Boomer's PPD Blog

Last night i got a late call from Steve Banks (6:30pm) at PSS asking me to do a flier for a do him and his work colleagues are having this week. He sent me this .jpeg and said:

"hi dan
please can ya ammend the image to say.........
banksy & craig always say,
.......then the rest of it.......
and put it in the top left corner.

then underneath and in the bottom left corner put.......
join us for after work drinks at
Norman Bar, Call Lane, 6pm - 10pm
£2 on selected drinks


thanks
steve"

and this was the image he sent:



Now, as any one will know, you can't take a crappy jpeg, delete stuff, add text and alter bits without making a mess. I told Steve this and said the only way to do it would be to take a different photo, edit it to look like that one, then add the text. "Yeah great, thanks" he said.

"Oh and can i have it by tonight".

So i did. Here's the process:






Took me about an hour and i had to leave my beans and sausages on toast till later to get it done but i did it.
And i got it in one.

Got a call from Papa Boome aka. Señor Boome aka. Boome Snr. and he offered me some work, which is nice considering he's an old school joiner and hasn't offered me work since I gutted That Attic for him That One Time. Well it's not really work for him per se, but to cut a very long story and 45 min phone call short, a family friend collates, produces and distributes a small publication of local tradesmen, skilled labourers and local businesses. Think of it as a kind of local mini-yellow pages. Anyway it's into it's 6th edition now, and during a conversation with said family friend Old Papa mentioned I was a designer and would be happy to help out with layout etc.

So I've got a couple of old editions (see below) and hopefully should be working on the next one.

And getting paid. Happy days.

Sent from my iPhone

Hi. Sent from my iPhone

So I just set up Mobile Blogging - now all i have to do when i want to post something is email it to a certain address and BOOM! (or Boome) and voila, it's on this blog.

Cool huh...

I'm starting a new website to replace the old one. Why i hear you ask? Well, let me tell you.

For one, I never actually finished it. There's no explainations, no descriptions of work, the navigation was awkward and to be honest it was a little messy. I think i got it to a point where I'd really had enough, and it worked enough to go live so, as a test, I put it up and it worked! But just working doesn't make a good website. So for one, it needs finishing.

Secondly, I don't like the design anymore. It was kind of a concept and experiment at the time, and again, it worked, but it's not amazing. It needs to be clearer, easier to use and cleaner. But it was nice while it lasted.

Lastly, and probably more tellingly, I did it relatively quickly and got bored of it very quickly. I do that. I get fed up with my work and want to do something else. Constant change and all that. So i want something that can last, something that I've put a lot of work into making, so I'm gonna take my time with this one.

I think...

HOLIDAY TIME :D

Here's where I'm going...





See ya.