Fink Different: Keyboards as counter-culture.
If you watched Star Wars for the first time, without seeing images of the Empireās perfectly spaced thousands of goose-stepping minions in spotless white-lacquered armor. If you didnāt see the fleets of black and grey tie-fighters, the immaculately designed star cruisers, the evil moon-shaped flagshipā¦ you wouldnāt know that the rebels were rebels. After all, rebels donāt look like rebels if they donāt have something to contrast them against. They just look like normal people. Thatās probably why when you see Luke Skywalker, Han Solo or Finn (all rebels) dressed in stormtrooper garb, they somehow seem even more rebellious then they were before. Itās not what theyāre wearing, itās how they wear it. Dirty, scuffed, broken. Helmet missing or askew. An out of place, beat up weapon slung diagonally across their body. Itās the simple act of defacing the uniform that identifies them in our mind as counter-cultural. Funnily enough, it works in reverse. To the dismay of...
Oct 6, 2024