Projecte UlleresGlasses project

Des de que vam arribar a Taiwan, ens hem adonat que molta gent porta ulleres. Hem trobat algunes estadístiques que diuen que el voltant del 90% dels joves porten ulleres o lents de contacte. Amb aquest panorama, no és estrany que hi hagi tota una moda al voltant de les ulleres.

La més curiosa que hem trobat és que hi ha gent que porta ulleres SENSE VIDRES, només la muntura!

És fàcil trobar aquetses ulleres a les botiguetes dels mercats nocturns. De fet, es tracta d’un complement més com si es tractès d’una gorra, arracades o bracelets.

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Així que vam decidir, amb l’ajuda de la nostra amiga Nina, de sortir al carrer i preguntar la gent si ens deixaven fer una fotografia amb aquestes ulleres. Gràcies a tots aquells taiwanesos que ens van deixar fer les fotografies… tot i la seva timidesa ;)

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I no només a Taiwan sembla que que estiguin bojos per les ulleres, a través d’una amiga del OneVillageFoundation (una ONG Taiwanesa que té alguns projectes a Ghana) hem descobert un artista kenià que ha participat en el Maker Faire Africa 2010, i que també té obres divertides inspirades en les ulleres. Val la pena visitar la seva galeria.

Since we arrived we have noticed that a lot of people wear glasses in Taiwan. We could find some statistics that around 90% of the young people have to wear glasses or contact lenses. With these figures, there is obviously fashion around glasses.

One of the most funny trends is to find people that wear glasses with NO LENSES, so they just have the frame of the glasses.

It is easy to find these kind of glasses in small shops on the streets in the night markets. Actually is another complement as it would be a hat, earrings or bracelets.

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So we decided to, with the help of our friend Nina, go out and ask people on the street to let us take a picture of them with this kind of glasses. Thank you to all the nice Taiwanese people that let us take pictures of them.

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It is not only at Taiwan that they seem to be crazy about glasses, through a friend from OneVillageFoundation (a Taiwanese NGO which has some projects in Ghana) we also discovered an Kenyan artist from the Maker Faire Africa 2010, who also creates funny works inspiring on glasses. Worth visiting his gallery of design glasses.