For my first assignment creating a talisman I created a doll by crocheting acrylic material and creating outfits for it. Some call it voodoo, some call it a hacky sac, and others just plain cute...but I call her AJ(Amber Jr.) after all she represents me ;) I will post my pictures in a couple of days.
While creating my doll though, I came across a video that really struck a nerve: http://www.komotv.com/home
It made me think about my yarn color choice, and brings up another discussion of ethnicity and heritage that will be explored in further projects.
In response to the 1st week of reading I agree with Mike's example of Andy's remark in The Devil Wears Prada...Just because you think you are going against the norm or trend, doesn't mean you aren't creating some sense of identity in your style, because no matter how you look at the clothing you wear, someone designed it and a lot of garments play off of each other. Even if you designed your own clothes, I think by just living in this society with everyday exposure to the media, community, culture; one assimilates to some style of dress. So unless you keep yourself hidden from society and any other view of the world living in a cave with the wild beasts consider your clothing in some realm of fad.
The portable environment caused me to think about functional clothing. Is it practical to say that just wearing our clothes is its functionality? Its interesting for me to examine the flow chart used in the infantry soldiers ensemble from 1988. This method and other methods bring me back to computer science classes where code is designed first through a sequence of steps or some sort of defined algorithm. With wearable computing I think this method is necessary in preparation for an article.
I am really excited for our next project...I am stuck on this idea of crocheting, so I was thinking of some sort of hat (and because I need a hat with left over yarn). I'll probably continue with this concept unless another idea dawns on me or the thumb on my right hand falls off, whichever comes first.
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