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Design Analysis

Notes on "The Lead"

5 Story Ideas

1. What happens behind the scenes of street performances and art ( how do they map their New York)?

2. Where are the homeless shelters in New York City?

3. Housing Cost in the City.

4. Films that took place on the city and their specific locations and how it affects the people.

5. City Kids

Radical Revision: The Event

Both Dina and Sarah had their minds set on not really painting the white shoes, because why waste a free pair of Vans. So as the night began they unfortunately realized that they could not just keep their shoes white seeing as though the entire night was dedicated to designing them. They spent some time trying to figure out a way to paint it with doing the least damage possible to the shoe. They both got a little frustrated trying to come up with a design. The ladies from the Textile Art Center were really pushing people to use the wax technique and dye their shoes. In the end Sarah said what the hell and went all in. She painted to entire back ankle of the shoe an ombre red and called it a Sunset. Dina went for minimalist approach painted a small Ghana flag on the back hill of the shoe. For Dina so much went into gathering the courage to paint the shoes. Dina ended up loving it and Sarah ended up hating her own design; but by that point Sarah had already waved her white flag. They then began to look around and see what everyone else was designing. The girl with green hair next to her drew a strawberry and a blue berry. Dina noticed her design and saw that the girl had a steady hand and asked she would draw the black star on the flag for her. She said and it looked flawless. The other tables went far more extreme than Dina’s minimalist approach. Some didn’t even leave an inch of white space. There were quite a few rose drawings on shoes throughout all the tables.

Dina and Sarah walked over to the parsons table to see what was being drawn and chatted with some friends. Most people kept to the people they went to school with. Before they knew it this three hour event was over they walked 3000 miles to nearest subway, finally caught the L and headed back to Manhattan.

These are the vans I did.

Interview Notes: DJ Reez

The House of Vans Event

Monday, October Dina and her Sarah found themselves in Brooklyn in a building that resembled an indoor skate park, The House Vans. They were invited by their friend Bailey along with 13 other Parsons students they knew. Upon arrival they was check in. Dina was greeted by an outgoing young women who thought the name Dina was timeless. Dina smiled, said thank and proceeded in. They walked to where there was a huge pile of vans shoes in nice cream colored tote bags. “I am definitely re using this” she thought. They got to finally see and meet Ty, the guy behind all those damn emails about the event. Her and Sarah were then given their shoes/canvas and began the hunt to find a seat. Everyone seemed to be divided into schools. Parsons to left, SVA behind them, FIT middle and Pratt to the far right. The Parsons tables were filled so they were forced to go to a different station. Pratt it would be. They sat down and greeted two girls from Pratt, One had bright green hair and the other girl was named Emily. A presentation from the Textile Arts Center began. They showed us what technique we would be working on. They assigned a person to each table that showed how the dyes were made as well how was us used for dye works.

Both Dina and Sarah had their minds set on not really painting the white shoes, because why waste a free pair of Vans. So as the night began they unfortunately realized that they could not just keep their shoes white seeing as though the entire night was dedicated to designing them. They some time trying to figure out a way to paint it with doing the least damage possible to the shoe. They both got a little frustrated trying to come up with a design. In the end Sarah said fuck it and went all in. She painted to entire back ankle of the shoe an ombre red. She called it a Sunset. Dina went for minimalist approach painted a small Ghana flag on the back hill of the shoe. She ended up loving it and Sarah ended up hating her own design. They then began to look around and see what everyone else was designing. The girl with green hair next to her drew a strawberry and a blue. Dina noticed to that the girl had a steady hand and asked she would draw the black star on the flag for her. She said and it looked flawless. The other tables went far more extreme than Dina’s. Some didn’t even leave an inch of white space. There were quite a few rose drawings on shoes throughout all the tables.

Dina and Sarah walked over to the parsons table to see what was being drawn and chatted with some friends. Most people kept to the people they went to school with. Before they knew it this three hour event was over and they caught the L and headed back to Manhattan.

the end.

Notes on Event

Event Outline

So I have a friend that works for vans and he invited me to participate in this Vans DIY Workshop in Brooklyn at their location House Of Vans. It was an event that brought together Four main art schools. Each school had a representative that worked for Vans so they were allowed to bring 15 people of their choice to attend a night of fun and creation.

We all had to email our shoe size and shirt size and confirm about 5000 times in advanced. Upon arriving each person got a free pair of Vans to use for the workshop and eventually take home.

Everyone was so divided... mostly by school. At first i didn’t want to do paint on them and just have a pair of free white vans but then i thought what fun is that. It ended up being a fun night. Artist from the Textile Arts Center did a presentation and then showed hands on how to use/make dyes and apply them to the shoes.

Interview Outline.

I plan on interviewing a friend of a friend. His name is Kwaku Opoku and he is a senior that DJ’s and creates beats. I believe he will be an interesting person to interview. Every time I come to visit my friend he’s always working on music so it would be interesting to see what music he’s into, what artists he is influenced by as well as what it’s like being from Ghana and coming to a school in NYC and how that has influenced his art.

The Man Behind DJ Reez

I knock on the door and I am greeted by the lovely Kwaku Opoku. He gestures me to sit and shows me some of the beats he’s been working on. I turn to him and say, “oh my goodness this is amazing.” He chuckles and says thank you. I then ask him where he is from. He says, “I am from Ghana, originally kumasi but I’ve lived in Tema my whole life. It has nice vibes, a nice beach, and nice people.” So what drew you to New York, I asked. He said, “Honestly I don’t really like New York I really came for the school. There are not really any art schools in Tema. It’s mostly for people who want to be doctors and lawyers which is fine but its not for me. Parsons is seen as the premier school for art and design for those who know it but a lot people don’t really pay attention to art in that way in Ghana.” I then ask him if his music has any Ghanaian flares or undertones. “Oh yeah ! Almost everything I do I try and tie it in with Ghana. And when I make beats heavily influenced by the Legends in Ghana. And when I make mixes I always try and add something to show its Ghanaian. Even if its the art i always try and incorporate it.” Wow I love that, so who are your top three Ghanaian musicians, i ask. He says, Ummm number one is Sarkodie, number two id say is this old high life musician called Ebo Taylor and number three would have to be Fela. Ah nice, growing up what kind of music did you listen to? “Jazz and high-life but then my brothers started listening to hip hop when i was super young and that really added into what I do now. He then showed me what he was working and also some of the music he listens to. We then talked about American musicians and his views on them. He said, “I feel like most musicians here, they do pick things from different countries but then they don’t acknowledge it or they don’t fully understand it or see where the sounds originated. He then showed me some songs that sampled beats from some of the Ghanaian artist he listed. We then discussed how music was more unintentional back in the day the sense that it was more organic and less edited and how now a days certain artist are trying to achieve these unintentional sounds. I then asked him if he saw himself as an organic artists. He then chuckled and said “ya know I’m trying.” Okay really quickly Grammy award acceptance speech?! Thank God the most high first of all.Thanks to my family thanks to everyone who has supported me. Love you all.

And there you have it ladies and gentlemen

The end.

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