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Talent Over Tools
Anytime a designer or artist complains to you that they don’t have the right tools to do a good job, you just show them this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Qpc4UzP9g
That guy is the Jimmy Hendrix of MS Paint.
Surely, this must be a joke…
“Dubai-based real estate firm Omniyat Properties plans to construct a tall building in Dubai modeled after the Apple iPod. The name of the 24-story tower: iPad.”
After decades of consumer products being driven by architectural form (IKEA, Modernism, cheap Eiffel tower statuettes), will pop consumerism drastically drive the form of architecture in a clearer (or shallower) public dialogue? And what happens to the meaning of the building when the iPod is no longer the public’s object of desire?
http://www.salatti.net/ipod-come-modello-per-la-nuova-torre-progettata-da-omniyat/
I guess this isn’t a whole lot different, in concept, from past pop architectural “icons”: Longaberger HQ, Mmmm…, Lucy, Dino.
Mayo Clinic shows adding activity to video games fights obesity
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/mc-mcs010407.php
Go Wii! Go Dance Dance Revolution! Or, how about kids just go outside?