Able Parris: In the Name of Design: A Response
Tell me this world is indifferent to our involvement. I beg you.
Someone said something today on Twitter that echoed far enough to reach me. They had claimed Earth was “indifferent to Design”. That design changes people, not the world.
I find this statement upsetting.
Lots of people retweeted it, otherwise I wouldn’t think twice about it. But how could we possibly think design does not effect Earth? Look at this video of Yosemite and tell me how the park would look if we could build there. While the utopian idea of changing the world through design might be unattainable, it’s nothing to mock. It is, however, dangerous to think Earth has not noticed us.
Do not be ignorant to the mountains we have cleared, the rivers we have dammed, and the holes we have dug in the name of design. The beautiful electronics you buy come with a cost. Earth has even noticed where you put those plastic bags you toss every day. If they were designed better, they wouldn’t beforming islands in our oceans.
Just because the effects of our designs are mostly out of sight for us to see does not mean they are not there.
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"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ableparris)
The Harvest title sequence
![“Imagine a bald eagle with wings that stretch for 21 feet from tip to tip and feathers the size of Samurai swords. Give your giant bird a big, hooked beak designed to snap the necks of living prey. Give it a body four times heavier than the body of the largest flying bird alive today [capable of flight] at up to 150 miles per hour.”
Fuck yeah, Argentavis Magnificens.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyahvitFjQ1qa699so1_500.jpg)
“Imagine a bald eagle with wings that stretch for 21 feet from tip to tip and feathers the size of Samurai swords. Give your giant bird a big, hooked beak designed to snap the necks of living prey. Give it a body four times heavier than the body of the largest flying bird alive today [capable of flight] at up to 150 miles per hour.”
Fuck yeah, Argentavis Magnificens.
Rubber stamp used by the photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig) for signing his pictures.
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Burton Kramer Film Trailer
