Conner Harkins' Intro to Blogging

  Image: A screenshot of a documentary on Mac Miller titled "Stopped Making Excuses, Source: Youtube.com               This week I aimed to get a whole lot done to put me in a good position for the final week, however things didn't necessarily go as planned. Unfortunately I had a long week in regards to other classes and wasn't able to complete as much content as I would have wanted. However, I did find a great video documentary on Mac Miller on Youtube which included on my website and wrote a bit of an analysis piece about. I think the video aspect adds a good easy to follow piece that adds on to the introduction on him and will be interesting for its viewers. I plan to finish a lot in my remaining time and feel that I am still in a decent place, just need to grind to the end. 

            Image: Mac Miller Album Cover Art made by Reddit User Hoonigan97 Source:  Reddit.com     This week I feel that I got a substantial amount of work done. To begin I reviewed the comments on my previous process blogs to get motivated and see how I can work better and more efficiently. After that I went back to my website and made some cosmetic touch ups that would make the website look better and more complete. Finally I looked back at my notes from the week prior and began to write my piece Albums: A Short Analysis which looked at my 5 favorite Mac Miller albums and described each one. I reached my 4000 word count goal so I am feeling like I am in a good place for now. In the coming weeks I hope to add at least 3 to 4 more articles to complete the 6000 word count goal. 

  Image: Mac Miller Album Cover Art made by Reddit User Hoonigan97 Source: Reddit.com             This week I had a bit of a slow week content wise in regards to this project. However, I still feel very confident in where I am. I've come to find that I really enjoy this project because the freedom allowed and it allows me to claim that listening to Mac Miller is considered schoolwork. In regards to my progress this week I spent close to 2 to 3 hours listening to some of my favorite Mac albums and ranking them based off a variety of categories. They're all so unique and good that it was a bit tough but I was able to finally get a set ranking and take notes on what I liked about each, taking a short analysis of a few. I plan to use this ranking to make a page about his albums, containing a short analysis for each. I was able to set up the page on my website and get some notes in which I plan to write in the upcoming weeks. 

                                                    Image: Mac Miller's  Faces  Album, Source:  Wikipedia.com     This week I picked up where I left off last week and completed my analysis of Mac Miller's Faces mixtape. Last week I researched the album and spent a lot of time listening and forming my own opinions and reviews on the pieces. I created a subsection within my website and wrote down the key points of the article that I wanted to make. Now this week I compiled those thoughts together to complete the analysis and background of the mixtape. 

                                        Image: Mac Miller's Faces  Album, Source: Wikipedia.com          This week I focused on taking notes and focusing on what different aspects I wanted to add to my website. I looked at lyrics, listened to a lot of Mac's music, did some research on the different stages of Mac's life. I came up with a general plan and took some notes to layout what would go where. I also did some editing to my website and made it a bit more visually pleasing. Overall, I'm pretty happy with where I am at and think that I will be able to create a good final project. 

                             Image: Mac Miller Portrait taken shortly before his death, Source: Vulture.com          A few weeks back I decided that with the artistic direction that this class has taken and it's focus around the project, that I would create my website pertaining to my favorite artist; Mac Miller. So, the past few weeks I've been trying to develop a game plan for what I want to include in my website and how I will do it. I've done research on a lot of his pieces and different stages in life, along with having a relatively large prior knowledge on him, so as a result I believe that I can piece together many varying pieces of text on him to cover his life story and display his art. This week I decided that the simplest way to begin filling my website with information about Mac Miller would be to write an introduction pie...