i'm using this icon cos he means the world to me.

... 30s. key features : 'rays of light' often encorporated into the design, very metropolitan, sky scrappers, tiering. even more extreme a turn away from art nouveau was minimalism . the name say it all really. which brings us to today. glass and granite are the tools of choice and everything is about going taller, bigger and better than the last. welcome to futurism . i don't like it.

Megatrends: Everywhere to Florida

The ninth trend Naisbitt highlights in his book, Megatrends , is the demographic shift from North to South (especially Florida). He suggests that this is a "trend that is virtually irreversible in our lifetimes". Since this book is only from the '80s, I think he was rather fast to jump to that conclusion. In particular, he mentions things like capital investment (currently so poor that when ...

Future Vignette

Yesterday, walking on the street, I was surprised when I passed three people talking on cell phones in a row. I noticed the fourth guy I passed wasn't talking on a cell phone. But then I saw he was texting. Sometimes I forget we live in the future.

Pallotuoli

В 1966 году финн Ееро Аарнио придумал футуристическое кресло-шар. Оно использовалось во множестве фильмов, присутствует во всех музеях мебели и до сих пор выпускается. Правда сегодня Кресло-шар оборудовано МР3 проигрывателем и стоит около 6000 евро. PS Эти современные "выжималки" апельсиного сока пришли прямо из романа Уэлса "Война миров".

Space-Age 60's

Futurism Fashion Mort Garson

My noughties 3: Oskar in Tokyo

... hand you have the conservative, enduring, folksy appeal of strong narrative lines, universal timeless themes, stories, content. On the other radical, innovative Modernism, and with it a certain elitist formalism, futurism, the shock of the new, the untried, the experimental. How to reconcile them? Well, one method is to do what the brilliant physical, textural cine-clown Jacques Tati did in Mon ...

Friday: Pre-Millenium Tension

Have some 90's aesthetic techno-industrial futurism. I can't wait for this kind of lockstep menace to come back around. I mean, the M.Gondry soft-sell is kinda played out now, ne? Also, inoffensive lowercase logos suck. Declarative Capslock or GO HOME. IBM. MOTOROLA. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS. TURBINE DIVINITY. (Sorry, birdy) It should be noted that I have yet to see "Where The Wild Things Are" ...

Обложки журналов: "The Experimenter"

... очередное детище г-на ХьюгоГернсбека . Полноцветные обложки с иллюстрациями в футуристическом стиле (gosh-wow futurism) - абсолютно узнаваемый стиль всех журналов этого энергичного джентльмена. *пытается свыкнуться с противоречивыми ощущениями от картинок gosh-wow futurism* Э... Да. Вот так выглядели все журналы г-на Гернсбека в середине и в ...

Backlogged Blogging: London Log

.... In the main bit I was a lot of Picasso’s. Pollocks, Braques, I saw a Linchenstine that I’ve always loved but never seen the original. There was one Melvitch (my tattoo) and lots of cool cubism & futurism sculptures. Yeah I had a brillian time. I did end up in the gift shop but I did well, considering how much I wanted but didn’t end up buying. They had a Kasmir Melvich calendar and I got that, ...

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