I always like to design my costume, that doesn’t mean I want to be a fashion designer, it means I have my own taste. Sometimes I have a feedback from friends about the cloth I wore ''I look funny'', ''they don’t understand me'', ''that’s not a lady outfit'' and so on. When they say such a thing I would say to myself ''yes, you did a good job Tali''. During the last summer I was thinking maybe I can design a coat that keep me warm in winter and cool me in summer. I started my research about the material that I have to use, the weight of coat and also is there any possibilities to change the design of that time to time? The research is still onand not finished but I guess that can be an option for my final year project!!!
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Technology technology
Technology has made a big distance between people. Although we are virtually better connected, we physically don’t see each other so often. We are not patient enough to listen to each other anymore. We like each other from behind the screens. We like to know what's going on in their life but not hear from them directly. That doesn't mean we are not close to them anymore because we follow the news about them in facebook and Other social networks. We still feel those senses and emotions from what we read on websites and we make them in our imagination. We are in the way to get used to live alone, although not alone in the virtual world, the perfect world that we are making to escape from all those daily tenses.
I know there is no way we stop the technology's wave and understand the effect of that in our life.
I know there is no way we stop the technology's wave and understand the effect of that in our life.
My dog
"I wish I could understand what my dog says or what he wants" I heard this quite a few times from friends and others. People think they do understand their pets but sometimes you see it's such a challenge for them to understand their pet has toothache or it's not well or even needs something.
There must be ways to make better connections with our pets. Imagine each times they go to have they go to their food plate, they hear our voice speaking to them or seeing our pictures playing with them. I think they would be less board while they are alone at home.
There must be ways to make better connections with our pets. Imagine each times they go to have they go to their food plate, they hear our voice speaking to them or seeing our pictures playing with them. I think they would be less board while they are alone at home.
Fake it, fake it more...
A few years ago people didn’t like to have fake stuff in their life; they did not wear fake brands. They did not accept to have beauty plastic surgery because they believed natural looking is better. The more technology improves the more people seek happiness and joy; to pursuit this joy they do whatever they can. Why not having a very perfect dolly nose, sexier lips, chick bones, bigger breasts, younger skin, slimmer body and many other surgeries. Fake is coming to our attitude, fake smiles even when we are deeply sad inside. At some point we call it etiquette, at other points politic… but let's face it. Are we not cheating ourselves?
Have you seen those classes named better mind or beauty mind to think positive or control your anger (brain washing sessions)? Well good news, we don’t need to waist our time any more, sooner or later we will be using fake brains, one of those programmable to enjoy our life more!! But how can we fill our lives with real happiness, joy and satisfaction without faking it? There should be a way to be happy as a human without faking, to be happy as we are.
Transitional period
Sometimes I think we live in a transitional period. We have the ugly face of adolescence; we do not live in childhood (physical contact life like before 90's) or maturity (full virtual contact life). We are somewhere in this between, moving towards living in virtual world. At this stage, we are looking at the virtual world trough those little electronic displays. Many people spend most of their time in front of these screens looking at this virtual life and contributing in it through these interfaces. By completion of these stages people will live in virtual world possibly unaware of the existence of physical life.
Sometimes I wish either I had my youth in 60's and 70's or I would be born in a100 years when this stages are passed but… what if we are already in one virtual life trying to move to another one? What if this is not a real physical life but one of many virtual lives we have already passed?. Oh come on I don't want to think about it too much it drives me nut!!
Sometimes I wish either I had my youth in 60's and 70's or I would be born in a100 years when this stages are passed but… what if we are already in one virtual life trying to move to another one? What if this is not a real physical life but one of many virtual lives we have already passed?. Oh come on I don't want to think about it too much it drives me nut!!
Design mistakes
There is a very interesting project in my mind since two years ago and I never gave up thinking about it. I always thought I could make more out of it. It was the final year project of a design student, named design mistakes. Her main idea was about those mistakes happening accidently during the manufacturing and what the producer does with the faulty product. She was trying to find ways to use the faulty products. She had researched on how perfectionist the society is (manufacturers, producers, sellers, costumers) and how annoying is when importers have a standard to import fruits and nuts in the UK. Fruits have to have the same size, weight, life time… otherwise there is no buyer for that, people do not take different size oranges from a basket, no matter they are mouthwatering.
She didn't try to change the rationale behind the idealism in people's mind. Instead she tried to find ways to use the defect of the products to make them unique. (i.g. she made some ceramic plain plates that when they chipped off, a beautiful colour appeared form the underneath of the plate surface) So, the damage changed the value of a plain plate and perfectionist people will wait for the next scratch to see more beauty of the plateInspiring essay
Who knows about the future, who exactly knows when we are going to be out of our resources? Running out of resources and not thinking about the next generation scares me to death. That's why I like to think how we can live more sustainable.
In first year of studying in goldsmiths I worked on an essay about how to use less paper and cut fewer trees. Main point of that essay was focusing on some solutions such as, recycling, reusing and going paperless whenever possible.
Well now here I am with tones of research, trying to figure out what would be the best way to get rid of those store's receipts, bank letters, junk mails and many ways to have a paperless life, however, this needs we cope with technology. Are we all able to do so? our older generations for example. Besides, we want to go greener for the sake of humanity and our planet so we have to make sure we do not sacrifice our humanity and do not make machines out of ourselves. What could be the best way?
In first year of studying in goldsmiths I worked on an essay about how to use less paper and cut fewer trees. Main point of that essay was focusing on some solutions such as, recycling, reusing and going paperless whenever possible.
Well now here I am with tones of research, trying to figure out what would be the best way to get rid of those store's receipts, bank letters, junk mails and many ways to have a paperless life, however, this needs we cope with technology. Are we all able to do so? our older generations for example. Besides, we want to go greener for the sake of humanity and our planet so we have to make sure we do not sacrifice our humanity and do not make machines out of ourselves. What could be the best way?
I'll go first
I don't know what's with people in the morning, when it comes to get in to the underground; they are so grumpy and disrespectful. Everybody has a trick to be the first one to get in, "secret trick" which no one knows that. Everybody is in rush, they don't care about each other at all, of course including me.
I'm wondering what's happening to people, if they don't have coffee they wouldn't wake up or give each other a small smile in the mornings. They don't move inside the cabin or they don't give each other space to stand. They selfishly prefer to read the papers. (Hold it here and fallow me)
I am sure you have seen those security stands on the sides of store's doors, the ones that if someone wants to take out the unpaid tagged products, the alarm goes off. Has it ever happened to you? It's just an embarrassing situation because you feel everyone is looking at you and think about you in a very different way. (Ok now let's go back to the train and early morning)
Sometimes I think it might not be a bad idea to have free space detector sensors during the rush hours, so when the doors are open, the buzzers sound until those totally ignorant about the rest or insist to stay with back bag on bother themselves to move a little bit and make some space for the rest killing each other to get on.
I am sure you have seen those security stands on the sides of store's doors, the ones that if someone wants to take out the unpaid tagged products, the alarm goes off. Has it ever happened to you? It's just an embarrassing situation because you feel everyone is looking at you and think about you in a very different way. (Ok now let's go back to the train and early morning)
Sometimes I think it might not be a bad idea to have free space detector sensors during the rush hours, so when the doors are open, the buzzers sound until those totally ignorant about the rest or insist to stay with back bag on bother themselves to move a little bit and make some space for the rest killing each other to get on.
Madonna
The other night I was watching Madonna's concert in 2008, well that was fabulous, never got more excited for a TV show. They were few times in my life that I thought "what if I was someone else?" That night was one of those few times. I was imaging myself as Madonna, for some moment the feeling was amazingly great, I enjoyed the fame, friends, those places that I'm more than welcome in there, the money that I spend in my life and doesn't touch my wealth, all those fans, seeing those designers who are dying to design my outfit for different occasions and the most important thing "I am the Queen"
After all the joy turn to the depression and disappointment, I realized " I'm not the queen ".
Soon after, all those supportive Ideas started to click in to my mind, let's say I convince myself that I'm gooood and I love who I am. Honestly I prefer to design my customs, spend my time with understanding friends that like me for what I am and where I'm standing not for my money or fame. I thought it wouldn't be interesting to be known all the time, You can't even have a quite dinner in the middle of nowhere when you are surrounded by people.
Long story short, I have no doubt that I have better life and no one is buttering me. Besides "I'm a designer".
After all the joy turn to the depression and disappointment, I realized " I'm not the queen ".
Soon after, all those supportive Ideas started to click in to my mind, let's say I convince myself that I'm gooood and I love who I am. Honestly I prefer to design my customs, spend my time with understanding friends that like me for what I am and where I'm standing not for my money or fame. I thought it wouldn't be interesting to be known all the time, You can't even have a quite dinner in the middle of nowhere when you are surrounded by people.
Long story short, I have no doubt that I have better life and no one is buttering me. Besides "I'm a designer".
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