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Habitat Machines: Tomorrow's Architecture From Yesterday's Appliances
Posted by Wilson Rothman at 12:00 PM on September 17, 2008
At first you see buildings of tomorrow, set on bleak plots of land against bleak skies. But then you notice the coffee pots. And the bathroom scales. And the meat grinders, the electric razors, the cake tins, the cheese graters and, well, you tell me. This is not a Photoshop contest, these are actual sculptures wittily erected by artist David Trautrimas for an exhibit entitled Habitat Machines opening next week at Toronto's Le Gallery. There's another haunting image below, and a few more over at Dezeen. Now I gotta go hack open my Kitchen-Aid stand mixer, to see if I can't just show the world Wilsonberg 2028. [Dezeen]
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General Halfshaftery
Posted 12:39 PM 17/9/08
@strider_mt2k:
omg you just reminded me of SCTV's Quincy: Cartoon Coroner!!!
+ Watch video
General Halfshaftery
strider_mt2k
Posted 12:27 PM 17/9/08
So they see the future as being some sort of Dishtopia?
I'm a glass half full man myself.
@General Halfshaftery: Enough of your Quincy-isms!
(Now get Sam on that Gas Chromatography!)
strider_mt2k
General Halfshaftery
Posted 12:21 PM 17/9/08
@Hamslicer:
It's not crap, it's a-r-t...and i'm gonna prove it!
General Halfshaftery
Hamslicer
Posted 12:15 PM 17/9/08
Seriously, this art, very clever!
Hamslicer
Hamslicer
Posted 12:14 PM 17/9/08
I can take my zoom lens mug and move right in to Crapland!
Hamslicer
General Halfshaftery
Posted 12:13 PM 17/9/08
Thanks Giz, finally something i can just hop on the streetcar to see!
General Halfshaftery
AeroBrat
Posted 1:42 PM 17/9/08
I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't be too wild about living in a 20 story meat grinder...
AeroBrat
Rattierevolution
Posted 2:01 PM 17/9/08
D: whyyyy can't I seee it? seriously...all I see are buildings....I was never good at those damn iSpy's
Rattierevolution
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 1:59 PM 17/9/08
Post-apocalyptic future with giant kitchenware?
I'll call it... S.T.O.V.E.R.?
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 2:50 PM 17/9/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Sorry, thought it was smaller.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 2:49 PM 17/9/08
@Hamslicer: Welcome home!!
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Wilson Rothman
Posted 2:40 PM 17/9/08
@strider_mt2k: "Dishtopia" - A terrifying, dehumanizing future as envisioned by Sean Connery. (Ba dum bum.)
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jkr's bold comment
Posted 3:51 PM 17/9/08
Ummm, fake. Now maybe my reading comprehension is either at a level far above Mr. Rothman's or far below, but here are some excerpts from the original link:
"...In 'Habitat Machines' David Trautrimas' photo-based architecture..."
So, what is photo-based, in this context it would seem to me to be photo's.
"...Then, by dramatic distortion of scale and context..."
Again, this to me implies some kind of image manipulation. So, if my spin on the original link is sub-par, than my apologies, else rewrite this article.
So, did a little research and I'm pretty sure my original take is correct.
[le-gallery.ca]
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shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 6:03 PM 17/9/08
It's called art. *looks around* Did I get that wrong? Wait, was the cover image shot on Mars?
I farted.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
strider_mt2k
Posted 9:44 PM 17/9/08
@Wilson Rothman: Nice!
I had to do my Sean Connery impression to confirm, but spot on man! :D
strider_mt2k
BigDogues
Posted 10:14 PM 17/9/08
Pixar's Robots springs to mind.
BigDogues
surfer88
Posted 3:44 AM 18/9/08
Ripley: That the atmospher processor?
Burke: Uh-huh. One of thirty or so, all over the planet. They're completely automated. We manufacture them by the way.
flash forward...
Hicks: (to Ferro)Prepare for dust off, we're gonna need immediate evac. (to Burke) I think we'll take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
(anyone see where this is going?)
surfer88
Mondoz
Posted 12:05 AM 19/9/08
It seems that this site doesn't handle Wiki's urls very well; it cut the trailing ) from the link.
Mondoz
Mondoz
Posted 12:04 AM 19/9/08
@BigDogues: Pixar didn't do 'Robots', that was Fox/Blue Sky.
[en.wikipedia.org])
Mondoz