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LATEST ARTICLES ( 44 )

• I Can’t Live Without It

  

  The urge to buy a propeller that Thomas shows in this clip is a clear example of impulse purchase. Once he sees the piece, its appeal is above reasoning. He... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• They Were the Wonder of Every One That Beheld Them

  

  In the first two parts of Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World —A Voyage to Lilliput and A Voyage to Brobdingnag— we can read several... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• I’ll Park at the Corner

  This is a scene of contrast and interaction between one of the tallest [191cm] actors and one of the tiniest cars. The Fiat “Topolino” 500 B Transformabile is s... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New Furniture… New Life

  

  Midsommar Stories is an episodic film where “IKEA, myth of our time, is the linchpin for a series of different stories created by students in the department... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• I’m More of a… Collector, Really.

  

  In his very interesting book The System of Objects, Jean Baudrillard included a chapter called “A Marginal System: Collecting”. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• This is the Type of Furniture We Should Be Making

  As a young designer in a classical furniture company, Harold Skinner tries to update the catalog by improving the aesthetics and using new materials. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• That’s the Trouble with Too Much Comfort

  

  ella: Oh, knock it off, would you? I’m exhausted. weston: Try the table. Nice and hard. It’ll do wonders for you. ella: (Suddenly soft) The table? weston:... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Car of Tomorrow… Today

  

  The story of the Tucker ’48 automobile is one of the most colorful in the history of motor cars Its creation began in the bright light which awakened mankind... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• You Don’t Like This Bed, I Show You Another One

  

  The Marx Brothers are surprised sleeping in the bed department of The Big Store, so they just pretend to be salesmen, showing the customers all kinds of beds:... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Very Satanic-looking Little Old Table

  

  When I first saw the table, dingy and dusty, in the furthest corner of the old hopper-shaped garret, and set out with broken, be-crusted old purple vials and... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Full Line of Field and Kitchenware

  

  Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) opened the Deutsche Emalwarenfabrik Oskar Schindler (German Enamelware Factory Oskar Schindler) in Kraków during the Holocaust,... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2013 CULTURE

• The Thing Does Not Belong on the Earth

  

  The landing of a strange, unique and unnatural object in a hunter-gatherer society with no sense of ownership is the starting point of the narration in the movi... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Human Stuff, Huh?

  

  Hans Christian Andersen, whose fairy tale the film is based upon, wrote about a little mermaid: “nothing gave her so much pleasure as to hear about the world... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• I’m Very Sorry I Hurt Your Lamp

  

  As it happened, later that afternoon I caught the cord of the new lamp with my food so that it lurched onto the radiator and was multiply chipped. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• And Then We Saw… It

  When Tacy (Lucille Ball) takes Nicky (Desi Arnaz) to the Annual Trailer Show she expects a lot from a mobile home called “The Bungalette”. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 CULTURE

• Why Do They Make This Goddamn Things So Heavy?

  

  SPOILER ALERT! One of the scenes of the clip may be a plot spoiler. There are some professions that deserve a lot of consideration. In terms of design, the... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2013 CULTURE

• People Making Names, Not Things

  

  In this scene Mark Wallace (Albert Finney), an architect, is using a Verascope F40 stereo camera to photograph Notre-Dame de Senlis cathedral. Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 CULTURE

• A Chair is Still a Chair

  

  Even when there’s no one sitting there But a chair is not a house And a house is not a home When there’s no one there to hold you tight, And no one there you ca... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2012 CULTURE

• Build a Better Mousetrap

  

  This Tom & Jerry cartoon shows the design and construction process of a mousetrap by Tom Cat. This could be categorized as a Rube Goldberg machine, that... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 CULTURE

• Death to the Backpack

  

  Robert Plath (Harry Dean Stanton) is not a fictional character, and the story he tells to Cheyenne (Sean Penn) is true… except that he was not really the first... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 CULTURE