Still As Life

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for this blog, the past couple of weeks have been absolutely hectic.

So what have I been up to?

• Fixed a problematic client website that had a lot more problems than expected.
• 20 hours worth of maintenance on another client website.
• Created the art for my business cards and setup the files for printing.
• Got the business cards printed (they are pretty hot, even if I do say so myself).
• Designed a series of website prototypes for a prospective client.
• Organised a client meeting in Lismore.
• Wrote a draft essay for KKB101: Creative Industries - People and Practices.
• Did my major Python assignment for ITB001: Problem Solving and Programming.
• Learned, the basics of UML, class diagrams, interaction diagrams and class descriptions.
• Worked on my ITB008: Modelling Analysis and Design team assignment.
• Seen post 3am more times in a week than I have all semester.
• Found a Pizza Hut Restaurant (ie non-take-away) near my place.

What do I have to do over the next few days?

• Finish my part of the ITB008 team assignment by Sunday night.
• Organise the deferral of my ITB001 exam.
• Update the TerraMedia Web Design General Terms and Conditions by Monday.
• Organise the appropriate documentation and presentation material for the client meeting on Tuesday.
• Hopefully get a new client.
• Do 10 hours worth of maintenance on a client website.
• Get my hair cut.

What do I have to do over the next week or two?

• Finish the final version of my KKB101 essay.
• Design three different computational artworks for KKB210: Computational Arts 1 using anyof the design tools outlined on my other blog.
• Display the three artworks on my computational arts blog.
• Study for ITB001 and ITB008 exams.
• Sort out a new computer back up system.
• Do some more client website maintenance.
• Finish the new TerraMedia website.
• Other work?
• Get the car fixed.
• Finish the fractal gallery section of Still As Life.
• Blog some more.
• Anything else that comes up.

If you follow me on Twitter, you would probably be aware of many of these things, but hey.

So that’s what I’ve been up to. I have 500 or so unread items in Google Reader, so hopefully I’ll catch up on everything by the end of next week, and hopefully you’ll be hearing more from me soon.

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As some people may have already heard, I have art being displayed at the Infusion and Defusion events over the next week. Infusion and Defusion are the opening and closing parties of the Fusion Festival that runs from the 12th to the 16th.

The Fusion Festival is a networking and skills development festival through workshops in various areas of the creative industries and so on.

The opening night party, Infusion, will be taking place at 6pm at the Woodward Theatre in L block at Kelvin Grove QUT on the 12th of March. I will have an animation running there during the night.

The closing night party, Defusion, will be held at 7pm at the Cement Box Theatre at St Lucia UQ on the 16th of March. I will have a series of still prints exhibited here in large scale.

For more information on the Fusion Festival have a look at the website.

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For one of my subjects for my Bachelor of Creative Industries, KKB210: Computational Arts 1, we are required to setup a blog to use to store our work in a website portfolio. We are allowed to use any system that sends an RSS feed and is able to receive them, similar to the way the RSS widget in WordPress works. WordPress is the recommended system and there is of course space provided on the servers at uni for it. These WordPress based blogs are accessible from off campus, but I figure, since it’s meant to be a portfolio, I may as well set it up somewhere else so that I can continue to use it elsewhere. The other benefit of this is that it doesn’t take up space on my drive at uni which I’m always getting notices about telling me that my drive is full etc.

We are allowed to set it up elsewhere, or even use an old blog if we have one, as long as our KKB210 work can be easily distinguished from everything else. I decided to buy a new domain and host it myself, why not. I’m setting it up on www.matthewbrown.net.au, no reason not to. There isn’t anything of note there yet, just an under development page. WordPress has been installed, but I haven’t finished the template yet, so it is staying invisible for now.

So there you go. This subject so far is proving to be very interesting. I’m liking it a lot.

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