Bad Days The Podcast by Rachel Weisz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X06xWaa5Taw&t=1s&ab_channel=RachelMay Concept & Utility Building on her previous DA, Bad Days The Label, Rachel this semester, has been working on a podcast series to accompany her label’s online presence. Her podcast talks exclusively about sustainability in the fashion industry, taking particular interest in addressing the toxic popularity of fast... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apXaG5c14DU&ab_channel=AliciaMcFadden Concept and Social Utility For my project this semester I want to create a blog dedicated to content on action, comedy-drama and drama television shows and films. Using this blog as a secondary online portfolio of work to show future employers my skills in copywriting, content creation and blogging. This project will consist of... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIVnU59bYfQ&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=AliciaMcFadden My Beta Video As I discussed in my video above I encountered many setbacks while trying to set up my Etsy store. The biggest set back being that I was no longer able to print the stickers myself and to spite my best efforts to find a suitable alternative no options were suitable to... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/_pewzFo80uw As I mention in my video above, I am not a heavy video game player and so I was a bit lost coming into this assignment. Though I began researching and came across an article called 'Online games, Gender and feminism' which talked about this idea of "pink" games (Jenson & Castell, 2014). This... Continue Reading →
In Australia, university is known as a time when young adults try to find themselves and to do so, are finally given the freedom to express themselves through their clothing. After years of conformity throughout primary and high school, most Australian university students are finally given the opportunity to wear what they want to class... Continue Reading →
THE PROCESS OF MAKING, BREAKING AND REMAKING MadeInAusbyAlicia is now an active prototype on both Etsy and Instagram for the world to see, interact with and even purchase from! Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MadeInAusByAlicia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madeinausbyalicia/ As I explained in my Beta video, my DA changed shape a bit after my Ideation post. Upon listening to some... Continue Reading →
Though I had made a DA last semester in BCM112, I wanted to re-brainstorm this semester and look at other potential avenues for a DA. My original thinking was probably that I would either scrap my original DA entirely or continue it exactly as it was. However, as my brainstorming went on I... Continue Reading →
Crazy Rich Asians broke down boundaries as the first film to come out of Hollywood in 25 years with an all Asian cast and an Asian-American lead. The film took the world by storm in 2018, upon its release, when it became the highest-grossing romantic comedy in the past decade, making $237 million worldwide at the... Continue Reading →
Copyright has been out of control in recent years, with algorithms designed for the sole purpose of detecting copyrighted material in everything that is uploaded to the internet. Youtube is a great example of a platform that overuses the copyright algorithm, with cases of noises including that of cats purring in the background of a... Continue Reading →
Memes are an emergent medium which has the potential to provoke conversation and change, but how do they now have the power to run a democracy? Memes – Greek for “that which is imitated” - once defined as self-replicating units of culture. Memes have become a segment of media that is uncensored, copied rapidly and... Continue Reading →
Alicia McFadden 