Apparently I’m on Break?
Catsby & Pucky <3
Finally an entry.
*insert typical uni art & design student rant here*
I need a life.
Anyway, the world is getting too small, I really want to move out and start a new life on Mars or even better, on Saturn’s rings. Come on technology… I want to go and befriend aliens already.
Mass production enforces the low cost rapid production method onto its consumers, and they receive a positive response, as opposed to the art & design world who believe mass production takes away the credibility of hand-craftsmanship, that each product of its own is individual and unique. Mass production is somewhat celebrated meeting consumer needs. Consumers get sucked into this via skillful marketing of mass produced things, therefore de-individualizing themselves because they’re convinced that they look so much better as a clone of another person, probably someone who’s part of a chain reaction of admiration. Society dictates these kinds of things.
Idealistically, if there was to be one of everything, and everything everyone used is different, innovation would’ve advanced much further. I have a never-to-be-proven, exaggerated theory that if everyone lived in their own little world, and had to survive on their own, they’d find their own way about it using their instincts. How they make use of the resources around them would be different, their sleeping patterns may be nocturnal, they might like to eat trees rather than meat, etc. What I’m saying is that imagine the possibilities one could come up with. We’re all individuals with our own way at life, though the concept of mass production is promoting a single person’s ideal to be reflected onto thousands of people.
[Yes I'm aware that if everyone lived in their own world, there'd be no babies to even begin with.]
I guess a more optimistic way to look at the idea of mass production is that although people utilize something everyone else has,and in the same way, there’s a shred of individuality somewhere in each of those ”clones”. Everything has a flaw, or an exceptional quality unique only to them. The beauty of it comes from when we discover those impurities and such. We gain a sense of self accomplishment and maybe end up cherishing that something more.
[I think I'm mentally preparing myself so that it's less of an unpleasant experience when I do end up with a shitty-yet-so-damn-common Hyundai Excel as my first car.]
I’ve started writing around 8AM, so excuse me if I don’t make sense.. I probably didn’t know what I was saying. All I was meant to do here was simply blog, instead I did a follow up from my 20th Century Design essay from Industrial Design Studio class.
I repeat, I need a life.
Thanks for reading!
*catherine
