on the anniversary of the day you went away poem

Creating business beyond fandom is becoming a big player, with intellectual property (IP) turned into a buzzword and popular acts being turned into cartoon characters and superheroes regularly. Simultaneously, the bigger companies are getting bigger, as in the case of Hybe or, on a smaller scale, JYP Entertainment, or being incorporated by outside investors and industries, like SM, now under Kakao.

We’re operating in a K-pop age when entertainment companies are losing the same sort of sway they once had and talent is taking a stand for itself. While this need to fit in by having a nice house is definitely the most problematic motive for home improvement of those I’ve described, I actually think it’s the one that might drive me the most.įans attend the “BTS 10th Anniversary FESTA Yeouido” in Seoul to mark the 10th anniversary of the group’s debut this week (photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images) In an ideal world, we’d be designing spaces that will still look good in ten years, because redesigning and refurnishing homes constantly is actually terrible for the environment. But in an ideal world, designers and design writers are not running around asking each other to conform to whatever is happening design-wise right now.

If you look at my plans for the Londo Lodge kitchen, they are most definitely infused with a lot of things that are trending hard now: traditional architectural styles, millwork, white oak, Craftsman details, and so on. Now, I’m not saying I somehow live above design trends and that I’m not influenced by what other people are doing. The idea that my house should look a certain way because other peoples’ homes look a certain way. My distaste for this comes from my general distaste towards the idea of conformity. I hate them.) But I tend to shy away from responding to those interviews because I don’t actually believe in design trends, and I most certainly do not want to throw any support behind the idea that people should be scouring the internet to see what “trends” they can overlay onto their homes in the coming year. They want sound bites like “Chevrons are back!” (They’re not. The recently sold “Brady Bunch” home (via Gone Wild)Įvery year around December, I get emails from journalists asking me what my “design trends” predictions are for the next year.

On the anniversary of the day you went away poem