15 Fun Things With And Without Practical Uses To Brighten Your Day, As Shared Online

Pictures shared by the Concepttalk Instagram account probably cannot be put under one category, except with the help of the account’s description of having something interesting and unexpected about them.

This first and foremost leads to things revealing their unexpected side by playful presentation brought to the viewer’s attention. Something to be experienced and enjoyed!

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#1 Fluid Rugs, By Faig Ahmed

#2 Snoopy Bike, Taiwan

The account Concepttalk has 370K followers on Instagram and despite its short description, the link provided to the website of a curator leads us to one possible clue to a certain theme, which could be applied at least to some part of the pictures from Concepttalk. While the former is meant for “retro lovers”, the latter has a lot to do with it as well.

According to the study Retro - The Culture of Revival, by Elizabeth E. Guffey, retro is a movement which beginning gets associated with the rehabilitation of works by Beardsley, and the movement of Art Nouveau in general. Even though revivals or enhanced interest in a specific historical period did happen in the past, according to the author, this movement was different.

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#4 Plastic Chair In Wood, By Maarten Baas

#5 Signage Concept By Yuki Matsueda

#6 Lava Lamp Nails, By Liampeternails

Based on the interpretation by Guffey, the revival of art and design of the late nineteenth century suggests a unique tendency - a “popular thirst for the recovery of earlier, and yet still modern.”

The author suggests that the most potent connotation of 'retro' that tends to be overlooked is its fundamental shift in the popular relationship with the past. When it comes to its object, it focuses on the recent past, rather than the Middle Ages or Antiquity.

When it comes to its attitude or the way of looking at this recent past, the author describes it as half-ironic, half-longing, detached, and “attempting to come to terms with Modernity’s ideas, as well as its boundaries and even its mortality.”

However, Guffey warns against dismissing the appeal of these tendencies as simply looking backward or merely a series of stylistic gestures and suggests that it is better understood as a kind of subversion of “looking backward in order to go forward.”

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