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Class Reflection

When I first started this class, I was really excited to start writing about myself and my art works and keep up a daily blog just to gather my mind and stuff.

The projects we had in class really made me think about how I would design my own pages and writing style. I've found that it's really difficult to design a page in which would be easy for an audience to navigate through. This class also got me into twitter and it became a necessity of my life. Currently, I'm trying to save one of my favorite shows, SMASH, from being cancelled and I never knew that twitter could be so powerful. Because CEO's and presidents of network shows ARE on twitter and it's just amazing to hear that shows have been saved through things like hash tagging. Overall, I was somewhat pleased with the class. I enjoyed the conversations that our class has and it always gets me thinking.

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Remix Final Reflecltion

What I learned from this project is that the subject of copyright stuff is very iffy and it is very controversial.

Defense:

The purpose for my video is to inspire people especially kids. And using a scene from a very well known Disney movie should make it easier for people to connect to it. The video has very inspirational words of encouragement. My video is also pointing fingers at the haters who hate on movies like these. I mean what is so wrong to have something that inspires people. I guess my video IS more for the haters than others. I've just gotten quite fed up with people saying that these celebs should die or drown themselves. Those people have dreams too. And because they're living their dreams, why be the "bad guy" and just tell them to die? Why? That just doesn't make any sense. Especially with Justin Bieber. He had his own movie showing that he DID do music since he was little, and he did want to do music for the rest of his life. And what most people did was bash on him.

I believe that this should be fair enough of the use of these clips, because I'm putting them together and changing the meaning of these clips with the mixture of edits I've made.

Remix Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yldm6a4EYz8

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What I want to get back from my group's discussion is where I can go with the ideas that I already have. Right now I'm a little spacey and my head hurts because I can't stop blowing my nose for the past week. So I haven't been able to think straight.

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Video Project Plans

Idea: What I want to focus on or portray is "permission" to pirate. Where this is coming from is that during some celebrity interview videos that I've watched, questions have came up about if they are okay with people/fans pirating their music. And most of them, Lady Gaga and Demi Lovato, said that the REASON why they make music is so that people can experience their songs and just enjoy them. And they both agree that they don't really care if people pirate their music or not.

Video: The video would consist of clips of "political people" talking about how pirating music is really bad and that nobody should be doing it while something pirated plays in the background or under the clips.

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What a Viewer Sees On My Page....

What they would see first is the Twitter widget that I have placed on my page. Reason why is because it is a really big widget (can't miss it) and because that is the only thing I have so far on my page.

But actually, I think the first thing someone would see is my home page's banner and then the title of my page which has a sky blue color font. Because my page's banner is more contrasty than the title of my page, it would make sense that they would notice my banner first before my vaguely colored title.

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Good Ways To Promote Yourself Online~

Have an Easy to navigate page.

Put yourself on popular social media websites like twitter, facebook or tumblr.

Link your page to your other pages.

It's always good to tag/hash tag your posts so that someone will be able to see your page when someone types in a keyword that matches your tags.

Update your social media pages frequently. (to show that you are active and to show that you are a human who DOES have a life other than their career)

You can make things easier for yourself if you link your facebook page to your twitter and tumblr. (that way, when you post something on one page, the post will automatically be linked on your other pages)

Have separate pages with different contents. (doing this will give your audience a purpose to follow your other pages)

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Q: What have you learned re: portraying professional artistic identity online that you'd like to remember and/or apply with your own?

A: I did not learn things that I don't already know. But what I got from this project was that I should also think about the little small details on a page and my pages because just the smallest thing can tick off your audience. And that is not what you actually want to happen. One of the many things that caught my interest in my research for project one was that my artist has such a freak'n simple site, and it still shows enough to give you an idea about the artist.

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Project One (Final)

Victo Ngai

You know what is interesting? That moment when you feel embarrassed about yourself. So I spent like two whole weeks on designing my personal artist website. I thought it was the shit and I was really proud of myself when I finished it yesterday. But then, I went and see how other artists design their web pages. That moment… All of their pages looked so good! And here I went and thought that my page was the shit, but it turns out that it was not…

Victo Ngai is an illustrator for american medias. He have done quite alot of professional artworks for the New York Times and such franchises like McDonalds. And being the professional that he is, he knows how to present himself online too. His website and tumblr shows that he’s got what it takes to make it in this business.

His website, is his online portfolio. It is where he show all his works all in one place. If you were to go to his page, you can see that it is very clean and very organized. Instead of putting tabs on the left side of the page or on the right side of the page, he just used tumbnails that sums up/highlights each individual works in his career. Keeping it simple as it is, he provides the audience a better experience of browsing through his website.

 I know from experience that using thumbnails is really great because it makes the viewer want to click on the thumbnail to see what the actual full image would look like. And once you click on an image, it navigates you towards where you can see the image in full high quality with descriptions to go with them. And because it's so easy to navigate, you can always press the ‘Backspace’ key to take you back to the main page. Having such an easy experience with his page made me feel at ease and it makes it seem like it is not a lot of work to navigate through someone’s collection of works. And that is very important when you are promoting youself on the web. And to top it off, he even includes his process on getting to the final stage.

Not only does he have a presence on his own website, he also has a presence on tumblr and twitter. On his twitter account, he’d makes tweets about his day or what ever he finds humourous in his life. Examples of his posts would be "Going to see lion king the musical with my mom and dad". Doing posts like that shows that he is a human and he does have a life other than his career.He does posts every now and then. But enough to know show to his audience that he actually does exist. The tone he uses on his tweets are very good because it shows humor in his characteristic and a sense of professionalim.

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Revision Request

What I'm trying to work on is the tone and the grammar of my piece. I noticed that it has gotten bad. So can you help me fix the places that needs  grammar corrections? When I write, I tend to write like I am actually speaking. And when I speak, I tend to over think because the true meaning that I want to get across is really important to me.

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Possibly Two Intresting Leads For An Article

1) You know what is interesting? That moment when you feel embarrassed about yourself. So I spent like two whole weeks on designing my personal artist website. I thought it was the shit and I was really proud of myself when I finished it yesterday. But then, I went and see how other artists design their web pages. That moment... All of their pages looked so good! And here I went and thought that my page was the shit, but it turns out that it was not...

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Visual Deisgn Choices: Making Writing Visual

- I've used the typeface because it is the default and the only option for font I see. Or rather, there is no option to choose another type of font.

- I break into different paragraphs when I feel like I am starting to talk about another detail about what I was talking about.

- I did not see an option for margins and I do not know the html codes to play with margins.

- I have not included hyperlinks yet to any of the posts on this page, but having visual references might help get your point across faster.

- I'd use bullet points if I am making clear statements/ a list of clear statements.

How will this discussion inform your choices of visual design and organization in your next draft?

That discussion made me realize that I should look over my writing to see where i can separate things so that I can make my page more scan friendly.  Maybe I can break things up so that they look like bullet points maybe? I feel like writing it like in bullet point format  will make my post easier to look at and not make it look cluttery.

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Rhetorical Analysis

Victo Ngai

Victo Ngai is an illustrator for american medias. He have done quite alot of professional artworks for the New York Times and such franchises like McDonalds. Being the professional that he is, he doesn't even let his professionalism go in vain. His website and tumblr shows that he's got what it takes to make it in this business.

His website, http://victo-ngai.com/, is his online portfolio. It is where he shows all his works all in one place. If you were to go to his page, you can see that it is very clean and very organized. Instead of putting tabs on the left side of the page or on the right side of the page, he just used tumbnails that sums about each individual artworks. Keeping it simple as it is, it provides the audience a better experience of browsing through his website. And using the thumbnails is really great because it makes the viewer want to click on the thumbnail to see what the actual full image would look like. And once you click on an image, it navigates you towards where you can see the image in full high quality with descriptions to go with them. And since it's a simple navigation, you can always press the 'Backspace' key to take you back to the main page. Having such an easy experience with the page makes me feel at ease and it makes it seem like it is not a lot of work to navigate through someone's collection of works. And that is very important when you are promoting youself on the web. And to top it off, he even includes his process on getting to the final stage.

Not only does he have a presence on his own website, he also has a presence on tumblr, facebook and twitter. On his twitter account, he'd makes tweets about his day or what ever he finds humourous in his life. He does posts every now and then. But enough to know show to his audience that he actually does exist. The tone he uses on his tweets are very good because it shows humor in his characteristic and a sense of professionalim. By professionalism, I meant that he doesn't post random tweets and the word choices he used shows that he did something thinking before he tweeted.

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#3 Observations for Project one

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#2 Twitter Experiment Reflection

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Brainstorming Project One

What piqued my interest during the past three weeks of class was the self presentation some of us have online. The need or desire to make ourselves seem more interesting online than in our personal lives. We all do it all the time, and if some haven't yet, then they are probably lying. Or are they? What we post online becomes "significant" because it's something that all our online friends see even if they don't want to. People who post pictures every 5 mins are mostly popular or the most hated person on their social networking site. The reasoning is that, the more posts we make, the more interesting our lives becomes through other people's computer screens. Even if they were or weren't intentionally posting every 5 mins, JUST so that they can get likes that makes them feel good about themselves or just to pass off as a very outgoing and energetic person. What's obvious is that if you make a post every 5mins, SOMEONE is going to get annoyed, because your online friends are forced to see them (because everybody checks their social networking sites very often, so it's very hard to miss those who post that much).....

If you're going to make a professional page about yourself and your artwork, I believe that the safest route is to be breif enough as possible and at the same time not leaving out significant details. For a professional page, it's better if you just post things that is related to your profession. Of course, I know, that's the most obvious thing to do and say. But it's very easy to over post/ post unnecessary things. What you most definately should post is your background (the history of your career/profession including projects you have taken part of)..........