Shades & Shadows MADS degree show

"I usually buy clothes by a first impression. 

When I am wearing them for the first two or three times, 

I am feeling confident. But after that, I feel anxious 

because of the gaze of the other, and social expectations. 

My research aims to tackle with this kind of anxiety: an anxiety 

that would arise when I am alienated from my clothes. 

During my journey, I have found the way to reconcile myself 

with my fashion choices. By having a dialogue with myself 

through fashion, I have found that my body is double clothed: 

both by outfits and narratives."

Dounglerthai Tatiyawongpaibul

December 5^th, 2010

I like to talk for myself.

Finally, winter and snow all over london. It's time to celebrate, but not just yet one more week to go then I will really celebrate.

I've been very busy through out last few weeks. It is very crucial time for us, preparing degree show.

As I have to be ready to set up this weekend. I'll keep you post with what's going on.

Here is artwork I created to use in the show, this is something extra that I decide to just put on the blog.

See the rest of it at the Degree Show next week.

Whoever can make it, open day is 8th Dec - 10th Dec. (check out the previous posts)

Have a great weekend!

xx

Degree Show: Sneak Peak! 63 Degrees – An Angle on Chaos

I've been working on my project for degree show next week.... It was our last month period so 'Chaotic' period of time. I want to share some of photographs I took in relation to my exhibition idea.

One more week to hold on to, wish me luck!

If you are reading this, please come to my exhibition 63 Degrees – An Angle on Chaos

check more info here.

63Degrees An Angle on Chaos

Winter is here, I am very happy to introduce you to our amazing coming up degree show.

MA Design Studies Graduate Exhibition: 

63 Degrees – An Angle on Chaos

63 degrees is a collection of 63 intriguing questions that show that the future is ready to be designed.  This is not design as you know it, rather than relying on style as content this show reveals a process that begins with a ‘what if?” resistance to conventional wisdom and concludes with a flight of the imagination that gives dimension to ‘it could be!’ revelations.

Individually and collectively these 63 creative research projects reveal what can happen when a multicultural group, from a wide range of professional backgrounds unites in a common ambition: they confirm that globalization does have an upside, design can be the solution rather than part of the problem.

Among the 63 issues that are investigated you will find an extraordinary range of provocative proposals. Diverse in scale, form and function these projects expose how these chaotic times are exploding with opportunities. Where else would you find a show that combines ways to optimize flat organizational structures with a proposal for healthy lifestyle changes and an exploration of storytelling as a reflection of group identity.

This is design as you do not know it.

The degree show will be held from Tuesday 7th – Friday 10th December at the Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E27ES.

Check out the project details on this 

63 DEGREES WEBSITE

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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MY INDIVIDUAL PROJECT COMING UP NEXT!!!!!!

Ways of Seeing

Drawing on the significance of being looked at and the way of understand how women care so much about how they look. John Berger had put it all together so well. 

We only know about ourselves when we began to realised from the visibility exterior of self.

Mirage of The Self will continue to offer ways to see yourself and understand the value of being oneself.

Stay tune in front of the mirror for next chapter!

x

Ralph Lauren 4D Experience

Embraced new technologies that keep us pushing the wall!

INFLUENCERS

INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

To become one of the influencer, there is no rule and recipe. It have to come from inside, the passion of doing and being who you are. What is feel right for you. The real coolness is when nobody looking at you, you're all by yourself. It's a natural process but you have to reach for it.

INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.

The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.

The film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today's pop culture.
"Influencers" belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience. 


http://www.influencersfilm.com

Shoes Face

Never come close to see what your shoes face might be.

Never know who actually put on that shoes, never meet your

 true reflection.

There might be a solution...

Whose shadow

Your face in your shoes.

Recognition of one shadow may lead to constructive dimension of self.

Sun Sun Sun!

Finger walk from Dounglerthai on Vimeo.

I recently working on something between daylights and the ground, to actually see that my feet still standing on stiff surface. Sunday was very sunny so I took my fingers for a walk.

The obvious is not to be identified.

Power of Transformation

I read an essay today from Showstudio.com written by Indigo Clarke

and I think it's great to share here.

A thought that has often occurred to me over the years, ever since I first realised my love of fashion as a crazed tutu-and-novelty-John-Lennon-spectacles-loving child and more acutely as a teenager, is the way we use fashion to escape reality or immerse ourselves in it, and to conceal/camouflage our bodies, or reveal them.

Clothing has always had such an effect on me because of its power to transform not just how I look, but how I feel. I’ve often said that in the same way a beautiful, artfully designed and sun-filled space can positively affect our mood, so can the clothing we wear. People talk about the frivolous nature of fashion, and when it’s compared with other art forms, it’s generally considered unimportant. I don’t love the whole ‘status’ thing about fashion, and definitely don’t care about labels – I love what I love, be it a vintage piece, a designer dress or something I knocked up on the sewing machine. I don’t think fashion is important because it’s an industry with a lot of influence and money behind it, but I do think it’s important because it is the art and architecture we wear, the armour that can make us feel brave and empowered, like the person we want to be.

As a teen, I loved to wear my hair cropped super-short and brightly coloured, piercings, little dresses, doc boots and flea-market finds under five dollars – a pretty good escape from the body-con beach and bikini reality that is living in Sydney by the ocean. As I’ve gotten older, the desire to immerse myself in my own little world of music, art and crazy fashion dissipated as the realities of life, work, rent set in…. And while personal style might change its course and become more understated with maturity, fashion never loses its ability to transform. On a bad day to be able to entirely change your mood and outlook, to put something on that you feel transforms your body, and in so doing, your mind, is a powerful – and important – thing.

Identity Under Your Footstep!

Which shoes are your best friend? I gathered some sample of different women shoes types here to get your attention on how shoes can depict on your personality... and it's said something about yourself. 


Drop me answer:
what is your favorite shoe type? 
why? (3 adjective) 


Stay tune for next step!


x

Gestures Are Beauty.

Terence Koh from Stylelikeu.com from Stylelikeu on Vimeo.

"Ideas are important, especially dangerous ideas." Terence Koh

I like this website that I just found Style Like U

I believe the same way they're trying to do, every individual story is a wonderful transition of life, it's inspiring and should be told.

Reflective Cinema Part II

Last tuesday, at Pound Camden we first experience how costume from Thai movies can change perception of yourself, live a night in a movie. How we use to dream to be someone else and what allow us to do so through clothes.

Reflective Cinema: The Reflection of Self Identity and Film!

It was very fun and a lot of laughs and smiles.

We loved to have you great people love Reflective Cinema.

Follow Reflective Cinema for more update!

Reflective Cinema : Let's your personality shine!

Last week I introduced you to a new way of life.
Here is a chance to experience some of it.


Tomorrow at HORSEPLAY ART CLUB at 

at Proud Camden Galleries, London, UK 

12th of October, 7.30pm to 1.00am

Reflective Cinema, collaboration project to challenge your perception of identity and new way to experience Thai cinema.

Follow this blog 'Reflective Cinema' to get some more insight of this project.

Here some flavors to be serve at the event.

Important news:

When you enter Behind The Screen 'Dressing Room' you allow to pick your flavor to be taste and get a chance to act on the role of movie character and get freebies as a return of participation.

Get yourself ready to be in front of the camera, Only for the night, let your personality shine!

OH! our handmade freebie is very limited first come first serve

(Reflective Cinema)

Be there!

x

Unfinished Project.

Artefact: Functions of Clothes from Dounglerthai on Vimeo.

This alluring concept of identity and clothes got me into making video. It is my project artefact that need constructive feedback to develop more and more.

This video was made intentionally for educational purpose, as an artefact to test the idea of my project.It is very low budget, homemade clip that seriously focus on testing the idea not the aesthetic point of view. 

This video installation demonstrates the idea of the act of gazing and connection between viewers’ perceptions and clothed bodies. It allows viewers to question the construction of our bodies which are fabricated by clothes. Since clothes create at least half the look of any person at any moment, our visual perceptions of the body shaped by the way we live through clothed body. We prepare our bodies for the public display and present ourselves in quite intentional ways. In this sense, bodies’ images form the basic understanding of selfhoods. Our identities are shaped both by our physical performances and how others perceive us in public arena. You look at others while you are being looked. Clothes are the visible body. Our identities are manifested through a visual language. They are a dialogue of society. They signify our identities in the eyes of others, and, at the same time, signify our perceptions of our identities. 

In order to test this artefect, I'd like to get comment and feedback after you watch this video, this would help me improve and develop the concept further. 

LEAVE ME COMMENT ON THIS:

How do you feel after you watch it?

What kind of message came across from watching this video?

Can this change your perception about clothes, body and personal identity?

Life is like ice cream, One lick at a time.

'I Scream Factory'
Let's me introduce you to a new way of life. 

Introduced by my beloved friend Alexandra 'Lou' Plesner.

The interesting fact is that I get an amazing opportunity to feature at this exciting exhibition :HORSEPLAY ART CLUB at 

at Proud Camden Galleries, London, UK 

12th of October, 7.30pm to 1.00am

Check out the project information here!

DONT MISS OUT THIS FUN NEXT WEEK.

Surprise concept that will challenge your identity perception will be there.

Stay tune.

x

Visit Alex's website here:
http://www.lounoir.com
http://www.iscreamfactory.co.uk
http://lounoir.blogspot.com

Confidential Recipe!

Serving a dish is not that difficult but cooking and serving an extraordinary delicious dish is not that easy.


I promised to tell you more about my investigation progress. I am now at this risky point where I've found all of my recipe's ingredients, obviously the good kinds. I just need to figure out how to deal with it, how am I going to cook it, how I want it to taste,smell, should I add colors or spices, what kind of seasoning I prefer. There are several  important factors I need to take in consideration. But most of the thing is that how can I make people like it, love the taste of it. I need to make them feel this special long lasting flavor that melting in their mouth once they taste my recipe. Most important thing make them talk about it afterward.


This is just a appetizing metaphor. Don't get me wrong but who can resist good food?




Drawing credits.