Cultural Blending
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Cultural Blending is a large umbrella project for mixing together multiple cultures conceptually and physically. Conceptually, the multiple parts of cultures are fused together to emphasize relationships. Physically, multiple cultures are "welded" through projects like cBlends whereby clothes from 2 or more cultures are fused with the above conceptual algorithm applied.
The idea for this super-set project is to give direction to more specific and implementable sub-projects that people, communities and companies may latch onto more easily. Also, media and culturally specific issues help to define the Cultural Blending projects through various finite variables such as who is running a project, the specific cultures that are mixed, and goals.
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Conceptual
The intentional usage of modern production techniques in an abstract way, defines the way this project operates. While cut n paste is an earlier incarnation from computing, these operations are used in a much more complex sense, more accustomed to video editing and object-oriented programming.
Physical
Algorithms
Examples
50/50 Horizontal Hard Cut between Chinese Traditional Wedding Dress and Western Wedding Dress
70/30 30 degree diagonal transition between military jacket and london city worker neons
50% 90 degree weave between paisley work dress shirt and metallica "Enter Sandman" t-shirt
Logistics
- Setup cchost-based site for tracking designs, blends and other projects
Projects
- cBlends
- Objects
- Chopfork
- 50/50 hard-cut china-america
- Money
- weld together coins from different parts of the world
- Chopfork
Business
The idea of this project is to be sustainable and business-friendly. This project is larger than just fashion, but a community building project on a larger scale.
Old
Aliases
- Cultural Welding
- Cultural Mixing
