12 of 12 Feb
Ritey ho time for another 12 of 12 my second evarrr and my first of 2009. If your not aware of 12 of 12 it’s a project created by chad darnell where you take 12 photos on the 12th day of every month. all the details and other people’s are here
not dead, still here
It’s half 4 in the morning on a Monday and I can’t sleep so o figured what’s better to do than blog!
And yes! I’m still here, many would wish I wasn’t but hey your stuck with me. My reason for not blogging since the 12th of December is College, yup good ol Brockenhurst College is keeping me busy as per usual, i’d love to have posted since in fact I had a good bye 2008 post talking about stuff that was great about 2008 and what I was looking fowards to in 2009 but that fell apart like……..flat pack furniture without nuts and bolts! (I should never come up with metaphors) which reminds me the jolly blue and yellow super brand IKEA is opening soon, upon which I loathe mainly because it just causes alot of traffic problems. But hey at least it’s a few hundred jobs for people in the area! Right soton council :@.
Anyway moving on from politics, you may have noticed I had updated the home page to my site in preperation for my portfolio and dare I say it corporate rebranding, Yups I’m tempted to start a business! Idea will probably fade faster than the cream on your mocha (really need to stop).
I am going to start blogging about some of the work that I am producing at this point in time as a sort of design diary charting my progress and showing off work from the past, present and future whilst I construct my portfolio. So what has the past month and a half done for me, well I’m running windows 7 on my iMac as are half the tech world (not on iMacs just in general) quite like it and all my drivers are seemingly working so far. Apart from that I’ve powered my way through prince of Persia and mirrors edge whilst attempting to revise for my final exams before June! This left plenty of time for drinking at the pub and ultimatly Australia day which I wouldn’t have undertaken if it wasn’t for the free fosters hat!! O I also pierced my ear! A mini 12 of 12 consisting of 9 photos are at the bottom mainly cus I didn’t have enough time to do it this month!!
12 of 12 December
New feature here on the blog I’ve seen it done on other blogs mainly Pete Cullen and I fancied giving it a go myself, basically its the creation of Chad Darnell and you take 12 photos on the 12th day of each month showing what you are doing in the day.
first image of the day is where I’ve succumbed to Xmas fever and got around to changing my background but its not too Xmasy so its ok with me!
Update Time
Sooo it’s been a long time since I last published a post so around the holiday season seems like the best time to do it!
The main reason I’ve been absent from the blog is down to college work, all 3 of my subjects have had coursework deadlines for December so I’ve been working hard on getting all my work finished and ready to hand in! Some of which you will be able to see soon on the new site I’m working on for my portfolio to submit to prospective art colleges and unis. Speaking of unis where is everyone applying, currently I’ve got Bournemouth Arts Institute and Nottingham Trent buckled down as place I like with a possible option of Brighton. Although I will most likely be going to BAI because I will need a foundation for most unis which is a bummer but if it needs to be done then so be it!
Gaming wise I’ve been a bit absent recently with a bit of fallout 3, Call Of Duty World At War and Dead Space, with only Call Of Duty’s story completed I need to catch up during the holidays. Gamerscore stands at just over 
30,000, you can see my avatar in my gamercard shown in the sidebar!
Anyway back to xmas preperation catch you laters!!
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Review!
First off this film was designed to hook younger children into the Star Wars saga, and yes from the reaction of the children in the cinema it seemed to fufil it’s purpose but then again what young boy or some girls don’t already like Star Wars.
Although even though it may have been created with children in mind bit I think it still appeals to older people also. Personally I found the art style refreshing, I haven’t ever seen the cartoon series that precided the film, but it really did look nice! I particularly liked the chunkyness of it and it gave me the impression of a very well made video game cutscene, granted the graphics did lack in some places although it’s very easy to overlook this because the film itself is entertaining. The main plot of the film is designed to fill in the gaps between the early episodes, the film jumps straight into the action depicting a fight between the clones and the droids where you are introduced to the main characters. I found this section to be one of the most captivating due to the “camera” work used this put you right into the action! As the film progressed though it seemed that this focus on having a solid camera base to work from degraded down to the usual distanced and mindless lightsaber duels with the usual blaster shot zooming past!
iPhone/iPod Touch Viewing
So to any readers out there using Apple’s latest and greatest portable devices how does the blog look to you? I have made every effort with the blog and my personal website in order for them to both look nice and remain functional to all! But would you like me to install a theme that is designed specifically for mobile safari or is it fine as it remains? Let me know in the comments
Star Wars: Force Unleashed Demo Thoughts
Star Wars: Force Unleashed, the latest in a long line of Star Wars games follows the story of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, although if your reading this I’m sure you are already aware of that.
Easily put this game is everything i was hoping it would be! I had my doubts about how well the game could handle having 3 physics engines running at the same time and interacting with each other. But it handles itself well and I didn’t notice a dip in frame rate once. The graphics as well are much better than I had initially anticipated with everything looking very realistic and boy those explosions and lightning bolts look very nice indeed 
overall though it is a very well polished game with the cutscenes and story looking like it’s going to unfold very nicely indeed.
My only criticism being that the demo is too short, I would have liked to explore the tie fighter construction base a lot more because boy was it fun, i was like a kid in a candy store with those force powers, can’t wait for the september 19th release date! I’ll have a full review as soon as the game releases and I’ve had a decent amount of time with it
Hello Again!
Hello again this is a new blog, because i have changed my domain to appear more proffesional to prospective university’s and anybody who wants to employ my services!
as per a new blog I havent imported the old posts into this, i could very easily do it if people wanted but to be honest i had such little readership before it didnt make much sense to set up an archive blog.
Anyway all of that out of the way, I am Jacob Coy made obvious by the title of the blog and the fancy little graphic you can see above it, I am a student from the south west and here you will be able to read about my adventures through life.
Right less about me. keept checking back here for some updates on projects im working on.