Sunday, October 24, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
http://http//www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Pennelope_slams__horrendous__rape_of_schoolgirl-105326708.html
It is important to read the responses to Mrs.Beckles-Robinson's comments.
They range from the knowledge that rape and abuse of girls is wrong to the issues of girls who represent themselves as older, trick some men into the belief that having a relationship with them is appropriate.
It is important to read the responses to Mrs.Beckles-Robinson's comments.
They range from the knowledge that rape and abuse of girls is wrong to the issues of girls who represent themselves as older, trick some men into the belief that having a relationship with them is appropriate.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Baby Girl
The online urban dictionary states that the term baby girl is an endearment.
~ Something a boy calls his girl when he is in love.
A girl in love will also use the term and say, baby boy.
~ A sexy slang word for what a guy calls his girlfriend.
~When a boy is attracted to a girl, usually because of body.
This slang snuck up on me. I have no memory of how its use began. I feel the same way about the term, fadda, mudda and eat ah food.
Baby girl seems to have extended from the days when men on the block would call you 'family' as you passed by.
I also assume that it may have been adopted from Jamaican slang through their music.
~ Something a boy calls his girl when he is in love.
A girl in love will also use the term and say, baby boy.
~ A sexy slang word for what a guy calls his girlfriend.
~When a boy is attracted to a girl, usually because of body.
This slang snuck up on me. I have no memory of how its use began. I feel the same way about the term, fadda, mudda and eat ah food.
Baby girl seems to have extended from the days when men on the block would call you 'family' as you passed by.
I also assume that it may have been adopted from Jamaican slang through their music.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Some thoughts
By looking at the concept of the baby doll, bringing it forward to the present, I am confronting how women are represented and also how they sometimes see themselves. By looking through the lens of the baby doll, and the whole image of woman dressed for bed, the theme takes on many layers.
As I have done in the past, I will use text as well as imagery with my 'babi girls '. But not only will I include societal impressions, there are rules and laws that I also want to bring to the fore with Bad Babi.
This is why I included the front page news article on the police woman who shot and killed two female bandits in Tunapuna. I think that the topic is extremely timely. That news item begged many questions, what would cause these women to be so reckless? Was the younger woman actually calling for her mother as she died? The compassion of the police woman who had to draw her gun on women criminals, is a powerful statement. Society is fed up with crime, and this particularly brazen one caused much conversation.
I believe that Bad Babi is an opportunity for all women to confront the way we are perceived, rightly or wrongly, for ourselves. I think that this is important because there are times that it may be felt that there may be few choices, or that there is no other way, or no way out. However, Art can assist with helping society at large look at limitations and even if for a moment, dream of alternative ways of seeing or being.
As I have done in the past, I will use text as well as imagery with my 'babi girls '. But not only will I include societal impressions, there are rules and laws that I also want to bring to the fore with Bad Babi.
This is why I included the front page news article on the police woman who shot and killed two female bandits in Tunapuna. I think that the topic is extremely timely. That news item begged many questions, what would cause these women to be so reckless? Was the younger woman actually calling for her mother as she died? The compassion of the police woman who had to draw her gun on women criminals, is a powerful statement. Society is fed up with crime, and this particularly brazen one caused much conversation.
I believe that Bad Babi is an opportunity for all women to confront the way we are perceived, rightly or wrongly, for ourselves. I think that this is important because there are times that it may be felt that there may be few choices, or that there is no other way, or no way out. However, Art can assist with helping society at large look at limitations and even if for a moment, dream of alternative ways of seeing or being.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Bad Babi
Bad Babi features twelve characters -:
1. Sweet
2. Present
3. Big Up
4. Fertile
5. Brands
6. Tattoes
7. Red Gyul
8. Prefect
9. Bandit Queen
10. Dame Lorraine
11. Mother and Daughter
12. Carnival Baby
Bad Babi is my opportunity to look at femininity,feminism, sexuality and attitude from the perspective of the masque.
1. Sweet
2. Present
3. Big Up
4. Fertile
5. Brands
6. Tattoes
7. Red Gyul
8. Prefect
9. Bandit Queen
10. Dame Lorraine
11. Mother and Daughter
12. Carnival Baby
Bad Babi is my opportunity to look at femininity,feminism, sexuality and attitude from the perspective of the masque.
WOMAN COP KILLS 2 BANDITS
2 female bandits shot dead
By Akile Simon
akile.simon@trinidadexpress.com
DRAMA unfolded in Tunapuna yesterday as two women, identified as robbery suspects, were shot and killed by a policewoman assigned to the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation Municipal Police. The officer shot the women after she responded to a robbery at the Tunapuna Market.
The victims were identified as Latoya Mars, 26, and Susan Frederick, who police said could be in her mid-30s. Both victims are from the Factory Road, Diego Martin, community, police said.
WPC Patrice St Louis, who fired the two fatal shots, was highly commended by market vendors for her decisive action.
A man, who claimed he was the nephew of one of the women, expressed shock over the incident at the scene, saying his aunt told him she was going to collect something in Tunapuna.
Mars was shot in the head and died at the scene, while Frederick sustained a gunshot injury to the upper left side of her body and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope.
Frederick was taken to the facility by PCs Winsden Rajcoomar and Ronan Newton, of the Tunapuna CID, who first responded to the incident. She was found lying face-down in a drain and had a gash to her face, which officers believe she may have sustained when she struck her head on the pavement.
Frederick, police said, was found in a crouched position behind the steering wheel of a car.
The deceased were reportedly attempting to flee the scene of the robbery when Mars, the driver of the vehicle—a white Nissan Sunny, licensed PAM 8680—drove north onto St Vincent Street, which is a one-way street, in attempting to elude police. After they were shot, Mars crashed into a Peugeot motorcar parked near the corner of Sapodilla and St Vincent Streets.
Up to late yesterday, WPC St Louis was being treated by a psychologist, police said. Minutes after the shooting, St Louis broke down in tears and had to be consoled by a male colleague who was on duty with her. She is expected, later today, to be interviewed by acting ASP Neville Sankar and Sgt Basdeo Sinanan, who are probing the incident.
Several vendors at the market who spoke with the Express after the incident, said the shooting was justified. The vendors said St Louis repeatedly called on the suspect in the car to surrender and stop their vehicle, but the women ignored the calls.
Around 12.30 p.m. yesterday, market vendor Andrea Amoroso, 26, of D'Abadie, was attending to a customer when she turned her back for a few seconds, only to discover one of the women had stolen her bag, which reportedly contained $7,000.
Amoroso ran after the suspects and managed to get part of her body inside the car as it was being driven away by Mars. Amoroso was eventually thrown out of the car by Frederick, but St Louis had arrived on the scene and repeatedly ordered the suspects to stop.
"But they continued driving up the one-way street and she (St Louis) fired two shots at the vehicle," Hosein said.
Scores of people gathered at the scene, many of them saying they believed justice was served in the incident. There was no sympathy for the female victims, with one woman stating that within recent times there were too many women involved in criminal activities.
"I thought it was men in the car, but I couldn't believe it when, after the car crashed, one of them (suspects) came out holding her face, crying for her Mommy, then she fall down inside the drain before police take she to hospital," a woman said.
"You see, you can't even trust some women nowadays, because some of them doing the same thing men doing and even worse. Why couldn't they work hard for whatever they want?" said a vendor who did not wish to be identified.
"Let me get to see she face, cause ah woman rob me up by the corner the other day," said another woman, as she tried to get a glimpse of the body inside the vehicle.
Market vendors heaped praises on St Louis, even though she was not present after the incident. They said St Louis did exactly what she took an oath to do—protect and serve.
"She (St Louis) should be awarded. She real good, boy. I thought she miss when she fire the two shots, but she really good. She take out two bandits and that's what we need here, because too many times we are victims of robbery," vendor Haroon Mohammed said of the incident.
"She (St Louis) is a very hard-working officer who always look out for the vendors here in the market and she's not the type that would shoot to kill anyone, even though this incident is so sad and she started to cry right on the scene."
Several streets in and around the market had to be temporarily closed by police as they processed the scene for more than five hours. Officers said they recovered a revolver, three wigs, a quantity of clothing and Amoroso's bag, which was stolen, among other items in the car.
Head of the Northern Division Snr Supt Stephen Ramsubhag said any incidents of lawlessness would not be tolerated by police.
"We are going to do everything in our power as police officers to ensure that law and order prevails, especially leading up to the Christmas period," Ramsubhag told the Express while at the crime scene.
"This incident that occurred here, even though it has to be thoroughly investigated, is true testimony that my officers would be out in full force to ensure that shoppers and law-abiding citizens can go about their business without fear.
"Criminals, beware! We are going to find you wherever you are and ensure that you are brought to justice, and any acts of lawlessness would be dealt with in accordance of the law, and none shall be spared."
Sankar, acting Supt Hendron Moses, Sgts Nafeez Mohammed and Basdeo Sinanan and officers of the Northern Division visited the scene.
Sankar and Sinanan are continuing investigations.
An autopsy is to be conducted on the victims at the Forensic Science Centre in St James on Tuesday
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Sparrow's "Jean and Dinah"
When I first heard this song as a child, although I did not have the language to understand the sexual currency of the song, I felt concern for these two girls who, 'If you caught them broken," were willing to be taken for nothing.
Over time, the stories of Trinidad during the war, and the arrival of American soldiers made the whole thing more understandable.
There was also a need to have an illustration of the barrack yard life, to know who these people were and what the island was like?
We naturally romanticise the past. But those were difficult times for many women, particularly women with very few to no prospects. Sparrow managed with that song and many more, to capture time, place and politics.
Again,the music might seem rude or low, but the fact of the matter is that an artist is there to capture literally, on the ground, the sights, sounds, smells, and feelings of the day,from the highest to the lowest without judgement.
Rum and Coca Cola by Lord Invader does this as well, and the fact that it is a much earlier song tells me that the theme was possibly very popular. It was covered as we all know and made a gigantic success by African American actor and singer, Harry Belafonte. It is also beautifully sung by the Andrew Sisters, who make it sound so folksy and almost sweet.
I have wondered why this song caught the attention of Hollywood? Particularly in light of that other song that was a huge hit,Feeling,Hot,Hot,Hot by the recently deceased soca artist, Arrow.
I wonder whether the women of my island were notorious, or whether the fact that Americans were in the islands, that the impression left was such that the song was popular to the island and then caught on in America?
When I know more,I shall post the information.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
In search of the references
I never really listened to this post properly until I happened to be spring cleaning the house with my sister many, many years ago. We needed the music loud to push us along as we worked. I was so shocked by the lyrics. I did not realize just how explicit they were? At that time, I knew of the bawdy recorded comedies of Eddy Murphy who I understand had nothing on Redd Fox and Lenny Bruce in their day.
This song, Ram Ram is much more than the simple exploits of a woman in complete control of her sexuality, it is also a nod and wink to women generally.
Once I got over my initial shock, I then wanted to know as much as possible about this woman who sang the song. There is nothing definate that I do know, but I consider her a brave songstress.
Some may say that people like Foxy Brown and Lil Kim are as raunchy and memorable well, but I personally think that they have nothing on this lady and her delivery.
She gets to the quick of it all, with vigor and sass. It is rude and typical of the innovation of Jamaican music.
Does it liberate women or put them in a position of cliche? You be the judge.
This song, Ram Ram is much more than the simple exploits of a woman in complete control of her sexuality, it is also a nod and wink to women generally.
Once I got over my initial shock, I then wanted to know as much as possible about this woman who sang the song. There is nothing definate that I do know, but I consider her a brave songstress.
Some may say that people like Foxy Brown and Lil Kim are as raunchy and memorable well, but I personally think that they have nothing on this lady and her delivery.
She gets to the quick of it all, with vigor and sass. It is rude and typical of the innovation of Jamaican music.
Does it liberate women or put them in a position of cliche? You be the judge.
Remember this!
When this song came out many years ago, I decided to poll my class at the time,which consisted of about five or six guys to twelve girls. The video was meant to provoke and it succeeded.
The girls hated it. The felt that Ms. Aguilera was too talented to need to take so much of her clothes off in such a gyrating manner. Meanwhile the boys in the class found themselves speechless. They admitted that the entire things had an alluring effect on them. This led to a long debate on whether women need to dress as she had, to get attention, Or to be perceived of as successful in their careers? The debate continues...
The girls hated it. The felt that Ms. Aguilera was too talented to need to take so much of her clothes off in such a gyrating manner. Meanwhile the boys in the class found themselves speechless. They admitted that the entire things had an alluring effect on them. This led to a long debate on whether women need to dress as she had, to get attention, Or to be perceived of as successful in their careers? The debate continues...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The history of the baby doll
One of the projects that I am working on right now, and I must say that it requires a great deal of work and time and the deadline is looming near.As usual, for carnival I produce a character that I then play in performace. This year, I am working on something much bigger. As always I have done some research on the theme, and I am including some of it here. I shall also include my sketches and other reference materials, so that my process can be documented.
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From 1956 with the actress Carroll Baker
Baby doll lingerie is extremely popular today. Seen as a nightwear "classic," the babydoll continues to be remade and updated by lingerie designers. Yet very few people know the history of these now-classic pieces. Provided here is a brief guide to the short but interesting history of baby doll lingerie.
Women's nightwear has evolved and changed over time. By the 1930s, short and sensual were the order of the day. Women often wore short negligees with matching "bed jackets," which were short, sensual and sometimes trimmed with feathers or lace. Out of these bed jackets came the first baby doll lingerie pieces.
The garment got its current name from a 1956 film called "Baby Doll," which featured a young Carroll Baker wearing the item. The film was a success, launching a public infatuation with the garment. At that time, babydolls were simple, featuring a flared negligee with a hemline approximately six inches above the knee. Like the earlier bed jackets, baby doll lingerie often featured feathers or lace trim.
It was around that time that a daywear dress in babydoll style was introduced. The dresses maintained the short, sensual feel of the baby doll lingerie, but were more solid and appropriate for public view. Meanwhile, the nightwear version of the babydoll became increasingly more sensual. Gradually creeping shorter, and featuring ever more daring fabrics, baby doll lingerie made the switch from simple nightwear to true sexy lingerie.
Today, vintage baby doll lingerie can be highly valuable. Collectors often search for babydolls that date to the 1950s or 1960s. However, the item has also continued to evolve. Today a sheer babydoll or lace babydoll is easy to find. Hemlines now run the gamut from the traditional six inches above the knee to barely skimming the buttocks. Necklines range from a more traditional scoop neck to a deeply plunging, cleavage-enhancing V-neck. Babydolls are even available that more closely resemble the older bed jackets, featuring one or two front closures.
Referenced from http://ezinearticles.com/?The-History-of-Sexy-Baby-Doll-Lingerie&id=1078022
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THE JAMETTE CARNIVAL
This was a term which was used by the French and English to describe the Carnival celebrations of the African population during the period 1860 to 1896. The term comes from the French “diametre” meaning beneath the diameter of respectability, or the underworld . It was a term used at that time to describe a certain class in the community.
The view of the whites was that the Carnival activities were immoral, obscene and violent. The kalenda, the drumming, the dances and the sexually explicit masquerades were thought to be totally objectionable.
They were fully supported in this view by the contemporary press. Throughout the period there was a sustained attack on Carnival in most newspaper editorials. This ranged from outright condemnation to calls for a total ban. This was also the era of repressive legislation. The British Colonial Government passed several laws against all forms of African cultural traditions. As was seen in 1881, it took more than legislation and police batons to stop the Carnival. For the more repressive the legislation, the more aggressive the reponses. Carnival was more than just music , masquerade and dance. It was about their very existence.
Who were these Jamettes?
The Jamettes occupied the barrack yards of East Port of Spain. They lived in appalling conditions. These were the stickfighters, prostitutes, chantuelles, matadors, dustmen. There existed all the conditions for social instability : crime, vagrancy, disease, prostitution, unemployment, sexual permissiveness and dysfunctional families. It is no wonder, therefore, that Carnival was embraced with such fervour. For the Jamettes, it was a necessary release from the struggle that was their daily lives.
BABY DOLL
The baby doll character, which is now extinct, was played up to the 1930s. The masquerader portrays a gaily dressed doll, decked out in a frilled dress and bonnet. In her arms she carries a doll which symbolises an illegitimate baby. The masquerader portraying the baby doll, stops male passers-by and accuses them of being the baby's father.
http://www.nalis.gov.tt/carnival/carnival.htm
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From 1956 with the actress Carroll Baker
Baby doll lingerie is extremely popular today. Seen as a nightwear "classic," the babydoll continues to be remade and updated by lingerie designers. Yet very few people know the history of these now-classic pieces. Provided here is a brief guide to the short but interesting history of baby doll lingerie.
Women's nightwear has evolved and changed over time. By the 1930s, short and sensual were the order of the day. Women often wore short negligees with matching "bed jackets," which were short, sensual and sometimes trimmed with feathers or lace. Out of these bed jackets came the first baby doll lingerie pieces.
The garment got its current name from a 1956 film called "Baby Doll," which featured a young Carroll Baker wearing the item. The film was a success, launching a public infatuation with the garment. At that time, babydolls were simple, featuring a flared negligee with a hemline approximately six inches above the knee. Like the earlier bed jackets, baby doll lingerie often featured feathers or lace trim.
It was around that time that a daywear dress in babydoll style was introduced. The dresses maintained the short, sensual feel of the baby doll lingerie, but were more solid and appropriate for public view. Meanwhile, the nightwear version of the babydoll became increasingly more sensual. Gradually creeping shorter, and featuring ever more daring fabrics, baby doll lingerie made the switch from simple nightwear to true sexy lingerie.
Today, vintage baby doll lingerie can be highly valuable. Collectors often search for babydolls that date to the 1950s or 1960s. However, the item has also continued to evolve. Today a sheer babydoll or lace babydoll is easy to find. Hemlines now run the gamut from the traditional six inches above the knee to barely skimming the buttocks. Necklines range from a more traditional scoop neck to a deeply plunging, cleavage-enhancing V-neck. Babydolls are even available that more closely resemble the older bed jackets, featuring one or two front closures.
Referenced from http://ezinearticles.com/?The-History-of-Sexy-Baby-Doll-Lingerie&id=1078022
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THE JAMETTE CARNIVAL
This was a term which was used by the French and English to describe the Carnival celebrations of the African population during the period 1860 to 1896. The term comes from the French “diametre” meaning beneath the diameter of respectability, or the underworld . It was a term used at that time to describe a certain class in the community.
The view of the whites was that the Carnival activities were immoral, obscene and violent. The kalenda, the drumming, the dances and the sexually explicit masquerades were thought to be totally objectionable.
They were fully supported in this view by the contemporary press. Throughout the period there was a sustained attack on Carnival in most newspaper editorials. This ranged from outright condemnation to calls for a total ban. This was also the era of repressive legislation. The British Colonial Government passed several laws against all forms of African cultural traditions. As was seen in 1881, it took more than legislation and police batons to stop the Carnival. For the more repressive the legislation, the more aggressive the reponses. Carnival was more than just music , masquerade and dance. It was about their very existence.
Who were these Jamettes?
The Jamettes occupied the barrack yards of East Port of Spain. They lived in appalling conditions. These were the stickfighters, prostitutes, chantuelles, matadors, dustmen. There existed all the conditions for social instability : crime, vagrancy, disease, prostitution, unemployment, sexual permissiveness and dysfunctional families. It is no wonder, therefore, that Carnival was embraced with such fervour. For the Jamettes, it was a necessary release from the struggle that was their daily lives.
BABY DOLL
The baby doll character, which is now extinct, was played up to the 1930s. The masquerader portrays a gaily dressed doll, decked out in a frilled dress and bonnet. In her arms she carries a doll which symbolises an illegitimate baby. The masquerader portraying the baby doll, stops male passers-by and accuses them of being the baby's father.
http://www.nalis.gov.tt/carnival/carnival.htm
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
on the net
ania bas: News - Autumn 2010: "Very Public People28 conversations with the local public people of West Bromwich interviewed by a group of artist based in the Midlands no..."
Thursday, October 7, 2010
New Projects
After the symposium yesterday, one or two of the other speakers discussed things that got my creative wheels turning. I have already started a conversation of sorts with one of them. In the next few weeks I shall post here some of our proposals and our plans. Depending on how this goes, I would like to show what it takes to get a concept from a germ of an idea to the final presentation.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The symposium findings
It is very important to be invited to a gathering of Artists, Architects and Designers talking about their fields. You learn so much. You meet people of like minds and you certainly grow from the experience.
This, soon to be completed series of talks asked some pivotal questions and opened up for me observations and suggestions that I would now like to explore and hopefully help inform other work, new and developing alike.
With that stated, Galleryyuhself.blogspot.com, which was created only for the symposium, shall now continue as a blog for development and support of projects online and off.
This, soon to be completed series of talks asked some pivotal questions and opened up for me observations and suggestions that I would now like to explore and hopefully help inform other work, new and developing alike.
With that stated, Galleryyuhself.blogspot.com, which was created only for the symposium, shall now continue as a blog for development and support of projects online and off.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Study using mobile phones to teach maths
In today's Express newspaper on pages 28 and 31, there was an interesting article titled, Moving from instant messaging to algebra.
This is a perfect example of the way that modern technology is being used to help make learning easier.
I have attempted to copy a small portion of the article here-:
Trinidad and Tobago has a mobile phone subscription rate well over 100 percent. Yet we have an O-Level mathematics paper two pass rate of only 20 percent.
Clearly we like our mobile devices more than we do mathematics.
Recognising this, one graduate student of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has started a study to discover if the popularity of the former can boost the pass rates of the latter. Mathematics has come to the mobile phone.
The three month study entails using mobile phones to assist secondary school pupils to study mathematics by building games into the device that encourage them to learn.
The project is being carried out by Vanni Kalloo, a postgraduate scholarship student in UWI St.Augustine's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Friday, October 1, 2010
But...
I gave further thought to the post about getting attention, and I had to look at the person who might say, what if I don't like blogs? Or I can't write on a topic at length. This may not mean that getting online and having your work seen cannot happen.
What this simply says is that you need to sit down and focus on what it is that you are good at selling. You can sell a whole number of things.
For some people it may be the ability to get two divergent ways of thinking together and forming solutions.
It can be that you like images and can talk about how things work, or fit together.
Your site may even be about your love of reading, or doing things with children. It can be about saving money or you may like to tell jokes.
Not everything starts out being money focused, but it can lead to a past-time that can.
You may still not be convinced. You may think that online forces you to be a show-off, or something that you may think to yourself, you definitely are not. You don't want to be a joiner, or you don't think that your level of expertise can outwit or stand up against other points of view.
These concerns are legitimate, and so, blogs can also be private. You can have an identity online and not compromise who you are.
You do not have to do things the run of the mill way. The point is, you get online only when you feel comfortable about it.
It is up to you.Who is to say that you can't join a group or do things with others as you decide where you too fit in.
That is the beauty of choice.
What this simply says is that you need to sit down and focus on what it is that you are good at selling. You can sell a whole number of things.
For some people it may be the ability to get two divergent ways of thinking together and forming solutions.
It can be that you like images and can talk about how things work, or fit together.
Your site may even be about your love of reading, or doing things with children. It can be about saving money or you may like to tell jokes.
Not everything starts out being money focused, but it can lead to a past-time that can.
You may still not be convinced. You may think that online forces you to be a show-off, or something that you may think to yourself, you definitely are not. You don't want to be a joiner, or you don't think that your level of expertise can outwit or stand up against other points of view.
These concerns are legitimate, and so, blogs can also be private. You can have an identity online and not compromise who you are.
You do not have to do things the run of the mill way. The point is, you get online only when you feel comfortable about it.
It is up to you.Who is to say that you can't join a group or do things with others as you decide where you too fit in.
That is the beauty of choice.
Notice board
Talk to the average person and they may tell you that an online presence is the way to making money online. This may be so, but it may not be as much as you might think. To make money online, people must know that you are there to begin with.
How does this happen?
There are many ways to get attention,here are a few ways-:
1. Write a blog that relates to a subject of interest.
A blog that gets hits that can then be quoted in other media
ie:television and radio, helps you get recognition.
2. Hinge your blog to other known and more reader driven sites.
This will help you to be seen by people you might never have
considered.
3. Add applets such as Twitter,Tumblr and Facebook to your page.
These sites help your page become more interesting and much
livelier.It requires more upkeep because you must keep
updating what you are about,but it keeps you current.
4. Branch out
Add a shop to your page or a comment box. This makes
your page much more interactive. Also create and or
join a group that has similar views. This group can
be local, regional and international in scope.
5. Keep Updating
Have something to say, or add information from
other sources. Before you know it, you may have
something that goes beyond interesting to something
that is actually publishable.
An online life is indeed a life, with activities, a schedule, a dictionary, file photography and even video clips. It is a very detailed space, with much to look at and to access and assess, but it it also a wonderful way to see your own growth and to put meaning to your working life.
It may pay off in bigger ways than money in the bank.
How does this happen?
There are many ways to get attention,here are a few ways-:
1. Write a blog that relates to a subject of interest.
A blog that gets hits that can then be quoted in other media
ie:television and radio, helps you get recognition.
2. Hinge your blog to other known and more reader driven sites.
This will help you to be seen by people you might never have
considered.
3. Add applets such as Twitter,Tumblr and Facebook to your page.
These sites help your page become more interesting and much
livelier.It requires more upkeep because you must keep
updating what you are about,but it keeps you current.
4. Branch out
Add a shop to your page or a comment box. This makes
your page much more interactive. Also create and or
join a group that has similar views. This group can
be local, regional and international in scope.
5. Keep Updating
Have something to say, or add information from
other sources. Before you know it, you may have
something that goes beyond interesting to something
that is actually publishable.
An online life is indeed a life, with activities, a schedule, a dictionary, file photography and even video clips. It is a very detailed space, with much to look at and to access and assess, but it it also a wonderful way to see your own growth and to put meaning to your working life.
It may pay off in bigger ways than money in the bank.
More on thoughts concerning the symposium theme
catalogue design
catalogue design
inner page from diary
The one day symposium is soon upon me, and this gives me the opportunity to get my thoughts together. Ever since I was asked to be part of the panel, the theme that I have chosen has been somewhere near the front or side of my thinking.
Naturally I want to do something memorable that I too would like to see and moreso, know.
What this whole proposal writing and speaking has done for me and this topic, is help me to get very clear about what I want to say, know and show.
I have concerns about the way space is looked at in Trinidad and Tobago.
When my late partner Richard Bolai and I started our graphic design partnership, not having a real shingle with a name, but two houses where we freelanced and then came together, was considered a bit unusual.
Doing things that are a bit unusual can make the client feel trepidation. It is important to put them at ease, and to do so quickly. Having an online presence via our blogs and then making those blogs worlds of their own has been a labor of love, but does the average person, whose business we attempt to court, understand our process?
This was something we discussed from time to time, and this was why we placed our design work online in the way that we did.
see:http://rabt.wordpress.com/about/
Now that my partner has died, I am left to re-evaluate what was created online and for an online audience. I am also now looking at his work online from the standpoint of his legacy.
All of this has helped me ask the question myself about space and working in an online setting.There is now so much more that can be done from when we initially started out. Cyberspace is much more negotiable. It is like having started off, one of the few houses on the street, realising that you need to get more than one water source or power source, to now being on a crowded street.
How do you set yourself apart?
I shall answer this question in the next post.
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