Trendy Trends

I have been finding that the current trends we see from day to day are incredibly difficult to escape. Any attempt to stay out of the box, or remain unphased by the culture around is almost impossible. I try to think of ways that keep me from being in the current trends, but find that every time I hit on something, it ends up already being a trendy thing to do. I decided to figure out why its so hard to be original these days, and of course, the answer came while mowing a lawn, or two, or 10. Unfortunately, I can't explain it, so I am going to use this post to try and sort out my thoughts.

So first of all a quick look at a couple very common trends that are depressingly overused.

Colors for design, clothing, notebooks, anything: Browns with any bright or pastel color as a contrast. This is very cool, until every clearance rack and shelf at Walmart has this scheme. This is a sign that its time to move on. I like brown a lot, a whole lot, but something else would be fabulous.

Writing for advertising and marketing: No capitals, lots of a periods, incomplete sentences, and commands. It can be a very powerful method, but not when every other company uses it! Almost every good advertising company is doing it and its becoming totally useless. Statements like this appear on paper cups now: "drink." while the bag says: "food." making sure to include a period after the word. The period is cool, I did that quite a lot until I realized it was a thing... It says something more then just writing the word, it evokes a feeling that this one word says everything you need to know. However, it is going to far when everybody does it, too bad its still considered "different."

Ok so just kidding about having a huge list of trend problems, I kinda run out of inspiration after 5 minutes...
So on to the next part. Why I can't seem to break out of this shell and be so out of the box that I am an inspiration to others.

So I was sitting in physics trying to think of what doesnt fit in with society as far as colors go. So I know what all you perverts out there are thinking, but Im not, and I just like color a lot, and I have a pretty good sense of colors that go good together. ok!? thanks. So anyway, back to my colors. I tried to think of a single color combination for advertising/marketing, that wouldnt fit in the current trend, but would be acceptable in a cool way. I thought and thought, and couldnt really think of any colors that don't fit in(except teal and magenta, like back in the 90's.) I realized that this trend and culture we live in is not exclusive enough. The problem I found is that its trendy to be trendy, and trendiness is being unlike everybody else, at least in todays trend definitions. everybody wants to look original, and so, anything goes, as long as it isnt teal and magenta. Although, even thats ok if you add a dash of brown in. I am not real good at explaining it, but I hope yall are getting the picture. Basicly, every time I try to think outside the box, I am just being crammed more and more into it, engulfed by the power of culture. So drastic measures must be taken, I am not about to settle for this kind of thing, so, I just try and do things others dont think of, unfortunately, thats also trendy. See what I mean? Everytime I try and get out of it, I just find myself in it. Doing something different is cool. But fitting in with everybody is being different in todays standards, since everybody has to be trendy and different. Gosh, I just always get into this endless circle when I think about it. I mean, I am a good bit different then a lot of people, most people arent engineering majors and art minors, and most people in engineering or art, don't do lawn care for a living, and most people in college plan on using their degree when they get out, unlike me. But I just don't think that makes me cool. Its not enough in today's standards, now, if I want to be cool, I just have to go jump in a lake with alligators, or get stabbed by some sting ray or something that noone else would even dare to do. It's sad that thats how it is. I don't think I want to be cool if thats what it takes.
Oh, and as far as the writing goes, I am trying real hard to be more of a good writer and not some person who tries to fit in and uses lots of periods and incomplete sentences. That's at least a step in the right direction. I guess for colors I will just go classic black and white, it's timeless.

So anyway, I was going to try and cover up a lame rambling post with a better structured post, too bad I didn't succeed.