The Film: NY: 77 The Coldest Year in Hell.
1.) Hip hop
- Bronx
- Black Space
- The Fever
Punk Rock
- Lower East Side
- CBGB’s
Disco
- Lower East Side
- The Loft (647 Broadway)
- Paradise Garage (84th King Street)
- Studio 54
- The Fever
Gay Culture
- The Loft (647 Broadway)
- West Village
2.) I would have liked to have been a part of the hip hop culture in 1977. Although not exactly a job, I would have liked to have been a teen because I would have liked to experience what they went throw growing up in the Bronx. I would want to come pair the two life styles of a teen then and now. How did hip hop help this teens go throw hard times in the Bronx?
3.) Questions:
- Was New York in general a dangerous place?
- How has New York evolved since the 1970’s?
- Was drug culture relevant in the hiphop culture?
- Was graffiti considered an art form or just vandalism?
- What was the average household income?
- What were typical jobs?
- Did hiphop culture find itself in Manhattan or strictly the Bronx
- Was there a large homeless population?
- What was the crime rate in places affected by hip hop culture?
- How were the women and children affected by living in the urban areas?
- How many women and young children were affected by sexual abuse/ assault?
- What percentage of children finished high school?
- Did disco and hip hop culture intertwine?
- Was hip hop culture only observed by minority populations?
March 1, 2017
Two Bodies
Clothing can change the way that people feel. With clothing, you can be a different person that you want to be every time you meet someone new. Clothing, jewelry, tattoos, and make-up creates the illusion to transform you to anything that you want to be. For example, Halloween is a very popular holiday because it the time when people can dress any way they want to and not get judged about what they are wearing. With fashion people like to dress in different types of styles to pottery different looks.
I like to dress up. Different types of clothing are like playing dress up when you’re a little kid. There is clothing that are more extravagant then the other. When thinking about certain clothing that I would not wear to certain place. When I got to an event I have noticed that the clothing that I wear is closer to the body and has more shine with beads and jewels. You would not see me wearing that type of clothing to school or work. There is this line that I don’t cross when it come to school and work. You have look the part, I know there is a lot of people that say that looks do not mater but it does, it really does specifically the fashion industry. Where people are jugging you all the time on your looks. On the other hand, I wound not like to site on a 3-hour class in a tight dress that I can’t more in. In a material that is not breathable and is stiff. And another thing is that I would not want something nice looking like working with paint and clay all the time. I want to wear clothing that can get ruined. Clothing that’s I wear to school and work are clothing that still look presentable but still has comfort to it. There more cottons and other martials that are breathable with a stretch in this types of clothing that I wear. I don’t have a specific time when I felt like I had to bodies and was wearing to type soft clothing that made me feel comfortable or something between those lines. As I said before clothing is a way to express yourself in the way that you want to be sine in another person’s eyes or you can be like the others and don’t care what people think.
March 8, 2017
NYC NEIGHBORHOOD:
Disco in the 70s
Link to Google Slide discovery about the Disco era.
March 15, 2017
Independent projects about our subculture (disco).
Sketch a mini collection based off of disco.
I was inspired by what people wore to disco clubs in the 70s. Looking at photos from that time period and looking at how the photographer captured the energy of the people in the clubs. I wanted to translate the energy that I saw in the photos in my drawings. Creating movement and how people acted in the spaces that the subculture hangout in.
