Comments on: "How can culture exist in a stream of Photoshopped incontinence?"

By: alexis

alexis — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:42:00 +0000

Great! He sure did get folks talking.

By: Thor

Thor — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:18:27 +0000

What a tedious read.

By: Daniel Dolan

Daniel Dolan — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:18:00 +0000

Mr Jacobs, thanks for this article. As a regular follower of perhaps 10 design blogs such as Dezeen, I was pleased to see someone comment on this phenomenon. Also, I really liked discovering the word “obstipation.”

Until somewhat recently, we had a world class architectural bookstore in Chicago where one could spend a day leafing through hundreds of books and magazines to absorb the work of a couple of hundred world architects.

Today, via Dezeen and others, I am able to “leaf” through the work of several thousand architects and quickly appreciate their designs. It’s kind of the same, don’t you think? Except, of course, that now they mostly have names like eeek! and glOOp and… well you get the idea.

In spite of the enormous number of images you have got to admit that many are the same. I know this because every single house has a glass wall that slides open and is over 75′ wide and whose owners are not afraid of being robbed.

Best regards, DD
Chicago

By: @VladymirRogov

@VladymirRogov — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:29:23 +0000

Fabulous thinking. However there is a movement of design on the rise that is not created for the visual entertainment of the democratized masses.

By: Vanderleun

Vanderleun — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:30:00 +0000

Overuse of ostentatious verbiage is not doing you any favors. It adds a whiff of flatulence to your writing that it does not need.

“Not that wan condition that affects inhabitants of Victorian novels but that thoroughly modern version of consumption brought about by binging on toxic levels of images and information. Its most pressing symptoms present themselves as chronic vomiting and constipation to the point of obstipation.”