s-track | Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Art


I have to start work-blogging more often again. It sort of helps me to get a grip of what I'm doing. All the things are so messy in my head right now that I really wouldn't be surprised if my brain would exlplode.


Live Herring is going on under heavy pressure. I've made some new really interesting contacts and everything will propably go well - no big worries there. Yesterday I had a good chat with Jani (well, I whined and cursed and Jani coughed in fever - typical project) and it gave me some more power.


Yesterday I had a lunch with Simo and Teija in thai restaurant and we looked through some plans for the web site for Periferia Design. The whole day was just soooo nice even though it was cold (crispy but fresh). After the meeting I didn't get much time to finish up all the works waiting which has made my whole day a bit hectic. Almost crying here.


Funny, how these things, both free projects and work seem to always pile up. I've started to make small notes all around me, writing down the things I should do. It makes things a bit easier when I don't have to keep it all in my head. But still... Last night I updated Playce.org and made some really small updates here and there and today I've made some more updates to f.ex. Gallery Becker, The Craft Museum of Finland and Papiina. I've got a lot of small thingies done today and updated after update + adjustment after adjustment - but more work keeps coming. Which is of course a good thing - but still - if there are a lot of projects that are in the middle of the process, no where near of finish line, and the rest of the work is very robotic no-brain thing, it sometimes feels like I'm not getting anywhere. I can't reach even half way of my today's to do -list. I'm losing my faith here. And the best of all: just when I had brainwashed myself to believe that these all 'this has to be online tomorrow morning' things are really small, I can finish them today, what do I receive? The craft museum site in Russian. With CYRILLIC letters... I go and cry. :)
But really: the Russian page is not todays work - so I go and chill a bit before continuing my undone businesses...

Ulla from Muhi project called and we talked for a while. Some new adjustments to make. But as I visited the project site again, it really looked quite good. But what was really upsetting thing: Ulla hadn't receive my email concerning layouts. I'm starting to develope a small panic here: hopefully all the e-correspondence concerning Live Herring is ok.


Have to stop and update Arctic & Fabulous Film Festival before entering into mindless emptiness.

s-track | N.E.R.D. - Rock Star

playce.org Logo design by Teppo Järvinen.


Oh my /&/%¤###! I woke up at noon, after a good night sleep, ready to work all day non stop until my head explodes. But ha, my MOUSE is invalid. WTF? It doesn't work properly and it's breaking my nerve totally. But I'll have to manage. Soooo frustrated right now.


Some usual updates: Gallery Becker, Alvar Aalto Foundation and The Craft Museum of Finland. Also made few small adjustments to never-ending (grrr) national dresses project. It's quite sad that the project has taken so long time - technically it's getting old before it's published. But later it'll be seemingly easy to convert into f.ex. xhtml + css.


And the work continues...

s-track | Lacuna Coil - Halflife

Where have I been? ...


The basic site for The Alvar Aalto Symposium 2006 is now online. Not so much content yet, though. Based on print graphic design by Jenni Reuter.
What else? All the usual updates. The layouts for Opus publications are also on their way. I actually started updating Coloria again after a few months stop. The changes won't be seen to readers but I've made some changes to more uniform code which will ake it easier to change later on, and fixed a lot of internal link errors. My aim is to change the whole Coloria site to work through styles only (without those tables or popup windows) but as yet I don't have enough time to make so.


But the most challenging thins is still the same: Live Herring has take a lot of my time. I've been in contact with all the artists but there are still some not confirmed - which makes me a bit anxious. We have now a good budget (not big but good enough) to print some brochures and such but the time is getting very short. I have to find a graphic designer and get all the facts down... which will give us about one week+ to print all the printed stuff. [Little panic would be placed here, if you'd like.] I've also have a new contact to make... I have to write all this down so I won't forget.


I've also been a bit fluish - all the projects are sort of hanging there. I'm trying but I'm so over occupied that concentration on one thing is impossible. I have to start making lists again - when you write all the little things down and get to overline the finished ones, you can actually see how much you haave accomplished. Because when you do work like mine, something that really don't exist, it's always reaching back to emptiness after one minute of joy when one project is ready.


But hey - I also had one FREE evening last week: our friend Sari came to eat and spent the evening with us chatting + all. Evening without computer. I'm so glad I had that.

s-track | The Cure - Forever (BBC session)

Riiminka (renewed September 26, 2005).


I'm starting to act like a typical career orientated middle aged woman: last night I woke up to a feeling that something important is left undone. Never before... Then I stayed up awake for ages thinking about how I could have done Live Herring organizing so much better. So, no wonder I'm starting to be worried about myself a bit. I'm a person who can be hectic slash stressed combo during the work day but when it's over I usually manage to forget all about it. I really don't want to live a life where these stupid unfinished projects come to haunt me. Grrrr.


Anyway: last week was sort of hellish because all the project that just managed to reach my email at the same time. The most important with the most fastest deadline was Teija's Playce.org, an international association of architecture education. I added some member articles and projects to the site as well as Soundings for Architecture 4 & 5 reports with images. The project took more time than I had thought: I got the images in separate cd and text to pick from pdf-files which I though to be a easy bitsy work. But *ha*. Images were in CMYK and somehow my Photoshop didn't manage the colours very well and converting to RGB didn't go as well as I had planned. Getting the texts from pdf file wasn't easy because of several layers - I had to check through the whole texts to see if there are double texts (and there were) and to write some things by myself. It was a long fight and I actually missed the deadline - but I managed to finish the pages at about 3am at Saturday night.


My sleeping/awaking rhythm has been messed - again. I've woken up at noon or later and got to bed at 3 or 4 at the morning. Tired as hell. Today I had my alarm clock ringing at 9 but I woke up 10 - so I'm getting to life among normal daytime people again.



+ Yesterday I made usual updates Alvar Aalto Foundation + The Craft Museum of Finland and added some images to Värjärikilta dyers' association home page.



And no, the marionette is not yet finished (thanks for asking - PLEASE don't ask again). I'll keep you posted about that. Will be a long time project I guess.

s-track | Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

Finnish Colour Association (re-designed September 15, 2005).


I noticed my online portfolios (dig.art of my own projects and work-o-matic of my all projects) are both outdated, so I updated the last projects online. Work-o-matic has been like that for years now - not quite ten but it's getting close. I like the idea of that site, because it's so *me*, and I don't like the idea of changing it.

But maybe I should avoid a bit of those jumping windows... And I'd like to shorten a bit the selection row. I've already left out all small brochure-like projects but now I'm thinking of leaving all current projects online and drop all the old ones out. Maybe list them to some collective site. I should also make a better image viewing system to my dig.art site. I was planning some kind of drag&drop system. That would propably make the usability of the site much more worse than it already is - but who really cares. It's an artsy site... Ehem...

Some small updates. Mostly just sitting and wondering.