Wednesday, July 28, 2010

are you serious




wow. fuck me.

do you know what this is? this is the Amzer® Bicycle Handlebar Mount For Motorola Droid A855, i'm not kidding,

the person who designed this piece of shit is going straight into the deepest circle of hell, that's past the murderers, rapists, and gays

oh, and it's not like the people who approved or marketed this are getting off the hook, they're every bit as responsible for acting as enablers - catalysts - for this utter catastrophe, it's as if they saw a baby drowning in a pool or some shit and instead of deciding to save him they just kicked him around and left him to suffer, they had the opportunity to bring something atrocious to a full stop before it reached its full terrible potential, but they greenlighted it instead

do you realize just exactly how fucking awful this is. this is worse than the businessbros who have a bluetooth piece chillin in their ear all day, oh man i am soooo important i gotta be able to take phone calls at all times even when my hands are both occupied (one signing my own paycheck, the other furiously "stimulating" my boss's penis)

this thing is worse, way worse. this belongs to the goddamn garbage bag who rides a bicycle to work every day, he rolls into the office and takes off his helmet and you ask jokingly "what's with the bike dude" and then he freezes, sternly looks you in the eye, and with a voice dripping with condescension whose thickness is only matched by the slime coursing through his veins, says, 100% non-ironically, "i'm helping the earth. it's important. how are you helping?"

i guess helping the earth is not quite as important as being able to check your messages while you're biking to work, shitbag. just make sure you're not answering an email as you cycle across the highway, you might get run over and land the noble hero who collided with you into a big legal mess

i mean, i'm cool with biker bros, but, some peeps just take it too far,

Saturday, July 24, 2010

cool as fuck architecture

one of the reasons why artists and art enthusiasts receive so much flak is because there is essentially nothing 'useful' about the work they do. doctors help sick ppl, lawyers help guilty ppl, stockbrokers help rich ppl, and so on and so forth but artists in the opinion of this particular segment of critics don't really make anyone's life better to any tangible capacity. "whoop-de-fuckin-do, you made a painting, what do i care? i'm curing cancer, you pretentious little shit" thinks the pragmatically-minded medical researcher.

while the validity of this criticism is certainly not assured or credible, i think art makes everyday life better on a very subtle level, anyway, there are some people who are able to create a meaningful fusion of art and utility, those people are the architects. yeah maybe at the core these people are artists, their vocation is to design media that is to be appreciated and/or analyzed after all but on a much more fundamental level they are designing buildings and if you take a sec to think about it buildings are rly what allow our modern urban society to function as it does. where do you wake up each morning, in a bed, where is that bed, in a house. where do work, in an office/firm/lab/studio/etc, where is that etc, in a building. if you were to rank present day cultures from most "primitive" to most "advanced" i'd wager that as you get closer to the 'advanced' end of the spectrum then the # and size of buildings in those societies will both increase,

in this way the architect is a sort of post-artist, a post-designer,a post-builder. the architect represents the rare but powerful combination of necessity and superfluity, he is, indeed, the perfect man (or woman, how awesome does 'architectress' sound"

the transcendence of the architect is also portrayed in popular media. it's no surprise that when the wachowski bros had to name the cool, calculating, infinitely intelligent bro who built the matrix itself they called him 'the architect'

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anyway just wanted to share some cool as fuck architecture with yall since architecture represents the ultimate profession in terms of both pure aesthetic value as well as providing a fundamental and tangible service to all

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if i lived in this apartment building i'd look out the window every once in a while and see if i can spot a guy tripping on acid staring at the metal slivers thinking they were ghosts or jellyfish or the wind or some shit. he'd be my best friend

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how cool would it be to study geometry in this building

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looks like something out of LOST

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cool room to have ppl over for a book club meeting

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apart from serving as a receptacle for mail, this piece also has the added function of scaring the fuck out of mailmen

in any case i decided i'm gonna be an architect and get respect from both artists and practical ppl, do yall know what colleges have good architecture programs? thanks in advance for yr advice yall