itchycoil:

People are obsessed with the New York in the seventies and 80s cause they can’t believe so many talented people were socializing together like it was just luck of the draw but a lot of them were actively working and inspiring each other and elevating each other’s work through that, and I feel like the way people conduct diy scenes now doesn’t reflect that it’s not about the art it’s about the group’s collective social identity. And the scene as a “thing” to be reflected on even as it’s happening. That doesn’t foster breakthroughs

(via riceboob)