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My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

The New Zealand design was inspired by my trip to New Zealand as it shows the places that I went to. It was first created as a postcard and then manipulated into a motion video. It utilises a hand-rendered aspect, water colour, which has then been digitally altered to create a moving video.

Title Sequence: A Trial by Greed

A Trial By Greed is a modern adaptation of the children’s fairytale, ‘The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs’. It utilises the crime genre to depict a crime scene where there is a murder of ‘Professor Guse’. The title sequence explores the characters which are suspects to the crime through the use of close ups and face shots.

Typefaces: Paddington

‘Paddington’, is a san serif typeface made out of marmalade. It is created in majiscule lettering and utilises the organic forms. The transparent properties of marmalade allows the light to pass through, creating harsh shadows and allows the texture of the background to be shown. It was inspired by ants and honey, but due to cost and lack of ants the idea transformed to be created with marmalade. The title was also inspired by a favoured children’s book “The Adventures of Paddington Bear” and the bear’s love for marmalade. The typeface evokes feelings of childhood memories of playing in the dirt on a sunny day and letting you be free in your own fantasy land.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.