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Brazil's Piping Has Taken Over the Restaurants!
Zephyrin_xirdal has a terrific cyberpunked living post on Xirdalium where he highlights the similiarities of every day building interiors with Brazil - specifically our restaurants. In Gilliam's Brazil, ventilation pipes are the symbol for technology run rampant. There's something disturbing about noticing how omnipresent these things are in our restaurants. So, um, next time you check out your favorite restaurant, don't look up!!!
"You do the work, we do the pleasure!"
4 comments:
Actualy I don't mind the pipes. My dad used to maitre d' in a restaurant that had these huge ventilation pipes that had a nice texture to them and were full of holes (on purpose) I liked 'em.
To me technology run rampant is being trapped in an automated voice response system. Or all the gadgets that beep at me urgently.
To me technology run rampant is being trapped in an automated voice response system.
Dialing '0' will usually escape you to a human...
Or all the gadgets that beep at me urgently.
Most such devices still retain an archaic little function known as 'Off'...
I like exposed ductwork, too. Kind of sophisticated in an ironic way.
Brazil really does put all these technological crutches a very different light. In looking around, you start noticing all the ways that technology has invaded on humanity. It gets pretty eery thinking about it all. One only wonders what we'll be like in another 50 years.