FenixPhyre

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted anything, and yes I know I say that every time I make an entry.
Even though posting here was initially part of a class assignment, I see no reason why I should stop.
So here's what's new with me.

I've got a potential graphics job for this summer, which is very awesome. The job requires me to create 52 logos for hockey teams for one of Quebec's largest adult hockey leagues. The client works in marketing, so the team names and everything are ready to be printed on the jerseys, the only thing that's missing is the actual team logos, which is where I come in. He's given me a couple of examples of names and I've sketched out some rough ideas so far and we're scheduling a time when we can meet up. However, there is one problem. All of my Adobe programs have stopped working on me and I can't get them working again. Perfect timing, I know... So I'm either going to fix it somehow or I'm going to have to re-download it.

On a different note, in about 2 and a half weeks from now a couple of friends and I are heading out and going camping over 4 days. I can't wait, I havn't been camping in such a long time!

That's it for now, I'll keep updating every now and then.
Oh yea, and as of this moment, there's 70 days and 16 hours until I turn 19 =P

Hello all, I'm going to cut passed any sort of long introduction and get right to the point.
Tonight (technically last night at this point), a bunch of friends and I went to Clydes, which (I admit) was my first time there. I live in St Lazare and don't have a car of my own, so I don't get out much =P
Anyways, one of my best friends' (Alyssa) boyfriend Christian was playing in one of the bands there, he's a pretty amazing drummer I must say.
We all had a good time. Great music and drinks with awesome friends is definatly something not to be missed.
Oh and this was the first time my girlfriend (since Wednesday) Lori and I have gotten to go out and have a good time instead of just hanging out at each others houses. I've actually liked her for the longest time, but beforehand she wasn't ready for a relationship.

So that's pretty much it for now. I've got to finish up some projects tomorrow, Monday there's that test in Susan's class and Larry's project to hand in. Tuesday I don't have any actual class since it's a Friday schedule, but I'll be going to school anyways because it's Springfest =D.

Okay wow, it's been a long time since I've posted something, so here we are.
A couple of updates of general things...

Well, it's almost the end of semester, I myself only have 9 days of school left, and so does most of PDHT considering most of us have fridays off. Also, this week we were able to choose our schedules for next semester, I went with 3B. Oh and as long as I get decent gen eds to fill in the spaces somewhere monday-thursday, I'll have fridays off for the 3rd semester in a row =D I am loving these 4 day weeks, that extra day off helps so much.

For this summer I've got 2 potential graphic designing jobs lined up and I'm currently waiting on an answer from both, hope it goes well =)

Tomorrow (technically today), I'm heading out to Vanier once again to see some friends. I barely get to see them so it's always fun. Although I do have to get up at 5:30am o.O , it's well worth it.

And finally (and completely unrelated to what was said above),  there's a new PC game coming out possibly some time before x-mas '09 called League of Legends. The game is very similar in style to DotA as it is actually being made my the makers of DotA, but now instead of making a custom game through another game's map editor, they're making a completely seperate game all on its own.
www.leagueoflegends.com/index.php <--- Here's a link to the website.
Every now and then they add for more information about the game and so far it looks very interesting, so I'll probably end up getting it.

Well, that's it for now, night all

J

Hey all once again,
This is just a quick post letting everyone know that the new metroid metal song (which was previously only available for sponsors) is now available to the public.
www.metroidmetal.com/songs.html
Just scroll down the page a little until you're in the Metroid Prime section, the song is called Downed Frigate.
As well as this remix, there's the original version there available to compare.
In the game Metroid Prime, you hear this song whilst making your way through a space frigate which had crashed onto the planet below and had been almost entirely filled with water.
Anyways, thats it for now. I'm out for tonight,

J

Hello all once again,
I'm just writing up a quick post about this website I found that has a whole bunch of remixes of video game music.
www.ocremix.org/ is the site. They have a whole bunch of remixes of Metroid music as well, which I'm very happy about.
Oh yes and speaking of Metroid music,
Over at www.metroidmetal.com/ , the guy known as Stemage has a new metroid metal song coming out. Currently it's only out for sponsors, but it should be out for the public shortly.
Thats it for now,

J

Ok, so I've told a couple of people, but I'm making an "official" announcement here. I've decided to start designing my own t-shirts. Cafepress seems to be the best place to start selling them so far, so I'll probably "set up shop" there.
I've got a couple of ideas already, so hopefully I can get some time to work on them.
Once I finally do have a couple of designs ready I'll sign up on cafepress and I'll post a link here.
I'm off for now
seeya

J

Hello to all,
This is just a random post about what I'm doing today, there is no real specific point to it.
Ok yea so today I decided to go to Vanier for the day. The reason? I had nothing else to do and a bunch of my friends I went to high school with are here so I came in to visit them. At this very moment I'm sitting in the Rotunda on one of the benches waiting for my friends to get out of the one class that they did in fact have today. I'm basically just writing out of boredom waiting for them. I was working on some Javascript earlier but then stopped because I couldn't concentrate and it just seemed like jibberish at the time.
Anyways my laptop battery is almost dead an theres no plug in sight, so I must be off.
Seeya

J

Hey everyone!
Okay, so I'll get right to the point. As on assignment for one of my classes I had to do something I've never done before and the write up a blog post about it, so here it is.
On Thursday February 19th after school Kevin, Andrew, two other friends Kelvin and Alex, and planned to have an epic night of epic awesomeness, and that we did. After leaving school we went to a small shop in St Lazare called Sausages & Beer. We got there at about 6:05 and unfortunately they closed at 6 so we went to the IGA just down the street and picked up our supplies for the night. Our party made theyre way through the many isles of the IGA looking for the essential items of sustainance we needed. We picked up bacon, sausages, hash browns, pancake mix, chocolate chips, eggs, milk and beer. That's right, we were having breakfast and booze for supper. Of course, I picked up my favourite beer, Harp. On our way to the checkout, we saw that Anita was at one of the cashs, so we went to that one. Afterwards we went over to Alex's house and started cooking. Andrew handled the eggs, Kelvin did bacon & sausage, Kevin helped with a litle of everything, I made the pancakes and Alex didn't do anything because he doesnt know how to cook XD. Ok, then once we were done cooking it all we cracked open a couple beers and ate.
Oh, but it was not over yet. We finished off the last of the food and headed down to alex's basement where we opened up our laptops and commenced playing DotA (if you dont know what this is, you can read up on it in one of my earlier posts). So it went from breakfast and booze to DotA and booze XD. We played that for a couple hours, trying different game modes and team combinations and such and eventually we went home. Thus ending our crazy amazing epic night of pwntastic awesomeness =D.
www.facebook.com/album.php <---- here is a link to some pictures taken with Andrew's camera.
Alright, so I'll see you all around

J

Hey all,
Ok yeah so here's what's new with me. First off, for one of our assignments we have to try something new; as in, do something we've never done before. I've got a pretty good idea of what that thing will be. In fact, it's going to be somewhat of a group thing in which Kevin, Andrew and I go somewhere to do this said "new thing". Of course, I can't say what it is now, for it'll ruin the whole point of writing a blog post about it after, so you'll just have to wait.
Second of all, a new Red vs Blue mini series started last week (I forgot to post about it then). I am so unbelievably happy because I love RvB so much and it's been a while since new episodes have been out. So yes for those who are interested:
Episode 1 rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/
Episode 2 rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/
And for those who have no idea what Red vs Blue is, feel free to ask, I'll explain its awesomeness =D
Seeya for now

J

Hey all,
just making a quick post to let you all know, I've submitted mine and Kevin's Flasg greeting card from last semester on deviantart.
You can check it out here metroidmaster01.deviantart.com/art/Kridley-the-Miniboss-Offspring-112715748.
Alright, I'm off to bed
Seeya around

J

So recently, there's something I've been wanting to try out. I want to listen to a song, and whilst listening to said song, I draw what ever the song makes me think of. As I just said, I've been wanting to do it for a while, but for about 2 months now I've had artists block and it's really annoying me. However, as soon as the block goes away I'm taking the opportunity to draw.

J

Yes, that's right, I'm making a post about DotA. For those of you who don't know, DotA (Defense of the Ancients) is a very popular custom game for Warcraft 3. It's gone through many versions and updates, making the game as balanced as possible. Here's the basic rundown of the game:
The map is square, in the lower left corner is the "good" base and in the upper right corner is the "evil" base. There are 3 "lanes" that can be used to get around, one that goes through the middle, one that goesalong the left/top edge and one that goes along the bottom/right edge. Along these lanes there are several towers, 2 good and 2 evil in each lane. In each base, at the entrance to each lane, about every minute or so, a group of creeps spawn (a couple of melee and ranged units and occationally a siege unit), these are AI controlled.
Then, at the beginning of each game, the human players choose a hero. This hero is who you play as for the game. Each hero has their own set of attributes and abilties that can decide the game depending on which heroes are chosen by the other players. As you defeat the enemy creeps, you gain gold and experience and level up and become more powerful. With your gold, you can buy items to yet again gain more power.
So, once you're strong enough, you can go and try defeating the enemy heroes and destroying the enemy base. Once their base is destroying, your team wins the game. Oh, and when a hero dies, he isn't gone forever, he eventually respawns in the back of his respected base.

Now, onto my hero preferences. Out of the 90 something heroes to choose from, I only like 3 of them, and here they are.
Drow Ranger
She's a ranged and agility based, so in end-game she does a lot of damage very very quickly.
Her abilities are Frost Arrows, Silence, Trueshot Aura and Marksmanship.
Frost Arrows are amazing, they slow down the attack and movement speed of your target, so they're really easy to chase down and defeat.

Dwarven Sniper
This guy is also ranged, but his ranged attack has significantly more distance than any other ranged hero.
His abilities are Scattershot, Take Aim, Headshot and Assassinate.
Take Aim increasing his attack range, Headshot give a chance to do bonus damage and stun the target, Scattershot does damage in an area and Assassinate does heavy damage and a gigantic range.

Rogue Knight
He's a melee, strength-based hero who later on becomes a heavy tank.
His abilities are Stormbolt, Cleave, Toughness Aura and God's Strength.
Stombolt does weak damage and stuns the target, Cleave does a certain percentage of his normal attack to unit close to his target, Toughness Aura passivly increases his armour and God's Strength increases his damage output by 150% for 25 seconds.


Yes, so that's the basic overview of DotA. Hopefully I explained it well enough, if not I can show you in person =P. Oh, and my reason for writing this? I'm bored and stumped on logo ideas, so this was the creation of my being-stumped-ness.

So I just got home from a party at a friends house. It was actually a really good idea, everyone had to wear their pajamas instead of normal clothes. It felt as though everyone was more relaxed and carefree while doing so, so I think it would be a good idea for other people to try. Unfortunately I didn't wear my normal pajamas seeing as when I sleep all I wear is shorts, so I had to go digging around for some XD. In the end I found some so I was in the clear.
Ummm yea thats pretty much it for now, so seeya around

J

Aight, so as the title suggests, its snowing. Not just a little, but a good 20+ cm so far. Getting home tonight was real a pain. On a normal day, its about a 20 minute drive; on the highway about 95% of the way. Tonight it took pretty close to an hour to get home. Then when I got home, I had to shovel my driveway so my parents could get in when they got home. Sure the snow is a pain, but it wasn't a total loss. My last class today, French Publication was cut to about 10 minutes long. Our teacher was like "There's a snow storm and I'm still not feeling well, so I'll just give you your work for next class and then I'm leaving". All you on-islanders, with your snow plows and populated areas. You should all come live out here in st-lazare for a week XD.

Tomorrow should be pretty good though. In my english class we're supposed to be going outside for something (the class is all about how we are connected with nature). Then I have Newsletter Design, which is an alright class. Flash II follows that, which is awesome, love Flash and animating. And finally I have Martial Arts, which we're actually going to be doing stuff this class. I'm not exactly sure what style we're learning, but I know that it's a defensive type, possibly Shotokan (like Sub-Zero XD).
Yea, thats all I got for now, so seeya

J

Alrighty, so back to school are we. Everyone in our class, Copywriting & Promo Materials had to all create an account here on Live Journal, so here we are. All of my classes sound like they're going to be realy awesome, especially Macromedia II because we get to make flash games! =D. Oh, and just throwing it out there, FenixPhyre is the name of my "design company". I made a quick version of the logo to use as my display pic, but I'm going to refine it and hopefully make some business cards pretty soon.
Alright, I'm out, seeya guys around
-J

 Today marks the first day that I exist on Live Journal. I suggest we should party XD.
Oh, and in case your wondering, my name is pronounced like Phoenix Fire.