//Foreword// >More than just a 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 what we might call 'anachronistic futurisms;' 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 mainstream and acceptable media. Anachronistic Futurisms are dreams sublimated 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 canons of western thought and artistic enterprise suddenly and altogether vault over the rhetorical barriers that have been set in place by post-modernism, and manned tirelessly by the drones of academia, to re-establish 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.
Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits... None of them will stop Duty on its triumphant march towards saving the planet!
Lincoln James
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Jackson Martinez
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Connor Evans
fucking perfect, thank you.
Gavin Mitchell
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Brandon Watson
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Josiah Kelly
Noice would you be able to edit my shot? do anything you want
Jayden Lee
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Andrew Hughes
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Christopher Nelson
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Angel Murphy
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Benjamin Turner
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Gabriel Phillips
You're an artist lad :3
Robert Roberts
What about Dante Alighieri? Text: Living Hell Leaving
Gavin Bell
Under Living put the word Leaving
Ian Hernandez
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Dominic Johnson
Or like: Living e a v i n g And the you put Hell somewhe
Austin Ortiz
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Owen Garcia
thanks.
Andrew Walker
that'll do nicely. Cheers.
Brandon Mitchell
Not sure what else to do with this.
Adam Gomez
Something like pic related, please?
Sebastian Harris
what could of been...
Noah Sanders
Noice
David Watson
This has potential
Hunter Baker
*could've, you subhuman bong who doesn't even know his native language
Henry Kelly
This also has potential
Austin Carter
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Jason Lewis
VOX POPULI
Daniel Hughes
Thank you user, but the othe word was leaving
Lucas Evans
I'll fix now.
Julian Rivera
Pls do this one
Jason Hughes
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Luis Richardson
Someone do one of these
Charles Sanchez
Thank you so much user
Adrian Smith
No problem, pasta-user
Grayson Taylor
What about Goth/Witch House aesthetics? I've been thinking of an art style featuring combinations of cool, translucent pastel colors and grayscales featuring liberals or jews shopped into zombie or ghostlike figures to represent the death of their influence upon the world.
