It's Finally Here!

GRADUATION DAY!

We're finally through our almost 4 month intensive Multimedia and Design course and if you've been following my posts, you'll know it hasn't always been pretty.  We present our final portfolio to our classmates today and even though I have some "web" bugs (which they really haven't taught us how to fix!) my site is up on jibedesigns.com.  But due to my bugs, if you're not up-to-date in firefox 4, my portfolio page will look like ka-ka. Who knows what the damage will be if you're on IE! I'll fix it next week.

After I get over my hangover from tonight!

love you guys.

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It's Canucks Mania in Vancouver

Even though the play-off games are really stressful, this city has gone crazy.

It's like the Olympics all over again and that was a pretty cool experience.

I, like many others, are not die-hard season's fan watchers...but last night for game 7, the streets all over were bare. All Vancouver was watching the game! And even though I admit, I went to purposely brush my teeth instead of watching the overtime (I'm a wuss to this kind of stress), the shouts and cheers of the entire city were probably heard in Chicago! We Vancouverites are extremely happy today, last night, and will be wearing our unwashed sweaters for a few more weeks!

Game on!

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sailing update

The inaugural 2011/12 America’s Cup World Series begins this summer with three regattas to be staged in Cascais, Portugal ( August 6 -14), Plymouth, England,(September 10-18) and in San Diego. (sometime in November-December). A further series is planned for 2012/13, before the Louis Vuitton Cup for all the Challengers in San Francisco in September 2013, followed by the 34th America’s Cup match itself. Racing begins in new AC45 catamarans, (those fabulous boats I talked about in a previous blog) which are then replaced by giant 72 foot wing sailed ‘monsters’, potentially  capable of over 40 knots speed, competing in a combination of both fleet and match racing. 

It's going to be really great!  Anyone interested in heading to any of the hosting countries? Maybe I can get a design contract there? It's time to start jumping aboard.

As for school - still going - working on an internship at the moment creating a client's website - haven't even completed mine yet.  Well, technically I have but I'm not totally happy with it and that's why my website "jibedesigns" is still under construction! I'm on it! I'm also currently working on a movie in Final Cut - interesting stuff.

I've decided to head down to Florida for the summer to do a little sailing (on the 75ft schooner pictured here), some crewing, maybe some racing on Grand Nellie docked in St. Petersburg, Florida. Also going to do some design work for a worthy cause: teaching sailing to kids for self esteem. check out their website: http://sailvation.org/

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Made it through the weekend!

Not much time off for good behaviour, but when are week-ends relaxing when you're a University student! Can't believe I'm saying that at this state of my life but i'm lucky to be learning and experiencing the student lifestyle.
I think Saturday was the longest day of my life though.  I was in zombie land which I'm sure my classmate Lenny would approve. It was due or die for our photoshop assignment so with my cluttered mind I pulled together a "cluttered" photo.

Take a look if you have some time.

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Day Seven: I did it!

As I sit here, drinking green water in honor of St. Paty's day, I'm reflecting on the greeness of the day and how I almost missed it! First clue: the people getting on the bus with green hats and other parafanaellia. (is there a spellcheck function on this site?). Noticing my black attire, I quickly remied the situation by purchasing a green sticker.

Happy St. Paty's day everyone! May the irish be with you.

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Day Six: Rain, rain, go away........

Social Media classes are over and our project assignment has been moved to next week! God bless Tristan Jutras! Not only did he bring donuts, but he's our new big khahuna! 

I spend most of the afternoon doing a j-query for my website and %^#& it doesn't quite work. When I'm outta the course, I think I'm just going to design and let the techies figure out how to get it up. (am I allowed to say(do) that?)!
I made my typical stir-fry for dinner (still wish I had a chief cook and bottle-washer around here) besides me... and now I'm back to fixing whatever it was I did wrong with the j-query:O)
Wish me luck.
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Day Five: I'm a little scared

The hardest part of designing my website is the start.  It's taken me like 4 hours and this is what I've come up with .....simple and it's got to be done by Friday!So much work to do.
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