A week of the Guardian!

Monday 06.12.10

Media section:
Not much in this newspaper about fashion or anything creative (art)
T.v Shows, Filming, Dvds

Tuesday 07.12.10

National section
'Empress's old clothes'
-chinese display at V+A
-Exhibitions

Wednesday 08.12.10
Style section
'A cut above'
-Brithish fashion awards ceremony

This is the first article i managed to come across within this paper, it's actually quite a long one too and rather interesting, also has a good use of images which are in colour.

Thursday 09.12.10

Arts section
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more about singers/actors


Friday 10.12.10

Music section
No fashion or art related material at all!

Apart from the one article i managed to find on fashion, i am disappointed with how little fashion and art/creative industries are written about!

Bower Ashton Exhibition

After taking a trip to Bower Ashton's library, i came across this exhibition. This also linked to my work im doing at the moment in fashion on printing. I found these mini print really fascinating!

Bristol museum Exhibitions I Visited

Due to weather conditions I had to change which exhibitions I visited based on practicality.

I visited the Bristol museum, 13.12.10
I was particularly interested in the mini exhibition with the work called 'A stitch in time'. This not only was useful to me for the creative histories session but it also linked to my current textile project in fashion, containing free machine embroidery, applique e.t.c

This image of a section of the piece is really interesting, it shows how detailed the stitching is on this work!

Again this section shows not only the detail, but the accuracy of the work as you can clearly tell this is the queen, royalty.

I love the texture an detail in the section, even though the people have a slightly distorted effect you can still clearly see what it is supposed to resemble. I like the fact it's very busy and working on top of techniques: applique, embroidery.

This section based on Bristol zoo is lovely, it's very simple, but with the standard of stitching it brings it to life!

The use of stitching on this gorilla is amazing i think, the way different coloured stitching is used to create shading, gives the image so much detail and realism!

This piece was very interesting in the way its a figure of a dinosaur made out of terraces of houses, and the Brunel suspension bridge! Even has the muddy river (Avon)! Abit of humour within his work !

This again was very useful to me for my current textile project as mine is based on childrens toys!

Advert- Signs

Littlewoods christmas advert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBAA05L_rxE

Starts off : Symbolic
Big gates: suggests wealth, posh,?, magical? or maybe even an orphanage? (again proven later on..)
Could also suggest maybe celebrity status, again linking it back to Coleen featuring in the advert!

From the above 3 images we know that they are waiting for it to hit 12.00! this is shown in the way their gaze is all in the same direction, angles of the camera making this evident.
We also can tell from the first image (of the gates outside) that this is 12.00 at night (midnight).
The first of the 3 images again suggest wealth as you can see its a very big house, chandalier, big clock, statues etc. Also the women in these images are all dressed glamourous in their heels, party dresses, hair and makeup done. Coleen at the front- celebrity status?

Could suggest games? maybe Hide and seek? looking at the clock waiting to go seek!
Magical theme again- secret passages, magic wardrobe, never ending (like mary poppins bag, or something out of alice in wonderland)
suggests mischief? should they be looking and sneaking around? music playing links to 'the nightmare before christmas', fast pace-gives a feeling of rushing, time running out.
'Littlewoods' on the main book- still advertising

These images again suggest mischief..smirk on face, running away laughing, fighting over presents.
Again maybe suggestion of games?- tug of war with the present, hide and seek-running away from the seekers.
looks again like an orphanage? metal beds, white night dresses, lots of children, corridors etc
From previous bookcase scene- when gone through secret passage they come out as children- again suggesting either magic, or maybe symbolises their child like behaviour of the games!
Big christmas pudding!

Chasing the shoes- linking -game? running away from her.. magical: (Alice in wonderland feel to it)
symbolising maybe shoes she really wants but can't have (afford)

Indexical signs : Shadows!
Magical-puppet,flying
Shadow controlling her!

Everythings calming down now, gathering all the presents under the tree- looking more like a family rather than an orphanage now.
An image we would percieve as a 'happy ever after'- magical!

Final scene left with: is again magical eg Mary poppins. gives it a sense of a magical world,fairy tale!
Non fictional!

-Costume: dressed up, heels- celebrity-Coleen, advertising the clothes from the store.

-Right and wrong- looking in secret places- shouldn't be maybe? , this is seen through body language and facial expressions, smirks, laughter, worried looks.

-Childrens games- hide and seek, tug of war, child like magical fanatsy world? imagery, music, story line.



Session notes:

Celebrity, parody, rich, references to jessica simpson- making fun of her, fake. 

Health issues- reconstructing, surgery..to look like something your not, celebrity, pressure.

                                                    ^ Secondary Figure ^

I found this session really interesting. I really enjoyed breaking down the pink 'stupid girls' video, its suprising how many signs can be within one 3 minute long video. I never really took much notice of signs before within the way we live and communicate until this session, and signs really do help us in our day to day lives. I'd like to look more into this idea.

Session notes

I found this lecture quite hard to get into, nothing really caught my attention like it does in other lectures. Perhaps i need to find an artist/ designer who works in ways to explain/indicate what it all means to gain my interest ansd help me understand more!