djs are a class of people whose livelihoods depend on the technology they use. they take the newest instruments, the cleanest and most precise tools, and with those things, they deconstruct. i wanted to get at the smooth, round perfection of new technology with the shapes of my iconset. tech goes through phases, i think, of connotations of roundness and streamline and simplicity, and connotations of sharpness and angles and speed. perhaps in several more years, the highest tech will be angular and jagged again, but right now, the round corners that apple has been making ubiquitous are most indicative of the clean, bright culture of people who use electronics. this speaks to the contemporary, up-to-the-minute nature of the idea of revolution, as well as the taking of the best and newest things and subverting them into the iconoclastic idea of the remix, which is represented in a related clean and simple way by the slice, which introduces the sharpness and angle of taking our safe, round technology and doing things with it that others might never have expected.
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