SteelSkin.net – The Ramblings of Chris Nutt

I’m my own worst client

20th June 2006 - Category: DeviantArt
I'm my own worst client.
Imagine you have a client, that doesn't know what they want, but wants something cool. They have surfed the net and like everything from minimalism to futurism to urban to retro, but all at once, and as the moment takes them. They can't decide, because the vision changes on a daily/hourly basis and it is so very very vague. I could rip my hair out! You know the worst thing? its ME!
I'm my own worst client.

You see usually with a client I rarely ever know exactly what they want, so my initial concepts are more range finding fire than final designs. I use them as test of how well I understand their needs and wants. One of the great things about clients is that you leave them at work and you can if you like complain about them in the pub.

Being your own client should be great, after all who else is going to like your design more? Wrong! I am perhaps to self critical, I like a lot of different, often contradictory, styles and I am procrastinator extraordinaries. The only way I seem to be able to win is if a manage some how to throw a dart in the feeling or aim I have and run with it.

Argh! I just needed to get that off my chest.

In other news:
ADSL Router broke, got a new one.
Leaky plumbing sorted, flood avoided :D

Oh bother*

5th June 2006 - Category: DeviantArt
So I installed Vista Beta at the weekend, it was nice but fairly slow and unimpressive. I decided to reinstall XP Pro unfortunately Vista or something crapped up my data drive with all my recent work. I have the flames I used so all is not lost and my main photos are backed up, but my final Photoshop files are gone. Well I can recover them, but vista added some random crap to the start files so they are no longer normal anymore.


*censored for sensitive ears

hint: If you need to get the code of the back of your case photograph it thats what I did.