"In Perfect Moments, I Want To..."

"Annihilate the guard and surrender - but I cannot be that tender."

LOL

Who...?

Anyone, anyone?

But onto the material physical world of manifested creativity, one of the chief designers at Rolls Royce, conceived the beautiful Faberge 'Spirit of Ecstasy' Egg, which was brought into reality by the House of Faberge last year. It's been doing the rounds of places like Doha and the like, where us Plebs never much venture because we have too few bucks to even breathe the expensive Oud-redolent out air there.

Faberge Rolls Royce 'Spirit of Ecstasy'

Alex Innes, the designer behind the shape, proves once again, albeit it is among a small nay, tiny set of examples of design and creativity in today's world - that humans are not yet completely exhausted as a creating species... Even so though, you would have to say that at virtually every level of popular culture now at least, it is decidedly an effete Age.

In the hands of the top-end mass-market commercial corporations and their chosen design-houses (they are always groups and virtually never individuals in this sector), the exhausted phase of society and culture expresses itself visually in particular in artificial 'cleanliness,' and an imposition of 'purity' onto complicated things and complex systems. Here is an example by the German Design House Cheil - in theory this is a Korean company underneath the Samsung Brand, but in all practicality it is run by Germans. There appears to be some sense in which the top people don't trust in people's capacity to handle sophistication.

This is going to be the style of the Samsung 'pop-up' stores around the world
for the near-term future. An example of what I consider extremely bad design... (There's a truly gratuitous comment for ya).
And yet, there are some stunningly good Samsung 'pop-up' stores around - but these are
where the shopping center management itself imposed their own 'conditions' and effectively,' their own design ideas.

The true leading-edge of human thinking and society and culture now is becoming ever that much more thinned out... There are fewer and fewer people with the active mindsets capable of appreciating sophisticated things and trusting humanity and the intellectual power of human beings.

What does this mean for the future?

I can but smile. Although it is not a nice; not a generous, smile.