Document (II)
Just realized the coolest part of the previous Jordan poster was the fact he was staring down the rim at eye-level. Wowzers.
Still obsessed with urgency for finding important ways to document the evolution happening before our very eyes. People are adapting faster and faster w/in the digital community. Our experience or perhaps our brain has our speed of grasp and self-interpretation growing exponentially. Community is scratching their name on the developments, and things DO get better. The amount of historians on this period of evolution will be the largest/strongest we’ve ever seen.
We’re still missing the cross-over that would be mass media’s acceptance of newer school messages around principles, the death of certain social class structures through enablement, and the spread of Global micro-classes/sub-cultures exerting wider and farther-reaching influences. The kid who’s in Sao Paolo. The kid who’s in Moscow. The kid that’s in Granby, CT. We are birds of a feather. Yet, the feather is now our choice, not the result of our parents’ in where we lived in the world.
The anxiety around documentation rings a bell with artists who express themselves through graffitti. A transformational message in an environment that needs it, available for 24 hrs before it’s painted over. What if THAT kid missed a message he could have done something with during that window of time? Imagine if he missed out on carrying that mantle and perhaps finding the revolutionary forum to truly influence change?
How do we ensure we document the lessons we need to learn to become a bigger, bolder movement of folks who fight for education, cultured experiences, and a broader exposure to the world that helps us leave behind a contemporary tendency to lament the commonplace, daily inconveniences. We are so much softer than the generations before us. You have to feel me on that one.
Maybe, just maybe, a better collective education helps us prevent making horrible decisions. Wouldn’t it be grand if we didn’t repeat history where we shouldn’t? Where we were a people that could make a collective right decision informed by what we’ve experienced and learned?
I mean, even back in the 60s, Jimi was asking “are you experienced?”
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