Blogs are wonderful. They allow so many of us to express ourselves in any way we wish to. Whether it be about our daily lives, furniture, our hobbies, music, art, literally anything, they have become akin to personal journals that anyone can read and/or create regarding their favorite topics or the events in their personal lives. If you're ever feeling down or upset, or maybe you want to express yourself about what you'd like to do in the future, create a blog! It can absolutely help with flexing your creative muscles and praising what you love doing, or even give you a space to put negative or repressed feelings into. They can express so much over text, images, and so many visualizations, that it's amazing to see what others create with blogs.
And let's, for a second, assume you haven't made a blog of your own yet. Perhaps you don't know where to start, or maybe you want to make a blog of your own, but don't know how it would be composed or structured? Or maybe you're worried that the topic you want to make your blog about is too... niche for the world to pay attention to? Well to that, I say absolutely not. The following blogs i'm going to link to & post about (ranging from best to worst, in my own personal opinion) are three blogs in particular that have caught my eye for one reason or another. If you're not sure about what you want to talk about, perhaps these blogs will give you a good spark of inspiration!
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Blog 1: IKEA Hackers
Have you ever bought something from an IKEA Furniture warehouse, taken it home, unpacked the contents and said to yourself, "Hey! I could easily make all of these parts from this dresser into something new!"
If so, then have I got the perfect blog for you! This blog in particular is an entire catalog of posts from people who've bought things from IKEA Furniture specifically, and turned them into creations of their own making. I think i'd have to name this blog a personal favorite just from the idea of it alone. Using IKEA-brand furniture and turning it into something else? Very interesting! The blog is also very colorful and fun to look at, even if you're not reading instructions on how to turn your IKEA chair into something like a bench.
Blog 2: That'd Be Cabel Sasser
(Of course, at least one of the blogs I post about here had to be from someone that works with video games.)
This is a personal blog of a man who works as a musical artist for smartphone-based video games, his most recent soundtrack composition being of a smartphone game called "Stagehand" (which the link can be found for in the blog itself). His posts consist of his real-life adventures with recording and composing music for the various games he works on. The blog itself has a simple layout, but is easy to read, and while there are the occasional firework posts that seem a bit off-topic with how much he talks about composing music, he's still very consistent and never goes completely off topic when talking about how he works. Easily a nice recommendation from me.
Blog 3: Advertising Lab
This blog... hm.
This blog really doesn't set well with me. Not necessarily because of the advertising angle for other companies or things that the person would usually post about, not really because of the visually uninteresting layout that doesn't catch your eye in the slightest, but mainly because of the two most recent posts the blog has made regarding technology, and how long those posts have been spaced out between each other (the most recent ones from 2013-2012). I'd be okay with this if maybe the blog posts were about technology specifically, but it's very... odd to see this person suddenly write about how the company Dell isn't doing enough to allow people to do things less (like sending an email, clean your house, etc.), in a way completely different from the informative style of their previous posts, and the post before that talking about how they want to go back to the times when technology wasn't so rampant. Easily the worst blog i've listed here, as not only has this blog probably seen better days, but also has completely drifted away from its' original purpose.
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And there are some blogs for you to check out! I believe all of these should give you a good idea of what to do and what NOT to do regarding whatever direction you take your own kind of blog in. And once you're done exploring those blogs, be sure to stick around my blog for future updates!
- Lucas Vincent
Wow. Ikea hacks - never even contemplated this idea!
ReplyDeleteGreat job on this post. Well establish context/background. Enthusiastic delivery. Insightful critique that goes beyond just content. Good start!