We now know who buys a life-sized model of a horse with a lamp on its head. At (Aust) $4,500 – nobody. Last week in a full-page advertisement (The Age 4/2/10) along with other replica designer furniture, it was offered at the reduced price of $3,795 in the hope that somebody would buy a ”Replica Moooi Front Design Horse Lamp”.
Consider the Dora Aquapet, no longer for sale for reasons obvious to everyone but the designer. (Thanks to Linda for sending the link.) This failure suggests that the real question should be: who makes this stuff? How does it ever get to the production stage? Isn’t there a meeting where people look at the design model and says: “no, it looks like a sex toy”?
You might not buy this stuff. You might: Think before you buy: Consumerism warning labels. Nobody might buy this stuff but it still gets made in the hope that someone might buy it.
Online shopping offers more dubious stuff than all the shop windows in actual world. The boob mat, for example, takes surfing for porn to a whole new level of hyperreality. And they are ergonomic. And made in Australia. There are so many reasons to buy. What more could you want? (Thanks to Richard for sending the link.)
And there are many more strange things that make us wonder (ooh it makes me wonder). And as you walk on down the road if you see anything makes you wonder send a photograph of it to us. We need more strange stuff to keep this blog going – we have run out of photographs for this week. The stuff is out there but it will not make you free, or beautiful, or wise.
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