These creatives are turning The Sims into their high fashion playground. From the moment The Sims first hit our computer screens just over 20 years ago, the virtual reality game has held a special place in our hearts.
I think there is definitely something present here re: the future of fashion and how it can use technology. Designers have already paired up with gam design companies to design outfits for the characters and this feels like the next step. This could be a platform for advertising and creating brand recognition in markets that might not currently seek media where fashion is traditionally advertised and featured. It makes fashion an active/interactive experience for people that might not actively seek or have access to. This is could create new jobs in both the fashion and animation industry. This could kind of change what it means to be a fashion designer – ameliamelfo
From its instantly recognisable soundtrack and the countless ways we tortured our little pixelated people, to memories of loading up the once-modern CD-ROM on our near-broken family desktops, for most, the game is tinged with a sense of nostalgia that immediately takes us back to a very specific time in our lives.
What is cottagecore and why is it taking over TikTok? “Put a finger down if you know how to knit, sew, or crochet,” a TikTok video by @cncealingflwrs begins.
“Put a finger down if you own more than five sweaters,” she continues. “Put a finger down if you own more than three flower-printed clothing items... Have flowers or dried flowers around your room…Or love the aesthetic of fungi and mushrooms.” Influencer tests positive for COVID-19, then posts a picture outside. With many members of the public, including medical staff, unable to get tested for COVID-19 despite showing symptoms, a number of celebrities and influencers have been quick to post their coronavirus results online, with many of them not showing symptoms at all.
Causing obvious outrage, one such influencer to ignite backlash is Arielle Charnas, a fashion blogger with 1.3 million followers. Taking to Instagram two weeks ago (March 18), Charnas wrote in a lengthy post she had tested positive for the virus. Going on to acknowledge the lack of accessibility for many to get tested, and pledging to stay at home, Charnas then embarked on a trip to the Hamptons from her home in New York, disregarding the protocol to self-isolate. The influencer then posted a picture of herself outdoors (March 27), along with the caption, “Fresh air 🙏”. Face off: up close and personal with masked performance artist, Narcissister. ‘Streaming from Isolation’ with Dixon and Boiler Room As the weekend comes around again, the realities of lockdown and social distancing are perhaps most keenly felt.
Due to COVID-19 quarantine, artists/performers are thinking of creative ways to continue sharing their art and entertaining the public. This notion also plays into the greater trend of technology and the digital, as they are using these mediums to connect to their audiences. For example: Museums and galleries are offering virtual tours, and dj's playing concerts over live feeds, The virus is creating an environment where these technologies are being forced to grow and develop quickly out of necessity, but I think that these digital ways of creating and sharing will continue after the long virus, and that the virus could actually help these industries/mediums develop - it will also probably create new ones that people will continue to use as well. – ameliamelfo
Restaurants, bars, nightclubs and wherever else we might ordinarily celebrate the advent of the weekend are closed until further notice.
But that doesn’t mean that you have to sit in front of Netflix for the umpteenth evening in a row. How these trailblazers are embodying the punk spirit for a new generation. Although the Essex band Crass declared to the world “Punk is Dead” in 1978, there is an enduring legacy to the movement characterised by its anti-establishment views, DIY sensibilities and unapologetic self-expression.
Virus as metaphor: art and illness. For artists who confront illness in their work, many speak from bodies that have already been marginalised by difference.
This article follows depictions of illness through out history via fine art. This article serves as a sort of proof that this current COVID-19 outbreak will definitely have a huge visual impact on art and fashion, as this is not the first time that the world has been hit with a major illness and each time something along these lines has happened in the past artists have taken great inspiration from difficult and scary times. Their art reflects the range feelings felt by all during such a crisis, positive and negative, from fear, anxiety, nihilism, to hope, community, and support. – ameliamelfo
American painter and sculptor Paul Thek, to whom AIDS and Its Metaphors is dedicated, was somewhat an outcast from the New York art scene upon his death in 1988.
After the success of his early works, including lifelike wax sculptures of raw meat, dismembered human limbs and a to-scale effigy of his own body in The Tomb (1967), Thek left New York for Europe. When he returned a decade later in the late 1970s, his emotional state and poverty forced him into a kind of self-exile, and his work turned mostly to less grandiose paintings on newsprint and canvas board. Why the UK’s young people are taking to the streets in support of the Labour Party. I’m in a packed out Trade Union head office in Battersea, South West London, and there are people bustling about in all directions.
Inside the exhibition tracing the political, cultural and artistic evolution of the hoodie. The Trance issue—a reading list.
This article highlights 3 books, each which I feel cover the general "mood" now/the future. The first covers a nihilistic future where artists are not allowed to create independently but are forced create content for corporations, the corporations force the artist to cover current issues like climate change, while actually causing more damage under the guise of "activism". The second, covers the story of a young woman purposefully putting herself in a coma in order to escape the omnipresent pressures/problems of modern life and technology. The third is a non-fiction explanation of race in current-day America. The title "THE NEW JIM CROW" says it all. – ameliamelfo