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Daijah Fleming Capstone

Posted by Daijah Fleming on Friday, May 13, 2022 at 11:14 pm

For my capstone, I wanted to bring attention to current fashion trends in society and how they are influenced by black culture. As an African American woman, I feel passionate about my capstone as I believe my culture is often appropriated. I believe that today’s society is highly influenced by black culture. A plethora of people lack understanding and are uneducated on where these “fashion trends” originate from which causes cultural appropriation. Black culture includes specific hairstyles, jewelry pieces, long acrylic nails, velour tracksuits, accessories, etc. For this project, I knew a substantial amount of research and collaboration would have to be done. I knew having a photoshoot would be the best way to capture the importance of black culture and the points I wanted to emphasize. My finished product is a presentation consisting of photos from the photoshoot and research that I did.

Throughout this entire process, I learned how to effectively collaborate with my peers. I was challenged to use outside resources and work closely with them as well. I gained more knowledge about the history and origins of black culture, which is important to me because it is my culture. I hope after diving into my capstone everyone can grow an appreciation and gain respect for black culture and its history.

Capstone: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x8zzVQLG_p8N0eEPXuMxshhUL2rd8Xjm7DGgEKIEtBg/edit?usp=sharing

Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19PhvJPNW-T4zBJHUsgdzm8zFfTGW6M8QcVN1Jfxf6MQ/edit?usp=sharing

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MacBath & Body works

Posted by Daijah Fleming in English 1 · Giknis · D Band on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 10:24 am
​My partner is Leo Gualtieri 

Click to launch MacBath & Body works! 

From the start we wanted to make our project something fun and creative, but also something that didn’t go too far from the idea of Macbeth. After brainstorming a few ideas, we settled on self care products that satirically copy the ideas throughout the book, like something that could just clean the guilt from the murder, or some potion that could heal someone’s mental illness. We then came up with a idea of a knock-off Bath & Body works. We figured that Macbeth sounded a lot like bath so, we combined the words together; thus MacBath & Body works was born.

We started off by finding products that correlated with quotes from the play. We came up with names that give a glimpse from the play, or that described the product. We found quotes in the play that corresponds with the products to stay true to the play Macbeth. We divided the work equally by assigning different task that we had to do. I bought the products while Leo worked on the logos using Photoshop.

We settled on making perfume, hand sanitizer, bath bombs, candles, and essential oils. We settled on hand sanitizer because Macbeth talks about having blood on his hands after killing King Duncan; therefore we made a product that could clean the blood, named after one of his quotes. We have the perfume for a similar reason. Lady Macbeth talks about cleaning the smell of blood from her hand, so we made a perfume just for her. We also made candles for people like Lady Macbeth, for anyone who a needs candle light by their bedside. Finally we have the essential oils and bath bombs. We advertised them as “mentally curing”. This is a joke off of Macbeth’s orders to the doctor. He just wants Lady Macbeth to be cured, but has no explanation about how he would do that. We made these magic mentally curing products just for Macbeth, no matter how hard they’d be to make in real life.

The Creators, Daijah and Leo
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