Grunge...My take on it.

Yeah. Every artist either wears flannel and torn jeans or all black clothes and white make up. Yep, you are right./sarcasm

You sound like you've been out of college and high school for hell of days and you sound as if you live in a small little town with like 30 people. Make a trip to San Francisco and Berkely California. You'll see what I mean. Also I'd like to add I wasn't speaking for "everyone"

I don't "dress" gothic or grunge..

I wear baggy labels like SOHK, Rocawear etc ... Boots and spike my hair...
I come from a school where 70% of the students here don't have a sense of fashion, so most of them look like NERD and GEEKS!

So since 70% don't have a sense of fashion if they all started to look like "nerds and geeks" would they be trendy? In my opinion no.

As far as the grunge style on the net I think you have to look at everyone like "nerds and geeks" (so to speak) because not everyone KNOWS HOW TO DO GRUNGE or in your example not everyone knows how to dress "cool". Because grunge is always around it rubs off on people and floats into their style of art, it doesn't make them trendy.

Actually, since my travels are being questioned I will tell you of all the great places I have been.

I have been out of highschool for a good 7 years now. I also grew up in a very small town, yes. However, I have also traveled to more places than you think.

Houston texas. Probably not what you would call a mecca of artistry, but there are some very interesting things there, as well as San Antonio and Dallas.

I have been to new york. stayed there for a week. went to some museums. I am pretty sure there were at least one or two artists there. None of them dressed as you describe.

Washington DC. Feild trip in highschool. Visited alot of stuff. The most emotional for me was the Vietnam Memorial, but there are other excellent peices of artwork there.

Tennesse/Kentucky. I have family that live in Nashville TN and I go to watch the Vols when they play USC(the real USC, not the one in california). I have more family in Kentucky, Frankfurt, Shelbyville and Shepardsville.

Instead of trying to insult me, call me close minded and assuming that I haven't been exposed to different elements of our cultuer, I suggest you try associating with a different circle of friends. Seems to me, the ones you are hanging out with now all dress like goths or grunge. By the way, "grunge" as a fasion statement died about 10 years ago. Perhaps it's time to check out old navy.

Being trendy as a designer has nothing to do with the way you dress, wear your hair or the fact that you don't shave. If you think it does, perhaps it's you who is a little close minded.

Everyone is trendy.

If you make a website, you're trendy. I mean, someone did make one before you, and you're just following along, right? You thought it'd be cool to have a website, right?

You use Photoshop to make your graphics, you're trendy. Someone started making their graphics in Photoshop before you, right? You wanted and got Photoshop so you could make graphics too, right?

It actually doesnt matter what you make your graphics in, if you create a certain style, people think you're following the trend. People consider my sig trendy, even though the majority makes their angles in PS, and I didn't, it's still the same 'trendy' style. I just came at it from a different angle. (no pun intended)

Trends can be bad though. I mean look at the trend Henry Ford started. Bunch of followers nowadays. Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell.....Now EVERYBODY AND THEIR DADDY is doing what they started.

Ok....I'm just being drunkenly silly now.

*nods as the point goes way over mbb's head*

Nah. not really. I was just being overly sarcastic.

Just seems like you have a personal grudge against grunge. There are plenty of other styles being played out right now, not just grunge. Styles that were done 2, 3 + years ago...and people still want to know how to do them. That doesn't make them trendy, that makes them want to learn and create a style that they really like.

Personal preference, not following the crowd.

Kind of like the TeamPS 'tubes.' pank created something that alot of people thought was really cool, so they wanted to try and create the same effect, because they really liked it. We got flooded with "how do I make those tubes?" questions. I don't think they said 'oh, well TeamPS did it, so I must make my site with the same thing.' I think they did it because they thought it was a cool thing, and they wanted to learn how to do it.

I get that the point of your article was on originality, but I didn't get that from it. I just got you hashing out a personal dislike for grunge, while throwing some originality content in to mask it. That's not a flame or anything, that's what I grasped from the post, and I've read it like 2 or 3 times since you posted it.

Why would I stop dressing grunge if it's been over with for 10 years? Do you have no concept of what it is to "not" be trendy?

Seems like you really don't. Therefore I can really see why your having trouble understanding my arguments towards grunge not being trendy. I think I have a good idea as you so coldly pointed out since yeah my friends are goths and punks and people who dress in grunge. What can I say were dressing in a style that ended 10 years ago!!

You seem like a pretty normal guy.

MobileBadBoy your so on the ball.