Our last task for MPI104 was to look into counters for our blogs. Now why would a counter be useful, simply to know whether or not your blog is popular. If you have a high hit number then clearly your blog is popular and must be an interesting read to people out there, and if sadly you have quite a low number then maybe your blog isn't doing quite so well and the counter might be a wake up call to be more creative or interesting.
Is there anything you would like to know about who visits your blog? the answer yes. what type of people eg. are my blogs reaching my intended audiences and are the visitors people I don't like who are checking out their competition...
So way back in last term I put a counter on my blog and it was increasing slowly but steadily though the look of the counter itself I've never been happy with as it always sat vertically rather than horizontlly and looked a little silly so I have now rectified that. The counter I was using was from the website 100% Free Counters, the list of 50 things we needed to do for the last assesment had counter on there so I just went to google typed in counters and took the first option (in hind sight probably should have looked around a little bit more).
Anyway I have changed my counter to be the one from Sitemeter and as I my old counter was already at 138 hits I decided to make my starting number that on the sitemeter counter, even though the stats will go from zero.
As I haven't had this counter very long I have no idea where the hits come from or how they are referred to my site nor where do they come from, whether google refers them or how long they stay. Though I feel that in the future these statistics will be very interesting to look at and will help me improve my blog.
So with my Flickr account I can tell how many views each of my photo's has had (other then my own) but it doesn't tell me who the visitors were, though if some one leaves a comment on a photo it tells me who left it and put there display pic up as well so obviously that tells me they were a visitor. On Flickr I can also see if any of my images have been saved as favourite as well as who saved them as a favourite!
I can also see recent activity with my photos for up to a month which is cool!
With Del.icio.us you can see down the side of your page who has added you to their network so they are clearly visitors. Also sites saved by other people especially for you would indicate they are a visitor as they know the types of sites you are interested in! Otherwise I can't really see any other way of knowing if someone has visited my delicious account or not.
I will keep trying to learn more about my visitors but for the mean time I feel I have fulfilled this task.
Peace out!
P.S. for anyone interested my Technorati Authority is now: 14 and my Rank is: 381,304 YAY for me!
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Technorati
So for this week we had to create our own Technorati account, at first I was confused as I had no idea what the heck Technorati was. After having a look at the website and talking to fellow classates who had previously signed up for it I kind of started to understand it.
Technorati seems to be a kind of search engine - the article on Wikipedia says it is and works the same as Google. In some ways I think Technorati is similar to Google as it does work along the lines of a search engine only rather than searching through every websites tags for what you are looking for, it only searches through registered blogs for whatever you are looking for.
At the moment my Authority is 10 and my Rank is 517,486. My authority (which is a horrible word!) means how many people have saved my blog as a favourite and my rank is where I come in the technorati ranking system for the most amount of authority and favourites...I think. The smaller your Rank number the closer to the top you are.
Over the next few weeks I will keep watch on my authority and rank number to see if it improves. If you would like to see my Technorati then feel free to have a look!
Technorati seems to be a kind of search engine - the article on Wikipedia says it is and works the same as Google. In some ways I think Technorati is similar to Google as it does work along the lines of a search engine only rather than searching through every websites tags for what you are looking for, it only searches through registered blogs for whatever you are looking for.
At the moment my Authority is 10 and my Rank is 517,486. My authority (which is a horrible word!) means how many people have saved my blog as a favourite and my rank is where I come in the technorati ranking system for the most amount of authority and favourites...I think. The smaller your Rank number the closer to the top you are.
Over the next few weeks I will keep watch on my authority and rank number to see if it improves. If you would like to see my Technorati then feel free to have a look!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Aesthetics...?
What is Aesthic?
Answers.com defines aesthics as "An artistically beautiful or pleasing appearance" which I feel is a good start to the understanding of what aesthics means. I feel there are many componants within defining aethetics such as there should be quality within the look, it should be pleasing visually and the overall feel should be one that doesn't make you feel violenty ill! Aethics is ultimately all about the way something looks and whether or not the viewer finds it attractive or not.
Aestheically pleasing website...
I think the Splendour in the Grass website is one that is visually pleasing, especially for my age group. It uses bright fun colours on a black background but keeps the colours to a minimum of 3 - pink and green for text and red for the fruit. I think it is a lively website that makes you think feel like Splendour is going to be fun weekend outdoors but is not overpowering. It has rotating images of the headlining artists which looks good and is informing at the same time.
I think that Accept Jesus, Forever Forgive is quite possibly the worst website ever for aethtics, this site makes me feel violently ill just being there. The biggest piece of crap I have ever seen with constant flashing background in the colours of the rainbow. What were these people thinking? Apart from that it only has a cluster of links to other pages within the site etc. at the top of the page nothing at all what so ever describing the site or anything. This is a piece of rubbish!
What makes a good website is firstly the content contained within the pages followed by the way it looks, whether or not it is visually pleasing or makes you want to vomit! Also whether or not a site is easy to navigate around and that it is quick at downloading each page.
The difference between web aesthetics and print aesthetics is mainly the font style, as websites need fairly standard font so everyone can read it from all computers as well as it not looking retarded on the screen as it might if it was in cursive script and wouldn't be very easy to read. Where as print is hardcopy so it can have all kinds of fonts and be legiable. Also print can have more detailed images as it doesn't need to consider bandwidth!
Answers.com defines aesthics as "An artistically beautiful or pleasing appearance" which I feel is a good start to the understanding of what aesthics means. I feel there are many componants within defining aethetics such as there should be quality within the look, it should be pleasing visually and the overall feel should be one that doesn't make you feel violenty ill! Aethics is ultimately all about the way something looks and whether or not the viewer finds it attractive or not.
Aestheically pleasing website...
I think the Splendour in the Grass website is one that is visually pleasing, especially for my age group. It uses bright fun colours on a black background but keeps the colours to a minimum of 3 - pink and green for text and red for the fruit. I think it is a lively website that makes you think feel like Splendour is going to be fun weekend outdoors but is not overpowering. It has rotating images of the headlining artists which looks good and is informing at the same time.
I think that Accept Jesus, Forever Forgive is quite possibly the worst website ever for aethtics, this site makes me feel violently ill just being there. The biggest piece of crap I have ever seen with constant flashing background in the colours of the rainbow. What were these people thinking? Apart from that it only has a cluster of links to other pages within the site etc. at the top of the page nothing at all what so ever describing the site or anything. This is a piece of rubbish!
What makes a good website is firstly the content contained within the pages followed by the way it looks, whether or not it is visually pleasing or makes you want to vomit! Also whether or not a site is easy to navigate around and that it is quick at downloading each page.
The difference between web aesthetics and print aesthetics is mainly the font style, as websites need fairly standard font so everyone can read it from all computers as well as it not looking retarded on the screen as it might if it was in cursive script and wouldn't be very easy to read. Where as print is hardcopy so it can have all kinds of fonts and be legiable. Also print can have more detailed images as it doesn't need to consider bandwidth!
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Time to summarize for Assessment 1 MPI104-2007
Alright so it is now that time of the term where we are due to be assessed on the work we have done for this class and I am to detail what I have done in this post. It is probably of no interest to anyone except Johannes or whoever marks it, unless you are looking to see how I have set things out, in that case have a squiz and also look at the Metablog for what you are to write about!
For this assignment I had to create a Gmail, Blogger, Flickr and Del.icio.us accounts. I was to go through the checklist and complete tasks (detailed below) as well as show interestingness within my findings. I also had to get involved with the online communities which I feel I have been within the MPI104 classes as well as outside these.
To begin with I need to talk about how my Blog, Del.icio.us and Flickr accounts have been interesting. I feel they have all been interesting as I haven't just stuck with the same topics and styles of sites the whole way through. I've written on different topics, I found many different websites in lots of different areas, and I have hosted lots of different photo's from different events in my life. I've tried to make my accounts broad but also at the same time show an insight to what I am interested in, not just what I think might interest others!
I have frequently added and updated and tried to do the 10 hours a week requirement and I feel I have achieved this, though it is hard to tell as up until Thursday just gone I was on dial up at home and it took a lot longer to do things there then here.
BLOGGER: My Blog account - Vivalin's Blog
☑ user has links in sidebar
☑ user has more than the minimum posts
☑ user has links in posts
☑ user has commented on other people’s posts
☑ user has updated profile
☑ user has uploaded picture for profile
☑ user has experimented with templates
☑ user has experimented with fonts
☑ user has experimented with colours
☑ user has picture/s in post/s
☑ posts have titles
☑ blog has description
☑ has added a list or other page element to their blog
❑ has listed on technorati or similar service
☑ has counter
Initially when we made our blogger, I was like "yep another blog... (as I already used MySpace to blog with)" but I've come to realise it is a lot handier then MySpace at times as it has more features ie. using Flickr to create posts, better layout, easier to archive. I feel I have done well with my blogging for this assessment and have progressed with my style of writing (cutting out some of the rambling) as well as the subjects I write on. I am most please with the following posts: Splendour in the Grass, Something a little more interesting maybe?! and Last post for Assessment 1!. I think all in all I have done 16 posts, which I believe is quite good. I have even done a couple of posts using Flickr to get to Blogger!
Aesthetically at first I was using a template with green as it's theme (as I prefer simple styles) but change to a pink themed one a little while ago. I have put in side links, as well as uploaded an image to the blog and my profile. I also have included a Del.icio.us link roll on the side and a tag one at the bottom of the page (which is in blue writing and partly the reason I changed the template to pink as I felt they went better together), I also put up a slide show of images of my friends and I just to personalise it a bit more.
I have tried to tag each blog according to what I was writing on, and hope I have done it correctly. I've consistently gone and read others blogs from the MPI104 classes and made comments. Occasionally having to use this as a form of "chatting" with someone!
FLICKR: My Flickr account - Vivalin
☑has uploaded pictures
☑has progressively uploaded more pictures
☑ pictures have titles
☑ pictures have descriptions
☑ pictures have MPI104-2007 tag
☑ pictures have tags other than MPI104-2007
☑ user has joined MPI104-2007 group
☑ user has pushed picture/s to MPI104-2007 group
☑ user has contacts
☑ user has joined other groups
☑ user has nominated favorites
☑ user has commented on other user’s pictures
☑ user has profile
☑ user has flickr post on their blog
☑ user has posted working link to this post (or flickr account) on metablog
I created my Flickr account before we set it up in class (only the weekend before mind!) as I had just put my photos from overseas on to the computer and wanted to share them with my friends and they were all using Flickr because of the tagging set up. I really enjoy using Flickr I think it is a great tool for the web to be able to host and show my images to people anywhere in the world and to find other people with similar interests in the style/subject matter of their photos!
Aesthetically I played around with the different formats they had, but as it is a free account they were fairly limited. I chose small images ( I wanted to show more on a page) with sets down the side, I don't like the fact that free accounts get a maximum of 3 sets, I think thats rubbish!
I commented on a few images that I liked or made me laugh: Hannah's Flickr, Erin's Flickr, Matt's Flickr. Also on Flickr I made sure to tag all of my photo's with what they were about ie. For my trip through Europe I mark the appropriate ones with MPI104-2007, along with where the photo was taken (city) and with topdeckgrandeuropeanoct2006 as this was so my fellow travellers on this tour could find and view my photo's just like I had found theirs by searching for that tag.
As I said before I've been uploading images from my trip through Europe as my fellow travellers on the tour I did have all used Flickr to host their images so everyone on the tour can see them and all with the same tag. I've also put up some photo's from my adventures with friends from uni at parties and going out, along with images with my friends from back home and funny images to make people laugh that another mate found on the net with the main subject being animals.
DELICIOUS: My Del.icio.us account - Vivalin's Del.icio.us
☑ has saved bookmarks
☑ has progressively saved more bookmarks
☑ user has integrated delicious into their workflow as a tool
☑ bookmarks have descriptions
☑ bookmarks have tags
☑ user has bundled tags
☑ user has subscribed to tags
☑ appropriate bookmarks have MPI104-2007 tag
☑ user has joined a network
☑ user has saved links for others
☑ user has bookmarked their flickr home page
☑ user has bookmarked their blog home page
☑ user has delicious post in their blog
☑ user has posted working link to this post (or delicious account) on metablog
☑ user has included link roll (or rss feed) on their blog
At first I was a little dumbed out by what to make of Del.icio.us as it didn't really make sense, but after fiddeling around for a short while I worked out it was quite useful. I was able to search for a type of site and it would come up with a big lsit of other peoples and its saved time immensly as most people are only going to save useful sites and it is a lot easier then trudging through all the sites search engines bring up.
So far I have 35 bookmarks saved, but I'm sure this will grow as I keep using. I've saved the regular sites that interest me (mainly bands), but also saved sites about fire twirling as I am beginning to get into this and Del.icio.us was a great place to look for good sites, I've saved bookmarks for Harry Potter fan sites as they keep up to date info from all Harry Potter related sites, and is particularly useful to ind out hidden knowledge for the up coming last book! I've also bookmarked sites that intergrate with my workflow ie. Photobucket, ImageShack etc. a long with sites to do with getting a forklift license as my dad wants me to get one and a site for vegetarian recipes so I can find appealing meals and ask my mum to cook them for me.
I've found Del.icio.us to be the hardest to get into so far but am slowly getting there and gradually understanding what it's all about and am keen to keep using it!
Overall I feel I have completed this task well, I've done nearly all of the checklist points (minus technorati as I wasn't sure what this was) but have at least attempted to try most things and put in the hours! I hope my hard work and effort will also display "interestingness" and be graded accordingly, if not it was a good learning curve!
For this assignment I had to create a Gmail, Blogger, Flickr and Del.icio.us accounts. I was to go through the checklist and complete tasks (detailed below) as well as show interestingness within my findings. I also had to get involved with the online communities which I feel I have been within the MPI104 classes as well as outside these.
To begin with I need to talk about how my Blog, Del.icio.us and Flickr accounts have been interesting. I feel they have all been interesting as I haven't just stuck with the same topics and styles of sites the whole way through. I've written on different topics, I found many different websites in lots of different areas, and I have hosted lots of different photo's from different events in my life. I've tried to make my accounts broad but also at the same time show an insight to what I am interested in, not just what I think might interest others!
I have frequently added and updated and tried to do the 10 hours a week requirement and I feel I have achieved this, though it is hard to tell as up until Thursday just gone I was on dial up at home and it took a lot longer to do things there then here.
BLOGGER: My Blog account - Vivalin's Blog
☑ user has links in sidebar
☑ user has more than the minimum posts
☑ user has links in posts
☑ user has commented on other people’s posts
☑ user has updated profile
☑ user has uploaded picture for profile
☑ user has experimented with templates
☑ user has experimented with fonts
☑ user has experimented with colours
☑ user has picture/s in post/s
☑ posts have titles
☑ blog has description
☑ has added a list or other page element to their blog
❑ has listed on technorati or similar service
☑ has counter
Initially when we made our blogger, I was like "yep another blog... (as I already used MySpace to blog with)" but I've come to realise it is a lot handier then MySpace at times as it has more features ie. using Flickr to create posts, better layout, easier to archive. I feel I have done well with my blogging for this assessment and have progressed with my style of writing (cutting out some of the rambling) as well as the subjects I write on. I am most please with the following posts: Splendour in the Grass, Something a little more interesting maybe?! and Last post for Assessment 1!. I think all in all I have done 16 posts, which I believe is quite good. I have even done a couple of posts using Flickr to get to Blogger!
Aesthetically at first I was using a template with green as it's theme (as I prefer simple styles) but change to a pink themed one a little while ago. I have put in side links, as well as uploaded an image to the blog and my profile. I also have included a Del.icio.us link roll on the side and a tag one at the bottom of the page (which is in blue writing and partly the reason I changed the template to pink as I felt they went better together), I also put up a slide show of images of my friends and I just to personalise it a bit more.
I have tried to tag each blog according to what I was writing on, and hope I have done it correctly. I've consistently gone and read others blogs from the MPI104 classes and made comments. Occasionally having to use this as a form of "chatting" with someone!
FLICKR: My Flickr account - Vivalin
☑has uploaded pictures
☑has progressively uploaded more pictures
☑ pictures have titles
☑ pictures have descriptions
☑ pictures have MPI104-2007 tag
☑ pictures have tags other than MPI104-2007
☑ user has joined MPI104-2007 group
☑ user has pushed picture/s to MPI104-2007 group
☑ user has contacts
☑ user has joined other groups
☑ user has nominated favorites
☑ user has commented on other user’s pictures
☑ user has profile
☑ user has flickr post on their blog
☑ user has posted working link to this post (or flickr account) on metablog
I created my Flickr account before we set it up in class (only the weekend before mind!) as I had just put my photos from overseas on to the computer and wanted to share them with my friends and they were all using Flickr because of the tagging set up. I really enjoy using Flickr I think it is a great tool for the web to be able to host and show my images to people anywhere in the world and to find other people with similar interests in the style/subject matter of their photos!
Aesthetically I played around with the different formats they had, but as it is a free account they were fairly limited. I chose small images ( I wanted to show more on a page) with sets down the side, I don't like the fact that free accounts get a maximum of 3 sets, I think thats rubbish!
I commented on a few images that I liked or made me laugh: Hannah's Flickr, Erin's Flickr, Matt's Flickr. Also on Flickr I made sure to tag all of my photo's with what they were about ie. For my trip through Europe I mark the appropriate ones with MPI104-2007, along with where the photo was taken (city) and with topdeckgrandeuropeanoct2006 as this was so my fellow travellers on this tour could find and view my photo's just like I had found theirs by searching for that tag.
As I said before I've been uploading images from my trip through Europe as my fellow travellers on the tour I did have all used Flickr to host their images so everyone on the tour can see them and all with the same tag. I've also put up some photo's from my adventures with friends from uni at parties and going out, along with images with my friends from back home and funny images to make people laugh that another mate found on the net with the main subject being animals.
DELICIOUS: My Del.icio.us account - Vivalin's Del.icio.us
☑ has saved bookmarks
☑ has progressively saved more bookmarks
☑ user has integrated delicious into their workflow as a tool
☑ bookmarks have descriptions
☑ bookmarks have tags
☑ user has bundled tags
☑ user has subscribed to tags
☑ appropriate bookmarks have MPI104-2007 tag
☑ user has joined a network
☑ user has saved links for others
☑ user has bookmarked their flickr home page
☑ user has bookmarked their blog home page
☑ user has delicious post in their blog
☑ user has posted working link to this post (or delicious account) on metablog
☑ user has included link roll (or rss feed) on their blog
At first I was a little dumbed out by what to make of Del.icio.us as it didn't really make sense, but after fiddeling around for a short while I worked out it was quite useful. I was able to search for a type of site and it would come up with a big lsit of other peoples and its saved time immensly as most people are only going to save useful sites and it is a lot easier then trudging through all the sites search engines bring up.
So far I have 35 bookmarks saved, but I'm sure this will grow as I keep using. I've saved the regular sites that interest me (mainly bands), but also saved sites about fire twirling as I am beginning to get into this and Del.icio.us was a great place to look for good sites, I've saved bookmarks for Harry Potter fan sites as they keep up to date info from all Harry Potter related sites, and is particularly useful to ind out hidden knowledge for the up coming last book! I've also bookmarked sites that intergrate with my workflow ie. Photobucket, ImageShack etc. a long with sites to do with getting a forklift license as my dad wants me to get one and a site for vegetarian recipes so I can find appealing meals and ask my mum to cook them for me.
I've found Del.icio.us to be the hardest to get into so far but am slowly getting there and gradually understanding what it's all about and am keen to keep using it!
Overall I feel I have completed this task well, I've done nearly all of the checklist points (minus technorati as I wasn't sure what this was) but have at least attempted to try most things and put in the hours! I hope my hard work and effort will also display "interestingness" and be graded accordingly, if not it was a good learning curve!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Last post for Assessment 1!
Well this is my final post for my MPA104 Assessment 1 and I was trying to think of what to write and to make one final attempt and writing an interesting post and suddenly thought “hey, maybe I could write a blog post on what interestingness (which by the way is not a word) really is". Easier said then done.
My first stop was at Wikipedia. Wiki is a really good online encyclopedia type of website and is often a really good place to start assignments from (though not to cite for an essay as it is not up to University standard of being a reliable source) or at least be pointed in the right direction.
The first thing Wiki gave me for the search “interesting” was the Flickr site, which I found slightly amusing but didn’t feel this was what I wanted to write my blog on.
Next I tried searching for “interestingness” and Wiki brought up related pages which were mainly about interest rates and some on human interest and public interest topics, these may be interesting but it would depend on the content of what the issue they were discussing and again were not really what I was searching for to create this final post about.
Thus I gave up and decided I could not find anything worth while to write my final post on interesting about, but didn’t want to leave this post at that. So I have decided to write a little bit about what I’ve been doing in the hope it will be of some interest (Oh my God, can I write interesting any more times!).
Well to begin with I have now moved back into Stewards B Block! And it is still really great and it has been fantastic to see all my friends again, I can’t believe how much I have missed them and it was only a 3 week break!
Last term everyone brought with them belongings from their rooms at home to make their Stewards room feel more homely and I guess to make them less homesick as well as helping them settle in easier. Me being the type to not think about stuff like went “Pfft! As if I need those things, I’ll be right, there’s no need!” and I was alright, it’s not like I died or anything but I did miss being around some of my belongings I was used to seeing every day. This time around I have brought back with me so much stuff it’s ridiculous. I have successfully unpack (minus connecting my printer yet) and have decorated my room with posters and photos, as well as memento’s from my trip abroad to Europe last year, so I have all my shot glasses on my shelves that I collected from every country I visited while I was away! Other than moving back I’ve also been taking a new path in the styles of music I listen too.
During the holidays I went through a massive Beatles stage, I’ve always enjoyed liste
ning to the Beatles but really only knew off their number 1 hits. I like most styles of music, usually I listen to punk, rock, indie, alternative so this was a little of the normal track for me. My favourite song by the Beatles is “I am the walrus” which just before the holidays Elise and I constantly played/ sang while we studied/ did folio work for Crazy Lady class and I think this is what lead me to have to keep listening to them, I also found my friend had put quite a few of the Beatles albums on to my Ipod which was handy!
They are my mum’s favourite band and anytime we were on long car journey they were our compromise as I couldn’t handle her listening to talk back radio and she couldn’t stand listening to my normal music. I also wanted to learn more about the “Fab Four” so Googled them and got the official site which gave a quite good though brief overview look at the biography of the Beatles, I really enjoyed reading this style of writing as it was brief yet informative and well written! I did want to see if I could find something else on them and found this good Fan Site which gave a longer biography of them as well as lots of little snippets of information and trivia facts.
As well as going back in time and listening to the Beatles, I also started getting into dance/ house music which I think may be due to the fact living here in Wagga and going out so much there are so many Sydney/ Canberra folk who listen to this genre and it has rubbed off on me. During the holidays I really got in The Presets which I think are a Melbourne band and are fantastic to dance too I’m particularly fond of their tracks “Are you the one?” and “I go hard, I go home”.
Another good Aussie dance band I was listening to quite frequently is Sneaky Sound System who are from Sydney and they are brilliant I absolutely love their songs “Pictures”, “UFO” and “I love it” they are great tracks to have played whilst out dancing the night away!
I am really enjoying listening to these different styles of music that generally I would have just brushed to one side and never given a chance! I’m loving learning about new things, it’s great!
This is Viv signing off for MPA104 Assessment 1 (even though I have to write another post for Johannes to actually pass!)
My first stop was at Wikipedia. Wiki is a really good online encyclopedia type of website and is often a really good place to start assignments from (though not to cite for an essay as it is not up to University standard of being a reliable source) or at least be pointed in the right direction.
The first thing Wiki gave me for the search “interesting” was the Flickr site, which I found slightly amusing but didn’t feel this was what I wanted to write my blog on.
Next I tried searching for “interestingness” and Wiki brought up related pages which were mainly about interest rates and some on human interest and public interest topics, these may be interesting but it would depend on the content of what the issue they were discussing and again were not really what I was searching for to create this final post about.
Thus I gave up and decided I could not find anything worth while to write my final post on interesting about, but didn’t want to leave this post at that. So I have decided to write a little bit about what I’ve been doing in the hope it will be of some interest (Oh my God, can I write interesting any more times!).
Well to begin with I have now moved back into Stewards B Block! And it is still really great and it has been fantastic to see all my friends again, I can’t believe how much I have missed them and it was only a 3 week break!
Last term everyone brought with them belongings from their rooms at home to make their Stewards room feel more homely and I guess to make them less homesick as well as helping them settle in easier. Me being the type to not think about stuff like went “Pfft! As if I need those things, I’ll be right, there’s no need!” and I was alright, it’s not like I died or anything but I did miss being around some of my belongings I was used to seeing every day. This time around I have brought back with me so much stuff it’s ridiculous. I have successfully unpack (minus connecting my printer yet) and have decorated my room with posters and photos, as well as memento’s from my trip abroad to Europe last year, so I have all my shot glasses on my shelves that I collected from every country I visited while I was away! Other than moving back I’ve also been taking a new path in the styles of music I listen too.
During the holidays I went through a massive Beatles stage, I’ve always enjoyed liste
ning to the Beatles but really only knew off their number 1 hits. I like most styles of music, usually I listen to punk, rock, indie, alternative so this was a little of the normal track for me. My favourite song by the Beatles is “I am the walrus” which just before the holidays Elise and I constantly played/ sang while we studied/ did folio work for Crazy Lady class and I think this is what lead me to have to keep listening to them, I also found my friend had put quite a few of the Beatles albums on to my Ipod which was handy!They are my mum’s favourite band and anytime we were on long car journey they were our compromise as I couldn’t handle her listening to talk back radio and she couldn’t stand listening to my normal music. I also wanted to learn more about the “Fab Four” so Googled them and got the official site which gave a quite good though brief overview look at the biography of the Beatles, I really enjoyed reading this style of writing as it was brief yet informative and well written! I did want to see if I could find something else on them and found this good Fan Site which gave a longer biography of them as well as lots of little snippets of information and trivia facts.
As well as going back in time and listening to the Beatles, I also started getting into dance/ house music which I think may be due to the fact living here in Wagga and going out so much there are so many Sydney/ Canberra folk who listen to this genre and it has rubbed off on me. During the holidays I really got in The Presets which I think are a Melbourne band and are fantastic to dance too I’m particularly fond of their tracks “Are you the one?” and “I go hard, I go home”.
Another good Aussie dance band I was listening to quite frequently is Sneaky Sound System who are from Sydney and they are brilliant I absolutely love their songs “Pictures”, “UFO” and “I love it” they are great tracks to have played whilst out dancing the night away!
I am really enjoying listening to these different styles of music that generally I would have just brushed to one side and never given a chance! I’m loving learning about new things, it’s great!
This is Viv signing off for MPA104 Assessment 1 (even though I have to write another post for Johannes to actually pass!)
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
something a little more interesting maybe?!
Hello fellow bloggers/readers! How are we all? I'm not too bad, am still stressing a little that I haven't done my work thoroughly enough and that my things aren't interesting. So in another attempt to create interestingness I've decided to put a small bit of my art work I did at the end of Year12 but not for my VCE.
I finished Year 12 in 2005, and as I was applying for uni courses that were all in the area of the arts I, like I'm sure most of you had to do, had to have interviews and show my folio at the different universities I was appyling for.
Now one uni/course, aside from wanting an interview and a look at my folio also set us the task of creating a story board to send in before our interviews. Now we were given four; for lack of a better word "topics" which were:
- Don't look down
- End of the line
- The fan
- and there was a fourth but I have forgotten it.
There were some guidelines to this story board it had to be told in 10 frames, using drawing, collage or photography as the medium. The last two frames needed to tell a moral to the story or be a twist or something along those lines.
I decided to choose the "topic" The Fan, and most things that come to mind when you hear those words are like a football fan or a fan of a band or something like that. I started thinking along a different line of like ceiling fans or air cons and then it came to me, pedestal fans! From there I created the story of my friend Mulla falling in love with this Pedestal Fan and dating it on a date.
So I have created a slide show with the photographs I took for this task and put them in this blog for you to view. As it's on a bit of a loop the first image to view from is that of my friend offering flowers to the Pedestal Fan at the front door.
Let me know what you think etc.
Enjoy!
I finished Year 12 in 2005, and as I was applying for uni courses that were all in the area of the arts I, like I'm sure most of you had to do, had to have interviews and show my folio at the different universities I was appyling for.
Now one uni/course, aside from wanting an interview and a look at my folio also set us the task of creating a story board to send in before our interviews. Now we were given four; for lack of a better word "topics" which were:
- Don't look down
- End of the line
- The fan
- and there was a fourth but I have forgotten it.
There were some guidelines to this story board it had to be told in 10 frames, using drawing, collage or photography as the medium. The last two frames needed to tell a moral to the story or be a twist or something along those lines.
I decided to choose the "topic" The Fan, and most things that come to mind when you hear those words are like a football fan or a fan of a band or something like that. I started thinking along a different line of like ceiling fans or air cons and then it came to me, pedestal fans! From there I created the story of my friend Mulla falling in love with this Pedestal Fan and dating it on a date.
So I have created a slide show with the photographs I took for this task and put them in this blog for you to view. As it's on a bit of a loop the first image to view from is that of my friend offering flowers to the Pedestal Fan at the front door.
Let me know what you think etc.
Enjoy!
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