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The Young Ones

Morgan — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:48:38 +0000

Classic.

Mad Men, Season 11:

Morgan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:57:16 +0000

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Saturday Morning Cartoons – The House of Tomorrow

Morgan — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:08:06 +0000

Mid Century Style in a Show about Terrorists

Jayson — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:12:41 +0000

You wouldn't think that Jack Bauer would be able to break in on such style. But he does. I can't stop seeing Eames and Herman Miller everywhere.

Watch for when he shows her his i.d.

Eames Shell Chair in a movie about Ghosts

Jayson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:11:11 +0000

This is one of my all time favorite movies and I was excited to see some sweet mint green eames shell chairs in the scene where Egon puts a married couple through the classic, "delaying the meeting" experiment.

The rise and fall of my appreciation for IKEA

Jayson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:40:27 +0000

This is the rise, where I learned to love IKEA, when I learned about it in Fight Club:

I know that this clip was supposed to be set up as emasculating and the opposite of manliness (hence the theme of fight club), but honestly, I thought their design looked great. And what did I know? I had never even thought about design before. To me they were fresh, foreign, and friendly. I loved them and touted their wonderfüülness to all those that would listen. That is until I started buying from them regularly. Since the start of my love affair, I've purchased 6 broken chairs (LITERALLY!), one broken dresser, and now finally this broken lamp (which I thought I had fixed with a manly dose of lock-tite). And so this is the fall, where I learn to hate it, when I actually use the stuff thats in that beautiful catalog.

I will never buy anything serious for my home from IKEA again. I will go there for the meatballs and the free babysitting but I will not shop there for anything other than cups and kitchen timers and fabric. They are the Wal-Mart for urbanites. Low prices and crappy faux modern design stolen from people who make real furniture. They actually have a sign up in their store that says something like, "we don't sacrifice quality in order to achieve low prices". Shah. As if. Tell that to my six broken chairs, the broken dresser, and my sad little lamp.

Herman Miller Shell Chair in a movie about a Bromance

Jayson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:59:26 +0000

I see these everywhere.

Substance more important than style in AMC’s Mad Men

Jayson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:42:57 +0000

I have to admit that I'm caught up in all the Mad Men drama that's sweeping the nation. For some reason I used to think that the show was on HBO, so I sort of wrote it off as something that I wouldn't see until years from now when it was streaming on Netflix. I just found out it was on AMC. With all the buzz, I decided to watch episodes from the first season. Obviously one of the major draws of the show is the lovely mid-century design of the furniture, the clothing, the atmosphere. But I wonder how much Don Draper, the main character, considers the design of the desk that he uses, the line of the chairs in his office, or the style of the tumblers into which he pours his whiskey. He's got style, that's for sure. But the style of the show just draws you in. Its the complexity of the characters that keep you there. I want Don to be a good husband. His wife, Betty, is awesome. She's so much more than the stereotypical wife of the 60s. She's the PERFECT wife. She's gorgeous, intelligent, loving, can cook, a kind mother, dresses insanely well. But Don cheats on her. Every time he does it, you want to slap him. But its so more complicated than, "He has everything but wants more." His marriage and family is a sort of imaginary world that he's built. His family life as a child was ridiculously horrible. This imaginary world with his wife Betty and their two children is completely free of his past. He doesn't talk about his childhood, he doesn't open up about himself and his feelings, he doesn't want to taint the stereotype of his present with the hideousness of his past. He is two people at once. So when he cheats its easy for him to separate and compartmentalize his life. There's the Don Draper who goes home to turkey and a wife with an apron, and the Dick who is sleeping with two other women on the side. So the audience may go in for the style, but they're definitely staying for the substance.