Trash Pants, Trash Pants, What you gonna do?

I received some great comments from the Trash Pants Company and they were interested in the trash pants I made. They are totally different types of pants, you know, seeing as how their pants are actually made of of fabric not milk bottles. But anyways, they directed me to one of their youtube videos they had made as I might be interested. It's pretty funny.



Thanks for looking and thanks to Leigh at Trash Pants for your interest!

The Presentation of the Trash Pants

So a few weeks ago , i presented my trash pants to my class. I had designed them to inhibit my movement so as to make me more aware of how much trash I created day to day so I had the class follow me on a walk. We went down the hall to the media center where they sell coffee and bagels among other foodstuffs and mediastuffs. I bought a bagel. Turned out to be a flavor I wasn't to fond of (cherry something). I bought the bagel because I wanted to do something that everyone could relate to on an everyday basis, buying a snack. I don't know if everyone in my class got it, but I heard a few "Oh, I get it".

I'm pretty happy with how the pants and their presentation came off, the assignment was to create an extension of your body and I'm not sure if I totally created a physical extension, but I believe that I was successful in creating an extension of your awareness of your body and what one person can create inadvertently.

Walking down the hall to the media center at the end of the hallway.


Buying my bagel.

Exhibiting the lack of range of motion. I couldn't sit down.

Thanks for looking!

Trash Pants Pt. 2

So I'm finally updating on some of my work for CFC I and the trash pants. I've done a bit of work since my last update, and a bit of work since I took these pictures.

All in all, they are coming together pretty well, I've tried on the legs I have done and it's going to work pretty much like I want it to I believe. Now it's on to the crotch and butt. That's going to be the hard part, but I think I'll be able to make it all work for me. I am running low on milk bottles though, might have to incorporate in some OJ and apple juice bottles.

And now a run down of what has transpired...

Cleaning all the milk bottles.
This was with out a doubt the worst smell I have ever smelled in my entire life. Several of these bottles have been in the recycling bin in our back yard since September. Yes, almost 5 months. It was horrible, I never want to drink milk again (or at least not for a day or two). I opened them all and let them air for about 20 minutes. As I was taking the lids off these things, I was literally gagging. And I don't mean literally in the "I literally laughed to death" crap, I literally gagged. My gag reflex kicked in. Any more bottles, and I would have thrown up.
Literally.

They smell little to none now that they meet their match of hot water and soap.

The first leg section, it ended up being the second to the bottom left leg section. Still figuring out the best way to go about making these pants at this point. Creative juices curtsy of Heineken.

Just a close up of the twist tie fastening system. I'm also using bent up paper clips in some sections to insure rigidity and lack of wearer movement.

Workin'.

Left leg finished (almost).

A look down the left leg.

So the trash pants are a little further developed now (the right leg is nearly done) and now it's on to the butt and crotchal area. I'll be working on the suspenders this weekend at home (I'm making them out of old bicycle inner tubes!).


Oh and not really related to art, but I'm excited about it so here you go, I signed on an apartment here in A2 for next school year this week. So much nicer than my current house. A picture of what will be my room below, also the living room.

The bedroom from the window looking towards the door, closet, and walk in bathroom! (Yes, walk in bathroom.)

The living room.

Also, the floor plan. My room is the larger bedroom in the back right! Woo walk in bathroom!

Thanks for reading and apologizes to my CFC prof, John Marshall, that I didn't get this information up right away yesterday!

Trash Pants Explained

Not My Trash Pants

Everyone wears pants, and everyone can relate to the plight of the trash pants.

What are pants anyway?

Pants.
I can't sleep because of pants. I can't sleep because all I can think about is pants. Why pants?
Why did I decided to make pants? Hell, I don't know. I decided to make pants because when this was all announced*, I thought, "PANTS!" It's that simple.

I've got the context and the form but not the concept. No concept of why pants. (I wanted to tell my prof, John Marshall, well why not pants! But that wasn't a good answer. But it would have been funny.)

FAAAANNNNNCCCCCYYYYYYYY PAAAAAANNNNNTTTTTSSSSSS!



Well at least I finally downloaded some Tegan & Sara. I heard "Back Into Your Head" on the radio once or twice and finally got some of their stuff. Great stuff.
I think I like chick rock. Oh well. It's really catchy. Check out their myspace to hear some stuff.

*the project is for CFC (concept, form, and context) II. It involves a larger than life add on to your body, made out of more or less, trash and recyclables. I'll detail my plans more thoroughly later when they are finalized.

I'm going to bed now, I needed to vent on PAAAANNNNTTTSSSSSS!!!!! Thank you for reading!