316 - Stepping Stones

Day 316. Ok, I'm cheating a little here as I didn't actually create this film. But my daughter Kate stars in it, so I'm going to claim some sort of DNA level connection to the creativity. The film was actually made by two of her friends Elise Harman and Emma Elliott, and Kate and her friend Lucas starred in the main roles. Enjoy!

212 - Wish Upon A Star

Day 212. I'm in Los Angeles at the moment and tonight I decided to visit Hollywood. It's glitzy and tacky but kind of fun. I checked out the famous movie star names along the sidewalk, and took a peek at the hand and foot prints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. I think it pretty much reinforced the notion that Hollywood is really not my thing, but it was interesting nonetheless.

As I was looking at all the stars for the celebrities that litter the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard, I imagined seeing my own daughter's name there one day. Kate is studying acting at WAAPA and has serious aspirations or being an actor at the highest level. So to help with the visualisation process I removed the name* from one of the stars and added hers instead.

One day Katie!

*Shh, don't tell Russell Crowe.

134 - Telling a WAAPA

Day 134. Tonight I did a webinar for Adobe on some tips for using InDesign. In this session I started with a blank document and just made something up on the fly, showing and telling my thought processes as I worked through the creation of an InDesign document. I used my daughter Kate as the subject and created a flyer about some of her acting experience.

I was originally drawn into computers via desktop publishing and I really enjoy messing about with page layout. With the web as my main platform these days I don't do it much any more (and am quite out of touch with it really!) so it was nice to just mess about in InDesign.