Icon of the 21st Century

The template used on this page (at the very top) represents but a small portion of the world as we know it today. It is an infinitesimal clip of knowledge cut from the overwhelmingly large sea of information that technology has given us access to. As we find more advances in technology, our accessibility to such information increases, until the human mind can not fully process all of it. Thus, images and ideas cease to truly sink into our brain. 

The header, as well as the image we have chosen, reflects this, for no one picture appears more important than the rest. Rather, it is difficult to distinguish what is actually significant and relevant to us and what isn't. It is a collision of different ideas, different cultures, different emotions, all battling for the attention of you, the reader. 

And so we must step back and ask ourselves: what is to be remembered from all this? Is our culture capable of creating something that lasts, something that stands apart from the rest? A cultural icon as monumental as the Beatles, or a movie as memorable as, say, Gone With the Wind? Or will the icon of the 21st century not be a single, pivotal idea, but rather more of what you see above: merely a slew of images, sound bites, and words to represent the times we live in. Maybe in a world of so much information, spontaneity is the key to making an impression, to making a sharp contrast amidst the busy waves of shared ideas. Yet spontaneity does not necessarily give way to memorability, for an unexpected experience becomes expected and unsurprising once its initial moment of effect fades away.

--Ryan