{"id":640,"date":"2016-10-20T05:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T00:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mag.vue.ai\/?p=640"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:49:12","slug":"how-cultural-pioneers-drive-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/retail-trends\/how-cultural-pioneers-drive-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cultural Pioneers Drive\u00a0Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p class=\"graf graf--p\">Casey Niestat is a 35-year old vlogger you have a good chance of knowing if you\u2019re under 25. He skateboards around New York, talks about his favourite cameras and snoozes in airport lobbies. He also lets you into his personal life: dates with his girlfriend, the scrapbook he made for her parents, reunions with his daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">But it\u2019s not just a mix of routine cool and the mundane that\u2019s so fascinating. There\u2019s also the weird, gutsy, interesting stuff that\u2019s subtly artistic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-641\" style=\"width: 4000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1920X1200.jpg\" alt=\"Casey Niestat cracks the YouTube Code. Illustration: Gauri Kumar\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1920X1200.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1920X1200-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1920X1200-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vue.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1920X1200-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Niestat cracks the YouTube Code. Illustration: Gauri Kumar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">In one aerial shot, he skateboards to an orange helicopter and smoothly leaps in. In another episode, he documents the making of a how-to video for Gear 360 with model Karlie Kloss. In another, he breaks down the dark side of YouTube\u2019s new monetization model from his studio in Broadway. And then there\u2019s the one where he wakeboards in a tux in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">The YouTuber called <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbiJqTBCQuw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nerdwriter<\/a> calls it a mix of Gonzo journalism, guerilla film making and cinema verite. As I write this, he is on episode one hundred and seventy three, and his videos routinely get more than a million views apiece. He\u2019s collaborated with Nike to create a brand video \u2014 <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WxfZkMm3wcg\">\u2018Make It Count\u2019<\/a>, for the Nike FuelBand. He gets featured in magazines like InStyle, and recently won the GQ Man of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Casey Niestat is the quintessential example of someone who\u2019s cracked the YouTube code. He treats technology as a cultural object by integrating the devices and gear that he works with, whether that\u2019s a skateboard or a camera, into the narrative. But he\u2019s also created a completely new style which can be monetized by balancing the raw, real feel of amateur YouTube videos with professional production and visual storytelling skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">And to do it, he took apart the YouTube subculture and put it back together to bridge the gap between channels, technologies and businesses.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"graf graf--h4\">The Harbingers of Mainstream<\/h3>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Every time a new technology or communication medium crops up, the group who first adopts it, uses it to express a very particular kind of <em>Weltanschauung<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">The Japanese call mobile phones as <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">keitai denwa<\/em>, which literally means \u2018portable telephones\u2019. But keitai took on another meaning too. It came to represent a subculture of early mobile users, most of them school and college-goers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Howard Rheingold, who wrote the book <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Smart Mobs<\/em> in 2002, recalls an interview with a member of what he described as the <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">\u2018techno-adept, fashion-saturated, identity-constructing, mobile texting\u2019<\/em> keitai culture. She wore a bow tie and her hair was kawaii punk \u2014 pointing in different directions and pinned down with fluorescent baby clips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">She texted about 80 times a day with her girlfriends and sometimes with boys, and could do it with her thumbs without looking at the screen. This teenager, by virtue of her belonging to the keitai culture, was one of the arbiters of cool in Tokyo at the time \u2014 a precursor to Apple\u2019s cult following today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Or take the more contemporary maker culture which takes a hybrid approach to DIY by merging the physical and digital worlds. It simultaneously embraces both low-tech and high-tech means of invention and taps into niche networks to learn. If you move into the social space, fitspo \u2014 the Tumblr and Instagram subculture for fitness inspiration \u2014 has turned into a monetisation model for bloggers and celebrities, and the athleisure industry\u2019s golden child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">As Rheingold rightly observes,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--pullquote\"><p>As with the personal computer and the Internet, key breakthroughs won\u2019t come from established industry leaders but from the fringes, from skunkworks and startups and even associations of amateurs. Especially associations of amateurs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<section class=\"section section--body\">\n<div class=\"section-divider layoutSingleColumn\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"section-content\">\n<div class=\"section-inner layoutSingleColumn\">\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Businesses often make the mistake of treating tech as the missing link in their strategy. They need to go omnichannel because other brands are rushing to do it. Personalization is the next big thing because industry reports paint a convincing picture with survey results and studies. The media is unanimous in crowning AI as the tech of the future, for better or worse. But what we fail to understand is that technology isn\u2019t the missing piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Texting first became popular because of a generation of young people who craved independence and privacy from their parents. Maker culture evolved from hacker culture because people who tinker with physical things now have new tools and resources online. Very few \u2018weirdos\u2019 ran for exercise in the 1960s until a running coach called <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/8\/9\/9115981\/running-jogging-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Bowerman<\/a> started popularizing it. He would go on to co-found Nike.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"graf graf--h4\">The Focal Point of\u00a0Progress<\/h3>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Until the Internet came along, humanity could leapfrog into the future with an invention, but people rarely altered their behaviour. New ideas were slow to catch on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">But that changed when the world became socially connected. With the hyper visibility it now affords, emerging ideas, concepts and philosophies travel at the speed of bits and bytes. The pace of culture change on a human level has sped up phenomenally, which opens us up to new experiences and interfaces like never before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">We now control, in some part, the direction of technological progress. We talked to Pia Stanchina, who&#8217;s worked with Google as an Industry Manager, on accelerating the adoption of digital tech and on digital innovation in the luxury fashion space, and she says that businesses, technology and creativity must function in harmony to succeed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--pullquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote\"><p>\u201c A brand is only valuable as long as it is relevant.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">That\u2019s why SnapChat rebranded themselves as Snap Inc. and positioned their camera spectacles as something that can help you <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">\u2018experience an experience\u2019<\/em> again. The focus on selling the dream, not the tech is intentional. The Google Glass was a similar concept which never took off because it was all tech and not human enough. Snapchat took the crucial step of sandwiching the tech between socio-cultural layers linked to existing human behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Or take the case of Honeywell\u2019s kitchen computer which was listed in a 1969 Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog. It was supposed to usher in the age of kitchen computing. The 150-pound machine came with a teletype and a paper tape reader, a $10,600 price tag and a two-week programming course for the cook (the lady of the house, of course) who used it. Naturally, no one could <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">really<\/em> use the thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Intel Senior Fellow and anthropologist Genevieve Bell, in an interview with The Atlantic, talks about what\u2019s changed since:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--pullquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote\"><p>\u201c\u2026We were looking at really early adopters of the iPad, and we found a woman in her house, and what had she done? She had stuck the iPad in a ziplock bag and stuck it on the kitchen counter and was using it to\u00a0cook.\u00a0And I remember thinking, Ah, it wasn\u2019t about \u201ckitchen computing,\u201d it was about computing you could make come to the kitchen. It was about finding an object that fitted into all the things that a kitchen already is, rather than trying to re-configure the kitchen around the Honeywell Kitchen Computer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">That woman is all of us. Find the human context, and you find a need. Find the need and you find the technology to satisfy it. The tech-culture cycle begins with human incentive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">It\u2019s no secret that customers a.k.a humans \u2014 we tend to forget that\u2019s the same thing \u2014 have been adopting tech and trends much quicker than businesses. And people like Casey Niestat, the keitai and the makers will always be pushing the boundaries of self-exploration and commerce, and juxtaposing technology with traits that are hard coded into our DNA. For fashion businesses, they present a trove of insights and use cases that may be impossible to come by anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">If you want to spin culture and stories into the fabric of your business and adopt the right technology at the right time, find the fire starters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><em>Disclaimer: Mind Over Matter is an editorial series. The featured opinions in this article are not an endorsement of Vue.ai or Mad Street Den.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> Casey Niestat is a 35-year old vlogger you have a good chance of knowing if you\u2019re under 25. 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