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That is some retarded reasoning. Thing X is popular and good because it's good and popular.
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No, you are a sucker for korean women and bad music!
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Something I really love is this kind of stuff:
If I had fuck you money I'd make a house completely out of marble with an atrium and lots of skylights.
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I love this. Something sort of related that I've been trying to articulate is early 2000s animal or zoo-related children's media.
I assume Coyote Peterson and the Wild Kratts are the new-generation version of this. Excuse the autism, but Kemono Friends has been the only thing I've discovered in adulthood that perfectly encapsulates the vibe.
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Maybe I'm nostalgia-blinded, but kids stuff was so much cooler in the 90s-2000s. The CD-ROM era, kids' magazines like Highlights, it was just so positive and informative.
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It's not nostalgia blinds. Children having smartphones messed up a lot of things.
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Short of a marble house with skylights like that, I've been wondering how to incorporate that very Utopian Scholastic aesthetic into my home decor. Like, what materials would work for things like bookshelves and picture frames? I was thinking, thin frames, silver or black, for some of our nature posters on a bright white wall. But I just don't know how to take it further to get that specific aesthetic.
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God yes it did. Ted Kaczynski was right tbh.
Side note, I miss when kids shows didn't have therapy speak and woke values crammed in there and could just be about whatever they were about. Like even when Postcards From Buster had a pair of wives in one episode it wasn't all about lesbians, they just happened to be the people talking to the crew about where they live. Shit ramped up so aggressively in Current Year, I miss the way it used to be.
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The whole system has become too large to make anything beyond the entertainment equivalent of processed food. It's why more than a handful of mothers I know these days are turning to things like YouTube/Ms. Rachel, and rewatching old shows instead.
Speaking personally, though, I prefer Herbie at his second job working for Reason:
That's how they get greenlit. There are almost no "creators" anymore. Even people like Craig McCracken have come out and said things like "I've pitched 16 shows and only reboots were approved".
The whole system has become too large to make anything beyond the entertainment equivalent of processed food. It's why more than a handful of mothers I know these days are turning to things like YouTube/Ms. Rachel, and rewatching old shows instead.
Speaking personally, though, I prefer Herbie at his second job working for Reason:
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I remember volunteering in a nursery, the babies LOVED Pancake Manor.
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I feel like jungle/rainforest imagery was a big thing in general in the mid-late 90's into the 00's: Poison dart frogs, macaws, a big ol’ toucan… Either that or dolphins swimming through coral reefs of colorful tropical fish.
I'm completely out-of-touch with anything involving kids these days, but "edutainment" isn't really a genre anymore, is it? It's funny how you'd expect those sorts of games and shows to be seen as cheesy, but that kind of stuff is actually looked back on really fondly by people who grew up with it.
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I love hand painted anime backgrounds. Its become my favorite part of old anime. I like how even on comedy shows like Tenchi Muyo the backgrounds will be very moody and give a melancholic vibe if you look at them on their own without the characters in them.
These are from Patlabor and Gits
These are from Patlabor and Gits
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L'Arlequin nightclub / discotheque, 1983. This was one chique club. You might have noticed the speakers are integrated in the columns. From L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui.
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Factory PoMo. Another amazing 80s - 90s corporate design aesthetic, mainly focusing on software and the future.
Sony Theatres at Lincoln Square - NYC, NY (opened Nov. 1994)
Designed by Gensler and Gallegos Lighting Design
Great example of the Decoplex style, and various homages to the elaborately-themed 'movie palaces' of the early 20th century
Scanned from the June 1995 issue of Lighting Design + Application magazine, Cinema Builders (2001), and Gensler - The Architecture of Entertainment (1996)
Sony Theatres at Lincoln Square - NYC, NY (opened Nov. 1994)
Designed by Gensler and Gallegos Lighting Design
Great example of the Decoplex style, and various homages to the elaborately-themed 'movie palaces' of the early 20th century
Scanned from the June 1995 issue of Lighting Design + Application magazine, Cinema Builders (2001), and Gensler - The Architecture of Entertainment (1996)
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Holy shit lil ugly mane cover
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Everyone is talking about the very appealing aesthetics from the past.
Does anyone even have a single thought about modern aesthetics?
I doubt it because it's thoughtless.
For example, there are things that you could say about the 90s Microsoft Windows logo. It catches your eye for a moment:
I doubt anyone has anything to say about the current Microsoft Windows logo, it's in one eye and out the other in an instant:
I don't think it's fair to even call modern aesthetics "minimalism" anymore, there is just no aesthetic at all, it's one step away from being nothing.
In fact, there is actually no way they could simplify this logo any further.
Although maybe a change is happening and it's somehow for the worse. Microsoft has decided to start making icons that have no describable features or colours, they are just blobby meaningless blobs.
Take Copilot for instance, look at this -
If you were trying to tell your mother over the phone what icon to click on, you'd have to say "click on the thing that looks like folded paper with a hole in the middle that is bluey-orangy-purply-greenny", which actually describes a number of their other new icons as well.
Maybe they asked Copilot to make their new icons.
...
Anyway, my point being, we have gone from the ugly boring minimalism aesthetic of the 2010s to less than minimalism in the 2020s.
Does anyone even have a single thought about modern aesthetics?
I doubt it because it's thoughtless.
For example, there are things that you could say about the 90s Microsoft Windows logo. It catches your eye for a moment:
I doubt anyone has anything to say about the current Microsoft Windows logo, it's in one eye and out the other in an instant:
I don't think it's fair to even call modern aesthetics "minimalism" anymore, there is just no aesthetic at all, it's one step away from being nothing.
In fact, there is actually no way they could simplify this logo any further.
Although maybe a change is happening and it's somehow for the worse. Microsoft has decided to start making icons that have no describable features or colours, they are just blobby meaningless blobs.
Take Copilot for instance, look at this -
If you were trying to tell your mother over the phone what icon to click on, you'd have to say "click on the thing that looks like folded paper with a hole in the middle that is bluey-orangy-purply-greenny", which actually describes a number of their other new icons as well.
Maybe they asked Copilot to make their new icons.
...
Anyway, my point being, we have gone from the ugly boring minimalism aesthetic of the 2010s to less than minimalism in the 2020s.
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