Better Lives Blog Post 4
Healthy Youth Vibes / Fitness, Subcultures and Personal Expression at home isolation time / Fitness at Corona Times Stay-at-Home Styling
Outfit details: bucket hat, scarf turned face mask, camisole, sweatpants, trainer socks and trainers.
Since Lock down/Social Distancing/Quarantine started I have been exercising at home. I follow at home workouts by Maddie Lymburner on one of her YouTube channels called MadFit. She posts new, 10+ minute, daily workouts and I use them most days (sometimes I’m too lazy to exercise or my body aches too much).
I have been listening to a lot of rap, r&b and pop music lately. The music lifts my spirits which is definitely needed right now as it’s so easy to fall into a pit hopelessness and fear for all of our lives. I wear my bucket hat when I am exercising because 1) why not? I wanna look cute while working out and 2) when I’m following the MadFit videos, I listen to my music and I feel like I’m in a music video. It sounds silly and goofy but it’s fun and it helps to give my days some sort of flavour and keeps me from dwelling on the amount of deaths that are going on around us and the uncertainty of our futures (depressing way of ending this a paragraph, I know, sorry).
I have turned one of my scarves into a mask. I could order a mask from Amazon but I do not order from them because of the articles that I’ve seen of how they treat their employees. (I going to buy one of those sturdier masks, for the long-term, but I’m going to order from another place.)
One of the three pillars of the Betters Live project is Social Responsibility and being in the middle of a pandemic Social Responsibility should be on everyone’s minds. It most definitely is on my mind. Whether that’s by only leaving the house once a week to go grocery shopping and only ordering stuff that are necessities. This is all in an effort to help relieve the NHS, slow down and stop the spreading of the Corona virus and to save as many lives as possible.
This is all to say that the Corona virus has amplified how socially responsible I am and how much more socially responsible I can be. Especially with us not knowing what the future holds.
This is going to affect how I get my supplies for my work in the future, for university and for my career. It’s looking like we’re going to be social distancing for the next few years (this is what I’ve read and it feels like a very likely possibility) so the manufacturing of the materials that I need to illustrate might slow down and make it harder for me to buy them.
Digital showcasing is becoming more and more mainstream, Fashion Week London (Previously known as Mens Fashion Week London) will be showcasing completely online for the year 2020.
Yves Saint Laurent are not showing at any of the 2020 Fashion Weeks and going to “take ownership of its calendar and launch its collections following a plan conceived with an up-to-date perspective, driven by creativity.”. This basically means that they will be showcasing their work when they want to.
Everyday more and more people, companies and events are pivoting to being showcasing digitally which makes sense given that we cannot congregate in large crowds.
This encouraging for those of use who might not get the same publicity as our peers, when we graduate, and so with the internet we can showcase our work to anybody who comes across it and hopefully they would want to patronise us.
Better Lives will help me to better do my last project of the academic year ‘Spatial Interaction’ by thinking about how people be able to interact with my work not that they won’t be able to see it face to face.
My peers and I are all grappling with what’s going on right now and continuously adapting to the changes that are being made on our courses and will most likely be made in the future. We all know that life as we know it has changed and will carry on changing so we are all preparing ourselves and changing our future plans so as to not be caught off-guard something else changes, which it most probably will.