h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So there *is* a Community Artist still active. I've just joined, and things looked pretty much dead over there.

Hi, anyway.

Hiya

To be honest i haven't really done much in the community art in a while. (real life keeps getting in the way)

Must get back to doing some at some point, when i've cleared all the other arty stuff that i need to do.

Oh, I know about real life getting in the way. I'm enthusiastic now, but just wait till exams...

So why are you photoshopping shops?

Because i get paid to Photoshop shops at a grand sum of 25p an image!!

This strange company sells photos of shop fronts to online business directories, it's my job to clean up and straighten the photos on photoshop, so they look nice and spiffy for the clients.



Which exams you got coming up?

My sympathy. I do something similar with slides for my boss - scan them, straighten them, take out the scratches, adjust colour... A neverending task.

Mmmm, let's see - most of my exams are in the form of project presentations at the moment - I'm doing architecture. But we have some law and annoying things like that, and a few papers to write.

Just been looking through your claims to fame. I do like that one.

My brother is doing architecture, he's always complaining about all the boring legal stuff he has to write about.

Yes, people think it's all designing pretty skyscrapers, and a lot of it is really maths and zoning laws

to your brother.

Though he seems to have stopped doing his degree at the moment, some disagrement between him and his tutors over some work he did or didn't do.

But he's got a job doing CAD stuff for a architectual firm called Jefferson Sheard thats pretty good. Seems to have been alot of work on major renevation job in Liverpool recently that he's been working round the clock on.

At least he has a job, unlike most architects.

Or maybe that's just here