hi folks.
for various reasons –which i shall elaborate on, when you start back again– i've decided to switch the blogging software that we use from blogger to tumblr.
this blog will still remain on the intarwebs as an archive and i'm working on the best way of importing posts from here to the new PDP blog but, in the meantime, if your creative juices are flowing and you're working on a post, can you save it 'til next week and then we'll get it uploaded to the new PDP site.
also, this year we're expanding the PDP blog to include the FD graphic design & advertising and FD jewellery & applied arts courses as well. this should please some of you who've asked us in the past whether you'd be able to see what people on the other pathways are up to.
the new PDP will be at: http://mancol.tumblr.com
cheers!
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25 September 2010
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7 September 2010
completion of work
URGENT!
you should be aware –because we've told you often enough, in person and through emails– that you cannot pass the first year of your course, unless you have completed all the units.
the deadline for having all work handed in was monday last week, as you were all informed on at least two occasions by email. the absolute latest, down-to-the-wire final deadline ever ever is tomorrow [8th september], before 10am. we are having a meeting with the exam board at MMU later that day, where we pass them the list of names of who has or hasn't completed all units.
anyone who has not completed all units by 10am on 8th sept will FAIL the first year and not be allowed onto the 2nd year!
there is no way round this. it is not anything your tutors have any control over. at least three people we know of still have work outstanding. i will not embarrass anyone, by naming any names here, but if you are one of those three people. you MUST get your work in to us at the fielden park campus by tomorrow before 10am, or you will not be able to enrol for the 2nd year.
1 July 2010
half time!
well, folks. here we have the final league tables for the end of the year. but remember - it's a course of two halves. so there's plenty of time yet for those of you languishing in the relegation zone to drag yourselves to safety. the girl pemberton-platt done well and has opened up a healthy gap at the top, but it's a tough old game and there's a long way to go yet.
remember folks. it's a marathon [infographic] not a sprint.
remember folks. it's a marathon [infographic] not a sprint.
24 June 2010
hidden snaps
hi folks.
great night last night. the boys [and girls] done well. here's some snaps i took last night, just in case anyone's having difficulty remembering:
some more. hot off the presses, from helen's iphone:
great night last night. the boys [and girls] done well. here's some snaps i took last night, just in case anyone's having difficulty remembering:
some more. hot off the presses, from helen's iphone:
12 June 2010
10 June 2010
collecting your work
calling all first and second years!
2ND YEARS: can you all make an effort to come in and collect your work ASAP [ie. previous projects, sketchbooks etc. - obviously not the stuff you're using for your end of year shows]. as you know, we'll be moving house to fielden park campus during the summer, so any second year work left behind will most likely get binned.
1ST YEARS: we will strive to make sure any 1st year work left behind is taken to fielden with us. but you know how things tend to get lost when you move house. so, for your own piece of mind, it's probably best if you come in and collect it - just to be on the safe side.
cheers!
2ND YEARS: can you all make an effort to come in and collect your work ASAP [ie. previous projects, sketchbooks etc. - obviously not the stuff you're using for your end of year shows]. as you know, we'll be moving house to fielden park campus during the summer, so any second year work left behind will most likely get binned.
1ST YEARS: we will strive to make sure any 1st year work left behind is taken to fielden with us. but you know how things tend to get lost when you move house. so, for your own piece of mind, it's probably best if you come in and collect it - just to be on the safe side.
cheers!
8 June 2010
end of year shows
hi folks.
just to remind you; the second year's show are coming up pretty soon now. please go along if you can and give them a bit of support. remember, this time next year, it'll be you lot!
12 JUNE - "PUSH" @ the CONTACT THEATRE, OXFORD ROAD.
just to remind you; the second year's show are coming up pretty soon now. please go along if you can and give them a bit of support. remember, this time next year, it'll be you lot!
12 JUNE - "PUSH" @ the CONTACT THEATRE, OXFORD ROAD.
1 June 2010
league tables
OK - this is a bit belated, as i forgot to do a league table at the end of may. but hopefully with a bit of judicious editing of the post-date, i can shoehorn it neatly into place:
22 May 2010
one for the retro gamers
apparently it's the 30th anniversary of the release of the original pacman game. if you go to google's main page today, you'll see a playable version of pacman in place of their usual google banner:
18 May 2010
infographics revisited
i just stumbled across this on the intarwebs. a cross between an infographic and a stop-frame animation. i hate to think how long this took to make!
EDIT: i've just discovered there's a whole series of these animations. you can find them here. i love 'em!
EDIT: i've just discovered there's a whole series of these animations. you can find them here. i love 'em!
4 May 2010
la liga - otra vez
sara has threatened me with a UEFA enquiry, if i dinnae update the league table immediately to reflect the fact she wrote TWO reviews last month and not one. so here ya go:
3 May 2010
5 April 2010
easter lea-egg table
you want wit?... you want reparté?... you want riposte?... - well, you can bugger off! i'm only doing this while on my easter holidays, as i'm procrastinating furiously, rather than go outside in the freezing cold to work on my motor.
so you'll have to make up your own football clichés, this month.
so you'll have to make up your own football clichés, this month.
17 March 2010
happy st. pat's day
a bit belated i know, but i had to get work out of the way before i could indulge in important cultural activities.
if i'm groaning, clutching my head a lot - and appear grumpier than usual tomorrow, this is for ethnic reasons and must not be mocked!
if i'm groaning, clutching my head a lot - and appear grumpier than usual tomorrow, this is for ethnic reasons and must not be mocked!
8 March 2010
one for rob...
just came across these while perusing the nether regions of the intarwebs:
havenae checked the links themselves, as it isnae my cup of rosie lee - but they're from a usually reliable source.
1 March 2010
league table
as we hurtle ever faster towards the end of term, it's time for me to get out my abacus and work out the monthly league table standings again.
it looks like it's turning into a two horse race for the title, as kitty and rob have put a bit of clear blue water between themselves and karl, who's still leading the chasing pack.
complaints, protests and "i wrote six reviews last week. where are my points?" rants to the usual address, please:
it looks like it's turning into a two horse race for the title, as kitty and rob have put a bit of clear blue water between themselves and karl, who's still leading the chasing pack.
complaints, protests and "i wrote six reviews last week. where are my points?" rants to the usual address, please:
28 February 2010
re: presentations
hi folks.
i just thought i'd stick my tuppence-worth in here, as regards some comments robert made towards the end of his 'presentations' post:
i know that presentations can be a bit disheartening at times; you work on something for weeks until you think you've got it just right. then you present it to the class and it seems like everyone just queues up to knock it. trust me, we know what that feels like. dinnae forget that alex, griff and me have all been there too, when we were students. we've all suffered the joys of standing up at the front of the room, having our work ripped to shreds by our classmates and tutors.
[when you actually go out in the commercial world it's even worse - but that's another story!]
speaking with my tutor hat on; the problem for us is that we're constantly trying to think of ways we reckon your work could be improved. that disnae mean we think it's rubbish to begin with - far from it. i think we've said several times that we're very impressed with the standard of work that your year group is producing. but, since we've usually got a whole class's worth of presentations to get through in one session, that necessarily means that we've got to 'cut to the chase' and get directly to the point.
unfortunately that usually means that during most presentations you'll tend to hear more about what's wrong with your piece than what's right with it. that's just a sad fact of life. it has ever been thus and it ever will. [you should also bear in mind that human nature dictates that if someone makes half a dozen positive comments on something we've done and one or two negative ones, we'll tend to only remember the negatives].
all that said, i dinnae think we would ever say something like the "this is all wrong" or the "it should be like this" which robert quotes. we will certainly suggest things which could have been done differently and we'll point out parts which we think didnae work as well as other parts of a piece of work, but i really cannae remember ever saying something as downright negative as the above. this is art after all. there are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers.
and finally, remember it's the marks you get at the end which count. not a few throwaway comments made during a presentation. so chin up folks. get working hard on the infographics brief - and we can go through this all once more, at the next presentation.... when we tell you what a terrible mess you've made of it all again!
i just thought i'd stick my tuppence-worth in here, as regards some comments robert made towards the end of his 'presentations' post:
I did recieve one particular critique of my piece at one point, which for the most part I disagreed with, I felt that the points being made were invalid and showed a distinct lack of vision. The use of words such as "this is all wrong" and "it should be like this" made me feel demotivated and a bit insulted....that such a person could be that bound to the unwritten rules.
i know that presentations can be a bit disheartening at times; you work on something for weeks until you think you've got it just right. then you present it to the class and it seems like everyone just queues up to knock it. trust me, we know what that feels like. dinnae forget that alex, griff and me have all been there too, when we were students. we've all suffered the joys of standing up at the front of the room, having our work ripped to shreds by our classmates and tutors.
[when you actually go out in the commercial world it's even worse - but that's another story!]
speaking with my tutor hat on; the problem for us is that we're constantly trying to think of ways we reckon your work could be improved. that disnae mean we think it's rubbish to begin with - far from it. i think we've said several times that we're very impressed with the standard of work that your year group is producing. but, since we've usually got a whole class's worth of presentations to get through in one session, that necessarily means that we've got to 'cut to the chase' and get directly to the point.
unfortunately that usually means that during most presentations you'll tend to hear more about what's wrong with your piece than what's right with it. that's just a sad fact of life. it has ever been thus and it ever will. [you should also bear in mind that human nature dictates that if someone makes half a dozen positive comments on something we've done and one or two negative ones, we'll tend to only remember the negatives].
all that said, i dinnae think we would ever say something like the "this is all wrong" or the "it should be like this" which robert quotes. we will certainly suggest things which could have been done differently and we'll point out parts which we think didnae work as well as other parts of a piece of work, but i really cannae remember ever saying something as downright negative as the above. this is art after all. there are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers.
and finally, remember it's the marks you get at the end which count. not a few throwaway comments made during a presentation. so chin up folks. get working hard on the infographics brief - and we can go through this all once more, at the next presentation.... when we tell you what a terrible mess you've made of it all again!
25 February 2010
unit 04 - infographics
hi folks.
seeing as quite a few of you missed this afternoon's session [for various reasons], i thought i'd upload the brief here, so you can all get a chance to peruse it over the weekend. i'm sure you'd much rather be doing that than going out drinking, taking drugs and having fun.
unit04 - brief
also, here are links to the two playlists of example infographic animations we showed you - just in case you wanted to look at any of them again:
vimeo playlist
youtube playlist
anyone who missed the introduction of the new brief this avvy, make sure and have a chat to alex, dave or me before embarking on anything, so we can make sure you understand what's required of you.
seeing as quite a few of you missed this afternoon's session [for various reasons], i thought i'd upload the brief here, so you can all get a chance to peruse it over the weekend. i'm sure you'd much rather be doing that than going out drinking, taking drugs and having fun.
unit04 - brief
also, here are links to the two playlists of example infographic animations we showed you - just in case you wanted to look at any of them again:
vimeo playlist
youtube playlist
anyone who missed the introduction of the new brief this avvy, make sure and have a chat to alex, dave or me before embarking on anything, so we can make sure you understand what's required of you.
4 February 2010
league table
here we go again folks. it's that time again, when i upload the latest league standings.
interestingly, some of the second years who have applied to go onto the degree courses at MMU next year have been receiving letters, inviting them to submit a 'digital portfolio' in the form of a blog containing 10-12 examples of their work, plus around 300 words discussing the work, themselves and why they want to do the course they've applied for.
this is just for the right to earn yourself an interview. yes folks - you've all heard the news stories about how universities are turning people away in their thousands this year. well, they're true. you've got to put a lot of effort in just to get even to the interview stage, these days.
if, as looks likely, this is the wave of the future, then those of you who are in the habit of regularly recording their working processes digitally [like those lovely folks towards the top of this league table] are going to have plenty of ammunition to work with, come this time next year. those of you who have been slightly er... 'less prolific' should ask yourselves what you're going to do, if you suddenly find yourselves clutching a letter giving you 14 days notice to get a digital portfolio together.
just a friendly hint!
interestingly, some of the second years who have applied to go onto the degree courses at MMU next year have been receiving letters, inviting them to submit a 'digital portfolio' in the form of a blog containing 10-12 examples of their work, plus around 300 words discussing the work, themselves and why they want to do the course they've applied for.
this is just for the right to earn yourself an interview. yes folks - you've all heard the news stories about how universities are turning people away in their thousands this year. well, they're true. you've got to put a lot of effort in just to get even to the interview stage, these days.
if, as looks likely, this is the wave of the future, then those of you who are in the habit of regularly recording their working processes digitally [like those lovely folks towards the top of this league table] are going to have plenty of ammunition to work with, come this time next year. those of you who have been slightly er... 'less prolific' should ask yourselves what you're going to do, if you suddenly find yourselves clutching a letter giving you 14 days notice to get a digital portfolio together.
just a friendly hint!
31 January 2010
FCE
jimmy lee on the 2nd year has asked me to let you all know that he's selling a copy of final cut express for £35.
details and the end of this post of his.
details and the end of this post of his.
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