Graphicbandits: October 2007

Sunday, 28 October 2007

.I did not know that we also switch to the winter hour in England ( & in Austria too).

.Message for "Villfontaine" pupils :
here is a new web link : WEareONcloud9.blogspot.com, (it means we are on top of the world)(.....it means we are very happy)(It does not matter it is just our team name).
It is the record of my Interactive Design project researches , we created it at school for our last project to make the work in group easier. It is a interesting way to work in group.
(Cha is not in my group, she work on a print design project)

Tommorow : Shoot ! I have a lot of work

Saturday, 27 October 2007

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Max"
Sky of the day :

oct-27-2007

Max"
HHHHHHHHHHRRRRRrraaaa !
I had 7hours yesterday night and 5 today (the time when someone borrow me his computer) to prepare every pictures, videos, rewrite the texts, and put this #§%6*g blog on line..
All the pictures we recovered from my computer problem are here, the video too..
I am almost dead.. my hands hurts.
I did it ! ...Yes it is a personal achievement.. for once I worked fast.

Tomorrow : relax (it is wrong I have to work for the university)

oct-22to28

Max & Cha"
What you can buy with 10POUND (eaten in 3days)

city center

The famous Chinese family from the restaurant in front of the house..... still fighting against their rubish ! (like evfery 10 hours)(hehe)

Max loves pizza

Max was in a English bank the other day... it is funny they welcome you with 4 people behind 1computer... then one work and the 3 others watch.. strange.

video from the Nottingham streets

Tomorrow : putting the blog online !

oct-15to21

Max & Cha"
This morning Max got up and see the blue sky by the window, amazing !

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Max built a table with cardboard for the living room.

we watch rugby.. ;(

Crepes (pan cakes) for the meal with the Julia´s best friend coming from the Austria.

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Max received his new glasses !!!!

coffee time

One of our history of art lecture

Cha put make up to go out in a pub

Max is looking for a rowing club

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Here are the photos of the sky.. for % different days, it is impossible ! A real French weather !

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Tomorrow : Fed up with his computer problem Max decided to recreate texts and select pictures for the blog´s openning

oct-8to14

Max & Cha"
Max´s room... "haaa now I fell like it is my home" CLICK THE PICTURE

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Fed up with the English weather, bank account problem, etc.. good reason to relax with Cha.

The goose fair ! Once a year a huge event take place in Nottingham, not far from the house.
It is really really gigantic, easy to get lost.
we won teddy bears, yeaahh !
We saw (but not tryed) the typical English food... arrghhh !
We tried a amazing machine we do not have pictures.. but we have a picture of the consequence on Max´s body.

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Tomorrow : welcome week

oct-1to7_5

Max & Cha"
Erica´s birthday ..with their friend.
(click on the picture, the 5 first people are the flatmate (colloq [fr]))

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Tomorrow : is an other week

oct-1to7_4

Max & Cha"
"J" cook a big Chinese meal, with strange pastas very good, strange fish ball very good, it was... Chinese.

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Tomorrow : Erika birthday

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Max & Cha"
3rd day at school, first fire alarm test (just) in the design & art building.

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Tomorrow : Chinese meal

oct-1to7_2

Max & Cha"
Half of the group of the class... we are supposed to be 120 pupils per level in graphic design.

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Tomorrow : 3rd day school

oct-1to7_1

Max & Cha"
First day in university !
On the way to our first course.

First lecture, huge 16plasma screen just for a simple brief..
WAW the multimedia room, called the "MAC suite" : G5, 20´wide screen (we see the big half of the room on the picture)

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Tomorrow : another welcome lecture

sept-21to30_5

Max & Cha"
This park is one of the only quiet place of Nottingham, yes the city is very noisy, the second and only other quiet place is the Nottingham castle, but the video that max made this day were lost in a computer problem.

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The afternoon I tried to cook a English meet free ready meal... oh my goodness ! I did not finish my plate it was horror full. Beurk !

Tomorrow : is an other week

sept-21to30_4

Max & Cha"
First meal with our new flat mate.
Julia Austria, Erika Italia.

Our other flat mate is called "i" but we call him "J" hehe.. we learned later that it is written "yi". He comes from China.

Max practice drawing because we have plenty of free time

Max drawing in his zapbook
Cha drinking caffe as usual.

Tomorrow : Going to the park

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Max & Cha"
Nottingham is a city big as Lyon in France for the city center..
but much more bigger with Nottingham shire !
Here is the crowd in the pedestrian street.

4 strange things discovered this day.. no comment.

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Tomorrow : we meet our new flate mate

sept-21to30_2

Max & Cha"
Wouhou the welcome week...
It is supposed to be an amazing week, drunk every nights, but we went just to the first party : huge.

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Welcome day with speech music stage and everything like American university...hhh...why not. (we did not understand a word !)

Tomorrow : Visiting again the city

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Max & Cha"
Visiting the city of Nottingham, the street which were going to become our everyday living places.
Good weather near the house.

Center of old town near the rail station.

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City center 5min walk to the house.

The house

Tomorrow : welcome week

sept-20-2007

Max & Cha"
The first two or three weeks we were sleeping 15h per day with persistent head-aches!
I think it is because we were not used to the cold weather.