happy new year

30th of Dec, 2006ce* in: illustration, print

year of the boar!

I made this post card to send to my friends and colleagues.

2006 festive wallpaper

22nd of Dec, 2006ce* in: downloads

Hi, this year, it’s a mystery! Click below to download your festive 2006 wallpaper from dadako.com (papers come unbranded, and in a zip file, just to prolong the surprise!)

Normal version ZIP

Widescreen monitor version ZIP

recent pixelling…

21st of Dec, 2006ce* in: pixelart

Looks like I’ve been doing a lot of pixel art recently, in fact I haven’t, but a few pixel projects have come to fruition. Anyhow, heres two I busted out recently:

New winter avatar for use on Forums:

Made for a Japanese new year card:

Transport for London

19th of Dec, 2006ce* in: dadako, pixelart

Well, they have finally launched the TfL (schools) website! It’s been a long time coming, over a year infact. I was first contracted to work on the project late 2005, and I put in about 4 months on and off, until very recently. Sadly enough most of the people I was working on the project with have gone on to other jobs, as is the norm when working in London.

Glad to see it up and running, let me know what you think using the comments button below!

winter 2006 - new coat

11th of Dec, 2006ce* in: diary

Santa bought me a new coat. Not that there was anything wrong with my old one, except for a few holes here and there, it kept me warm and that was the main thing. Apparently it wasn’t good enough to be seen in, and thusly a new one must be purchased. The old one was referred to as the “sleeping bag” by my previous co-workers. Indeed, it could be used as a sleeping bag. This one is made from real coyote… cheers mate!

Looks like I won’t get much use out of it this week. Although Japan is entering the insanely cold season where pesky Russia blows down upon us, I’ll be tucked up in the office 24/7 with projects.

I hope it snows again this year.

new website X

8th of Dec, 2006ce* in: blog

I’m in the process of remaking my website, for he Nth time, following the E2R doctrine. Many thanks to Anatole for his help in importing all my old diary entries! The kind chap wrote a small PHP script to help me convert my old blog (started in 1999) to an RSS XML document. Needless to say that old data was a jumbled up mess, but I am now privy to some very powerful and interesting PHP

Also, unfortunately I have my 7 diary entries from March 2005 to March 2006. In summery I think all I wrote about was coming to live in Japan & buying various Wacom tablets anyway. Kinda boring! (hence the header image) I must change my matter of fact writing style, too many sentences starting with “I”.

Over the next few weeks I shall be importing my hundreds of gallery / work-history pages into wordpress as diary entries with custom pages. Now that I have learnt the ins and outs of wordpress, it seems anything is possible! The future of dadako.com is here, however at the moment it is fading in and out of view. Expect a clear image on the new year.