User:Mano Daniel Szollosi/Gradutation Project Proposal

RESEARCH LOG

CAPITALISM QUOTE

21st Oct

Saturday Night live TV show Complains of american insiders on iPhone 5 and the sarcastic reactions of the Chinese factory workers. Surprisingly there is no mention of the suicides of the factory workers in chine nor the anti-suicide nets around high building roof edges.

20th Oct

I watched through Michel Moore's Capitalism: a Love Story titled feature length documentary

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10th Oct

RSAnimate Slavoj Zizek

9th Oct

Conspiracy-theories by Kirby Ferguson

8th Oct

Funny enough I watched a video of Goldie the father of drum and bass who gave a very personal lecture of himself at TED. The theme is again the creativity that is in everybody but it is just rarely will be found and treated by the environment properly to rise.

I found a magazine called '360'. Unfortunately I do not yet understand it, but seems like it is connected to my theme. All of their cartoons are tagged with criticizing capitalism. http://www.360magazine.nl/cartoon

6th Oct

Found this on Facebook page.

5th Oct

Watched Woody Allen's new movie To Rome with love. The movie was as presumed pretty much under the the capabilities of the classic Woody Allen, unfortunately.

But there was one aspect that it resembled with my idea. Through two examples he showed that in everybody there is something why he could be picked up and become famous. The first character is a 'nobody' with an ordinary, predictable, structured life. Out of the blue the 'tabloids', the boulevard news pick him up and reports his every ordinary movement such as morning shaving.

The second one is another ordinary guy who worked all his life in a crematory. After every shift he takes a loooong shower to get rid of the inconvenient smells. So he sings operas under the shower. And suddenly someone discovers his extraordinary talent for opera singing, by coincidence. The discoverer tries to convince this man, that he must do something with his talent, he must show this to the world. The talented man tries but in front of audience with strangers he fails. But his mentor figures that he must continue how this talented man was singing all his life: under the shower. Just with a huge audience, so they build and place a shower on stage. This is how this man becomes famous.

It resembles with my idea that everybody has this inner, natural born-with-it talent. The question whether it will be discovered and pushed, whether it won't. It also tells that a lot depends on the environment and the circumstances. In my reading living in capitalism and running for the money can be a bad circumstance that unfortunately mislead a lot of people from realizing their dreams meaning they become a crematory rather than an opera singer.

4th Oct

I was doing groceries when this word FAIRTRADE popped up in front of me and made me wonder...seriously WTF is it...?! NON-SENSE

HW Aymeric Mansoux, for 2th of October

WORD TAG CLOUD

Conceptual

non-/anti-aesthetic

anti-capitalist

conspiracy-theory

labor / leisure

web2.0

PROJECT REVIEWS

http://www.artreview.com/forum/topics/santiago-sierra-dedicated-to-the-workers-and-unemployed

Inspiring works

Orwell, 1984

Zeitgeist series