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beigeingham | time for progress?
Spurred on by recent stirrings about how it's all going a bit ding dong, here's my tuppe
Shona
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:01:56 +0000
Spurred on by recent stirrings about how it's all going a bit ding dong, here's my tuppence worth:
One upon a time, there was a city called Beigeingham. It was ruled by formal processes, red tape and straplines which didn't reflect the reality of the intention. It was global, yet local, but didn't really exhalt the virtues of either apart from internal meanderings and a sense of fumbling. In Beigeingham, the buildings were beige, daily life was beige and the people felt.... beige. Beige men in beige suits drove on beige cars to their beige offices. They took their tea in a Pantone 7504c hue but shunned sugar, which was deemed risky. They spoke in beige tones on their beige phones. Beigeingham was bland, unappealing to inhabitants of the other more brightly coloured cities and towns and liked it like that. Any wanton splashes of creativity were quickly smothered, by paint or by proxy.
Within Beigeingham, there was a growing insurgency to the official stance of the city. Bright flashes of gleaming colour, vibrant voices shrill with imaginative ideas and distant beats formed a visual and urban soundtrack which pulsed rhythmically through small cracks in the walls. They mused over being able to truly introduce colour to the city, but often found the beige haze too stifling to do so. They wanted to stretch their limbs without feeling boxed in by bureaucracy, to let themselves go and to let the people in to this hidden spectrum. They liked what they saw in the attitude of the creative scene in San Francisco and Los Angeles; they wished a bit of that for themselves. Where art and the state don't really mix.
They wondered what it would take to achieve that kind of attitude. They wondered about doing it themselves.
The Break Free Manifesto:
-No logo
- Evolution is imperative and the need for it must be acknowledged and respected by official bodies.
- It's not about self-interest - it embraces all who trade, visit, consume or adore. It brings elements together where it makes sense to do so - it's more about healthy benevolence, but allows those who should benefit to do so.
- It's not about the establishment. It recognises many forms of creativity: art, music, dance, theatre, multimedia, skate culture, tattoos, grafitti et al.
- It recognises that the state's not going to do this and that those most qualified to do so, the city's creatives, are the leads on this.
Break free. Time to do it ourselves?
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