Some of its just aesthetic. I think older art graphics and film have a really nice look to them. acess to colors were more limited, so you got really vivid and interesting color combinations. old film is grainy with shifted colors and imperfections. It's like a window into another world. Our film now is so perfect it looks like real life. which is nice in some ways, but is so boring... and like with old movies, there wasnt an easy way to do anything, so people had to be more creative. weve been in a very sterile and boring period of art architecture and marketing and such for several years now and i hate it. Thankfully, it seems like we are maybe just starting to move on from that
I feel like things are just too easy for us some times, and its no fun when everyone takes the easy way. Nowadays if you want to make an advertisement for oranges, you spend an hour or so mocking up one with a few png and premade fonts. useful, but look at this beautiful handpainted old advertisement i found. theres so much intent and care and personality. i like stuff like that. it feels like recently, people dont get as much of an opportunity to care about what they create, even if they want to. they just have to keep making making making, as fast as possible.
i dont have a particular decade i like either. i like the 80s, the 1800s, sometimes i go on minecraft and pretend im a village women in an old town settlement.. or a nomad traveling vast plains. i just think its interesting to learn about a life that is different then your own. sometimes i wish i was a vampire, then i could experience it all.
part of it probably has to do with discontentment with the decade I live in now. We've done alot of good stuff recently, but actual day to day living for us just isnt that great. With social media, greedy companies, etc, its just hard to feel human. Life used to be slower, and i think we do better in that envoirment. Still, i think no matter what decade i lived in, i would like the past.
actually this clip from jerma sums up my thoughts pretty well LOL i just dont think how we live right now is good for our mental health, and least for me personaly
not to say life was always perfect in the past, far from it. we have alot of blessings now adays. like, im so thankful for vaccines and how so many people can easily access information, and how we are becoming more aware and empathic towards all the different people around us. But life also wasnt all just bad in the past. Theres good and bad in every decade. Even time periods we look down on as being undesirable still had people just living life. and they found joys and meaning in their lives too. I like to think about all the different stories of people, good and bad. i think it all still matters. and this decade we live in right now will matter too.
i only got a really big appreciation for historic cities when i visited savannah a year or so ago. It was so beautiful, creative, and unique. Everything was eyecandy, instead of big boxes. old houses still stood up, and they looked so loved and cared for. I stayed at the marshal house, a beautiful old inn that was never modernized. It felt like a home. even just the trees were so pretty, with age they twist and bend from blowing in the wind, leaving them looking absolutely magical
i just like unique and weird stuff as well. When you look back on the past, you find so many different ideas and aesthetics and design choices. If we stay only looking at what we do now, things will become steril, because we are only looking at one decade. (that goes for every decade, no matter what time you are in) One of my interests right now is the original Epcot. While I do love the 70s 80s aesthetic, i think the reason it is so good is not because its in the past, but because it's closest to its original vision. As time goes on, visions get muddied and overrun. The original had people who cared alot about it working on it, so it turned out wonderful. Now, not so much. Like a tv show that goes on for too long. Wonderful new ideas are being made right now too, so we should appreciate them. I just think we should also appreciate the past.
Im trying to back away from modern living a bit, for my own sake. Like, I want to get a record player or mp3, so i can actually enjoy music, instead of being overwhelmed by choice. theres such an overflow of information and content, its hard to enjoy any of it. i want to send letter instead of texts too, and have a garden instead of having to buy everything i eat. even just going to the library and reading is nicer then having to find all my information online. I want to hold stuff, and really read and appreciate peoples point of veiw. Instead of having to go the fast all the time. thats why i wanted to join this forum as well.
sometimes its hard for me not to feel dread for the future, and the past is just so nicely laid out and set in stone. Things like AI and climate change and such especially dont help. But i try to remember that this will soon be the past, and life still goes on. and if it helps my mental health to live like its 1980, then so be it haha.
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