footmobile2000 wrote: Superprecise wrote: He's amusing, like a caged idiot, but I'd still like to see him banned for being such an ignorant fuckwit.
shutup faggot
Superprecise wrote: It's hilarious that along with all his obscure pretentions and pseudo-military bullshit, he's also into Eames furniture - the most obvious and benign marker of the modern hipster sheep (nice though it is).
you see that's the difference between me and most people, I like shit because I like it, not because of what other people like. Sure I like w)taps but I also like Mc Donald's, because I think they're both good, I don't shun McDonald's because it's not obscure like a true hipster.
I've liked Eames ever since I saw it in Nip magazines in pics of the urahara set's apartments in the '90s. Then I researched it and found out the Eames designed military shit for Worl War 2, World War 2 was cool and I like the furniture stand alone because it's classically American like workwear or jeans, it's utilitarian and tough but also looks good without being fancy and gay like European shit. It could only come from an American perspective and America and it's perspective is something I've liked since I lived there for 3 years as a kid and it's probably something you couldn't understand. America basically saved Australia and England in WW2 and got nothing in return, I'll always love America and American things.
Sure the mainstream recently discovered it but I've had my eye on the Herman Miller stuff for many many years and it's recent popularity isn't going to change my tastes like it might change yours (because you're weak)
So from your avatar I assume you also like Eames designs even though they're "obvious" and "benign"? What's your justification for liking it?
I'm not weak (you cunt), I also like Eames design because of where it came from and how it uses materials. The aesthetics are pure but there is also a retro sci-fi element that appeals. Their work, as well as that of a few architects that spring to mind (the Case Study housing programme is a good starting point), has popular appeal as well as a deep design philosophy. Yeah it's come into fashion in the last ten years but that's not just because people are weak, it has to do with ideas and attitudes coming full circle, with objects acquiring a vintage (I'm not talking about vintage in the sense of the ironic hipster vintage fad). It is obvious and benign in the sense that it's commonplace amongst people with only a smidgen of aesthetic literacy, who
just love Eames furniture but know nothing of its origins beyond what they're told in the Vitra catalogue (Herman Miller don;t make the best versions either BTW).
I would say however that they (Ray and Charles) never quite achieved what they set out to as their mass-producible furniture was never that viable economically. The British designer Robin Day kind of completed that ambition on their behalf, though his design is only just getting the recognition it deserves because fruitcakes like you have held the Eames myth up as something rarified. Virtually every school in the UK has hundreds of plastic Robin Day chairs. As for the war, the connection you make seems a bit trite as they were pacifists and had utopian, almost communist ideals. The plywood Navy contracts were a starting point, yes, but they didn't design "military shit", they designed splints and stretchers.