Do you have a fantasy, as a man?
I've always wanted to smoke a HUGE Cuban cigar and wear a big Panama hat. I'm a bit of a fantasist drug lord when it comes to the way I look. I've always enjoyed the way that you see the South American Cartel bosses dress. In the TV anyway, I've never seen one up and close.
But it's something men never talk about widely. It's women that are known for dress up, and men, well, it's not commonly done. But if you look into our childhoods, at least when I was young anyway, we were always dressing up as the Lone Ranger, or Superman, or one of the male hero's that were around in the 80's.
I don't see that anymore. At least not in my family. The boys, well, they tend to get into tech too early and well, their imagination gets everything from there. I'm thinking we don't have as much of a deep vivid imagination as we used to. We can see this play out with the media that we see trotted out with Hollywood. Or they could be just being lazy. Who knows.
I'd like to see more imaginary play in our society. Kids out in the streets with their Captain America suit, or their Thor Thunder hammer. I remember having a Lion-O Thundercat Sword of Omens, and I'd frequently take it to my face and say, "Oh Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!" - I also kind of have this niggling feeling as I write this to do that myself, hah.
Nevertheless I do like a bit of imaginary play and here's a photo of me with a big fat Cuban cigar. We had a bit of an evening of it in the cave the other day with Marky and Myself doing a bit of AI drawing, with Neoxian joining in for a bit.
That being said it leads to a wider and a bit exciting topic of where we're headed next? This is the era of AI, and we haven't seen much of it in the cryptosphere right now. In terms of artificial intelligence use cases we are sorely lacking in development. Usually we are at the forefront of tech, implementing all the new use cases like we did last time. What can be brewing underneath? If at all?
I mean it's definitely the time to build, but history dictates the most of the building takes place after the halvening. When in reality the serious building needs to be taking place in the bear when nothing is happening. And I get it, everything is cheaper but then so is our bank balances. In the bull market we've all got gazillions to spend on whatever whim we want, but the reality is that building costs money! It really does. And no-one has money right now.
I'm a bit of a dreamer myself. I've already got the next two years mapped out and where we're going to go from there. It will be interesting to see where the road leads us! I'm still very pro hive, and like I seem to say in almost all of my posts these days I do believe humanity is tipped towards good, so hive will survive, well into the rubble!! We'll still be here when Bitcoin stops halving.
So I was wondering, chaps. What do you like to dress up as when you're feeling like a bit of a clown? Or at least, imagine yourself as? For instance I have been known to imagine myself as a orchestra conductor. Maybe that might be my next ai picture!
What about you? Let's hear your suggestions!!
I think myself I would say someone like Indians Jones or James Bond is who I would say if I was having a bit of a fantasy going on. Jones for the adventure and skills he brought for finding shit. Bond for the style and abilities to complete missions in the most heinous situations.
It’s funny - I smoked a Cuban years ago, my friend got them when he was in Afghanistan. It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be lol but I do have the tube still! I’ll have to dig it out and take a picture, white with a red cap on it. It’s a cool memento.
Ah James Bond and Indiana! Good choices!
I'd love love love to smoke a Cuban. I've never seen them in the UK though.
But we DO dress up, all the time, even without realizing that we're donning costumes, don't we? Even the ubiquitous blue jeans used to be a way (at least for my parents' generation) to take on a working-class look, even if they themselves happened to be university students studying for a white-collar job.
As for me, I also love wearing a cream colored linen suit sometimes, just for having an espresso in a street café while folding through a large newspaper (printed on actual paper, the old school way). And I have to admit, a nice big cigar would complete the picture, except for its horrible taste, which I never managed to acquire for myself.
Thinking back to my early 20s, I also enjoyed cultivating a "communist agitator from a century ago" - look, consisting of a pointy goatee, small round glasses, and a red beret, along with a woolen trench coat. Perhaps as a counterweight to this radical look, I also adopted the hairstyle of a WWII soldier (from EITHER side, doesn't matter) a few years later. That went surprisingly well with the aforementioned linen suit or even the blue jeans.
Working in the education field, I knew that I would not get around the stereotypical and self-caricaturizing tweed jacket with elbow patches. By the time I arrived at that particular piece of clothing, I was very aware of my affinity for playing dress-up. It's not the same as putting on a pirate costume for a Halloween party. I never thought about it as either feminine or masculine, though I do realize that women tend to practice this more, and thus are typically more skilled at it. Thank you for this post that got me thinking about my own ways of dressing up.
That's very interesting :)