Historically nomads who were once better known as tinkers and described by Yeats as "the people of the roads," the travelers long lived outside the mainstream, but from their on-camera showboating — as they duke it out, crow about their wins, taunt the losers and bang the drums for the next slugfest — they're ready for their collective close-up.
As the journalist Bill Bishop shows in his eye-opening demographic study "The Big Sort," for decades we have been withdrawing into "communities of like-mindedness" where the gap between individual and collective closes.
Shortly after our visit to Astoria, Flores announced QNS Collective will close its doors for good at the end of this month due to mounting competition with WeWork.
Of Wikipedia he writes that "it's great that we now enjoy a cooperative pop culture concordance" but argues that the site's ethos ratifies the notion that the individual voice even the voice of an expert is eminently dispensable, and "the idea that the collective is closer to the truth".
It presents itself as a seven-member collective; its closest thing to a leader is Stuart Murdoch, its founder and principal songwriter, who has slowly receded into the background over its last couple of albums, sharing more of the writing and singing with other members.
Therefore, the term puts deniers in a defensive crouch and their collective mindset closes further.
Lane was in a collective called Closed Caption Comics and he's done a book called 12 Gems for Fantagraphics.
The New York-based dance-rock collective, who closed the first night of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, is one of two celebrated reunions happening this weekend.
Montréal-based collective La Bacchanale closed out the summer last weekend in style, delivering an experience never before encountered in the city's idyllic old port.
Brooklyn producer and DJ, Tygapaw, has shared a severe edit of Dawn Richard's former band Danity Kane ahead of RUDE GYAL, Tygapaw's Fake Accent collective's closing party for the MAMI exhibition at Knockdown Center in Queens this Saturday.
