Thursday, January 29, 2009
Research paper proposition
Since I began skateboarding I've been fascinated with the rise and fall in popularity that the sport has endured, from it's roots as a hobby alongside the hula hoop to it's rise and fall in the 60's and 70's then the revival in the early 80's, downfall in the late 80's, being re-defined in the early 90's then booming in popularity in 2000 to where it is at today. I'd like to find an artistic link between the fluctuation in it's popularity and it's saturation in the media now where lots of technology is involved in the indujsty.
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Hi Rob, The changes in popularity is clear but what you are thinking of linking it to is not. What are some of the connections you are interested in exploring that relate to or contribute to the rise and fall and rise again of the popularity of the sport? Were there regional differences? Population changes? Heroes in the sport that emerged and caused a ripple? What does the graphic of change look like (can it be mapped?)? What does the topography of the change look like (and can it be built and skated??? --- just a thought...).
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