March 31st / 2017
Last time I wasn’t sure about the white layer on the surface. After I talked to Oliver, we came to conclusion it could possibly be mold. He told me that I could either put more vinegar or just completely start a new. I decided to just leave it to see what happens for a week. I left it without doing anything else to the liquid except for keeping the heating mat under the container. It finally grew into a big piece and it has another layer underneath as well. I couldn’t find the baby Kombucha but I will try to look and grow again when I find the baby Kombucha after I take out both of the layers out to dry.
This is a picture of the Kombucha after 2 weeks. I didn’t post anything because there was no progress after a week. I found this white layer covering the surface of the water. I have no idea what this means so I am going to ask Oliver this friday. I hope this doesn’t mean there is something wrong with my Kombucha.
It was snowing SO much and by the time I arrived at the Ecology Center, I looked like I took a shower with snow. It was so cold and I was a little lost so I arrived late.
We talked about how manhattan is basically man made. People build up on the sand-like land to basically expand the edge of the city. This was the most interesting parts of the day to me. We also tested how much oxygen in the water from the river. The picture above is some creatures extracted straight from the river outside of the Ecology Center.
Two pictures below are just a view outside of the center. I just took them because it looked so pretty with snow even though walking in the cold cold weather with snowing in your face wasn’t so pretty.
Because of the temperature of my apartment, we had to wait for the heat pad to come from Amazon. We started our project a little late (March 3rd 2017).
Now I guess I will have to wait and see how it grows!
Dear Climate,
Hi, My name is Gogo. I have known you ever since I was born and you were always there with me for my whole life. The first thing I do when I wake up is checking the weather everyday. That has been the way for me to start and plan my day ahead. You could say that my day gets planned out based on you!
To be honest with you, I don’t think I cared this much about you since very recently. I mean…it is very hard not to think about you nowadays since you change your mind so much. One day you give us this beautiful warm day so we think the winter is over and now the spring will be here any seconds….and then the next day, you give us this nasty, cold, dark and windy day!
I am so sorry for all that we humans have done to you. We didn’t think it would do this much damage. It is a shame to admit this but truthfully, I don’t think we cared enough about you.
We are working and trying to make things better individually everyday. I hope you can understand and forgive us soon.
I would love for you to be always healthy and in a good mood.
I hope you get better soon.
I love you, Don’t be mad at us anymore.
I’m so sorry again.
Sincerely,
Gogo
Never heard of the word ‘Resilience’ so it was my first time learning the meaning of the word.
Anthropocene was another new interesting word for me to learn.
In the beginning of the ‘Introduction to Fashion Studies’ class, I was questioned “What is Fashion?’. I answered to that question without thinking, Fashion is what you wear daily. Fashion is one’s form of expressing oneself. Fashion can express one’s identity. In my opinion fashion was the term that could include style-fashion-dress. After I have attended all the lectures now I think differently. Style-Fashion-Dress can be clearly defined individually in my mind. Style is something that is eternal, everlasting but also tied to a period in time. It is a way to characterize and differentiate from one another. Fashion is not only related to clothing and jewelry but also includes one’s living style and behavior. Style on a larger level can become fashion. Style can become fashion through exposure. Fashion is a combination of personal style and overall trends, which come from media. Dress is items that covers and decorates one’s body. It is a record of cultures and people’s lifestyles. It is a medium of style. It also means physical garment itself and it is most closely related to the body.
Fashion systems transform clothing into fashion. Fashion is a symbolic production while clothes are a material production. Fashion is a symbol manifested through clothing. (Kawamura 2005, 59)
This Dress Log assignment was very interesting because it made me think about my daily routine and really dig deep into what affects my dress choices. I almost felt like I was repeating myself too much especially because this week, all I did was really working on my projects at school basically. For the 5 days out of 7 days I was at school, sitting in front of a sewing machine. This was very interesting for me because it made me realize that weather plays the biggest part in my daily dress routine before I go out anywhere. Second, comfort was the theme for this week because I knew I was going to be sitting down inside for a long time working on my project. So I can say that out of “who, what, when, and where’, What I’m doing is another big part of my dress choice. I would choose from different type of clothes for different occasion for example, if I was just going to school to do homework I would only dress in what is the most comfortable clothes but if I was going to school with an important presentation I would take out one of my nicest clothes that I only wear on special occasions to dress up. I know that I have a lot of clothes in black and can say half of my closet is literally all black. But from logging everything I wear for a whole week made me really realize that I have so many different items all in black.
This is an advertisement for Dolce & Gabbana FW 2011. In this ad, there seem to be two different gendered group, male and female. But if you look at them closer they are all girls. The brand portrayed different genders but used all female model. They used short hair and hats to describe the typical masculinity and also the male figures are all wearing suit pants and shirt, vest and jacket which is the typical men’s suit pieces. The girls are portrayed also as the typical thin, vulnerable and pretty. They also look like they are very needy of a man because they are lingering to a man. To me this advertisement is reinforcing the traditional gender norms as in girls are always feminine looking and depend on men and the guys are suppose to be strong and always have the pretty girl in his possession. But to me I think it is all really in our mind and our culture is setting up all these rules for different genders. I think like in this ad, the female can be represented as strong as male (like how the D&G used female model to be portrayed as male) and male can be represented as vulnerable as female. To me this quote from Fashion and Cultural Studies relate the most to my answer.
“the body and its differentiating sexual characteristics become a metaphor for sex, whereas clothing and its culturally coded meanings become a metaphor for gender. Gender is socially constructed and culturally created and represented. Gender is something that people do. Applying makeup, shaving one’s face or one’s legs, and donning high heels or a face veil all fall within the real, of doing gender.” (Kaiser 2012, 127)
