Straddling a fine line

If there was one thing that I remember saying from my many weird quotes, it's;

"It's meant to keep you warm, not to make you look good." - Bryce Ebert (American oddball)



Now when I said that, I was referring to how a winter jacket covered up my figure, making me look much more rotund then I am. A silly thing to be worried about perhaps, but I care about it.

The reason that I bring up this thought is from my class' trip to the Design Museum. Now, you may be asking yourself,  how does this involve my earlier ramblings. I'll tell you. We are entering a period where the line between function and fashion is being blurred. There were so many design ideas that I saw at the museum, ranging from shoes (which some galleries left me feeling like I was in a Stanley Kubrick movie) to new technology and game designs which blended the appeal of art with the promises of the future.

                Don't believe me? Then take a look at this spacesuit.

Yes, that is meant to keep you protected in the hostile environments of space. The sleek and stylish space suits that so many movies and video game promised us are on the cusp of becoming a reality. Now that I think about it, this is just what we consider stylish for our time, designs for new technology has always tried to look appealing. That's why we had so much chrome in the 50's and wood paneling in the 70's  and 80's. At the time, it looked stylish. So everything that I saw in the Design Museum is a product of what we think is stylish at this time. There are always going to be new ideas and new technologies, causing designs and the idea of art to fluctuate wildly over time, but that doesn't make anything that I saw at the museum an inferior product. It still beautiful and innovative. 

But, my god, I just started this post out trying to describe how impressed I was with the merging of technology and art, and i just destroyed that topic when I realized that what is stylish and innovative now is going to change in who knows how many years. It's a bit disconcerting but also uplifting. The thought that were always going to be improving and creating new ideas. I just wish I could have come to that conclusion before I began this post rather than in the middle of it.