"Metrocard as Art"

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/metrocard-as-art/

Poster with Faces

So, as we receive a fabulous input from our instructors that faces may give different connotations... we may leave the faces out from the campaign...

Poster research

This is something I wanna pull out for our poster... hmm... let see if this works...

very current :(

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/22/california.redhead.attack.facebook/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29


http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-couples-retreat-posters.html

Survey Sheet

Also, here's an idea for a survey sheet for the whole campaign idea (and that we could potentially print and use in our presentation too).

Update: I created a jpeg from the pdf file and the text all disappeared, but at least you can see the idea for the layout. I'll email a copy to the group!

Project Name/Logo Idea

Gabi and I were talking about the project today and we thought it would be best if the logo relates to the shirts aesthetically. We also felt that the outline felt a little static, so I created a "drawn" version of the t-shirt tonight and did a quick idea of what the logo might look like based on Gabi and my conversation that includes a t-shirt around the logo.

tshirt colors

Here are the initial ideas for tshirt colors. I think oil pastels might bring more depth and emphasize the variation of colors within colors better, but at least these ones aren't as "flat" looking.

hi guys,
few other skins samples...



geographically... its interesting to see how darker skin people are located near the equator... (duh)

T-shirts and Skin Colors...

Seattle is/was 70% white?

I was looking up City of Seattle race statistics and here are the results from the 2000 U.S. Census:

Race
One race 538226 95.54%
White 394889 70.09%
Black or African American 47541 8.44%
American Indian and Alaska Native 5659 1%
Asian 73910 13.12%
Asian indian 2843 0.5%
Chinese 19415 3.45%
Filipino 15867 2.82%
Japanese 8979 1.59%
Korean 4863 0.86%
Vietnamese 11943 2.12%
Other Asian 10000 1.78%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 2804 0.5%
Native Hawaiian 409 0.07%
Guamanian or Chamorro 364 0.06%
Samoan 1391 0.25%
Other Pacific Islander 640 0.11%
Some other race 13423 2.38%
Two or more races 25148 4.46%

Hispanic or Latino and race
Total Population 563374 100.00%
Hispanic or Latino(of any race) 29719 5.28%
Mexican 17886 3.17%
Puerto Rican 1466 0.26%
Cuban 759 0.13%
Other Hispanic or Latino 9608 1.71%
Not Hispanic or Latino 533655 94.72%
White alone 382532 67.9%

I'm not entirely sure what or why it means that "Hispanic or Latino" has been separated out. It seemed a little confusing! But I was rather struck that, at least about ten years ago, Seattle was a pretty "white" city. It doesn't feel like much has changed, I'm wondering what the new census results will be?

on skin

Here is the sample of a campaign involved with skins by Jenny Holzer.

Oh, just for a little interesting information... the ink was mixed with (volunteer donation) women's blood... its a campaign about rape... it became a very controversial issue... none the less it grasps the audience attention...

"I Tan to Look More Native"

http://ericalord.com/home.html

(Just thought I'd throw this up here since I'd shared it during our discussion in class...)

Idea for interactive or motion

I thought this motion visual was an interesting way of expressing how one thing can effect another - like how stereotypes travel from thought to being expressed to how the receiver internalizes it or lets it go. Something to think about for a motion or interactive work. How could we work the t-shirt metaphor into this concept? The putting on of the shirt (stereotype) wearing it or/ and then taking it off (not owning it) or washing it away - laundering? A stereotype machine that gives the option to accept or change/let go of the stereotype?.... thoughts????

http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp

Group Questionaire

1) Where were you born?

2) What is your ethnic background? (in percentages)

3) How have you been culturally or racially stereotyped in the past? (give one example)

4) What elements of the stereotype are accurate or inaccurate?

(three example of each)

5) What color would you associate with the stereotype?

6) What name do you like to go by?

Diversity Art

Art that illustrates

different ways of

expressing

multi-cultural...

More stuff...

I know we're moving on to how to present our information, but I thought these were interesting articles...

The Year of Living Postracially is a great editorial written by Colson Whitehead and published in the New York Times yesterday.

A few words about Maine and the dying hog of homophobia is a blog post written by Pam Spaulding on Pam's House Blend that had some relevant parts relating to race, sexual identity, and civil rights:

It's simply not time, not in this place. What this loss in Maine (and the victory in Washington State) says to me is that I am so grateful that my civil rights, as a person of color, were not put up to a popular vote. As we've seen over and over in the last year, the emergence of naked racism lives despite laws on the books banning discrimination based on race. Reality-based arguments to people who are raised with bias have little motivation to change their thinking outside of keeping their bigotry out of the realm of law-breaking (and even then -- it still occurs!). The feelings simply go underground.

And lastly, relating again to the recent election results regarding LGBTQ issues in Washington and Maine, there is an article called Election Coverage: The World's First 'Civil Likes' Movement that included the following passage:

It is time we wake up and acknowledge that the GLBT fight for equality is the world’s first “Civil Likes” movement. Each year, a popularity contest is held somewhere on the map and if the locals find us likeable our families are protected. If the natives have a negative view of gay people, we remain second-class citizens.

Here's some interesting websites....

A game that promotes diversity at http://www.yan-koloba.com/index.html

Multicultural awareness activities
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/activityarch.html

and a really cool image found at Stanford
http://tusb.stanford.edu/2008/04/cool_unity_image_found_by_meye.html

Interesting ideas and ways of looking/coping with racial diversity