Curation Progress Report Week 3

     This week was super busy for me, but I still managed to get some things accomplished. I found music, more outfits, some hipster sayings, activities that people in this movement partake in and other miscellaneous anti-mainstream things.
     The most interesting piece that I curated this week would definitely have to be the music I found, because not a lot of people have heard these songs or like heard of these bands; and that's what makes them anti-mainstream because like no one knows about them..yet.
     There actually weren't any obstacles I had to overcome this week that was entirely about the curation itself. It was more of other things going on, like homework and projects for other classes and prom weekend was coming up, so I just had to manage my time and actually find time to search for good things to use and evaluate everything I found to make sure it was good enough to post.
     The next three steps are: organizing everything that I've found onto their respective boards, find some more things that not a lot of people know about, and finally put the finishing touches to the Pinterest I made for this curation project.
      I hope to finish this project off with a bang.

Curation Progress Report Week 2

       A week has now passed and it was a week filled with accomplishments. I actually decided to change my place of curation; so instead of a Tumblr blog, I am now curating on Pinterest. I felt it would be easier to use the different boards to organize the different items that I have curated. I designed a Pinterest page called HipstrPrspectiv (because it can only be 15 characters long) that currently has fourteen items pinned onto different boards, according to what category they fall into. I have made boards for: quotes, outfits, music, and accessories, beauty, photographs and miscellaneous items.
       The most interesting piece of information I found this week on my search for the epitome of hipster/anti-mainstream, has got to be the fact that people who are part of this movement know about things before everyone else does. Like they are able to find things in their lives, around the world, or on the internet before anyone else can, and when that song finally plays on the radio or the rest of the world finds out about that website or teenagers catch up to that fashion trend, they have already known about it for a while. They know about things before they're "cool."
       Right now, the biggest obstacle I have to overcome is finding music that hasn't been played on the radio yet. Music that hasn't really been heard of. And evaluate each song to make sure it doesn't beautify drugs and alcohol. This will be hard for me because I only listen to mainstream music so this should be a challenge.
       The next three steps are going to be: finding music that narrates this anti-mainstream movement, finding more written information, adding on to the categories I already have.
       I'm doing pretty well on finding photos and I hope it continues to be that way.

Curation Progress Report Week 1

       This week, I accomplished a couple of things. First, I got my topic approved: the story of the anti-mainstream movement of the generation, also known as "hipsters," and how to become one. Then, I picked where I was going to build this curation: designing a blog on Tumblr called The Hipster Perspective. Next, I searched for pictures, quotes, information and anything else that had even the smallest thing to do with my topic. I collected some photos that I acquired from the internet that I may or may not post on my blog. I have to Evaluate these photos before I post, them to make sure they are worth posting. These photos include: outfits, music, activities and sayings.
       The most interesting piece of information I found this week were the different opinions and definitions of what people think anti-mainstream means or how they perceive and consider something hipster. Looking at other people's blogs on Tumblr and the things that pop up on Google searches, have been really interesting and there are so many definitions from so many different people out there about how and what they categorize as anti-mainstream/hipster.
       Like I said above, there are already so many perspectives of the anti-mainstream movement of the generation out there, so the biggest obstacle I need to overcome is to pick and choose the photos, outfits, music, activities and sayings that epitomize my view of the anti-mainstream movement. What I think exemplifies what it means to be a hipster and how to be one. My curation will be entirely about what a 17 year old girl, living in the north shore, thinks is hipster. And even though there are so many hipster things all over the interent, I haven't really seen something that teaches someone how to become a hipster. It will be challenging to put together enough information for someone who has no idea what this movement is and to narrate to them everything that comes with and how to live this kind of lifestyle; and to do it in an organized and easy manner.
       The next steps from here are: finding more music that I consider anti-mainstream, acquiring more written information about what this movement is about and not just posting pictures about it, and lastly, putting some sort of step-by-step way of how to become a hipster.
       Currently, the project has been going well, but I need to organize the items that I have started curating into a meaningful way.