Sculpture at the footy

Dally Messenger III, originally uploaded by deepwarren.

On Saturday me and DrP went to see Cathy unveil the months of hard work recreating Dally Messenger in bronze for the SFG. He's not too bad *wink. Later that night from the balcony, I got to see the young boozled fans of the Roosters wander out the gates stopping to rub the statue (in the way that only males fans can. Cause humping a leg is a man's way of telling ya, that he really, really likes you). That was kinda nice. Public sculpture is meant to be humped. It makes it human (and not scary cyborg hyper-real human that will come alive and kill you if you look at it wrong.

I also saw my first football match in the flesh. Which was quite a different experience to watching it on telly. Lots more space and you can't hear that scary sound of grown men running into each other. Or the thumps. Oh, and they had cheerleaders lost in the big green oval with pom-poms.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
–Frances Bacon

Bluebird in a palm tree

It has
been
a
very
very
long day.
And
it's not
over
yet.

*i feel slightly-lightly loon-like

relaxed, but comfortable

relaxed, but comfortable, originally uploaded by deepwarren.

Moving. Is there anything more fucked?

Game's almost over. My life now fits in a 1.5m x2.1 meter space somewhere near Padstow. I've colonized a space in P's house as a temporary measure while I wait to move into the Beach house. My colony is about a 3ftx1ft space that is a sea of clothes, and bags, and only 4 or 5 hats.

The scree slope lives! The bare minimum (i've discovered) is about 7 pairs of shoes, 4 bags and a few hats, with a scattering of sketchpads and a vacuum cleaner. Now that's all a girl needs. I had to set free a few things... fly little paintings fly! But Scratchin Dog posed with them happily enough.

Studied Inepitude

It my recently coined word for people who rather than just admit that they simply can't do 'some-things' (technology for example, and there's no shame in that), will battle on (never asking for help, of course) leaving a trail of destruction and poorly thought-out excuses in their wake. The best excuse of course, is 'I didn't'... cause computers are mysterious quirky things who never have fingerprints all over them..it's why we invented user accounts isn't it? To track?

And it gets to the point where you RUSH to do their work for them, cause frankly if you have to hear the internet described as a blocked pipe again, or a folder as being a basket of apples.. you'll simply scream. It's the gibberish that gets me. Listening as they then pile on some more. Like somehow that will help a person who's rung to say 'so that bloody piece of software/server has crashed again, hasn't it?'

There is only two answers. Yes or No.

*image copyrighted to Arthur Tess.

If it's pretty, will they come?

pest, originally uploaded by deepwarren.

I have to write up a mini-speech/presentation for work justifying the use of 'pretty' stuff. Not useability, and not navigation. Just those pretty little icons and pictures and boxes you use on webpages to say Look at ME!

To be honest the nav and useablitity (for better and worse) are already built into the educational LMS we use. Althought we get to modify (a little) and create depth and layers in the site, we don't get to change the basics or build a new (faster, leaner, cleaner, meaner) way. You think it would be obvious, don't you? That pretty pictures make people look. That the webis not meant to be ultalitarian wasteland of text, text and more text with a few baldly presented icons on the page.

Hell, if it was, would porn be soooo popular. Like the campfire, it seems to have been invented to allow men to be able see more bottoms. *parphased from tv sitcom men behaving badly

Pixs, icons, design elements improve readability of the page. They draw attention to the key points of an article simply because they stick out. The trick is to make them look smooth.

So why, when I have a project with an academic do they start with this phrases:

i don't care what it looks like.. colours? .. fonts..*shrug
i have no interest in the design..
you just do what you like..

and yet.. woe betide you if you deliver a badly coloured messy or god help you, dull back in their lap.

*I used the banner/icon above was for a project that would not be seen by anyone but the academic. Relevance to the topic..null. However I knew the moment they looked at the site, cause they emailed back with a quip.