Hair - the musical
2. Places to go
Eindhoven, Netherlands
3.People to meet
Thomas Vailly - A young and cool chap who melts hair and transforms it into a leatherlike bioplastic. He calls it “Metabolic Factory” or “Contemporary Vanitas”.
An article on Designboom.
4. Question of the day
Hair = fertilizer: a product that puts hair into the ground, where it acts as a fertilizer and weed deterrent.
Hair= cleaner for oil spills
Hair = a chair
Hair= soy sauce from human hair
Ioana Cioanca makes clothes out of her hair. Each time she brushes her hair, she gathers those who fell, and when she has enough, she washes, spins and dyes them. Just like wool.
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe would say:
“Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
All women in the magic of her locks;
And when she winds them round a young man’s neck,
She will not ever set him free again.”
Vidal Sassoon the movie and an ad he made
Vidal had a goal:
“to get down to the basic angles of cuts and shapes.”
“I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair”.
Margaret Vinci Heldt - the lady who invented thebeehive hairdo in the 1960’s. A hairstyle that would hold its shape for a week!
Do you know what she used to tell her clients? “I don’t care what your husband does from the neck down, but I don’t want him to touch you from the neck up”...
Jean-Paul Gaultier and his Amy Winehouse-inspired show.
Hair possesses powerful symbolic and evocative properties. Hair science
In some places of the world, some people say that a person’s spirit lives in his / her hair.
The inanimate can live through a multiplicity of meaning: a symbol, mirror of ourselves.
6. Homework
Today, you will write/design your own story with hair. Metamorphosing hair from one form to another. First chop off some hair (your own or some other’s) and go head. Cut, colour, texture, wave, mix, braid, whip it into shape, #dowhateveryouwant... But let magic come out of it!
I dedicated the previous stone story assignment to animals. This one goes to surfers and sea lovers in general. It's a story well known, This is also a kind of a tribute to Garrett McNamara. This american surfer is such a crazy and courageous guy. I like him for that and also because he's a foreigner who really loves Portugal, maybe more than some Portuguese does sometimes but I understand that he found his little paradise here and some of us live quite in hell! Anyway, I love the sport, the sea and my long hair. Here it is! It's my hair, LOL!!
I have something to share! My father was an hairdresser. When I was a child he took me with him to the "beauty salon" many times. The techniques were very different from now. This is my father in the 70's doing a rehearsal on a model for a hair Beauty Festival. He was good at what he did. This homework is interesting because even if I grew around hair it's the first time I am looking a it in a different way.
7. Extras
Chairs with hair by Dejana Kabiljo
A chandelier with hair
Sonya Clark - human hair threads " Rooted and Uprooted, made of canvas and thread (2011)"
Ioana Cioanca makes clothes out of her hair. Each time she brushes her hair, she gathers those who fell, and when she has enough, she washes, spins and dyes them. Just like wool.
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe would say:
“Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
All women in the magic of her locks;
And when she winds them round a young man’s neck,
She will not ever set him free again.”
Vidal Sassoon the movie and an ad he made
Vidal had a goal:
“to get down to the basic angles of cuts and shapes.”
“I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair”.
Margaret Vinci Heldt - the lady who invented thebeehive hairdo in the 1960’s. A hairstyle that would hold its shape for a week!
Do you know what she used to tell her clients? “I don’t care what your husband does from the neck down, but I don’t want him to touch you from the neck up”...
Jean-Paul Gaultier and his Amy Winehouse-inspired show.
Hair possesses powerful symbolic and evocative properties. Hair science
In some places of the world, some people say that a person’s spirit lives in his / her hair.
The inanimate can live through a multiplicity of meaning: a symbol, mirror of ourselves.
6. Homework
Today, you will write/design your own story with hair. Metamorphosing hair from one form to another. First chop off some hair (your own or some other’s) and go head. Cut, colour, texture, wave, mix, braid, whip it into shape, #dowhateveryouwant... But let magic come out of it!
I dedicated the previous stone story assignment to animals. This one goes to surfers and sea lovers in general. It's a story well known, This is also a kind of a tribute to Garrett McNamara. This american surfer is such a crazy and courageous guy. I like him for that and also because he's a foreigner who really loves Portugal, maybe more than some Portuguese does sometimes but I understand that he found his little paradise here and some of us live quite in hell! Anyway, I love the sport, the sea and my long hair. Here it is! It's my hair, LOL!!
I have something to share! My father was an hairdresser. When I was a child he took me with him to the "beauty salon" many times. The techniques were very different from now. This is my father in the 70's doing a rehearsal on a model for a hair Beauty Festival. He was good at what he did. This homework is interesting because even if I grew around hair it's the first time I am looking a it in a different way.
7. Extras
Chairs with hair by Dejana Kabiljo
A chandelier with hair
Sonya Clark - human hair threads " Rooted and Uprooted, made of canvas and thread (2011)"
Human hair necklasses by Kerry Howley
Hair and skin on Pinterest
A movie Fur - an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus suggested by
And...
And Beloved Hair
Glasses made of hair
Hong Chun Zhang - fascination with hair
And...
Hong Chun Zhang - fascination with hair
