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“Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.” ― Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Retro style is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the past, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes. In popular culture , the " nostalgia cycle" is typically for the two decades that begin 20–30 years ago.
"Outrun" is a synonym of synthwave that was later used to refer more generally to retro 1980s aesthetics such as VHS tracking artefacts, magenta neon, and gridlines. [15] The term comes from the 1986 arcade racing game Out Run , which is known for its soundtrack that could be selected in-game and its 1980s aesthetic.
Retrofuturism builds on ideas of futurism, but the latter term functions differently in several different contexts.In avant-garde artistic, literary and design circles, futurism is a long-standing and well-established term.
Groovy (or, less commonly, groovie or groovey) is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s. It is roughly synonymous with words such as "excellent ...
Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, [citation needed] a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, [30] [31] and became well-known in 2015. [32]
Stereotypical beatnik woman. In her memoir Minor Characters, Joyce Johnson described how the stereotype was absorbed into American culture: "Beat Generation" sold books, sold black turtleneck sweaters and bongos, berets and dark glasses, sold a way of life that seemed like dangerous fun—thus to be either condemned or imitated.