Project Progressing

Weve thought alot about our project moving forwards, showing the differences between blondes and brunettes.we thought about having the imvu characters which we are creating as complete opposites of ourselves, maybe making them so that they are a reflection of what we want to try and do in our lives but are too afraid maybe, or dont know what we would end up looking like. For instance, i would really love to dye my hair red or brunnette, but i am worried that i might look odd. Also there are things that we could change about our appearances that once again we wouldn't imagine going to have surgery on. Online, with our imvu avatars, or characters, we can show that you can be anyone you want, you can even change parts of your body, make yourself younger, etc, and so in this way we could reinforce the idea that you can lie about whatever you want online.

Dumb Blonde?

Blondes Have More Fun.

But do you know that blondes apparently have more fun as they are seen as more promiscuous and easy? Nice. But before you brunnettes use this little bit of info as fuel against us know that Wikipedia says that the reason blondes get this horrible and (wrong) information is because throughout history blonde people have been seen as more desirable as most people had dark hair and darker skin. So blondes were seen as prettier as brunettes simply because there were fewer of them, they were different from the norm.

"Canadian anthropologist Peter Frost, under the aegis of University of St Andrews, published a study in March 2006 in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior that says blond hair evolved very quickly at the end of the last Ice Age by means of sexual selection.[4] According to the study, the appearance of blond hair and blue eyes in some northern European women made them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males. The study argues that blond hair was produced higher in the Cro-Magnon descended population of the European region because of food shortages 10,000-11,000 years ago. Almost the only sustenance in northern Europe came from roaming herds of mammoths, reindeer, bison and horses and finding them required long, arduous hunting trips in which numerous males died, leading to a high ratio of surviving women to men. This hypothesis argues that women with blond hair posed an alternative that helped them mate and thus increased the number of blonds.
According to the authors of The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994), blond hair became predominant in Europe in about 3000 BC, in the area now known as Lithuania, among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers though the trait spread quickly through sexual selection into Scandinavia when that area was settled because men found women with blond hair attractive.[5][6]"


We've used this idea in our project to show a woman searching for perfection, starting off by changing her hair, to a BLONDE, of course...

Project

Right, so, time to think about a final performance for virtuality and performance, and me and Amy have formed a blonde group, as always agreed. We are talking mostly about how easy the internet is to lie on and how you could be anyone on the internet as long as you knew how to lie. We thought we could base our idea on the idea of an avatar based communication program called IMVU, which lets you talk to anyone around the world, through the internet. You can create your own character and become a person on IMVU to talk to others, make friends, or even lovers i suppose. We are thinking we could record some of IMVU, maybe a conversation between the virtual amy and myself, with the virtual characters lying to each other and us acting out a script in front of the filmed characters, being ourselves, talking for real, or expressing how wrong the writing of our characters' really is, compared to our own views. This is obviously just, our first thinking, we will update it!!!