allegory of the cave- assignment 1.

ok. so maybe this wont be as bad as i thought. i just made a pretty sweet spikey deer world.

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for our next project, i am immediately thinking of something fashion related- when i first searched for readymade 3D objects (not sure what they are called)... there was a site with all of these really interesting forms of somewhat androgynous human beings...
i'm trying to think about how this could be related to how i feel about consumerism and fashion and the concept of perfection, in terms of the human body. there is a part in the text about how there are men passing along the back wall of the cave carrying vessels. maybe this could be kind of like a runway show, or something. people just sit there and absorb what trends are being given to them every season and don't really question it. i don't know... this kind of sounds like a malformed idea right now because i write like i think (and i'm warning you blyth... it will probably always be like this, so... welcome to how the inside of my head works...)

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"you have shown me a strange image. and they are strange prisoners."

alexander mcqueen. ok so this is not the allegory of the cave, but this is platos atlantis. and thissssss blew my mind when i saw it. this could be an interesting thing to explore in terms of creating a world... i mean, i just remember watching this and being kind of mesmerized, and then after digesting it i was sort of appalled because i don't understand how this could ever exist in the real world. fashion flirts with this line between reality and fantasy and i like that sometimes, but here it sort of pisses me off. people just kind of like, suck up this stuff and spit it out and don't question why its being made. HEEL HEIGHTS for example... the only reason heel heights ever change is to make women buy more shoes? right? i know thats what i do. i feel like a slave to fashion sometimes, even though i am not a SUPER fashionable person (a lot of that has to do with lack of funding). sometimes when i look at things like this and fall in love with them, i feel like one of the people tied up and watching shadows on the wall. as hard as i try to break away from it i can't.



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i don't know, this is just kind of coming out of my head right now so i'm assuming it doesn't make a lot of sense.

i wish that i could upload an image of the spikey deer world... because i really like it.


(this post has also been edited over the course of two days. i will probably keep operating this way on posts that have to do with discussing ideas. i will not do this with technical posts because it wouldn't make sense to track progress that way. it just seems that for the "thinking" part of assignments, if i have everything in one entry and i can keep coming back and adding to it... it gives me a kind of workspace other than my notebook to flesh out ideas.)