I went to see the film 2012 the other day with my friend and felt the need to blog about it! I actually thought it was pretty good, other than the horribly soppy moments and the random, unnecessary complications near the end! The story line was seriously dodgy, and I'm not sure it was completely appropriate for the mum to be kissing her ex-husband right after the step dad had been shmooshed (technical term there) by the ship! The effects were fantastic and it was pretty entertaining... and slightly like a bad soap opera...
Anyway, today was the last day for lectures and seminars this semester. I really enjoyed the lecture, a fair bit of it was taken up by a clip from a panorama episode about advertising...
I was extremely irritated by the bratty children in the video. I really just wanted to scream at the label freak to have some individuality, at the skater dude to forget about his clothes and concentrate on the skating and at the home schooled girl (or her parents) to chill out! I really think that parents probably get too hard a time for the actions and attitudes of their children, but in this case the parents are definately to blame. Ultimately it was showing the effects of advertising on children and how good a target that age group is. I liked how it was showing three different types of children and families.
I particularly disliked the label obsessed girl. I think it is utterly wrong for children of 12 to be wearing labels, especially very expensive labels. I definately wasn't wearing anything like that when I was 12. Having said that, I was probably one of the geekiest people in school at that age and was interested mainly in school, my family and hanging out with my friends.
I don't agree with home schooling either, I think socialising, making friends and exploring out of your parents home without your parents is an extremely important part of making a persons identity! I thought it was quite funny how they showed that even this family was effected by advertising when the girl bought a 'Bratz' doll.
I think the skater boy was put in there to show how advertising effects people who claim to not follow the crowd (the sheep comment was quite funny). I liked the point that all of our identitys (in fashion anyway) are pretty much created for us and we have to slot into one. He is the perfect example of this, the typical 'skater' identity of t-shirts and baggy jeans with skate shoes. I went through that phase, thinking I was so individual!
Rant over!
Also, I have never watched the Daily Show, but now I'm going to! The clips from it were hilarious! Who thought of chocolate chip pancake wrapped sausage? That is possibly the most disgusting food I have ever heard of...
Friday 20 November 2009
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Assignment 3
I have really enjoyed our third assignment, even though it has taken quite a long time to do the research. I am continuing to investigate textiles and the environment. I have tried to find information to do with sustainable textiles and materials as well as looking at the nature of consumers when it comes to buying and throwing clothes away.
Fletcher, Kate, 2008, Sustainable fashion & textiles, London, Earthscan
This book looks at materials in sustainable fashion, challenges existing ideas about sustainable textiles and goes into depth about the materials we currently use, and the alternatives. It covers the long term environmental impact of fashion and looks at the ‘lifecycle’: ‘material cultivation/extraction, production, use and disposal’.
Morgan, Louise R; Birtwistle, Grete, 2009, ‘An investigation of young consumers’ disposal habits’, International Journal of Consumer Studies, vol. 33, no. 2 pp. 190-198
This article seems to be extremely relevant to what I am looking at. It covers the idea of the ‘throw away society’ that we live in and looks at how fashion garments are disposed. I am very interested in the recycling and reuse theme. The article also looks at people’s lack of understanding when it comes to how these bad habits are effecting our environment.
Murphy, Joseph; Cohen, Maurie J, 2001, Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences, Pergamon
To relate what I am looking at to the world in general, I felt I would need a more general view on consumption and our environment. This book covers many different environmental issues, mainly consumerism, and looks into ‘the pursuit for sustainable lifestyles’. It brings together a group of internationally recognised authors who tackle environmental policy and ways to take action.
Scaturro, Sarah, 2008, Eco-Tech Fashion: Rationalizing Technology in sustainable fashion, Fashion theory: the Journal of dress, body & culture, pp469-488
I thought this article would be very good for finding out the technical side of being environmentally friendly with our fashion! This journal says there are two main areas involved in ‘Eco-tech fashion’: ‘the physical manifestation of sustainable textiles’ and ‘the digital domain’.
Smith, Beth, 2006, ‘The High Road’, Selvedge magazine, 34-35, no 14.
This was a feature about Deborah Milner, who is an inspiration woman who owns the company Aveda (an eco-friendly cosmetics company). She has developed an environmentally friendly fashion collection called ‘Ecoture’ which is full of recycled dresses and fair trade hand woven silk pieces.
Wang, Youjiang, 2006, ‘Recycling in textiles’, Woodhead Publishing, USA
This book looks at the practicality of recycling: are the recycled products cost effective? Is there a market? Enough waste to be recycled? After the recycling process, are we actually doing any good considering the emissions etc. This book challenges the idea of recycling, and I think it gives a bit of balance to my research.
5 GENERAL ART/DESIGN SITES
I am very interested in the environment and this site has some very interesting articles to do with eco-friendly designing, it’s the one blog on my RSS reader that I never scroll past!
I found this when I was doing my research on the first part of this assignment, and now I love it!
http://stylebubble.typepad.com/
I love this site. Susie Bubble is a fashion commentator and her blog, which started as a way to pass time, has actually been the launch pad for her current career as a magazine editor.
5 TEXTILE SITES
I find this textile designers work very inspiring, she has a masters in textiles and I love her style.
I have just joined this site, it seems really cool! I could be very, very wrong.
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