This has renewed my faith in the goodness of people.
I think I'll do this one day. Or lots of days.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/arebeautiful/
This is a beautiful idea.
Before you read the rest of this entry, I think you should go to the website and discover for yourself what it's about. I think it will be much more pleasurable that way than if you read my reactions. Then come back and read what I wrote. And do it. If anyone wants to do it with me, let me know.
In the past week, this has been done in:
rehovot, israel
Palm Coast, Florida.
Lancaster, New York
Marshfield, Massachussetts
Charleston, Illinois - Eastern Illinois University, Andrews Hall, 7th Floor bathroom
Changi Airport & West Coast Park, Singapore
SINGAPORE.
Nova Scotia, Canada
houston, texas
pine bush, new york, usa
NYC, NY *my personal favorite story, read nov. 6th posting*
east lansing, michigan.
And there are probably lots of other people (i'll soon be one of them) that have seen this and done it but didn't write about it in the community. People are doing this all over the world. This is amazing.
Update:
This is just a community dedicated to a project that is much bigger than the LJ community itself. Here's the projects website:
http://www.you-are-beautiful.com/
They will GIVE you free stickers that say "you are beautiful" on it if you want to do it.
To receive your FREE stickers, send a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope to:
You Are Beautiful
PO Box # 220175
Chicago, IL 60622
USA
I need awhile for this to sink in. Thank you to all these people.
Another update:
Heres the mission statement.
You Are Beautiful is a simple, powerful statement which is incorporated into the over absorption of mass media and lifestyles that are wrapped in consumer culture.
This statement and the context in which someone finds it gives meaning to its message and purpose to this project.
The intention behind this project is to reach beyond ourselves as individuals to make a difference by creating moments of positive self realization in those who happen across the statement: You Are Beautiful.
Intention is the most important aspect of the You Are Beautiful project in its idea of purity. Graffiti and street art are an act not a style, but stylistically large corporations have been copying and using the 'urban decay' look to sell products.
It all comes down to intention. Nothing is sacred. Everything that has a perceived value becomes commodified. Companies hire out teenagers to slap up stickers and posters, and pay their fines when they are caught by the police. This is not street art, but a marketing campaign.
The reasons why street artists are doing what they are doing, in the way that they are doing, is not simply to question their surroundings; but to provide alternative perspectives, meanings, or values to those of consumerism.
Advertising elicits a response to buy, where this project elicits a response to do something. The attempt with You Are Beautiful is to create activism instead of consumerism.
You Are Beautiful uses the medium of advertising and commercialization to spread a positive message.
Projects like these make a difference in the world by catching us in the midst of daily life and creating moments of positive self realization.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/arebeautiful/
This is a beautiful idea.
Before you read the rest of this entry, I think you should go to the website and discover for yourself what it's about. I think it will be much more pleasurable that way than if you read my reactions. Then come back and read what I wrote. And do it. If anyone wants to do it with me, let me know.
In the past week, this has been done in:
rehovot, israel
Palm Coast, Florida.
Lancaster, New York
Marshfield, Massachussetts
Charleston, Illinois - Eastern Illinois University, Andrews Hall, 7th Floor bathroom
Changi Airport & West Coast Park, Singapore
SINGAPORE.
Nova Scotia, Canada
houston, texas
pine bush, new york, usa
NYC, NY *my personal favorite story, read nov. 6th posting*
east lansing, michigan.
And there are probably lots of other people (i'll soon be one of them) that have seen this and done it but didn't write about it in the community. People are doing this all over the world. This is amazing.
Update:
This is just a community dedicated to a project that is much bigger than the LJ community itself. Here's the projects website:
http://www.you-are-beautiful.com/
They will GIVE you free stickers that say "you are beautiful" on it if you want to do it.
To receive your FREE stickers, send a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope to:
You Are Beautiful
PO Box # 220175
Chicago, IL 60622
USA
I need awhile for this to sink in. Thank you to all these people.
Another update:
Heres the mission statement.
You Are Beautiful is a simple, powerful statement which is incorporated into the over absorption of mass media and lifestyles that are wrapped in consumer culture.
This statement and the context in which someone finds it gives meaning to its message and purpose to this project.
The intention behind this project is to reach beyond ourselves as individuals to make a difference by creating moments of positive self realization in those who happen across the statement: You Are Beautiful.
Intention is the most important aspect of the You Are Beautiful project in its idea of purity. Graffiti and street art are an act not a style, but stylistically large corporations have been copying and using the 'urban decay' look to sell products.
It all comes down to intention. Nothing is sacred. Everything that has a perceived value becomes commodified. Companies hire out teenagers to slap up stickers and posters, and pay their fines when they are caught by the police. This is not street art, but a marketing campaign.
The reasons why street artists are doing what they are doing, in the way that they are doing, is not simply to question their surroundings; but to provide alternative perspectives, meanings, or values to those of consumerism.
Advertising elicits a response to buy, where this project elicits a response to do something. The attempt with You Are Beautiful is to create activism instead of consumerism.
You Are Beautiful uses the medium of advertising and commercialization to spread a positive message.
Projects like these make a difference in the world by catching us in the midst of daily life and creating moments of positive self realization.