Journal of David Atlee @ Frozen Designs

David Atlee designs and builds websites, takes photos, plays with digital design and writes stories about odd things.
 
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    Waking the Dead and the Glass Wipeboard

    Saturday, November 21st, 2009

    So anyone out there know ‘Waking the Dead’? The UKs answer to ‘CSI’ minus the endless budget (both for the show and the investigations), strippers and the non sense of realism. So in-fact whilst I like CSI alot, Waking the Dead is far more realistic and substanial.

    Waking the Dead Copyright BBC

    Waking the Dead Copyright BBC

    Anyway the programme itself is just a side product, the glass wipeboard is the juicy bit of hardware I want to blog about with you today. If you watch ‘Waking the dead‘ you know the glass wipeboard is a marvellous thing, it is where words are added, photos are stuck on, deep and meaningful looks are made through and of course the case is solved.  Since then I always wanted one, no real reason except it was cool!

    So a visit to IKEA for the glass table top cover, a trip to B&Q for some mirror wall mounts and wet chalk pens from the stationary store and I have my glorious wipeboard. I never expected how useful it is in my life now.

    The Wipeboard in all it's glory! (Ignore the reflection, I never invited him)

    The Wipeboard in all it's glory! (Ignore the reflection, I never invited him)

    Beyond the strange scribbles and messages from my girlfriend as she drinks her coffee in the morning, it has helped me construct storylines for my stories on imaginetales.co.uk, brought the chaos of job applications and interviews into some sense, reminded me to buy coffee, pack for a journey and even keep my girlfriend sane getting ready for a night out in London.

    I like to think it even has a small sense of style, whilst clear of scribbles and doddles it looked odd, but once you add content it has purpose and looks perfectly fine.  Either way it looks better than plain old whiteboard.

    Geek Corner with the wipeboard alongside industrial music giants

    Geek Corner with the wipeboard alongside industrial music giants

    My glass wipeboard is a wonderful thing and anyone who has to organise and easily get those wondering thoughts down before they get lost, I really recommend one!

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    The Fall

    Monday, October 12th, 2009

    Once again  it has been a while since I posted to my journal and as ‘Fall’ arrives with all it’s colours I decided it was about time to write something here for all those unsuspecting people who according to ‘Google Analytics’ keep looking at my website.

    So what has happened over the last of the late summer that has befallen the UK? Well friends have been married and begin new lives, engagement  and babies are arriving with each new marriage and new eras are beginning all around me.  OK, yes I am thirty-something and friends who I still see with air of early twenties are taking another step into adulthood. But this is no bad thing and it comes with lots of smiles. I hope they all will be happy.

    As for me, I am still in that period of change that came up about this time last year and is still ongoing. Job interviews on the horizon (one tomorrow) and with luck I can finally start to plan abit further ahead than 6 months, maybe a snowboarding holiday or Alaska even and look at where I want to be in a few years.

    My recent projects have been heavily impacted from job applications and a couple of freelance web jobs for clients and their new maritime business ventures.  On my Imagine Tales website of short stories I have finished the five part story ‘The Grass‘. This tale was started many years ago and it sat going stale with no direction.  At the time I wanted to write of demons, I think I may of recently watched ‘Trainspotting‘ judging by the main characters addiction issues and was still heavily indulgent in ‘Hellraiser‘. But I really enjoyed coming back to this tale now that I want to take my wiriting more seriously.  One of the things I enjoy about posting upto the website on a regular basis is that it forces me to write and lets it flow with ease. I don’t have the time to revise and revise and rewrite, so what you get is whilst given some edit treatment, it is pretty raw still. Even I am often not sure how the story will develop until I sit down in from the of the computer and reread the last part for inspiration to carry on the tale.

    Prior to the ‘The Grass‘ I had written the ‘The School‘, a short story based on a dream that occurred last year, I rather manic time and one I wanted to escape and in which this tale highlights with alot of description. Dreams are funny things, some can be harrowing and leave you out of sorts for the new day, but then others leave you peaceful and calm. You have travelled and seen wonders, felt peace and all without leaving your bed.

    Anyway one must depart now and begin to think about that job interview tomorrow. Put aside those to be written stories of home furnishing stores of Hell and stealing time.  Till next time my little minions.

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