I’m a firm believer that pretty much anything can be institutionalized with time. That is with enough repetition anything can become mainstream. Reading as you and I know it today will have a very different notion in 5-10-20 years. The difficulty lies for us who have had experiences on different sides of the coin. Personally, I’ve adapted these weird reading habits where I need everything condensed into a narrow column so that my scans across the lines only occupies a few words before I jump to the next line. I was reading print for the first time in awhile a few weeks ago with a book and at times I felt myself struggling to stay focused. Not sure what’s wrong with me, I’m fucked if I ever go back to school haha. I just hit the word count feature on Google Docs… 5526 words. About 5426 words more than an average Hypebeast blogpost I do (about 70 words per post haha). Any last words from your end? What can I expect out of Gary Warnett apart from more great write-ups on Crooked Tongues?
AND IT ENDS! 5000+ words? Fuuuuuck!
Man, if I didn’t have such a long commute into London each day, I would become illiterate…e-literate? it’s easy to assume everything should be summarized for a skim read. I like Twitter because it’s basically, brevity bootcamp if U dnt wnt 2 resort to text talk.
In geeking out we’ve pushed that word limit Eugene. Let’s be honest – no one is reading at this point in this feature. We’re free to say what we want.
But seriously? Next up? I have no idea. More punishingly referential paragraphs on sports footwear, ummm…Tweeting nonsense…more blogs – actually I need to get more frequent on that – twice a week is pretty piss-poor. Hopefully I’ll be writing some non-shoe stuff for some friends’ print magazines, maybe doing some stuff for the new version of a site that got me blogging in the first place. I feel lucky to do what I do for a living, but I don’t want to get typecast as “sneaker dude.” New Crooked is coming, and it looks really good. Then…well, then I want my corporate gig. When you’re pushing 32 you need to fall back and let the next generation… actually about three generations… take over if you’re talking about sneakers all day. I’m old, and it’s a young man’s game. Thank you for the intense level of conversation. You know I could talk shit all day.
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