Posts Tagged ‘80s’
Saturday, November 7th, 2015
I was there; I should know. As one caption to this video read, very accurately, “this is what it was like 24/7.”
I went looking for clothes the other day but everything was 80s, badly printed shirts and high waisted jeans the colour of skim milk. Looking at this stuff I had a visceral memory of the daily Rickroll that was living through that decade.
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Tags: 80s, eighties, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan
Posted in cringe list, film & TV, music, video | 3 Comments »
Monday, September 12th, 2011
I was there by accident. These people were not.
Apparently it’s “anything goes” in fashion right now, but that’s been true for a while. Anyway, it’s never really “anything goes” – there are always those weird, arbitrarily-imposed rules. But it does feel like a confusing, shifting mishmash right now.
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Tags: 2011, 80s, anything goes, fashion, Fashion's Night Out, Lincoln Center, mishmash, New York, New York City, New York Fashion Week, NYC, shoes
Posted in cities, design, fashion, textiles | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Virtual Museum of Canada has released on online game called Design Traveller. It’s a little on the blocky side, perhaps, but Canadian design nerds might like it. And USA design nerds might be surprised to see which iconic designs are actually Canadian in origin. Make sure your shockwave is updated first or it will just abort when you look at each room in 3D… which is why I haven’t finished the game and don’t have to admit how bad my score is.
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Tags: 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, Canadian design, Design Traveller, game, online game, Virtual Museum of Canada, website
Posted in Canadian design, design | No Comments »
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Thanks to kntgrl for this memory of the cold 80s: their cruel royalty, their icy diamonds.
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Tags: 1984, 80s, Alphaville, bad lip-sync, Big in Japan, Japan's economic ascendency in the 80s, Japanese, music, samurai, still learning how to sing with those lips, Thatcher and Reagan, video, when the lips are the main character
Posted in design | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
More houses by Paul Rudolph. I’m not sure why I like him so much; maybe it’s the feeling that every space is designed for a party, or the use of white, or that he went so glam/space age in the 60s and 70s. I like all the low Japanese-style seating, often set in one-step-deep conversation pits.
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Tags: 60s, 70s, 80s, architecture, Bass House, Beekman Building, Cohen House, coke, conversation pit, disco, Halston, Hirsh House, Hiss House, house, Japanese, Japanese design, low seating, MCM, midcentury modern, modern, modernism, modernist, New York, parties, Paul Rudolph, Paul Rudolph Foundation, Umbrella House
Posted in architect, architecture, art, design | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
That’s according to the New York Times, and since nostalgia seems to work in 20-year cycles, I guess anyone could have seen it coming. If, as the article says, the 90s were the sci fi thing and the Breeders, then excellent, but … what is that orange outfit! Do I not remember the 90s correctly?
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Tags: 80s, 90s, Aeon Flux, British design, British fashion, Charles Anastase, decades, fashion, Kim Deal, let's pretend the 80s never happened, metallic, military, NYT, quilted, retro, rock and roll, rocker chic, sci fi, space, Space Rags, Tank Girl, The Breeders, The Moment, trends, vintage, warrior
Posted in design | 4 Comments »