Michael Arenella - Living Retro

[meister]

Article from the NYT


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/living-in-the-past-is-a-full-time-gig.html?_r=1&hpw

 

[globetrotter]

I read this - I think that this is silly, certainly a little oeverboard. there is a huge difference between this and choosing finely made things that might be from the past. I like some antiques, I like hand made clothes and shoes, I like jazz, but I don't live in the past.

 

[comrade]



I read this - I think that this is silly, certainly a little oeverboard. there is a huge difference between this and choosing finely made things that might be from the past. I like some antiques, I like hand made clothes and shoes, I like jazz, but I don't live in the past.

I completely agree. In the Bay Area there are Art Deco re-enactors who show up at
Classic Car shows and probably other venues. They wear (heavy) vintage clothing, eat snacks and drink champagne from wicker picnic hampers and sweat profusely in the California sun.

 

[mack11211]

These guys lived near me in South Williamsburg in the 90s:

http://www.mcdermottandmcgough.com/biography/bio/index.php

Their slogan:

“I’ve seen the future, and I’m not going.”

I think they resented penicillin.

 

[meister]

So the future is wonderful and you can't wait to live in it - is the consensus?

 

[mack11211]



So the future is wonderful and you can't wait to live in it - is the consensus?

Nah, I liked NYC more back in the 90s:

 

[TRINI]

Is being the lead singer of a jazz cover band so lucrative that you can afford 7 vintage rides and 4Gs on fixing up a gramaphone?

I obviously made a wrong turn in life somewhere...

 

[meister]

He runs that big 1920s carnival on that island in New York harbour every year. He is famous. I suppose that gives you some extra cash.