Sorry I did not paste the URL here..
but here it is...
http://www.elfeportfolio.blogspot.com
Mercy!I did finish it before 1:30PM!!!!!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The tale of Elfisian Art
Target audience: my peers, friends, and people with similar interests.
Tone: casual, friendly, and passionate.
“Elfisian Art” refers to a spontaneous free style art form created by the most random and nothing-about-to-do person, Elfina. Its mysterious spontaneous concepts are marked as the international influences she absorbed from different cultures and contexts. She strongly believes that art itself is like a bowl of mixed salad –a harmonious blend of different cultures and experiences, while the ideas still retain their original form. Instead of focusing on the practicality and technique of producing an art, she believes the soul of a piece is the ideas and personality it expresses. Yet, this is not the byproduct of expressionism. Elfisian Art intermediates between expressionism and conceptualism. This art not only stresses on free personal expression through art, but also encourages a wide coverage of international concepts. In other words, Elfisian Art is a free personal expression that incorporates a mixture concepts and techniques from different countries.
Yes! Isn’t it too abstract to comprehend? This is how my art likes to confuse people with the world they belong and the ones untouched.
Welcome to the mysterious tale of Elfisian Art. In this new era of art expression, you will enter a world that amazes you with plenty of bizarre and rebellious concepts, as well as unknown techniques: the collage of the East and the West; the rebellion against conventional expressionistic art; the fusion of international beliefs, you name it! Just open your mind and indulge yourself into this exotic gallery ☺
Tone: casual, friendly, and passionate.
“Elfisian Art” refers to a spontaneous free style art form created by the most random and nothing-about-to-do person, Elfina. Its mysterious spontaneous concepts are marked as the international influences she absorbed from different cultures and contexts. She strongly believes that art itself is like a bowl of mixed salad –a harmonious blend of different cultures and experiences, while the ideas still retain their original form. Instead of focusing on the practicality and technique of producing an art, she believes the soul of a piece is the ideas and personality it expresses. Yet, this is not the byproduct of expressionism. Elfisian Art intermediates between expressionism and conceptualism. This art not only stresses on free personal expression through art, but also encourages a wide coverage of international concepts. In other words, Elfisian Art is a free personal expression that incorporates a mixture concepts and techniques from different countries.
Yes! Isn’t it too abstract to comprehend? This is how my art likes to confuse people with the world they belong and the ones untouched.
Welcome to the mysterious tale of Elfisian Art. In this new era of art expression, you will enter a world that amazes you with plenty of bizarre and rebellious concepts, as well as unknown techniques: the collage of the East and the West; the rebellion against conventional expressionistic art; the fusion of international beliefs, you name it! Just open your mind and indulge yourself into this exotic gallery ☺
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Blueprints & brainfarts
1. As a rough draft, I am planning to set up a blog-like ePortfolio to talk about my artistic interests.
Ideally, I want to build a personal ePortfolio website. But my limited technical skills and time may not allow me to do so...
The focus will be more on my fine arts prospectives, the art skills I learned, and the favorite artists and collections. One section will be an introductory page about my journey to arts. I will write in a narrative style that is similar to the "JOURNEY" journal we've written. A timeline about my growth in Art will be presented on the next section. The next section will be a display of art skills I've learned throughout my life. This display will either be a number of video clips that demonstrate the procedures of making some particular art piece, or a video that acts as a gallery that displays all my past works.
The basic format of my ePortfolio will be graphic-based. Maybe even the introductory page will be an art of typography.
In terms of potential outside evaluators, I will invite professors who have an interest in art, or those i know who love art as much as I do. Beyond campus, I will first approach my friends who are specializing in the art and design field. If possible, I will try to look for the owners of art galleries, and see if any of the artists are willing to evaluate on my ePortfolio as an outsider.
As for self-evaluation, I will create a forum to collect feedbacks from my audience. In order to ensure a fair amount of response. I will send invitations to friends to view my ePortfolio and ask them to give me feedbacks. A second opinion provides an objective view to the overall picture. I believe these opinions foster the process of self-evaluation. In addition to collecting public opinions, I will write a brief report to myself to recall the effectiveness and shortcomings of my preparation. This aims at preparing myself for future productions in ePortfolios.
Okay, after talking about the idealistic stuff, it's time to get into something real-the realistic timeline.
Week9: I will begin my brainstorm(brain-fart) process by doing lots of research and drafting.
Week10: First draft
Week 11: Evaluation, fine tuning, and Second draft
Week 12: More fine tuning before Friday. Final draft due.
2.
Out of all the Youtubes I've watched, I particularly select 3 of my most favorite infomercial clips.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3tDd1Czu90&feature=related
SJSU did a really great job in promoting their honors program in a very commercial way.
Sweet and Short. But it draws attention to students, but it's lack of information.
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRBnvL1mZDg
UAB sets up a very informative and formal presentation. What impresses me most is the intertwining between interviews and and an actual honors class. Although it is more lengthy, it gives a taste of profession and seriousness to the message. It also reminds me of those professional television programs too!
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1y9grd0sJw
Accidentally, I found another interesting infomercial clip by Seton Hall. The clip is short and brief with only 2 hosts speaking on behalf of the honors program. There isn't any students' testimonial nor live videos of the honor classes like UAB. But I think it is also effective because it appears as a professional advertisement. The benefits and function of getting into the honors program is straight forward and clear. The length of time is tolerable. I particularly like the special effects and the background at the back. It makes the video stands out and looks more professional than many other infomercial clips!
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iMWsLscrP0
JMU's infomercial clip is very casual and close to students' taste. However, I think its informality might make the honors program a less serious consideration. And it doesn't help elevate the greatness of an honors program.
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1P-TDt4oc
As for SUNY honors program, their campus tour approach is too lengthy. I think they provide too much information that may tune off many students. But there is more than enough details about the honors program for sure.
In my opinion, the Foothill Honors Infomercial can be in between (1), (2), and (3).
If time allows, it is even better if the honors institute can produce two versions of infomercial. A short version like SJSU's to draw instant attraction. And a longer one that provides information to the curious crowd. I would propose an intertwine between the interviews of students and faculty, and some parts of the classroom atmosphere. The interviews can also include testimonials from students who have graduated as an honors scholar.
Make sure there's good background at the back, flashy name tags at the bottom of the screen...
After all...make it look professional!
Ideally, I want to build a personal ePortfolio website. But my limited technical skills and time may not allow me to do so...
The focus will be more on my fine arts prospectives, the art skills I learned, and the favorite artists and collections. One section will be an introductory page about my journey to arts. I will write in a narrative style that is similar to the "JOURNEY" journal we've written. A timeline about my growth in Art will be presented on the next section. The next section will be a display of art skills I've learned throughout my life. This display will either be a number of video clips that demonstrate the procedures of making some particular art piece, or a video that acts as a gallery that displays all my past works.
The basic format of my ePortfolio will be graphic-based. Maybe even the introductory page will be an art of typography.
In terms of potential outside evaluators, I will invite professors who have an interest in art, or those i know who love art as much as I do. Beyond campus, I will first approach my friends who are specializing in the art and design field. If possible, I will try to look for the owners of art galleries, and see if any of the artists are willing to evaluate on my ePortfolio as an outsider.
As for self-evaluation, I will create a forum to collect feedbacks from my audience. In order to ensure a fair amount of response. I will send invitations to friends to view my ePortfolio and ask them to give me feedbacks. A second opinion provides an objective view to the overall picture. I believe these opinions foster the process of self-evaluation. In addition to collecting public opinions, I will write a brief report to myself to recall the effectiveness and shortcomings of my preparation. This aims at preparing myself for future productions in ePortfolios.
Okay, after talking about the idealistic stuff, it's time to get into something real-the realistic timeline.
Week9: I will begin my brainstorm(brain-fart) process by doing lots of research and drafting.
Week10: First draft
Week 11: Evaluation, fine tuning, and Second draft
Week 12: More fine tuning before Friday. Final draft due.
2.
Out of all the Youtubes I've watched, I particularly select 3 of my most favorite infomercial clips.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3tDd1Czu90&feature=related
SJSU did a really great job in promoting their honors program in a very commercial way.
Sweet and Short. But it draws attention to students, but it's lack of information.
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRBnvL1mZDg
UAB sets up a very informative and formal presentation. What impresses me most is the intertwining between interviews and and an actual honors class. Although it is more lengthy, it gives a taste of profession and seriousness to the message. It also reminds me of those professional television programs too!
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1y9grd0sJw
Accidentally, I found another interesting infomercial clip by Seton Hall. The clip is short and brief with only 2 hosts speaking on behalf of the honors program. There isn't any students' testimonial nor live videos of the honor classes like UAB. But I think it is also effective because it appears as a professional advertisement. The benefits and function of getting into the honors program is straight forward and clear. The length of time is tolerable. I particularly like the special effects and the background at the back. It makes the video stands out and looks more professional than many other infomercial clips!
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iMWsLscrP0
JMU's infomercial clip is very casual and close to students' taste. However, I think its informality might make the honors program a less serious consideration. And it doesn't help elevate the greatness of an honors program.
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1P-TDt4oc
As for SUNY honors program, their campus tour approach is too lengthy. I think they provide too much information that may tune off many students. But there is more than enough details about the honors program for sure.
In my opinion, the Foothill Honors Infomercial can be in between (1), (2), and (3).
If time allows, it is even better if the honors institute can produce two versions of infomercial. A short version like SJSU's to draw instant attraction. And a longer one that provides information to the curious crowd. I would propose an intertwine between the interviews of students and faculty, and some parts of the classroom atmosphere. The interviews can also include testimonials from students who have graduated as an honors scholar.
Make sure there's good background at the back, flashy name tags at the bottom of the screen...
After all...make it look professional!
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