Plain weird, but interesting. Read more about Damon Dash’s “hippie art collective” aka “DD172”
“You can spend hours at 172 Duane Street, in Tribeca, and still have no clue what’s going on here…DD is for Damon Dash, the 38–year–old fallen hip-hop impresario who thought it would be cool to start a hippie art collective right smack in the middle of one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan. It is, in short, the kind of scene you hoped still existed in Manhattan, but feared might have gone away.”
video artist 1kilo came up with an interesting take on urban flight from 1900 to the present day. In a striking visual parallel, cities declining in population are denoted by small white explosions. Pay particular attention to the years of World War - chilling stuff.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
