The Semester is ending. Soon. Ish

Yay so my design semester has come to a close thank muthaf**king JESUS! JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL! I am so delirious, and so tired and all that is between me and vacation is 1 written final, but IDGAF anymore. Look that up if you don’t know Chris, it’s quite handy of an Ac to use when angry at everything. Oh and Ac is the abreve for Acronym, and Abreve is the abbreviation of abbreviation. OH! and Lady GaGa says she is going to Marry the Night. 

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Over it.

My generation loves to say “over it.” It is our thing. To be over things. And in such soon-to-be-great tradition, I am over it. As in this semester. Everyone says it gets harder, and quite honestly I say bring it, I am ready, but not as of this very minute. As of this very minute I am over it and want to go home and not think about anything. How does Parsons expect me to be inspired when all I can think about is how much I want to be a gay teen suicide statistic right about now. Too soon? Probably, but I am who I am and offend just about anyone who does anything. I can be charming I suppose, but let’s be real, it’s 4 am and I haven’t slept, would you be charming? Over it.

Moods and such.

Here is a preview of my mood board. She is very moody. But seriously, dystopian future idea running rampant and all that I can think about. 

My figure style. Styled.

This is the style I have developed over the semester. It is heavily inspired by the work of Achraf Amiri. They are quite skinny and sick. Ano-Fashia

Achraf Amiri’s work above.

Can’t Deal

I know I am supposed to post about school. I really do. But honestly, school is like ruining my life. Not really, I love it and when I am sewing and constructing I am smiling on the inside, even with all the pin pricks, but other than that school ruins my life. Quite honestly, digital class is not my thing, I am bad at it, and I can’t even deal. I just want to see my boyfriend, is that so bad? But alas I can’t because I am blogging.

The title page and everything

So my title page is something I am using in my trend spotting class as well as this class. I think it makes sense because I am trying to find a direction for fashion in trend spotting, and as a future designer this is so applicable to me. Basically I am shooting two models with one photo. HAHA fashion joke. But seriously, moldy decay and urban dystopia. Fashion.

Where to begin. 5 Posts. JK 6

I miscounted in my eagerness to finish. That is what I am telling myself. I am currently at the computer lab at Arnold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, and I feel as if my body is going to fall apart. This semester has been total and complete insanity! I have learned so much, cried so much, worked so much and pretty much have done everything so much—except for sleep of course. As a Parsons Fashion Student, I gave up Sleep So Much, actually scratch that, more like, Sleep at At All, in order to be here. I am recounting my lost hours and so here goes. Last Week: 74 Hours without sleep. Yes as in 3 days. This past weekend I stayed up from saturday through Monday for 56 hours, 12 hours yesterday and now 12 hours today + 1 Hour after class is over. All in all, too damn much. This isn’t normal. I feel like I need to say that. It is absolutely not normal for anyone to stay up that much and still not finish all his work. Also, Dear Parsons School of Fashion, in an attempt to lessen my work load by combining classes and cutting some hours out as well as an attempt to let me “go to the movies” you have actually done something far worse. You have made it impossible for any of my instructors to teach me anything in that short amount of time and you have also made sleepless nights even more daunting. I hope you are happy, because if I drop dead, it really isn’t on me. Truly it isn’t. It will be your fault. Maybe I can die in a blaze of tired glory like that fierce model who died on the runway from lack of food and exhaustion. OMG she sounds just like me and every other fashion student right now. DEATH!

Comic Books and How they make money

So my friend Adrian, who I may or may not have mentioned in previous posts, just asked me why I am always reading so many comic books. Then he picked one up, had no idea what was going on, looked at all the pages, turned to the back cover, saw the price tag and just said,

“So if this book is 2.99 USD, how does it make Marvel any money? It has got to be mad expensive printing semi-glossy, fully colored pages!”

Of course I immediately knew the response to his question. But I am not sure everyone else does. Essentially Marvel makes so much money already off of their other side-ventures (film, television, toys, random swagg, fanboys) that the last thing they have to do is worry about “making money.” But in all serious, how do just comic book sales make up for themselves? Firstly, any seasoned comic-nerd worth their salt (get it? Seasoned and salt hahaha I kill myself, and oddly enough this could totally go into a comic book as a nerdy, corny joke!) will tell you that as you progress into story lines, especially some of the stuff in the past 15 years, the harder it gets to source new, interesting and innovative story lines. So what do they do? Collabo of course! (Collabo = collaborate for those of us not keeping with youthful vernacular.) Often times characters from the same studio, taking Marvel for instance, will also live in the same “universe” (And don’t even try to start on alternate universes and alternate earths for the fanboys[girls] out there!) which is essentially living in the same Earth continuum. Which means that Spider Man[Marvel] lives in Manhattan and so do the Fantastic Four[Marvel] so if all five of them were to go to Trader Joe’s on 14th Street to go shopping for food, they would totes meet up and see each other.

But Miko, how does this pertain to Money + Marvel Making It? Okay so back to the point. When you have characters that all occupy the same space, invariably, cataclysmic events that shake the entire world, and even sometimes the fabric of the universe itself, it can’t just effect Spider Man and NOT the Fantastic Four. So then, being the smart comic book writer that you are, you make the Fantastic Four comic and and the Spider Man comic focus on the same story line and even make cameos in each other’s books! This allows the writers to essentially use the same “material” just spin it from different points of view, essentially having one giant story board for literally 10+ comic books. And by doing this, fanboys and girls everywhere will want to know what happened to their favorite heroes while they were in the other books, so they have to go buy those comics. But oh no, you can’t just jump into another comic you have no experience in, so you have to buy all the ones that came before it, etc etc. In the end, the comics do, I promise you, pay for themselves. It’s quite the machine really.

But quite honestly, these men and women, illustrators and writers and designers are not in it for the money. Yes it is a good, stable paying job, but more than that, these people are fans themselves, perhaps the ultimate fans if you ask me. They are so enamored by their heroes, these legendary super heroes who represent ideas more than anything, that they took it upon themselves to keep the story going, to not let their childhood heroes fade away. It’s a labor of love, much like any artistic field. We don’t do it because it’s stable. I didn’t go to design school, Parsons, because I wanted to be the richest person in the world, I came here because fashion design is what I love to do. Making beautiful works of art from raw “fabric” is my passion, my love. So even if the comic took 10 USD to produce and it retails for 2.99 USD, I am sure they would still make it (just not as often mind you!)

But Miko, that doesn’t really make sense. If it is so expensive to produce a comic and then distribute it, AND really, in the end, it’s all banking on the idea that you might buy multiple comics, how does your system work?

Easy. Disney. That’s right, Disney owns Marvel everything, for the nice price of 4 Billion. So if you can afford to shel out 4 billion dollars, you can make expensive comics and sell them cheap. Because Disney. And Zac Efron. Justin Bieber?

But Miko, story lines in DIFFERENT books don’t account for