0Since blood, birth, and titles of nobility have lost their ideological force, the task of signifying transcendence has fallen to material signs – to pieces of furniture, objects, jewelry… A myth of power, and a myth of origins: whatever it is a man lacks in invested in the object.
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The New York Times has a nice interactive feature on something you may not have thought about before: the design of the Olympic Torch. It’s interesting to see the torch’s evolution, and how the different host nations have tried to imbue their national identities into a burning stick. [via Core77]
Categories: Design News
5I was having a conversation with a friend last night about the film, and about the music we’ll be using in it. (I also watched Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil again last night… such an amazing work. It makes me really jealous/insecure as a filmmaker. But that’s a good thing.)
While I can’t talk about the music we’re using yet, something I brought up in the conversation has been bugging me. I could have sworn, maybe about 10 years ago, that someone did an electronic music record that was made up entirely of samples of noises from Braun products. It took the sounds of alarm clock beepings, blenders churning, etc., and used them as the instruments in the songs. Am I just imagining this??? It does sound like something I’d dream up. My friend, a musician, hadn’t heard of it, and I’ve googled six ways to Sunday but I can’t find any mention of it either. Maybe I’m just a bad googler.
Does anyone have any memory of a Braun techno record???
-Gary
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