woohoooooo

my portfolio is finished!


i've even put my soul destroying raleigh chopper essay into a nice magazine article, complete with illustration of a chopper, to show my writing & magazine layout skillzzzzzzz

this took me fxcking ages. i never knew how many parts a chopper had. trying to draw all those on illustrator was harrrrrd (also this is just a screen shot because it wouldn't let me upload the original, so just pretend it's better quality than this)

"Aloha bbeccamarshh! Now you know how to greet people in Hawaiian!"

thanks flickr!

i've just spent the past half an hour trying to use flickr for my online portfolio for camberwell but it just won't work. it might just be the shitty internet at college but it's been uploading one, fairly small photograph for 17 minutes. hurry up flickr, i've only got til the 28th...

i do like the way it tells you how to greet people in different languages at the top though. (yeah i did just refresh the page about twenty times to see what it would say)

y'know i've been moaning that i hadn't heard back from any universities? yeah. i wish i hadn't. now i've got an interview on monday, an online portfolio to do and another interview on the 2nd of march. scary sheeeeeit. 

interview numero uno is for norwich. it's safe to say that i'm terrified.

i do, however, already know what my answers to their questions will be. is that sad? or am i just really well prepared? i think it's a bit sad that i couldn't sleep last night because i was going over and over the same answers. (plus i had the joy of the jonas brothers stuck in my head which wouldn't leave and wouldn't let me sleep - thanks new look for playing that while i was at work, fml)

also, there is a girl sitting on the mac opposite me who keeps staring at me. paranoia is setting in; have i got toothpaste on my face or something?

portfoliocrapolio

the quality of this is pretty shocking; it's actually really good quality (even if i do say so myself) but it wouldn't let me import an indesign file onto here so this is just print screened. you get the idea though. just imagine it clearer and just generally better. 

and ignore the crop marks & colour bars...

also, the bit of writing is a bit shit. it was copied and pasted from the original piece. needs to be changed.  so yeah, ignore that bit too.

why am i even bothering to upload this?  i'm just telling you to ignore most of it and pretend it's good.  maybe i should say that at uni interviews.

"yeah my work it good, i promise. just imagine that it's better and i'm sure you'll have no problems giving me a place at your university."

good plan. 

oh j'aime être à côté du bord de mer

i tried to be cool and write "oh i do like to be beside the seaside" in french as the title. looks pretty cool. but if you translate that back to english it says "oh I like to be next to the sea edge". nice one...


getting very scared about uni interviews. i haven't had any interview dates yet but lots of other people are so i know mine will be soon.
actually, i don't think "very scared" really sums up how i feel. i think "shitting bricks" is more descriptive.

so as norwich have stopped running my visual studies course, i've applied for bournemouth instead. according to my tutor, bournemouth have already declined three applicants from foundation without even giving them an interview, which terrifies me. i know i only applied two days ago as a back up, but i wouldn't mind going there! the beach is nice there. even if i don't like the course i can live at the beach for three years.

being near the sea was something i said i needed to have when applying to universities. i've lived by the sea all my life and i don't think i want to leave. i love being able to walk for five minutes and be at the beach. yeah ok, that would take me to east beach which is a bit shit, but if i walk for twenty minutes i'll be a thorpe bay and that's a bit nicer...
so erm, why have i only applied for one uni that has a beach nearby? norwich, camberwell and maidstone are pretty much dans le ville. no beaches near them. at all. where do you even go on sunny days apart from the beach? a park? you can't swim at a park. and you can't build sandcastles at a swimming pool. bournemouth better give me an interview. i think i want to go there quite a lot.
i'm quite happy to go to any university, if i'm honest.
if i don't get in anywhere, i'm just gunna move to australia for a bit. the beaches are pretty nice there.
sorted.

now, i say that i'm shitting bricks about interviews but i still haven't finished my portfolio. i didn't even take it to college today. silllyyyyyyy. instead, i went through about 45 pages of ffffound.com and went shopping.




i did buy a nice playsuit though.