#coherences

Michael Rock's latest for The New York Times T Magazine is on design as the act of coherence:

Do we know what we’re talking about when we talk about design? Design is both noun and verb, covering work that ranges from the composition of a tattoo to the amelioration of climate change. We design spoons and rooms, houses and cities, power grids and national identities, international treaties and defense systems and, when all else fails, military campaigns. If design refers to that which is planned and brought to fruition by human ingenuity, we’ve reached the point where, as Mark Wigley and Beatriz Colomina, curators of this year’s Istanbul Design Biennial, aptly observe, “the planet itself has been completely encrusted by design as a geological layer.” Even the few undesigned places left exist because we design the borders around them.

The basic motivation for design is the very human desire for coherence. With so much designed in the world, we begin to take its results for granted. Often, what we have conjured assumes the sheen of inevitability, as if its results were inalienable facts in the world rather than the product of someone’s ideas and actions. In other words, design solidifies, and naturalizes, things that start off as opinions, stories and traditions, supplying form to the fictions by which we live. We rarely stop to consider the faith-based proposition represented by our paper money or the imagined national narratives engendered by borders. Unlike words, the meaning of which can be debated, the objective materiality of designed objects exudes a unique power. Once established, it’s difficult to think outside the systems and structures these objects represent.

But Stern des Südens is a really really good song!! XD There are too man catchy songs out there :)

I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?!?!

BUT I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE THE WORST FAN WHEN I HEAR IT 

That song is the catchiest shit ever created.

Once in the store I had to try one pig (spardose) to send it by the post. But I sadly did a mistake and it start singing the song soooooo many times and I was almost crying pleading the pig to shut the hell up xDDDDD

How don’t you feel guilty while enjoying a FCB song?!

yeah ikr?? XDDD (tbh that is the only song i know XD)

Oh I know the hymne (hope is write like that?!?!) and the song “Kolsche Jungs” which is fucking damn catchy, you listen to it once, it stays on your head 5-ever.

The first I mention I know it from a really hilarous Plush of the Maskotchen that sings. I did a video, I hope will post it if I find it again xDDDDD. Then I just listen to the long version on youtube and well is also damn catchy.

But tbh...

for someone who works on a fanshop, you gotta listen to many football music all the damn time and they all. ALL. stay in your head. FOREVER.

It took me months to take Stern des Südes out of my head....

Oh, yeah, sorry about that! I mostly manage to keep my Stucky obsession on the back burner on tumblr. I blame Ed Brubaker for his Winter Soldier run and then the MCU just took it all to a whole new level. It’s funny because strictly speaking comics-wise I think I only ever wanted Steve and Tony together, and I do still love so many Stony fics because there’s so much damn history and they’re so amazing. But yeah, like ten minutes into the first Cap movie my brain was basically a 24/7 Stucky extravaganza.

I’ll make sure to tag it from now on so you can blacklist it. 

Sorry I took it the wrong way, I guess… I mean I get these pretty mean anon messages about Seb and all that stuff from time to time so I’m kind of jumpy? Sorry dude!!  

I'm almost scared to ask, what did I do this time?