To sit here sometimes and to write an intresting blog is a challenge, as i often sit in front my Blogger editor for 5 minutes and i just dunno how to Start a blog!.
How is one suppose to know how to start a blog – it’s the same way every writer ponders.
Journalist ponder on how to start an article while novel writer ponder on how to start a story.
I and i’m sure many other ‘bloggers’ sure have this problem, too. Do you write just a simple ‘hello’ or do you get right in and dig in whatever your blog will be about?
But once you start your blog and you know how to overcome the hard task (can you really call it a hard task?) on starting a blog – now the next part, What is your blog going to be about…
This is another challenge as well, as if you don’t have anything to say then what’s the point in writing a blog? Now I know a lot of people (or maybe not) that like nothing better than an intresting blog.
It dosen’t have to be indepth, it don’t have to be a looong arse blog that takes about half an hour to read- But as long as it’s intresting it surely will keep your reader intrested.
But how can the writer make the blog interesting? One subject that intrests you might not interest someone else, so how do you keep everyone happy? When reading a blog would you be interested in that person life or whatever subject the writer has chosen.
The subject is another matter to wonder – what do you want to write about. The subjects are endless… they might have chosen to write about their day or even their life story, their idol or a movie they just seen at the cinema. It not written in black pixels on what exactly to write in a blog (unless you joined one of those blogger ring or something), their never been a law that state on what to write in your blog. So really writing a blog is really a whole big area that never been written down – it a whole new genre that has opened up from the internet.
Is this the way it going to be from now on? Instead of old fashion diary and notebook – We all be having blog in the future. and is that such a bad thing? Would it be an accurate for some future generation or some green alien to read about this world?
Now you’ve got your starter, main course and all you need is to end this blog.
Do you just write a simple ‘bye bye love you xxx’ or leave with a question wide open? Do you finish the point (subject) you were writing and bring it to a close? Do you write a witty humorous ending or just finish the sentance and go?…

When i applied to UCA, we was asked to write your reponse and why, it was part of the portfolio assesme.nt This is my answer:

I would choose Vogue because I believe in the words:

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

Coco Chanel

Vogue encompasses the fantasy of fashion – how by reading an article or looking at a page on clothes can whisk you away from whatever situation you are in, and you can imagine wearing the clothes and feeling beautiful about yourself. I myself know that I can’t wear the clothes but I can imagine how they would look on me and how they would feel. In the October 2008 issue of vogue, ‘Fantastic Fantasy Fashion’ was the theme throughout the special edition, it had Kate Moss on the cover covered in warm green fur. Throughout the issue was certain aspects of ‘fantasy fashion’, like a fashion fairy tales and costume balls fantasy photo shoot, articles on how to feel special and glamorous. That edition of Vogue to me encompassed a fantasy about fashion, you can read a fairy tales on a fashion brand and immediately get swept in it. It can make you feel glamorous about yourself (even if you stuck on a desert island) and lighten up how you feel about yourself.

Now being stuck on a desert island, I imagine myself to be very lonely and to be completely isolated from western civilization (how will I cope without Starbucks?). To have a pigeon post as my only form of communication with the outside world is a very lonely experience, I imagine this being like the world of Harry Potter where on summer holiday when Harry would return to his muggle (non-magical) guardian and his only link to his ‘magical life’ would be his devoted owl sending his parcels and letters from his school friends.

I would have a camp fire burning and I see the endless sea wave crashing with no land or anything else in sight, then out of the blue in the distance I see my pigeon post flying toward me. Suddenly I wouldn’t feel so alone anymore and for the first time in a while as the bird brings me my publication, something that will feel my heart with joy and my mind with fantasy. Turning once again to the words of Coco Chanel; ‘A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.’ With a copy of Vogue, I am both.

I would choose Vogue because I believe in the words:

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

Coco Chanel

Vogue encompasses the fantasy of fashion – how by reading an article or looking at a page on clothes can whisk you away from whatever situation you are in, and you can imagine wearing the clothes and feeling beautiful about yourself. I myself know that I can’t wear the clothes but I can imagine how they would look on me and how they would feel. In the October 2008 issue of vogue, ‘Fantastic Fantasy Fashion’ was the theme throughout the special edition, it had Kate Moss on the cover covered in warm green fur. Throughout the issue was certain aspects of ‘fantasy fashion’, like a fashion fairy tales and costume balls fantasy photo shoot, articles on how to feel special and glamorous. That edition of Vogue to me encompassed a fantasy about fashion, you can read a fairy tales on a fashion brand and immediately get swept in it. It can make you feel glamorous about yourself (even if you stuck on a desert island) and lighten up how you feel about yourself.

Now being stuck on a desert island, I imagine myself to be very lonely and to be completely isolated from western civilization (how will I cope without Starbucks?). To have a pigeon post as my only form of communication with the outside world is a very lonely experience, I imagine this being like the world of Harry Potter where on summer holiday when Harry would return to his muggle (non-magical) guardian and his only link to his ‘magical life’ would be his devoted owl sending his parcels and letters from his school friends.

I would have a camp fire burning and I see the endless sea wave crashing with no land or anything else in sight, then out of the blue in the distance I see my pigeon post flying toward me. Suddenly I wouldn’t feel so alone anymore and for the first time in a while as the bird brings me my publication, something that will feel my heart with joy and my mind with fantasy. Turning once again to the words of Coco Chanel; ‘A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.’ With a copy of Vogue, I am both.

Denim is the uniform of rock stars and cowboys, everyday on the high street we see ordinary peoples wearing denim jeans. It was in 1967 an American Fabric writer declared “Denim is one of the world’s oldest fabrics, yet it remains eternally young.”
The origin of the name itself is hidden in mystery as scholar to this day cannot agree on the original name. It was in the 19th century during the gold rush, miners wanted fabric materials that wouldn’t tear easily and sustained underground condition, and in 1853 Leob Strauss started a business supplying clothes Leob eventually changed his name to Levi. The material of denim is a rugged cotton textile that the weft passes under two or more warp fibres, this method produced the diagonal ribbing effect which is seen on the reverse of the fabrics, it distinguish the denim from the cotton duck. Designers such a Levi, Calvin Klein and Diesels design denim jeans to be practical, comfortable and universal for all ages. It was in the 90s that denim fashion was giving the grungy Brit pop look popular with bands such Nirvana and Oasis and would be worn baggy and very loose. Now in the Noughties denim jeans are cut to fit the figure and to be more tight-fitting.

Secondly I felt really smug in yesterday lecture, we had a full 2 hours lecture on blog. I was in my perfect element! I consider myself to be the first generation of blogger – let me explains. I’m 26 years old and about ten years ago – 1999 the internet was still in it early development, at this time window xp wasn’t even released, we had no YouTube, we had Google but yahoo was very much king and oh no iTunes either. One day when I was bored of looking at pop idols website – I stumbled across a personal website written by someone ordinary, she was from Australia and merely had a site devoted on herself, wow this opened a whole new world for me. She had a journal – an opened journal for everyone to read.This was a strange concept as I thought journal you write was suppose to private, she would write about her friends,her work and even post pictures of herself. I clicked on links she had and found another bunches of people doing the same thing, then a thought come into my head – I’m going to do that, I’m going to write a journal so everyone can read. So that was 10 years ago before the word ‘journal’ got tuned into ‘blog’ (short for weblog) and I have been doing it ever since. At 18 I got my first domain and set that up (but it didn’t last long) and gone from blogger to wordpress to everything in between. I consider myself the first person generation to fully gasp this blogging phenomenon and watch it grow to a big industry-related structure of journalism.
Everything the lecture guy was saying yesterday I felt like I already knew – I was there at it birth, the girl ‘blog’ was the same age as me and we both gasp this new technology together.