Dieter Rams - GOOD DESIGN IS LONG LASTING
Dieter Rams - GOOD DESIGN IS LONG LASTING
I was at Neiman Marcus yesterday with my mom and I can not tell you how uncomfortable I felt. Recently I got some Moncler boots for winter and they’re great, but I then tried on some Moncler gloves… this is where everything breaks down. They were warm, sure, but it felt like wearing a $400 plastic bag (condom if you want to be vulgar). My Moncler boots were $600. The value proposition is losing no matter what.
I’m questioning bourgeois sensibilities. Like $600 Italian made nubuck boots seem worthwhile. $400 “Italian stitched” (or whatever) gloves do NOT. Why? Probably the same amount of skill is involved in making them. But the idea of paying that much just for some European dude to make it seems insulting vis a vis the price. Idk.
Not to mention shoes and clothes are consumables. They also go out of style.
The reason I was loooking to piss money at NM was for the 5000 point bonus for spend over $250 On AmEx.
So I bought a Montblanc Marc Newson styled rollerball pen because it falls into the “I will keep this the rest of my life” bill.
I made the mistake of coming into the Billy Goat at Navy Pier (for as bad of a joke as that sounds) and the bartender has to be on coke. Has to be.
I came down with the Leica in tow. I am photographing before I take hiatus for 2019. 2019 is the “Year of Completion” where we compile everything and make something of the haze that was the last decade. If something successful can be conjured then I will continue, otherwise I will abandon this hobby/lifestyle construct for good.
Tumblr I am drifting in the fog and the cold winter rain
Snapple and Canadian Club are running through me
The earth is beautiful, but man’s creation is greater
obligatory “fuck yes these photos taken on a Hasselblad” but really obligatory “fuck yes these photos taken in low hanging perfect winter light” etc
Remember when I used to hang out in cemeteries?
That should continue.
Working full time kind of killed hanging out … anywhere.
just had the drunkish thought “how amazing that there are no communist superpowers left” while reading about the Soviet Union … and then remembered that China is still a “communist” state. Seems like capitalist realism in a nutshell.
Imagine a time and place where youth culture signifiers MEAN SOMETHING