Category Archives: Year 1
This is the parent category of all courses taken in year 1.
Final Project
Che Che Magazine
inspiration for final project
The Armor (Tatami Gusoku)
Lacquaered iron, mail, silk, gilt copper
Edo period 17-18th century
The suit literally translates to “folding.” Tatami means folding. The reason why it’s named that is because it could be contained into a small box and easily transported by one person, unlike the European armour. Usually, it was made for lower ranking officials but this one, in particular, was probably used by a samurai. This is because it is made out of gold and silk.
I liked this piece in particular because it was more compact than the others, I didn’t really enjoy how the other armours were so elaborate that it didn’t look functional.
The structure of this is made of square sheets of metal, I want to use labels to replicate that. I want to make a coat that is made with labels as it’s textile, and it will also be invertible. So that on one side it looks like a normal jacket but when inside out it is made with labels and all recycled materals.
REVIEW Artist: Fred Tomaselli
Choose a piece and write a paragraph describing:
1. The material used is photographs, fiber, and clay of a sort.
2. The techniques used are modeling, weaving, and casting.
3. The concept or ideas behind the piece is about the solar system. This is why the sculpture has a circle motif. The head even spins a full 360 degrees.
4. I liked this piece because for an odd reason I thought that it looked like a sound piece. I was half expecting music to play with the head with the wheel spinning.
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Research paper proposal
Name Lina Lee
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Integrative Seminar 2: Fashion
Research Paper Proposal
Please provide responses for each of the following headings related to your Seminar research paper. Share your research proposal with the class via Canvas and post this to your LP.
Research Question (see chapters 3-4 of The Craft of Research for more info on fleshing this out)
I am studying Fast fashion because I want to find out what/why/how it affects the current wave of designers and how they work in order to help my reader understand how the fashion industry tackles being one of the most environmentally unfriendly industry.
Keywords (terms related to your research topic that you’re using to find academic sources)
ecology, fast fashion, forever21, H&M, global warming and fashion, denim, water, coal, natural resources, depletion of natural resources,
Background/Context (what you currently know about this topic)
I took AP Environmental sciences, so I am familiar with ecology. I learned about fast fashion, the basics, when I was in 8th in a camp that was run by a reused fabric store.
Preliminary Argument (your current stance on the research question based on initial research)
I intend to argue that fast fashion is a force that needs to be changed and dealt with but not only that the fashion industry needs to be re-invented to more eco-friendly.
Significance (the “so-what” factor; think about the significance to our IS2 class, Parsons, The New School, and the larger fashion community)
The significance of this research is that climate change is a thing that is happening and it has to be dealt with. Fashion is an industry driven by society, and at the rate the world is going, there might not even be an industry.
Research Outcomes (discuss the final paper and the larger connections you intend to make to your Studio project)
My research will result in a final research paper and a photo spread that talks about nature in the city.
Annotated Bibliography (include a CMOS citation and brief annotation for each. See the weekly slides for more information on this portion.)
Bruzzi, Stella, and Pamela Church. Gibson. Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations, and
Analysis. London: Routledge, 2000.
An article about how fashion photography has changed over the years following the 90s
in particular.
“Here Are the Top-Performing Fast Fashion Brands on Social.” Social Media Today. 2015.
Accessed March 11, 2016. http://www.socialmediatoday.com/technology-data/aag/2015-10-18/here-are-top-performing-fast-fashion-brands-social.
An article about how the fast fashion industry is made up, who the big payers are and who the buyers of the product is.
“The-issues.” Fast Fashion, “value” Fashion. Accessed March 11, 2016.
https://www.ethicalfashionforum.com/the-issues/fast-fashion-cheap-fashion.
THe article talks about what the fashion industry has to pay for in order to maintain the low
coast and an over view of what fast fashion is in the early 2000s to the mid 2000s.
Steele, Valerie. “A Museum of Fashion Is More Than a Clothes-Bag.” Fashion Theory: The Journal
of Dress, Body & Culture Jour Dres Bod Cul 2, no. 4 (1998): 327-35.
An article about the analyzing fashion history through numerous steps.
“Op-Ed | Fast Fashion Winners and Losers.” The Business of Fashion. 2013. Accessed March 11,
An intensive study into who and where clothes for a fast fashion company zara is made. In comparison to bigger companies like Walmart and Sears make their clothes.
Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicgo:
University of Chicago Press, 2008.
This is a book about how to write good research papers, containing the components to
research and writing.
Wire hand plano material
Poker/Jacks
I don’t have any memory of learning about jacks. I just remember playing it, I’ve never actually learned it but I have muscle memory of playing it. I think I learned just by watching the cool kids play it in elementary school, they probably just learned it from their older siblings. In Korean it’s called “bong-gi,” the direct translation being “air”.
You play with five rocks, they are plastic shells with bits of metal in them to weigh them down. Some kids open the plastic shells to make the rocks heavier.
The game has five levels:
Level 1: you throw the five rocks with one hand. Then you pick one rock to throw and pick up another rock with. In level one you can only pick up one rock at a time.
Level 2: you throw the five rocks with one hand. Then you pick up one rock to throw and pick up two rocks at a time.
Level 3: same as the other levels but you pick up three and then one, or vise versa it doesn’t matter.
Level 4: you pick up four rocks all at once
Level 5: you throw one rock and touch the floor while it is up in the air, the number of times you touch the floor is the amount the better. This is because after, you throw all five at once, then catch it with the back of your hand. This is the point system. The more times you can catch, the more points you get added up.
Rules:
You cannot throw the rock higher than your head height
You cannot touch/disturb the other rocks while picking up the others.
There is not game point unless otherwise stated.
POKER:
The game I played is called poker. The goal of poker is to win by having the best hand/bluffing to make the opponent(s) think that you have a better hand. The value of the hand is inversely proportionate to it’s mathematical frequency. I played texas hold’em which is when you are dealt two cards and there are five cards face up that you pool from. There is a round of betting afterwards. The core rule of the game is that you can’t look at other people’s hand, you can’t draw from the pack after you’ve gotten your hand, there is a betting limit. The hand ranking is; five of a kind (if played w joker as the wild card), straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, pair, high card. You bet by using terms: call, raise, fold. Call means to call the bet, match the bet. Raise means to match/bet more on the initial bet. Lastly, fold means to drop out of the current hand. The game was fun, poker can be boring unless you pay with money or a cause. You need to have something to lose to really get into poker because if not it’s not poker. I’ve never played with a wild card and i would be interested in playing with it.
Picasso Review
43. Woman in the Garden. Paris, 1929-1930.
Welded and painted iron. Musee national
Picasso–Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso
For the show at the Moma Sept 14, 2015–Feb 7, 2016
The piece I chose is called Woman in the Garden. It is made out of Welded and painted iron. The Piece is made by welding and soldering iron then painted with white paint. The metal parts were cut in geometric and organic shapes to create a balanced piece that is both futuristic and human feeling. I chose the piece because this was the one that caught my eye the most in gallery four. Originally I wanted to do the modeled bronze face without a nose because it reminded me of King Tut’s mask. But I didn’t because it went against the figurative piece guild lines. I like this piece because it makes has movement in it, it feels like I’m watching the woman is dancing in the garden.