J W Grants and My Google Presence
OK, today I submitted 3 ads to Grants for approval, my favourite probably being this:
Since then I have been indulging myself by finding out how I do in terms of search engine placement.
You should read this, it’s very interesting:
For ‘Glasgow Graphic Design’, I come 262nd in Google and 61st in Yahoo
For ‘Glasgow Illustration’, I come 11th in Google (yass) and 186th in Yahoo
For ‘Jonathan Stevens Graphic Design’ my existence in the Good Academy appeared 56th in Google and Antimatter Design did not appear at all.
In Yahoo, the same search engine entry meant Antimatter came 1st, Good Academy came 2nd and Direct Media came 7th.
For ‘Jonathan Stevens Graphic Designer’ Good Academy came 54th in Google and i did not chart anywhere else.
In Yahoo, Direct Media came 1st, Good Academy came 4th and Antimatter did not appear in the top 300.
Now, how will I act on these revelations?
Antimatter’s Most Shocking Work Yet!
Just completed my most shocking campaign yet:
OK, well maybe shocking isn’t the word. But I did get overcome by an overwhelming sense of ‘why not’.
I’ll see what the client thinks of it.
Direct Media New Start Flyers
New start flyers for Direct Media have been printed. We’ll be handing them out at the New Start Scotland expo selling Direct Media as the one stop promotional shop for any branding, artwork, advertising and media booking needs. If you’re starting a new business come along and get one of these rather nice flyers:
Just a thought…
…but imagine Peter Chung, who did this:
and who did the storyboards for the original transformers movie…
…made a Sequel to the original Transformers movie.
Now THAT would be an appropriate way to redo a movie. None of yer Spielberg guff.
Just putting that idea out there, don’t know if anything’ll come of it, but I’ll tag this post ‘Peter Chung’ and maybe it’ll do OK in Google, and maybe Peter Chung will be searching the internet for his own name, and maybe YOU are Peter Chung having done that.
So, what do you think Peter Chung, you up for it? Let’s take on Spielberg.
A link back to my website
Imagine coming to this blog from my website, but finding yourself unable to get back to the site as there are no links to the site easily accessible.
You’d have to press the back button wouldn’t you?
Either that or you’d have to type www.antimatterdesign.co.uk into the address bar to get back to the site – what a design flaw (remember graphic design and web design are completely different skills)
Or, maybe you hear me blethering on about this site I have on this blog, but you have never gone, because maybe you don’t know that it’s antimatterdesign.co.uk or you can’t be bothered typing that into your address bar.
Well, here’s the solution – a link to the site:
The Inland Revenue aren’t so bad
Brilliant – the Inland Revenue are going to give me a lump sum of money, so I’m gonna buy a new camera!
I shall tell you all about the new camera in just under two weeks!
Keep dem eyes peeled for that.
Is Nothing Sacred?
And there was me thinking ‘oh dear, I have a blog, but as I spend so much time doing work, I have nothing to talk about apart from work, which I suppose is fair enough as this is technically a Graphic Design blog.’
But today I have found my muse. I have found inspiration. The words are coming to me like the hordes of hell in an onsalught of fury that I canm no longer hold in. The reason? Hollywood movies.
Stephen Spielberg is remaking Ghost in the Shell, according to this credible looking source:
And, yes, I also saw that they are remaking Akira, setting it in ‘New Manhattan’ and getting Leonardo DiCaprio to star in it. Disgusting.
Ghost in the Shell and Akira are two things I love. And the owners of these stories have just sold the rights, probably for a ridiculous amount of money and put them in the hands of Stephen Bloody Spielberg.
Imagine, if you will, having a beautiful girlfriend, who gets pimped out by her father and watching her go as she is sent off into the waiting arms of some old greasy millionaire who looks at the world in nothng but investment terms. Terrible analogy? Perhaps. The point is, I’m heartbroken and very very disappointed.
Why do I distrust Spielberg? I mean, sure, he did make Indiana Jones, but more recently, and frankly more significantly, he was responsible for the production of Transformers the Movie, probably the most dispicable misrepresentation of a story I’ve ever seen.
The original Transformers movie is officially my favourite movie of all time. Here’s why:
When I heard there was going to be a live action movie I was very pleased. I thought ‘yes, properly high quality sfx used to make giant transforming robots punch each other in the face’. I thought the story may not quite be perfect, but that in itself was enough to make me think the movie would be worth watching.
But no. Instead an awesome story of the battle between good and evil, intergalactic travel, planet eating robots, revenge, resilience, adventure and robots punching each other in the face gets mutated into an all Amercan eBay advert and pointless high school love story.
Here are a few things I hate about Spielberg’s Transformers movie:
1. Thinly veiled state propaganda: At the start of the film a US military base is being attacked, someone asks who could be doing this a big list comes out – China, Iran, Iraq – essentially reminding a viewer of the film – someone who’s just wanting to sit and eat popcorn and watch giant robots punch each other in the face- who their enemies are.
2. Don’t worry that doesn’t ruin the film. That’s the start, then it takes ages for the film to start. I mean ages. Speilberg’s influence is clear as he tries to tantalise the viewer with little glimpses of the robots but it was just unsatisfactory. Within the first ten minutes of the original movie half the main characters were dead or dying. Now that’s a bold introduction.
3. That wee guy. I hate him. I really hate him. [annoying american accent] ‘my mom’ll freak if she sees you out here!’ The guy makes me want to puke, and the fact that the autobots took such an interest in his love life was ridiculous.
4. The decepticons find the guy through his ebay account, and then all throughout the film it’s ‘ebay this, ebay that’. I use ebay occassionally, once again, I went to be sold toys, not websites.
5. And that stupid cube. Why? In the original they had ‘the matrix’, this glowing piece of ultra high technology that does all kinds of crazy things. You can cram your cube up your
6. Well basically anything that paints a picture of US soldiers as being like Superman I think is ludicrous.
These are just some of the things I hated about the Transformers movie. The point is that it was terrible. And they’re gonna do that to Ghost in the Shell.
They’re going to put this
in the hands of Spielberg. Don’t they see? They already took the story of Ghost in the Shell and warped it almost beyond recognition. It was called ‘The Matrix’.
So Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Transformers, that would be all my favourite animations, except Dragonball Z. At least that’s not going to be made into a stupid American High School movie.
Surely this is just a remake of the Karate Kid:
No, it’s not a remake of the karate kid. It’s Dragonball Z seemingly crossed with the Karate Kid. Two mighty things in their own right, like a polar bear and a tarantula, but a hybrid is always going to be an absolute mess of a creature.
Not that I think that Hollywood has no good ideas. Hollywood does occasionally come up with the odd very cool movie. But their track record for redoing ideas they did not come up with themselves is very poor and makes me unhappy.
Because I know that there is no way I am going to miss any of these movies. I just love computer generated explosions too much and I am going to be outraged and frustrated soooo much when I see them. Alas.
The Nastiest Fall Ever
This is well cool:
Nastiest Falling You’ve Ever Seen – video powered by Metacafe
Acceptance by the MPA!
The Metropolitan Police Authority, to be exact. They’ve approved an ad for Monday’s London Metro about race relations in the Metropolitan Police.
A hot topic, make your views heard.
To be honest, it was just a case of sticking the banner and text together, but that was a lot of text to cram into not much room. I also had to pick the font and where to put the heading.
Yup, It is a truly great piece of work.
