Think about the artists who have put out too much work. How many lame Eddie Murphy or Adam Sandler movies must we suffer? What about Eminem’s cringeworthy new album? Or the last couple from U2, Coldplay, and Madonna? When was the last time a James Patterson novel was actually good? — Medium
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1. Don't confuse entertainment with art.
2. Don't confuse commerce with art.
3. Anything done solely for money is guaranteed to be shit.
:-)
I like the light switch
You can't imagine how hard it is to make a little teeny tiny light switch like that in perfect scale.
I can see how that would be difficult Miles, but could you at least have taken a better picture of it? It's like that note is the point of the show. #makeartgreatagain
The note is just there for scale.
people in third world countries are in their offices from 8 am to 8 pm.
You mean dumb americans?
Published under the heading of "News." What exactly is newsworthy about this article?
The manifesto thread is over here: https://archinect.com/forum/th...
I expect better from Archinect's editor-at-large.
In the 20+ years we've been running this news column, Archinect has never exclusively focused on "news" in the traditional sense, nor have we ever focused on posts that are directly architectural.
Never question the wise, just, and pure editorial decisions at Archinect. Because you're wrong. Just wrong.
Thank you for the note. In today's disciplinary culture where offices ask their unpaid interns to work for 12-15 hours a day and where studio culture asks that students go days without sleep to complete larger and larger models, a conversation on time, pay off and how we understand productivity seems exceptionally relevant. While the exact article may seem lightweight, a small deep reading into it could spark some potent tangential conversations.
That's fine, but then why wouldn't you editorialize even slightly before posting to indicate the connection and your intent to spark conversations? Instead, you pull a quote, find an image from the longest-running sitcom in the US (Season 30 premieres on Sunday), and call it good!? I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with the image ... are we supposed to be lazy like Homer (ie. not producing), or are you saying that The Simpsons has longed "jumped the shark" and should have quit a long time ago?
What's newsworthy is broaching such an idea in an overwhelmingly Puritan work-ethic rabidly capitalist society. More is not better? Sacrilege!
contemporary medical research: you have ~4 hours of peak productivity, 6-8 hours of average productivity, maximum, per day
contemporary business press: shorter workdays are better for long term productivity
contemporary industry publications: many hands make for light work, shorten your work day, etc.
architecture professors/firm principals: fucking make a billion shapes! produce produce produce! i need 300 iterations so i can reject them and go with my gut feeling from week 1 of the project! stop whining so I can buy that new Maserati! 12 hours a day and you're a lazy fuck! 16 hours minimum!!! You'll get 40k per year with no benefits and no overtime, and like it!
They should plaster this at the place I work, so the poor immigrant kids don't have to work 70 hours each week to satisfy the principal's vision (of producing a 100 page report for every shit project)
I.M. Pei is the architetural poster-child for this.
Or Maya Lin
Greg Lynn
Bernhard Tschumi
vs.
Gehry (buncha stinkers)
Foster
Vinoly
Zaha
16 hours making models and listening to podcasts isn't really 16 hours of work
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