The image above is a watercolor and pen interpretation of what Tinder kind of looks like in my head. Sometimes I think about how many people are on this green earth and it overwhelms me to think that each person has their own little universe so to speak. Their own friend circles, family, day to day routines. Their life may never overlap with mine and maybe it will. That's a whole other topic that blows my mind on a weekly basis, so back to this. In my minds eye I see stacks and stacks of profiles that make up each city or place. Living between Philly and New York I can see profiles from both cities and there are constantly new profiles. For those of you who don't know how Tinder works let me give you a quick run down of how it works. You start up a profile and you really don't have to do much else besides have a Facebook profile and the app pretty much does the rest for you. You can decide which gender profiles you would like to view, either male, female, or both, the distance you would like to view ranging from 1 mile away to 100 miles, and the age range you would like to see ranging from 18-55+.
So why the name? The reason I chose to title the piece "Tinderitis" is because I quickly found that the app has an addicting quality to it and that many of the people using it had caught this kind of disease to keep swiping, swiping swiping, exploring the thousands of profiles available at their fingertips at any given moment. It's an exciting "game" to see who is out there and who finds you attractive. I will develop this idea a bit more in the next post.
Soon after I started this project and started organizing my thoughts from my experience with the app as well as the thoughts of some of my matches I was told by a few of my matches that I should read comedian Aziz Ansari's book Modern Romance. His book explores pretty much everything that I was questioning and had thoughts about and after I started reading, I was amazed that he and I had similar thoughts about certain topics and was excited to read how someone else processed this information. Here is a link to read more about his book ( http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23453112-modern-romance ). I will be referencing some of his writings throughout the blog and I recommend you check it out!
So why the name? The reason I chose to title the piece "Tinderitis" is because I quickly found that the app has an addicting quality to it and that many of the people using it had caught this kind of disease to keep swiping, swiping swiping, exploring the thousands of profiles available at their fingertips at any given moment. It's an exciting "game" to see who is out there and who finds you attractive. I will develop this idea a bit more in the next post.
Soon after I started this project and started organizing my thoughts from my experience with the app as well as the thoughts of some of my matches I was told by a few of my matches that I should read comedian Aziz Ansari's book Modern Romance. His book explores pretty much everything that I was questioning and had thoughts about and after I started reading, I was amazed that he and I had similar thoughts about certain topics and was excited to read how someone else processed this information. Here is a link to read more about his book ( http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23453112-modern-romance ). I will be referencing some of his writings throughout the blog and I recommend you check it out!
Each week I will try to organize the posts by topic and include a few drawings and illustrations that will be in the book. Some of my thoughts and writings will make it to the blog but some of them I will leave as exclusive to the sketchbook. That way once the sketchbook is in the Art Library there is something new for you to see!
The next post is going to be about first impressions. Stay tuned!
