the introduction to an assignment that i am in the midst of (i am far too wordy, got to work on the art of being succinct.):
'The internet is increasingly becoming a place where information and creative ideas are shared. This essay will argue that because access to the internet is not universal, this sharing reinforces dominant opinions, resulting in uniform and bland products and services.
Within the last decade, online services such as advanced marketing, e-commerce and personal blogging have revolutionised the Creative Industries and specifically, the Fashion Industry, in allowing up-to-date information to be accessible to anyone. However, Western superiority has arisen as a result of the growing reliance on technology, and First World products are being showcased exponentially more so than any other cultural representation. From this, the issue of counterfeiting has become significant, as the accessibility to this aesthetic is developing the industry into one of cyclic regurgitation of past and commonplace products and services.'
or something.
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today i stumbled across, and fell in love with, the Tumblr of Eva Chen - the beauty editor at Teen Vogue. perhaps the fact that Eva looks a little like Camille from Childhood Flames, my forever girl crush, doesn't hurt. there are so many insightful comments on the industry, beauty and fashion information/answering of questions, and in terms of chunky but elegant shoes - she is a girl after my own heart.:
lately i've been influenced by some people that i have been getting to know + others such as Julia Frakes, who dress with a lot of thought. everything put together, though simply, and with some really interesting graphics and prints. it is time to just grow up - less distressed denim. Eva dresses a little similarly to what i am trying to explain - and wears midi length skirts so well; something i would like to achieve ! i particularly have my eye on a pleated Karen Walker equivalent, which i have spotted on a friend a couple of times, or any similar piece that is slightly cheaper..but i'm still in procrastion nation.
some images from a *few* (ha ha) of my favourite Eva posts:
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'the West has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. in such an environment it is easy for speech to be 'free' because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. in states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. we should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. the attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade.'
- Julian Assange, via
'but surely, you may say, Philip Roth is an experimental writer! he writes novels in which a character called Philip Roth appears; he writes novels with titles like The Counterlife, which play with the notion of possible other worlds. is that not what Modernism is about? if you say that you have not really been taking in what I have been saying in the course of this book. Cervantes may suddenly suspend his narrative and go on to tell us that the manuscript broke off at this point; Proust may later reveal that what had been said earlier was wrong, and then later still that this new revelation was itself wrong. but it is not these things that make their novels modern. it is their understanding that, in Wittgenstein’s words, a certain language-game can no longer be played, and that this does not mean that we can simply shift the ground and find another language-game to play. for all Philip Roth’s playfulness..he never doubts the validity of what he is doing or his ability to find a language adequate to his needs. as a result his works may be funny, they may be thought-provoking, but only as good journalism can be funny and thought-provoking. those of us who can not find the words to make sense of our lives may look on in admiration but not feel, as we feel with Sophocles or Kafka or Duras, that this speaks to us.'
- Gabriel Josipovici - What Ever Happened to Modernism
'we should think of education as a kind of intellectual cross-training that leads to many more things than at any one moment you could possibly know would be useful. the most powerful education generates further curiosity, new needs, experiences to meet those needs, more curiosity and so on.
education isn’t just an object that you use to get started in a career; education is a catalytic resource that continues to energize and shape your life. education enhances your ability to develop new skills and capacities for connectivity that allow you to solve problems and seize opportunities.'
— Michael S. Roth - Why Liberal Arts Matter, CNN
lib•er•al arts:
1. academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences as distinct from professional and technical subjects.
2. the medieval trivium and quadrivium.
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need to work on uploading images that are horizontally grouped, so posts are less long. oops.
'The internet is increasingly becoming a place where information and creative ideas are shared. This essay will argue that because access to the internet is not universal, this sharing reinforces dominant opinions, resulting in uniform and bland products and services.
Within the last decade, online services such as advanced marketing, e-commerce and personal blogging have revolutionised the Creative Industries and specifically, the Fashion Industry, in allowing up-to-date information to be accessible to anyone. However, Western superiority has arisen as a result of the growing reliance on technology, and First World products are being showcased exponentially more so than any other cultural representation. From this, the issue of counterfeiting has become significant, as the accessibility to this aesthetic is developing the industry into one of cyclic regurgitation of past and commonplace products and services.'
or something.
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today i stumbled across, and fell in love with, the Tumblr of Eva Chen - the beauty editor at Teen Vogue. perhaps the fact that Eva looks a little like Camille from Childhood Flames, my forever girl crush, doesn't hurt. there are so many insightful comments on the industry, beauty and fashion information/answering of questions, and in terms of chunky but elegant shoes - she is a girl after my own heart.:
lately i've been influenced by some people that i have been getting to know + others such as Julia Frakes, who dress with a lot of thought. everything put together, though simply, and with some really interesting graphics and prints. it is time to just grow up - less distressed denim. Eva dresses a little similarly to what i am trying to explain - and wears midi length skirts so well; something i would like to achieve ! i particularly have my eye on a pleated Karen Walker equivalent, which i have spotted on a friend a couple of times, or any similar piece that is slightly cheaper..but i'm still in procrastion nation.
some images from a *few* (ha ha) of my favourite Eva posts:
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'the West has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. in such an environment it is easy for speech to be 'free' because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. in states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. we should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. the attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade.'
- Julian Assange, via
'but surely, you may say, Philip Roth is an experimental writer! he writes novels in which a character called Philip Roth appears; he writes novels with titles like The Counterlife, which play with the notion of possible other worlds. is that not what Modernism is about? if you say that you have not really been taking in what I have been saying in the course of this book. Cervantes may suddenly suspend his narrative and go on to tell us that the manuscript broke off at this point; Proust may later reveal that what had been said earlier was wrong, and then later still that this new revelation was itself wrong. but it is not these things that make their novels modern. it is their understanding that, in Wittgenstein’s words, a certain language-game can no longer be played, and that this does not mean that we can simply shift the ground and find another language-game to play. for all Philip Roth’s playfulness..he never doubts the validity of what he is doing or his ability to find a language adequate to his needs. as a result his works may be funny, they may be thought-provoking, but only as good journalism can be funny and thought-provoking. those of us who can not find the words to make sense of our lives may look on in admiration but not feel, as we feel with Sophocles or Kafka or Duras, that this speaks to us.'
- Gabriel Josipovici - What Ever Happened to Modernism
'we should think of education as a kind of intellectual cross-training that leads to many more things than at any one moment you could possibly know would be useful. the most powerful education generates further curiosity, new needs, experiences to meet those needs, more curiosity and so on.
education isn’t just an object that you use to get started in a career; education is a catalytic resource that continues to energize and shape your life. education enhances your ability to develop new skills and capacities for connectivity that allow you to solve problems and seize opportunities.'
— Michael S. Roth - Why Liberal Arts Matter, CNN
lib•er•al arts:
1. academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences as distinct from professional and technical subjects.
2. the medieval trivium and quadrivium.
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need to work on uploading images that are horizontally grouped, so posts are less long. oops.
ohh those silver shorts are lovely!
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