of our project is still a working title, so we're still going to change that later on. I worked for 12 hours non-stop - because I had to make a deadline - so a few sloppy mistakes were made. I only had an iPhone template on my laptop and I didn't know - nor did I have time to figure out - you could download an Android phone Photoshop template on the internet (which I now have anyway), so I used the iPhone one with an Android search bar pasted inside, lol. So yeah, that part is kind of sloppy (I only had an hour to make that page) but I'm still satisfied overall though. Managed to improve my Photoshop skills a little, hehe. The rest of my group worked on the text and because I was so busy with the design I didn't have the time to go all grammar-Nazi on it, unfortunately.
Also, I took my inspiration from the Effenaar and Dour Festival website as well as another concept document a friend of mine made once. If I look at the pages now, I see a lot of sloppy mistakes... meh. So, here goes nothing:
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1/11/2013
1/03/2013
New shit
Yesterday, my sweater from Choies finally arrived and I'm so happy with it. It wasn't as 'oversized' as expected though, but I still love it. Unfortunately, because of this I can't wear it as a dress, but I guess now I'm able to come up with more creative ways to combine it. I'm used to oversized sweaters, so this is a new thing for me. It says 'Planet of the Greed Apes" (you can't really see that from this picture) and has a giant monkey with dollar signs on it, which is why I love it.
The second picture is another combination I tried recently. I bought a purple dip-dye shirt off Ebay and cut off the sleeves and collar, because this shirt also turned out to be smaller than expected and I didn't know how to combine it otherwise. You can see me wearing a bow-tie necklace, but I'm not sure if it actually fits, or if it's too much. I'm too lazy to take a picture without it though.
The second picture is another combination I tried recently. I bought a purple dip-dye shirt off Ebay and cut off the sleeves and collar, because this shirt also turned out to be smaller than expected and I didn't know how to combine it otherwise. You can see me wearing a bow-tie necklace, but I'm not sure if it actually fits, or if it's too much. I'm too lazy to take a picture without it though.
12/20/2012
SHOES ❤
Today, I FINALLY got my 'care allowance'. I don't know if this is an actual word in English, but this is what Google translate told me it's called (in Dutch it's 'zorgtoeslag'). I've been waiting on this for almost two weeks, and have since been living on the edge money-wise. By that I mean eating garlic bread every fucking day to be able to get my belly stuffed without spending too much money. Thank god that's finally over. Have to be more careful though.
HOWEVER, because it's fucking sale everywhere it would have been a shame of my existence not to benefit from this. If the world is actually going to end tomorrow, life would become non-existent and carefree anyway. SO, I bought two pair of brogue creepers at my local H&M today for only 20 bucks!! Normally, it would have cost me 50, SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I ABSOLUTELY HAD TO BUY THESE. Yeah, I know my priorities are fucked up, but heeeeey the world's going to end tomorrow.
One more thing, I finally fixed a bug in my blog. Well, it never really was a 'bug', but if you have a low screen resolution the illustration on the top left corner was 'cut off' and now I finally managed to make it visible to all resolutions by setting my wrapper background to transparent, lol. I already tried to fix this before of course, but somehow I overlooked it or something. Last but not least, I also added a 'Scroll to Top'-button. So, now you don't have to go through the hassle of scrolling all the way up if you're lazy and can press the small button in the right corner below.
I wanted to end this post with a song; 'Floats My Boat' by Aer, which I happen to have on repeat almost all day since I got back home.
HASTA LA VISTA!
HOWEVER, because it's fucking sale everywhere it would have been a shame of my existence not to benefit from this. If the world is actually going to end tomorrow, life would become non-existent and carefree anyway. SO, I bought two pair of brogue creepers at my local H&M today for only 20 bucks!! Normally, it would have cost me 50, SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I ABSOLUTELY HAD TO BUY THESE. Yeah, I know my priorities are fucked up, but heeeeey the world's going to end tomorrow.
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| See how absolutely adorable they are? |
One more thing, I finally fixed a bug in my blog. Well, it never really was a 'bug', but if you have a low screen resolution the illustration on the top left corner was 'cut off' and now I finally managed to make it visible to all resolutions by setting my wrapper background to transparent, lol. I already tried to fix this before of course, but somehow I overlooked it or something. Last but not least, I also added a 'Scroll to Top'-button. So, now you don't have to go through the hassle of scrolling all the way up if you're lazy and can press the small button in the right corner below.
I wanted to end this post with a song; 'Floats My Boat' by Aer, which I happen to have on repeat almost all day since I got back home.
HASTA LA VISTA!
12/16/2012
Grunging it up
Okay, so I've changed my Tumblr lay-out a while ago, but I just realized I never blogged about it before and I'm bored, so here I go. Last time, I already mentioned that I got a basic theme off the internet and now I kind of grunged it up a little.
First I found a tye-die image and set it as my background image. Next thing I did was look for a Halloween-esque font and make a header. I'm so confused by the grammar in that sentence btw. I know it's pretty lame, but I don't know how to work in Illustrator yet, so the header's a little pixelated if you look closely. I decided to go for white and pink, because I wanted to include a WeHeartIt button that is - surprise - pink. I also changed the font you see when you hover over an image, because frankly, I was quite annoyed with the font the person used who created this template. Now that I think of it, a lot of people would actually think the font I chose now is also pretty fucking annoying, lol.
Unfortunately, I was unable to align the "Ask me anything"-feature to the center to match it with the WeHeartIt button, so now I've disabled it. It's still an upgrade from how it looked before imho. Oh and here's the link: Toutous en Tutus. Later :*
First I found a tye-die image and set it as my background image. Next thing I did was look for a Halloween-esque font and make a header. I'm so confused by the grammar in that sentence btw. I know it's pretty lame, but I don't know how to work in Illustrator yet, so the header's a little pixelated if you look closely. I decided to go for white and pink, because I wanted to include a WeHeartIt button that is - surprise - pink. I also changed the font you see when you hover over an image, because frankly, I was quite annoyed with the font the person used who created this template. Now that I think of it, a lot of people would actually think the font I chose now is also pretty fucking annoying, lol.
Unfortunately, I was unable to align the "Ask me anything"-feature to the center to match it with the WeHeartIt button, so now I've disabled it. It's still an upgrade from how it looked before imho. Oh and here's the link: Toutous en Tutus. Later :*
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