Graduate Rights Attracts The Attention Of The NBC

Graduate Rights Attracts The Attention Of The NBC

Graduate Rights Attracts The AttentOne of the phone book, newspaper, 20 shopping bags, 15 grocery bags of paper and three thrift stores clothing worn UCF student Erin Gordon attention of NBC.
Gordon, who got only a few weeks ago with a degree in photography, never imagined a class assignment would end showcase NBC's famous Rockefeller Center in New York - but it happened.

Gordon said he did and described the clothes on the task, the social conscience of its image, culture and social class. His goal was to create something that people actually want to use, but it is completely "green" process.

Gordon bought the dress used bases from a thrift store, and revised them in his unique way to make all fully recyclable.

"I feel fulfilled and validated as an artist, and I'm very excited to be taken seriously so young," said Gordon.

What caught the attention of the NBC was not only sexy and chic styles of designs, but the fact that under the company "Green is Universal" initiative.

Tricia Conti with NBC says that their initiative is to provide any environmental point of view of the business does. Conti said that the theme of Earth this year, the week has been "recycling".

"We want our viewers and consumers to rethink uses everyday objects," she said.

Each mode of Gordon created is unique not only in style but also physical. A dress - a high collar, the black and white number with a layer of small square and rectangular - is made from old newspapers. A short, flared skirt with a blue punch of yellow in the upper part is made of different bags. The third - a strapless, knee, pale yellow - Gordon set up the pages of a directory. The final piece displayed at Rockefeller Center was a brown robe made of crumpled paper grocery bags for a crushed texture.

The project cost about $ 30 Gordon and ten hours of work to create dresses. When the project ended, Gordon decided to continue his recovery process from a list of dresses on Etsy.com, a website for people to market their handmade stuff.

Gordon did not know Etsy.com partnership with NBC to launch the "art of recycling" in the contest for Earth this year, the week.

Several weeks after the end of the project, Gordon received the e-mail to NBC. He, however, initially it was a hoax. Only Gordon received an email from Etsy, too, that he realized that he wanted to own NBC models.

"We thought they were funny and cutting edge - a perfect visual example of reuse," said Conti.

Gordon said she is grateful for the exposure she has received and hopes it will be useful when she refers to competitive graduate programs.

Laine Wyatt, Professor Gordon's Image, culture and class society UCF Daytona campus, "said Gordon clothes and photographs were so professional and helped capture the attention on NBC.

Wyatt said he hoped that the success of Gordon tells incoming students as a significant work in the classroom can be.

"I like the idea that students come and kiss the apprenticeship system and the confidence that teachers really want to succeed," said Wyatt. She hopes that students really focus and see the work they are assigned a value.

Wyatt said that while other students in the class have similar projects, an opportunity was both a mixture of luck and Gordon put on the market. It also encourages students, Gordon does, to facilitate its own success.

"You just put yourself out there and really use the Internet to your advantage because you never know who in the world can come to your work in net," said Gordon. "And in many cases it is free exposure, so you have nothing to lose, and you can just lucky. "

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