Behind Schedule – Contest, Site, and Life

Yeah, I’m aware I’m late for a lot of things, like a tutorial, journal update, and so forth, but I assure you, I’ll catch up sometime.  After reviewing my site, I had a little discussion in my head on what’s really needed, and what’s not needed.   I decided to do a points game with my site and basically you look at every element and give it points based on whether you really needed it, or not.

New Creative-Le Studio Site?

I looked at my site with the perspective of a regular user/bored blog reader like yourself and thought to myself, is this necessary, or junk.  In all, I removed a few things, I tightened up some graphics at the same time giving some space.  The navigation reflects the direction of the blog, being both personal but also a studio blog to post tutorials, resources, inspiration, and other things.  My goal is to bring you guys a design that’s easy to read, and visually pleasing that doesn’t distract you at the same time.

And as a result, we have the new Creative-Le Studio Blog that’s ready to be populated (I still have to make some pages to talk about my group).

Collins College Contest #2

On a lighter note, I’m starting to live a more minimal life (trying to get rid of unnecessary things I own).  I’m getting rid of my 23″ monitor to one of my teacher’s class to give as an award for the “Best Flash/Interface Design” in her class.  Today is the last day of their submission, and I’m pretty stoked to see the final projects.  I’m bad at judging because I tend to get biased, but I’m glad that’s why I have multiple judges.  I’ll be posting their work soon if I get permission, so be on the look out for some great interfaces or not.

Old Updates and Pictures

Hopefully one of these days I’ll find the time to post some old pictures that I’ve taken when I was in Las Vegas with Intothedarkroom.  The company trip to Las Vegas was really fun and inspired me to hopefully raise enough money through freelancing to take my company there as well.  (I really want to see another Cirque du Soleil show)

Music Inspired…

I don’t know why, but lately I’ve been getting in the mood to learn the piano.  Perhaps I’ll buy one in the near future, but at the moment, I’m saving my money and watching piano videos constantly.  There’s really only a few things I want my life to consist of and if my theory works then I should be in a good state.