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The YouTuber Dan Bell has a series where he explores dying or abandoned malls, juxtaposed with archive video from when they were alive and vaporwave music. htt

The YouTuber Dan Bell has a series where he explores dying or abandoned malls, juxtaposed with archive video from when they were alive and vaporwave music. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx...

StavrosK 7y ago
Those videos have a very interesting aesthetic, it kind of reminds me of what happens when someone who doesn't know how to make videos (and thus doesn't know the current trends) starts making them, in the process inventing their own, totally new style.
- jcims 7y ago
  Some are pretty trippy. I like it.
- Macross8299 7y ago
  Vaporwave aesthetics are pretty interesting. The late 80s - mid 90s period of pop culture seems to have a lot of nostalgic and pseudo-nostalgic appeal for a lot of people.
  - coldtea 7y ago
    Well, for tons of people at theirs 40s/30s or close they were kids or teenagers then, it makes sense for them to be nostalgic about it. As for younger people, it's a period before the web/mobile/social media rise (and pre 9/11), so it's quite distinct from their own present today and thus can be interesting. It's also a period of relative growth and optimism, as opposed to today...
  - arbitrary_name 7y ago
    It's weird. My partner and I are late twenties and talk a lot about 'nostalgia for something never truly experienced'. We were too young to experience the '80s, and most of the '90s passed us by as children. But now, looking back, there is such a strong appeal - technology was still exciting without the societal consequences and complications - we really only used computers to play games and not for productivity. The anxiety and stress of social networks did not emerge until we were effectively adults and therefore a bit more immune. Anyway, we love Com Truise, HOME, Flamingosis, and other artists (Simpwave on youtube!) creating a neo-retro-synth-vapour kind of pastiche, but it's odd to think that it's all referencing things that we are experiencing only in hindsight.
    - pixelbath 7y ago
      It's even odder from the perspective of someone who actually lived through it. I'm guessing the way I feel now is similar to how people my parents' age felt with all the hippie culture appropriation my friends were doing in the 90s.
- coldtea 7y ago
  >it kind of reminds me of what happens when someone who doesn't know how to make videos (and thus doesn't know the current trends) starts making them, in the process inventing their own, totally new style At the same time, it's a well known aesthetic, established for a decade or so, with several sub-genres (including sub-genres of the music it accompanies it), well covered in the media, and so on...
idbehold 7y ago
The odd thing about these videos is that he adds faint background music which makes it sound as though the abandoned malls still have lobby music playing.
copperx 7y ago
They're soothing. Especially the "Miami Nice" video in the series. I could loop that all day if only it didn't have voice commentary.

StavrosK 7y ago

Those videos have a very interesting aesthetic, it kind of reminds me of what happens when someone who doesn't know how to make videos (and thus doesn't know the current trends) starts making them, in the process inventing their own, totally new style.

jcims 7y ago
Some are pretty trippy. I like it.
Macross8299 7y ago
Vaporwave aesthetics are pretty interesting. The late 80s - mid 90s period of pop culture seems to have a lot of nostalgic and pseudo-nostalgic appeal for a lot of people.
- coldtea 7y ago
  Well, for tons of people at theirs 40s/30s or close they were kids or teenagers then, it makes sense for them to be nostalgic about it. As for younger people, it's a period before the web/mobile/social media rise (and pre 9/11), so it's quite distinct from their own present today and thus can be interesting. It's also a period of relative growth and optimism, as opposed to today...
- arbitrary_name 7y ago
  It's weird. My partner and I are late twenties and talk a lot about 'nostalgia for something never truly experienced'. We were too young to experience the '80s, and most of the '90s passed us by as children. But now, looking back, there is such a strong appeal - technology was still exciting without the societal consequences and complications - we really only used computers to play games and not for productivity. The anxiety and stress of social networks did not emerge until we were effectively adults and therefore a bit more immune. Anyway, we love Com Truise, HOME, Flamingosis, and other artists (Simpwave on youtube!) creating a neo-retro-synth-vapour kind of pastiche, but it's odd to think that it's all referencing things that we are experiencing only in hindsight.
  - pixelbath 7y ago
    It's even odder from the perspective of someone who actually lived through it. I'm guessing the way I feel now is similar to how people my parents' age felt with all the hippie culture appropriation my friends were doing in the 90s.
coldtea 7y ago
>it kind of reminds me of what happens when someone who doesn't know how to make videos (and thus doesn't know the current trends) starts making them, in the process inventing their own, totally new style At the same time, it's a well known aesthetic, established for a decade or so, with several sub-genres (including sub-genres of the music it accompanies it), well covered in the media, and so on...

idbehold 7y ago

The odd thing about these videos is that he adds faint background music which makes it sound as though the abandoned malls still have lobby music playing.

copperx 7y ago

They're soothing. Especially the "Miami Nice" video in the series. I could loop that all day if only it didn't have voice commentary.