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i enjoy going to fast food restaurants, not primarily because of the food, but because i like how they look. my favorite might be dunkin' donuts. i also enjoy burger king. i enjoy looking at the logos and the interior. it's not so different from going to a museum. [i've worked for cultural centres so i went to many museums and exhibitions]. what are your fav chains, not in terms of the food they serve, but designwise? |
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I like the idea, what I see as the deterritorialising of the weapons of capitalism, a kind of disarming, taking design away from it's function. But then, maybe you buy the food so I don't think you really are doing that. I can imagine researching the conventions of their design and being really depressed in the end. Anyway, the design is meant to be please, though I think most fast food restaurants are fairly utilitarian in their approach to interiors - basically cheap horrible shit that maintains its basic function. It's the same with the logos, functional, it isn't a gallery, didn't you know that you're meant to be buying something?? :) |
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FAST FOOD IS SHIT. |
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"I've come to the realization that all junk food is the same." also music. |
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i'm not actively involved in the project of disarming capitalism. i buy the food, too. ... anyway, if i understood you correctly, you point out that the crux of fast-food design is that it has a specific purpose, namely making people buy lots of fast-food. ... that may be so. but you can enjoy fast-food-design a lot and not even think about capitalism or anti-capitalism. ... i might be meant to be buying food and the fast-food companies might suceed in it, but i'm not just a member of a capitalist society. i don't have to regard everything i do in terms of it's meaning from a capitalist/anti-capitalist viewpoint. i can look at objects and appreciate them for aspects that their creators didn't consider important. enjoying things from an aesthetic viewpoint, even though they were not meant to be enjoyed, is actually quite common. just think of all the people who get kicks out of rotten industrial buildings and the like. (which i like, too.) |
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you often mention that you have been a tool. .... anyway, isn't it good to have come to the awareness of having been a tool. now you can move on to greater heights and can stop worrying about past imperfections. |
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somehow i like the 50´s 60´s retro stuff, all the shiny chrome and red leather furniture etc.. the advertising from that era is great aswell. the emotion and praise of products is so overdone, its hilarious and i really love that in the fallout games. |
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the pop culture on the food thats all |
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I Like the starbuck interior but I prefer instant coffee from an indonesian street seller. A shame they dont have that here in europe. |
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You can't parallel this with rotten industrial buildings because all these rotten buildings were/are different in design and function. Fast food chains are quite uniform in both categories. All power to you if you think you can enjoy things purely on a aesthetic level but I have my doubts tbh. |
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well, there's nothing wrong with doubts. who can tell with absolute certainty who they are and what their real motivations and driving-forces are [without kidding themselves] ? |
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now that i come to think of it. probably there is not even one true driving-force or one true motivation or one set of true driving-forces and motivations. maybe people just *are* and it's an illusion to try to give an accurate description of people's motivations that supposedly exist behind their actions. blahblahblah. |
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i kind of have a nostalgic feeling for the decandent rainbow plastic design and imagery of macdonalds shit. its been ages since i dont enter in one, tho, im talking about childhoood mementos... |
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