Posted by Vivian Lee | Posted in Site updates | Posted on 05-27-2010
Career and networking
- Internship with Unica Corporation
- Learn more about finance
- Attend networking events
Dance and other performing arts
- Practice for Dance Revelasian Expo
- Take classes in ballet
Personal development and errands
- Redo wardrobe
- Care more about things that matter and less about those that don’t
- Sell stuff from room to make money and get rid of things! stuff purge!
Websites and online
- Get Vivian-lee.net online
Asian Dance Team
- Summer rehearsals
- Summer workouts daily
- Completely redo website
- Create members’ area
- Audition logistics for fall
- Book fall rehearsal venues
- Purchase fall costumes and props
- Lighting design with Jason
- Create fall promo materials
- Create preliminary program document
Introducing my newest [revived] hobby: translating songs!
While I have a difficult time expressing my deep emotions in concrete words, there is fortunately a medium of expression that can explain fairly well my general views in every day life: music. The combination of lyrical beats, intricately-written lyrics, and ornamental piano riffs are somehow always able to characterize my thoughts to a T.
On Portrait of a Lady in Melodic Sequence (yes, it’s named after the novel by Henry James), I will share various lyrics with you all that describe my innermost thoughts, principles, and values. If you have the time, definitely check out the songs themselves, since the music is every bit as much a part of the experience as the gorgeous lyrics (provided in both the original and usually very mangled translations). Please enjoy =)
Click to visit Portrait of a Lady in Melodic Sequence!
Posted by Vivian Lee | Posted in Site updates, Web design | Posted on 03-23-2010
I have been trying unsuccessfully for the past two days to come up with a design for my website.
I’m not quite sure what’s happening; back at the peak of my web designing phase (2007-ish?), I used to come up with ideas left and right. However, I haven’t even been able to sketch out any plans at all. My creative juices are definitely running dry. So instead of sitting around whining about it, I tried to pinpoint the cause of the problem… and succeeded.
What’s different between my past designs and my current design? They’re for different purposes! My past designs were largely for my website collective. You know, all those animanga sites I used to own back in the heyday of fansites… all those one-page dedications, colourful fanlistings, the works. My website collective was like any other one out there: the generic five categories (which I called the “me-you-network-site-exit” format), the lists of cliques and “adoptables” and fanlistings, the “sister sites” and “affiliates” and “link exchanges”… which were really all link exchanges in the end, once you thought about it.
Yeah, that was fun while it lasted. But right now my site serves a different purposes – it is an expression of myself not only to the informal world of my friend circles, but also as my front to the professional world. It’s hard to make a design that is both innovative and fun AND business-like. It’s even harder when I can’t use the colourful animanga scans to which I once clung. I’m basically forced to choose between crappy stock photos or my own photography… which [usually] doesn’t turn out fabulously…
It’s one thing to design personal sites. It’s another to design business/company sites. Fortunately, I have experience in both.
Unfortunately, however, a professional personal site falls somewhere inbetween these two distinctions. And honestly, I am clueless as ever.
