Showing posts with label decorating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decorating. Show all posts

Monday, 13 August 2018

The studio sorting

Well, it's a heavy rain day and after waking up at 8:25 after a short sleep from 3am to get the video up and also seeing zara much bigger now and a deal that no food until we meet up, yes we might be meeting when I can chat with colleague about time off. it was time to help torchy out and get the studio ready. there is no vlog since it didn't have much going on. but here go

The wet run and catchup


the weather has been absolutely appalling with pouring rain down and after packing for what I thought I need, I left by 10:27 and 11 minutes later I got to the usual pickup point where torchy was in trackies and also like a right front car bottle mess.

but then we got to catch up while he has a week off work, legacy was busy with new commitments and well, it was nice to let a lot out that I talk about on here really. but the rain was still pouring down and we didn't get any extras on the way in. but eventually we got in to the flat.

Emptying the Studio mess


To be honest, this was just getting the rubbish cleared, with the foam panels to make up, (10 panels left) and that was nice, but there were alot of mess and all the cardboard to be used was binned, some foam was binned and then we got the pasting table folded which made so much up. To be honset, it got a few attempts to get it folded with the legs inside but double sided tape got it done, then we Moved it into the hallway along with all the other stuff. But then it was to put most of that bag in the bins and clear his place up a bit. 

a rubbish clear out

Which first things first was to clear out rubbish, like 6 bags full of it and trust me that was some strong smells happening here, I was nearly close to puking, but we got it down. Although I locked myself out the first-time from the back door and a neighbour helped and got me unlocked and told me to lock the door afterwards.

Then it was massive cardboard boxes to go down and a massive sack, like Santas but full of well rubbish. Then it was the organising it into the many bins that were there. the funny thing is that the sacks  were only a weeks waste, but the cardboard was next to the bins since of how many there were. But once that was closed, We got going on getting the studio sorted.

The Final touches of the studio


Now we had to hammer in Coax clips to the wall for his ethernet cable now that babba is starting to crawl as well, so we found the clips and he got that hammer and stretching the Cable, which we only used about 10 clips, it worked nicely. We got the ladder out for the cable over the bathroom and that was tight too. But then it was the slight angle on the walls to deal with. But that was done with a few clips. Then it was the last angle before the stretch to the door. That was done and then it was one last one after the door to keep it tight. It did and well, worked nicely. 

Then we had the Cork board, so using nails from the coax clips was the clever way, 4 bashed in to the wall right next to the door, it fitted decently. Which then lead to finishing the Last bits of foam. Getting 10 panels back on, some falling off the celing and also the 10 we had left was for the final bit of the wall on the opposite side. We got that done. So the last bit was 2 things. 

The Sofa


This was a surprise, Torchy said he don't think it would fit by the wall with the corkboard, but first we did a chuckle (RIP Barry by the way) to get the sofa out of the lounge to the main hallway, with moving cat cages to the kitchen beforehand then getting it moved. Turning it tallways to get it in the studio door helped and Then we placed it in front of the desks. Which was OK but didn't feel RIGHT. So i guess it would fit, he didn't we tried it and it fitted JUST RIGHT. Which he was relieved big time and it looks so good now. So we got the cushions in and then it looked so in place, but one thing left. 

The Screen curtain


Now this was a nice bit of those moments with using a Green screen frame to act like a cover or curtain to "block" natural light. Which positioning the poles, it worked like a angle of diagonal and that then was standing on the greenscreen which then the screen was hanging over and the white screen was underneath, it worked and then really made a difference, Then the gaming boxes and the tools and pasting table was stored behind it, Made it look really good. 

The results. 


It looked amazing, professional minus some painting work on the back wall by the sofa and made it more spacious now. Like it really did. With the sofa next to the wall, a bit of space for normal filming and also a curtain for the green screen eventually if it hangs over. but we were both impressed and it felt complete, this was since March.

The Desk

The Sofa

The Lights and curtain

Passing the time


So, after that, was making adjustments to the PC to make streams better, woth SLOBS, NVENC was the best way to work with the elgato. Then a MCC stream he ended up doing topless and it was like 11% CPU usage and no lag. But the GTX745 was nearing 60C idel, so a PC clean was needed. Disconnected it all and baba was in the middle of the room, PC next to him when we both cleaned the GPU and CPU Heatsink. But then it was getting back together, it worked fine and slightly cooler. But then we changed his setting and it worked beautifully. Then it was getting wifi and the hub going, IP changing was the goal. It sorted out a few issues after getting passwords right. 
Then Flossy cooked up pasta after the three of us were deciding to what to have, she was hungry anyway. So she made some clean pasta for me and cheesey for her and Torchy. I had mine and it was lovely. 

The Pasta flossy made me

Then I and Torhcy talked on what games were coming out which might be work on streaming soon and then it was coming towards 6pm and after planning on what we will do soon, maybe edtijng days to get things done like montage editing. 

The Home and evening 

Then it was time to get a nice talk about plans, with things that might even work, from the weather getting  tunnel vision to plans on a esports team but things will be in a long time for that to happen. But we got back to monksmead by about 7pm. But it was really nice to catch up. 
Then it was a nice few meals to end the day. 

A ham sub with chicken and crisps. 


That was it, another weekend gone but more truths to be held. Expect more soon. 

omracer

Monday, 2 April 2018

Easter Sunday Spectra Tiling

Well we are at it again with more decoration, eventually the footage will go up but this was a wet day but things were productive. I mean there was more people helping out and banter was all in. Sit back, read on and maybe watch what went on.


Insert Vlog here


Waking up to the delay. 

It was about so and so am,actually normal time, I was up after those cute night chats and also buying her Chinese food a few days before since she wants to be 40 stone and is a cute 26 stone, but hey, things might get better with her. But I got up and then a shower was ready. Which after the shower, I saw some nice Easter eggs, with also winning prizes for a hat competition in work on the Good Friday.

The hat my mum customized

She won the competition for it 

The easter eggs as I woke up
Then I was about to run down and Torhcy then said he would be ready by 11:15, so it was a quick match of fortnite and building and also getting 4th place. But it was then a quick #dogwalkingwithomracer before returning from the field at 11am and then my dad decided to drop me down to lidl and torchy was already there. So we got in his car and he checked tweets while we were waiting for another member.


The Drive and chatter. 


He eventually turned up and then after we had to drop off his car then we got to drive to his, with nice hip hop and catchup chatter for their end and also for other things about plans and there was a vlog that was started. But the roads were wet and traffic was quite busy to be fair. Eventually we got there and then it was time to start on getting this project underway. 

The decorating. 


Well this was with the tiling, with diy things to get done and some top banter, from live streams and twitter feeds too. But we got footage done on how it was getting along. But we were going for about 2 hours before it was time for a mini trip out. 



The start of the Tiling 

The trip out. 


As we were decorating, we were running out pads and also other bits and pieces, we decided for a Road trip, which was to a few places...

Transit Troubles.

Well, our first stop was to Transit way, which we googled and thought was closed and maybe should of gotten fuel but we drove there and it looked like a deserted puddle, empty and wet. But we parked up and I ran to Tesco and it was actually closed, I ran back to the car and this chap said "Sainsbury's by the roundabout", so that was where i think it was, which was by the flyover. 

Sainsbury's shenanigans:

We drove to the flyover, with the highway road back in play and we managed to get in lane to get to the Sainsbury's, the car park was not empty but then we vlogged were made it there and hype when it was actually closed.

the flags of a store thats closed. 
But we then go off to Costa in Marsh mills for a 3pm lunch. We went to the drive thru, but that was after we have a trip to halfords, which was for double sided tape and also for some other bitaa. From then we got some Bacon baps for £2.00, Since it was costa, i didn't get anything. But then we went to fuel up. 


Tesco Top ups. 

So, for the next bit, we went to somewhere a bit more easy. A tesco express which was actually pretty packed. But we got out and then various things were bought, from peperami to sushi and others between. But Chicken sushi for £1 is ideal. 


The chicken sushi for £1.00


But then we had to head back to the flat but head back to tesco to get things for torchy's fiance, but then we drove back and carried on work.

The Streams of decorating. 

We carried on and things were going preoductive and great. But we eventually ran out of adhesive glue. So i popped down to Co Op to get one, and well a run in a rain and for £2.79 for glue + £1.02 fort a egg and cress sandwich, it was nice. 

The glue and the sandwich

Then the streams were the fun part, Mi Life got us 93 viewers, Insta live got 25 and these 2 streams  as well.







The room was looking actually great.

Torchy and the streaming room's progress


But alas all things come to an end when its about 8pm and we decided it was the end. Now torchy dropped me and Chris off, while listening to chillout music and also chats that were deep but it made me realize how far for my love life has to go to get thing better, but with the event in April. Times will change or i'm stabbed to death, we will see where it goes. .

But then I got home about 8:50 and it was a nice roast turkey before heading to bed and chatting to a the same cute girl from this morning. but time to go....

omracer