Christmas morning wasn’t the usual grey, cold affair this year so there were plenty of brave souls out for the traditional Christmas swim at the 40 foot in Dun Laoghaire. I spotted this group as we were heading down to the seafront…I’m sure it sounded like a great idea in the pub on Christmas Eve.
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Here’s the finished Photoshop version of my elf Christmas card design. I’m toying with trying another version in Illustrator as I think it might be better…we’ll see if I get the time.
This is the sketch for my Christmas card design this year.
It’s been bitterly cold here in Ireland of late but it makes for some beautiful sunsets.
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Eve’s favourite ad right now (which sure beats the Onedirect home insurance ad which was a previous favourite) is the Sony Bravia ad with all the coloured balls raining down on San Francisco. When it comes on she stops whatever she was doing, gets as close to the screen as possible and points at it saying “Oh Woooow!”
This is from their site:
“In an age when CGI is commonplace, this makes the commercial all the more extraordinary. Every single frame was shot over two days – with the main sequence involving a 23-man camera crew and only one chance to get it right.
An entire block was closed off and special compressed-air cannons shot the balls into the air, while earth moving equipment poured thousands down the street. Not that you’d know it from the finished product, but these balls can do some damage, so all the cars were props and crew members went so far as to having protective shields and crash helmets.
But when you get it right, you get it right. The goal at the beginning was to deliver a “really simple, visual celebration of colour”. We think you’ll agree the results speak for themselves.”
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