The Weblog Review

Creative Process is a blog documenting the process through which an idea becomes a finished product. In this case, we see how Elizabeth Torak goes from a series of sketches to the painting of a work entitled ‘The Feast of Venus’. Seeing as to how the painting itself remains unfinished, the blog mirrors this work-in-progress sort of feel. Nonetheless, given the unique subject matter, Creative Process is definitely still worth a visit.

What is particularly interesting in this blog are the sketches and photographs of the work in progress. The artist captures each days work with her camera and posts many images of earlier sketches and studies as well to give us an idea of what is, in essence, the process behind the work. She also, very competently, relates a couple of the concepts behind her work, as well as the ups and downs of the process she goes through in creating her art. She occasionally also talks about some related works, presumably in the hope of giving us a more complete picture of her work.

The one limitation to this blog, however, is that it is perhaps a little too specific; while it is fascinating to read about the process behind the painting that the artist creates, you are left wanting a little more – you want to know more about who the artist is, or what else she does with her life. While Elizabeth does provide links to her personal website as well as to another blog featuring the other work in her studio, it seems that all these sites could be combined into one, rather than being disparate entities. On its own, therefore, Creative Process seems, at times, to be a little thin as a blog.

Nonetheless, the aptly named Creative Process offers a fascinating look at the creative process involved in creating art, and is well worth a brief visit.NULL

Creative Process is an interesting name for a blog. It implies that the blog is not finished, and that it is an on going thing. This is good with a blog, but it had me thinking that there could be an end to this blog.

When Creative Process first loaded I was greeted with a standard blogger template. It amazes me how far the blogger templates have come, but unfortunately most are no longer fresh. This template has the brown patterned background with the creamish color main area. It fits well for this blog as it sets a tone of comfort and welcome.

Creative Process is about Elizabeth’s process of creating a painting. The idea is that after each day of work on the painting, take a picture and post the thoughts of what was done. This is a great concept for making sure that something you start gets finished as you have the pressure of the entire blogosphere wanting to see you finish.

Unfortunately the author states that this isn’t from the very beginning and that she started the painting 3 months prior to when she started the blog. However, even with picking up there, you are able to follow a great voyage.

The nice part about this blog is that once the painting is done, I am sure that she will start another and we get to see it start all over again. My only major complaint is that this blog is so new and has very few posts. I cannot give this site a better rating because it is so new. While it has a great concept, I just cannot bring myself to give it a higher score with out more content. I hope that when the author completes the painting, she asks for a re-review so we can follow up on her progress.
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I Have Seoul. With this type of a title I am expecting to see a regular site about someone’s life. I am also expecting to receive a reason on why they feel they have soul. This site is hosted on blogspot.com so it has the typical header. After I opened up the URL I come to find out this is a Canadian teacher in Seoul, South Korea teaching English. The site is easy on the eyes and appears to have a lot of content considering it has only been around since February of 2005. It contains pictures as well as stories to go along with them.

The weblog is about a teacher who is located in Seoul, South Korea. She is teaching English there. The site walks you through her life as it happens. She posts frequently and tells you just enough information to get her point across without boring you. She provides a lot of useful links and also links to her friends. The English/spelling on the site needs some work.

The design is a typical blogspot layout. It is easy on the eyes and contains both pictures and stories. It is purple and tan in color and the stories stretch on forever (distance down the page). The site contains links, archives, random pictures, and an about section.

This is a personal site that would be more appealing to friends and family of the author. I do not feel I would visit again. I feel that if you are interested in learning about Seoul, South Korea, you may find this site helpful. She takes pictures of where she goes and tells you about them from her point of view. This site is not what I was expecting by the title. I feel the content and completeness of the author is fantastic, even though it does not appeal to me.

I have Seoul

The title “Becka’s House of Glue” definitely piqued my interest. I think that’s what each blog should work on first: an interesting title. I mean, that’s the first thing a person sees when he goes there, right? That is, when he clicks on a link or whatnot.



Anyway, I have to say that I was hooked with the first word. Becka’s entries are certainly interesting. It’s mostly a rant blog with tons of opinions thrown at the side. Oh and it’s personal. But she write in such a witty way that even when I didn’t agree with what she said, I still enjoyed the time reading.

The layout is a bit bland but hey, no one’s perfect, right? And I think the posts stand by itself that the design doesn’t really matter too much. She also has pictures with some of the post. I think they add character to the blog itself.

Overall, I recommend everyone to go for a visit. Who knows, you just might get to be as hooked as I am.
Becka’s House of Glue

At Jefitoblog, I can tell what the site is about right away by the tagline – poking pop culture’s soft white underbelly with a sharp-witted stick.

This site is nicely designed and pleasing to the eye – too bad I can hardly read the small type. I sure wish bloggers would figure out how to alter the stylesheets on their blogs in a positive way. If you use settings like x-small or other relative settings, the user can actually increase the font size. As it is, I really can’t read the site, but I can tell it has a review of Jude Cole, and it has a really funny take on a cereal called Mini-Swirlz. The complaint is that the cereal looks like small pieces of poop, and from the pictures I have to agree.

Other postings cover CDs and TV, exactly what you’d expect from the tagline. The posts go back to 2002 on the archive list, so this blog has been around a while.

I finally get an author name at the very bottom of the page, Jeff Giles. No email link though, which is a personal pet peeve.

All in all, it’s a great blog, I only gave it a bad score because the type was too small for me to read.jefitoblog