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06-15-2019, 07:13 PM | #1 |
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Ok, this is admittedly boring, but for us '80s kids it's also strangely compelling. For those familiar with modern day LA, even more so. It's just one guy's commute home one evening in late August, 1988. Everything about it is the very definition of mundane, but therein lies its charm because it's a snapshot of an everyday moment not usually preserved for posterity.
It makes me think of the Talking Heads' tune, "Lifetime Piling Up," and how every era has it's own "zeitgeist" that we just layer on top of the preceding one, laying the seventies over the sixties, the eighties on top of that, and so forth. Suddenly you find yourself in the here and now with this incredibly deep accumulation of trends and fads and styles and music and art and film and TV and all the other cultural detritus that make up eras. It's something far more pronounced and easier to mark thanks to the rise of pop culture and the proliferation of media since the early-mid 20th Century. Anyway, enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=SUh0PsW7XyI Last edited by SmokeBellew; 06-15-2019 at 08:08 PM.. |
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08-12-2019, 12:02 PM | #2 |
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That is really cool actually. Growing up in LA it's cool to see the old skylines and see the things that changed (and haven't changed).
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08-12-2019, 06:34 PM | #3 |
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Didn't grow up or live in L.A. but that was freaking awesome!
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