Spectacle!

This is for our project about spectacle. These are photographs I've taken made into a fake poster for a lecture series based on the movie Donnie Darko. The Philosophy of Time Travel is a made up book from the movie. The movie is about time travel.

Temporary Tattoo!!!!

Yay temporary tattoos!!!!!!!!

Landscape

Four of us decided to do a "stream of consciousness" for our landscape. We got the idea when we were brainstorming in class when all of us drew off of each others drawings. So, this file started with one person and was passed on to each. It doesn't have a definitive concept, just whatever imagery came to mind based on what was done before. This is what we came up with!

3-D type

Figured out my blog problems! these are the finals from the first project .... onto the next.....


















This is my infinite print! I guess it started as a unique object and I scanned it in order to make it printable. I wanted to experiment with how 3-D parts of artwork printed still look 3-D.

Then for my unique object, I want to make it back into a 3-D piece in a different way than the original 3-D object.

INFINITE PRINT



The idea for this illustration came from photographs I had taken. My roommates and I made a huge IKEA trip and built all of our furniture in the front yard and I set up all the furniture and my friends. This illustration branches from these photos and is a place I would like to hang out.

So, after not being really happy to my solution to this problem, I decided to try something different but still focusing on the topic of shaving.

So I branched off from this information I found about the manipulation of women into shaving their armpits and legs and took more of an anti-ad approach. Also, I wanted to utilize the screen printing process in a different way than printing onto paper, because I can do that easily through my printer- I wanted to print onto a more interesting material.

So, the rejection of manipulation imposed by advertising.
my new idea:

girls who do not conform to this now societal norm are making a bold statement, so I wanted my project to be bold too- but want to also incorporate some of the information I learned through my research process.
Kind of like in the 60s when some women rejected shaving during the Hippie movement, this is like a 2009 graphic-T version of the same rebellion.
Here is what I came up with.

IDEA

Manipulation piece

So after researching about shaving advertising in the 1940s, I decided to take copy from an old Advertisement "Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair." I also wanted to use the photo of Betty Garble who was used in these advertisements.

Betty Garble info: Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later included in the Life magazine project "100 Photos that Changed the World". Grable was particularly noted for having the most beautiful legs in Hollywood and studio publicity widely dispersed photos featuring them. Hosiery specialists of the era often noted[citation needed] the ideal proportions of her legs as: thigh (18.5") calf (12"), and ankle (7.5"). Grable's legs were famously insured by her studio for $1,000,000 with Lloyds of London.

Yay Dupont!

In less than two years Du Pont captured more than 30 percent of the full-fashioned hosiery market. Then the United States' entry into World War II led to the diversion of all nylon into military uses. During the war Du Pont increased its nylon production threefold, to more than twenty-five million pounds a year; the biggest uses were for parachutes, airplane tire cords, and glider tow ropes. When the war ended and women began to demand nylons again, their demand greatly exceeded supply for two years. The shotage led to several riots by impatient women who had stood in line for hours for stockings. Newspapers ran stories with headlines such as "Women Risk Life and Limb in Bitter Battle over Nylons."

Nylon became far and away the biggest money-maker in the history of the Du Pont company, and its success proved so powerful that it soon led the company's executives to derive a new formula for growth. By putting more money into fundamental research, Du Pont would discover and develop "new nylons," that is, new proprietary products sold to industrial customers and having the growth potential of nylon. This faith seemed to be borne out in the late 1940s and early 1950s with the development of Orlon and Dacron and the continued spectacular growth of nylon. Du Pont had effected a revolution in textile fibers, and the revolution propeled earnings skyward.

In fact, Du Pont, which for its first hundred years had been an explosives manufacturer and had in this century become a diversified chemical company, was by the 1950s, in many respects, a fibers company that had some other businesses on the side.




Hundreds of women wait in line on a cold December morning in 1945 to buy hosiery at a New York City shoe store.

So I was going through propaganda posters and wanted to focus on WWII. I then decided I wanted to research the history of why American women shave their legs, because it is tied into WWII. Here is my research:

1914 - 1918: WORLD WAR I -

GILLETTE works out a mega deal with the U.S. Armed Forces, which provides his safety razor and blades to every enlisted man or officer on their way to Europe as a regular part of their standard issue gear. This creates tremendous worldwide promotion and publicity opportunities for Gillette’s company and products.

Why Women Shave Their Legs and Underarms -

We all know the power of advertising. At the turn of the century, for example, the South African Diamond company, DeBeers, created the image that the diamond was forever and therefore would make an excellent wedding ring.

Another marketing campaign around this time convinced the women of North America to shave their body hair. Notably, women in the other parts of the world do not engage on masse in this ritual. Even in French Canada, the habit is not largely undertaken.

It all began with the May, 1915 edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine that featured a model sporting the latest fashion. She wore a sleeveless evening gown that exposed, for the first time in fashion, her bare shoulders, and her armpits.

A young marketing executive with the Wilkinson Sword Company, who also made razor blades for men, designed a campaign to convince the women of North America that:

(a) Underarm hair was unhygienic (b) It was unfeminine.

In two years, the sales of razor blades doubled as our grandmothers and great grandmothers made themselves conform to this socially constructed gender stereotype. This norm for North American women has been reinforced by several generations of daughters who role-modeled their mothers.

1920s - 1930s -

Popular female HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARS in the United States are shaving off their eyebrows with razors, plucking, or using depilatory formulas to get a hair-free face. They then "draw" very thin brows back on the face with an eyebrow pencil. Later, these eyebrows will begin to look exaggerated, unnatural and alien-like, especially when seen on a black and white movie screen. Like the brows of actor GROUCHO MARX, who completely shaves his face and eyebrows before drawing them back on with a black grease pencil in rather unusual shapes.

Info came from http://www.quikshave.com/timeline.htm


here is a video about shaving legs that gets more specifically into WWII

Digital Printmaking

Digital Printmaking

Project 1

ma·nip·u·late \mə-ˈni-pyə-ˌlāt\
1: to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in
a skillful manner
2 a: to manage or utilize skillfully
b: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's
own advantage
3: to change by artful or unfair means so as to serve one's purpose : doctor



I manipulated this picture of the 13 and 15 yr old parents. I'd rather their baby born from a evil lab than from natural birth.


More examples of manipulation:

Propaganda- manipulating people to feel a certain way or join a cause