Process Blog

Fall 2019 • Carla Gannis • Mondays and Wednesdays • 4:30 – 6:20pm • 370J Rm 312

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Process Blog

Fall 2019 • Carla Gannis • Mondays and Wednesdays • 4:30 – 6:20pm • 370J Rm 312

"I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The Tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'" - Neil Gaiman

I BLOG THEREFORE I AM Throughout this semester you will keep a process blog solely for this class. Consistent documentation of your creative process is key to developing a professional practice; it provides a record of your journey from rough idea to polished prototype.

Keeping a thorough log, on a consistent platform, of your inspirations and research; motivations and setbacks; sketches and preliminary builds can be beneficial to your creative, academic and long term success in a variety of ways. A process blog allows you to:

articulate your ideas more clearly and concisely through the steady exercise of writing and researching.
reflect upon the flow and evolution of your ideas over time.
accumulate a breadth of material to share with a public audience, so that the narrative of your work is conveyed thoroughly and holistically.
provide an audience, institution or investor, numerous vantage points (personal, conceptual, critical, and technical) from which to view your work.
retrace your steps along a timeline, should your current trajectory prove unsuccessful.
find inspiration for future projects, from unexplored threads in your earlier project documentation.
streamline the workflow of your future projects.

Throughout this semester you will document weekly on your process blog all of your written, data, photographic, sound & video research and implementation. The I & D process blog should be specific to this course (not a pre-existing, personal or other course blog).

You have a few publishing options:

Create a free blog on any platform that you are familiar with, for example: , , , , , etc
Create a dedicated wordpress via
- If you don’t already have NYU server space, please contact Elton Kwok, eltonkwok@nyu.edu, IDM's Technology Director to get directions on setting up your space.

Once you have created your process blog share the url on our class .

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articulate your ideas more clearly and concisely through the steady exercise of writing and researching.
reflect upon the flow and evolution of your ideas over time.
accumulate a breadth of material to share with a public audience, so that the narrative of your work is conveyed thoroughly and holistically.
provide an audience, institution or investor, numerous vantage points (personal, conceptual, critical, and technical) from which to view your work.
retrace your steps along a timeline, should your current trajectory prove unsuccessful.
find inspiration for future projects, from unexplored threads in your earlier project documentation.
streamline the workflow of your future projects.

You have a few publishing options:

Create a free blog on any platform that you are familiar with, for example: , , , , , etc
Create a dedicated wordpress via
- If you don’t already have NYU server space, please contact Elton Kwok, eltonkwok@nyu.edu, IDM's Technology Director to get directions on setting up your space.

Once you have created your process blog share the url on our class .