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Written by Steph Thompson
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I see people on the street, in stores, on the train, lots of people every day. New York City is a crowded place. Often, these people I see do not see me, they do not look up, or they do, just briefly, so as not to bump into me. They do not say hello, they do not engage. They are otherwise occupied, they are typing or, I should say, “texting,” although, I suppose, they might just as easily be e-mailing. Rarely are they talking. Technology has taken over talk. Or has it? Might there be a backlash? Might conversation actually make a comeback?
According to The Nielsen Co.’s Nielsen Mobile unit, 233 million people in the U.S. now communicate by texting, far surpassing other mobile activities. In the overall mobile world, those who pay to “just talk” declined 18% for the year-ended September 2009.
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Read more... [The Art of Conversation is Lost…Or Is It?]
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Written by Kimie O’Neill
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Somehow, Balenciaga’s Spring 2010 collection strangely resembles New York City. Perhaps because the bright colors and patterns juxtaposed with the grey and black leather is reminiscent of a post-industrial neighborhood of artists, or maybe because the strong structural design of the leather vests and pants resembles the prominent architecture of the New York skyline. Regardless, the collection has a certain raw, artistic charge that evokes New York City. While the collection does resemble the New York of today, it also brings to mind the New York of a different era – that of the Abstract Expressionists. With the state of the world undergoing rapid change, the Abstract Expressionists found themselves responding to new technologies, social progression, and an art world that in the previous few decades had seen drastic advances.
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Read more... [Moving Forward by Looking Back]
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