Radiohead "Present Tense" from the album Moon Shaped Pool. IF YOU HAVE NEVER LISTENED TO THIS FULL ALBUM, DO IT NOW.
For some people on this planet the hashtag is as normal to them as green on a turtle. On the other hand, some of us on this planet had to make a transition into this digital world all at random moments in our lives when the opportunity to learn presented itself. It has been a big change for people born in the early 90's and the years that preceded. For the latter group of humans, the world we once new would never be the same. I guess that is how the story goes for every generation, but technology seems to have advance the evolution of our species into hyper speed.
In the Summer of 2013 I bought my first smartphone, it wasn't until months later when I learned about Instagram that hashtags surfaced into my reality at the ripe age of 22... Even at that time I didn't really grasp the value of the hashtag. I kind of took it as a new trend that people "did" like today's dabbing, I just knew that people would say things like "HASHTAG bacon" when they were jazzed about things like bacon...
Nowadays I have grown into welcoming the hashtag as I have learn to utilize its capabilities in my own life and business. Not only do I get to #art and link to a world of people doing art or are interested in the subject, I have found a new way to open myself up to a whole new world of art and media by looking into what other people have hash-tagged.
This feature in technology has just made this world even smaller now that we can be connected to anyone around the globe simply by putting a waffle fry(aka hashtag) right before the word or words of interest.
I don't know of any songs off the top of my head that reference hashtags, but I did add a song from my favorite Radiohead album Moon Shaped Pool, which has some digital-esque qualities to it.This painting I did in acrylic also doesn't really reference hashtags... But it does give a feeling of fractured space and time, which is an essence that I get from the digital world, "Glitched".
Since elementary the digital reality have been around me. Some of the trends I took one with no problem. While others are just one understand and hashtag is one of them. They're cute but they really don't do much. I feel like on the internet there's better ways to express yourself or movie stand for other than hashtags. But that's just my opinion. The artwork reminds me of a in the round piece that I saw that the Phoenix Art Museum.
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