Comments on: Desire, Icon, Fetish, and Discrimination http://www.thinkpulp.com/strands/desire-icon-fetish-and-discrimination Opus pro charta Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:30:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tobybottorf http://www.thinkpulp.com/strands/desire-icon-fetish-and-discrimination/comment-page-1#comment-48 tobybottorf Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:30:51 +0000 http://www.thinkpulp.com/?p=254#comment-48 You're covering a lot of ground here, Rick. What I hear is what's on a wavelength with something that I've been trying to push my work toward: legitimately designing for teenagers. It's terrifying. My only guidelines are to work WITH them and to make stuff that makes my more grownup teammates uncomfortable. Talent shows speak to adolescents, so do castaneda and rand (what a dinner party that would be). The thing they all do well, I think --and the thing that may seem stupid, narcissistic, shameful later-- is that they *whisper* which is to say they speak you just you, and your sense of specialness and imminent transcendence. We can't design for the kids without loving the embarrassing things we remember about being kids. Such as the utter unawareness of how unoriginal our rebellion is. Reminds me of Commodify Your Dissent http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/frank-dissent.html You’re covering a lot of ground here, Rick. What I hear is what’s on a wavelength with something that I’ve been trying to push my work toward: legitimately designing for teenagers. It’s terrifying. My only guidelines are to work WITH them and to make stuff that makes my more grownup teammates uncomfortable.

Talent shows speak to adolescents, so do castaneda and rand (what a dinner party that would be). The thing they all do well, I think –and the thing that may seem stupid, narcissistic, shameful later– is that they *whisper* which is to say they speak you just you, and your sense of specialness and imminent transcendence.

We can’t design for the kids without loving the embarrassing things we remember about being kids. Such as the utter unawareness of how unoriginal our rebellion is. Reminds me of Commodify Your Dissent
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/frank-dissent.html

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