Saturday, December 11, 2010

Legacy of a Fashionista.

My legacy cannot ever be defined until I'm gone.
Thought 1: Being in the major of fashion design I'm really intimidated because the fashion world is a cruel place. You need to get your name to come out of the mouths of wanting customers, but it's a tough road to that goal. Being so intimidated by what my future holds simply makes me strive to be even more determined and more unique in my designs. I am an 18 year old girl with a head full of ideas and thoughts that are individual and different from anyone else's.
Thought 2: I believe that everyone leaves behind some sort of legacy. That legacy might be that of a famous basketball player for the Miami Heat, or maybe you're a crazy scientist like Albert Einstein, or maybe you desinged the wedding dress of Carrie Underwood, or maybe you touched hearts through music like Aretha Franklin. Whatever your contribution is to the world at large you're leaving behind a memory of yourself so that after you are dead and gone you are remembered. Maybe you won't be remembered forever but someone somewhere will know of your legacy.
Thought 3 and 4: Pertaining to my legacy I think I will leave behind a designer's leagacy. I will leave all my wedding dresses, cocktail dresses, ruffled blouses, flared floral skirts, the original t-shirt with a touch of class, and any other design I might think up. Historical legacy? Not quite. I will never be known as General Tasse of the Armed Forces; I'll never defeat Lord Voldemort; I will never find the cure for cancer. I won't be historically known per se but I will have my place in history. Everything anyone does is history right? History is the branch of knowledge dealing with past events according to dictionary.com. So to answer my question, yes. History is everything anyone does at any given time. If it's in the past it's history. I am history now, and I always will be. So in a way I am leaving behind a historical leagcy.
Think about it.

Friday, December 3, 2010

1970-1989.

While there is much history that is known fact of the seventies and eighties, I like to learn the stuff that no one really knows. I looked up some events that happened in the 1970’s and 80’s. I thought it was interesting to look at history from a different approach. I mean floppy discs and Pac-Man is still a part of a history, just not the war and presidents part. 
1970's-
The Beatles break up, Elvis Presely dies, ESPN began broadcasting, the ultrasound was first used, The Star Wars movie was released, the Alaskan pipeline was completed, the Tangshan earthquake killed over 240,000 people, Microsoft was founded, abortion became legal, Richard Nixon is president, Disney World opened, floppy discs were invented, bar codes were introduced, Paul Getty was kidnapped, Kent State Shootings, first Earth Day, cigarette ads are banned from T.V., E-mail is invented, Watergate Scandal, Bicentennial, MRI is used, Jonestown Massacre, first test tube baby, and 11 people are trampled outside The Who concert.
1980's- 
Ronald Reagan is president, post-it notes are introduced, CNN and MTV hit television, John Lennon is assassinated, the Pope is shot by a crazy Turkish man, Pac-Man is introduced, Spain allows divorce, "cause this is thriller", liposuction is introduced, Tylenol scare, first artificial heart transplant, cabbage patch kids are released, CD's are released, AIDS is discovered, infomercials, crack cocaine starts to appear, Nintendo is introduced, Challenger explodes, Bruce Willis marries Demi Moore, world population reaches 5 billion, condom commercials start to appear on T.V., the first plutonium pacemaker is made, McDonald’s appears in the U.S.S.R., Human Genome project begins, fall of the Berlin Wall, and there's a worldwide ban on ivory.