Modern rural

Rural refers to an area that isn't built up so non-metropolitan areas, opposite to urban.

A rural area is defined as a place where there is less than 1000 people per square mile, and to me refers to country people and the countryside in general, where things aren't built up.

Modern refers to the modern era, and is term meaning now, say something wouldn't be in the distant past or far away future then it would be modern.

Modern rural would refer to aspects of the rural areas of the world which are modern, I see this as quite contradictory as in general things in rural areas are not modern. I live in a town in the countryside in hampshire, although they town isn't necessarily rural itself it is surrounded by lots of tiny villages and fields which are in fact very rural, although modern it is definitely not.

I have included a picture from an aeroplane of Petersfield the town I am from.

Smeared Graphic

Smear, or smeared firstly means that something is smudged, or spread about. For example smeared make-up is when its not wear it should be and is all over the face, usually rubbed off, therefore making it look like a mess. Although the first thing the word 'smeared' makes me think of is a smear test where tissue or blood is smeared onto glass so it can be diagnosed under a microscope.

It also describes something being spread everywhere 'its smeared all over the newspaper', in general I don't think smeared is a very pleasant word.

Smeared graphic would mean to me, something graphic, maybe art, text or computer based but spread and blurred, maybe not on purpose, something smeared wouldn't seem to be on purpose, it would look messy. But it could also mean that it is everywhere, say a graphic poster could be all over town hense it would be smeared all over town.

Cultural Overlay

A persons culture depends on how and where they have been brought up, what is around them and the people they are friends with, in my mind your culture is like your 'roots' so is therefore where you're from, I think it also has a lot to do with religion and different religious rituals ans beliefs.

I think a cultural overlay would be where different cultures have mixed together, I think this is becoming increasingly popular with mixed raced marriages, people from different cultures living in the same towns/streets, and in general people being more open to discussion with what they believe in. For example in London, chinatown brings Chinese cultures into the capital of England.

Hyperreal outdoors

Hyper-reality is almost the inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, especially in technology, it is recognised within symbols where people see something as having a meaning, for example a King would wear a crown and this would resemble his high power and that he is in charge, whereas in reality it is just a crown, a fancy hat in some-ways which anyone could put on their head.

I therefore see Hyperreal outdoors as a place that looks and seams real but isn't it is false made to look like the place it is meant to be, say like a football pitch with false grass, or a beach that is indoors.

Hyperrealism

LCA-Fashion Show 2010

I helped with dressing and setting up for Leeds College of Art graduate fashion show, and was really impressed with majority of what I saw, although I didn't see the show as i was backstage, it must have been amazing, and am so impressed with it all especially considering they were told in December they would have no funding and would have to organise it amongst themselves, it was in project space Leeds and I think this was a great locations and was also cheap compared to everywhere else. I liked that I got to speak to other years as well. Well done LCA Fashion graduate 2010 you've done well.

Graduate Fashion Week

I went to London yesterday to visit the Graduate fashion week exhibition and went to the Gala show, I was very impressed with what I saw and now feel extremely motivated to do some fashion work, and am very excited by the possibility that I could be doing that in 2 years. I really liked some of the work by other universities and found it interesting to look at some of the other ones I has looked at going to and some of my friends attend. I was particularly impressed by Leeds College of Art, the show looked really good, was nice to actually see the garments and sketch books up close and really liked that there was an arty feel to the work rather than it look computer generated, a lot of uni's work all looked the same and there was no individuality, this wasn't the case for art colleges. I was also impressed by Edinburgh Art college, Nottingham trent, Northumbria and Liverpool John Moores.

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