tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855223901782590860.post7719263473785583236..comments2024-02-19T05:12:30.844-05:00Comments on Oh Boym: When Design Was Thrillingcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342342242345926624noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855223901782590860.post-5246536342475061812010-02-23T16:44:57.772-05:002010-02-23T16:44:57.772-05:00i am definitely watching this. miss you guys!i am definitely watching this. miss you guys!alisa leonard-hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522975778325896449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855223901782590860.post-14273275583101871912010-01-29T01:50:56.664-05:002010-01-29T01:50:56.664-05:00All very good comments. Hitch liked to take the au...All very good comments. Hitch liked to take the audiences to rich places they couldn't afford (the Ambassador East in Chicago). But, I also think that the modern architecture angle might have something to do with the fact "commie" villain lived there. You know how those modern artists are. (Just kidding)Bryce Digdughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06495929818276168084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855223901782590860.post-28105950788914041872009-12-10T03:40:52.203-05:002009-12-10T03:40:52.203-05:00Eva Marie-Saint: "I'm an industrial desi...Eva Marie-Saint: "I'm an industrial designer." Doesn't get a lot more thrilling than THAT.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10350829131221531944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855223901782590860.post-26426432374045182232009-09-05T21:45:43.244-04:002009-09-05T21:45:43.244-04:00"In this, [Hitchcock] prefigured the age of g..."In this, [Hitchcock] prefigured the age of glossy fashion magazines, where contemporary architecture is often used to the same superficial effect – which by now lost any possibility to thrill.<br /><br />I'm not entirely sure this is a correct reading, rather I suggest boredom, from over-exposure of the new and the hyper-competitive environment where designers and architects compete with each other in games that are of little use to the consumers of their products, goods or environments.<br /><br />The High Line is a good example of this—on paper, it promises a thrilling passage through space and time. In reality, it is as artificial as a boardwalk leading into a Vegas casino. It could have been extruded in Stuttgart or lowered by a crane in Shanghai. By contrast, Mid-Century modern architecture thrilled film makers because it revealed all the potentials and contradictions, pain and pleasure, of the promises offered by industrialization, etc. Instead, everything that held that promised was reduced to one stereotype or another until people stopped looking, and sadly, stopped caring. Objects in the end, ceased to be things but simply stood for things.rwordplayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14273597973215378473noreply@blogger.com