Let's Make Some Music

Wanna make some cool beats and waste time all at once?

Check this out. :)

iNudge

Definitely fun and addictive once you get into it.

Best thing about it is that it's based on a harmonic scale, which means it's pretty hard to produce something that sounds really horrible!

Have fun,
chauie

NSW Police Campaign

I'm back after finding a fun sized Cherry Ripe... mmm...

So my mum told me about this the other night but I thought she was bullshitting me coz she read it in the Vietnamese newspaper and who is to say that the content in the Vietnamese newspaper is legitimate.

No offence to foreign papers but some of them - for those of which I can only read the headlines of - they're just articles about nothing. That's not to say that some Aussie publications aren't bad either. Sometimes I'll pick up an article and after reading it, think that they droned on and on, just to make the deadline coz there was space for one more 500-word piece. This may not help with my love of wanting to work for or within magazines but whatever.

Anyways, there's a reason why this post is called 'NSW Police Campaign' and that reason is that the NSW Police are raising awareness of the fact that too many individuals of the Generation Y are dying due to them being ignorant of the oncoming traffic, listening to their ipod whilst crossing the road / jaywalking.

Who would have thought?

To avoid it, they're imposing a fine if they catch you (apparently).

I admit, I do listen to my ipod when I go on walks just to block out the conversations around me but even though my ears are closed within the sounds of my choice of music, my eyes are still open and I always look right then left for oncoming traffic.

For those who don't, I guess you all need to turn down the volume on those ipods and look or at least use a pedestrian crossing.

Check out the promo posters for the campaign:

Be careful yo.
chauie

Mmm.. Chocolate and Skater Boys..

Check out the awesome new ad for

Nestle's Aero Chocolate

Hm... after watching that I feel like chocolate now.. and who doesn't love chocolate?

Some of you may not fancy the skater boy but the concept of the ad was pretty cool.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed it.

I'm off to find some chocolate - yummy!

x

chauie

My Dream...

At a 13itches meeting a couple of weeks ago, there was a spring of ideas that came out that we would ultimately like to see ourselves doing. And one of them got me really excited - it's actually one of the original ideas for starting the 13itches brand in the first place and also one of the reasons I wanted to take part and be apart of this brand! That said, I guess you're all wondering now what exactly this exciting idea is hmm?

Well it's nothing new and original but it's exciting to me because ultimately when I'm able to hit that stage of my life, I want to be able to work in this field. Basically the plan is for (in future) 13itches to bring out a magazine. Right now, the idea was to bring it out as an online magazine and that's perfectably understandable as the Internet (and technology itself) nowadays is taking over basically anything that we can hold in our hands physically.

The use of a pen and paper has been taken over by a keyboard and Microsoft Word. And whilst all that is fine with getting out words quicker than usual as they are typed out across the page, there's something I still love about taking out my notebook, holding a pen in my hand and letting the ink do all the talking and expressing my thoughts.

Many of you may not know this, but most of my posts are written down on paper and pen before I am able to get to a computer to transfer my thoughts here on this blog. :)

Anyways, my point of this post is that I ultimately want to be working in the world of magazines. Not for the styling of fashion shoots, not for the interviewing of celebrities, for being a photo whore or scoring freebies at exclusive events, but simply for the writing aspect of it. To see my name in print. To see the "By Line" at the end of an article.

I really hope that 13itches sees through this idea. Coz this is one idea I will fight for if there seems to be any thoughts of throwing this idea away..

Til then, I shall dream on... :)

Peace yo.
chauie
'Victory's within the mind. Almost there, don't give up now.' - Run This Town, Jay-Z ftg Rihanna & Kanye West

You Know What?

You know what sucks?

The feeling you get when you hear people talking about you when your back is turned.

My desk is five metres away from the two people whom think they're talking quietly but it's not a great feeling when you hear your name being whispered multiple times through the cracks...

To you both, I say a big Fuck You.

If you have a problem with me or the work that I do or how I do it, then talk to me quietly.
Drag me into a meeting room, sit me down and tell it to me straight.

Don't go back to all those high-school ways and whisper my name, acting like I don't exist.

The loud music I blast may fool you coz my hearing is actually better than you think.

From now on, I shall refer to you both as Bitch and Bastard.

Wanting to cry (but I rarely show my emotions at work),
chauie
'Oh, They want me to fall (fall). Fall from the top (top). They want me to drop (drop). They want me to stop (stop). They want me to go (go). I'm already gone (already)' - Already Home, Jay-Z ftg Kid Cudi