Scion Installation 6: Video Tour coming to Pink Hobo Gallery

• I agree -- I think Scion is doing some cool stuff! It's nice to see a major brand actually doing some research on specific markets and coming up with innovative music and arts oriented events that definitely aren't cookie-cutter. Every Scion Installation show I've gone to has drawn a really cool crowd of young people who appreciate art. Kind of the next generation of art patrons, really. I don't think there's anything wrong with a company using clever marketing methods like this to score brownie points, as long as they do it right...and Scion seems to be doing it right so far! I'm excited to see the show!

• I love what Scion does! They are not only smart with their marketing techniques but also innovative. They are bringing dope artists and musicians to cities around the US for FREE, giving them more exposure and reaching a wider audience. Honestly, who wouldn�t want that?!

• The Catholic Church was responsible for most of the art in Europe, commissioned as promotional vehicle and requiring themes. Benefactor's sponsoring artists is as old as time. When this was overthrown in the 19th century, a free and competitive market for art arose. This is what caused many artists to innovate, create their own exhibitions and markets, and promote themselves. Bohemia is lifestyle branding. We follow the Rozz Tox manifesto, eschewing art as a purely bohemian venture, it is flexible in that it lives within all economic systems. ROZZ TOX: # It is unfortunate and unacceptable what vile and lazy do-nothings are given unwarranted credence for mouthing such foul and mean clich�as 'rip-off' and 'sell-out.' They have no understanding of our economy and the time it takes society to go. Confess and shut up! Capitalism good or ill is the river in which we sink or swim. Inspiration has always been born of recombination." # "In a capitalistic society such as the one in which we live, aesthetics as an endeavor flows thorough a body which is built of free enterprise and various illnesses. In boom times art may be supported by wildcat speculation or by excess funds in form of grants from the state or patronship as a tax write-off. Currently we are suffering from a lean economy. By necessity we must infiltrate popular mediums. We are building a business-based art movement. This is not new. Admitting it is."

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