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Which decade would you choose to live in?
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Actually, dude, I was referring to art, not necessarily music. Synthesized music has been around for ages - Jarre, Vangelis, etc have been using synth stuff almost entirely since their early developmental stages.
afa art goes - again, content-wise it has much been done before. But software like Photoshop has brought a new era to artwork. Maybe each item in a piece of art has been done before, but techniques and methods made possible digitally are something new, thus, add a new depth of creativity.
I will take a stab at defending this decade, as far as innovation.
electronics/computer/high tech - iPod
politics (for an all new low never seen) - the guy there now at 1600 Penn. Ave.
music - Coldplay, Norweigian metal
photography - inexpensive accessible high quality digital cameras
communication - ditto to above but in a cell phone
my field/business (skateboarding) - street skating, urban and aggressive and very technical and manual (and the fashions attached to it - Krew jeans, Volcom Stone, Element, DGK wear, etc)
clothing/fashion in general? - OK, you got me on that one, the new does seem retro or wanna be retro. Levi's, the icon, are doing re-issue jeans from the 60s/70s and they trump the new designs. But it's still cool that the younger crowd recognizes us. www.levis.com and look under the female section-junior designs and the retro fits (as this last tidbit would belong well in the jeans thread).
Coldplay? Norwegian metal? You think those are new sounds? Really?
Urban fashion was going on in the 80's with the advent of rap/hip-hop. Kids were skating in empty swimming pools in the 80's- not a new activity. Home computers were in use in the 80's. We didn't have iPods, but we did have Walkman. Only the techniques of doing things have changed. The actual things done haven't.
I don't want the younger crowd to recognize us. I want them to do something different. Something that makes them unique. Of course, I can't make them. Maybe being status quo is their rebellion, but I don't get it.
BTW- you need any advertising? I love skaters.
Growing up in the 80's we had some great cartoons. I remember MTV playing videos. Video games were simple but fun. I don't see how the kids of today have it better. It seems like they are missing out on a lot.
I listen to a lot of 70's rock because it was better. I would listen to todays stuff more if I thought it was worth my time. Music of 15-30 years ago had more energy and a feeling of meaning. The stuff out today is produced more and doesn't have any uniqueness.
I listen to a lot of 70's rock because it was better. I would listen to todays stuff more if I thought it was worth my time. Music of 15-30 years ago had more energy and a feeling of meaning. The stuff out today is produced more and doesn't have any uniqueness.
I think you need to keep looking. There's a wealth of great stuff out there- just nothing NEW.
BTW- you need any advertising? I love skaters.
If I could afford it.
All I have for the business is a MySpace site for now and word of mouth advertising locally. My wife and I plan to expand sometime and in order to get a loan for small business, I have to get some accounting together, maybe make a small video/presentation, and show forward momentum in my MBA/JD studies (liability and skating go hand in hand, unfortunately). Basically, a ton of hoops to jump through these days in the the new "depression" in order to get any loan out there for small business. THAT'S another reason I chose the 1970s, he he, since there was no second great big depression in sight.
But back on topic, the 1970s.
Today, unemployment stands at 8-12% percent, depending on where you live, and that's awful but not as bad as the 25% percent the last depression was at. I know when the Vietnam War ended in 1975 and America was happy, it was mostly psychological, but the state of the economy was pretty shabby but I was only a kid. We had a gasoline crisis like today. Interest rates went crazy and home mortgages were killing people as the mid-70s went in to the early 80s, but I still will somehow remember that second half of the 70s fondly.
Let's see, there was Evil Kneivel, the Fonz (a Happy Days character played by Henry Winkler), Grease (the movie), DEVO, the original KISS, the bionic man and woman series, Charlie's Angels, and a million other cool things that spanned that general time frame. I think part of the creativity that was happening in the 70s was a huge backlash against the doom and gloom of the times economically. But the economy would bounce back in 1981 and be good for five years.
What was also dynamic about that time, and the few years after was the incredible boom in fashion. Bell bottoms gave to a huge Western look which gave way to the birth of the preppy (or now called Meterosexual) look. Thick neckties gave way to thinner ones on the corporate front and black or blue suits were not the only two colors used. Feathered hair for women gave way to page cuts and a resurgence of "big hair". Love these fashion cues or not, it was a dynamic time in our culture.
So if I had to pick a favorite decade, it would be 1975-1985.
If I could afford it.
All I have for the business is a MySpace site for now and word of mouth advertising locally. My wife and I plan to expand sometime and in order to get a loan for small business, I have to get some accounting together, maybe make a small video/presentation, and show forward momentum in my MBA/JD studies. Basically, a ton of hoops to jump through these days in the the new "depression" in order to get any loan out there for small business. THAT'S another reason I chose the 1970s, he he, since there was no second great big depression in sight.
But back on topic, the 1970s.
Today, unemployment stands at 8-12% percent, depending on where you live, and that's awful but not as bad as the 25% percent the last depression was at. I know when the Vietnam War ended in 1975 and America was happy, it was mostly psychological, but the state of the economy was pretty shabby but I was only a kid. Interest rates went crazy and home mortgages were killing people as the mid-70s went in to the early 80s, but I still will somehow remember that second half of the 70s fondly.
Let's see, there was Evil Kneivel, the Fonz (a Happy Days character played by Henry Winkler), Grease (the movie), DEVO, the original KISS, the bionic man and woman series, Charlie's Angels, and a million other cool things that spanned that general time frame. I think part of the creativity that was happening in the 70s was a huge backlash against the doom and gloom of the times economically. But the economy would bounce back in 1981 and be good for five years.
What was also dynamic about that time, and the few years after was the incredible boom in fashion. Bell bottoms gave to a huge Western look which gave way to the birth of the preppy (or called Meterosexual) look. Thick neckties gave way to thinner ones on the corporate front and black or blue suits were not the only two colors used. Feathered hair for women gave way to page cuts and a resurgence of "big hair". Love these fashion ques or not, it was a dynamic time in our culture.
So if I had to pick a favorite decade, it would be 1975-1985.
Agreed- those were great years for music and culture. Fashion was fun too, not a chore. Plus, it was more affordable.
I remember getting ready to go out. We would look through our closets and try to figure out what we could combine with what- what we could roll up, cut up or tear up. It was so easy and so cheap.
pffft... twentieth century, bah. I would rather live in early first century AD during the beginning of the Roman Imperial period. So many great architectural achievements I would love to see not in ruins.
Coldplay used to be decent. Their new album is horrible. Radiohead is more original than them.
The World didn't start being a mess in the 00's you know. Don't believe everything you read.
I'm perfectly happy as it is now, means I get the best of all those decades, with 00's tech.
I'm perfectly happy as it is now, means I get the best of all those decades, with 00's tech.
living near SF and berkeley it would of been amazing to see those cities and the country in the full swing hippy movement.
Agreed.
I would have loved to attend Woodstock and get the chance to see the Beatles.
Radiohead is hit or miss with me. I like the new one a lot. I also liked the Bends and OK Computer. Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief left me cold. Though Amnesiac was easily the best of those three. Coldplay hasn't been good since their first disc.
Personally, I think the 90's was when the music industry was just transition from good to ****.
