What a website!
Not only are they a fantastic new outfit stemming forth from the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave's new quartet throbs with brilliance.
Today was the opening of their new website and it's a great site that defies the norm. The pages are one dimensional which sounds a bit stupid but it's done to great effect. You have to expand the page and then move the page around to see the content. It's great fun and the site makes you want to explore. And explore you do, finding slightly hidden gems as a short film about the band, 3 great videos and a podcast to subscribe to too.
Go visit, enjoy the site and enjoy the music even more. If you're a little put off by hairy faced men and monkeys - you're not gonna get them here!
Heh, heh, heh.

POST SCRIPT - After further exporation into this website I found the link to the creators site here. Have a look at his wonderful work.

Feedback? Hoorah!

Todays session in class was most invigorating.
Lot's of feedback - good and bad, but it really opens up your eyes and your brain.
After todays class I was drawn straight to this site (which is in my fav's sidebar). I'm drawn to this site as it's a simple yet effective layout but remains stylish throughout. The navigation is superb and is easy to find your way around no matter where in the site you are.
It's certainly given me ideas. :-)

Serial Killer Art

I love getting post in the morning!
This morning I received my latest aquisition, two oil paintings from the Serial Killer, John Wayne Gacy. Convicted of killing 33 (and probably more) young boys and burying them under his house. This guy used to dress as a clown and hire himself out to the community as a party trick - Pogo the clown.
Fantastic paintings, I'm really pleased. I've been after a couple of his artworks for so many years and now I have not one, but two!
Heh, heh, heh.
This makes up for the tragedy of the last few weeks.
Life rolls on again, but this time with a kick in it's high heels.

The Loss Of Intelligence?

This is just the pits.
I've lost everything (computer death) and you don't realise how much you've actually lost until you need it. I've lost all of my bookmarks (I've yet to get used to Delicious) and so trying to find suitable sites to show off for my mock up of my web page leaves me to make a last minute dash to see what I can find. Bah, humbug!
Still, I've done a couple of rough sketches of what I'd like to achieve. Simple is simple but hey, that's why I'm at school!
I've done the sketches for the page layout and the site structure, showing how all six pages are able to link together.
I plan on using icons for the home page to guide you where you wish to go. I'm going to incorporate my learnings from earlier this year and take photo's of objects around my flat and transmogrigfy them into icons. Yummy!
I've lost my copy of Photoshop and I can't load any other copy onto my stupid, damned, useless, dead computer! Lordy, I can't even upload ilife 5, for fucks sake!
If there was a prize for computer assasinations, I would probably win!

Dead Cats, Dead Macs.

Good Lord! Could it get any worse?
My mac died a few days ago, died beyond retrieval. I've spent the last 3 days resetting over and over again. I've finally got it up and running again but I've lost everything that I had.
So, whilst rummaging around the net to renew my fabulous icon collection I stumbled on this website, Shapeshifter which changes the look of your mac. I've downloaded it and I've been playing and it's a good idea. You get 15 days to play before you have to fork out £20.00 or whatever to pay for it and that's good as I can't seem to find a suitable application that actually looks good!
Still plummeting the net for forgotten links etc. I found this wonderful site where the chap puts souviners into perspective. Quite amusing, a lot of misses but the hits are damn fine.
Still working on my upcoming website which is due very, very soon. Now that I've got most of my applications back apart from photoshop (goddamnit) I can now start getting it done.
Keep posted!
Le Ghoul. xx

HTML? Grrrrrrr!

I don't know if it's been the stress of Doris' passing away but I've had such a bad time trying to upload HTML to my webspace.
After umpteenth tries I finally contacted Katrina who set me on the right track. My problem was that my text edit wasn't configured correctly to save the index.html file so it could be loaded up correctly.
After tweaking with the preferences it finally worked. Hoorah!
Now I've just got to start again with the proper html I want to use. Perhaps I'll take a walk outside first.

Doris Karloff RIP

It's happened all to fucking quickly for my liking. I woke this morning to find my beloved pussycat struggling to breath (although she hid it well, I had to catch her secretly catching her breaths!). I knew in my heart and my gut instincts (which you should always obey) told me it was today and not tomorrow or Monday.
It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in such a long time and the whole process was horrid although the Vet was the kindest and most understanding guy.
She went very quickly, even before he withdrew the needle. I think the hardest thing for me was watching her little body start sinking to the table and starting to flatten out soon after she died. It was very, very quick.
I'm having her cremated and returned to me within the week.
I'll miss the little delight that was the best little cat I've ever had. I'll miss her rather vocal dreams she had most nights causing me to wake up as she was so loud! Ha ha.
Still, it was the best thing for the both of us and weirdly, I think she knew that herself. Today was really unnerving when I put her in her catbox without the slightest struggle at all. That was so eerie. She is usually like a furry circular saw when I'm usually putting her in there and I have the wounds to prove it.

Rest in peace Doris, I know that Geff will be there waiting for you.

xx

John Waters' Mouth

Doris Karloff

Tonight I bought home my pussy cat, Doris Karloff, from the Vet yet again but this time with some heartbreaking news.

After extensive x-rays and ultra sounds they have discovered that the dark shadow on her lung is now a solid mass. The tumour has doubled in a month and now her breathing is down to 50%.
I was sort of hoping that they could take out the lung and that would be that. Also I was keen in having a diseased cat's lung in a bottle for my collection but alas it's not to be.

Doris is dying. She's at home with me now but we only have a few weeks left :-(

Eeep!

First entry ever for my first ever blog.

Not sure what to write but I guess I have to do it for school, so here we go.

I like blogs that are fun and interesting - but mostly fun.

I'm doing this blog as part of my Digital Media Arts degree for our first website. My plans for the website will include musicks, magicks, predictions and the ancient art of 1950's movie's.

I intend to have a fun front page - I have Criswell in mind along with a few Ed Wood flying saucers on strings somewhere.

Links to other sites of interest to me and perhaps some music to download.

Fingers crossed all will go well.

Have a ghoulish nite,

Ghoul. xx