Lifestyle and Daily Shenanigans with a dash of Nerd Appreciation thrown in.
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Hello, there! I'm Mochizuki, a twenty-something year old Graphic & Web Design student located somewhere in America and welcome to Waiting for June a Lifestyle blog that occasionally gets a tad too personal, talks about cosmetics, and constantly the home for prattles about Bandcamp, nerd culture, and tea/coffee. To find out more about blog and the blogger, click here.
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If you follow me on Instagram, follow me on Twitter or have me added on Facebook then you’ve ever seen this or saw a picture about this project. I mention this in the description of the videos (they’re shown below), but this layout came about as I was drawing out a design for a future layout that I wanted to use. Somehow, while listening to Two Door Cinema Club’s “Changing of the Seasons”, it suddenly struck me that I wanted to get back into skinning layouts for Blogger Classic and Tumblr (mostly the former) and not only that, but I wanted to provide base codes and base templates for people to be able to toggle around and have fun with in the case that they wanted to have free reign over a layout they use rather than just using a premade.
And thus began my exploration.
Unlike my normal approach to just go with the flow and make it happen, I decided that it would be best to draw it out, mock it up, and then code it. I did this because while I love having random bursts of ideas and acting on them when it came to my own blog, I know how quickly it can become confusing for others looking in. Along the way, I recorded the last two steps, the mock up and the coding, and I documented the design through pictures.
It was a painstaking process although it only took me about six hours total over a span of two days to complete. The painstaking process came when I went through and began editing the video. It was fun, but tiring.
Click past the jump to view a couple images from the process, the videos recorded during the process, view a preview of the layout, and grab the codes!
Teasers: Pictures I posted on Instagram throughout the process.
Screencap #2: The finished look of Changing of the Seasons.
♦ I M A G E S — To view the images in their correct size, click these links: one, two, three, four.
♦ P R E V I E W — Live preview here.
♦ C O D E S — To grab the code, you can geet from either Pastebin or Blogskins. I have no recommendations either way unless you’re a Blogskins member (then you should go over to the site and favourite it.)
♦ N O T E S — The comparison between the starting point, the middle point (where the mock up was made), to the final point is mind blowing. I didn’t realise how much I would enjoy seeing the process that led to up the final point of this layout and I really enjoy being able to see it now rather than not being able to look back and notice how much of a process it really is for me.
Speed Design: Video footage of me creating the mockup of the template.
♦ R E C O R D E D — With Camtasia Studio 8.
♦ T I M E — 35 minutes, 21 seconds.
♦ S P E E D — 3x/300%
♦ M U S I C — I totally forgot to write the song titles I used, however all the songs used are by 정준일 and 정재형 respectively in alternating order. If you like to hear the songs used, I recommend searching for 정준일's Lo9ve3r4s album and 정재형's Le Petit Piano album.
Speed Code: Video footage of me coding the layout.
[ Note: this video was incomplete by the end of the recording. I came back the day after and finished it.]
♦ R E C O R D E D — With Camtasia Studio 8.
♦ T I M E — 40 minutes, 1 seconds.
♦ S P E E D — 3x/300%
♦ M U S I C — Nine songs. In order: 사랑을 멀랐 나봐 (feat. Dynamic Duo) by Piggy Dolls, 는물도 미안해서 by Hwangbo, Happily Ever After (Acoustic) by HE IS WE, The Truth Is A Cave by The Oh Hellos, Young and Hopeless by Will Hunter Band, Tripoli by Wickerbird, Lip by Dear cloud, So You by Vodka Rain, and Farewell by BYS.
And those are the two videos. The latter of the two is a bit more edited than the former, but because there was a lot more of what I deemed pointless staring involved in it than I, personally, liked and cared for. Plus, I wanted to test myself and see if I get the hang of editing down, even if it is only simple editing.
Although it was a tiring process, I would definitely do it again and I probably will. Maybe not when I post the coloured/edited version of this layout, but maybe for the next freebie layout or maybe for the blog’s next layout. Who knows? Just know that it’ll be sometime soon. Definitely.
I want to give a huge shoutout to the lovely Sinead who was kind of the driving force behind my motivation to really turn this small thing into slightly larger undertaking/project while we sent messages back and forth via LINE. I hope this post was informative and a step into seeing how I work and how things get done when it comes to how I code and design.
If you have any questions, comments, or anything, leave it below! Let’s have a lovely chat, yes? Until next time, darlings! ❤
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin
Hello, there!
Welcome to Waiting for June. Waiting for June is a Lifestyle Blog that focuses predominantly on daily life shenanigans and nerd culture, but occasionally dabbles in health & beauty, food, and prattling about serious topics.
Waiting for June is the sixth iteration of the same blog with a different name and structure. The original iteration of this blog was started back in November of 2012 as a purely Beauty and Lifestyle blog under the name Monochromatics which later got abandoned and restarted under the name sumeoseo. With sumeoseo came more beauty and review based blog which quickly lost its appeal. From that point on, there were three name changes, multiple hiatuses, and two blog changes before coming to where we are now.
Throughout this journey, I've learned that this blog shouldn't be limited to what I feel fits in with what I read from other bloggers nor should I put myself in a position to compromise my integrity and the feeling of transparency that I feel should always be there. I've also learned that blogging is probably never going to be a huge source of income the way I always expected it to be. So when I finally returned back to blogging with a fresh blog and an equally fresh name, I decided to make this blog about anything that I wanted to and break the mold of trying to fit into the mold. I can only imagine where this experience is going to take me.
Prattle about the twenty-something university student behind the blog.
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” — Albert Einstein
Hello, there!
Welcome to the little about me section of the blog. If it isn't obvious by now, I'm Mochizuki and I'm kind of pretty important here. Admittedly, Mochizuki is a nom de plume, but I digress. I'm currently somewhere in my twenty-somethings and doing that thing where I'm learning how to be a proper adult while balancing being a student and a worker. Speaking of school, I'm a Graphic Design major who's concentration is Web Design and I take my classes online. If I'm being honest here, I do everything online because of my apprehension towards too much social interaction.
I'm typically reading something, playing a video game, watching anime, or something otherwise nerdy because that's how I roll. I don't engage with people unless I'm positive there is something in common there simply because I don't want to make it weird for anyone involved. That said, the reason I originally created this blog, or rather, any of my blogging adventures, was so that I could engage with people wo share the same interests as me while simultaneously sharing my own things with people.
I'm not terribly good at about me's, so expect this to be updated sporadically in a lot of ways.
The little spots on the internet that I read to pass time.
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This blog touches on and is dedicated to a variety of topics including: daily life, cosmetics, my journey to being a healthier me, music, books, anime, et cetera; however, a large chunk of the content found here are some form of review be they miniature reviews or full blown, in-depth reviews. Because of this, this blog has decided to implement and share it's review policy.
Please note that this policy is liable to change at any point in time, so do constantly check back before sending inquiries to kurahge@outlook.com.
Depending on the workload and the type of product is received, at any given time, multiple products can be in queue to be reviewed.
Depending on the product, the amount of time for a review to be posted varies. Typically, the length of time is as follows: anything health or beauty releated will take between 5 days and 1 week, books take between 3 days and 5 days, music and movie reviews take between 1 to 2 days, and most other reviews are variant depending on the situation at hand.
Products are predominantly purchased with my own money. On the off chance that the product or prodcuts were provided to me, there is always a note at the top of post and as well as text within the post that acknowledges such. Despite being provided a product or not, the opinions are honest and valid.
As of April 14th, 2016, there has been a change in how reviews are formatted. If working with a product that has a list of ingredients (health, beauty, cosmetics, etcetera), there will be a graphic that lists the ingredients out of respect and transparency for the readers.
Photos for reviews, particularly health and beauty related, are unedited and provided in a clear manner to help show what results occurred (if any.)
If at any point, a review is rushed despite being informed of and knowing the review policy of this blog, I will drop the review and pay for the product accordingly. I am a college student and a full-time worker, blogging is a bit of side project no matter how much I wish it otherwise, so my time is a bit crammed. Basically, rushing will terminate any agreement we may have unless it's valid (meaning absolutely my fault.)
If you follow me on Instagram, follow me on Twitter or have me added on Facebook then you’ve ever seen this or saw a picture about this project. I mention this in the description of the videos (they’re shown below), but this layout came about as I was drawing out a design for a future layout that I wanted to use. Somehow, while listening to Two Door Cinema Club’s “Changing of the Seasons”, it suddenly struck me that I wanted to get back into skinning layouts for Blogger Classic and Tumblr (mostly the former) and not only that, but I wanted to provide base codes and base templates for people to be able to toggle around and have fun with in the case that they wanted to have free reign over a layout they use rather than just using a premade.
And thus began my exploration.
Unlike my normal approach to just go with the flow and make it happen, I decided that it would be best to draw it out, mock it up, and then code it. I did this because while I love having random bursts of ideas and acting on them when it came to my own blog, I know how quickly it can become confusing for others looking in. Along the way, I recorded the last two steps, the mock up and the coding, and I documented the design through pictures.
It was a painstaking process although it only took me about six hours total over a span of two days to complete. The painstaking process came when I went through and began editing the video. It was fun, but tiring.
Click past the jump to view a couple images from the process, the videos recorded during the process, view a preview of the layout, and grab the codes!
Teasers: Pictures I posted on Instagram throughout the process.
Screencap #2: The finished look of Changing of the Seasons.
♦ I M A G E S — To view the images in their correct size, click these links: one, two, three, four.
♦ P R E V I E W — Live preview here.
♦ C O D E S — To grab the code, you can geet from either Pastebin or Blogskins. I have no recommendations either way unless you’re a Blogskins member (then you should go over to the site and favourite it.)
♦ N O T E S — The comparison between the starting point, the middle point (where the mock up was made), to the final point is mind blowing. I didn’t realise how much I would enjoy seeing the process that led to up the final point of this layout and I really enjoy being able to see it now rather than not being able to look back and notice how much of a process it really is for me.
Speed Design: Video footage of me creating the mockup of the template.
♦ R E C O R D E D — With Camtasia Studio 8.
♦ T I M E — 35 minutes, 21 seconds.
♦ S P E E D — 3x/300%
♦ M U S I C — I totally forgot to write the song titles I used, however all the songs used are by 정준일 and 정재형 respectively in alternating order. If you like to hear the songs used, I recommend searching for 정준일's Lo9ve3r4s album and 정재형's Le Petit Piano album.
Speed Code: Video footage of me coding the layout.
[ Note: this video was incomplete by the end of the recording. I came back the day after and finished it.]
♦ R E C O R D E D — With Camtasia Studio 8.
♦ T I M E — 40 minutes, 1 seconds.
♦ S P E E D — 3x/300%
♦ M U S I C — Nine songs. In order: 사랑을 멀랐 나봐 (feat. Dynamic Duo) by Piggy Dolls, 는물도 미안해서 by Hwangbo, Happily Ever After (Acoustic) by HE IS WE, The Truth Is A Cave by The Oh Hellos, Young and Hopeless by Will Hunter Band, Tripoli by Wickerbird, Lip by Dear cloud, So You by Vodka Rain, and Farewell by BYS.
And those are the two videos. The latter of the two is a bit more edited than the former, but because there was a lot more of what I deemed pointless staring involved in it than I, personally, liked and cared for. Plus, I wanted to test myself and see if I get the hang of editing down, even if it is only simple editing.
Although it was a tiring process, I would definitely do it again and I probably will. Maybe not when I post the coloured/edited version of this layout, but maybe for the next freebie layout or maybe for the blog’s next layout. Who knows? Just know that it’ll be sometime soon. Definitely.
I want to give a huge shoutout to the lovely Sinead who was kind of the driving force behind my motivation to really turn this small thing into slightly larger undertaking/project while we sent messages back and forth via LINE. I hope this post was informative and a step into seeing how I work and how things get done when it comes to how I code and design.
If you have any questions, comments, or anything, leave it below! Let’s have a lovely chat, yes? Until next time, darlings! ❤
