Major Havelock overlooks Trafalgar Square beneath the summer sun
I began an entry this time last week. I had just been to see Flow, a fantastic visual asset management tool from Canadian firm Gridiron. To summarise, it creates flowcharts of all the assets in your projects, enabling you to track all your changes and versions, both within the assets themselves (e.g. it will track all the different layers of your Photoshop documents) all the way through to your final projects: still images, illustrations, Word documents, After Effects, the works. It really is worth having a look at from the Gridiron website itself.
The entry would have discussed the wonder of London in the sweltering heat, especially that sense of ‘something always going on in this town’. I was in the West End and sat beneath the noonday sun tap-tapping away on my laptop on the edge of Trafalgar Square while audio technicians were sound checking for an upcoming open air screening of La Traviata.
I sat there whapping and clattering with my giant fingers on my tiny keyboard, working up a sweat and realising that I could neither see my screen nor bear the relentless cosmic rays of our dear life-giving star, 93 million miles away, but feeling like it was merely a couple of yards from the top of my head. Then I became paranoid that I was actually just cooking my computer, all for the sake of appearing modern. I got home, and the laptop’s battery went doolally, running out of juice instantly.
All’s well now. We’ve got cloud cover, I’ve been recommending Flow like a crazy person and laptop’s back to its best. So, I’m gradually adding bits of portfolio to the Pages section here at Mawgadawg, so you’ll have a chance to see just what it is I do.
Time to do work.
Enjoy.