The Soul selects her own society,
then Shuts the door.
e. dickinson

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Weather Dream Sequence, 1986.


-wind as fashionable in 1980s
-wind's effect on hairstructures in 1980s and tools to promote, stabalize, stylize (hairspray, moose, gel)
-weather manipulated by media
-weather as intangible theatre
-the 'weatherman' as storyteller/false psychic reader/retailer
-weather-narration
-physical appearance of weatherman as bodily representation of the climate within fashion
-1980s textile/design in relation to 1980s weather
-weather be subsumed by fashion
-weather fashionable through t.v. production
-how does its representation effect the viewer's relation to it, how does the viewer interact with 'visual wind'? & what are the consequences, if any, when the viewer is actually inside it?
-fashion in attempt to cope with undesireable weather through temporal play of accessories
-weather as a desire through its representation and seductive accessories involved to make it tolerable.
-experience of 'the weather' through accessories, weather as accessory ('hair blowing in wind' aesthetic)
-the weather's growing religious insignificance and use for sport.
-materialism of weather through representation (fashion contained within it), accessories created by way of tolerating/interacting with it, as a backdrop to sell products useful or useless (hierarchy of necessity inclusive of design)
-"the_______of weather will be its design"

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