The Media Controls Your Mind

[luka]

i liked will self saying to the property developer 'you alienate space'.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Leon Krier had a lot to say on this

 

[mixed_biscuits]

biscuits is a genius and he's totally correct again in as much as the eye delights in detail and novelty. where there is redundancy it switches off and space becomes a kind of blank. you get that in berlin where there is a lot of regularity. it's becoming a problem in London too where whole blocks are demolished to be replaced with sheets of blue glass.

Overstimulation is aggressive while understimulation is passive-aggressive - both modern tendencies are meant to impress the observer by depriving them of pleasure rather than providing a surfeit thereof

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Architects nowadays aren't confident that they can impress through an excess of pleasure so they do the opposite and pretend that they're doing so by choice for ['good reason'] rather than faute de mieux

Same thing in other visual arts too obv

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Modern architecture is Fiat architecture, according to bitcoin bros. Old architecture is gold architecture, built to last and to show off, making the most of hard money, and never on credit.

 

[wild greens]

 

[wild greens]

Brilliant that. Chinese snouts are great

 

[mixed_biscuits]

We've got the same. It's called OnlyFans.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Brilliant that. Chinese snouts are great

I remember a mate of mine happily puffing away on some, years ago. I imagined them being enriched with asbestos and radium.

 

[ghost]

I'm assuming he meant 'modern' in the everyday sense of 'contemporary', as opposed to modernist, which is pretty old hat by now.

He's welcome to use words that mean what he's trying to say. The frequent references to glass made me believe he's got a grudge against the international style, and doesn't have much of a theory of architecture with finer distinctions.

I'll agree that there are many problems with the scale of many recent buildings, but again—Mr Biscuits is an adult, he can make the argument he wants to make.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

He's welcome to use words that mean what he's trying to say. The frequent references to glass made me believe he's got a grudge against the international style, and doesn't have much of a theory of architecture with finer distinctions.

I'll agree that there are many problems with the scale of many recent buildings, but again—Mr Biscuits is an adult, he can make the argument he wants to make.

What references to glass??

 

[WashYourHands]

the glass glass you twat

 

[WashYourHands]

The Dudes are encircling you

It’ll be a slow death eaten alive, look how excited they get about cookies

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I didn't say anything about glass

 

[shakahislop]

biscuits what's a good building you've seen recently

 

[shakahislop]

I was looking at the Summit in new york yesterday, it's pure glass, massive hulking thing, i resented it when it first went up but it looked cool yesterday

 

[WashYourHands]

See, glass @mixed_biscuits

@shakahislop what level of assimilation into US culture do you think you're at? Did it level off previously or are their new insights you still gleam as time passes

 

[Mr. Tea]

Mr Biscuits is an adult

Well, sort of.

 

[WashYourHands]

and then we have you

 

[WashYourHands]

Dissensus equivalent of athlete’s foot