#inspired by random magazine covers I saw on pinterest

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Foaming at the mouth over my own art because I’m silly 😋😋😋

Also the words next to Tycho r from the PA theme song by McFrontAlot :3

Unshaded ver under the cut 🤯

Btw how do ppl draw Gabe so well?? His hair always messes me up 😞

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I didn’t know which one I preferred more so here are both. This was inspired by an image of a magazine cover I saw on Pinterest (Tumblr does strange things with links so if someone really wants the link for some reason... just ask?) and the variations of these ‘fake magazine covers’ I’ve seen on Instagram. I’ve always wanted to try draw Lucia in cool/fashionable clothes, just because that would be something she would do, but as it turns out, I realise I don’t know how fashion works and I’ll just throw a bunch of random articles of clothing together and call it a day.

Anyway, this has been a little been out of my comfort zone (tried new things; a pose that is a little more interesting, tried messing around with line weight, some sort of half tone thing... and I don’t think I’ve ever used such a bright colour in my life, even if it is just a background.) Oh, and not to forget, the clothing choices, too. I think I’ll go back my usual thing now...

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New edit for my magazine

Loosely inspired from this Harry Style’s ‘Fine Line’ poster, I really wanted to use more of the images I took on Tuesday. I saw this on Pinterest earlier when I was browsing for more edit ideas. I really like the texture that’s used, it’s similar to the plastic texture I used in one of my album cover edits. I also really like the use of liquify on the Harry Styles edit. In my edit I think I’ll use a shade of purple as the main colour, not green like the edit below, to help fit my magazine a bit better. 

When looking at this edit, I immediately thought of a random sentence. “She’s beautiful, isn’t she?” I feel like it kind of keeps to the theme of the devil/demon girl. A lot like how angels are seen as the irresistibly charming and how devils are seen as menacing and odious. So I imagine the demon girl asking the question to the reader almost. It’s a really weird way of describing it but my imagination is very broad. 

First dragged and dropped my chosen image into photoshop before cutting it out with the polygonal lasso tool. Before cutting and pasting it to a new canvas, I added the black plastic texture as the background to mimic the inspiration edit. After placing the cut out at the bottom of canvas, I wanted to explore the gradient map which is something I discovered on photoshop in the previous project I did. The gradient map tool creates a new adjustment layer which chooses a new color for each pixel of a certain value. The darkest areas of your gradient replace the shadows and below of your image, the middle replaces your general exposure, and the end replaces your highlights.

The gradient map has loads of different colours to choose from, ranging from purple and red to iridescent and pastel. When using this tool, I usually use the greens, blues or purples. I really liked these three colours below. I love the contrast with the dark and light of each colour. Both the purples are fairly similar and considering my colour palette, I think I’ll go for the second purple as it’s definitely the darkest out of the two. The green is a really nice shade but I want to stick to a slightly darker green within my magazine. 

Like the image that inspired this edit, I want to use the liquify tool but not as excessively, just subtly because I think liquifying too much will ruin it. In the original image the model’s eyes are slightly shut, so the face area seems like the best place to liquify. I tried liquifying it a few times and it didn’t look right. Something about it just looked really weird to me then I had the idea of making the eyes look like they’re streaming with tears. So the image/edit has the contrast of the “She’s beautiful, isn’t she?” question, with her crying. I really like the mix of wanting validation (kind of) because of being a demon then her “crying”. 

I finished liquifying the image, I thought the background look a bit bare even with the text that I placed at the top of the canvas. I went onto Dafont.com as I knew it had some logos/little characters in the horror theme. I downloaded a few that had some skull and crossbones or snakes/bats/spiders. I used the eye dropper tool so I could make the characters that I want on my background the same colour as my model cut out. I tried a few different characters out against the textured background and the spider from the Mephisto Dingbats that looks really cool. For some reason it actually reminds me of Marvel’s Spider-man. 

I decided I wanted loads of different spiders all over the background so I had to duplicate the single layer a few times to make a line that fit all the way down the canvas, then I merged all those spider layers together. I duplicated that layer a few times so I can place them across the canvas, I turned every other layer but the textured background off so I could line everything up better. Halfway through completing all the spider infested background, I thought it would look cool if one line was placed normally, with the spider facing up, then flip the next line, so the spiders on that line are facing down. I think the idea is really good but I’ve definitely made the whole editing process harder and longer for myself, but I think the edit will look amazing. 

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hi! im that anon that asked for a tutorial and you said something specific and i really liked your harvey dent edit? the one that said, god is dead. and it was all red and stuff and super cool looking? no pressure! i just think your stuff is really cool and was wondering what the process behind some of it was!

ofc! it’s no problem at all :)

so i’ll just give a brief rundown and a v rough tutorial on how i made those particular graphics. thank u so much for the support, i’m especially proud of them too and it’s nice to hear u like them as well!

what you’ll need:

photoshop cc 2015.5 but any ps would do really

basic knowledge of photoshop

patience

fonts: dk shaken not stirred, liquido, couture, helvetica, helvetica neue, votu

so the first graphic is a really stupid move and i just realized it like hours after i posted it: it’s one of two graphics that feature a fanart instead of a faceclaim. looking at it as a whole, cohesive set it looks really stupid and surreal? bc it doesn’t match and just throws u off? so my advice is don’t do that. if ur gonna edit from an actual comic then the rest should be like that too (2D) but if ur gonna edit with real life elements i suggest to just stick to that path (3D) so that everything looks coordinated and neat :)

the second one actually took me a while to get right but basically the red circle is in [linear light] and the black circle is in [hard light] mode while the top most white is in [normal]. the paper texture is above all three layers and is on [multiply] mode so it only looks visible on the white circle. the “angels” text is just some basic layer mask so it looks like it’s inside the white circle. as for the style of the graphic itself it’s just based on the previous harvey graphic i did here, the last one on the left. the thing with that is i look for inspiration from other graphics i find and there’s a lot on behance, flickr and even pinterest. just search for ‘graphic designs’ and you’ll find a lot of good ones. u don’t have to copy them exactly but u can adopt and transform it into something urs! but if imitating some designs and tricks is what helps, then it’s fine too. nobody is born an innate artist/designer/whatever so just explore and experiment with what u know and what u want to see. eventually, u’ll be able to develop ur own style.

the third one is basically the same as the second and fairly straightforward. the big, red 2 is set to [darken] mode. i guess with this graphic it’s mostly abt negative space??? and also maybe laziness but negative space is good so that overall, ur graphic set wouldn’t look too cluttered. it helps the eyes breathe i think.  also the main focus is the faceclaim, and since the graphics above and below it is already optically centered, it’s at the rightmost side for asymmetry. just a thought.

ok i’ll be real this is one of my faves bc it just looks so harvey i couldn’t believe my eyes when i saw that hand. i just cut it and applied a gradient map of white and light red i believe so it looks like it’s sketched out or smthng. it looks just like harvey’s burned hand but bc i’m an idiot i forgot to flip the canvas so that it would look like his left instead of his right hand. to this day i regret this mistake. if u look close enough the coin has harvey’s face on it too. damn i love him. but moving on, the lines are made with the pen tool. the pen tool can be a hit or miss thing to use and i just recently learned how to use it properly but it’s v convenient once u got around it! it’s like a sophisticated brush tool if u want to incorporate more lines in ur stuff. u can also use it to cut stuff out (like with the quick selection and magic wand tool) but i don’t do that method often so probs don’t listen to me. i only have a v basic knowledge on it but there’s a yt video tutorial on how to properly use the pen tool if ur interested.

this fifth one is very….. meh. theoretically, it could’ve been better but since i’m the Worst in practice it ended up like that. the design is p much those adidas ads with the many dots? sorry for the plagiarism, adidas, but i don’t make money off of this. so when in doubt just slap some geometry on ur edit and ur good to go. i go for circles bc they’re more aesthetically flexible, if that makes sense? i find rectangles cool but they tend to look out of place in something so vertical; it leaves little space for words and other elements. but polygons look better on horizontal canvases so u can try that too!

the last and definitely least is the most ‘meh’ out of the bunch bc i literally stopped caring abt 2/3 into this thing. the thought that comes to mind is: time magazine cover nov2017 so what does that say abt it really. the text is naturally like that thanks to the font: liquido with a wave-like option if ur into that kind of stuff. some layer masks too to get the effect of the text being inside the harvey art. it looks so dumb now wtf i’m an idiot. but hey, 2 harveys. i’m a visual genius in that respect. again, some gradient maps and a red rectangle border. tip: u should most definitely add a contrasting color or accent in ur graphics, which i once again failed to do here. in this case it’s black since the color palette is red, white and black. it adds a depth to ur work. if ur skilled enough, u can use a wider range of color palettes instead of the usual black, white, [random color]. i, myself, haven’t mastered that yet so that’s what i usually use but one extremely prolific graphic maker who has a good eye for these colors is user mattelektras. u can check out her stuff and see how she uses complementary colors in her edits.

some other things to note:

if u need a paragraph-like text for filler, u can go to type > paste lorem ipsum then adjust the font size to ur liking (somewhere around 0.8pt for maximum unreadability)

it’s good to pay attention to colors and spaces in ur works! the color wheel is ur friend in this trying time

smart sharpen always and forever (at abt 65-130 depending on ur image size)

this got lengthy but i hope i was able to help! i know it’s not that detailed but if u have anymore questions don’t hesitate to ask :) i’m not bothered at all so don’t worry abt it. happy designing!

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Vanna White Never Wears the Same Dress Twice

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There are many reasons to be envious of Vanna White — but mainly because she gets to wear a different dress every show, which in average person terms translates to every day of work. Seriously. In a recent interview with Fox News, the Wheel of Fortune co-host and letter-turner revealed that she’s never worn the same dress twice. Talk about #LivingTheDream.

“Never the same one twice,” White said. So since the show’s been on for 35 years, she’s worn “over 6,500” dresses. No wonder she’s stayed at Wheel of Fortune for three decades! The only downside, she revealed, is that she doesn’t get to keep them. “They have to go back to the designer, but I certainly enjoy wearing them,” she said. And over so many major decades — the 80s, for example — she’s obviously displayed many different fashion genres. “I’ve gone through all the big styles, [including] the big shoulder pads. You name it, I’ve done it.”

One that sticks out is a gold lame number with seriously puffy shoulder pads (while Pat Sajak wore a Bill Cosby-esque sweater).

#TBT 1989 #bigshoulderpads #goldlamedress #theeighties #patsajak #wheel

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But there are so many amazing looks to choose from…

#TBT 1987. I was standing in line at the grocery store and saw myself on the cover of Newsweek. That was the moment I realized I had made it in Hollywood. #onthecover #newsweek #proudmoment #magazinecover

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You always made me laugh. May you rest in peace my funny friend @GarryShandling.

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White’s favorites, on the other hand, aren’t all that surprising. “My favorite dresses happen to be the comfortable ones,” the 60-year-old stunner said, proving she’s a normal woman. “A lot of them are so skin tight and don’t budge. I feel like I’m wearing a corset and I’m walking for 30 minutes in five-inch heels. It looks great, but it can be uncomfortable,” she preached. That’s why they say beauty is pain. “I still do it, it’s part of my job. But if I had the choice, I would prefer stretchy gowns. And I honestly love the cocktail length.”

#TBT 2000 Mother and daughter playing dress up. #precious #sweetmemories

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My first day on Wheel in 1982! Still love my job and working with Pat. #weareateam #hostandhostess #wheeloffortune

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Here’s a sneak peek! Got the red carpet treatment working with celebrity stylist Johnny Wujek. Check out my #glamorousgowns all this week @wheeloffortune! @jwujek #pinkfeathers

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And as the dress styles have evolved with the decades, so has her hair. She’s tried nearly everything from the teased bangs of the 80s to the big updos of the 90s to the soft waves of the 2000s. And she’s always pulled it off beautifully.

And while White exudes glamour and high fashion on TV, believe it or not, it’s yarn she’s after. Random, sure, but her reasoning is just as beautiful as those dresses. “I started my own line of yarn because I wanted to give back,” she told Fox. “I went to Memphis and visited St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and I saw these children that had cancer… That really touched me because I had two healthy children, but so many other people were in need. And this hospital also does a huge amount of research to help. When I started my yarn line, I decided to donate half of the proceeds to St. Jude. I’ve been very fortunate in my life and giving back was very important to me. This is my way of doing it.”

In her career, it’s none of the wild Wheel of Fortune ensembles that she regrets. It’s posing in lingerie. “Here’s the thing. When I first moved to Hollywood, I was too embarrassed to ask my dad for rent money. I was young and I wanted to do it on my own. So, I did these lingerie shots and from the moment I said I would do them, I thought, ‘I shouldn’t be doing this, but I’m not going to ask my dad for money, so I’m just going to do it!’” she revealed. “Once I got ‘Wheel of Fortune’ and some fame, Hugh Hefner then bought those pictures. He’s the one who put me on the cover of the magazine. I didn’t do it for Playboy,” she recalled. “I did not want them on there, but it happened.” She divulged that she could have lost her job from that but luckily she didn’t. “And this is a lesson that applies today: Never do anything that you don’t want to do. Listen to your instincts and follow it…It was a great lesson to learn, but what can I say? I did something I shouldn’t have done.”

At the end of the day, she got to wear over 6,500 dresses in three decades. That’s more than one dress every other day. We’d say things turned out all right for White.

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Our Budget Nursery Makeover: Miss Nerd’s Room

Not everything about writing a blog is fun and roses. But one of the things I love most about blogging being a part of my life is that it gives me so many kicks up the butt – deadlines and incentives to finally get my act together and do something.

I need these kicks up the butt, guys! Otherwise I would never make decisions and actually get things done. And this couldn’t be more true of Little Miss Nerd’s nursery makeover.

This room was unfinished and it had been bugging me for AGES. Literally every time I walked in I felt bleh. You know when something broken or just-not-done brings your energy down? I would feel irritated with myself for not having made the time to tackle it yet.

It used to look like this, after I had fixed it up and made it a craft room.

Photo by Heather Robbins.

This is nice. This I liked! (Before that it was our junk room, our dumping ground – you can see those photos in this post before I fixed it up and made it a craft room) My budget craft room makeover! It was even in a magazine.

Then it became a guest bedroom for a while (it was so small it barely fit our old double bed) and then it became Little Miss Nerd’s bedroom after she moved from her bassinet in our bedroom to her cot in here, and then it sort of became a junk room all over again.

All these things that didn’t have real homes kind of migrated there. And I’d never decorated it properly with a colour scheme and styling and everything. I’d never decided what to actually do. I’ve talked about this before when I shared Little Nerd’s toddler bedroom reveal, but the thing about our 1970s house is that the bedrooms are SMALL. And Miss Nerd’s nursery is the smallest – it’s 265cm x 265cm – it’s a small and dark room and not super-inspiring. We had nice things – the painting on the wall, the cot, the little toys and bits and pieces, but I’d never tied them altogether properly.

Miss Nerd was nine months old and I was literally always thinking, “I REALLY have to decorate her room properly,” when I got the perfect excuse to finally do it. A publicist for Channel 7’s House Rules contacted me and asked if I would like to do a budget room makeover on my Instagram and share it to celebrate the new season. Of course I was keen – it was the motivation I needed.

The aim was a $250 budget and I was actually excited about having a tight deadline. Maybe it’s the journalist in me that always needs a deadline.

And then, a weekend of solid work, and the room was finished. Have a look.

It is done! Done feels SO GOOD, I wish I’d done it earlier! Sometimes I deliberate all sorts of design decisions for AGES. This time I tried to trust my gut and just do things like choosing a paint colour and place art without second-guessing (and third-guessing, and fourth-guessing) my decisions and I surprised myself because I am actually really happy with it. Sometimes ‘done’ is better than perfect, right? (Something I constantly need to remind myself).

The bit that I’m most proud of is my DIY wall beading/cornicing/railing/trim/picture line (a few people asked me what I would call it and I’m actually not sure what the best term is).

Regardless of what it should be called, what I wanted to add to this room was some wall colour and some character. I was thinking if I did one solid feature wall, it might overwhelm the room and make it feel more closed-in. Adding some beading seemed like a nice way to add some wall detailing and a paint colour without sort of overpowering what is a really small space. I bought the trim from Bunnings – from memory it was about $13 a length.

It’s so simple but it’s quite pretty. What I’m proud about is that I did it myself. Mr Nerd was on a work trip, and I did the room in a weekend on my own. Okay not entirely, Little Nerd helped me measure and cut the beading (but then again, he is three, haha) and my Mum helped me glue it up so it was level, but still, I’m proud of my DIY trim!

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You have to cut the beading at angles to get it to sit right around the corners and the windows, and I used to have this amazing Dremel which would have been PERFECT for cutting the beading at an angle, but then my charming sister borrowed it and left it in her car and someone broke in and stole it. So annoying.

So, I literally sawed all these pieces with a hand-saw. That wasn’t so easy. I’m sure all my carpenter readers are looking at my DIY beading in these photos dry-retching in their mouths as we speak, but I am so proud of it. Like I did it and I just wanted to keep walking into the room afterwards to look at it gleefully.

It’s probably because I am NOT the most practical person. I am inventive, not practical. Once me and my sister, the one who lost my Dremel, hung shelves in my toilet by drilling holes into the double brick walls with a cordless drill driver, because we couldn’t find the hammer drill that my husband had probably hidden from me somewhere. “It will be fine,” Simone said. (Surprisingly it actually was, even though it took about two million hours, I even wrote a DIY on it). See? Creative. Not practical.

But yes. What I wanted to say about this little DIY was, if I can do this, you DEFINITELY can. Have a crack. If you use a piece of beading with a more rounded profile, you have to cut the ends to get them to sit flush, then sand them, then I used putty to fill in any gaps and painted those with a tiny brush.

DIY WALL MOULDING TIPS

Measure the line from the ceiling, not from the floor.

Paint the walls before you affix the trim, not after. Then your trim will cover any slightly wonky bits and make it look smart.

Paint the beading before you affix it rather than after – way easier. I used white Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.

If you have low ceilings, consider making the line higher up rather than lower. I would actually have raised the picture line up a little higher than where it is, because this is a tiny room with low ceilings, and that would visually make the ceiling seem a little taller. However, when I removed the old IKEA picture ledge, it left two unsightly holes that still didn’t look right even when I puttied over them, so I used the trim to cover them.

Being slim and pine, my beading was lightweight enough to be able to be glued up (I used a Liquid Nails) but a heavier, thicker wood might have to be screwed in – take it into consideration when you choose.

Get someone to help you glue it up so you get it level. Ideally someone who is not in kindergarten.

Initially I actually wanted to paint the walls a sort of light duck egg blue, deep blue or blue-green. But when I looked at those colours on the walls, they just didn’t work. Because this room barely gets much sun (it’s also overshadowed quite a lot by the two-storey house next door) it already feels quite dark, and the cool colours made it seem cold and depressing. I wasn’t even thinking of pink but I was on Pinterest and saw a pretty apricot-coloured room – and then I realised a warm tone was probably the way to go.

The wall paint is Dulux Diva Rouge in half-strength. The colour is actually almost exactly like the same pinky-peachy-apricot colour my parents painted their entire rear extension in the 1990s, and as a little girl who loved blue I always swore I would never, ever paint my house that colour when I got a house, but here I am 20 years later painting my house 90s pink. Go figure.

After the walls were painted and the trim up it was time to play with pictures! For some reason artwork that might look a bit plain or shabby on a white wall somehow looks so special on a coloured wall. And when there is trim or just some sort of colour difference, it gives a nice ‘anchoring point’ for artwork. It sort of looks more pulled-together especially when your art collection is a little more random.

I had so much fun pulling out all these random bits of art that I’d collected over time from markets and op shops and then realising they looked pretty good in here. The little castle long stitch was $4 from an op shop and I thought it was so cute. (Mr Nerd calls things like this my ‘old lady art’). The pink and blue floral cross-stitch I got from a woman at the markets for $5 and I remember her saying happily, “It’s so nice to see younger people appreciate cross-stitch, no-one likes it anymore.” (Mr Nerd probably would have said, ‘that’s true’ had he been there). The castle cross stitch was $4 from a Good Sammy’s.

The oil flower painting was $4 from a market and the Love print I got yeeears ago from a girl who had a stall outside Jessie’s years ago. I have to admit it sat in my cupboard for years, waiting to be framed and hung… does anyone else buy prints and then frames them like years later? The mobile was a cheapie from Kmart.

That huge painting by the cot I got for $10 from the Melville Markets. I love it there. I literally walked past this painting every Sunday at the markets for about five weeks and I liked how it sort of looks like a paint-by-numbers. Then one day I decided I HAD to buy it even thought I had no idea where I would put it.

Sometimes I say wide-eyed to my husband, “I would NEVER buy something from the markets if I didn’t know exactly where I’m going to put it,” but that is such a lie. I impulse buy weird things all the time and then I stick them in the cupboard where they sadly wait for a home/the day when we buy a big house ten years in the future/the day my sister comes over with the (screwdriver) drill to help hang them up.

Anyway, thank God for my hoarding DNA. I was never intending to put this one in Miss Nerd’s room but somehow I think it just works. So, colour can make random art work, guys. Art walls don’t have to cost a fortune and if you like random stuff, a coloured wall can help you tie it all together. Eventually, I might add a pretty patterned rug – how cute is this from Temple and Webster, for example. But for now it’s fine. I was also initially planning to paint the wardrobe doors a light blue or grey, as I thought it would be too much pink, but when the walls were painted it somehow didn’t look too bad, so I’ve left them for now.

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All up, I went JUST over my $250 budget for this room. The last splash was a huge palm from Bunnings – $110, which I put outside her window to make up for the lack of garden there. That view is so crap – ugly old fence and paving. Sometimes a huge plant is just what you need. One day we’ll eventually pave that part of the yard and put some sort of more permanent (possibly potted) garden there, but the effect of having a plant there definitely visually brightens it all up for now. Palms seem to be one of those plants that fall in the love them or hate them category. My husband hates them, but he usually lets me do what I like with the garden, and did I mention he was away that weekend? It has its perks.

Then I celebrated finishing by taking a break and taking Nala for a run by the river with my sister (the other one, not the one who lost the Dremel) and we got pizza.

The best part was when I showed Little Miss Nerd. I’d done the last bits of the room, hanging the art work and the mobile and putting in the toys, while they were at my mum’s place, then picked them up and brought them home. Being just a baby, I didn’t actually know if she would notice any change to be honest, but she lit up. If you go on my InstaStories, I saved a Highlight reel of stuff called Nursery Makeover – there’s a clip where she sees the finished room. Her face cracks me up. Make sure you put the sound on so you can hear her brother harping on. He is a details man.

And I kid you not, the day after I finished her room, I was hanging out in there with the kids (something we never did before, because it wasn’t a nice place to play in) and Miss Nerd took her first steps in her new room! We were all super excited about it and she was so proud of herself. Maybe it was her way of celebrating. (“Finally! Mama got her shit together.”) At nine months old, she started walking SO much earlier than Little Nerd did, which has been new territory for Mr Nerd and I, having an adventurous walker, but it’s also been fun. And funny. I think I could just watch babies walk all day. She reminds us of E.T).

I can’t even describe how good it felt, to FINALLY have finished a room that has been bothering me for months and months. It felt so energising. The home decorating equivalent of Marie Kondo-ing a messy kitchen cupboard. Now this room literally makes me feel lifted up each time I walk in there, but best of all the kids love it too, and they play in there (by themselves! Every morning! At their own free will! Heaven!) It’s still small, and dark, but it’s a much nicer, way more pleasant part of our home. Maya x

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It’s a Crisis of Civilization in Mexico by José de Córdoba at the Wall Street Journal:

In Huitzuco, a town in the lawless state of Guerrero, Mario Vergara, a slightly built, voluble man nicknamed the Atomic Ant, pores over medical books, training himself to recognize bones of the human skeleton. In six years of searching for his brother, a taxi driver kidnapped in 2012, Mr. Vergara and his crew have dug up some 60 clandestine graves and found the remains of some 200 people, he said.

Mr. Vergara believes he too will be disappeared by criminals who don’t want their sins unearthed. He has made a cast of his teeth so searchers will find it easier to identify him when he’s gone. 

How Did Larry Nasser Deceive So Many for So Long? by Kerry Howley at The Cut

Although, much later, the only story line American media would be able to process was one of a “survivor” who had “found her voice” and was ready to “take on” her abuser in open court, it did not appear to be a woman at all who had persuaded those closest to this story, including most of the “survivors,” to come forward. It was, rather, a set of external hard drives — tossed to the curb in the trash in the days after Denhollander went public, on a day when the garbage crew was behind schedule, and recovered by a police officer. Had the crew been on time, had the officer been late, had the warrant come through a day after Nassar decided to dump his digital history on the street, he might still have the support of most of the people he abused.

Framed Up by Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker:

Here's a little thought experiment, inspired by Dahl's reflections. Imagine, if you can, that African-Americans were represented "fairly" in the Senate. They would then have twelve senators instead of, at present, zero, since black folk make up twelve per cent of the population. Now imagine that the descendants of slaves were afforded the compensatory treatment to which the Constitution entitles the residents of small states. Suppose, in other words, that African-Americans had as many senators to represent them as the Constitution allots to the twelve per cent of Americans who live in the least populous states. There would be forty-four black senators. How's that for affirmative action?

“I Don’t Want To Shoot You, Brother” by Joe Sexton at ProPublica:

“It’s the Blue Lives Matter More theory of policing,” he said. “When in doubt, shoot. If you can shoot, you should shoot. If you have the choice of waiting that one second to see if you could protect the citizen’s life and put your own life at risk, you must take the citizen’s life.”

The Fallout by Lacy M Johnson at Guernica:

We are all connected. The rivers and streams and tiny creeks wind through the city and go on winding. They twist and bend and run backward on themselves, changing course and direction a thousand times over the ages. The water swells and leaves its banks with the seasons, swells into the streets we build, and our backyards and gardens, into the places we never think of because we do not want to see them: our landfills, our factories, our toxic dumps, all of the remote places we send our worst creations. There is no fence to keep it all out. The disaster that approaches is ourselves.

Other Favorites

Science

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? by Rowan Jacobsen at Outside Online - from the lede: “Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests—and quite possibly even racist. How did we get it so wrong?”

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber by Alston Chase at the Atlantic - how the weaponization of psychology helped create a terrorist

Open Letter to Psychology Today by Margena Carter at PitchEngine - Psychology Today has been around for over 50 years, and they’ve only ever had three people of color on their cover.

Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science by Ava Kofman at the New York Times Magazine

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial by Yeh et al in BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal)

Technology

The Digital Maginot Line by Renee DiResta at RibbonFarm 

The Disinformation Report by New Knowledge 

The Data Scientist Tracking America’s White Supremacists by Matthew Gault at MotherBoard 

Free as in … ? by Luis Villa at their personal blog - how the capability approach to freedom might apply to free software

Supporting Int 1696-2017 for Source Code Transparency in New York City by Sumana Harihareswara

Why Pinterest is Better Than Facebook at Stopping Fake News by Rebecca Watson at Skepchick

Mutmut by Ned Batchelder at his personal blog - Ned reviews a mutation testing library written in Python

Protecting Basecamp from breached passwords by Jeremy Daer at Signal v Noise

History

How ‘Strange Fruit’ Killed Billie Holiday by Brandon Weber at The Progressive

How the Willie Horton Ad Played on Racism and Fear by Erin Blakemore at History.com

The Homer We Want by Bill Beck at Eidolon - a history of misquotation

Carrie Ann Lucas Dies At Age 47. You Probably Haven't Heard Of Her And That's A Problem by Sarah Kim at Forbes 

Politics

The Unsatisfying Truth About Hateful Online Rhetoric And Violence by Joseph Bernstein at BuzzFeed News

‘I Get Called a Russian Bot 50 Times a Day’ by Shawn Musgrave at Politico

Progressive prosecutors are not 'cops.' They are needed to enact criminal justice reform by Denise Oliver Velez at DailyKos

Affordable Housing Is Disappearing. These Mobile Home Residents Are Fighting to Protect Theirs by Emma Whitford at Time

Rep. Rashida Tlaib cursing got 5 times more coverage on cable news than Rep. Steve King embracing white supremacy by Lis Power, Rob Savillo and Steve Morris at Media Matters for America 

The Most Sobering Thing about the Racial Dot Map by Libby Anne at Love, Joy, Feminism

is “toxic femininity” a thing? by Katie Anthony at their personal blog

The Justice System Runs On Testimonial, ‘He-Said She-Said’ Evidence by Michele Sharpe at the Establishment

The Class Ceiling: The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs by Joe Pinsker at The Atlantic

Arts & Pop Culture

You Probably Owe "Jennifer's Body" An Apology by Louis Peitzman at Buzzfeed News

What White, Western Audiences Don’t Understand About Marie Kondo’s ‘Tidying Up’ by Margaret Dilloway at HuffPost

Depression and Duty in Captain America: The Winter Soldier by Ryan Roch at Lewton Bus 

Is ‘Captain Marvel’ military propaganda? by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw at the Daily Dot  (if you can’t tell, I’m going through a Marvel phase)

Fan Fiction vs Fanfiction by Flourish Klink at Medium

Misc

Quiet Hands by Julia Bascom at Just Stimming

Big Charity as Big Capital by Phil at All That Is Solid

Having Sex When Your Partner Is The Same Gender, But A Different Size by Lauren Strapagiel at BuzzFeed News

I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It. by Kevin Alexander at Thrillist

She Thought She Was In Bed With Her Boyfriend, Until She Saw His Face by David Mack at BuzzFeed News

On Consensus and Humming in the IETF by P. Resnick

After Two White Colorado Women Unearthed The History Of Their Slave-Owning Ancestors, They Turned To Reparations by Ann Marie Awad at Colorado Public Radio

The Philosopher Redefining Equality by Nathan Heller at the New Yorker - a profile of Elizabeth Anderson (”one of the two greatest living philosophers” according to my philosophy professor friend)

The numbers behind workplace discrimination by Maryam Jameel, Leslie Shapiro and Joe Yerardi at the Washington Post

Rent and reputation by Siderea at their personal blog

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This tattoo artist reveals exactly why your tattoo doesn't need to have meaning

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This tattoo artist reveals exactly why your tattoo doesn't need to have meaning

Whenever people see my tattoos, they immediately ask what they mean. For the designs on my body that serve no specific purpose or have no other “meaning” besides I think that they look cool (like the skeleton on my ankle), I feel pressure to attach something sentimental to them. But it’s not necessary for tattoos to have a specific interpretation or symbolism in order to be significant to you. And even if it is insignificant to you, all that matters is that you chose to get it because you liked it and wanted it on your body.

After spending time with tattooer Mars Hobrecker in his studio nestled in the back of The Living Gallery, an event space and art gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I now feel more open to getting a tattoo that I didn’t spend months or years planning out, like the deer on the back of my arm that pays homage to a trip I took to Japan with my dad or the hand holding flowers on my inner arm that is a tribute to the women in my family.

Most of Hobrecker’s appointments are based on predrawn designs, which are known as “flash” in the tattoo community. His clients pick from the latest designs he’s drawn that are taped onto the pages of a photography magazine. Flipping through it, I noticed drawings of objects including everyday objects, like chairs and toothbrushes, and medical equipment, like a speculum, as well as people, both clothed and naked. At first, I was closed off to most of them, mostly because I was trying to connect something sentimental to each of them. The lady sitting in the chair didn’t have a vague resemblance to my grandma and the man hoisting a woman in the air didn’t resemble my ideal relationship.

Brooklyn Beckham is being shamed for his tattoos and we’re not here for it

Hobrecker was incredibly patient as I looked through the magazine-turned-flash-book dozens of time trying to pick something for him to ink onto my skin. He tells me what freaks him out the most is when people open the book and almost immediately point to a design they’d like. “I just feel like I could never be that decisive,” Hoebrecker tells me as I spot a Cruella de Vil-like a woman walking a gaggle of Dalmatians, a package of birth control pills, and a circus-performing couple. I find myself gravitating toward the nude sketches of people covered in colorful flowers, or “garden people,” as Hobrecker calls them.

Each design in the flash book demonstrates a striking between Hobrecker’s style and the many delicate flowers and tiny tattoos that flood Instagram feeds, and unlike the slim pin-up girls of traditional tattoo designs, Hobrecker has a refreshing take on representation in his work.

“People have lots of different types of bodies, so I should be drawing lots of different types of bodies,” he states matter-of-factly. “There’s such a huge range of bodies that come through the door to get tattooed, so I feel like my work should reflect that. I don’t want somebody to flip through and think none of these people look like me.”

Like me, most of Hobrecker’s clients take their time selecting what designs they want permanently etched into their bodies. They’ll flag a couple pages and discuss their top three picks with the tattooer, and some even settle on one completely at random. “I feel like that’s actually a great method because even if you pick the one you like less, you immediately know you like the other one more,” he says. “If you have that sink in your stomach, like, ‘Oh I was hoping for the other one,’ then you know that’s the real choice.”

I find way more meaning in taking a moment to sit with my body and think about my relationship with it.

If you ask Hobrecker, determining whether or not the image “means” something to you should be secondary. Instead, he believes a tattoo’s significance could be found in the tattooing process itself. “I find way more meaning in taking a moment to sit with my body, think about my relationship with it, and have that hour or two where you’re really forced to think about yourself and have this very physical sensation associated with that,” he explains. “For me, that holds way more meaning than a rose that you get for your mom.”

Becoming a tattooer

Although Hobrecker set up shop in The Living Gallery in December 2016, he’s unsure of when he officially became a tattooer, mostly because it wasn’t a career goal of his. (Note: Hobrecker never refers to himself as a “tattoo artist,” which stems from feeling like tattooing isn’t an art practice.)

About three years ago, 25-year-old Hobrecker graduated from school for photography but realized he didn’t want to take photos anymore. Selling his camera equipment and buying a tattoo machine became his next option. At the age of 16, giving “horrible” stick and pokes with sewing needles to his friends and friends of friends became one of his regular extracurricular activities. From this, tattooing became less about the art of it to him, but more about helping people assert control over their bodies. As a trans man, this discovery was crucial to Hobrecker.

“When I was younger, I was always very involved in queer and trans communities,” he says. “The people I was surrounding myself with, myself included, didn’t feel super at home in our bodies.”

My first tattoo was a very permanent reminder of the ownership I had over my own body.

“I can’t speak my mind because I’m a black transgender woman,” says Munroe Bergdorf in her most candid interview ever

In Hobrecker’s case, he didn’t feel like he had control over his body when he was younger either, having attended an all-girls Catholic school where he was required to wear a uniform and barred from dyeing his hair. In this controlled environment, all Hobrecker could do was get a tattoo in secret when he was 18. “That was something that couldn’t be taken away from me,” he says. “That was a very permanent reminder for me of the ownership I had over my own body.”

With his background in stick and pokes, Hobrecker figured a machine would be a faster way to tattoo. Once he had one, he taught himself how to tattoo via the Internet, learning about different machines and needles. Typically, this kind of information is accessed through traditional apprenticeships in tattoo shops. Hobrecker mostly circumvented this by tapping Instagram’s “weird” tattoo community, which he declares is “entirely noncompetitive.” In fact, most of Hobrecker’s tattoos, which add up to about 50, are trades from other tattooers.

Hobrecker explains that, oftentimes, tattoo artists share information with each other, too. “It feels really supportive, and I think that’s because a lot us did come into tattooing through nontraditional means,” he explains. “Tattooing has had a lot of gatekeeping in the ways that people are allowed to learn and access to information, but now there’s a wonderful community of people who snuck in through the back door and are really supportive of one another because we all kind of went about it the same way.”

The tattoo community feels really supportive, and I think that’s because a lot of us came into it through nontraditional means.

These delicate finger tattoo designs are perfect for first-timers

Because he doesn’t consider himself an illustrator and doesn’t draw unless it’s for a tattoo design, Hobrecker’s distinct style developed as he learned to tattoo, too. He read that you needed separate needles for lines and shading, and this influx of information was so confusing to him that he decided to skip shading altogether and focus on lines. “That’s why I draw like this,” he says. “It was really an entirely practical decision.”

Sourcing his designs

Somewhere on Pinterest, Hobrecker keeps a board filled with more 200 photos he plans to use as references for drawings. As the earlier mentions of medical paraphernalia might suggest, he gravitates towards medical imagery. “Even the [designs] that don’t look like they were from old medical texts are,” he says. This comes as a surprise when he later tells me he’s had a largely negative experience with medicine, due to “going through transgender help and as someone who has really severe chronic pain �� both things that doctors don’t really like to believe people have because they’re not necessarily visual.”

He also draws inspiration extensively from sideshow and circus history. When he sees these pictures from the past, “I look at them and think this looks like me and my friends,” he says. “It was a lot of trans people and a lot of disabled people with nontraditional bodies, so I feel like I relate.” However, he’s very careful about which images he pulls from because of the controversial history of sideshows and circuses. “I don’t need to profit off of someone’s images who has already been used in that way for centuries,” he says.

Due to time restrictions, I wasn’t able to add one of Hobrecker’s flash designs to my tattoo collection. I browsed the book so much while talking to him that I basically memorized it, but once an image of a sitting garden woman called out to me, our interview was coming to an end. (I now know I truly wanted her because I saw on Hobrecker’s Instagram that someone else recently picked her out, and a pang of jealousy hit me.) Talking to Hoebreker nevertheless offered a different type of permanent change for me, though.

Next time I visit Hobrecker’s studio, I’m more likely to select something randomly than when I first went there. This specific part of our conversation will pop in my head when I thumb through his flash book once again: “I think that the image can just be something that’s fun, something that you vibe with. The meaning can be much more in making a commitment to a permanent change to yourself.”

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Monday 23rd April

As we head into the latter half of half of the project there seems to be a higher level of focus directed at specialist areas. For my own involvement this is mostly around the design and creation of the NIL magazine. Tasks perhaps that took up time initially are no longer required to be attained or were finished in the week before. This is a good opportunity to really press on with NIL and hopefully finish on schedule for the 8th of May. A lot of the content is coming along with NIL and strong progression is being made.

A section of work I focused upon today was any preparation required for the Flat lay photoshoots scheduled to take place Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The purpose of the flat lay shoot is to photograph the Image and communications students work to a very high standard whilst also making them all look consistent so that they flow well within the magazine. It was noted in previous NILs (shown in screenshots below) that the communication work looked cluttered and random in its organisation and layout. To avoid that this was the solution we best saw fit.

I spent the majority of the morning looking for inspiration for flat lay designs. I have never really shot flat lay photography especially in regard to publication/magazine layout, so I felt this could definitely be insightful research for tomorrow shoots especially to print off and reference on the day. This project has definitely encouraged me to always prepare and bring physical research to reference back to and this is particularly important within shoots. I definitely found this to be the case with the NIL shoot and therefore I definitely wanted to prepare in the same way. Below are a number of images that caught my attention when scrolling through Pinterest. I have included a brief description to why I liked each one and perhaps how I wish to replicate some of the features found.

I felt this flat lay presented a really innovative and creative way of laying out perhaps more than one piece. If tomorrow, we have to capture a publication that is quite content/ written word heavy this can create a more artistic feel to the photograph. I like the different shapes and angels created from the positioning of the artwork here. I am not particularly keen on the use of an all-black background, not that this would go with NIL’s colour palette anyway, but I don’t think it makes the photo that inviting especially the contrast of the red and black. I therefore do think consideration of background colouration and the colour palette of NIL is crucial to get a more aesthetically refined style.

I love the simplicity and minimalistic style of this photograph. The NIL magazine this year is going for a colour yet minimalistic style and therefore I think aesthetics like this could fit in very easily with most colour palettes including our chosen one. The use of props helps to set more of a scene and tell a bit of a story behind the publication being shot, whilst also increasing the aesthetical and creative styling of the shot. I think keeping the styling very basic and uncluttered works nicely with just the inclusion of a few ‘interior/ lifestyle props’. I think using props to almost create the image of the consumer reading the publication works well, making it feel more personal.

Again, the same publication is used with a variation in styling and prop use. Keeping the number of props to a minimum works really in the favour of these shots. I think simple uses of plant/ flowers and interior decoration features work well. The background colour of this flat lay and the previous one could be incorporated well within the publication, something neutral and clean will work. Particularly if it is to be placed upon brightly block coloured pages it can contrast to far against this.

This flat lay shot displays the options for placement of many pieces of work. It should be considered that some students may want to display a number of physical attributes therefore an understanding of how to lay multiple pieces of work in a minimalistic and aesthetically pleasing manner can be done. Here the flat lay focuses upon a range of books, ranging in sizes and shapes but clever layout and placement has created a strong photograph. Again, a similar background colour to the other flat lays has been used and I think it works very effectively.

The style of this flat lay caught my attention as it worked with quite a brightly coloured background colour. As the colour palette we are using has quite strong and bold shades potentially incorporating these into the flat lay photography could be difficult and therefore looking and reference photography could help to achieve this. I do feel that using bold colours as the background tones is quite risky considering we have not yet seen any of the students work and the colours that come across from their pieces could definitely clash with ours. It may therefore e easier to use a natural, monotone background shade to avoid this.

This flat lay shot plays with angles. The positioning of the magazine is angled slightly which is quite different to the flat and straight angels mostly seen in this style of photography. I think it adds something a little different and perhaps could be used to alternate the looks of students work when baring in mind around 30 flat lays will appear in the magazine so making them looking interesting and diverse is key. A strong use of simplistic placement of props works well. I think the layout of the flowers in the top left corner brings more substance to the photo and fills the shot out more. Shooting on a fabric that looks similar to a cotton bed sheet adds texture to the photograph which can be lacking in using plain block colours.

The insertion of a model’s hand into the shot can make the flat lay feel more personable. It gives a sense of character and life to the shot. This shot uses no props apart from the hand and this could be a feature used across a set of the shots tomorrow to add some differentiation.

This shot again plays with the angels of the publication being laid out. I think the angels work well for showing the cover of the magazine as well as perhaps the inside content pages. Could work for students work who should display both front cover and inside sections. Noted that neutral background colours have been used again.

Although I think this shot feels a little cluttered due to the sheer number of props being used I think a reduction in props could have created a really strong image. I like the use of a neutral textured background it adds more aesthetical consideration and quality to the shot. The combinations of colour on this image are beautiful and work very well together.

Consideration behind students work who have used interesting packaging techniques should also be thought of. In previous years Image and Communication students have tended to present their publications in very innovative and stylized ways, capturing this could create really strong and interesting flat lays. This flat lay does it well whilst also playing with quite an interesting angle for the magazine to be laid out like.

The use of lighting and shadowing in this image is what drew my attention. It creates different perceptions and angles of light that create shapes across the publication. I think it creates a very interesting display. I like the simplistic use of one prop in the top left-hand corner again it fills the page out more and creates greater substance. I think playing with natural and synthetic lighting tomorrow will be key in producing aesthetically varied imagery and could produce some very nice results.

This image like a previous one used hands in the image. I like the personal and character like feel including someone’s hands feels. I think it could definitely be attempted in tomorrow’s shoots.

This image shows how publications could be shot effectively without the use of props. I understand that the props included into some of tomorrows shots may not be suitable for all due to a clash of aesthetic or colours etc. Therefore, imagery like this show a very simplistic and minimalistic way of beautifully displaying physical work like publications. By using quite, a busy double page spread the page definitely doesn’t feel bare or empty and your eyes are drawn right to the content of the pages. I like the neutral coloured choice of background.

This shot plays particularly with the spacing and positioning of content. I like the way the items are spread across the space with some even going off shot. It keeps it interesting and varied. The usage of props again has been done in a considered and simplistic regard.

I like the combination of considered positioning and layout of both the publication/ content and the usage of props. The varied angels and interaction between the props makes it interesting to look at and therefore draws the viewers eyes right in. To me there may be a little too much going on here. I do prefer the use of less props but also consideration of the layout and positioning of the props should be considered well like in this shot.

This flat lay again explores using a brightly coloured background in case we choose to work with this. However, I think using block coloured pages of the actual NIL publication instead to incorporate the colour palette will work more efficiently.  I think this shot works well because of the combinations of colours used, but as the colours that will be displayed on all student’s work will be very varied it is difficult to predict this.

This design presents another very minimalist and simplistic style of flat lay. This aesthetic is definitely my preferred one and I think it works a lot better than using too many props or trying to incorporate colours into the background. I like the use of overlapping of the two products in this, and although aesthetically looks great could also work to fit more elements into a shot without making it look cluttered.

I like the combinations of colours in this shot. It gives a more contemporary style, which gives it more character and personality. However, achieving this with the varied amount of publications, content and products will be very difficult. I like the interesting angels used and the minimal use of props.

The rest of the day I spent progressing with the layout of the final NIL publication. I hadn’t actually worked on the magazine since I initially created the layout concepts way back in the first weeks of the project. As the content was now coming along well I felt it would be good to make a real start on the magazine. I want to create all the pages that do not rely upon the NIL shoots, flat lay photography or articles and slowly begin to put these in as they are created/ given to us. I have begun filling in information that perhaps was just filler text before and also experimenting with layout and design. For some of the publication I have used placeholder imagery to get a sense of layout in respect to particularly the flat lay imagery we hope to produce this week. From my previous research today, I decided I think the best aesthetic is simplistic prop use with a plain monotone background that experiences frequently with angels and positioning to keep it interesting and varied. I wanted to see how that could be incorporated into such a brightly coloured publication and pages. I think it works very well and demonstrates this aesthetic needs to be achieved tomorrow as it looks so strong inserted into the publication. Below is a flat lay of the layout of the current pages of NIL. I think they work very well together whilst also being varied enough keeping each page interesting.

The client- Iain also came in for a brief meeting so there were a few things I wanted to relay to him before I progressed upon them. Firstly, we wanted to include a short snippet of description behind the Image and Communication course and we felt this could best come from senior lecturer Vicky. I needed to get Iain’s opinion and for him to okay that this was to be included. However, when set to him he actually suggested a really strong idea. This was to in the tone of current students write our own piece on both the Image and Communication course and design course here at AUB. As NIL is often given out at open days it is a good idea to provide potential future student an informal and personal insight into the course. The other option he suggested was to have a dictionary like description of the course like exploring what the words ‘communication’ mean etc. or perhaps a combination of the both. I also received some feedback and guidance into the conduction and portrayal of the Coast interview scheduled for tomorrow. To perhaps vary the tone and style of the article by using a similar technique Iain referred to have been used in Graduate Fashion Weeks recent interviews- A Q&A style of article. I think this again was a very strong idea to use to vary the content and keep it interesting and easy for the readers. There may be the potential of them scrapping the Coast interview as they feel it may not be relevant enough for the magazine, but they are mostly leaving it down to us to decide. I am happy to interview and write the article regardless as it is very good practice for my writing skills. Overall, he seemed very pleased with the whole groups efforts.

Karen also spent some time looking over my ‘Where are they now’ article which received positive feedback. She felt it was very well written and loved the descriptions and case studies used. There may perhaps be one major adaptation to the article in that they may remove George Hollins piece from the article. Karen felt his perception felt inherently negative which is not the result they are wishing to demonstrate. The consideration may be to keep it to three case studies or perhaps interview a different graduate that they select. The article was later given to Iain to read so I will wait for feedback and then act upon that.

PLAN FOR THIS WEEK

-Conduct Coast interview.

-Write up Coast interview.

-Photograph and collate flat lay photography for Image and Communication students.

-Progress with all areas of NIL that are not reliant on photography or detailed written content.

-Finalise shooting remaining graduate collections for NIL.

-Finish ‘Where are they now’ completely.