Holidays here Agian.

So holidays are just around the corner a I’m going to be going to Melbourne, Victoria once again to go see my Grandma and bring her back up to Caloundra, Queensland.

Also in the blogpost that I’m writing now I will be saying the Top 10 things I want to achieve or do over the holidays.

1.      My grandma will be staying for a month and then she will fly back down to Melbourne by herself. That will be one of my main focuses in the holidays to look after my grandma as she is getting older.

2.      Clean up and add some posters around my gaming setup around the walls and whatnot.

3.      Add more red LED lights to my computer so I can see it from the clear window, because you can never go wrong with more LED lights.

4.      Go for a drive with my Dad in his Nissan Skyline GTT R34 up to the Glass House Mountains Tourist drive.

5.      I am going to look and find some old PC Gaming headphones that my sister had and use them on my computer and use my Turtle Beachers on my Xbox, when people want to talk to me and just use my Skullcandy’s when I’m just playing my myself.

6.      I will also be going surfing as I haven’t had a surf with my Dad or over 2 months and I really want to surf so we are going to go buy some steamer or wetsuits either one and go for a surf over the holidays (hopefully).

7.      To sleep in more, because I’ve been getting up every morning when school I’m getting up at 6:30AM, so I’m hoping to sleep in, even though I’m not going to.

8.      Go for a swim in my pool because it’s been cold (because its Winter) I want to be able to have a really warm day so that the pool water will not be too cold.

9.      Finish up setting up the Media Room, my Dad and I have set up the speakers and the projector we are just waiting for the 10M HDMI cable and a new Blu-Ray player.

10.      Just get through the holidays without hurting myself.

Untill next time, Invalid Out.

Stay tuned no my YouTube channel, you can view that here.

Vlog | Episode 1

Link: Vlog | Episode 1

Giveaway Entry

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Yesterday I did a Longboard Deck graphics design for a Giveaway on CJLongboards you can view his blog here. It was a pretty basic design but I thought it turned out real good; I’m waiting to see what place I got in his giveaway.

The design that I put on the longboard was a purple circular design, with circles on the left and right on of the “C.J.Longboard”. The text “C.J.Longboard” is in a destroyed style of text with a purple glow and am outa drop shadow to make it look 3d and also an inner drop shadow to make it look like it is even more imbedded into the board, same goes for the “Making the Impossible always Possible” text. I also added on the board a flare which you can’t really see that well, is it is a white flare, but It turned out good, and made a little wormer feeling. You also might be able to see on the white background of the deck itself, there is a very faint grunge overlay over the board so it’s not just a white boring old background I added a little effect.

Anyway that’s enough about talking about that little project I made. Remember to stay aware until Monday morning because going up on my YouTube Channel will be my Giveaway winner announcement. Remember if you would like some graphics design artwork on anything to email me at invaliddesigns@gmail.com or you can contact me on my YouTube page here.

Invalid's Den

Also coming up in the next couple of weeks or in the next month will be my setup video if and when I reach 75 subscribers on YouTube. Just to give you a little behind the scenes my setup consists of a 32" Sony TV and a 20" Compaq Monitor, this is used as a dual screen setup and also my 32" TV is also used for my Xbox 360 and also for Internet TV. My gaming setup is also is my own personal lounge room and has a guest bedroom and my bedroom going off to the left of it, you can’t see in the picture above but you will be able to see in the video. Also included in my setup is my Custom Made computer, the specs for the computer are as follows:

• Processor: Intel Core i7 2nd Generation - 2600 @ 3.40GHz
• 2x4GB Corsair RAM stick to make up 8GB of RAM
• System Type: 64 - bit Operating System 
• 1TB HDD with 500GB Portable
• Cooler Master HAF 912 Case

Make sure you stay aware of the video in the next couple of weeks as we go behind the scenes of Invalid’s Den. I will be doing an in depth tour of my setup so make sure you go subscribe to my YouTube channel here.

In the meantime hope you guys are looking forward to my setup video and I can’t wait to make it.

Video Blog

So this week sometime my video blog will be going up on YouTube, and can be viewed here. And no guys, im sorry I will not be showing my face on this video I will be just going through who one my give away competition and what not. I will also incorporate that with with a little How To, or something along those tutorial lines.

I know the giveaway wasn't big as I only had 1 entry but oh well, not to worry theres always the future, and I didn't expect to get many because I was only giving away templates.

Also what happened in the last week was that I signed up for adsense and now I'm making money on my blog and youtube channel. So now I will now have ad's displayed on this blog sometime through out this month because Google is still re-viewing my blog to see what blog they want to advetise. I also signed up for youtube partnership through Fullscreen and am still waiting on what their verdict is on my Youtube channel.

So stay tuned in the next week for my video blog to go up on my YouTube channel, once agian you can view it here. Hope you guys are ready for another giveaway, and if you have any ideas on what my next give away could/should be post it in the comments section below, send me a message on youtube or even send me an e-mail at invaliddesigns@gmail.com. Untill next time, Invalid out.

Give Away!

Over the next 2 weeks im going to be doing a give away. The template will all be in PSD (PhotoShop Document) files so if you want a free Photoshop CS6 Beta click here, you will also need WinRar or some sort of file extractor so click here for WinRar. Make sure you advetise this blog post with a link so that you’ve made an effort to the the traffic up.

The pack will be a "Template" based pack, included in the give away pack will be:

· Partnered YouTube Background

· Non-Partnered YouTube Background

· Xbox Background

· Playstation 3 Background

· Blogger Background

· 3 way Diptic

If you would like to win this template giveaway pack all you have to do is post in the comments on the blog post (with the template provided below) and tell me in 25 words or less why you should win this Template Pack.  

Giveaway Template:
Name: (NAME HERE)
Why I should win this pack: (25 WORDS OR LESS)
Link to were I’ve Advertised this Blog post at: (URL LINK HERE)
E-mail Adress: (E-MAIL ADRESS HERE)

We can have up to 3 winners in total so if you have friends that also want to enter this competiton feel free to tell them about it. Advertise this blog post and the more views this post gets and the more traffic you bring in on this competion the more changes you will have of winning.

The Acrez Blog Review

The Acrez Blog is a great Motion and Graphic Designer blog. Acrez himself is very talented at what he does, his skills with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D are the skills of a professional Motion and Graphics Designer. He runs a very simple to read blog and a very nice and a very well maintained YouTube Channel. The blog itself if an active site with 22 active members (one of them is myself), and he has well over 20,000 website hits on his blog. His YouTube channel is more regularly visited, as he has well over 73,000 Subscribers, and nearly 11,000,000 total video views.

His blog offers a wide range of video tutorial all the way through Photoshop to Cinema 4D. Acrez also dose free templates for views and readers to use, some of the free templates he offers are “After Effects YouTube Intro”, “After Effects Bouncing Text” and “After Effects Tapcode Particular Logo”.  Also featured on his blog is a wide range of video tutorials on a wide range of softwares, I have to say these tutorials have helped me out a lot with making myself a good Graphics Designer.

There is nothing really negative to say about Acrez, his nice guy, by just telling from his videos, he has some very good tutorial videos, and has a review on Adobe Photoshop Cs6 Beta. Acrez would have to be one of my inspirations to being a Graphics Designer today, so I would just like to thank him for that.

I defiantly recommend you guys to check his Blog and YouTube channel out.

Acrez Blog here

Acrez YouTube Channel here