Modern Office Furniture. It looks something like this:
I can help. I'm supposed to get a promotional code that can get you $25 off. So this wonderful juicer'll be only $71. (But I can only give it to one winner... I'm not sure how to chose a winner, but I suppose I could just say that I'll email it the first email that's posted as a comment to this blog. That sounds fair enough.)
I'm sure this coupon can be more useful for something else, but for me, these prices are still a little daunting. Especially since I don't really know what that thing is. It looks like a drone in a sci-fi movie that's about to get shot by the hero. I swear I've seen it before, I just can't recall what movie. And I am not sure how the thing classifies as furniture. I would call it an 'appliance'. One that doesn't seem to use electricity, so I'm down with that. In either case, it is artistic. That cannot be denied.
I'm impressed by their marketing people: reaching out to the blogosphere. A conglomerated population of people who don't really have anything in common. Seems like you're almost a likely to find someone against you than for you. Me, for example: I don't like consumerism at all. I'm a fucking Ludite, if I'm honest with myself. I feel like I've sold my soul a little just by being part of this miniature movement. But, hell, I might as well throw something up on this blog, eh? I haven't done it in a while and while this is about the least philosophic post I have made in my life, it is not utterly devoid of any meaning. I am working on a few more interesting essays and hopefully I start actually puttin' em up soon, but it's not like I actually get any readers right now. The entire reason I am doing this is, as they accurately predicted was the minuscule chance that I would actually get a new reader. Perhaps I will get some curious person to visit by doing this, but it'll then be up to me to keep them and this isn't really a good start.
I do content myself with the knowledge that I am not exactly what was desired and because I'm as unwise as the next bloke, I find comfort in this idiotic notion. A good reason to do anything is not to be like anyone else nor is it a good reason to just be different. Motivation is an important thing, perhaps not the most so, but it isn't vacant. My motivations here aren't even clear, but I'm having fun just sorta brain-dumping gibberish no the internet at the moment.
Which gets into a real point: the ease of the internet. If cars have made people physically lazy because it is so easy to get anywhere we've lost respect for getting there then the internet has had the same effect on the intellect. My mother calls Sarah Palin intellectually lazy, which is certainly true, but it seems like nearly everyone is currently 'intellectually lazy'. Does anyone even know how to truly look something up anymore. As in, in the encyclopedia not just type a few words into the omniscient (and pathologically lying) Google? I do, but I often don't have the energy (or the resources - my house has only a set of children's encyclopedias) to do it. My intellectual laze is the reason that I am not posting shit anywhere. That takes bloody work! It's hard to compose a decent essay, no matter what it is about. This (current body of words), for sure, is not decent at anything. It is just a collection of words like a text book: they are published but no one in hell actually reads them. They are pointless and, worse, take a modicum of energy to attach them to a piece of silicone. Unlike the spoken word which is gone the moment it is said.
That was an essay I was thinking about. I have a ton of textbooks. There are several thousand copies of each of them written and floating around the world now. And they are constantly being rewritten and resold for extremely little purpose. They are filled with words and ideas that are not being considered or even (most of the time) read. Most of the time, there is absolutely no reason to update it. Like a calculus text book: calc hasn't changed since Newton and Leibniz competed on who's notation was better (and Newton's inferior method won: not an uncommon thing in today's world). Leibniz is getting more popular, but his system is just as old as Newtons and neither one change how calculus actually works. A calc book written in 1905 has just as relevant information as a calc book written in 2011, just less pictures.
Yet new ones are being written and newer ones are being published and no one who buys them actually gives a damn. This is why every college student in America has a grudge against their text books. They don't so many that the price can be anything but $100 and they go obsolete before the term is over. And unlike Computers, this obsolesce is arbitrary.
Actually, even computer obsolescence is largely arbitrary. I have a computer that is about 10 years old and it works better than my girlfriends which is 3 years old just because I have Lubuntu on it instead of Windows Vista: a bloated obscene and obese Operating System. Her computer handles much bette on the internet (mine doesn't have the processing power for the modern internet), but it is capable of doing every local on-computer task as well as hers.
Interesting, eh? Humans and their society is bizarre.
Anyway, I think I'll stop here for now. I'll just leave with a few more comments on the actual promotion which prompted this ramble:
That juicer was the most bizarre thing I could find on their website (allmodern.com). It's a CSN store. I'm not sure if that means anything to anybody. I couldn't really find anything about their morality anywhere. Telling people to give personal recommendations even if they've never been a customer before isn't very honest, but that isn't what they are really doing (though it is an evil advertising technique I've heard of). I'm not giving a recommendation: I'm giving a gift card to someone. Obviously it was a calculated promotion.
Here's some more wonderful furniture of theirs:
$360
$415
Lamps are always fun. $42.51
Or perhaps a desk on it's side for $800:
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Alessi - Juicy Salif Citrus-Squeezer by Philippe Starck, 1990 |
And Costs something like this:
$96.00.I can help. I'm supposed to get a promotional code that can get you $25 off. So this wonderful juicer'll be only $71. (But I can only give it to one winner... I'm not sure how to chose a winner, but I suppose I could just say that I'll email it the first email that's posted as a comment to this blog. That sounds fair enough.)
I'm sure this coupon can be more useful for something else, but for me, these prices are still a little daunting. Especially since I don't really know what that thing is. It looks like a drone in a sci-fi movie that's about to get shot by the hero. I swear I've seen it before, I just can't recall what movie. And I am not sure how the thing classifies as furniture. I would call it an 'appliance'. One that doesn't seem to use electricity, so I'm down with that. In either case, it is artistic. That cannot be denied.
I'm impressed by their marketing people: reaching out to the blogosphere. A conglomerated population of people who don't really have anything in common. Seems like you're almost a likely to find someone against you than for you. Me, for example: I don't like consumerism at all. I'm a fucking Ludite, if I'm honest with myself. I feel like I've sold my soul a little just by being part of this miniature movement. But, hell, I might as well throw something up on this blog, eh? I haven't done it in a while and while this is about the least philosophic post I have made in my life, it is not utterly devoid of any meaning. I am working on a few more interesting essays and hopefully I start actually puttin' em up soon, but it's not like I actually get any readers right now. The entire reason I am doing this is, as they accurately predicted was the minuscule chance that I would actually get a new reader. Perhaps I will get some curious person to visit by doing this, but it'll then be up to me to keep them and this isn't really a good start.
I do content myself with the knowledge that I am not exactly what was desired and because I'm as unwise as the next bloke, I find comfort in this idiotic notion. A good reason to do anything is not to be like anyone else nor is it a good reason to just be different. Motivation is an important thing, perhaps not the most so, but it isn't vacant. My motivations here aren't even clear, but I'm having fun just sorta brain-dumping gibberish no the internet at the moment.
Which gets into a real point: the ease of the internet. If cars have made people physically lazy because it is so easy to get anywhere we've lost respect for getting there then the internet has had the same effect on the intellect. My mother calls Sarah Palin intellectually lazy, which is certainly true, but it seems like nearly everyone is currently 'intellectually lazy'. Does anyone even know how to truly look something up anymore. As in, in the encyclopedia not just type a few words into the omniscient (and pathologically lying) Google? I do, but I often don't have the energy (or the resources - my house has only a set of children's encyclopedias) to do it. My intellectual laze is the reason that I am not posting shit anywhere. That takes bloody work! It's hard to compose a decent essay, no matter what it is about. This (current body of words), for sure, is not decent at anything. It is just a collection of words like a text book: they are published but no one in hell actually reads them. They are pointless and, worse, take a modicum of energy to attach them to a piece of silicone. Unlike the spoken word which is gone the moment it is said.
That was an essay I was thinking about. I have a ton of textbooks. There are several thousand copies of each of them written and floating around the world now. And they are constantly being rewritten and resold for extremely little purpose. They are filled with words and ideas that are not being considered or even (most of the time) read. Most of the time, there is absolutely no reason to update it. Like a calculus text book: calc hasn't changed since Newton and Leibniz competed on who's notation was better (and Newton's inferior method won: not an uncommon thing in today's world). Leibniz is getting more popular, but his system is just as old as Newtons and neither one change how calculus actually works. A calc book written in 1905 has just as relevant information as a calc book written in 2011, just less pictures.
Yet new ones are being written and newer ones are being published and no one who buys them actually gives a damn. This is why every college student in America has a grudge against their text books. They don't so many that the price can be anything but $100 and they go obsolete before the term is over. And unlike Computers, this obsolesce is arbitrary.
Actually, even computer obsolescence is largely arbitrary. I have a computer that is about 10 years old and it works better than my girlfriends which is 3 years old just because I have Lubuntu on it instead of Windows Vista: a bloated obscene and obese Operating System. Her computer handles much bette on the internet (mine doesn't have the processing power for the modern internet), but it is capable of doing every local on-computer task as well as hers.
Interesting, eh? Humans and their society is bizarre.
Anyway, I think I'll stop here for now. I'll just leave with a few more comments on the actual promotion which prompted this ramble:
That juicer was the most bizarre thing I could find on their website (allmodern.com). It's a CSN store. I'm not sure if that means anything to anybody. I couldn't really find anything about their morality anywhere. Telling people to give personal recommendations even if they've never been a customer before isn't very honest, but that isn't what they are really doing (though it is an evil advertising technique I've heard of). I'm not giving a recommendation: I'm giving a gift card to someone. Obviously it was a calculated promotion.
Here's some more wonderful furniture of theirs:
$360$415Lamps are always fun. $42.51Or perhaps a desk on it's side for $800:
Here's everything you could actually get right now just with your promo (should you win...):
Strange little lamps. Neither one has the web-sites own "go green" certification, so I cannot say I am in whole-hearted support of either of them.
TTFN
The code that I can give the first person (besides me) to post on this entry is now worth $35 and expires March 31. So if you want it you'll have to comment before then.
ReplyDeleteHave fun.