Fashion and music trends are constantly changing day by day and they are constantly controlling what what we should wear and listen to.
Mass produce!
Mass produce!
Mass produce!Mass produce!Mass produce!
Artists like Lady Gaga are also quite aware of this, and use the idea of POP Art to create messages about the inundation of mass production. Other singers like Beyonce however, buy into the idea of commercialism and use the hyper exposed propaganda to sell music and clothes.
DO YOU REPRODUCE?
Obey Karl!
Obey Gaga!
Obey Music!
Obey Fashion!
Obey Music!
Obey Fashion!
Obey Anything!
Obey Everything!
Obey Pop Culture!
Paris Couture Spring/Summer 2012
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Throughout this semester I have dedicated my blog to the incorporation and mixture of Fashion and Music. The blog is not just what music to listen to or what kind I like, nor is it what fashion trends are in and why I like them. Actually, this blog has almost nothing to do with wanting or liking, but about feeling. The whole point on my page was to create a place where I could express how heavily influenced I am by music as well as how much it affects how I dress and act (or what the music feels like it should wear). The point was to keep it more organic and freeing, as oppose to mechanical and meaninglessness posts. Overall I just wanted to make a blog where I could utilize my favorite things and play around with how to display my art as well as art that influences me. The blog started out as a simple post where I would draw a sketch and then edit it, and say what music I listened to while sketching and editing. The overall point of that was to show how music affects my mood as well as my creative perception to designing. After a few posts I started to get a better feel of what direction the blog was going in, and I found it easier to add things like fashion shows with live musical performances and campaign adds that incorporate designers and musicians. I found that adding pictures of fashion week and other inspiration outfits were a great way for me to show how else I was influenced with my sketches, as oppose to just relying on music as my only help. Also I started realizing how much music I was influenced by, so I found the blog to be more engaging if I added more than just 1 or 2 songs to the page. Secondly, I found the required class incorporating factors to be a little challenging, but for the most part helpful. I found it challenging because most of the blogs really don’t pertain to music or fashion, and most of them were heavily focused on traveling. However, the element of travel actually gave me the ability to look past my own ideas and allowed me to think outside of the box more. I think my favorite post was my 3rd, where I had to incorporate “Heart of Darkness” as well as someone’s post about traveling to The Keys. Because it was such an exotic and travel based text (both the book & blog) I was able to create my “Glamazon” sketch and do an around the world fashion theme. What started out as the most seemingly challenging post, turned out to be what I consider my best looking post of the entire blog. Also, it gave me the opportunity to modernize the fashion trends of a novel, which is something I never thought of whatsoever, let alone doing it for a book like Heart of Darkness. Finally, my other favorite post would have to be when I incorporated Walter Benjamin’s idea of mass reproduction. I got to play around a lot with the concept of Pop Art and it was probably one of the easier concepts to incorporate into my own blog, because Pop Art is a culmination of Fashion, Music, and pop culture. This blog assignment has taught me how to intelligently identity concepts from other author’s as well as other blogs and turn them into my own creative work. Al in all, I plan on keeping this blog and using it for weekly use, posting music and sketches and growing as an artists as well as an English major.
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