A decade of artist and a new generation of “how can I” creative minds think less than the origins of our masterminds. A classic twist, of turning nothing into something without girth is the world’s now greatest minds, taking away the brilliance from the likes of Albert Einstein, W. E. B. Dubois and Hemingway. Our originality is so far gone our heroes have changed from an intellectual to uneducated mindless fraud.
The word artist is viewed more as a musician, vocalist or singer rather than a painter. Picasso was called an artist, Miles Davis a jazz musician. At this point in their lives an era changed. Both men were known as has-beens and useless creativity, but today’s insolence has grown far worse Today the word artist has expanded to all genres of arte attributing newer forms, as computer and media. How did the word get so mixed up and why? Did we co -create the concepts before underling the product as creativity. What I am trying to say is, we laid eggs without chickens and eat non-chickened eggs and look for substance rather than nourishment have we gone mad. Our words now rely on urban soliloquies that degrade and make mock of our humanity so therefore our creativity followed suit.
Can we allow ourselves to do better? Can we recreate the wheel, the chariot, the car, the plane, and then stop at the space shuttle? Can we create something for a new generation to look forward to, rather than to just be stuck on a new wave of in your face media? Currently everything has become so mobile. Constantly we relied on our computer and other media devices, one after the other, we are losing ground in society. Our day to day interests are now lost. We don’t read books, magazines, or listen to records; it’s all on one device. Dressing nicely has no longer been a concern. This state of mind will one day be all behind us, yes, but we are starting to look like what we despise most, the walking couch potato.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Extra Credit: Yes Kanye West should get his extra credit
As human beings we are constantly taking ownership over things we do not own. We in retrospect recreate an artist’s work based our own understanding and interpretations, verses the artist’s interpretations and meaning behind their actual works. As of resent, Kanye West has been ridiculed and devalued as an artist because of his outcry and childish behaviours. As a result, his progression in music has not been appreciated. As people, we do not look at the arte form; we look at it as who created the arte and how the arte can represent us. Stand tall because, right is right and wrong is wrong, but a person’s creativity is not ours to own.
Back in the day, people’s individualism made the culture of music. Today, music in turn makes the culture While the individuality of people has dwindled, music has become the “life of the party", or "the jam at the party", the narrative now being a new iconic, ironic style created with a basement mentality has digressed
Kanye capitalized on an old school method by speeding up the tracks chorus. It was the reverse method of the Chop and Screw, Down South Style of remixing a popular song. Clearly his sound changed something in the glitzy glam of bad over accessorized bling like music... (Soap box?)
Which brings me to my question?
Why is it that Kanye West gets such a blow to the head for his gritty attitude, his over the top artistic uniqueness? He is an artist, yes at times he may act up but he is an Artist! If we don’t pay attention to his greatness we are null, but when we pay him mind at the end of a bad deed we discard him as a tarnished jewel.
Fickle minded as we are, we want greatness, abuse it, and move on to the next one, same as many did to Jean Michel Basquiat, okay but that’s another story let’s keep it moving.
For one thing that I personally like is Kanye's artistic take on making music videos no two alike, fashion forward and always having a nice shock value. Hate him as you may, but you know this to be true that his attention to detail is scary but creative (there goes that word again, creative). From a baseball cap to the tips of Redwing Mocs, I think he proves that a small attribute of the fashion world and street wear is mint (condition).
Theme! He keeps a sweet momentum by skinning your knee and handing out band aids with his frustrated lyrics of HIS concern, not yours. So wave that bias comment away. You know how people jump on something and think or thought they heard it first, so ownership is at hand. "This is my song, "ooh that’s my song...". Throw that stigma away its really his music not yours so this in term is why we purchased his LP, Record, MP3, or whatever you may . Nonetheless, his theme is connected to his somewhat wacky intellect that still keeps your head posted to the bill board sound, the streets and music videos . His creativity provokes curiosity or even me saying, "is that Kanye man??, that’s wicked". Well you may not say it like that but you get the picture. I think he is a creative genius in spite of a mishap of bad behaviour, you all still paid very close attention to his trainers (sneakers).
(Getting off soap box)
a bit of arte and creative aspects of a... well new area of artists
As human beings we are constantly taking ownership over things we do not own. We in retrospect recreate an artist’s work based our own understanding and interpretations, verses the artist’s interpretations and meaning behind their actual works. As of resent, Kanye West has been ridiculed and devalued as an artist because of his outcry and childish behaviours. As a result, his progression in music has not been appreciated. As people, we do not look at the arte form; we look at it as who created the arte and how the arte can represent us. Stand tall because, right is right and wrong is wrong, but a person’s creativity is not ours to own.
Back in the day, people’s individualism made the culture of music. Today, music in turn makes the culture While the individuality of people has dwindled, music has become the “life of the party", or "the jam at the party", the narrative now being a new iconic, ironic style created with a basement mentality has digressed
Kanye capitalized on an old school method by speeding up the tracks chorus. It was the reverse method of the Chop and Screw, Down South Style of remixing a popular song. Clearly his sound changed something in the glitzy glam of bad over accessorized bling like music... (Soap box?)
Which brings me to my question?
Why is it that Kanye West gets such a blow to the head for his gritty attitude, his over the top artistic uniqueness? He is an artist, yes at times he may act up but he is an Artist! If we don’t pay attention to his greatness we are null, but when we pay him mind at the end of a bad deed we discard him as a tarnished jewel.
Fickle minded as we are, we want greatness, abuse it, and move on to the next one, same as many did to Jean Michel Basquiat, okay but that’s another story let’s keep it moving.
For one thing that I personally like is Kanye's artistic take on making music videos no two alike, fashion forward and always having a nice shock value. Hate him as you may, but you know this to be true that his attention to detail is scary but creative (there goes that word again, creative). From a baseball cap to the tips of Redwing Mocs, I think he proves that a small attribute of the fashion world and street wear is mint (condition).
Theme! He keeps a sweet momentum by skinning your knee and handing out band aids with his frustrated lyrics of HIS concern, not yours. So wave that bias comment away. You know how people jump on something and think or thought they heard it first, so ownership is at hand. "This is my song, "ooh that’s my song...". Throw that stigma away its really his music not yours so this in term is why we purchased his LP, Record, MP3, or whatever you may . Nonetheless, his theme is connected to his somewhat wacky intellect that still keeps your head posted to the bill board sound, the streets and music videos . His creativity provokes curiosity or even me saying, "is that Kanye man??, that’s wicked". Well you may not say it like that but you get the picture. I think he is a creative genius in spite of a mishap of bad behaviour, you all still paid very close attention to his trainers (sneakers).
(Getting off soap box)
a bit of arte and creative aspects of a... well new area of artists
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
making a belt from raw hide
ok so i am like a mad scientist when it comes to being creative, i live to make things i remember as a kid. so i was checking out all of Sugar Cane company wicked raw materials, such a beauty these raw goods.
okay oaky soo i saw the belts, amazing, i dont know what got into me but i wanted them all!
so i took the primitive way or nowadays it could be the new modern way
so i went to this cow boy shop and snagged some raw hide, cows butt, and got a strip cut and rubberbanded. While on the way home i stopped by the army surplus and picked up a buckle and some black and white oiled sewing thread, oh yeah i had a plan and guess what, i love this belt i created
so i streached the leather out sprayed it down with some warm water and cut a small strip for the leather loop,
then i marked the holes and drilled them,
bent the tip marked the area to add the buckle and sewed it together and now you see the finished mad frankenstine product
here are some photos
my Red Wings
I recently purchased a new pair of Red Wing old school work boots. Every year I would get my J-crew winter catalog and wonder if i should follow my dads footsteps. My dad is a mason and a carpenter. He loved quality workgoods. I still have the first hammer he gave me when I was 12. His work uniform was a wonderful raw pair of Lee dungarees or Levi's,a nice cow hide belt or braces, and a lovely old chambrey shirt! My first trip to the states, my dad gave me a pair of boat boots from the timberland company for a casual day, a pair of Red wing boots for work,
(timberlad boat shoe
)and raw selvage Levi's
and his old chambrey shirt. Well i kinda took it, I am rambling.
Back to these Red Wing boots, the quality is too good to be true. I tried to break them in by doing extra hard work while wearing them and they still look good. I think im going to bury them LOL
The company has such a nice history, like Levi's, it paralleled the United States history. So I did some history blogging, google searching, and I found this out about them.
In 1905, German immigrant “Shoe Man” Charles Beckman had been selling shoes at his retail store in the beautiful historic river town of Red Wing, Minnesota for 22 years. Too often, to his frustration, he did not have the right size or type shoe for his customers. It was that frustration and a drive to do more that led to the founding of Red Wing Shoe Company. At first he tailored the shoe lines to meet the lifestyles of specific customer groups such as farmers and railroaders. Within 10 years, the company had branched out producing more than 200,000 pairs of boots per year, and even issued the standard footwear to soldiers fighting in World War I.
Until the 1970s, Red Wing's reputation rested primarily on a wide variety of footwear marketed as “"work shoes” emphasizing their practical use in the workplace. By the mid 1980s, however, as U.S. workers moved increasingly out of industrial and agricultural sectors into service related jobs, the company's scope changed. Their emphasis shifted from “work shoes” to “shoes for work” promoting the company's new commitment to innovative lines of lighter, more comfortable footwear developed to accommodate new work-oriented and recreational needs. New management style and brand image also brought new products to Red Wing giving special attention to women's comfort footwear. Red Wing also ran a series of print advertisements featuring a top model in McCall's, Women's Day, and Mademoiselle magazines and promoting the image of an up-to-date, attractive, and fashionable Red Wing clientele.
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