Netphotography Journal

I am 31 now. It’s been a productive life so far with all the ups and downs. I am thankful for that.

The major project that I am working on right now is the new Corporate website for Premier Agendas company. What makes this project challenging and interesting is the load of Information Design , and Data Modeling that goes into the eCatalog and the over all Content Management System. It’s been more than two month now that I’ve spend about half of my time conducting interviews, email, phone, around table meetings with people in Sales, Marketing, Product Development and Technology Solutions departments. Then I spent days of work on Pattern Analysis of Premier Products and Marketing data and creating IA Garrett, Entity Relationship and, UML diagrams. I didn’t try to memorize and learn every single product that Premier is selling, instead I tried to find the pattern that they have been evolving throughout the histroy of Premier, and the relationship that groups of products initiate with every Marketing Approach ( Product Lines, Market Segements, Programs, … ).

And for the implementation step the last few weeks has been spent on crazy hours of Programming at the Premier office, at home, and in my studio.

Other challenges involved are that everyone needs to be happy with the final web application. To increase my chance of success I’ve spend some time collecting data, and examples to back up my design solutions for every problem. At every step I have judged myself based on common sense before they do it.

My last Project Premier Go eLearning has recieved a relatively low number of customer complains, and everybody seems pretty happy with it. I will be too once this academic season is over and everything has gone through nice and smoothly.

All of that could be stressful, I feel responsible for the work I deliver, I want it to be functional, intelligent, and beautiful. I believe all the stress and hard work that I put in my creations will translate into a stronger sense of joy and pride in the end. I want people after me to remember my name and my work and be pleased with the results.

Oh I partied hard this Saturday. I was invited by my friend Jason to attend a Hockey night event, but I had already planned a day with a group of friends. I was in downtown from 11:00 AM till 2:00 AM Sunday morning with a group of my friends: a lady ex mortgage broker, and two brothers a Dentist, and a Pharmacist. I was the youngest in the crowd.

I watched 3 movies on the row in Vancouver’s Film Festival and after 10:00 PM we went clubbing on Granvile street.

Movie These Girls - Image is the property of Productions Jeux d’Ombres

The first movie we saw was “These Girls” - writer and director John Hazlet with 3 hot girls in it: Caroline Dhavernas, Amanda Walsh, and Holly Lewis.

Movie was about these 3 young baby sitter girls in a small town who start an affair with a married guy. They practically forced themselves on the guy ( David Boreanaz named Keith ). Keith had already started an affair with one of the girls, he needed baby sitters, and he was growing pot in his backyard, so girls threatened to report him and then they made a deal to share him pretty much as a sex machine. The most interesting scene was Lisa the most religious and youngest character who wanted to experience sex before being baptized and having to live a long life of celibacy. She later on learns that unlike her teachings the first time is not the best experience ( it takes practice ). Later on in the movie she was convincing Keith’s wife that Bible studies and Baseball practice have kept her way too busy to have a fun summer! They movie had a bitter sweet ending, girls all go either back to school or they got married, and keitch gets it rough in the ending. I don’t want to spoil the movie ( I think I just did ), go and watch it for yourself.

Movie didn’t have much nudity in it it was mainly the script that was very provocative and could capture the audience. I was amazed by the level of details portrait in this movie about how small town people live and think. Having lived in Prince George BC for 4 years, I could tell this movie was incredibly close to what I use to see and hear in Prince George.

Anyhow, the movie was inappropriate, offensive, rude, enough to keep me away from the Hockey night event. I guess beggers cannot be choosie!

The second movie was “Behind the Mirror” which was about a family and their teenage son struggling with the rapidly changing urban culture of India, and power of family ties. Movie was full of symbolism and mataphores, a great production I must say and I really recommend it.

Third Movie was called “Everything Blue:The colour of music” which I rated it as the best movie of the day. An amazing documentary about the origin of “Samba” music and dance in Brazil. The director interviews with prominent entertainers and a number of other people such as a former prostitute in Salvador de Bahia who now was taking care of a group of homeless kids, and nurture them music.

Through a series of interviews movie describes how people who are victims of racism, poverty, hate, and crime seek the solution to peace, joy in Music and Dance. It describes how once Catholic church was trying to strip away the slaves from their roots and culture. Samba was considered evil and it was banned. Musicians and people who would celebrate Samba were being prosecuted. Peasants who’d attend Catholic Church would pretend to abide by the establishments rules, yet in reality they were worshipping their own gods.

Today Samba exists in form of competition among schools and extremely large Parades and carnivals in Brazil celebrating the diversity and their wish to live in peace, and wealth. Once the Parade is over it is like a national disaster, people are depressed for days when they go back to their difficult lives, until the next year, and next parade comes.

Being a Hobbyist Latin dance student I could really appreciate this movie, and the fact that music and dance could be the best spiritual healer for people of all kinds. Music is a language that has no borders and boundaries and can be understood by people of all nations.

Hey … I just found out that he is Persian. His name is Omid Kordestani. I feel so darn proud, I have one more reason to like Google now Here is an interview with him

I’ve been really busy in the last few days, and didn’t get enough time to post anything. Partially because I don’t want to post nonsense every day stuff. There are lots I like to talk about, but since I am not the best writer in the world, I need to spend time editing my posts and comments ( yes the crap you see hear is after edition, that’s how bad my writing is ) but I’m working on it.

Today I bought Logitech Trackball. Too much clicking and typing has caused some pain in my hands, and with the new gadget I feel more comfortable working now. Although I still have to get use to it. Tonight I’ll be going for dance again, and I’m trying to spend more time on myself for the long weekend.