Screening the windowframe of reality from the clumsy brushwork of Dan Eastwell.
Comments? Dan Eastwell (all one word) at gmail dot com
ken garland & associates:graphic design:galt toys
” We had to build an image for Galt’s virtually from scratch, and decided to base it on linking the company name at all times with the word ‘Toys’ which proved so successful that soon everyone was calling them ‘Galt Toys’ “
Murmur Study on Vimeo (via Vimeo) This installation consists of 30 thermal printers that continuously monitor Twitter for new messages containing variations on common emotional utterances. Messages containing hundreds of variations on words such as argh, meh, grrrr, oooo, ewww, and hmph, are printed as an endless waterfall of text accumulating in tangled piles below.
This round-headed man’s ubiquitous presence on the visual landscape belies his very particular origin. He was born in the 1920s to Austrian philosopher and social scientist Otto Neurath. (via The Smart Set: Symbolic Gestures - July 25, 2009 )
While from a very narrow specification point-of-view ‘they do their job’, what utter contempt for users these two seating examples demonstrate! The benches on Cornmarket Street are clearly intended to prevent anyone lying down on them (armrests, small radius of curvature) or indeed sitting for very long at all in comfort (height off the ground, vertical backrest, small radius of curvature). Why? Why despise the public so much? The designer must have been given a specification requiring all the above features: I can’t believe they just arose out of aesthetic or manufacturing considerations. That bench has been engineered to restrict, control and discipline users. Was it really necessary? Does forcing the homeless to lie on the ground instead, or preventing people sitting comfortably and watching the world go by really ’solve’ any problems? (via Design with Intent | Anti-user seating in Oxford )
There are numerous theories about the purpose of these tracks, the most discussed are the following: * Goods were transported here on sledges which gouged the tracks into the rock. * The tracks are real cart ruts for transporting goods. * It is an irrigation system. The theories of transport systems are the most popular in the discussion. (via Misrah Ghar il-Kbir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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