Saturday, December 6, 2014

Making Cultures

Making Cultures
‘Culture’ is a term which is used a lot:
—>high culture,
—>low culture/pop culture,
—>fan cultures,
—>consumer culture,
—>subculture,
—>celebrity culture,
—>digital cultures,

—> high culture:  See the photos bellow. There are in mounted in high culture. The skull is full of swarovski/diamonds. The Andreas Gursky photo is $4.3 million that year if it was on sale in our century it would’t be sold that much, because now we have the technology photoshop e.t.c and we can change the hole photo and ,make it how we want it to be, but in 1999 there wasn’t that much technology to do chance the photo e.t.c




—>low culture/pop culture,
—>fan cultures,
—>consumer culture,
—>subculture,
—>celebrity culture,
—>digital cultures,







A society can exist without a culture (e.g. insect or primate
societies), but culture cannot exist without a society
Culture is symbolic.

A symbol is something that stands for something else( language is symbolic )
A sign means what it does because of its relationship to other
signs within a system, not because of any essential property that
it embodies
When we are raised in a culture, we become fluent in a range of

languages (visual and spoken) without realising it. Look at the signs bellow, there are symbols  symbols, “text” —> Everything is a ‘text’ that we ‘read’




Tuesday, December 2, 2014

"It's vintage darling"

Event I helped: 

In November our tutor asked us if we need to be dressers for a fashion fashion called ‘It’s vintage darling’ back stage.  I said him that i need to go because we don’t have to lose opportunities that are given to us. So i went and i loved it. I was helping the models to get dresses I was finding there clothes, fixing their hair e.t.c.  I learned a lot from there because I’ve never been backstage and see all that fast play. We were all running to be in time, stressed, anxious.  When you sit in a chair and just look a fashion show you don’t actually know what is back there.  Also i had the opportunity to meed other fashion designers, famous people like politician, stylist e.t.c.I thank mr. Pantelis Panteli that gave me this opportunity to be back stage and see how it is.  Now as a fresh fashion designer i know haw it is and the anxious and stress that is all over the room.