BARON's "From Pencils to Pixils"

 

The most common fashion blogs created are the type that focus on the daily portrayal of 'self-style'. This blogging style sends us a daily flow of selfies and allows us to follow a persons life, and more specifically there personal fashion sense, off of Facebook. Self-style blogging intentionally showcases the highlights of there lifestyle through a manipulated lens; this manipulated lens restrains the bloggers ability to 'shed light' onto their intended audience. While a picture can tell a thousand words, what kind of story does a thousand pictures tell collectively? This type of blogging gets to pick and choose what particular attributions of their own identity, unique sense of style, and interests they will disclose with there audience. This #OOTD obsessed blogging style uses a novel way to connecting there audience with there: daily errands, travels, and the stories multiple photos seem to unfold about there day to day lives and there personalities. Forgetting Facebook and twitter this type or forum, similar to a personal portfolio, can help you better advertise yourself, or what Baron pointed out as "self publication".

 

Self promotion can help set you apart from other bloggers, and help you find 'a niche audience' to connect with. When you and your audience correspond back and forth it helps to better satisfy there needs. Especially when posting daily pictures, you could also show them demonstrative videos via YouTube on how to wear your hair in a specific braid. Rather than hiring a photographer, IPhone's now have become significantly improved graphically and better equipped.

Even if you cant afford all of the different types of attachable lens' there are multiple free applications with filters. Filters again take away from natural beauty, but can be nice when used in creatively and in moderation. You don't need to by a different lenses to change the picture and lighting of a photograph anymore! Being able to take a decent photo of yourself with your cellphone takes modeling to a new business level.

 

If you get enough hype on the internet or on Lookbook it wouldn't take much for an agent to seek out your talents. Many college graduates can use the internet as a creative source to advertise and promote their abilities and showcase their talents. Now that pictures of increasingly good quality are being edited, and uploaded automatically, the 'self style' bloggers can easily post numerous pictures daily.

MILLER & SHEPARD's Blogging As Social Action: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs

Miller and Shepard emphasize how the 21^st century has redefined the meaning of genre, and rather shifted the focus away from being “concerned with the knowledge and amount of work done”. Genre today is categorized through the new millenniums role in what Miller calls “self-organized communities” which allow multiple bloggers to connect their ideas into a stream. Social media, especially in the field of fashion, is an easy and fast way to advertise… but how do you reach your intended audience outside the google search engine? Hash-tags are now one of the most communal, and often times overused, way to link multiple people on various networks who are involved in sharing common interests.

           

Bloggers and the use of hash-tags allow a wide range of shared pictures and ideas to be posted and connected in mere seconds. The activity of bloggers is now emphasized by the amount of time they put into elaborating their social networks, and posting on events in a timely manner. Once upon a time fashion enthusiasts had to set time aside to watch runway events, and find time for a morning coffee and to scope through a freshly printed magazine. Similar to the archive you find in the first pages of any magazine to direct you to “whats on the cover”, hash-tags have allowed people to read articles or scan multiple different views of what was covered and revealed in Mercedes Benz Fashion week.

Today, any celebrity who attends a fashion show can immediately uploaded to Instagram their front row view of an event. Jessica Alba, for example, has slowed down on major publicity, but still continues to post daily on Instagram. Less than a month ago, Alba posted on #nyfw and created an image that displayed some of her favorite fashions from a designer I haven’t heard about – Narciso Rodriguez. http://instagram.com/p/eGcIJesukO/# Just from posting a single image, I was able to find out what specifically Alba enjoyed about this designer – sharp, short, sexy – and link straight to the designer’s own Instagram, allowing me to look through Rodriguez’s other designs. Instagram is a new way to gain fast access to select celebrities’ personal style views and find out which designers and styles grab their attention.