So I'm sitting here in the middle of my astronomy class looking up cool urban art on Deviant art. It occurs to me that there is an interesting trend i see with my generation. Not only do we celebrate art in the graphic tradition, it has extremely strong influences with japanese traditions and WWII/Cold War mockery. It's not just America that follows this trend, I'm looking at different countries all the same and it's just cool seeing that people in Mexico, America, Canada, UK, Spain, ... all have the same general means of expression. I recognize that i AM just looking at urban art, but i believe that the graphic arts are the future, and that our generation is going to be the first ones to really bring it out from the underground. I just thought it was interesting that thanks to the internet and other mass media applications that localized development has sort of fizzled by and large. That a spainard will be influenced by would be yakuza, it's really radical and unique to the world's history. That's just my rant for now. Time to get back to class.
I went to get my hair cut today. This is a rare occurance on account that i only care to afford such a thing only twice a year. I go to the Super clips here in town because its cheap and the russian hair dresser knows me, so i keep going back. Anyways, onto the story. I get there and there is a couple already ahead of me waiting. Now the lady was obviously a very blue collard american girl (a heavy one at that) and her boyfriend was apparently from Afghanistan. I learned that part through his loud conversation with the Russian hairdresser. They talked about how their countries are neighbors and how good it is to say theyre friendly neighbors now since the war is over. And it hits me- that a salon/hair place historically was a place of interchange; that is to say where people would go to talk and gossip about everything Now in this day and age it is easy to dismiss such a place as an actual exchange, since it is for the most part now just a walk in and walk out no questions ordeal. But there it was-two immigrants from eastern Europe just gossiping and havinga great time. I just thought it was cool to note that the tradition survives even today. But im just a white boy from the suburbs, so really, what do i know?
So I'm sitting here in the middle of my astronomy class looking up cool urban art on Deviant art. It occurs to me that there is an interesting trend i see with my generation. Not only do we celebrate art in the graphic tradition, it has extremely strong influences with japanese traditions and WWII/Cold War mockery. It's not just America that follows this trend, I'm looking at different countries all the same and it's just cool seeing that people in Mexico, America, Canada, UK, Spain, ... all have the same general means of expression.
ReplyDeleteI recognize that i AM just looking at urban art, but i believe that the graphic arts are the future, and that our generation is going to be the first ones to really bring it out from the underground. I just thought it was interesting that thanks to the internet and other mass media applications that localized development has sort of fizzled by and large. That a spainard will be influenced by would be yakuza, it's really radical and unique to the world's history. That's just my rant for now. Time to get back to class.
I went to get my hair cut today. This is a rare occurance on account that i only care to afford such a thing only twice a year. I go to the Super clips here in town because its cheap and the russian hair dresser knows me, so i keep going back. Anyways, onto the story. I get there and there is a couple already ahead of me waiting. Now the lady was obviously a very blue collard american girl (a heavy one at that) and her boyfriend was apparently from Afghanistan. I learned that part through his loud conversation with the Russian hairdresser. They talked about how their countries are neighbors and how good it is to say theyre friendly neighbors now since the war is over.
ReplyDeleteAnd it hits me- that a salon/hair place historically was a place of interchange; that is to say where people would go to talk and gossip about everything
Now in this day and age it is easy to dismiss such a place as an actual exchange, since it is for the most part now just a walk in and walk out no questions ordeal. But there it was-two immigrants from eastern Europe just gossiping and havinga great time. I just thought it was cool to note that the tradition survives even today.
But im just a white boy from the suburbs, so really, what do i know?