When I grow up I’d like to be a commodity fetish…
I was intrigued by the fashion brand Urban Decay because I thought it was strange how they appropriated gang typography (or is it Suicide Girls now?) to give the veneer of one of these bogus DIY operations like Hot Topic. Then I stumbled on their page for Cory Kennedy who is their fashion model for Spring 2008 (the text above is from the Urban Decay site). Sad to say, but I feel a generation gap coming on strong. Then I fell down the wormhole further and ended up in thecobrasnake.com. What the hell is this, Gucci punk? Man, I’m freaking out. And I’m feeling sooo uncool right now.
It’s days like this that make me wish punk never happened.
So I went to Corey’s MySpace page and clicked around dazed and confused. I’m sure she is a nice girl who means well, but I’m baffled by how someone so completely vacuous can be considered the world’s most interesting Internet personality. I find it even more strange that some kind of collective intelligence would emerge and suddenly crown one person as the “it” girl of the Web world. So much for emergence. It goes to show that not all slime molds congeal into complex civilizations. (For an explanation of all these strange allusions, please read Emergence. I promise it won’t hurt.)
PS Reality check: for the celebrity amnesiacs, Eddie Sedgwick was the one and only it girl of the universe.
PPS Goes to show that photography does have a way of stealing people’s souls because right now I’m feeling way too judgmental for my own good.
