RAVE(the store not the dance party)

Cutting Edge/In The Know/Stylish! All these things I am not! But I often wonder about them. Especially [In The Know] and [Stylish]. Most of what is thought of as Cutting Edge is just one artist being themselves, right and others loving it so much they make it stylish and pretend to be in the know because they have copied it first. It's all somewhat mind boggling if you think about it. I mean anyone doing any kind of art at all the good the bad and the ugly so to speak is Cutting Edge because they are actually doing it instead of talking about it in say a BLOG(notice I'm talking ;-}). And really all it would take to be In The Know is to read up on the current trends and incorporate those you like into your art thus becoming stylish. As far as being stylish well that's just another way of saying trendy and somehow that brings to mind the store RAVE. Anyone remember that? I know Jennifer and Challa will! (Blast from the past!) The clothes were terribly trendy but they were made out of a material so cheap they became rags after you washed them once or twice. I swear the the thread disolved! Which was ok since the trend had changed anyway and you needed to buy something totally different anyway! Back to the subject stylish/trendy by this standard have no substance. Thus making you the least Cutting Edge person around. See it's a vicious circle! How does one break out of the cycle? Do you just step off the giant spinning wheel one day? Or just plug along doing what must be done to continue the cycle? That is the question of the day! What do you do?