Just keeping up with this urge to continuously blog today, don't you find it odd when a rather large and famous (though creatively decaying) act or group displays an interest in the very same avenue you yourself were displaying interest? I find it to be a rather curious phenomenon.
In this case, after being exposed throughly to the works of George Orwell and Anthony Burgess, I have developed a sort of fascination with the depiction of the "not-so-distant-future" as seen by those between 1940s to 1970s. Everything is always exaggerated, futuristic machines are always square and silver. And instead of doing incredibly new tasks, they just do regular everyday tasks, but in a faster more efficient way, for example the "speakwrite" and "telescreen" from Nineteen Eighty-Four.
ANYWAY, it turns out that band "No Doubt" have decided to embrace and use this exact interest I was harboring when designing their look for their upcoming reunion tour. Obviously I'm not all "OMG! They totally copied me!", that's absurd, how could they possibly even know who I am let alone steal my idea? It just strikes me as odd that an entirely different entity had the same thought that I did. Though of course it may just be an attempt to cash-in on this whole 80s-synthpop-revival that dominating the pop charts at this very moment, rather than break any real artistic ground. I guess it's pretty funny how I don't even like their music and the only way I found out about this was during an extensive Wikipedia lurk to fufil my curiosity to find out what's happening in the world today.
It would however be slightly heartbreaking if Outer Party drones and Droogs suddenly became overwhelmingly popular and then sucked dry by every avaiable media company bent on feeding their greed through every new trend that gains momentum.
++ on a more positive note; I just watched Un Chien Andalou and really enjoyed it. I'm really happy Stella lent it to me :)
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