Am I the only one who is disappointed that all of the Modern Family moms (including Cameron) are stay-at-home moms? If “most of network television nowadays is for women and about women” as a recent NY Times article suggests, then what are women getting out of shows like Modern Family? Are these SAHMs the dream we all secretly harbor, or are they the dream of the male creators? Or are we just so comfortable with women in this role on TV that it’s now what we expect to see? It pisses me off that Julie Bowen’s character can’t have a background job like her husband (a real estate agent who somehow makes enough money to support a family of 5 with two brand-new cars, and a huge house in an obviously affluent California suburb and yet seems to be home most of the time). What are all these stay-at-home moms with school-aged children doing all day when in reality more than half of married couples with children both work?
What Do the Modern Family Moms Do All Day?
You didn’t tell me there’d be clothes! <3 Missoni
I'm a sucker for those stripes and zig zags so I can't wait for the Target x Missoni release.
NY Magazine just posted the entire fashion lookbook and you can see previews of the home stuff here.
Reverse innovation lessons from India
Really interesting article in FastCompany about a bone drill (eek!) developed by the Stanford India Biodesign program and how reverse innovation may be an area of opportunity for medical device design.
Why do I want a problem?
Why did this have to be sitting in the garage where I took my homely Volvo wagon to get its oil changed?
Is it longing for the archetypal sportscar of your youth? The desire to make something old new again? Or just a need to own one of the most efficiently fast cars ever produced?
In other words, why am I so obsessed with procuring a problem as my next car?
If you’re anything of a car nerd, you know the BMW E30 M3. Produced from 1986–1992 these cars are somewhat rare and collectible in the states with private party prices often $10K above what Kelly thinks they’re worth. The quintessential BMW box but with a little bit of sex thrown in at the hip with fender flares that helped accommodate a wider track than the much more common sorority bitch bucket, the 318.
I first met and fell in love with the E30 M3 at my first autocross. There were two in the club and they competed fiercely against one another every weekend. One was white, one was dark gray, and I would have driven home happily in either one. Although they were already over 10 years old when I met them, their good looks hadn’t faded. Instead, the boxy coupes had come to represent all that was good in the world of BMW before a certain Bangle bungled it up.
Now I’m looking for my next track car. As you know, things break, fade, and slip over time. When these things happen to a BMW, they’re about 20 times more expensive to fix. So why bother? Why not get a new car that will be faster, more agile, better engineered than its 20 year old counterpart. And for the same price. Authenticity? Owning an icon? Becoming part of a club? Just plain obsession?
Whatever it is, the internet is no help when it comes to obsession. Tip o’ the hat to Scotty for this one.
Design Camp Featured on OPB’s Arts & Life Page!
Oregon Public Broadcasting wrote a little feature on the Design Camp I taught this summer – check it out!
UO Design Camp 2011
I just finished an intense week of teaching design to high schoolers and young adults, hoping to inspire some of them to pursue design in college or beyond. University of Oregon Design Camp 2011.
Best fake username and comment I’ve seen all day…
All right, Eugeneans, fess up. Which one of you is posing as Foghorn?
oax-i-fornia
Oax-i-fornia now has a website. Learn more about this academic project based on the idea of play as a starting point for collaboration and exchange between artisans, designers, and artists. Now in its sixth year, the project is directed by designer Raul Cabra and held through California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Oax-i-fornia takes place at the Ex-Hacienda de Guadalupe in the town of San Jeronimo Tlacochahuaya, outside the city of Oaxaca.
The perception of speed
One Day Photo Finishing. One Day italics! Did the drive-through aspect give the user a feeling of speed? Oh how things have changed. Another post about the change from analog to digital, but one that I haven't minded as much even though I find the wealth of digital images (both my own and others) to be overwhelming at times.
