La la land is just the beginning of trends that eventually migrate from coast to coast, infecting the rest of the continent.
I am still best known in my East Coast town for my dynamic aerobic dance fitness classes of the 80's and 90's, eventhough I do NOT do that gig anymore (I had a small, dedicated, cult-like following). The point is - I was innovative - as innovative as anybody in LA, but nobody accepted that I could possibly compete with the trends coming out of LA,... so fitness clubs here continued to honor the marketing gods of La la land and base their programs on the cookie-cutter trends coming from this great land of angels.
I invented, choreographed and recorded the music (song-for-song) for each of my styles that went by names like "cardio-fusion", "caribe", "trance", "tribe vibe" - nothing quite like them in the country at the time, I would wager. They were based on mathematical, as well as creative, principles. They required thought, practice and perserverence,... and those people who applied these things TOTALLY got my unhailed uniqueness (nah, I'm not bitter..... really, I'm not). I even wrote professional articles about my dance fitness philosophy (Pilates, shmilates) in an obscure academic human performance journal (chances of the public-at-large ever reading or wanting to read these is nada).
Had I been lucky enough to have big bucks, a backer or the necessary madness for fame, then I could have migrated MY trend to LA,... but I ran out of energy, and got old, ... or at least got tired of the game.
As Duchamp kicked his art habit for chess, so did I kick the dance/fitness-instructor habit for visual art.
My point again is ... all is not better outside LA,... co-op galleries are co-op galleries anywhere now. Every artist seems to aspire to have his/her own co-op gallery, to make money off rent from artists who haven't learned the truth yet.
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