Here’s a video of “confessionals” made at the Sobe Lifewater Party in NYC. I didn’t shoot the video, but I did cut the pieces, string them together and attach the music. Enjoy:
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The Gender Gazette 2009
Ever have the kind of moment where you look at something you’ve created and you just start to hate it?
Earlier this semester I was working with some folks from the Women’s Studies department to create the 2009 Gender Gazette, a Literary Journal at UCF. One of my submissions had been accepted in 2008, and ever since then I had really wanted to be an editor.
I helped the other editors choose which submissions would be published, but my primary role was to create the website. I put something together based on suggestions from the other editors, but then I realized it just wasn’t very good. I’d created an unnecessarily complex three-column design with way too much text. It wasn’t fitting for a literary journal that’s published only once a year.
Fortunately, I guess, for me, the site hadn’t actually been put up yet because we’ve been struggling to actually get it hosted on the UCF pegasus server. So today I designed an entirely new website, one that I think is far better. It’s much simpler and easier to navigate, and it’ll make it less of a hassle for the editors of the future editions of the gazette to keep adding on, rather than create a new website every year like what’s been done so far. It’s still not actually public, but once we have the hosting and domain name situation figured out, I’ll be adding it to my design portfolio.
Here is the home page so far, sans text:
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Tweeting from D.C.
I’m leaving tomorrow morning for the 2009 Campus Progress Conference in Washington D.C. I’ll be back Thursday night. I’ll be tweeting all three days from the conference; you can follow me at @biancafortis on Twitter.
Have a good week!
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Dina Goldstein
I’m in love with the work of Vancouver photographer Dina Goldstein. Check it out:
From her own words:
The project was inspired by my observation of three-year-old girls, who were developing an interest in Disney’s Fairy tales. As a new mother I have been able to get a close up look at the phenomenon of young girls fascinated with Princesses and their desire to dress up like them. The Disney versions almost always have a sad beginning, with an overbearing female villain, and the end is predictably a happy one. The Prince usually saves the day and makes the victimized young beauty into a Princess.
You can check out the rest on her website. They’re all incredible, but Jasmine is definitely my favorite.
I also wrote about this at Pretty Little Things.
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Exercise in brevity
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