[LINKED] Evil People In Modernist Homes in Popular Films

Holy shit, how awesome is this!?

You know how all the meanie people in movies who are plotting shit like taking over the world, or blowing up babies' faces, or drinking unicorn blood or some shit alllllll seem to live in cool, sleek modernist homes? Usually up in the hills or something?

Well, a smarty pants graphic design student at Yale noticed this too and started an entire fly ass zine to explore and document this idea: Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films.

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The Dictionary of Cliched Design Speak

Whenever I think about the decor in my imaginary weekend house, I think "hunting lodge chic meets warm, vintage modern."

Like, I swear...those are *actual* words that go through my head, right before I realize that I want to punch myself in the face SO HARD.

Cause these design-y phrases that we all use ad nauseum are so cliched...and soooo annoying. And after awhile they seldom mean what they were intended to, as everyone is constantly reinventing these imaginary styles and they're morphing into variations of variations. And yet we ALLLLLL use this bullshit to describe interior design, on our blogs, in our tweets, on our soon-to-be-canceled talk shows, in our brand-new, I wanna be just like Domino online mags. EVERYWHERE. And truth time: we all pretty much use em like it's our J-O-B.

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[COOL OR NOT COOL] Vintage Rotary Phones

I know that landlines are going the way of the dinosaur, and that if there's a chance for them to hang around, it's not going to be connected to a rotary phone from 1960. 

BUT: let me just say after about 595849485 dropped calls from my fancy, expensive, and USELESS (yet still somehow precious) iPhone, I'm ready to hang up and just get a goddamned landline that connects to a rotary phone.

It's vintage, so I will look kitschy and unique, something I strive for but almost always self-sabotage with snap judgements and intolerant declarations ("Organic food is for rich people who hate themselves," "Adults who sleep in twin beds are serial killers, etc etc). 

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[I'M OBSESSED] Painted Marbleized Wood Floors

Oh sorry. I know I need to write some stuff for this post thingy, but I'm too busy jerking off to images of this motherfucking floor.

Looks like marble, right? Or tiles? WELL IT'S NOT, SUCKERS! It's paint. That's right, you heard me P-A-I-N-T.

How hard to we all love Miles Redd, gang???

Every time I see something like this I have an uncontrollable urge to call up every last bitch that said to me "WHAT?? YOU'RE GOING TO PAINT YOUR FLOORS???," when we bought our apt and just say "nanny nanny foo foo, btchz!"

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[COOL SHIT] Spiders on Drugs Bowls

Remember that research that came out awhile ago that was like, "the average person inadvertently eats 12 spiders while sleeping in their lifetime"?  Yeah, that shit is gross, which is why I hate spiders.  Creepy little bastards, sneaking up into my mouth while I'm dreaming about a life that doesn't include the MTA. 

But regardless of my hatred, I really really like these bowls that were featured over at Design Milk last week.

They're the creation of French designer Guillaume Lehoux and they're based on the results of a NASA experiment which explored the differences between web patterns woven by spiders who were sober and those who were placed under the influence of a whole host of different drugs.

Yes, that's right, people.  SPIDERS ON DRUGS. 

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