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.