the importance of archiving
Your research is the first place someone understands how you see. What you notice. What you exclude. What you choose to spend time with. Too often in fashion portfolios, research pages are rushed or treated as background work. Stock references. Popular photographers. The same campaigns circulating on Pinterest. In those moments, your work doesn’t... See more
instagram.comThe famous quote from Samuel Johnson said it best. “...make new things familiar and familiar things new.”That is the real opportunity.To take the emotional truth of the past and give it new meaning.To let the best moments play a new tune in a new culture, for a new world. But that requires work. It requires freshness. Nuance. Forward thinking. And... See more
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The solution is paradoxical: To move forward, we need to study the past, so thoroughly that it becomes boring—as boredom is one of the most reliable catalysts for innovation. The goal should be a disciplined engagement with historical works, paired with a futurist drive to forge entirely new creative pathways.
W. David Marx • Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
The canon has become a crutch for those bored with the present.
W. David Marx • Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
In the past, conservatives treated the canon as a sacred and complete archive, something to be preserved rather than expanded. This is precisely why the avant-garde sought to destroy it: Too much reverence for dead white men became an obstacle to creative liberation. But in truth, even the avant-garde needed the canon. The only way to invent
... See moreW. David Marx • Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
There is so much stuff on the internet right now, and so much of it is trickling away all the time.
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer · Album Review ⟋ RA
You've almost certainly heard them before, even if you have no idea where. They've just always been there , hanging in the fog of indeterminate memory.
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer · Album Review ⟋ RA
The last remaining option is mal d’archive, the Kang solution: you ease the weight of all this cultural stuff by simply destroying it all. Like nerdery, this impulse has been waiting in the wings for a long time. It is also an emergent property of large stores of information, this drive ‘to burn the archive and to incite amnesia, the thing refuting... See more