So I hate to admit it, but I was snagged by the reality TV bug.\u00a0 Now I don’t often watch TV that much but, it is nice to have stuff on in the background when working on things.\u00a0 I like the project type shows, not the catty shows.\u00a0 This week I marathoned two shows, Work of Art and Project Runway Canada.<\/p>\n
Work of art is a new Bravo show, I watched the first episode when visiting my sister and was kinda disgusted by it.\u00a0 Granted I still think the idea of a competition show with art and art challenges is near impossible to judge and I do think that the artists were more judged on being “artsy” then producing art, but… I really liked a few of the contestants art when I caught a marathon near the end of the show.\u00a0 I loved the guy that won, Abdi Farah, and was rooting for him the whole time.\u00a0 His art most of the time grabbed me and mad me take notice.\u00a0 I hated the people who played at being the tortured artist.\u00a0 I could care less about those people, they really irritated me.\u00a0 One chick, Jamie Lynn, I wanted to strangle.\u00a0 She is not just “oh woe is me I’m an artist” but she also plays the victim.\u00a0 She wants to be the victim and she does nothing but manipulate.\u00a0 What irked me more, is how often she produced some moving work, though I must admit that I think more often then not it worked by accident.\u00a0\u00a0 I must say the show ended up better then it’s beginning, but the idea of judging art like that, it baffles me.<\/p>\n
Next up, Project Runway Canada.\u00a0 Now this again is something I saw in the beginning (of season 1) and had my criticisms. Love Iman, she is just plain awesome.\u00a0 Now the mentor, at first look all I could think was “Who’s the freak with the porno stash?”\u00a0 I must admit, at watching the last half of season 2 he is really good.\u00a0 Brian Baily isn’t Tim Gunn, but then, there is only one Gunn.\u00a0 Though I do think he is more of a mentor, and that is his job.\u00a0 I wanted to smack some of the contestants, when the experts or just the people judging your work tell you something is wrong, don’t fight with them.\u00a0 There is a lot of that, from people who go home of course :)\u00a0 Now there are my two faves Sunny and Jessica.\u00a0 Sunny is a happy Asian man with an epic mohawk and designs some amazing dresses that almost any woman would want to wear.\u00a0 Jessica is a BBW (Big Beautiful Woman) who is edgy but tasteful, in the shows I have seen she has made some really great dresses that could sometimes be considered art, and others something I would wear.\u00a0 Also thanks to looking up their names for this post I have now spoiled myself on the end of the show AND found out that the show is canceled, no season 3 is happening.\u00a0 Boo-Hiss!\u00a0 Jessica interests me a lot, she is a BBW who seems very confidant in herself and he skills.\u00a0 She is often being treated like trash by some of the other contestants, not all, but two who seem to have this attitude that because she is big she can’t design.\u00a0 It is never said, but the idea is clearly there, they say everything BUT we hate her cause she is fat.\u00a0 There is a huge stigma in the fashion world.\u00a0 I remember in one of the Project Runway shows the designers felt put upon and that it was a horrid task to design plus sized clothes for one challenge, and those women weren’t even that big.\u00a0 The idea of plus size models is also crazy since most plus sized models can still shop in regular stores, they rarely are 16 plus, and that is plus sized when it comes to shopping.\u00a0 When Milan made a rule that models had to fit into the lowest of the bmi (don’t get me started on how that is not the best scale) the fashion world had a fit!\u00a0 Karl Lagerfeld is known for being a fat hater.\u00a0 Look at designer clothes, or even trendy clothes, very rarely does that label go past 12.\u00a0 Most plus sized clothes are basic, and they are aimed at hiding the woman under clothing.\u00a0 Rather then, I don’t know, accentuating the good curves a woman has.\u00a0 Making well designed clothes in larger sizes doesn’t seem like such a hard concept to me, but to the people who run things, they seem to think it won’t sell or something.\u00a0 Now I am larger girl, but I am not so big that I can’t get clothes, even in my current small town.\u00a0 This designer Jessica I think would have trouble.\u00a0 She would have a hard time finding all those trendy edgy outfits she wears on the show around here.\u00a0 That to me is crazy, ESPECIALLY when I look around and see so many women bigger then the stores carry.\u00a0 I wonder, where do they shop?\u00a0 I used to work with a woman who was very large and wore nothing but leggings and size 40 tee shirts to work each day.\u00a0 Now this was an office manager, someone who should be dressing to match her job.\u00a0 She CLAIMED she was more comfortable like that.\u00a0 I know that was not the case, the case was she had no outlet to buy professional clothes, even if she could afford it (Psst Plus size clothes cost way more).\u00a0 I know the plus sized stores in the area, they didn’t carry her size.\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 Sure there is mail order, but when you are large ordering clothing is harder then ever, so what do you order? Elastic waisted pants and big baggy shirts.\u00a0 Pathetic.\u00a0 Now I know Jessica isn’t a plus sized designer, and that is not my point, even if I ranted off topic, my point is it is great to see a larger person on TV and have it be a positive image.\u00a0 So often the overweight person is the joke, not this girl.\u00a0 I love Sunny, and I love Jessica, and I am watching these reruns for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I hate to admit it, but I was snagged by the reality TV bug.\u00a0 Now I don’t often watch TV that much but, it is nice to have stuff on in the background when working on things.\u00a0 I like … Continue reading