vrijdag 17 september 2010

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Emergency concept counceling in 10. #ego #DVTG

High heels are not meant for the streets of Utrecht. Though still fancy. #fashionerror

Forgot to buy juice at sap express, as well as some cash. Only 30 euros left for this month ): #forgot

Seriousley reconsidering sledge heels. #fashion

Great, first blister on my heel. #ouch

In general #dislikebuton

donderdag 16 september 2010

Late Night decisicions

Ah, freshly steamed out of the shower. Listening to Lady GaGa. Chilling on my comfy couch, in my PJ's with a glass of wine for a night cap and typing away. Now if I was a real 'fashionable' blogger, this image would only be perfect with a big pizza fungi (champigon) in front of me. How NYC-ish!

To return on my last post on VR & JG. I've got a concept, not ready. But so far so good. I'm going to make a virtual magazine. E-mag if I might say it like that. For the iPhone/Pad/Touch. I got inspired after I took a quick look at the Alice Lite app (an Alice in Wonderland book with minimal text and interactive illustrations) and the Flipboard app. Also (very egoistic) the story is going to be about me... From my childhood, to puberty till me now. Actually I want readers to write the ending for me. Why? Because it's fun! Like a hello to me after going to through my story. Also the chance to re-organize some things to their own liking and comfortably read the e-mag.

Content visually: Fashion Editorial + Illustrations/sketeches I made myself. It's a style that fits me and says a lot about me. Also I like to put in 'secret corners'; my 'secret corners' would be folded corners to look at some embarrassing/funny photo's/facts. In other words, bonus material XD.

-intermezzo: is there no way to eat fruit without completely getting your hands dirty?-

Best part I'm receiving my iPhone 4 Saturday! Woohoo, so testing somethings right onto hardware will be easy-peasy! Only not, well fu- it, just going to do it!

Good for now, will upload and make some sketches next time. I promise!

dinsdag 14 september 2010

what concept?

Yes, I've got no concept! I've got ideas, but no concept. My idea has shifted to something about my fear of darkness as a child and adult. Most kids were scared in the dark and so was I, I got over that a long, long time ago. Now I'm scared of the dark, because I'm a girl. Have you any idea what it feels like for a girl, alone in the dark? (Pun not intended!) Especially on nights out, going home after a party.

I still want to make a interactive self-portrait. After a talk with my group-mate Tamarah, I got back to me as a designer and person. I looked back at how I made 'Verstilling' and 'Fascinatie collage'. If I was working for an editorial, pages would look like this. Cream white backgrounds and nice pictures with very little text.

What more? So I'm going back to a more clear picture of me, how do I want to present myself to a crowd and what do I want to say? The first things that come to my mind "I LOVE FASHION!" Yes, I'd scream it from the rooftops. What more? "I want to create experiences, short and sweet to long and painful. I'm not going to leave you empty-handed'".

Going to browse the internet and search for pictures things I find more in-depth and fasionable.

zondag 5 september 2010

First post, week 1

Woohoo, I've got blogpost. . . okay not so excited about that part and not so satisfied with the look of my blog, but I'll change it...sometime. I want to use this blog to update about the projects I'm working on.

So this is week 1 (calendar week 36) of my Automorphose project (such a better word for Ego, only not). I actually already had an idea for this project. I haven't had a title for it, I made that during first meeting. It's called "The Rainbow Valley". Why? It's about me and the chaos that is my way of thinking and doing. There is a valley and in that valley is a village. On top of the valley lives an old lady. Every day she goes down to buy groceries and has to carry them home. The player has to make sure she gets safely into the village and back home. It has to go very tiresome and frustrating, because she is old and has a lot of limitations and also the heavy yoke is a real literal weight on her shoulders. This is actually an interactive self-portrait to show inbalance, but not something that would suit this project. I had doubts and gave it a long thought and decided not to go with it.



The first sketch.

I'm actually curious and very excited to know what I'd make if I started from point 0. So let's start. Okay, first class, make 5 minute sketches of the words "mud" (drek), "seasons" (getijden) and "gap" (leemte).



Courtesy to my good friend and classmate Tamarah de Jager (thanks hun! (-;)

My sketches are none-existent to barely visible in this picture XD oh dear. They are on the left side of the pillar-ish thing poking out the wall. In anycase, I like most of them, not all. Also the assignment to make on your own/at home/school is to make a stillness out of yourself. Without thinking about it too much. So here is m stillness.



Everything in red is Dutch, but it says something about my favorite things and such.

Well don't really know what to make. In other words back at 0. Glad it's at the beginning of my process and not in the middle or end.

Till next week,

Ilse