Johanna Lievemaa

Johanna Lievemaa PORTFOLIO & CV

Front Page News

Dear visitor!

Nice of you to drop by! Wellcome and I hope you enjoy your stay. The main navigation is there on top, on top of a dreamy little fairy, specs are at the bottom. Here on the front page you'll find news and musings about this site, me, the world, anything.




New stuff!
November 9, 2008

Well, nothing new on the site. I've stopped developing it and basically haven't even toughed the computer for a while. I got the training position at a textile workshop and feel like I've finally found something I really LOVE to do. Don't know how I've been so blind. I guess I thought work should not be fun, only hobbies could. :D Anyway, I'm loving it. Here's a picture of one particularly hard day at the shop! I'll get back to the portfolio issues some day when I start missing the cold glow of the computer screen on my weary eyes.



Updates..
October 14, 2008

I've been working on the portfolio what little time I have spent on the computer and not watching ImagineFX videos. I'm thinking about the navigation, about the subcategories on some of the main categories and on what to base my categorization anyways. Should I stick to different mediums, as I tend to use various methods expressing myself, or to base it on genre or purpose? Now the navigation is a bit confusing as there are assorterd subcategories on some topics and the first list of galleries is grouped by the tools of the trade and the second one is losely based on purpose.


My iBook is, again, starting to say goodbye, even though it has been working quite fine for a few months. I tried to paint with Painter and after a while all I got was the beach ball rolling every time I tried a new stroke. A few weeks ago when I had it with me at my aunt's summer cabin I reallized the power cord really can't bear any moving around anymore. It's a pain to get it to load when it's been disconnected for a while. *sigh* I hope I'll find a place to do practical training in so that I'll be able to start saving for the glorious iMac 24".



IE6.0 </3
October 8, 2008

There was a rather "amusing" incident with one of my "favourite" web browsers and this site. I say "amusing" instead of amusing! because I have had just about enough trouble from IE in the past and here we went again. Every other browser I try works, but the one that I can't test on my own (mac) computer fuc*@%ks it all up every time. :D Anyways, I have replaced a partly see-trough .png with an ugly transparent/opaque .gif and gotten rid of the grayness on older IEs. The funny part is I thought I'd surely replaced it earlier and was puzzled as to why the problem persisted.. :D



Ready to rumble
October 2, 2008

I'm happy to report that I have breathed life to the Online Potfolio and will be updating it regularly, but am now ready to send out job applications with this site as the base implicator of my skills.



Finishing up
September 24, 2008

No longer rainy but plenty foggy these days, the scenic view I have from my computer in our new home. I'm determined to have this new site published any day now, with only some minor adjustments to the graphics left to do and the assembly of the portfolio well planned but not really started. The house is coming along nicely after we got the rest of the missing furniture last week, only need to get a permit to paint a few walls and to rearrange the kitchen cabinets.



Doodling
August 7, 2008

These pages are still under construction! But feel free to browse and email me (until I find the energy to make a guestbook) if you have any notes, ideas or opinions. They would be very welcome!


I'm in the middle of packing my life into boxes and saying goodbye to the city I've lived in for the last 9 years. Still, I've had time to update some parts of this site and I've been sketching the background / layout pictures eagerly. I think there is light at the end of the tunnel! But I really need to find a job first thing as we move to Tampere. One can't just keep drawing fairies all days till the end of time, no matter how nice it might sound. :)



New sightings
June 21, 2008

Oh, hai! I've been spending this rainy day inside specsing my new layout. I'm posting some of the content from the old site and making most of it up as I go. Having an anti-web2.0 approach to me means drawing the layout by hand (and making up all the html+css by hand), so this will probably take some time. And that's the only way to go right now, anti-2.0 that is. Though I'm confident it'll be quicker than the earlier layout (which was never finished). I've started on the "mei-chan" section, which is about me, and worry about the portfolio when this site starts to have some kind of a look and feel. I'm so sure this will be beautiful some day! <3


To tell you the truth I'm sick and tired of my age old iBook 12" with its shattered power cord and so I'd rather just go out, play, or even wash the dishes than sit at the computer. But a new iMac 24" would cost about an arm and a leg, so here we are. Editing pictures and storing them gets more difficult by the day but I'll have to endure this until I have a job / know what I want to be when I grow up (the choice of the graphics card depends a lot on 3D). I think I'll forget about being a perfectionist and won't stress about putting up my old pictures on this site at first, even though they might be of a wrong size or lack the proper borders, as the background images are all still placeholders as well.



Info
June 11, 2008

I'm now a Bachelorette of Business Administration / Business Information Systems. I'm also moving from Jyväskylä to Tampere in August and at least until then unemployed. Time to polish the new site and make a smashing portfolio.. And to enjoy the summer!



New Layout On The Way!
April 1, 2008

I've started working on a new layout and basically a whole new site. I'm drawing backgrounds and designing easy navigation, but I won't be able to concentrate on this now that my thesis deadline is coming so near. I'll launch the site sometime this summer depending on my schedule. A new and improved portfolio, both inside and out, will be my main motivation. After the thesis and graduation I'll be looking for a job and how would I get one without a nice portfolio? In the meantime my current flash portfolio and online gallery will be available for viewers.