may day

30th of Apr, 2001ce* in: diary

I don’t know how today will turn out but the company I work for (WCRS LONDON) is having a half day, the building is being closed down at one o’clock or thereabouts. Its hard for companies like WCRS as it is an advertising agency… a prime target for any anti-capitalist who is ‘pro-active’, meaning they take action in the form of destruction.

I personally am against capitalism and would love to see the day when MacDonalds, Starbucks, Nestle, Coka Cola and Disney go out of action… but I would also like to persuade people that the ‘May 1st London Riot’ as it is being called is just that, a few hundred people in every few thousand just want destruction - and to destroy. This is not a good way to prove your point, infact it just de-faces the whole campaign.

And on another note (as if having Tuesday afternoon disturbed wasnt enough) Theres a tube and Train strike again on Thursday… hopefully I can get in on the bus! If not I loose 8 hours of wages. NICE.

wcrs london

28th of Apr, 2001ce* in: WCRS, pixelart, websites

Made just before I left for Tokyo to work for Furifuri, this is a design for the WCRS homepage that ran for about 2 years. (since 2001)

I remember we had an insane amount of problems getting the menu to work, as transparent effects were not really cross browser compatible at the time. In the end we found out that internet explorer and netscape on the PC could use a directX feature, while the Mac (on which we developed) could use PNG alpha, with a bit of Javascript serving to move it around / identify the platform.

PNG alpha has only just been supported on the PC, some 5 years late!

back to school

16th of Apr, 2001ce* in: diary

long train journey back to London with a suitcase and a packpak. I moved all my stuff into storage at my sisters house so I can be quite free in the coming weeks/months. I sat listening to my minidisk in first class around a table of people talking about Cornwall… they didnt seem to have a very high view of London, seemed they were like me and wanted to stay in Cornwall - Only I was the non-emit around this table, the rest were down for the Easter holidays.

Damit its hard being in London again, I’m staying with my friend in a very very nice area of west London, which kinda makes up for London being so shit!

I hate london

15th of Apr, 2001ce* in: diary

Damit its hard being in London again, I’m staying with my friend in a very very nice area of west London, which kinda makes up for London being so shit!

cornhole

13th of Apr, 2001ce* in: diary

still not recovering from my previous days non-fun I took a little trip to see some old school buddies in Lostwithiel. Ben-and-his-van was a funny experience but I cant really talk about it here from fear of being taken to court… let me say - I’ve never seen such a funny thing and the outcome of it all was a new tax disk, confused again? well, thats the Cornish way.

I’m glad everyone seems to be happy, and all of my friends seem to be doing something or seem to be looking out to the future and not looking in to stay in shitey Cornwall forever.
Drank at the Earl of Chatam for a long time, I’m sure it was past time and we were still getting pints - a round of 5 pints was about 10 pounds! Amazing!

horror

12th of Apr, 2001ce* in: diary

hmm, Friday. Friday the 13th. This is being written after the proceedings.

I was down the local pub (o’calahans - or ‘old clammy hands’ to those in the know) with my good friend and old boss Gary. we had a few and talked over architecture and all the things that go with it. Then as I was walking out of the pub I spotted one of my old school friends (not a hard thing to do in Cornwall) and we went back to the Pub together… then decided that a jaunt out to the local nightclub ‘gossips’ that night would be an ace idea!

Ahem, hardly.

I didnt really enjoy myself that much in the meat market called gossips, and the person I went with disappeared so I was left to my own devices, it wasnt hard to find persons I knew - only its a bit shit meeting people that way sometimes.

A very drunk 2am later and was outside talking to different people trying to share a taxi home the 2 or so miles back to St.Austell - no success, so I walked it.

Theres only one person on this earth that will understand me when I use the word ‘cokkananola’ but I met two oddbods on the walk home and we went back to their summer house for more party. The next day was hell! (confusion? yes.)

Items in GTP

10th of Apr, 2001ce* in: 3D, illustration

16 items designed for GTP. All objects are roughly under 100 polygons.

grunt heads

ce* in: 3D, illustration

these are more heads for GTP. Both used for the “D9″ team in GTP. Not sure of the top ones identity.

The lower head is fellow Tokyo-ite Colin Willamson.

eden

9th of Apr, 2001ce* in: diary

Lazed about for a while and then some time in the late afternoon myself and my sisters boyfriend Tom went to the Eden project to collect my sister from work.

The Eden project, if you didnt already know, is a huge collection of greenhouse biomes set in an unused claypit near St.Austell and Par, the project is interesting and the website would give anyone more insight than I can provide: Eden project images

Its a big shame that only a few of the huge work force at Eden have interesting jobs though, and the wages are very low - even by Cornish standards!

morning after the night before

7th of Apr, 2001ce* in: diary

weeeel, that was one of the most unwholesome parties I’ve been to in a long time.
My sisters birthday was yesterday. Myself and my flatmate Grigg decided to leave our flat in London with all of our worldly belongings, it was time for a change - we moved out of our east end London flat that morning in a big white van.

A few tedious hours later we were… just out of London. About the same amount of driving again +2 and we were in the land of Cornwall. When arriving in Lostwithiel we picked up that scamp Adam, off to St.Austell!
Partied hard, like some odd person who had just broken a 10 year tee-total regime.
Slept well in a chair from the late art deco period.