Archive for June, 2009

Tues 30th June: FlashBrighton Summer BBQ

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

‘Case you pommies don’t know this Tuesday is FlashBrighton’s annual beach barbie. S’no drama, we do it every year. Reckon we’ll just get a few coldies, some mystery bags and some avos – or whatever it is you vejjos like to eat – and head down the beach to catch the rays and let the amber flow.

Mate, that’s not all. We’ll also be drawing our bi-annual raffle, to win a copy of Adobe CS4. Seriously mate, London to a brick: we’re giving away a copy of Adobe CS4. As long as you’ve been to FlashBrighton at least once in the last six months or presented a session or something you’ll have qualified for some tickets. But if you don’t turn up and your name gets pulled, you won’t win nothing (altho if you deffo can’t make it, you can nominate a cobber as a stand in)*.

Every day is ‘Australia Day’ at FlashBrighton, so grab a slab and whatever tucker you fancy and come on down. Tuesday 30th June, roundabout the West Pier, 7pm onwards. We’ll pull the raffle sometime after 8pm eh, turn up whenever.

Ripper!

* – The use of the double negative ‘won’t win nothing’ has been included in order to maintain the authenticity of the piece’s Australian colloquial style. This does not however indicate that your non-attendance ‘will’ win you ‘something’. Assuming you name gets pulled from the hat, in order to claim your prize you will be required to attend in person or, as indicated in the official text, nominate someone in advance to act as your ‘stand-in’ on the official FlashBrighton mailing list prior to your arrival at the event.

Flashbrighton : Paintball!!

Sunday, June 21st, 2009


(image from Flickr)

What?

FlashBrighton Paintball Day

FlashBrighton invites you to a day of paintball.

We have 32 VIP tickets for £50. These include entrance, equipment hire and lunch. If we get all 32 people, the ticket will cost only £1.57 each (usually £25 each). Otherwise the £50 cost will be split between the amount that are going, so bring friends (non FlashBrightonians very welcome).

When?
28th June ’09, 09:00 – 15:30

Please try and be there 30 mins before the start time as latecomers will not be allowed in (for safety reasons).

Where?
Ministry of Paintball, Henfield, BN6 9EA (near Devil’s Dyke).
How Much?

Entrance tickets will be paid to me (Joe) on the day, but each person will have to pay for their first 100 paintballs at £11.50 at the time of booking. This can be paid for online when you sign up through this site.
Additional paintballs on site will cost:

* £7 – 100 x paintballs
* £24 – 400 x paintballs
* £55 – 1000 x paintballs

The paintball site won’t give refunds for not showing up, so please arrive on time!

Sign up!

Tues 16th June: Adobe Illustrator Demystified part II

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard illustration tool but it can be impenetrably complex to the uninitiated. So come along next Tuesday and let our FlashBrighton Illustrator expert Yan ‘Fit-Pixels’ Cowles remove the mystery from the magic.

(To be sung to the tune of “He’s got the whole world in his hands”)

Yan’s got Illustrator on his Mac
Adobe Illustrator on his Mac
Yan’s got Illustrator on his Mac
Illustrator on his Mac

He knows the pen tool inside out
Yes, the pen tool inside out
He knows the pen tool inside out
And he can quickly draw a Carribean beach

He’s got the pathfinder panel highlighted
Yeah, the pathfinder panel highlighted
He’s got the pathfinder panel highlighted
To intersect the shape areas

He knows where things are in the Menu bar
Where things are in the Menu bar
He knows where things are in the Menu bar
And the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ video

He’s done an Illustrator session, once before
Yeah, an Illustrator session, once before
He’s done an Illustrator session, once before
And this one is a follow-up

He went up in our opinion, after that
We knew he had the skills, after that
And the crowd wanted more, after that
So we made him come back next Tuesday

We’ve got nothing but total respect for
Nothing but total respect for
We’ve got nothing but total respect for
Yan Fit-Pixels

And now you know that he’s coming you should sign the list!