This is it. The grand finale. The last post.

This Project has been an awesome experience, but I am so relieved that it is finally over.

This class and project is definitely one I won’t forget. And before I officially say good-bye, I would like to take a minute and reflect back on how my work has progressed.

I was pretty nervous to begin posting, but after I started on my first few ideas, I realized they were actually a lot of fun to make (most of them at least). And for this I am thankful. If the first few posts I made were a hassle and I didn’t have a great time with them, I think my motivation would have been killed early, and my whole blog would have sucked.

But after making my first 2 post, I was having a lot of fun and really into the whole blog thing. I loved the fact I could show anyone my work, no matter their location. I was super motivated and I think it shows in my early work.

On week 2, we were given our first directive to relate to Barbie. Looking back, I can tell I was a little bit thrown off by having a directive because my ideas were still either a bit basic or kind of a rip off of an idea I had seen before. I even started falling behind at this point, thinking I had run out of ideas.

I think it was around week 3 or 4, with the ‘quintessence’ directive that my work really started going in its own direction. It was probably the crazy topic made me realize that not only was it ok to come up with wild ideas, it was encouraged.

It was also around this time that thinking about Barbie became a habit. An addiction almost. I couldn’t help but to started thinking about things in Barbie terms. I wanted to turn everything into a post. And during the next couple weeks, I did just that.

Everything I thought about or did became a post. I made a post about star wars, of me playing guitar, of games I like to play, and of current events (like birthdays and hurricanes) going on outside of class and my blog. I enjoyed the challenge of trying to relate things that I personally liked doing to the given directives and the Barbie brand.

I think the project really started getting tough when I began running out of ways to relate Barbie to things that I liked. I began running out of ideas after I did everything I already knew how to do. I think my best work came from my early post when I was dealing with things I knew about, but I think I learned the most from my later post when I was trying to figure out something new.

But really, I guess I should let you, the reader, decide which pieces of my work were the best. I really want to thank you for reading, and hope you enjoyed my work.

-Erik Holcomb