Ahhh, the "embed" code doesn't work for all it seems.
I happened to stumble(upon.com) 3 cool 1958 industrial design clips. I tested YouTube's embed code on the "just for testing" thread, and it worked for me. It embedded a youtube clip right into the thread. I'm on a new MacBock though, obviously it doesn't work for everyone.
I'll go back to the thread and post links to the clips.
Apologies friends, I promise you'll like what you see, and you might even be amused with the cold-war rhetoric as narrative.
Design can't influence...
Design can't influence society as much as I'd like to think, I wonder how many designers got dragged in front of Mcarthy?
This is a great question!!! and here in America any free thinker in Hollywood got his ass hauled in front of the witch hunt .
Almost evey one of those people in the early 50's must have had a Bertioa wire chair, Eames fiberglass, and Sarrine womb and tulip hanging around their home, as modern and creativey have gone hand in hand.
In the other thread i stated how growing up in the 50's not everyone was wild about modern and if you were you were a little weird ,
I like to think weird in a good way as the neighbor was a psychiatrist M.D. and had the Eames lounge chair, the other a great architect who built the airport, a womb chair and lots of wire chairs around, and the other a founder of a international fabric company that had the neatest modern home of all as they were ahead of the game,
It is with note that I must mention that being Jewish in middle America was a different experience unto it self,
Our city was the home base of many great Jewish American Independent oil people who found great wealth in the oil fields of the early 20's and their heirs are on the Forbes billionaire list today, and that is who I grew up with in the 50's and 60's , for some reason these folks could have lived anywhere but chose Tulsa Oklahoma to build the most unreal modern homes, one has ever seen, they all used a local architect who was a great personal friend of Frank Lloyd Wright and he was the designer of their homes his name Frederick Vance Kershner (Ted)
(I ended up buying the last home he ever designed) I think that it is most interesting as these men of great wealth in the 50's choice to build their homes so very modern , you just wonder what made them do it and not build some great English Barron estate (our town has 100s of them designed by John Duncan Forsite, and Donald McCormick, who were two of the best architects of the 30's and 40's ,
amazing that we have not read that Noguchi was hauled in front of the McCarthy commission as from what i heard was the most different of all architects, another story I guess at another time
Noguchi was indeed in an internment camp, but.....
From an article in New York Magazine:
" Although he was not forced into a Japanese-American internment camp, Noguchi voluntarily spent six months at one in an effort to design better quarters for the internees. "
http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/10257/
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