COP Seminar: Lad Culture -Feedback and Peer and Teacher Review.

• I will be attempting a Ralph Steadman-esque way of producing work... I think this will be a great artist to look at as I want my work to have a satirical yet dark aspect to it; a combination between life like and caricaturist. I also love the media he uses and the way he feels his way around the paper by just experimenting with ink splatters and emphasising the mood of the work through this process. I really like the way he incorporates animal features into his characters; this really links in to my project as I focus a lot on the pack mentality of lad culture. 
• My Pinterest of a selection of Ralph Steadman's work: http://www.pinterest.com/dearalice1/ralph-steadman/
• Get lot's of reportage work in my sketchbook! -university life; boys/girls/lecturers/lads/antilads/items/objects.
• Fine line between messing about and serious issues. 
• Pack mentality - constant throughout human history- useful and helpful but can go out of control... how does it go out of control? 
• First time people are away from home: university.
• Quickly want to find a group - human instinct - protection/survival.
• Lad culture- bullying - boys and girls (being bullied and bullying - urgh hes such a girl/soft/weakling/pussy)
• Ask Richard for theoretical research!
• Lad sins - e.g. 'wifin' - get to the sin bin!
• How people act in different groups depends on where theyre going/who theyre with/what the expectations of their behaviour are... what if I practically drew a juxtaposition - lads doing the unexpected
• Typology - visually - objects
• Young men are most vulnerably - high suicide risk/more likely to be attacked - pressure
• Tutors aren't responsible for the students social life etc... no influence
• Sanctuary of the Self - watch! - Construction of contemporary consumerism
• International 
• Drawing research 
• Ken loach 
• Time Machine - by HT Wells
• Tokyo Godfathers
• No logo

Censorship and 'Truth'

Ansel Adams

• Moonrise Hernandes New Mexico 1941-2 
• Aspens

Fall of Communism

• Pravda
• Ironically means 'truth' 
• Censored and filtered news presented to Russia and Europe by the Soviet Communist Party.
• Stalin photographed with Trotsky but had him removed when it was against his interest to be seen with him.

Kate Winslet for GQ Magazine

• They Photoshopped her and elongated her legs.
• Yet they forgot to change her reflection in the mirror. 

Robert Capa 

• Death of Loyalist soldier, 1936
• Soldier running down hill for the photo, the opposing side in the civil war shot him- they were supposed to be on 'siesta' time.
• Invented an American persona- he was actually Hungarian.

The Case of the Mexican Suitcase

Elliot Aronson in Pratkanis and Aronson

Tom L. Beauchamp 

• Manipulative Advertising, 1984

Simolacrum - an image/representation of someone something that's unsatisfactory.

Jean Baudrillard 

• Simulaca
• Simmulation
• The Gulf War did not take place 1995 p.40 Penguin
• Dictionary of Critical Theory Penguin Books.

Peter Turnley 

• The Unseen Gulf War, Dec 2002
• Mile of Death

It is a masquerade of information: branded faces delivered over to the prostitution of image. 

'Make war like love, with a condom'

Len Jarede 

• Iraq Soldier, 1991

An-my Le 

• from Small Wars

Mechanised attracct even ashore the practice or policy of censoring films etc.

Morals - Principles of right or wrong.
Censor - To ban or cut portions of a film, letter or publication.
Ethics - Code of behaviour: moral value of human behaviour.

Theodore Levitt

Morality of Advertising - Cook, G.

Oliviero Toscani

• United colours of Beretton Advert, 1992
• Aids - Homosexuality - Jesus
• Publicity generated. 
• Nudity and decorative models
• Opium Advert - implies drugs - sexual ecstasy 

ASA

Stephen Meisal

Agnolo Bronzia 

• Venus, cupid, foly lime, 1543, oil on wood. 
• Mother and son - incestuous - shag and groping 
• Germaine Greer

Balthus - The Golden Years

Therese Dreaming

Manet - Dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1863.

Andy Earl

• Bow Wow Wow - record cover
• 1980
• 14 year old girl

Amy Adler

• The folly of defining serious art
• Miller test, 1973
• Should work be labelled as obscene

Obscenity Law

• To protect art whilst prohibiting cash

Ally Mann 

• Candy Cigarette
• Photographing her children
• 1989
• Tierney Gearon - Untitled, 2001
• News of the World - 'A revolting exhibition under the guise of art.'
• Protection of Children Act 

Nan Goldin

• Klara and Edda belly dancing, 1998

Richard Prince 

• Spiritual America, 1983
• Spiritual America IV, 2005 
• Reclaiming her control of having that photograph taken... does this really seem to be her regaining control or is she being taken advantage of again?

Jack Bankonsky 

• Tate Modern co-curator

Michele Cornoyer

• The Hat
• 2000

Garg Gross

If it is drawn, can you distance yourself more?

How much should we believe what is represented in the media?

Who should be protected?

Rest of presentation can be found on Estudio.

Lad Culture: Artist Research

Ralph Steadman

Globalisation

Socialist  - the process of transformation of loval or regional phenomena into global ones.

• Economic forces
• Technological forces
• Socio-cultural forces
• Political forces

It can be described as a process by which the people of the world unified into a single society and function together. 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Globalisation 

• The spread of the free market so that it can expand globally.
• Replace different cultures with one single culture  - today it's America (Westernisation).

George Ritzer

• McDonaldisation 
• Wide ranging sociocultural processes by which the principles of fast food restaurants dominating the world. 
• Peoples jobs more meaningless.
• Low salaries.
• Massive profit.
• 1 product the same the world over. 

Marshall McLuhan 

• Rapidity of communication echoes the senses
• We can experience instantly the effects of our actions on a global scale. 
• Increase humanity of the world.
• 'As electrically controlled the globe is no more than a village. - community involvement.

Centripetal forces 

• Bringing the world together in a uniform global society.

Centrifugal forces

• Tearing the world apart in tribal wars.

3 Problems of Globalisation

• Sovereignty - Challenges to the idea of the nation state.
• Accountability - Transnational forces and organisations; who controls them?
• Identity - Who are we? Nation, group, community. 

Pessimistic hyperglobalisers 

Cultural Imperialism 

• Schiller
• Chonsky 
• If the 'global village' is run with a certain set of values then it would not be so much of an integrated company as an assimilated one.

Rigging the 'Free Market'

• Media conglomerates operate as oligopolies - spend western globally.
• American dominate media
• News corporations divide world into territories of descending 'market important.
• US medis power can be thought of a new part of imperialism 
• Stiller
• Skin whitening - media, to be successful must look a certain way.

Chumsky and Herman, 1998

• Manufacturing consent
• Propaganda and a model - 5 filters 
• Ownership, funding,sourcing, flak, ideology (e.g. anti-Islam)

Ownership - Rupert Murdock

• News of the world/ the sun, times/fox/NY post.
• He argued he had the power to get a politician elected.
• Journalists - to keep their jobs they can't be too harsh on politicians.
• For mass appeal - play on stereotypes - cements the idea that your world view is correct
• Industry being shut down - low wages/hours - immigration is not to blame but is used as a scape goat. 

Flak 

• GCC - US base 
• Concerted and intentional efforts to change public opinions. 

Al Gore

• An Inconvenient Truth 
• Release less CO2, plant more vegetarian 
• Recycle, C02 neutral - buy new lightbulbs, electronic car - buy - solution - buy more stuff - same system. 

Flat Earthers (against Global Warming being a real issue - they make money from putting C02 in the atmosphere.)

• Jim Inhofe 
• Nigel Lawson
• Competative, Enterprise, Institute -Try to dispel the myth of global warming. 
• Global warming - direct result of C02 production. - increasing temp from 1910

Sustainability

• Sustainable development that meets the needs of the present without compromising future generations, 
• Sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms; nothing physical can grow indefinitely. 

BIOX Biofuel Plant Canada 

• 'Clean' fuel renuable - more expensive- alienating people. 
• Factory - in the middle of poor area, ruined lives - negative consequences - poluted rivers etc. 

Green Washing 

• New market for consumption corporations fool us into buying products- rare that they have any benefits to the world.
• McDonalds -red to green 
• Kimberly Clarke - responsible for deforesting - say they're eco-friendly
• Coco cola - plant bottle - lied in their statistics - Didn't do any research. 
• Most things are designed for the need of the manufacturers to sell. 

Ecologism 

• We need to reassess our relationship between each other and the environment. 

Adbusters 

• Blackspot Sneaker.
• Anti- capitalist.
• The wil drinkable book
• The Story of Stuff - Annie Lennard. 

Consumerism: Persuassion, Society, Brand and Culture

• National cash register building
• Adam Curtis - Century of Self 
• Naomi Klein  - No Logo 1999

Sigmund Freud

• Psychoanalysis- hidden primitive sexual forces and animal instincts which need controlling.
• The Interpretation of Dreams 1899
• The Civilisation and it's Discontents 1930 - consumerism 
• ID, Ego, Super Ego - unconscious. 
• Fundamental tension between civilisation and the individual.
• Human instincts incompatible with the well being of community.
• The pleasure principle.

Edward Bernays 1891 - 1995

• Public Relations
• Employed by public information office during WW1 - propaganda
• Crystallizing Public Opinion, 1923
• Propaganda, 1928
• If you can attach instinctual meaning to consumerist products - can make them need/want them
• Product placement
• Celebrity endorsements
• The use of pseudo scientific reports

Fordism - Henry Ford, 1863- 1947

• Transposes Taylorism to car factories of Detroit 
• Requires large investment, but increases productivity so much that relatively high wages can be paid, allowing the workers to buy the product they produce. 
• Car - buy to make you more sexually desirable.
• Need culture - desire culture- self - replaced with consumer self
• The Hidden Persuaders - Vance Packard

Marketing hidden need.

Selling

• Emotional security 
• Reassurance of worth
• Ego gratification
• Creative outlets
• Love objects
• Sense of power
• Sense of roots
• Immortality

Walter Lippmann 

• A new elite is needed to manage the bewildered herd- 'Manifacturing Consent' 1920. 

Research what people want - what they desire and advise governments. If you can create a system where these dangerous desires are being met then people will be docile and happy which will preserve the system as it is. Money to big companies who give the public the illusion of freedom. 

• Government policies allowing big businesses 
• Communism - alternative model to consumerism - profit - cant expand the market anymore - boom and crash - America 24 October 1929. 'Black Tuesday' led to the Great Depression. 
• If you allow big businesses to do whatever they want the society will be damaged.

Roosevelt and the 'New Deal' - soft socialism - more restrictions on big business. Tax big businesses and distribute to poor. 

Giant PR exercise -PR (propaganda for big business) - World's Fair. Pioneered by Bernays - meant to be a celebration of America... free... you can buy anything - consumerism =choice.

Big business knows whats good for the country rather than politicians - democracy - illusion of democracy - centralise power - we're all kept placid cementing the social order as it is. 

• Consumerism is an ideological project.
• We believe that through consumption our desires can be met. 
• The customer self. 
• The legacy of Bernays can be felt in all aspects of 21st Century society. 
• Conflicts between alternative models.  

Seminar: Benjamin and Mechanical Reproduction

'The transformation of the superstructure, which takes place far more slowly than that of substructure, has taken more than half a century to manifest in all areas of culture the change in the conditions of production. Only today can it be indicated what form this has taken. Certain prognostic requirements should be met by these statements.

However theses about the art of the proletariat after its assumption of power or about the art of a classless society would have less bearing on these demands than theses about the developmental tendencies of art under present conditions of production. (How this society and conditions of development challenge our view on art) Their dialectic is no less noticable in the superstructure than in the economy, It would therefore be wrong to underestimate the value of such these as a weapon. They brush aside a number of outmoded concepts such as creativity and genius, external value and mystery - intrinsic - concepts whose uncontrolled (and at present almost uncontrollable) application would leave to a processing of data in the Fascist sense. The concepts which are introduced into the theory of art in what follows differ from the more familiar terms in that they are completely useless for the purposes of Fascism. They are, on the other hand, useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art.'

'One might subsume the eliminated element in the term 'aura' and go on to say: That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art. One might generalise by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence, And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced. These two processes lead to a tremendous shattering of tradition which is the obverse of the contemporary crisis and renewal of mankind. Both processes are intimately connected with the contemporary mass movements. Their most powerful agent is the film. Its social significance, particularly in its most positive form, is inconceivable without its destructive, cathartic aspect, that is, the liquidation of the traditional value of cultural heritage.'

'Earlier much futile thought had been devoted to the question of whether photography is an art. The primary question - whether the very invention of photography had not transformed the entire nature of art- was not raised. Soon the film theoreticians asked the same ill-considered question with regard to the film.' 

'Mechanical reproduction changed the reaction of art towards the masses towards art. The reactionary attitude toward a Picasso painting changes into a progressive reaction toward a Chaplin movie. The progressive reaction is characterised by the direct, intimate fusion of visual and emotional enjoyment with the orientation of the expert.'

'For twenty-seven years we Futurists have rebelled against tthe branding of war as anti-aesthetic... Accordingly we state:.. War is beautiful because it establishes man's dominion over the subjugated machinery by means of gas masks, terrifying megaphones, flame throwers, an small tanks. War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt-of metalization of the human body. War is beautiful because it enriches a flowering meadow with the fiery orchids of machine guns, War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the connonades, the cease-fire, the scents, and the stench of putrefaction into a symphony, War is beautiful because it creates new architecture, like that of the big tanks the geometrical formation flights, the smoke spirals from burning villages, and many others... Poets and artists of Futurism!... Remember these principles of an aesthetics of war so that your struggle for a new literature and new graphic art... may be illumined by them! (Marinetti)

'Fiat ars - pereat mundus', says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense of perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of 'l'art pour l'art'. Mankind, which in Homer's time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. It's self alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, This is the situation of politics which fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicising art. 

Notes...

• New technology threatens the 'aura' of the original work.
• The original work has - presence. authenticity, authority; its special.
• Blind acceptance.
• Thinking for yourself- reproduction free's art, re-modification means we make it our own - rewriting and challenging the balance of power. 
• How this society and conditions of development challenge our view on art.
• Not just a speculation- discerning knowledge that can be used as a weapon.
• Our relationship to the world, culture and power. 
• Galleries with rules and structures.
• Possibility of loads of versions of art. 
• Can access art in our own sphere - re-understanding our own.
• Shift is cathartic - we are active players in the world 
• New technologies challenge our tradition.
• Steps - libraries, uni, galleries - you have to raise yourself to that level of culture. 
• Power, repression, individuals responsibility,
• Mona Lisa T-shirts - bottom up 
• The base can change rapidly.
• The super structure has a gradually slow effect.
• He's making a prognosis- set of ideas.
• Someone more special or important than us - top down authoritarian - technology changes that - now there is digital reproduction.

Marx's Concept of Base

• Base
• Forces of production - materials, tools, workers, skills etc
• Relations of production - employer, employee, class, master, slave etc
• Super structure.
• Social instituations - legal, political, cultural
• Forms of consciousness - ideology
• Society, class.
• Marx 1848 - Communist Manifesto - 'The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.'

New technology introduces a different way of making art and design- actively reshaping culture - Mongrel Creative 

Don't have to make work that they (rich gallery owners) choose - the more you can get work out to people the more democratic the world becomes.

Abstract - Ad Reinhart

Retreat back to the cult of the individual - the aura of art - the only way to understand it is to read up about it. 

In the digital world- with democratic possibilities - people that reject digital and into the craft of making art are retreating into the cult of the individualistic art aura. 

View cinema collectively - negotiate together the humour etc of the film - create the meaning yourself. 

TASK: 

Find something- illustration- that can link to 5 quotes 

Galleries - illustration 

Collective projects due to internet 

Famous illustration/art challenged by the internet 

Artists who challenge the aura of art. 

Lad Culture: Photographs and Sketches

Lad Culture: Starterpacks - Sets

Lad Culture: Dating

Study Task- 4 Research Proposal

The CoP seminar on 14/11/14 gave you the opportunity to receive Formative Feedback from your peers on your proposed Research Projects. The seminar also introduced you to the CoP2 Research Proposal form, which is similar to the CoP3 Research Proposal form that you will be expected to complete later in the year. Following this seminar, you are asked to;- 1) Scan any Peer Feedback you received from the seminar and post this to your CoP blogs 2) Download the CoP2 Research Proposal Form from eStudio and complete a revised proposal form, based on the Peer Feedback received.Post this to your CoP blogs.

Study Task- 3 Close Reading & Analysis Task: Technology, Culture, History

The second CoP seminar and focused on the themes of Technology, Culture and History. To extend on this, you are asked produce a summary of the key points of seminar text Benjamin, W. (1936) 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' and apply these ideas to a close analysis of ONE illustration. You must use at least FIVE quotations from the Benjamin essay, referenced in accordance to the harvard system, in support of your analysis. It is expected that your discussion will comment on the socio-political and technological contexts of illustration, and key Benjaminian themes of Aura, exhibition value, cult value and democracy. One Harvard referenced analysis of one illustration, using FIVE quotes from the Benjamin essay in support.

Girls Feedback

Gentlemen 

Nice 

Helping a grandma across the road

Buying flowers for no reason (relationship

Normally

Shag 

Get off

One night stands

Pull the pig/moose night

Fit girls

Down pints

Tactical chunder 

Rowdy 

Fighting

Sleeping with a girl 3 times or more is minus

Get willies out

Lads what'ssap group 

Minus

Went out with a girl instead of going with the lads 

Holding hands 

Double standards

Peer Evaluation Feedback

Decided to change from alcohol related to just focussing on portraying a modern version of each of his plays.

Progress Tutorial Feedback

- faces in the branches of the forest and hearts

My 20 Observational Drawings

Boys Feedback

Money -jack wills 

Sheep to fit in 

To feel like ur part of it 

Tie dye clothes art uni tattoos piercings culture code

Meat heads met 

Beards - hipster against the morn - growing a beard gets u more manly - against the norm at one point now it 

'Lads lads lads go out get pissed down shit and 

Obsessed with football

Rugby lads rugby union posher lads 

Cricket lads posh scan wishes and tea and Victoria spounge cake 

Lad bruises tai kickboxing violent 

Animal instinct being drunk 

Call lane full of lads fighting

Any girls with a 

Primal instinct 

Museum Visit and Exhibition in Leeds University Library

Task 2 (museum group work): Identify unexpected/ useful outcomes of combining your drawings with other group members and having a focused task to achieve in a short time. 

Seeing other peoples styles and ways of working and interpreting the same museum exhibitions. Time restrictions also made us produce more work in a quicker time which meant the results were more trying to capture the essence and feel of the object/animal we were drawing than getting a perfect representation with loads of detail. Although I still tried to do this a bit in my work! The time restraints generally meant we could loosen up a bit, and I chose to use coloured pencils to do this so that I could record the colour without taking too long to draw all the individual feathers for example.

Comment on how Task 2 led you to repond to the gallery/museum. If this was different to previous visits, how and why?

It was similar to other school art trips where we have gone to look at a specific exhibition and drawn lots of different parts of it and displays. However compared to a leisurely trip to a museum this way meant we spent a lot more time scanning the displays for the best choices to draw from and spent a far longer amount of time in front of that specific thing rather than just walking around. I looked at each subject that I was drawing in depth aesthetically rather than its history and context which you would usually be reading and finding out about.

Task 1 (reportage): evaluate how the task has been approached in the time given.

I used coloured pencils to quickly capture the colours on the animals I was drawing and the whole team managed to come back with a similar amount of various sketches. I think we approached it well in the time given and we created a display on the window with all our sketches on. We decided to put them on the window because they were all drawn onto tracing paper which meant the light could come through and they could overlap effectively without masking out the image behind.

How could the practical aspect of CoP2 be extended to challenge your image-making further and enhance your essay line of enquiry?

• Do observational drawing relating to my theme - historical and social (boys/war/social groups/ war letters… did they sound like the lads today?)
• Try to do quicker and looser drawing- get ideas down and experiment!
• Take sketch books with me. 
• Visit the library.
• Try different media.
• Explore in my Sketchbook more.

Collaborative Group Work

Proposed Research Question or Theme

Peer Feedback

Red- My additional feedback.

Think about your subject carefully - personally relevant!

Initial Proposed Research Question or Theme:
How Does Higher Education Effect/Encourage Lad Culture?

(Research Behind) What research needs to be undertaken into the general and specific contexts of the Research Project?
Historical/cultural/social/technological/economical/political/important illustrators/thinkers/writers/philosophers. Any dominant/prevailing attitudes? Subject culturally specific?

• Sport/society initiations 'welcome drinks'
• Interviews
• Lad culture - effects, incidents, examples of things happening?
• Sex 'scoring' girls become conquests - objectified.
• Do uni's with more mature students not have this lad culture as much?
• Competition- does this fuel lad culture? 
• Pack mentality from the way they dress - fancy dress on nights out- recognisable as a pack.
• Start uni in new place not knowing anyone - need to find a group/pack to identify with?
• No authoritative elders with an impact on the social side of uni - no one stopping the behaviour or witnessing it. The older students in charge of societies encourage the behaviour to get the group to bond. 
• 'lad points'

(Research Through) What approaches could be taken and what processes, methods, materials and tools could be involved in the Research Project?
How will you approach the subject? What questions will you ask? Why? Methodology- psychology research methods- collating results infer and why? Strategy/qualitative vs quantative/how will you use illustration as a strategy. Video interviews/ questionnaires. Methodology - get books from library- theories. Sociological/theory - acknowledge at start of project - epistemology- thinking through doing/reflective practice- Schon.

• Media Coverage
• Geordie Shore/Made in Chelsea/ The Only Way is Essex - all the same age group roughly, all different parts of the country and different social/class groups.
• It's not a new thing - peacocking - animalistic/ primeval
• Identify another way of identifying 'lad culture' from throughout history: boys going off to war etc.
• Look at history/magazines how are they showing the ideal way to be portrayed? Spray tans, gym, gains/ do you even lift? hashtags on instagram etc gym obsessed youth get paid for endorsing fitness products - less to do with going out for runs and nature and more to do with fitness in the gym environment- weights - more about aesthetics than health. 

(Research For) What preparation or investigations needs to be undertaken for the Research Project to take place?
HOW will you investigate it/ do you have to research into methods and techniques? Do you need to research into materials/media etc. Maximise effectiveness of research.

• Interviews 
• Questionaires 
• New wave banter
• 21 Jump Street - Channing Tatam - Role reversal/ Challenges lad culture.
• Bad Neighbours - American uni lad culture… is our new phase of lad culture influenced by american uni society e.g. fraternities and sororities.
• Research into research methods such as quantitative vs qualitative and think about reliable and bias sources etc.

(Research In Front of) What research needs to be undertaken regarding who the project is for?
Who is the research project for? Who is your audience for? In a context- professional. Can anyone use/make use of your project/research? How? Collaboration? Shakes you out of your stylistic comfort zone. How would your tone of voice change if you targeted your research as a different audience?

• Where do women come into this? What does this do to women and how do they effect 'lads' - are boys trying to impress each other or impress girls. 
• What do boys who aren't lads feel about them?
• Would lads refer to themselves as lads? if not is it because they feel there are negative connotations? 

Sources of further Research (Illustrators, Books, Websites)

• Identify the different lad cultures in different casts of Geordie Shore, The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea - can use as easy case studies - also how do people perceive them. 

Suggestions for a revised Research Question based on the above?

LAD Culture

http://www.badgeronline.co.uk/leading-research-into-lad-culture/
http://sussex.tab.co.uk/2014/03/10/am-i-a-lad/

NUS Lad culture
http://www.nus.org.uk/Global/Campaigns/That's%20what%20she%20said%20full%20report%20Final%20web.pdf

Defense
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jackrivlin/100210063/the-prudes-of-the-nus-hate-boozy-popular-lads-so-what-do-they-do-smear-them-as-rapists/

Lad Points
http://sussex.tab.co.uk/2014/11/04/dr-lad-points/

Douchebags
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/anatomy-of-a-new-modern-douchebag

Rugby Lads
http://bristol.tab.co.uk/2014/03/08/in-defence-of-rugby-lads/

Drinking Culture
http://leeds.tab.co.uk/2014/10/08/boozenight/

Sexual Assault
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/drunk-student-jailed-slapping-penis-4482812


Dapper Laughs
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/lee-kern/dapper-laughs-sexism_b_5959094.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/09/dapper-laughs-apologises-_n_6128598.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/08/cancel-dapper-laughs-petition-itv_n_6126118.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/07/dapper-laughs-humiliated-after-homeless-charity-shelter-rejects-christmas-album-funds_n_6121468.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/30/dapper-laughs-tv-show-vine_n_5634415.html
http://usvsth3m.com/post/this-is-what-happened-when-i-criticised-dapper-laughs-on-twitter


BBC Radio 1's Podcast on Lad Culture in Higher Education:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n601g
Alison Phipps, Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Sussex, explores the rise of 'lad culture' in Higher Education and its relationship to the 'marketisation' of learning. 
In this podcast they mentioned...

• Banter as a get out of jail free card.
• Uni lads are individualist but not individual - they have a pack mentality.
• They are competitive with each other but the group all acts like each other.
• Their forms of masculinity are strict - bully boys that do not fit this.
• Now - sexism may be more nasty today - encouraged by social media.
• Competitive scoring of sex.
• Women being audited.
• FB pages like 'rate your shag'
• Sexual Conquests
• Consumerist Mentality
• Neo-Liberalization
• Marketised University
• Rankings/gradings/evaluate
• Individualism- Not a strong sense of comunity- which could protect against it.
• What are universities teaching students? Civic values should be a part.
• Sexist bullying - backlash on feminism
• View that feminism has gone too far.
• NUS lad culture strategy team
• Unwanted sexual advances
• Good Lad workshops in Oxford
• Intervention Initiative UWE

NUS Lad Culture Strategy Team

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-29176844

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/news/lad-culture-your-reactions/

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/universities-must-unite-to-beat-lad-culture-sexism-on-campus-claims-nus-9734198.html

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/nus-calls-for-summit-on-lad-culture/

Good Lad Workshops

http://ithappenshereoxford.wordpress.com/about/our-programs/education/

http://oxford.tab.co.uk/2013/04/23/lads-arent-us/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10657789/Sexist-lad-culture-can-British-universities-ever-get-rid-of-it.html

Intervention Initiative

http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bl/research/interventioninitiative.aspx

http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bl/research/interventioninitiative/abouttheprogramme.aspx

'Rate Your Shag'

https://twitter.com/search?q=rate%20your%20shag&src=typd

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rate-your-shag-Alton/510249275723112

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/universities-in-uproar-over-rate-your-shag-facebook-pages-8635173.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/rate-your-shag-its-good-to-see-student-sex-is-as-bad-as-ever-8637400.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332599/Rate-Your-Shag-pages-Facebook-Loughborough-university-comment-conquests.html

http://news.sky.com/story/1097113/facebook-shuts-rate-your-shag-student-pages

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/controversial-harmful-and-hateful-speech-on-facebook/574430655911054

WOMEN, ACTION MEDIA
http://www.womenactionmedia.org/

CoP2 Practical: Study Task 1: 10.10.14 for 31.10.14

I have finally decided to settle and stick to the theme of lad culture. I will investigate it.

Personally I think it's a huge shame lad culture and rape culture have such a thin line with sexual harassment leading to a blur in these lines. I think most 'lads' are great guys and really need to reinvent what being a lad means and redefine the actions rewarding you lad points. 

In a generation where we are so liberal about what it means to be a man and a woman, a great thing meaning self expression and less forced roles, it is tricky to identify yourself and this has created a reaction. 

Some young males really want some set of rules to identify how to be a man, and why should they not? Girls need these too. But I think it is a human issue... The rules should be respect, tolerance and kindness. I think being a lad should be about having fun, a reaction to the stressy recession based world outside. University and alcohol go hand in hand with this escapism so it's not much of a surprise that uni lads are such a big thing at the moment. Sports teams and heavy drinking seem to be our generations way of both asserting dominance and gaining respect and loyalty from a pack. It is only natural. But there is a darker side. 

Humour and entertainment has always got some participants who vary whether their material becomes offensive and rude or just funny... Often this depends on the audience too. 

I want to explore other peoples opinions on this topic as my own experience and my peers are probably some of the most accurate as we are living in the midst of Lad Culture. 

I have put up a fb status asking for anyone's opinions and I plan to write a questionnaire that may get some better and more easily organised quantitive results. 

I have been researching online a lot because as this is a culture happening now it is not something to be found in many historical books... However I am sure there are some secondary research approaches I can use such as magazine articles and the past history of boys/men/lads (have things really got any worse?) 

I am collecting images and putting them on Pinterest as there is such a grand scale it would be hard to scroll through on this blog post: 

As a young girl living in Britain it is totally normal to experience sexual harassment vocally or physically and it can vary widely on a scale. We know it doesn't feel right... It makes us uncomfortable however there are no strict lines drawn in our society about what is or isn't allowed. The laws say a different thing: 

Cop

Task Estudio !

Walter Benjamin 'the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.' 

New technology introduces a different way of making art and design. 

Actively reshape culture - mongrel creative 

Don't have to make work that the rich gallery owners choose- the more you can get work out to ppl the more democratic the world comes.

Abstract - ad Reinhart

Retreat back to the cult of the individual- the aura of art 

The only way to understand it is to read up about it. 

In the digital world - with democratic possibilities people that reject digital and craft of making art 

People that rejecting into the cult of individualistic art aura 

View cinema collectively - negotiate together the humour etc of the film - create the meaning yourself.

Find something illustration that can link to5 quotes -galleries - illustration 

Collective projects due to internet

Famous illustration art challenged by Internet - artists who challenge aura art. 

Lecture

Sketchbook

I've been struggling with choosing a main idea for COP. There are so many options to explore and so many things in today's society that could be depicted really effectively in illustrations. 

I decided to try out the theme of promoting a healthy lifestyle and how companies make money off human's evolutionary and biological taste for salt and sugar. (Salt dehydrates and makes you crave water however our brains often mistake this for craving more salt. When we were hunting and gathering food that was scarce it was sugar and energy we desperately needed... this is not the case anymore but we still crave it as we did!) Companies get rich off this and the government often does not do much to restrain this as it is such a huge part of the economy.

I also think getting out into nature and exercising is great for physical and mental health but it is something that sadly in much of today's society is something we have to make time for and seems hard to fit in. This needs to change!

However I think I need to push myself to looking at a more socio-political issue, one that I care very strongly about, sexism. I mean sexism in the theme of men in power and I think unfortunately a lot of people are ignorant to how unfair society is. Most people feel that because women were not even allowed to vote, and now they can, and they have choice legally to do the same as men, that everything is now equal. However you only have to look at statistics to see it is clearly not equal, women's oppurtunities are often reduced by societies standards and opinions and that over the past 10 years a lot of improvements have slowed down. People are now wondering if things are getting worse, 'lad culture' and 'celebrity culture' and the media all impacting of girls and boys ideas of how to be. 

• I will explore the statistics that most of us are ignorant to. 
• I will also explore whether things in society have actually got worse or if it is just under more media attention. 
• I will also explore laws and whether we particularly as a young generation really understand what is 'banter' and what is actually within our human rights to refuse.
• I think I could use questionnaires and interviews to explore the opinions of those around me particularly in my generation and those younger and older than me. 

http://reportager.uwe.ac.uk/about.htm

CoP2 Practical: Study Task 1: 10.10.14 for 31.10.14

CoP2 Practical: Study Task 1: 10.10.14 for 31.10.14

Identify, by discovering, describing and recording, a theme / issue of meaning and relevance to you, drawing on one or more of the given themes and your Study Task 1 research (if appropriate): society, politics, history, culture and technology. Buy new sketchbooks in two different sizes, one should be small and always to hand with something to draw with.

Find a way to record your theme / issue in a way that interests you. Include observational drawing, but also use others ways of recording information. If it is hard to begin, then just begin somewhere... Significant subject matter is everywhere, everything you observe has a meaning attached. Look deeper, look closely, observe, record, interpret, re-interpret…

Produce a body of sketches / drawings / visual notes. Annotate your drawings, use notes or photographic records to record additional details. Research and draw, draw and research and think through your drawing.

Bring this work in development, to the CoP seminar on 24.10.14, then bring all work produced to the CoP practical session on 31.10.14. Aim to produce a minimum of 20 pages full of information – but this is a minimum guide amount as the approach to practice is highly individual.

The process is not defined, you may even become part of the project – but you are asked to go out on location to find your subject matter.

How to begin?

Identify a theme

Find a text or essay

eg: http://www.theguardian.com)

Identify a relevant location

Eg: museum, shopping centre, train station, park, prison…

Draw discover, describe, record

Keep drawing, then draw some more…

References:

William Hogarth

Indian Plains ledgers

Andrew Parker

Robert Weaver

Paul Hogarth

Contemporary practitioners:

Sue Coe

Francis Alys

Joe Sacco: Palestine

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

Peter Arkle (Peter Arkle News)

Illustration as Visual Essay, School of Visual Arts, New York

UWE: Bristol: Reportager http://reportager.uwe.ac.uk

Tacita Dean, sea drawings…

Paul Davis

Photographic practitioners of interest:

Eugene Atget

August Sander

Martin Parr

Sophie Calle