Friday Ephemera (778)
Design flaw detected. || r/Deathladders, a collection of unconvincing support apparatus. || Revving and regret. || V8 street bike. || A tale of Lake Cow Bacon: “Broussard insisted that the creatures were naturally tame and their meat was delicious.” || James Bond comic books from India. (h/t, Tacky Raccoons) || Like aerial ballet. || When you bring home a playmate. || Know your saucepan, 1973. || The joys of public transport. || The progressive retail experience, parts 639, 640, 641, 642, and 643. || Sudden-onset upwardsness. || He doesn’t like talking about his personal life. || She’s a masterpiece evolving. || It’s amazing how quickly the day can turn to shit. || Now is not a good time. || Regarding legroom. || For lovers of never-ending drum solos. || Oh, and finally, fashion choices were made.
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“I have been logged out of my toothbrush.”
Yes. Definitely. Without question and without even bothering to click the link. Kinda afraid it would only piss me off more. How/why anyone would think that crap was worthy of even being called architecture is another question.
Posting this for no particular reason whatsoever.
Can this be real? “Without us, I don’t know how this world will survive.”
Logged out of my toothbrush: some more phrases that younger me would not have understood:
I have to charge my doorbell
Was on zoom all day
My car key needs a battery
Tap your card to pay
“refugee”
“Swipe your card.” When I was younger, swipe only meant to steal.
Correct diagnosis.
“He’s a scorpion, and his only goal is to sting me as we cross the river!”
Under no circumstances would I rent a room to an American woman, much less a homeless male “migrant.” There was no way that situation was going to be anything but disastrous.
Does her brother not have friends? Can they not visit this man and encourage him to move out? Or at least help him visit the hospital for a few days?
You have to wonder just how unrealistic you’d have to be, and how lost in false and fluffy assumptions, for all of the normal reservations, all those flashing red lights, to be disregarded.
Her situation is a metaphor for what Europeans have done to themselves regarding the immigration crisis. No…wait..is it a metaphor if it’s actually an instantiation of the consequences of the thing something is a metaphor for…I’m so confused.
I get your point but…doesn’t her city have a police department and a justice system? Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing that they should be doing? I wonder what would happen if she had a husband, well a locally grown one anyway, who acted like this?
…meanwhile in Cincinnati, they have significant other “safety challenges”. That is all this stuff is. No problems, just safety challenges.
“Without us, I don’t know how this world will survive.”
Before TikToc people only ate boxed mac & cheese, used mud and crushed berries for make up, and wore leaves and animal hides (from road kill, of course). Surely an “influencer” strike will have us all back in caves.
Meanwhile, this being Sunday, let us turn our attention to religious maters.
Get yours today!
Is it Jesus or this chap, you decide.
Speaking, as we were, of progressive empathy.
Better watch out for Robert F Kennedy Jr, Tony.
Wearing the skin of your enemy
Some of it can be quite well done – Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs comes to mind – but most of it suffers the same anti-human flaw as other modern architecture.
Hello, Animal Control? I’d like to report some rabid dogs that need to be put down.
Not the only example of ignorance on display.
Apparently no one ever translate Aesop into French.
Which may explain much about the French.
No. That, too, looks unwelcoming. Not a human environment. It would, however, make a good setting for a dystopian sf movie.
Perhaps they’re as effective as those in New York City in dealing with squatting psychopaths.
Another good post via Dicentra.
No more so than, say, the Hall of Mirrors. A different style but still a certain grace. Both are intended to impose.
I’m no fan of Brutalism, and most of Niemeyer’s efforts are off-putting, but there are a few examples that have a certain beauty.
Exactly. The stairs and the entrance windows/whatever are tolerable. Same with the exterior being not so brutal, tho boring in the sense that some sci-fi depictions are. Something I never really thought much about until now.
Tho to be fair, I ran across this in Krakow many years ago and kinda liked it. Mostly because it sat in the middle of nowhere. Put it in a city next to a few other buildings of any kind and the impression changes considerably. And when I saw it, it was decorated with a huge beer advertisement on that flat wall.
Heh. Reading this link elsewhere and nodding my head thinking well, exactly, then noticing that it was something David said five years ago.
Disagree. The brutalist example is stark, cold, inhuman.
Architecture…
I blame UC Berkeley. The building housing the school of architecture, Wurster Hall, is without a doubt the ugliest building on campus, inside and out.
Designed by three Berkeley professors. Of course.
…Wurster Hall…
I guess it could be worster having been designed by a faculty committee, but at least it is aptly named and the lack of faith justified.
Heh. As I recall the architect college building at UF was rather ugly. [checks web for pics] Yep. Still ugly.
Speaking of UF, interesting school board meeting in UF’s home county of Alachua. A board member had said effectively that she was glad Hulk Hogan was dead because he was MAGA. A lone parent at the next public meeting pushed back and he was met with hysteria. The Hodge Twins break down the story.
I seem to recall hearing of a building which was designed by an architecture student.
Remembered the building. Checked. I was wrong. Designed by architectural firm.
It is an excellent example of brutalist architecture, suitable for the Soviet Union.
Appropriately, it is where the Women’s and Gender Studies Department is located.