Update

Hey guys,

I think everyone knows what they're meant to be doing, and hopefully it's going well. Just in case you don't here's the list we made of different sections we're in charge of researching in more depth:

Fashion - Jenny
Food & Drink - Emma
Literature - Chrissie
Physical/Verbal - Jed
Toys & Material things - Dan
Stationary - Marine
Television/Film & Audio - Kitty

We just need to try and get as much stuff this week as we can, then we can move onto the more rewarding stages - layout, design etc. Ask your friends if they have any interesting/funny stories. If people still have the things at home see if you can persuade them to send it up.

Within all the sections we're looking at doing a 'Fanatics' sub section. So look to see if the fad is still going, had any funny/shocking stories, featured in the news, any old men taken it too seriously and now are organising UK Pokemon play...

Me and Jed had a quick chat with Kieron and Ben last Friday. They seemed positive about how things were going, and think it could turn out really well. I think we're going to have to meet again this week to have another brainstorm session about how exactly we're going to present the thing, both conceptually and visually. We're on the way though!

They suggested we maybe look at what the whole fad thing says about our society, material culture etc. Having this angle really anchors down the projects and gives it more of a reason to investigate if that makes sense?

So some other things that we should all research over the next day are:

- Fetishism
- Phenomenon
- Material Culture
- Taxonomy

See if you can get an overview of these topics, how they would relate to what we're doing and if there are any interesting points/arguments that we can bring into the publication.

They also suggested a couple of artists:

A book called 'The Value of Things - Neil Cummings'

And an artist called 'Mark Dion' who had something called 'Excavation' on at the Tate Britain, where as I understand he excavated things from the north and south side of the Thames and then anally catalogued, it something along those lines..!

Hope it's all going well! When's good for people to meet this week? Maybe after the Lecture tomorrow?