Word: glo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Park practically every day all summer, and the proposition became significantly less ridiculous. All I had to do was get over the slight drawback of making a spectacle of myself every day. Speeding through the park at the height of summer on strange-looking wheeled units attached to Day-Glo Nordic ski boots and preposterously long poles is one of the few ways to actually attract attention in New York City. It took some time to reconcile my inherently low-key Scandinavian temperament with the whole public-spectacle thing - the unself-conscious stares, the involuntary comments, the tourists scrambling...
...bridge the generation gap, designers are branching out from the traditional Asian look to include, among other things, Day-Glo marbles and colored lights. Some models are decorated with picture frames, others with spinning balls. There's even a dizzying version of a water-based Lava lamp. Conair, known more for its hair dryers than its home-spa products, is developing a fountain with water flowing over a 3-D photograph of--you guessed it--flowing water. "It's reinvent or die," says Abraham. "That's the only way to keep a trend like this going...
...runs through Hollywood and Redmond, Wash.) we have the People of the Screen. The People of the Screen tend to ignore the classic logic of books; they prefer the dynamic flux of the screen. Movie screens, TV screens, computer screens, Game Boy screens, telephone screens, pager screens and Day-Glo megapixel screens we can only imagine today, plastered on every surface...
...bongs; like most American high schoolers nowadays, she's a veteran of drug-education classes from fifth grade onward and has seen it all before, in movies and in classroom programs. No, what interests her are the psychedelic posters pinned to the wall, great swirling designs in Day-Glo colors proclaiming PEACE and LOVE and the other phantasms of a bygone era. "These are kind of cool," she says. "Were they for decoration? Like, on your wall...
...Johnny Rotten is alive and well. The aging lead screecher of U.K. punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, Lydon still uses his old stage name and hasn't lost his sarcastic sneer--even if his spiky orange hair and Day-Glo togs make him look more like a Rugrat these days than a rebel. Lydon is ensconced in Nickelodeon's editing room finishing the second episode of Rotten Television, his new series for Nick's sister channel, VH1. A free-form zeitgeist diatribe, it has no script, a shoestring budget and zero structure. "What's the fun in having a format...