Final Handin Manifestation

This is one of the final photos of what I handed in as my manifestation

Thrifting again

I went thrifting again, I was back at the salvation army and found a cute little kitch mug with a broken handle which came with a spoon, going to make it into a little plant pot. Yesterday I went to an antiques place near the salvation army(of whichy I cannot remember the name, they have a sign which says "we buy junk and sell antiques") I found a beat up little tobacco tin which I'm thinking I'll either use as a frame for my manifesto, or make into a clock.

Went thrifting

I went out to Newtown today to peruse the thriftshops out there, I had a great time, Found a broken standing ashtray for 10$ and a microwave plate for 1$, going to use these to make my table. On the way back I went via the salvation army in central and found a cranking flour seive for 4$, thinking of using this as maybe a lamp, thought that'd be interesting and unexpected.

Thrifters Manifesto Draft

Thrifters Manifesto

 

There is no wrong way to participate in design culture - There are designers and there are consumers, there are observers and there are leaders. Do as you feel comfortable doing.

Individual style is better than mass produced sameness - Thrifters should prize vintage quality over bulk, big-box store products. A thrifter should understand the feeling of potentially owning the only remaining version of a product in the world, The thrill of uniqueness is a main component of the thrifting ideal.

Thrifters must be more observant - The thrill is in the hunt, and a thrifter must posses or quickly develop and ability to search through a collection quickly yet thoughtfully.

Thrifters aspire to self-invent and self-express in a more conscious way - That shirt might be the right kind of big, you can definitely turn that into a plant pot, that object might work in an unexpected way, don’t worry if people don’t like it when it makes you happy.

Thrifters need a grasp of creativity - You will often need to be able to envision one object as another, be able to conceive a product with a different and unexpected potential. Consider areas where thrifting is less abundant, expand yourselves.

Thrifters should be environmentally aware -  We have a responsibility to consume wisely and to respect our resources so that we and others after us can continue to participate in a design culture. Thrifting and repurposing is a good way to achieve this.

Bibliography and referencing stuff

Haggerty, B. (2012). Thrift Shop [Recorded by B. Haggerty]. Los Angeles, California, USA.

Hayes, H. (2013, July 15). 11 Tips for Thrifting. Retrieved from HannahHayes: http://www.hannahhayes.co.uk/2013/07/15/11-tips-for-thrifting/

Final chosen images

These are the final slides I'm going to hand in.

I decided to use photos where there were also people in the background in order to convey the idea of people in the city who just walk past the mess of the city, not noticing.

Haikus on topic

Building up the filth
more and more and more and more
how we are naive.

(yes that one is another iteration of an earlier one)

Do we see the filth?
Or are we just as naive
as we are messy?

Ever more we see
what we do not want to see
so we choose to not.

References to MDDN311

So while I was taking photos of what I found off about the city I took this photo

And after I took it I realised that graffiti is something which we had just been learning about in our Postproduction and Special Effects class, where we were meant to be glamourising it. So I kinda just had a moment of clarity where I thought to myself about how an idea about what doesn't look good is subjective and how just because I think of graffiti often as ruining the city, others don't see it that way.

I'm gonna have to make sure I keep  my focus strictly on actually yuck bits of the city.

Filthiness

I went out to start finding spots of decrepitude in the city, here're some things I found

New directions

So I was looking around at the articles on unnoticed things and cities and all of that whatnot.... And I found an article called "Dear Dirty Dublin": A City in Distress"

This article was written by Joseph V. O'Brien, and has him discussing the filth and disgusting parts of the city of Dublin, which he finds other people do not seem to really think about. I found it interesting in the way in which he seemed to both glamourise it, quoting proverbs such as "where there's muck, there's luck" and yet also condemn it.

 

Here is a link to it's review by Eugen Weber.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/203603?seq=1&Search=yes&searchText=dirty&searchText=city&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicResults%3FQuery%3Ddirty%2Bcity%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bvf%3Djo&prevSearch=&resultsServiceName=null

Musings

I went out again on Friday night here are my favorite photos.

I'm looking for something more from this topic right now, nothing seems to be jumping out at me yet. I'm stuck trying to consider the unnoticed/undiscovered wonders of the city.

Photos from the night

These photos were taken around about the time when everyone is finishing off the day on a Thursday night.

More haiku iterations

My wanderings have left me rather uninspired

The only feelings I get from the photos are how utterly boring peoples lives actually are

An exploration of boredom would be just that though, boring.

Anyway, here are some of the haikus I've recently written.

Counting up the days

one by one by one by one

living until death

When will it all change?

Will the living not seem dead?

Why are we like this?

Beginning to stalk people

This is the first installment of my photos and the direction in which I'm going so far. I've decided to explore people in motion, going about their day to day lives in the city.

Every day the same

living our lives in motion

every day different.

Paths and Choices

I've bee thinking about my perspective for my photo essay and I think I'm getting somewhere. I've decided that I am going to explore what I consider my favorite part about this whole theme, the idea of capturing moments which are often overlooked or which we cannot see because we do not pay attention. This theme shall inspire the photos I will start taking at the last minute very soon and regularly.