COSTUME IDEAS

Right so i am a little absent from this blog and wanting to give some ideas...
I am thinking for costume as the 60's was extremely eccentric and glamorous, we go full on with our ideas. im thinking for the girls BIG hair and alot of makeup, red lips, black eyes... really sultry and sexy. I think it would look amazing if we were all really glamourous and wearing heels?! but that mite not be so easy with the routine...
For the guys, i think they should look slick and smart, very ironed down and clean. Shiney shoes and Shiney hair! :)
I think it would just look fabuloussssss!!!xxxxxx Dani Kelly ;)

NEW IDEASSSS!!

OMG FOUND SOME ACTUAL AWESOMENESS!!
aFTER LAST WEEKS LESSON I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE A SCENE ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING IN 1968 MAYBE TO JUXTAPOSE...!!! BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS YEAR SEEMS A BIT DEPRESSING!! HOWEVER, I HAVE FOUND A RADIO TRANSCRIPT TALKING ABOUT THE YEAR!!!! WE COULD SOOOOOO USE!!!
LOVE YOU MUPPETS!!
LUCY
XXX'S

Names!

Ok so....

We thought of some potential company names:

• Fifteentimesthree
• horseplay
• mob-scurity / mobscurity - thats our fave btw :)
• paradox

And names for the production:

• Warhola
• project:warhol
• 3/6/1968
• soup for the soul
• pop goes the artist - LMAO.
• factorypeople

I don't know, we could probably think up some more, but there are a few for your perusal!! :D

BIG LOVE! Nash, Wilsonball and Ginge :) xx

SCUM Manifesto....

• Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
  It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the mail has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Ok, so I thought this might be a lovely little piece of the SCUM manifesto to include! It's the opening, and I was thinking we could have either one woman, or a group of women talking about it - kind of vagina monologues-esque?? Like with just a spot? I don't know, that might be crap, but I thought this was an interesting section to play with - please leave ideas people!!

• Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through an fuse with the female, and by claiming as his own all female characteristics -- emotional strength and independence, forcefulness, dynamism, decisiveness, coolness, objectivity, assertiveness, courage, integrity, vitality, intensity, depth of character, grooviness, etc -- and projecting onto women all male traits -- vanity, frivolity, triviality, weakness, etc. It should be said, though, that the male has one glaring area of superiority over the female -- public relations. (He has done a brilliant job of convincing millions of women that men are women and women are men). The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.

Right! I thought this may be interesting, we could maybe play around with some sort of movement piece of the men wanting to be women! I don't know.... I'm kind of shooting in the dark here! But it's a really interesting snippet of text, yes? :)

• The male `artistic' aim being, not to communicate (having nothing inside him he has nothing to say), but to disguise his animalism, he resorts to symbolism and obscurity (`deep' stuff). The vast majority of people, particularly the `educated' ones, lacking faith in their own judgment, humble, respectful of authority (`Daddy knows best'), are easily conned into believing that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, ambiguity and boredom are marks of depth and brilliance.

This is particularly interesting because I think it's a bit of a dig at Andy Warhol. So maybe could slot in around factory scene, sort of as Solanas' comment on Warhols work??

• SCUM will not picket, demonstrate, march or strike to attempt to achieve its ends. Such tactics are for nice, genteel ladies who scrupulously take only such action as is guaranteed to be ineffective. In addition, only decent, clean-living male women, highly trained in submerging themselves in the species, act on a mob basis. SCUM consists of individuals; SCUM is not a mob, a blob. Only as many SCUM will do a job as are needed for the job. Also SCUM, being cool and selfish, will not subject to getting itself rapped on the head with billy clubs; that's for the nice, `privileged, educated', middle-class ladies with a high regard for the touching faith in the essential goodness of Daddy and policemen. If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.

This is just scary - any ideas anyone?! Thought it was interesting...

• The sick, irrational men, those who attempt to defend themselves against their disgustingness, when they see SCUM barrelling down on them, will cling in terror to Big Mama with her Big Bouncy Boobies, but Boobies won't protect them against SCUM; Big Mama will be clinging to Big Daddy, who will be in the corner shitting in his forceful, dynamic pants. Men who are rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing fuss, but will just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to their demise.

This is the last bit of the manifesto - I don't like all of it, but parts of it are really powerful. Maybe we could just take a line or two and throw bits into the show at some point? Lol. My brain is a bit hurty. I've just read most of the SCUM manifesto! And I'm greatly disturbed...

Peace and Hugs :) Emily xx

It had to be DONE!

ok this has nothing to do with the project but it a lil light reliefe....

and for shits and giggles!!

(ouch charlie remix {its amazing})

I've done some more photo's but these aint all of them i still need to do some refining on others...
The pink text one is where the image has been redrawn using the highlights, midtones and the shodows and the text colours moulded to fit. the text also is the S.C.U.M Manifesto.
This means that from distance warhol is visiable and up close the manifesto is readable.

the black and white one is a merge of both warhol and solanas where solanas is the overlay and visible in selected locations

the third is a polaroid puzzel that have the images of both stiched together. this took the longest.

hopefully ill get these printed a3 and in to a presentation folder so that we can review and revise them as necessary.

AdamXx

OK I watched a 1968 Andy Warhol film called 'FLESH', and I thought we could include some scenes and dialogue from the film to our production.

Cal

This is an extract from the film 'I shot Andy Warhol', and its basically alot of Solanas' views on men/the world in general. She's insane!

I think this film would be a good shout for all of us to watch anyway....... so film night anyone?

Here is a little gem from the S.C.U.M manifesto itself -
"To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples."
Erm... sorry boys :(
http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm - this website has a transcript of the S.C.U.M manifesto on it! Guys, you might just find some of this offensive, just as a warning!

Emily :) xx

ps. I'm sorry for bombarding you all! I just worked out how to use this bad boy blog so just got uber-excited!!

Erm, have found a VERY good website about everything and anything that happened in America in 1968, I'll post the intro and the link for your viewing pleasure! Aren't I brilliant?! :P Lol!

1968 IN AMERICA
MUSIC, POLITICS, CHAOS, COUNTERCULTURE, AND THE SHAPING OF A GENERATION
THIS is the story of what happened to America in 1968, the most turbulent twelve months of the postwar period and one of the most disturbing intervals we have lived through since the Civil War. In this century only the Depression, Pearl Harbor, and the Holocaust have punctured the national psyche as deeply as the dramas of this single year. Nineteen sixty-eight was the pivotal year of the sixties: the moment when all of a nation's impulses toward violence, idealism, diversity, and disorder peaked to produce the greatest possible hope-and the worst imaginable despair. For many of us who came of age in that remarkable era, it has been twenty years since we have lived with such intensity. That is one of the main reasons why the sixties retain their extraordinary power over every-one old enough to remember them.

http://www.orlok.com/tribe/insiders/introduction.html

Emily :) xx

Oooooh, and another particularly funky website I just found for your enjoyment guys -

I <3 1968!! It turns out the BBC have run a number of I <3....... pages about years gone by! Oh you got to love the beeb!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1968/index.shtml

Got lots of information about what happened that year - shall try to find some more stuff about what was going on in America.

Emily :) xx

Costume Design Ideas.....

I found a very interesting website which is basically a fashion archive, it's got some pretty interesting stuff about the clothes around a the time. Here's a little snippit! ........

The year 1968 was marked by the individualist in fashion, and by lawlessness. Anything went! Writing in the Christian Science Monitor in September, fashion reporter Patricia Shelton said: "Any genius can put a wardrobe together—all it takes is an artist's eye for color, line, and rhythm; confidence; a little common sense and a good credit rating. Prices," she added, "are going up." At about the same time, English Vogue wrote: "Fashion is self-consciously sociological and frankly featherbrained. It's classic and immediate. Nostalgic and now. Worldly and other-worldly. Whatever's happening you are part of it and at last you can be yourself and look as you choose."

I thought this was particularly interesting as this is kind of what Warhol was doing with his art, his own thing!! Here's the link to the website - http://www.paperpast.com/html/1968_fashion.html

Good times :) Lots lovely love, Emily!!! xx