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Mister Glasses
Sep. 17th, 2008 06:15 amKottke pointed to a lovely set of illustrations based on Mad Men. Poking about Dyna Moe's (the artist's) Flickr account, I found she's been involved in videos by Mitch Magee, including a very odd but funny pastiche of Philip Johnson called Mister Glasses. Dyna Moe has her own Mister Glasses images.
The whole thing was inspired by this 55 minute interview of Johnson by Charlie Rose from 1996. I'm not a fan of Johnson's buildings as such, but early on -- minute 5 -- he says this, and I was nodding in agreement (given my recent posts):
"God better see to it that I have until 106... I have projects on the front burner that I need to get done to see whether they're any good or not. See, you can't see a model and say, "That's a beautiful building." Doesn't make any sense at all -- you've got to build a building, and go inside it, and have it wrap itself around you, you see... That's the only test."
Alas, Philip Johnson died at 98. Showing yet again that building projects never meet their schedule.
The whole thing was inspired by this 55 minute interview of Johnson by Charlie Rose from 1996. I'm not a fan of Johnson's buildings as such, but early on -- minute 5 -- he says this, and I was nodding in agreement (given my recent posts):
"God better see to it that I have until 106... I have projects on the front burner that I need to get done to see whether they're any good or not. See, you can't see a model and say, "That's a beautiful building." Doesn't make any sense at all -- you've got to build a building, and go inside it, and have it wrap itself around you, you see... That's the only test."
Alas, Philip Johnson died at 98. Showing yet again that building projects never meet their schedule.
