Alright, so Rave Bright is going back up, but not the way it was before. I'm writing this blog for myself now, nobody else. I'm not posting articles, i'm not posting about people in the scene. I'm writing about myself. This means that my readers (thats you, if your out there) can go fuck themselves. Because I dont give a shit what any of you have to say about my writing or my opinions. If you want to read this shit, do it. But if you don't, X out and shut the fuck up.
We have the right to free speech in America, and I'm going to use it. We have the right to opinions, and I am going to have them. Not only that, I will post all the shit I want about drugs, I
will be as negative as I want, and I will certainly mention if there is some bad shit going on in the scene if I feel like it.
Basically, the people of columbus are trying to take the fun out of the rave scene, but they don't want me to bring that up. Maybe, if I walked into a club and saw a bunch of ravers having a good time, getting along, and feeling colorful I would have more good things to say. However, the Columbus EDM people are trying to make "raves" gritty again, but not in the good way. It seems like the leaders of the "scene" and many of the Dj's want people to go for the music, and only the music. And possibly the drinking. I think they could care less for the people that dance, socialize, do party drugs, laugh, discover something new, make a new friend, etc. They aren't worried about fun, they are worried about profit.
Walk into a Leboom someday, or just flip through the photographs posted about the night, your going to find a room full of black. The photographers in the scene take wide shots of the whole room. Presumably to show just how many people a DJ got into the venue, guess how much they made in door fee's?! Drinks?!, The pictures say, "don't you see how successful the scene is? We are generating loads of faceless people, we are legit because we bring in cash."
I would be much happier with a smaller amount of people that actually matter. An actual scene in Columbus, a community. However, the amount of like-minded people that go to these events is dwindling. We all have different goals, and it seems not enough time to share them with eachother or find common ground.
What you don't see in most photographers work is people having fun. I could look at albums of pictures from the Electric Daisy Carnival, because they all have their own story. You get to glimse a moment in some other persons life. Shots of individuals just don't make it into the albums as much as they should. (However, to be fair, there are some current photographers that are doing a bang up job. But these are not the local photographers that are getting work in columbus, they are not in league with the people that "run the scene").
I'm seriously fucking tired of worrying about what the other people in the columbus scene are going to say about what I write, what my opinions are, etc. Because it is very rarely accepting. Even when Rave Bright first began, it wasn't for the main players, it was for the fans. My target audience was really the glow babies, the raver kids, the kandi kidds, the dancers, the people who take electronic music, and let it become just a part of their culture.
So yes, Rave Bright is back up. Read it if you want, but don't try and use gossip to blow it out of proportion. To all of you "scene leaders" I'm not a threat anymore, I'm not marketing my blog to anybody, or even going to mention it to anybody. Rave Bright is going underground.
To everybody else, if you are indeed reading this, welcome aboard. Shit is about to get real.
