Felt tips on polystyrene

Felt tips didn't work too well on the polystyrene, they didn't sink in, which made it really easy to rub off. I tried using hairspray to stick the felt tip to the polystyrene, this worked, though it initially made the pen drip and run down the cup.

Practice using Acrylic paints on polystyrene

Above are some photo's of me practicing painting on polystyrene. The paint took quite well to the polystyrene, however, it was quite tricky to keep it steady as i was holding the cup in one hand and painting with the other, if i were to use paints then i would have to think of something to use to cut the head on which would rotate round making it easier for me to paint.

Change of Plan.

I've been thinking about my idea, and as i thought it would be hard to find 'plus size' models who would be comfortable in front of the camera. Therefore I have decided to re look at my idea. Now I'm looking at a more fashion photography which could maybe come into some sort of marketing campaign for a magazine.

Sour - New Horizons

The Hibi no Neiro by Sour video is made up of a clever montade of webcam videos of their fans from around the world.

lever montage of webcam videos of their fans from around the world.

Cheryl Cole - Highways Across Continents

Cheryl Cole duetted with a hologram of the Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am at the DLD Starnight event in Munich. Having this technology means that Cheryl Cole doesn't have to be with Will.i.am to perform their track together. This saves on money, as Will.i.am didn't have to fly to Germany to perform with Cheryl.

New technology has also meant that Cheryl Cole and Dizzee Rascal didn't have to meet to record their new single. Dizzee told the Independent: "It was like it never happened. I never saw her. They sent me three tracks and i basically picked the one I thought would be best." He continued: "If they just send you the track, you can get it done in your own studio, in your own comfort zone. It should be good. It will be good. It's Cheryl Cole, innit.'

Dizzee Rascal has admitted he has never met Cheryl and he hasn't even heard their duet.

Globalisation and the media

Brand Logos

Traditional Eastern Patterns

Savvy Sheitels

Heads Up Alabama!

Jessica Harrison

Her work is based on physiological, philosophical and psychoanalytical research into the body and its senses, focusing in particular on the role of touch in our experience of objects and in the construction of knowledge; how consciousness and perception are choreographed by the senses and spatial form.

The work she makes are a complex description of simultaneous unmaking and making, deconstructing an object or a body before putting it back together again – this could be interpreted as a violent process, but is often a very delicate and fragile one, a process of transplantation rather than dislocation. The works are an attempt to change the relationship of the object to the body, making visible the invisible, opening up something normally closed, softening a usually hard surface.

I like the work that Jessica Harrison has done, looking at what is under the surface, under the outer beauty. I find this interesting as she manages to still create her pieces in a delicate, visually simulating, thought provoking way.

ZEVS

Zevs is an anonymous French street artist. He was an early and influential graffiti artist and active as a tagger in Paris in the 1990s. He is named after a regional train, Zeus, that almost ran him over one day he was down in the metro. Working with other French names of the second half of the 1990s like Andre and Invader, Zevs has been among the prominent figures who pioneered the French street art scene

In 2002 he cut out a model of a gigantic Lavazza-poster at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Above the hole in the poster he wrote: "VISUAL KIDNAPPING - PAY NOW!" This intervention not only struck a chord with art lovers and people in Berlin. It has also inspired political activists. Stealing an image from a poster in Germany is now spoken of in the media as a visual kidnapping.

"Visual kidnapping is like entering an interactive game: If the brand on the billboard kidnaps the attention of the public with the purpose of consumer demand, I reverse the situation and I kidnap the model on the poster and I demand a ransom of 500,000€ from the brand. This sum represents the symbolic price of an advertising campaign for the brand." _{Interview with PingMag, 11 August 2008}

Zevs has been doing what he calls 'proper graffiti' since the beginning of the 00s, where he writes on dirty walls with a high pressure jet.

"In the logic of walls made dirty by graffiti, Zevs, the graffiti writer end author of painted shadows has executed proper graffiti. It is about graffiti painted by use of a high pressure jet on walls." _{Alain Milon in Prétentaine, 16/17, Winter 2003-04}

Week Plan 15th - 19th November

Boycotts

Boycott - A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.

Here are some examples:

Animal Testing

A number of companies were on the list because of a boycott call from BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) over animal testing. BUAV no longer call for the boycotting of specific companies, but instead encourage people to buy from those companies that are accredited as 'cruelty-free' under the Humane Cosmetics Standard. None of the following companies, which we have formally removed from the list, have signed up to the standard: Colgate Palmolive; Procter and Gamble; Reckitt Benckiser; SC Johnson; and Unilever.

Adidas for using kangaroo skin to make some types of football boots.

BBC Worldwide

In June 2008 Burma Campaign UK updated its 'dirty list' of companies that are directly or indirectly helping to finance Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. BBC Worldwide, the commericial arm of the BBC, was added due to its 75% stake in Lonely Planet travel guides. Lonely Planet vigorously defends its publication of a guide to Burma, despite Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese democracy movement's call for tourists to stay away. Tourism is a vital source of income to the military junta. According to Burma Campaign UK, BBC Worldwide maintains that Lonely Planet will continue to publish its Burma guidebook.

Global Fashion Local Tradition: On the Globalisation of Fashion

The future of fashion; in essence, this is the theme of the collection of photographs and essays in Global Fashion Local Tradition edited by Jan Brand and José Teunissen.

The topics vary dramatically spanning everything from the global proliferation of the "Fashion Week" concept to exposes on - and catwalk images of - designs by some of the most acclaimed contemporary international designers.

However, throughout this visually and intellectually stimulating volume runs the theme of the interconnectedness of it all, and it offers suggestions as to where this may be leading us.

Sometimes, the combination of cultures and influence is plain to see, such as in the images of John Galliano's extremely colorful and grandiose designs.

His fantastically eclectic runway creations combine everything from Arabic textiles to Russian folk art.

The models fill the foregrounds of the photographs with skirts so complexly layered they could only be supported by the most rigid under-wiring.

The multitude of hues in their clothes and accessories are amplified by the bright and colorful runway lights in the background.

Globalisation and the media

Globalisation is resulting in less diverse media being presented and the media is a powerful player in globalisation aswell.

In the past before cable TV, satellite and even before TV. People generated their own culture. With the development of television, culture and news was generated within countries for the consumption of the local population. Now the media giants are getting bigger and buy out the smaller stations and fill the market with specific programs resulting in a monopoly over world wide cultural capital.

Media is also connected to industry ie through ownership, so media can be used to promote or give a biased view in the favour of industry. (One example: NIKE:selling the concept of health and fitness, while workers are under paid and exploited.)

Disney and all other commercial media, take events, stories and topical news, change them to fit their criteria and sell them back to us, the public. Children raised on this media without the skills of hindsight and questioning will take the concepts portrayed as being true and this changes expectations ad interpretation of culture.