Day 84

'Obsoletely Fabulous', Pen and Marker on Paper

Spent a good part of today toying around with ideas based on yesterday's post and thought about using one of these for today's 'draw' but felt instead that the drawing for today should be something distinct, as that has been the case for all of the other drawings thus far. Although similar themes return each day is unique and I like that about the work up to this point, instead I think that the post for Day 83 will just continue to grow over the coming weeks and months. I still wanted to carry on from yesterday with another illustration and today is a culmination of a recent conversation regarding how quickly technology has changed and how much we now depend on that new technology.  When if we think back to when we were younger we seemed to manage fine with what we had, but the thought of going back to those technological dark ages is abhorrent. Instead we look back at the technology of those times with a sense of  pointless nostalgia, a way for us to get our retro fix and this notion of retro is something that everyone has been enamoured with for some time... in many cases even those too young to have experienced it first time round. I myself am guilty of this on many levels and I don't think it really matters if you were there in the beginning, however I do think there is a certain level of respect that you should give those things rather than them being mere fashion items. This fondness of obsolete technology is also very fleeting as we tend to latch onto whatever is current and intriguing, quickly become restless as our attention span swiftly dwindles, before finally moving onto something else. There does seem to be a fine line to tread between balancing our love for the old and new, but one thing is for sure everything will eventually become obsolete and unwanted, remain so for some time and ultimately end up emblazoned on a t-shirt in Topshop.