So it has been quite a while since my last blog. An extra end of year piece of work popped up for my University course so I had to put my full attention on it.
Just before I left I managed to put up my new logo. This is the acorn with the letter S scratched into it which you should hopefully be able to see.
I have also quickly started on making a banner for the top of the blog. So far I have this part done:
I have gone along with the name Squixel which stands for squirrel and pixel. Hopefully you all like it and I will add the rest later.
Something To Read
I have also started to create a personal blog, this will feature my photos I take, the link to it will hopefully be up in my next blog so look out for that.
This Summer
Next Sunday I will be going away for a week but don't worry I will still be blogging and I will be able to take a lot of photos (:
Here are some original sketches that I have made for the design of my blog. As you will see these are very basic sketches and will be improved on my iMac. So here it goes, be as brutally honest with your opinions as possible!
These sketches are for a logo and text ideas for a banner at the top of the blog.
(ignore my sketches of Invader Zim characters here lol)
Idea for the whole layout and design of the blog along with a design for the 'Golden Acorn Award' which i may reward to something worthy once a month.
Sorry that these have taken so long to put online, hopefully I will get these done on my iMac by the end of next week and possibly even up and running on the site by the end of the month.
I did not mean to leave for so long! I went away with my iPhone to visit family thinking that I will be able to update my blog and twitter whilst there but when I got there I found out I had no internet connection on my iPhone at all and that they didn't have wi-fi, this was very disappointing.
Hope is not lost!
Due to the fact I was away from home and most common distraction, i managed to get some good sketches for my blog and logo design!
Also I managed to do interesting things so expect a lot of good information over the next few days about basically everything I have done or found interesting!
Again, sorry I left you for a little bit but it could not be helped.
Thought I better post to say thank god we aren't dead eh?
Sorry I have not had a chance to upload my logo sketches and stuff yet. Had a surprise family visit yesterday which cheered me up a bit. They WILL be up by Monday, so say tuned.
I am a big wrestling fan (I know it is fake, just can't help watching it since I was little) and I was sad to hear the news that Macho Man Randy Savage dies yesterday. One of the best of all time, apparently he saved us from raptur and if that is true then "Oooh Yeah, Macho Man!".
Here is a picture I found funny, it is the Macho Man using his patented Elbow Drop finisher on an unsuspecting opponent!
So ALOT has happened this past week and here is a quick catch up!
Eurovision
So Eurovision was apparently a big hit in the UK, possibly to do with the fact thatwe had our most decent act in years. The boyband Blue entered for the UK and came in a respectable 12th out of 25. The winner of the competitions was Azerbaijan (which I honestly did not even realise was part of Europe and that made me feel bad), their act was Ell/Nikki (not sure which one is which) with the song 'Running Scared'. Here is their performance taken from the BBC YouTube page:
Football (Soccer to anyone who cares)
So over the last week there has been some huge matches in English football. First of all Manchester United secured their 19th top flight title, this means they have now won more than any other club in history overtaking Liverpool who have won 18.
Also the other big thing in Englsh football to happen was the FA Cup Final, this for people who don't know is a dmomestic cup that takes place every season with every football team in English football leagues being entered. Manchester City won this contest beating Stoke City 1-0. The goal scorer was Yaya Toure who is reportedly getting a salary of around £200,000 a week, so i'm guessing he earned that amount with his goal.
Yaya Toure scoring his winning goal in last Saturday's FA Cup Final. (Image from PressAssociation)
Job Interview
So as I posted earlier I did not get the job I applied for, the ridiculous thing is that I got the job because I was "too old".
I will be honest with yo here, I am 19, I am a University student who applied for a job at a local Pharmacy who put an advert up asking for a student to work on Satursays.
How the hell am I too old?! Oh well, back to job hunting : /
Britains Got Talent
So there has been little disagreements with people across the UK about a certain act that was on Britains Got Talent. For those that live in America or any othe country, this show is similar to others like it, examples being Americas Got Talent of Australias Got Talent.
This act performed at an audition (we have not yet got to the live shows) and originally the judges said no they can't go through but after the crowd boo'ed the judges they called the act back out and reversed thei decision. This has never been done in 5 years of the show so it got people talking.
Now I want to get peoples opinion on this, yes I will admit that they are an okay band but comparing them to even American High School Marching bands I don''t think they were that great. I apologise for having two YouTube videos in one post but this second one has been annoying me for a few days, would you have put them through?
Blog Design
As I am writing this blog there is a Photoshop image open in a separate window showing me my final ideas for my logo, hopefully I'll put up a sneak peak of this tommorow. I'd also like to show some other desigs that unfortunately did not make it. Once this is done I will be working on the rest of the page so there are no boring blue sides around my blog.
To Finish
So sorry I have been away for a while, personally it was worth it but even though this bog is a new thing I kina misse it strangely.
Should be at least a blog every 2 days from now on, hoefully once a day if I get a chance.
Thank you to all my followers and people commenting, love getting feedback!
Now Ihave my iPhone I will be tweeting more, for those that do not know my Twitter it is - twitter.com/mjsquixel
Although the title is a happy one this blog is going to start on a bad note, I didn't get the job ):
BUT I had a greedy rush and got myself an iPhone! Only a 3gs but it's an iPhone. By the way, does anyone else with an iPhone get really smug when theres an advert for one on TV? Coz I sure do lol.
As well as being a bit greedy I also handed in my last piece of university work for the year! So now i'm free to blog and do whatever I want!
There will be a bigger blog later on today, sorry i've been gone for a few days wanted to make sure my work was perfect.
Yesterday ended well, I wrote my first long blog and found a job advertisement near me!
So today I wrote a C.V (resume for Americans) to apply for a Saturday job. My God this was frustrating to write, finding free templates was easy but looking up everything of merit you have done in the past makes you think 'WOW I've done a lot... oh, I'm getting old..'.
Anyone have any tips on job interviews? Hopefully I won't need one due to it only being a part time Saturday job but it would be nice (:
I was 10 when 9/11 happened, this means that this September on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack I will have doubled in age. Looking back to when I was 10 I would have had no idea what I ould want to be when I grew older. Now, with me being almost 20 I can very happily say that I have made great choices in life, I am very thankful to my family and friends for helping me get to where I am and would not be who I am today without them.
Now less seriously
I am going to start deisgning a backdrop and logo for my blog. So hopefully that will be up soon meaning I can get rid of the plain boring standard one. The whole name squixel comes from Squirrel and Pixel so if anyone has any ideas I can use they will be extremely helpful and the person will be mentioned in future blogs.
And now a song, this song is by Bruno Mars and is called 'The Lazy Song'. The album this song is taen from is an amazing album full of big tracks that are recognisable as they are played almost everywhere.
I heard this song a little TOO much today, it literally followed me everywhere, from TV to shops and even in car radios driving past me.
