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Interiors from the film Tommy, 1975

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Tommy, The Movie, 1975, Ann Margret in White Ball Chair

Ann Margret as Nora Walker Hobbs in Ken Russell’s 1975 film “Tommy”. This scene, not to mention the whole film, was absolutely formative for me (and apparently I’m not alone). It opens with a drunk Nora watching TV in her all-white glam boudoir; on the screen is an ad for baked beans, “Fit For A Queen.” Nora throws a champagne bottle through the TV set, soap suds and baked beans pour out into the white bedroom, and she writhes, laughing, in the surreal, psychedelic mess.

Ann Margret swimming in baked beans, from the movie Tommy, 1975

Ann Margret, Roger Daltrey, pinball wizard

See Hilly Blue’s excellent collection of film stills at Flickr.

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This is a long, messy, eclectic photo essay on design. Its meandering & intermittent thesis is the unexpectedly hybrid history of objects and buildings: the sheer level of cultural borrowing involved, the hidden impurity of design traditions long-considered pure, and just generally the wildly profligate miscegenation of everything. Its taste runs to the ancient, the modern, the space-age, the utopian and the anti-utopian, the possibly lost promise of the 1960s and the 1970s, the adventurous, the unexpected, the ecological, the unstuffy and the unstaid, design as making-do, the real, the lived in, and creative mixes of all kinds. Since design isn't divorced from other things, it's also about art, social issues, urban and community planning, technology, philosophy and anything else that intersects with design, which means everything. "ouno" is a name in both Finnish and Japanese, is the same upside-down as right-side-up, refers to both zeros and ones, and is pronounced uno. This site is open to complaints, nerdy critique and dissent. Without complaint and critique, design of housing, towns and cities won't get any better in North America. We do after all spend our entire lives in a built environment whose structures unconsciously influence our thoughts, feelings and behaviour, so they might as well be a lot better than they are. Dear Canada and the USA, quit letting developers run this show.

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Interiors from the film Tommy, 1975

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