For an exhibition in the end of August! These are basically unselected pieces :P
Check it out here Dream Exhibition
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20100812
Some experimental works
For an exhibition in the end of August! These are basically unselected pieces :P
Check it out here Dream Exhibition
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My reading today 今日讀書進度
was about to start postmodernism... but end with youth culture again!
-Such youthful identity is a matter of looking right (clothes,shoes, hairstyles) and sharing tastes (for styles of music, ways of having fun), and however different such youth groups are from eacg other (differences which have sometimes involved ritual fights - mods vs rockers, teds vs punks) they equally outrage 'straight' society - grown-ups, shopkeepers, the police, teachers, newspapers quick to use such peculiar images (girls with rings in their noses, boys with tattooed heads) for their shock value.
-Shared experiences make for shared needs. Eisenstadt argued that young people seek a sense of stability to offset the experience of change, a sense of self-esteem to offset the experience of powerlessness. Youth culture is the result. It provides a clear set of values, attitudes and behavioural norms to follow whatever else is going on; by acting on youth cultural rules young people can feel good whatever anyone else thinks of them.
-According to sub-cultural theory, then, youth styles are a form of resistance not because the stylists are consiously challenging 'bourgeois ideology' but because in using social signs to give themselves a sense of control over their own lives, group members simultaneously draw public attention to the contradictions in the dominant ideology as it related to their lives.
-Youth groups use their own area of power - their 'free time' - to make a gesture against their lot... Youth subculture can only cast spells against the boring powerlessness of the daily routine, but such magic does have cultural consequences. It challenges the ideology that normally keeps the social machinery working.
． Frith, S. (1984) The sociology of youth. Ormskirk: Causeway.
-Such youthful identity is a matter of looking right (clothes,shoes, hairstyles) and sharing tastes (for styles of music, ways of having fun), and however different such youth groups are from eacg other (differences which have sometimes involved ritual fights - mods vs rockers, teds vs punks) they equally outrage 'straight' society - grown-ups, shopkeepers, the police, teachers, newspapers quick to use such peculiar images (girls with rings in their noses, boys with tattooed heads) for their shock value.
-Shared experiences make for shared needs. Eisenstadt argued that young people seek a sense of stability to offset the experience of change, a sense of self-esteem to offset the experience of powerlessness. Youth culture is the result. It provides a clear set of values, attitudes and behavioural norms to follow whatever else is going on; by acting on youth cultural rules young people can feel good whatever anyone else thinks of them.
-According to sub-cultural theory, then, youth styles are a form of resistance not because the stylists are consiously challenging 'bourgeois ideology' but because in using social signs to give themselves a sense of control over their own lives, group members simultaneously draw public attention to the contradictions in the dominant ideology as it related to their lives.
-Youth groups use their own area of power - their 'free time' - to make a gesture against their lot... Youth subculture can only cast spells against the boring powerlessness of the daily routine, but such magic does have cultural consequences. It challenges the ideology that normally keeps the social machinery working.
． Frith, S. (1984) The sociology of youth. Ormskirk: Causeway.
20091109
My reading today 今日讀書進度
-Several important indicators are raised by style. It expresses a degree of commitment to the subculture, and it indicates membership of a specific subculture which by its very appearance disregards or attacks dominant values. Style I shall define as consisting of three main elements:
a 'Image', appearance composed of costume, accessories such as hair-style, jewellery and artefacts.
b 'Demeanour', made up of expression, gait and posture. Roughly this is what the actors wear and how they wear it.
c 'Argot', a special vocabulary and how it is delivered.
-We may use clothing to challenge dominant norms, but we also make statements about our environment.
-Style also indicates a life style, and as such has an appeal to subterranean values which combine to make a visual challenge at both a structural and an existential level.
-Style as a subcultural level acts as a form of argot, drawing upon costume and artefacts from a mainstream fashion context and translating these into its own rhetoric.
-A new style is created by appropriating objects from an existing market of artefacts and using them in a form of collage, which recreates group identity, and promotes mutual recognition for members.
-It has been suggested that subcultures offer, on the one hand, solutions of a 'magical' (that is they appear to be solutions rather than are rather than of a real nature to inherent contradictions in the socio-economic system experienced at some level by the actor... on the other hand, the style of the subculture allows an expression of identity through a deliberate projection of a self-image, which claims an identity 'magically' freed from class and occupation.
-Actors, then, attracted by subcultural reference groups, select those within the parameters set by the social structure which contain an attractive self-image, and an apparent solution to structural problems. In this way actors enter into subcultural interpretations of the dominant hegemony, which presents them with a different perspective of social reality, or sometimes a different social reality. As such they are important agents of secondary socialisation. They introduce the values of the world outside work and school.
-For the young, however (and of course not all the young are involved in subcultures), subcultures assist them in dealing with both structural and individual problems. Some of them, especially in working-class youth subcultures, are transient solutions to specific problems. Others are of a more enduring nature leading to social change. Subcultures address themselves to structural problems, and implicitly contain a critique of society, admittedly often inarticulate and tangential.
．Brake, M. (1990) Comparative youth culture: the sociology of youth cultures and youth subcultures in America, Britain
and Canada. London: Routledge.
a 'Image', appearance composed of costume, accessories such as hair-style, jewellery and artefacts.
b 'Demeanour', made up of expression, gait and posture. Roughly this is what the actors wear and how they wear it.
c 'Argot', a special vocabulary and how it is delivered.
-We may use clothing to challenge dominant norms, but we also make statements about our environment.
-Style also indicates a life style, and as such has an appeal to subterranean values which combine to make a visual challenge at both a structural and an existential level.
-Style as a subcultural level acts as a form of argot, drawing upon costume and artefacts from a mainstream fashion context and translating these into its own rhetoric.
-A new style is created by appropriating objects from an existing market of artefacts and using them in a form of collage, which recreates group identity, and promotes mutual recognition for members.
-It has been suggested that subcultures offer, on the one hand, solutions of a 'magical' (that is they appear to be solutions rather than are rather than of a real nature to inherent contradictions in the socio-economic system experienced at some level by the actor... on the other hand, the style of the subculture allows an expression of identity through a deliberate projection of a self-image, which claims an identity 'magically' freed from class and occupation.
-Actors, then, attracted by subcultural reference groups, select those within the parameters set by the social structure which contain an attractive self-image, and an apparent solution to structural problems. In this way actors enter into subcultural interpretations of the dominant hegemony, which presents them with a different perspective of social reality, or sometimes a different social reality. As such they are important agents of secondary socialisation. They introduce the values of the world outside work and school.
-For the young, however (and of course not all the young are involved in subcultures), subcultures assist them in dealing with both structural and individual problems. Some of them, especially in working-class youth subcultures, are transient solutions to specific problems. Others are of a more enduring nature leading to social change. Subcultures address themselves to structural problems, and implicitly contain a critique of society, admittedly often inarticulate and tangential.
．Brake, M. (1990) Comparative youth culture: the sociology of youth cultures and youth subcultures in America, Britain
and Canada. London: Routledge.
20091108
The 2nd shoot of the same day 第二次拍攝
Date: 10/09/09
Model: Ricci
Actually about the fabric series, this one was my original idea.
I twisted my idea then we had the first shoot.
However, I quite like the results of this one with little concern at the moment...
The first shoot 第一次拍攝
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Date: 10/09/09
Model: Ricci
The first idea is about fabrics; something necessary for costumes making.
They are most students, so economical aspect is a issue for them; at the same time, they also wish to have the best look of the character!
Thus, I am thinking about the struggle with price, texture, and the best performance.
20091107
Chungking Express 重慶森林
I knew this one for a long time! However, haven't really watched it.
To search the point to re-start my project, I watched it last night.
As usual, I like the scene as rough as it presents in front of my eyes. It is a sense of real life, something not very delicate all the time. Colour is strong just like all his movies, for me, I would like to think the heavy tone is a specific humid atmosphere in sub-tropical country. Like my country Taiwan.
Cannot deny that I was influenced by my background a lot when doing my works, especially I didn't come here when young. Maybe it is also the reason I like his movies a lot.
The story, it is always murmuring. The pace is very slow but just like a lullaby; once if you started to listen it, you would be pulled into the melody. There is nowhere to start and it never end. BTW, everyone is so young in the movie lol
Hope this could be a nice beginning :)
To search the point to re-start my project, I watched it last night.
As usual, I like the scene as rough as it presents in front of my eyes. It is a sense of real life, something not very delicate all the time. Colour is strong just like all his movies, for me, I would like to think the heavy tone is a specific humid atmosphere in sub-tropical country. Like my country Taiwan.
Cannot deny that I was influenced by my background a lot when doing my works, especially I didn't come here when young. Maybe it is also the reason I like his movies a lot.
The story, it is always murmuring. The pace is very slow but just like a lullaby; once if you started to listen it, you would be pulled into the melody. There is nowhere to start and it never end. BTW, everyone is so young in the movie lol
Hope this could be a nice beginning :)
20090825
Project Update: Photos from convention II
These are some selections from another convention- Comic World Taiwan 22, also one of the biggest summer doujinshi convention/cosplay festival in Taiwan. More photos can go to my picasa web album :)
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Project Update: Photos from convention
These are some selections from the first convention- Fancy Frontier 14, one of the biggest summer doujinshi convention/cosplay festival in Taiwan. More photos can go to my picasa web album :)
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Manga style...其實我一直在避免用到"漫畫"的構思
Well... I don't know why I keep avoid to have any idea related to manga... Probably because part of my rebellion makes me not to think about it.
However... I still back to it now... what am I doning!!!!
20081015
Insect所謂的我的罩門
A bracelet designed by Skir...
Hope the photo-shoot with it can work out!
Seriously... I wouldn't like to hold this thing with my hands...
cause it really looks like a kind of insects... and I always have issue with almost all kinds of insects... orz
However, I picked this piece at the first sight!
20080529
Term 3 project- Altered State
Credits
Make-up artist: Jun Sato
Special effects: Hayley Treacey
Stylist: Amaya Ducru Clouthier
Photographer: Chang Hui Lee
Special thanks
Jewelry designer: Skir Lin
Models: Amaya Ducru Clouthier, Jozy Chen, Constance Govare
First and foremost, we had to find a specific area to develop our idea.
Through brainstorming, we came up with a variety of topics that were of interest,
such as how natural disasters change the living environment or how artists transform their inspiration into a visual work;
then, most of our group members were really interested in the mental part, which could be “alter the state of mind”.
By conducting a research in the field of psychology theory and contemporary art, we gradually developed that idea.
In the end,
we did a synthesis of all the ideas in order to visualise the alter ego by creating multiple images.
The final outcome would be a series of editorial photo shoots.
(Quite formal I know... cause I this is a copy from something l handed to uni... lol)
Anyway, we inspired by Surrealism a lot!
Luckily, my friend Skir had a series surrealistic jewelry, so that we decided to work together!
We didn't image the final outcome that much; everyone just did his best, and then we had fun during the process:)
Thanks to those who participated in!
This project is my favorite in my first year.
20080213
Term 2 Project - Music and Fashion
Credits
Make-up artist: Chia-Ying Lu
Model: Aiko
Photographer: Chang Hui Lee
I was excited about the project, cause music is always an important element in my life.
Of course I chose a song from my favorite Japanese singer-Shiina Ringo!
The singer and her music influence me a lot in many aspect.
However, more difficulties came out when I created images... cause it's a complicated song, what a challenge!
In the end, I liked my works as usual though I was not very satisfied at the moment.
I would like to say it's nice to have a try:)
Just put some selected photo works on now... haven't got time to make a whole album for every piece.
am trying a website as well...
so many things!!!
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