In the journal called the Blast, there contained two articles called the Long Live the Vortex and Blast 6. The publishers of the Blast were trying to bring forth a new artistic movement called the Vorticism. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Vorticism was "an avant-garde movement in the literacy and visual arts centered in London" (Norton 2070). The term "blast," founded by Wyndham Lewis, "mean the blowing away of dead ideas and worn-out notions" (Norton 2070). When reading the Long Live the Vortex, the part "we do not want to make people wear Futurist Patches, or fuss men to take to pink and sky-blue trousers" (Blast 2072) gives a reference from the past that the new movement does not want to forsake the old age anymore.
