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Once in a Blue Moon

February 19, 2010 - 3:29 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Mad Fiddler
2010-02-20 11:42:05

Triton’s Polar Tiger,

Remember WKRP? The ultimate expression of the trend is Les Nessman’s office outlined by tape on the floor.

With determination, you could mirror the outline in tape on the ceiling.

Maybe use a strip that sends up a stream of bubbles like killer whales use to corral salmon in the frigid waters of Alaskan fjords…

Or for drama, some sort of miniature array of searchlights as in Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will…”

I’ve usually been pretty comfortable with cubicle, except when they actually restrict the torso for breathing. From a business owner’s point of view, irrationality can easily swamp the practicality of module-based cubicles. I worked for one Silicon Valley start-up just at the tail-end of the so-called bubble, in which the just-started-shaving principals bragged to us artists that they’d paid an architect almost $200,000.00 to design the cubicles to upgrade a warehouse space in anticipation of the regiments of “wrists” they intended to hire.

Money ran out before the big recruitment drive.