BOYS & BAGS :: CHRIS & TIBOR AW09

FMP RESEARCH :: LUKE SMALLEY

a small selection of work from american photographer Luke Smalley who died earlier this year:

i like how oddly disconnected a lot of his work feels. could be very relevant to the direction of my final major project although it deals a lot more with a very american masculinity.

DISSERTATION :: TUTORIAL

so after my tutorial with Itai we decided rather than to focus on the cultural exchange between Europe and China, I should probably look more to that between China and the US, particularly during the Nixon administration in the 70's. much more material to work with in terms of representation (see above...thanks Andy!) and links between the two superpowers are so established I won't have to spend so much of my time trying to dig up evidence.

working title has to be re-worked. direction of research has to be tweaked.

nothing is worth more than this day.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

FINAL MAJOR PROJECT :: TUTORIAL

wasn't as bad as i thought but chastised heavily for not having moved along much since presentations. definitely focusing on menswear and still going to address issues of race and representation but not try to be so literal and gimmicky about it.

i told Leila i honestly felt my work was very detached and deadpan (kind of like me..) which she agreed with but then said i could probably make a feature of that in the series. it would work say to express a suppression of cultural identity in that style, but also to bring the menswear element into it by repackaging that conflict with the problems/struggles of british masculinity. not so gimmicky anymore but relies quite heavily on styling...

must start testing.

CARAVAGGIO :: 000237

DIFFRACTION

i'm feeling totally unprepared for my tutorial tomorrow.

numero 18 // chad pitman :: nicola formichetti

DOWN THE LINE

DAULMONSTER

still reeling.

R.I.P.

HAPPY SUNDAY