>More than just a mannerist collage of the nostalgic aesthetic belonged to the millennial generation, Fashwave also operates to force classicism free of the post-modernist stranglehold that academic progressives have maintained over it, for a nearly a century. We would be mistaken to claim that the antiquated speculative nature of Fashwave betrays the aesthetic as a thing only predicated on nostalgia. While it might be considered a collage of sorts, stitched together from pieces of 80s and 90s pop-culture; VHS tapes, video game soundtracks, neo-noir landscapes, neon, lasers, synthesizers, streaking brake lights and 8-bit arpeggios—Fashwave only operates modally to subvert the mainstream progressive agenda by way of nostalgic cues to the otherwise uninterested.
>The real strength and fascination of the aesthetic lies in its ability to draw a parallel between anachronistic futurisms; that is to say, what ideals were once held for tomorrow and have since fallen either out of favor, out of fashion, or out of plausibility—and icons of western art now so unpopular in the mainstream circles of acceptable media. Hovercrafts, jetpacks, Bond gadgets, terminator technology, apocalyptic analogues—dreams made into memories.
>By carefully conflating these two ideas we might touch on the birth of a new mannerism: anachronism becomes the mode by which the canon of western thought and artistic enterprise suddenly and altogether vaults over the rhetorical barriers set in place by post-modernism and manned tirelessly by the drones of academia, to re-establishes itself as a countercultural force.
>So it was that Piranesi’s Veduta di Roma series painted an image of Rome so fantastical that Goethe himself—a fan of Piranesi’s work—exclaimed his consuming disappointment upon first visiting the city, for it was less impressive than Piranesi’s drawings had led him to dream.
Weird I started listening to this the other day. Now here I am contributing to this very thread with it. If this OC had music, it would sound like Synthwave.
Would love to see this one done, sorry about the watermark.
Camden Martinez
these are pretty kewl
Owen Fisher
request by canadian in the previous thread.
Jack Gonzalez
Tracers outlines showing movement around the figure
Pic related
Connor Collins
I was the original poster of the pic, good stuff.
Robert Hughes
How do you do them?
Xavier Long
that's basically it man. synthwave / new retrowave etc. was actually where the fashthetic originated; we just added trump and hitler to it. vaporwave is basically synthwaves sister; fashwave is their son.
Noah White
thanks
Robert Garcia
get photoshop, and git gud. wait, no, actually like a few hours of practice and you're gud enough to do fashwave.
Mason Gomez
Anachronistic futurisms
Most interesting thing I heard all day.
No comment on the music or the politics of it, but some interesting ideas in well-written intro thanks OP.
Gavin Perez
Thanks user.
Jason Reyes
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Ryder Lewis
Idk I'm a musician kekekekek I'm just looking at the stuff
Blake Martinez
...maybe
Jeremiah Robinson
Got this.... Wat do....?
Jayden King
Leave it, could've been cool if you had the 14 words hidden in the image somehow, not too small.
Dominic Kelly
go to 'layers' 'color' and use the 'hue/saturation' box on multiple copies of the same layer, and shift them aside from each other, to get the split-color defocused look.
someone do a trump with the whole "false song of globalism" quote.
Jayden Jones
On it tomorrow kek
Cameron Powell
would you be able to fix up this?
Luis Anderson
All of this, or just the first paragph
Benjamin Rodriguez
honestly ausbro, I like it.
It's your own style, variety is good.
Juan Gonzalez
On it tomorrow niggers
Jace Long
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Jaxon Sanders
Up to you man, do it your way. I like the first part better than the second, but if you want to put the whole thing that's fine, it's stronger that way, but a little wordy, you know?
David Cook
Aretebro here with fresh OC. What think?
I like
Gavin James
Who /power electronics/ here?
Joseph Cooper
Did you make that? Looks good. put something that's a bit more alt-right on it and it's perfect (normies might not instantly assume that's trump.)
William Mitchell
aretebro i love you
Christian Sanders
I like the VHS elements, the cat not being pink is a bit weird looking, looks like it was done in a hurry, but otherwise I like it a lot.
Leo Baker
What do you want to change about it?
Adam Sullivan
Do you want it to be trump related or can it be on anything?
William Wilson
Powerful
Ethan Butler
>not a fascist >still want c o m f y Therefore, I'll contribute with an a e s t h e t i c online radio - plaza.one
Charles Carter
Is there another style we could make some of these in? Not to take away from these, just to bleed it into another area?
>Art Nouveau >Art Deco?
David Johnson
anything Patriotic will do... cheers. I'm new to photoshop......
Hunter Hughes
Excellent
Austin Sanders
So, we have a few musicfags, a writefag, and a bunch of people making pictures, I know the whole thing is retro-future/cyber-punk but I am no good with computers, how would you guys feel about some acoustic guitar music? I've been trying to write some stuff recently, why not through some Trump speeches or something on top and call it a song?
Doesn't necessarily have to be trump related, just figured as it's his quote, may as well put him in the picture, but you have artistic license.
Evan Richardson
Something larger if you need
Carter Carter
Do your own style. Variety is good, makes it look less like a vaporwave clone, and more it's own varied set of art. I guess try to keep to the retro-cyber feel a bit though.
Ian Reyes
Didn't make it, just found it a few months ago on Sup Forums and saved it. It's not even that inflammatory towards liberals but it's in my Neon Nazi folder regardless.
Blake Ramirez
Thanks for catching the cat, didnt realize how shitty my brush was down there, will post fixed version soon as I polish off the next one
Juan Jenkins
Brilliant
Levi Watson
don't have to be a fascist bro just have to love western civilization and want to protect her.
argentine bro already is delving into noir. pic related.
Brandon Hernandez
Woah. This is an actual quote from a Trump press release. I thought it Was a Hitler quote jokingly put on a picture of Trump.
Love it Rewind is perfect. Evokes a nice feeling and fits the aesthetic well
Experiment, by all means, experiment. Some shit might not pan out but other stuff might. We're not trying to bring back the third reich with neon filters, it's more about a right-wing cultural revival
Aaron Howard
>love western civilization That is fascism
Caleb Peterson
Cool twist on that painting
Awesome
Caleb Bell
>it's more about a right-wing cultural revival this is a good way to put it.
i condone any and all directions this could go in. i like the art deco or noir myself.
not disagreeing with you here.
Brody Perez
We need one of Pewdiepie since he's looking more and more like /ourguy/ by subtly starting to redpill the masses.
I'll try and find a pic if someone will edit
Parker Cooper
Is this smug enough?
Levi Nguyen
OC for you
Kevin Jones
F A S H it
Luis Moore
>plaza.one Thanks burgeranon did not know about this.
Holy fuck, this is my new wallpaper wtf this is fucking glorious
Ryder Phillips
Trying to write this song right now I run into the problem I always run into. I put together a little 30 second diddy, then just repeat it. Is that okay to do? I don't know anything about writing music...
Sebastian Ward
Fresh OC
Eli Young
This is incredible, thank you user!
David Watson
Quick thought--Fucking love this. Can you make the black bar a bit transparent like your other Cole edits were? the hard black line is a bit too stark IMO.
Awesome shit though, dig the way the column drum is slid way off center
Evan Nguyen
this is legit
Evan Smith
user that did the other Course of Empire one here That's quality shit right there. I was hoping some other anons would try something with them. Maybe you could try putting the text bar behind the scanlines too if you can
Eli Ward
Great thread OP. I'll be posting some Fashwave stuff.
Nicholas Johnson
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Thomas Torres
Hah, I've made a lot of other OC, this was my only Cole edit. We need more Cole edits, though. (It was inspired by the guy making the cole edits).
Here's what you requested with a slightly-transparent bar.
Carson Martin
This is awesome
Jason James
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Christopher Cooper
Perfect
Kayden Young
Dank shit m8
Brody King
Also I was thinking it would be neat to make 100% innocent looking pieces of art with the same messages within the ones posted here. Sorta like operation baby.
