June 2010
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World Cup City: Fugázi →
Due to the influx of people of this new city, languages and cultures from all over the world are congregating here. Each individual soccer team tends to attract a majority of one sort of ethnicity. It is not quite different as of neighborhoods in New York such as Jackson Heights. It is as if they want to stick together in their clan and only assimilate through soccer. Each soccer...
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Summer in the City: Constitution →
World city, a foci of cultures congregated together for the purpose of self improvement by means of exposure, will be modeled after a sphere with avenues coming out upon which the various communities will live. World city will by a positive, friendly place where different cultures will live…
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World Cup City →
Andrew McCauseland Much like Jackson Heights in Queens, New York City is to Koreatown. One can begin completely immersed in Indian culture, as if they were in India - then take a fifteen-minute subway ride and find yourself being served KyoChon fast food by fully-uniformed waitresses in the super-controlled, technologically advanced Korean culture! Diversity is encouraged, for when it comes...
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Ravnell: A World Cup City {beta} →
The global city of Ravnell is a creative metropolis. Ravnell is a capitalist society. Though it doesn’t have an actual export, it is a city comprised of artists and creative minds that create artworks that are meant to stir the minds of citizens. Any designed object that is made with a…
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STELLA: Libre - City of Memories →
Like what Kevin Lynch said in his book “The Image Of The City,” Looking at cities give a special pleasure, city is like a piece of architecture, it is a construction in space. Every citizen has long association with his own city and his image is soaked in memory and meaning. The global city,…
LOVE TRAVEL Books. →
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Malcolm Manifesto →
I knew that I was wanted to attend to Parsons School of Design after reading the autobiography of my idol Bill Blass when I was twelve. After learning more about it and even going to information sessions and tours (despite my only being twelve), I knew that Parsons was where I belonged. Only…
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STELLA: Nostalgia →
High Line Fashion Spread
slow and fast fashion
When my mother first visited New York, she said, “New York is very classic, I love how New York maintained their old buildings. People say New York is very modern but I don’t think it’s modern it has story.” Every time, when I…
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Summer in the City: Park dress: Where High Fashion... →
My piece, inspired by the high line, is about bringing high fashion into what would normally be a low fashion environment. Usually when the public goes to parks they wear things like tee shirts and cargo shorts, not exactly what makes New York the fashion capitol of the world. In an effort to…
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STELLA: A Manifesto - the Meatpacking District... →
The Meatpacking Industry Must Be Packed Away:
A Manifesto
Stella Im
June 14, 2010
Henry James, the British writer of the 19th century, described New York City as “appalling, fantastically charmless, and elaborately dire.” Much has changed since this time but James’…
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Summer in the City: New York 2.0 →
New York is the melting pot of the world, the evolving child of industrialization. This delinquent, which has now grown up, now faces the reality of the consequences of its youth. Lack of finances, space, order, nature, and a list of concerns that could go on for miles, has arisen as a…
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woManifesto →
The Future of New York City.
1. Don’t stare at the sidewalk garbage
The city is congested wasteland of corporate and artsy gar-baaage (said foreign), why let this pungency seep into our minds. Keep our perspectives fresh and sights set on Fifth Ave, pre the time we take out the trash.
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Welcome to Meatpacking
fromstella:
I want to print them as posters and postcards. I want to post both images right next to each others on the meatpacking district. In the addition, I want to hand them the post card. For the front, there will be a girl with the phrase saying “Welcome to Meatpacking” and on the back, there will be the meat image.
I first thought to make them in to name cards and hand them but I...
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Manifesto for the Future of the City of New York →
A city is a good visual representation of what organisms do: consume space. Like a fungus, a city is a community of organisms collectively working together to sustain growth. Through intelligence, people have become aware of the physical limitations that stop us from being able to continue growing: lack of food, water, space and resources. The people of New York City must have a constantly...
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Summer in the City: Concept for manifesto delivery →
An article on DJ Dangermouse’s Grey Album, from Michael Ayers’ book, Cybersounds: http://betterthanliving.com/foryou/CRW/
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A Hit of Life: Manifesto Suggestion Box →
1. Ban fashion advertisements
Advertisement has gotten to the point where it is being shoved down out throats. It is as if major corporations are dictating our decision in what to buy and how to set the trend.
Eliminating most of the advertisements will create independent thinking and…
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WRITE + READ for Thursday: 6/17/10
Post a revised version of your MANIFESTO in a format that can be inserted creatively into the urban landscape (you may need to add a paragraph explaining how you will do it). Reading: Watch this presentation at Google by DJ Spooky on his book, Sound Unbound. And read this article about the culture of soccer and the World Cup, attached below. I will also get this book and bring it to class:...
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A Hit of Life: The First One of the Day →
After visiting the High Line during its peak hours, I began to brood over how the vibe of the stretch would be during the early morning. With this in mind, I imagined the place to be subtle and untouched. Pure. A little gray with a touch of sun, it would be a prefect place to start a breezy…
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Untitled: I Was Told There'd Be Cake →
In her collection of memoir-esque essays entitled I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Sloane Crosley has demonstrated a clear lifelong issue with managing expectations. Ranging from her expecting her time volunteering at the Museum of Natural History to be a leisurely and pleasurable experience…
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High Line Fashion Spread: Nostalgia →
High Line Fashion Spread
slow and fast fashion
When my mother first visited New York, she said, “New York is very classic, I love how New York maintained their old buildings. People say New York is very modern but I don’t think it’s modern it has story.” Every time, when I…
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INSIDE OUTSIDE
To watch in class next Tuesday!
http://vimeo.com/11863178
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SHORT ESSAY 2 - DUE MONDAY 6/14 by midnight
ESSAY TWO - due Monday, May 31st by midnight:
The assignment is to write an elegant and persuasive manifesto for the future of the City of New York. The format can be anything you would like it to be. But it must be a minimum of 3-pages, double spaced and include at least one original image.
Please print out and make 6 copies of your manifesto to bring with you to class on Tuesday.
You may...
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WRITE + READ for Thursday.
WRITE + MAKE: Create a 2-page fashion spread inspired by the High Line along the lines of the individual themes I assigned you in class. The spread should include at least ONE original image, along with others that you choose to cull from other sources. WRITE 2-3 paragraphs of text (300-500) describing the concept and vision of your spread. READ:
“A Clothing Clearance Where More Than Just...
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: Sean Mao saves Garment-town →
Walking through the heart of Manhattan, the Mecca of fashion, “the block from my childhood”, 37th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue, whatever be the name of this infamous stretch of New York, you absorb the diversity within the proximity. We see the height and consequence of this experience…
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STELLA: 3 questions in mood →
(Following story is a fiction, it’s a little fairy tale of young designer)
When I first went to New York, New York was what I dreamed. It was a city of my hope and dream. After graduating college, I decide to have a small clothing label and sell in my small boutique. My dress were all flowy…
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Mood Visit
hayc:
A city is a cluster of buildings large enough to no longer house its occupants; requiring residents to live in suburbs outside of a more metropolitan area.
The garment district is a collection of businesses supported by designers in a garment industry focusing on supplying and producing what is required for designer’s collections.
New York is the best city in the world. A collection of...
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Summer in the City: Local Threads →
Local Threads
Local Threads is a new combination of boutique shop and restaurant where patrons can come to enjoy both locally made clothing and food at the same time. In the heart of the garment district, just a few buildings from mood, set on the twelfth floor of 500 seventh avenue between thirty seventh and thirty eighth, Local Threads has great views of fashion avenue while set in a...
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A Hit of Life: Scattered Buttons →
Scattered Buttons
Business Proposal for food venue embedded in NYC’s Garment District
Name: Scattered Buttons
Location: Five locations scattered around NYC’s garment district
What is NYC’s Garment District:
New York City’s Garment District can be considered the fashion headquarters of the United States. It has become the home and mecca for all fashion designers,...
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MOOOOOOODDDD →
I chose these fabrics because I felt they best represented New York. The tweed’s different colors represents the different walks of life New York’s inhabitants lead, and the weaving of them shows how by simply living in the same space they are all connected. I chose the silver metallic fabric because I thought that the silver embodied the glamorous façade of the city that’s easy to be...
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Gregory's →
Gregory’s
The sharing of food and time while eating with someone is a very intimate experience that many of us take for granted. Because our body absorbs what we eat and it literally becomes a part of our beings, so whom we choose to eat with should be taken seriously. The people we choose to eat with regularly speaks volumes about the roles that they play in our lives. A family ...
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Elevated Fast/SLOW Food - Short Essay TWO
El Sabroso - Hidden Peru in the Garment District.
ESSAY TWO - due Monday, June 7th by midnight: The assignment is to write a formal business and concept proposal for a food venue that is embedded in NYC’s Garment District infrastructure. Develop a tight pitch for your concept - this includes a name, location, menu, decor and an argument for why this is a NYC-specific establishment. Your...
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Pink Berry Hotel →
Assignemnt 3
So this summer break my friend, Julie and I went to Pink Berry. Vogue, Bazzar, Elle and more magazines have been praying about this city. Kate moss, Karl Lagerfeld, Anna Wintour and other fashion people moved to Pink Berry. Paris Hilton got rejected to move to the city because she wasn’t cool enough. Apparently it’s the most fashionable place to be and where everything is...
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Red Mango City →
Andrew McCausland
Critical Reading & Writing I
Essay #2
In the mid-twenty-first century, long after capitalism became the universally accepted way of all society, corporations constantly fought for power and profit, reigning then falling, one after the other. The human race at this point in time is merely a brand: hopeless generations of oblivious victims of apathy under...
