Well, I went and read the article... it's probably never going into production, it's a Visual Arts project, probably a CG project. An awesome idea and I hope he got an A+, but unless one of us wants to make it... it's not going into production anytime real soon, heh. Actually I'm not 100% sold that it's just CG and not a physical mock-up... the butter is not a dead give away, plastic mock-ups are often used in place of food which could melt, spoil, or curdle under photo lamps. (like using elmer's glue instead of real milk when making cereal commercials). If it is CG, it's very convincing.
One thing that bugs me about the article though: "Designed by Chris Dimino as part of a group exhibit for the School of Visual Arts, the typewriter iron represents the best of reinvention: an obsolete product, minimally modified, is given a completely new function."
What obsolete product are they referring to? The keyboard or the waffle iron? Since when are either obsolete and what, exactly, were they replaced with? I'm still using a keyboard... and if I had one, I'd be using a waffle iron... (if this thing were real, I'd buy it! As is, I'm stuck with pancakes for now).
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Well, I went and read the article... it's probably never going into production, it's a Visual Arts project, probably a CG project. An awesome idea and I hope he got an A+, but unless one of us wants to make it... it's not going into production anytime real soon, heh. Actually I'm not 100% sold that it's just CG and not a physical mock-up... the butter is not a dead give away, plastic mock-ups are often used in place of food which could melt, spoil, or curdle under photo lamps. (like using elmer's glue instead of real milk when making cereal commercials). If it is CG, it's very convincing.
One thing that bugs me about the article though:
"Designed by Chris Dimino as part of a group exhibit for the School of Visual Arts, the typewriter iron represents the best of reinvention: an obsolete product, minimally modified, is given a completely new function."
What obsolete product are they referring to? The keyboard or the waffle iron? Since when are either obsolete and what, exactly, were they replaced with? I'm still using a keyboard... and if I had one, I'd be using a waffle iron... (if this thing were real, I'd buy it! As is, I'm stuck with pancakes for now).