Consumption Animation - Beauty Junkies
Research
I want to take
inspiration from Lauren Greenfield and make a piece that will hit home and will
get a string message across to my audience surrounding the idea of addiction to
beauty.
Examples of her
work;
Lauren Greenfield
- Thin
Lauren Greenfield
- Kids and Money
Lauren Greenfield
- Fashion Show
I want to take the
visual effects used in the ‘Fashion Show’ and incorporate this into my own
piece. I want to use a collaboration of both the head shots and products. This
is the basics to the idea I have for the photography element to my project.
Research
Oniomania (from Greek ὤνιος onios "for sale" and μανία mania "insanity") is the technical
term for the compulsive desire to shop, more commonly referred to as compulsive shopping, shopping addiction, shopaholism, compulsive buying or CBD.
Compulsive shopping may be considered an impulse control disorder, an obsessive-compulsive disorder,
a bipolar disorder, or even a clinical addiction,
depending on the clinical source.
For some people, a poor
self-image can translate into an unhealthy relationship with beauty products.
Research
Artist Chris Jordan is currently doing a
project on our mass consumption and its effects on our environment and in
particular the effects it has had on the wildlife.
Midway: Message from the Gyre
(2009 - Current)
On
Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest
continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing
place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting
chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the
floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean. For
me, kneeling over their carcasses is like looking into a macabre mirror. These
birds reflect back an appallingly emblematic result of the collective trance of
our consumerism and runaway industrial growth. Like the albatross, we
first-world humans find ourselves lacking the ability to discern anymore what
is nourishing from what is toxic to our lives and our spirits. Choked to death
on our waste, the mythical albatross calls upon us to recognize that our
greatest challenge lies not out there, but in here.
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