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		<title>Takedown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve tried a couple times this year to participate in &#8220;Make Something Cool Every Day&#8221; (it&#8217;s pretty self-descriptive, flickr set here)  but despite my best efforts I haven&#8217;t been able to do it successfully. There was a time back in February-April where I was getting close to making something every week, but even that slowly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve tried a couple times this year to participate in &#8220;Make Something Cool Every Day&#8221; (it&#8217;s pretty self-descriptive, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1012163@N22/">flickr set here</a>)  but despite my best efforts I haven&#8217;t been able to do it successfully. There was a time back in February-April where I was getting close to making something every week, but even that slowly faded away. To help get around the issue I thought I&#8217;d challenge myself to a one-hour exercise: 30 minutes to sketch, 30 minutes in Illustrator. That didn&#8217;t quite work out, but the result was a <em>tentacled</em> <em>monster taking down a ship</em>. Yup.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/benwatts/4106519475/sizes/l/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-513" title="091115-ship-takedown-thumb" src="http://www.benwatts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/091115-ship-takedown-thumb.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="350" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.benwatts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/091115-ship-takedown-illustrator.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-515" title="091115-ship-takedown-(illustrator)" src="http://www.benwatts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/091115-ship-takedown-illustrator.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="350" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.benwatts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/sketch.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-514" title="sketch" src="http://www.benwatts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/sketch.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="355" /></a></p>
<p>Oh, I guess it should go without saying that I was largely unable to adhere to my rules. The sketch was done in under 10 minutes &#8212; so I shifted the other 20 minutes to Illustrator time. Then came 30 minutes of Photoshop time &#8230; which came about after my time in Illustrator was up and I wanted to keep going; I figure switching programs and setting a new time limit is fair, no?.</p>
<p>What can I say, the system isn&#8217;t perfect yet.<br />
The process is too lengthy to do one per day. Balls. It&#8217;s got to fit into 30-45 minutes.</p>
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		<title>Splooooosh</title>
		<link>http://www.benwatts.ca/2009/05/18/splooooosh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that you&#8217;ve seen this, go listen to this awesome Metric song. Oh, so this little wave wallpaper your looking at is the byproduct of a sticky note I doodled on several weeks ago and pinned to my monitor at work. I had been meaning to do something with it for a good couple weeks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/benwatts/3544411220/sizes/o/"><img class="size-full wp-image-434 alignnone" title="splooshthumb" src="http://www.benwatts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/splooshthumb.jpg" alt="A lovely organic wave-like wallpaper for instant eye-pleasure. " width="560" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>Now that you&#8217;ve seen this, go <a href="http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Waves_B_Side_/22477368">listen to this awesome Metric song</a>.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-435" title="post-it" src="http://www.benwatts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/post-it.jpg" alt="post-it" width="200" height="158" /></p>
<p>Oh, so this little wave wallpaper your looking at is the byproduct of a sticky note I doodled on several weeks ago and pinned to my monitor at work. I had been meaning to do something with it for a good couple weeks now. Finally took it home today and got&#8217;r'done.</p>
<p>Also of note today: managed to get django running<a href="http://tinyurl.com/pm25tl"> on my little slice</a> via a fastcgi process and Nginx. YEAH! *Pat on the back*. Those were some agonizingly slow hours that I will never get back. Next: MySQL + Django (not looking forward to that).</p>
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