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#1 2014-05-30 01:36:44
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On Cool. was "Looks"
Ive tripped over Inventory magazine's 'Look' section.. and although not everything is as ridiculous as one might hope for a fashion magazine that seems to be wearing its sphincter as a nose ring. What struck me was the deep melancholy throughout the models (real people?)
Im not sure anything else so clearly reveals the end game of 'cool consumerism' as a page of miserable looking hohos. London is full of this wank. Shooey needs to step in and get them working his plot.
http://www.inventorymagazine.com/looks/
#3 2014-05-30 06:12:26
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Re: On Cool. was "Looks"
Yeah. He looks like a genuine dude. He looks like the one cool guy you might work with.
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#4 2014-05-30 08:19:53
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Re: On Cool. was "Looks"
I just had an email from a retailer. It described a new product and described it as having been developed without thought for marketing strategy and gave it the whole nine yards - on and bloody on -of build-up on that foundation stone.
The last line was: "We now take American Express"
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#6 2014-05-30 13:56:42
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For some reason cool cant be done anymore.
?uestlove recently wrote a long essay on the subject of the death of black cool. In away I think this is true...this generation is the most neutered yet
#7 2014-05-30 14:28:07
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Re: On Cool. was "Looks"
I pretty much only use "cool" to refer to one's personality at this point. If I come across someone I like, then they're cool. Or when listening to some song I might exclaim, "that's a cool part" or "man, that's a cool drum pattern." Those are the only times you'll hear me say "cool". Well, perhaps in reference to drink and weather as well. But that's it. There has definitely been a death of the cool.
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#8 2014-05-30 16:56:00
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"And cool the verandah, that welcomes us in,
To the six o'clock news and a lime juice and gin."
But, then, I was merely a subaltern then.....
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#10 2014-05-30 23:55:49
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The ad men got hold of cool and turned it into a product, it was at one time a character trait, whereas now it is the latest gizmo or pair of Surgical appliance.
How can we reclaim the cool? Well, I don't think we can, but we can live in a world enriched by boom period aesthetics.
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#12 2014-05-31 00:56:46
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I'm still trying to get my head around this Diesal-Punk malarkey, seems to me, to be futurist-fascism by the back door.
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#13 2014-05-31 04:50:07
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#15 2014-05-31 05:35:02
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#17 2014-05-31 06:09:44
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#18 2014-05-31 06:28:26
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Last edited by Dudley Clarke (2014-05-31 06:29:17)
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#19 2014-05-31 06:35:31
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#21 2014-05-31 07:03:07
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#23 2014-05-31 08:09:06
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Re: On Cool. was "Looks"
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#24 2014-05-31 08:14:21
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"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#25 2014-05-31 08:14:24
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Re: On Cool. was "Looks"
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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