23.11.2012
Slogan of the day: Pixel Art
- Yesterday I sent my super-trooper design to my boss, and
now get the feedback. Not the one I was expecting - no enthusiasm or exaltation
- but I'm not the one who will complain of the lack of appreciation. Anyway,
some of his critics hit in the vulnerable spots: the overall look of my
yesterday variant was a little busy and the color scheme was a little out of
nowhere and disoriented. So today i played with different colors, font sizes
and styles, etc. I also started the second page, but due to my inattention some
of the results were lost and I was not able to finish it before the end of the
day. That would be a matter of concern if my boss was paying some attention to
my progress. But he wasn't - so I took myself easy and polished fist page design
as well as I could, to the point where I zoomed to it on a maximum and hunted
all unnecessary pixels I could find. Pixel Art is a very interesting practice, I
must say. There is a sort of feeling like you are solving some mathematical theorem
or constructing a building from square standartisized blocks. The feel of
completeness, integrity and wholeness - like completing a line of blocks in
Tetris - overcomes me every time I make a line of color look smooth by adding
or erasing some little pixels to it.
- My Indian colleague asked me on Skype, why
Christmas is in Jan for us, when the rest of the world celebrates it on 25th
Dec? I was very touched by this question, because it offered me an opportunity to
share some knowledge of my cultural tradition with a person of the entirely
different ethnic region, sharing different point of view. I explained her, that
it is because some of the countries that belong to the eastern orthodox
Christian tradition (Russia, Ukraine, Bielarus, Georgia, Macedonia, Montenegro,
Serbia, etc. are amongst them) Christmas is marked by the old Julian calendar,
and December 25 on the Julian calendar corresponds to January 7 on the internationally
used Gregorian calendar. Conversing with her was really enjoyable.
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