Saturday, January 27, 2024

Jan 27 2024 - Tunnel Vision vs Tunnel Style

 

We know what tunnel vision is.  How did tunnel style get its name and what is it, anyway?

GQ knows what it is and that means men's fashion.  They say that the best place to see "buzzy designer" clothes is in the maze-like underbelly of your local sports arena.  It is the pre-game and post-game strut of NBA players.  Some players work with luxury brands and others have their own brands or work with stylists to create unique designs.  There's the"plug" for clothes - a person who sources and sells merchandise to players. “If you’re on the road and have somebody pull up with thousands of clothes, and you can pick whatever you want, that’s very efficient,” said Kuzma.  And these are not sweat pants and t-shirts.  These are strange and compelling outfits that won't be seen outside the tunnel on the street.

So we find this place of athletics and fashion - the stuff of celebrity coverage.  It seems like a high-pressure place to be for NBA players.  

Tunnel vision?  we thought it meant a visual impairment or a mental limitation didn't we?  But you can buy vintage clothes from the 60s, 70s, and so on from this independent sweatshop-free company.  

Other than these two fashion stories, tunnel as a topic is about boring machines and underground projects.  Elon Musk has a tunnel company named The Boring Company.   It is a SpaceX subsidiary.  There have been numerous project completed and then there are numerous criticisms of his claims for faster and cheaper and then whether there are safety features in the constructed projects. Musk's conception was that tunnels would be a better version of ground transportation systems.  He was wanting to fix Los Angeles traffic.  

So our first image of tunnel style is 2019 and our second image is 2023.  Do we see a difference?  Love those fuzzy shoes that match the fuzzy jacket.`

And today's image is our photographer's cottage in Grimsb Beach - what a contrast with the tunnel style above.

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