One more edit on the "Quintuplapus part 1" and it will be ready for print. The chance that the same printer, with the amazing deal, will still want anything to do with me is slim to none. Hopefully with some effort I will be able to find one with competitive prices. I am very excited to have it out on the market and I am hopeful that it will catch on.
I have managed to find a job about a month and a half ago working for a gentleman on a web site entitled "Life does Suck!" It is a social networking site with the intentions to find solutions to problems with the world utilizing message boards as the medium. For instance one person states a problem and there "world partners" help them find the solution. Hopefully this site will go on to help many people as well as generate some finances to make its creation and overhead free.
I have also gone about purchasing some server space and the domain name GigaMegaUltra. There I will host this page as well as a php page where people can embed videos flash games stories and images. Once the PHP templet works and the mySQL data base is up it will be updated everyday by a small group of individuals and it will practically run itself.
The Quintuplapus is presently being edited by Cara Marchiese, Matt Cappetta, and maybe John Barrington. Once when they finish, my sister and myself will go over it once more and add the final edits. Then after one million years and a day I can finally go back to Jim, who is probably pissed, and have it printed. Then we will have a book release party and it will be great. The book will cost eight dollars on the gray market and be available only from yours truly.
Hoang had the the idea to create a website to improve our economy. The idea goes as follows Instead of people going to the banks or credit card companies for money to borrow, American citizens could lend money to other American citizens. The money would be available for green companies and anyone who has a reasonable reason to borrow it. There would be very reasonable interest rates and the money lent may be tax deductible. I personally think its a great idea especially because we don't need to continue to let our money pass through the hands of soulless corporations who just want to assimilate as much money as possible. Fuck them!
Time ticks on and I still have no job. My personal web site is at a point where I am very happy with it, but no one else seems to care. I think what is that people don't realize is that I am an actual designer, not just someone who follows the trends of what is on the internet. Art for arts sake has always been a thing for me, and I have been in the game for a long time. Unfortunately I am loosing. What the fuck is the point of spending $30,000 on a class to learn something if It will never get me a job.
The Quintuplapus is in its final digital form and I actually have a meeting with Jim Hughes, a a printer for Archer Printers in Waltham, on Wednesday. I have faced many problems getting it to this point most recently with the color adjustments, image resize, and cross platform continuity. Hopefully the present PDF that I have will work and everything will just go as planed, for once. The sales of this book will in no way replace my need for a job. I am so screwed.
The PressPass Tv assignment fell apart due to the lack of creative design freedom and the two weeks behind schedule we found ourselves thanks to PressPasses half not signing off on the proposal. Oh well the fish I have to fry are bigger and I have never been much one for working for free.
I am seriously trying to learn action script so that I can create a game involving fast key pushing and power up planning. I am a gamer and the capability to create them myself is very intriguing so keep your eyes up for that.
It is now official as of yesterday I am officially a web designer and have the piece of paper to prove it. Congratulations to all of the other CDIA graduates and good luck with your endeavors.
I have designed and am now coding the Quintuplapus web site. It should be online soon there you will be able to read an excerpt from the book and purchase a first edition copy. So do it.
If anyone knows of any job positions please contact me at my email address at chrisantreasian@gmail.com. I am poor and getting poorer and even though I have applied to around 50 positions I haven't gotten one reply it is very discouraging.
The final verdict on the practicum assignment is a redesign of a children's news web site called presspass tv. They are looking for there design to be of a cityscape where each building is a different link to aspects of there content. There current web site is a terribly boring and poorly designed site made in some templet program. If you are interested you can see it here atPressPassTv.org. My team consists of my classmates Lauren Karen and Dan and by the time that we are done with this site it will be something else.
Tomorrow I will call the printer then the Quintuplapus will live. Most likley for $8.75, save up your pennies kids.
Happy New Years and hopefully it will be one. A new president is in the works and maybe the United States of America will be a democracy again. In any case at lease George Bush isn't in charge anymore and that is a very good thing. Although I didn't vote this year, I do have to wish Obama luck in fixing the problems that Bush created.
Unfortunately the children's cancer book web site has been canceled due to there corporate environments slow response in content material. However my team and myself have been given a new site to work on that will help genuinely impoverished families.
I have finished my research on printers and I have found the least expensive one that I have researched. However for 250 copies of the Quintuplapus it is still well over a grand so I might cut back the first production run to 100 copies. In any case it should be for sale in less than a month.
The Quintuplapus part 1 has been copywriten and an isbn number has been registered. All that is left is to research printers and find the right one so that I can finally produce this first part of the series.
I am still continuing to work on the complete overhaul of the Chris Antreasian web site. Hopefully this update will add some snaz and originality to my site to give a better example of what I can do using HTML CSS and JavaScript.
Upon finishing my 18 month web design program myself and my class had been given the opportunity to take part in a practicum. Which is basically a freelance internship. The job I was offered was one that I think is pretty important. It is a site to help children with cancer so that they know that people are working for them and that they are not alone.