Election images
It's easy to tell from all the, I have to say 'amateurish' looking, advertising hoardings popping up right, left and centre that election time is almost upon us. I don't know really whether the political adverts promoting some politician or other are meant to look so shoddy; it's possibly an image thing. Maybe they are trying to look folksy or something, but I reckon I could do a better job after messing about with photoshop for a couple of hours.
The most off-putting thing, apart from the second-rate aspect of the images, is the inevitable smiling, or pensive 'hey I'm a serious guy/girl' face of some party hopeful or other. The smiles are about as sincere as the 'enjoy your food' comment from the slave in a fast food joint, whereas the attempts to look intelligent just reinforce the fact that you have seen this person zillions of times over the last 100 years or so, which produces a reaction which may just about be registered on a machine which is able to record the disturbance caused by a hair dropping onto a concrete floor, at several hundered metres.
It all screams: 'Been there, done that, seen that.' and the net reaction, for me, is one of abject boredom. I just don't understand how Italians put up with the same old faces, year in, decade out. Boy, do they need new blood.
Weekend work was worthwhile
Yep, so far so good. After working away for at least part of the weekend, it looks as though my trouble has proven worthwhile. Tomorrow I shall be suggesting a date for the course I have been designing. I still have a fair bit of road to travel, but my destination is now much clearer. The acid test, though, is yet to come.
I shall say no more until after the event. But I'm cautiously optimistic.
When things start to come together after lots of hard work, you feel good. It makes the loss of free time worth it in some respects, but then, one loses something now in the hope that one will gain more in the future. That, at least, is the theory.
Enough blathering.
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