So, Amazon is sending me 16 gallons of Elmer's glue in the next week or two, I'm continually purchasing cornstarch, and a little borax goes a long ways. The goo that everyone has come to love has a certain consistency that I can't seem to recreate. I did five tests today with different ratios of glue to cornstarch to borax to water, and only two came close to the original. This is, of course, funny because the original was a conglomerate of loosely measured batches mixed together and left to ferment for about a month. This makes me wonder if just going with the flow and mixing batch after batch, adjusting the thickness depending on the whole's consistency might be the best way to go.
Also, I've been looking into making/getting a new website (that's right, old website that I am writing on, your time is coming!). My fiancée has been teaching me some basic HTML 4 and CSS, but John has told us all that, unless we want to show our web developing skills, there's no reason to make our own websites. Therefore, I'll probably find a portfolio site that I agree with and choose that one. Examples include Cargo, Coroflot, Behance, etc. I have noticed, looking back at all of the work I've done during my undergrad, I only like three of my projects for the portfolio, and only one was made in the School of Art and Design. Times may be changing, but the curriculum I studied under was not at all focused on craft, and as such, my portfolio is extremely underdeveloped. My current work will hopefully turn out well enough to be in my portfolio, and that is of course up to me and my work ethic, not to mention Prototyping class focuses exclusively on craft, but only time will tell. I've got to stop going for ambition and instead focus more on quality. If we have a graph with a y-axis that is quality, and an x-axis that is ambition, the area under the line plotted on the graph between the two always has the same area: time. You can try to be super ambitious, but that will end with poor quality. This school focuses so much on raising the ambition, the ideas, that the quality often falls by the wayside. Anyway, rant over, back to work.
Also, I've been looking into making/getting a new website (that's right, old website that I am writing on, your time is coming!). My fiancée has been teaching me some basic HTML 4 and CSS, but John has told us all that, unless we want to show our web developing skills, there's no reason to make our own websites. Therefore, I'll probably find a portfolio site that I agree with and choose that one. Examples include Cargo, Coroflot, Behance, etc. I have noticed, looking back at all of the work I've done during my undergrad, I only like three of my projects for the portfolio, and only one was made in the School of Art and Design. Times may be changing, but the curriculum I studied under was not at all focused on craft, and as such, my portfolio is extremely underdeveloped. My current work will hopefully turn out well enough to be in my portfolio, and that is of course up to me and my work ethic, not to mention Prototyping class focuses exclusively on craft, but only time will tell. I've got to stop going for ambition and instead focus more on quality. If we have a graph with a y-axis that is quality, and an x-axis that is ambition, the area under the line plotted on the graph between the two always has the same area: time. You can try to be super ambitious, but that will end with poor quality. This school focuses so much on raising the ambition, the ideas, that the quality often falls by the wayside. Anyway, rant over, back to work.