this graph

is meant to explain it all :s

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Can we be almost summed up culturaly by one thing?


a haristyle?

a tattoo?

Fish and Chips?

have we all become the steriotype.
Is it possible to strip this back?

interwoven

Interesting concept, that different womens cultures can be deliberatley interwoven, like fabric.

cultural switch

Amherst, MA - Mead Art Museum at Amherst College presents The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today, on view through June 8, 2008. This exhibition considers cultural identity in a global society. It explores the effects of displacement, alienation, exile, diaspora, transnationalism, hybridity, and cosmopolitanism. The title The Third Space is taken from the work of the influential cultural and post-colonial theorist Homi Bhabha; it refers to the interstices between colliding cultures, a liminal space “which gives rise to something different, something new and unrecognizable, a new area of negotiation of meaning and representation.”

fixed cultural identity

What is culture?
The dictornary says this

culture (WAY OF LIFE)
noun [C or U]
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time:
youth/working-class culture
She's studying modern Japanese language and culture.
See also subculture.

cultural
adjective
relating to the habits, traditions and beliefs of a society:
The USA is often accused of cultural imperialism.
Australia has its own cultural identity, which is very different from that of Britain.
cultural diversity/differences
cultural heritage (= ways of living and thinking that have existed for a long time in a society)

culturally
adverb
a culturally diverse society

culture (ART)
noun [U]
music, art, theatre, literature, etc:
You won't find much culture in this sleepy little town, I'm afraid!
popular culture (= the books, music, etc. liked by most people)

cultural
adjective
relating to music, art, theatre, literature, etc:
cultural activities
a cultural centre (= a place with a lot of museums, theatres, etc.)
a cultural desert/wasteland (= a place without museums, theatres, etc.)

cultured
adjective
describes someone who has had a good education and knows a lot about art, music, literature, etc.

counter-culture
noun [C or U]
a way of life and a set of ideas that are completely different from those accepted by most of society, or the group of people who live this way

The only problem appears to be that culture isnt fixed.

It belnds into other cultures, and seems far to easy to wipe out in certain instances.

Trends and cultures tend to go hand in hand, especily in youth culture and student culture. This toy, this top, changes every week but is essential to the cultures survival.

Religon and culture seems to have a corrolation in many countrys. But even religion people can reject. But we all fit into at least one culture.

If you were born in the west and raised here, you tend to have a western veiwpoint. But there will always be exceptions to this rule.

also this website is pretty good

documents things,
like shops and gas meters

Bulgarian "Squat Shops"

In the late 80's, private ownership of production was legalized in Bulgaria. Among the first businesses to appear were these small "Squat Shops," operated out of floor-level cellar windows. Despite more legitimate storefront space becoming available, these small portals remained operational and lucrative - miniature convenience stores catering to the cigarette fix of the passing pedestrian or the midday thirst of those waiting on bus stops, for which patrons have no objection to stooping to street level. An idiosyncratic, now common element of the Bulgarian capital, over time the shops have evolved elaborate displays, framing the small street level openings with bottles of alcohol, coffee, and cartons of cigarettes, often in eye-catching bright colors.

oh god yes

I have always liked shop fronts.
god no to asda, tkmaxx and all that shite.
your good ol round the corner scabby shop front.

100 abandoned

houses

look reserch!

Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz
cast themselves in bees wax, lit the candle and let themself melt over the course of the exhabition.

has anyone else seen this

its X-Factor for art
sigh

Its not going to staop me applying with my shoddy second rate "art"
Saatchi's best of British

oh goodness

I havent been online in ages.

Anyhoo for all you that are interested in
visual arts
writing
getting a job
look here

click

http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/private_public/