Search
Now that we're deep into our curation, my searching has almost come to a hault. Of course I'm always going to be looking for other things to create and enjoy, but right now it seems to me that my main focus is creating my actual page. I want my page to look organized and inviting
I guess you could say that I have been 'searching' for other types of examples to see how they organize and arrange their pages. I don't want something that is cluttered or annoying or too hard to learn. I'm trying to find the right website/tool to really express my love for what I'm doing.
Evaluate
One thing that I've started to notice is that it's going to be really hard to make all of these projects myself. Everything is going to take a lot of time, which frankly, I don't have a lot of at the end of the year. Trying to find the balance of what to make is hard because some of these materials are a little more expensive than what a high school senior tring to pay for college can afford. So I've decided that instead of making all of them, I'm going to make very detailed instructions and pictures to go along with them. Even though individually these crafts might be inexpensive, all together they really are quite expensive together.
Organize
So since I've come to this relization of how much money I would've had to spend, I need to now think of an interesting way to organize my page so it's interesting and it doesn't look like I'm uneducated in this subject. I want to make this page impressive, and I really want to love what my outcome is. As I have stated before, I'm a fairly organized person, and even though I don't look like it, I kinda like the preppy way of organization. I love clean cut, straight lines, and or course... Pastels. I want a page that screams 'you're going to have fun' with a mixture of 'you're going to learn'. I love that combination and I want to make that apparent.
Design
From doing this curation I have obviously learned a lot about how to do a curation, but I've also learned a lot about myself. I'm learning how I like to design a project. For instance, I find that I'm a way better smaller assignments type of person. I suck at pulling things like this together last minute. It's because I feel like a curation is an on-going conversation or a progressive thought. I would understandably have trouble with putting a full conversations worth of thoughts and ideas into one night, but I can crank out a paper in one night. I can do that because a paper is one thought that you need to elaborate on. I feel like the reason I like this project so much is because I'm able to go a little bipolar with it. It really makes me go into deeper and cooler places I've never been berfore.
Narrate
My next 3 steps that I have to take include:
1. Finding out how much I am really able to spend(if any) on this project - Listen, I'm saving up for college on top of the fact that I'm a cheap person. I don't want to go broke because I have to do a project for school (no offense). And taking more hours at the movie theatre honestly sounds like hell.
2. Write out the instructions in a clear and interesting way - I don't want people to run and hide because I have some text. I need to make things clean, quick and if I can, funny.
3. Finding a way to design my page - I want my page to be exciting, fun and thrifty. I want it to be eye-catching and one of a kind. I want this to be a beautiful page, and a labor of love.
I think that maybe one thing that could work more smoothly is my brain. My brain underestimated how much this was going to take. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the creativity here, but this is taking a lot more intensive thinking than I thought it would. I really love this project, and I want to make it into something that I'm proud of, I just want it to go well at the same time.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Curation Post #1: 5/8/13
Search
While searching online for my topic, I really thought about stuff that I love to do. I thought about Improv, and trying to make that into my project, but honestly it was just confusing, and seemed like it would take away all of the fun of Improv. Besides, you can't really teach improv, you need to do it.
So when I thought about the next best thing, I thought about my love for crafts. I spend a lot of my time looking online for cool things to create and call my own. I got the idea of my angle from the fact that I'm going to college next year. I want my angle to be things that you can find in a home, or for myself, a dorm. I want to make the place I live a crafty and comfortable place.
Evaluate
While searching for cool things to make, I've found many awesome things. Things that can be made cheaply, and efficiently. One thing that I really am interested in making is this:
http://pinterest.com/pin/168392473537417788/
It's a lamp that is made out of a strainer. I think that it is super original, and it really would be impressive. I don't know how to do wiring and electrical things, but I'm willing to learn to make that work.
Organize
I am a fairly organized person, but these craft projects help me become less rigid with my life. When I'm making a craft, I'm able to just be me and throw whatever I want where ever I want. When I do crafts, I like to make a ton of them, not just one. I'm almost a binge crafter. It actually gets a little insane. But when it comes down to it, I am organized with what I'm doing. I actually have a running Google Doc of things that I want to do. And honestly, I never follow instructions. I know that might end up badly sometimes, but I hate instructions. I just do what I think is right so it is truly mine.
Design
This week has provided me with a lot of information of what I actually want to do. I want to design fun things for your living space. I want my home and your home to feel like home. I want it to feel like yours. My website is not going to have places for you to buy what I have created... You have to do it yourself. I'm going to give descriptions of what steps to take, but in all honesty, you're going to be the one creating what you want to create.
I don't want this to be a textbook of creativity. I don't even think that exists.
Narrate
My next 3 steps that I have to take include:
1. Finding more interesting things to create - I really need to keep looking on websites such as Pinterest, Etsy, Wanelo & Tumblr. I think that those websites give great insight into things that I'm interested in.
2. Buy my materials - I'm really interested in keeping all of this extremely cost effective. You want your home to be crafty, not the Taj Mahal, and since I'm not made of money, I'm going to try and keep this as cheap as possible. I know I'm a cheapskate, but at least I can admit it, right?
3. Start crafting & documenting - In all honesty with this one I just need to pop in a Stand Up Comedy Marathon, and just work until my fingers fall off. Once I'm started, you can't stop me.
I think that one thing that could make this work more smoothly is getting all of the materials. I also need just some time. But that's not too hard. I'm a person that almost always needs to be doing something, so this shouldn't be a problem. Overall, I'm in love with this project so far.
While searching online for my topic, I really thought about stuff that I love to do. I thought about Improv, and trying to make that into my project, but honestly it was just confusing, and seemed like it would take away all of the fun of Improv. Besides, you can't really teach improv, you need to do it.
So when I thought about the next best thing, I thought about my love for crafts. I spend a lot of my time looking online for cool things to create and call my own. I got the idea of my angle from the fact that I'm going to college next year. I want my angle to be things that you can find in a home, or for myself, a dorm. I want to make the place I live a crafty and comfortable place.
Evaluate
While searching for cool things to make, I've found many awesome things. Things that can be made cheaply, and efficiently. One thing that I really am interested in making is this:
http://pinterest.com/pin/168392473537417788/
It's a lamp that is made out of a strainer. I think that it is super original, and it really would be impressive. I don't know how to do wiring and electrical things, but I'm willing to learn to make that work.
Organize
I am a fairly organized person, but these craft projects help me become less rigid with my life. When I'm making a craft, I'm able to just be me and throw whatever I want where ever I want. When I do crafts, I like to make a ton of them, not just one. I'm almost a binge crafter. It actually gets a little insane. But when it comes down to it, I am organized with what I'm doing. I actually have a running Google Doc of things that I want to do. And honestly, I never follow instructions. I know that might end up badly sometimes, but I hate instructions. I just do what I think is right so it is truly mine.
Design
This week has provided me with a lot of information of what I actually want to do. I want to design fun things for your living space. I want my home and your home to feel like home. I want it to feel like yours. My website is not going to have places for you to buy what I have created... You have to do it yourself. I'm going to give descriptions of what steps to take, but in all honesty, you're going to be the one creating what you want to create.
I don't want this to be a textbook of creativity. I don't even think that exists.
Narrate
My next 3 steps that I have to take include:
1. Finding more interesting things to create - I really need to keep looking on websites such as Pinterest, Etsy, Wanelo & Tumblr. I think that those websites give great insight into things that I'm interested in.
2. Buy my materials - I'm really interested in keeping all of this extremely cost effective. You want your home to be crafty, not the Taj Mahal, and since I'm not made of money, I'm going to try and keep this as cheap as possible. I know I'm a cheapskate, but at least I can admit it, right?
3. Start crafting & documenting - In all honesty with this one I just need to pop in a Stand Up Comedy Marathon, and just work until my fingers fall off. Once I'm started, you can't stop me.
I think that one thing that could make this work more smoothly is getting all of the materials. I also need just some time. But that's not too hard. I'm a person that almost always needs to be doing something, so this shouldn't be a problem. Overall, I'm in love with this project so far.
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