Tuesday 22 October 2013
Tuesday 15 October 2013
Sunday 13 October 2013
Excessive Hair
I wanted to have a little explore of how excessive hair had been used in fashion. We were shown this fashion video featuring lots of wigs which made me start to think how something such as excessive hair that is seen as ugly can really look quite beautiful.
The next thing I came across was the 'Jack' by Breach music video..
Then I found these photos of hair stylist Teiji's work called 'Hairy Monsters' for PQ eyewear
(Found on Hungertv.com)..
Second Practical
For the second practical I played around with creating shapes and textures I could apply to the skin for interesting effect. I made these all with various moulds and mainly with gelatine.
Guest speaker - Keiron LeVine
So for our second seminar for this project we had designer and blogger Keiron LeVine visit us, he shared his interest in all things tribal and these are my notes (take a deep breath you could be reading for a while!) -
- paper adornments
- animal adornments
- Phyliss Galembo - west african masquerades
- crocodile scars (National Geographic - crocodile scars - youtube video)
- different parts of the body and different patterns scarred at different points in life (status can also affect them)
- strong links to sexual desire
- important parts of initiation
- Ariana Page Rusell (want to look more into)
- Shilluk and Naba tribes
- Cultural identity
- Shilluk 'pearl crown on head'
- cultural identity
- dr congo - extreme
- scares can show experience
- 'skin becomes a book' (look more into)
- similar to tribal skin painting
- can portray messages to or from the spirit world
- experiment by leaning on things (look more into)
- marks - tiffany barbes - plays with prints from jewellery
- Kolo markings
- scars can be outward or inward
- symbols can be of - bravery, grief and religion
- spiritual meanings - example - Yoruba tribe's Ogun god of iron
- Danielle Bietti - branding
- Phillip Toeledno?
- 'making memories on the skin'
- Omo valley - lots of different tribes and mixed markings
- experiment with rice and papier mache etc
- things can be rubbed into wounds repeatidly to make a more bulged effect
- the scars can have no meaning atall
- scars can be used in fashion, daryl van wouw - glued on studs, alexander mcqueen - scars on leather shoes, wallets and dresses etc
Books
I went for a hunt in the library and these are the first few books I found that I thought would be interesting to look at for this project, they are -
- The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
- The Artificial Face by Fenja Gunn
- Pricing Beauty by Ashley Mears
- Body Extensions by Arnoldsche
As much as I'd like to convince myself finding 4 books in the library is hard work I know I now have to actually look at them, so i'll write another separate post on my finding from them!
Experimenting with materials
For our first lesson I experimented with texture and some colour added too.
gelatine, rice and derma color
gelatine, liquid latex, rice, beads, glitter, kryolan colour spray and supracolor
gelatine mixed with aquacolor
fullers earth, supracolor and glitter
It was interesting to see how the different materials worked and also how they dried, especially with the last one (fullers earth) because the more it dried and cracked the more colour you could see and the patterns it created were different too.
Intro/My initial thoughts
So one of the first projects for this year is called 'Brave New World' and we have been asked to create two looks/images in response to that. This project is all about looking into beauty ideals/treatments etc now and imagining how they might develop and further change in the future.
I think this could be quite interesting actually as beauty and body ideals are always around yet always changing and evolving. Also ideals can be so different for so many people so there is so many things to look at and possible inspirations to find, whether they be more beauty orientated or just plain weird! I am also excited to learn new techniques and try new products in this Sfx module.
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