sur le vif: 2009

7.26.2009

IKEA

IKEA Charlotte, NC

"IKEA stores are often designed around a 'one-way' layout which leads customers along 'the long natural way.' This layout is designed to encourage the customer to see the store in its entirety (although there are shortcuts)."

"The uninitiated can often leave with trolleys full of unwanted houseplants and seagrass mats if they do not keep their wits about them."

"The race is straightforward, woven around a simple story line about finding the lost king of Candy Land. The board consists of a winding, linear track made of 134 spaces, and characters like Queen Frostine, Mr. Mint, Lolly, and Gramma Nutt. The moves are wholly determined by the cards, which are drawn in order. The only random chance element comes from each shuffling of the deck."

"The general concept of the game - a race around a track on a board, based upon chance factors - has a long history dating from an ancient Egyptian game and the European "Goose Game". Although these earlier games were of great interest to adults, Candyland was always intended as a children's game."

"There is no optimal strategy, or indeed any decision making, involved in Candy Land."

text from wikipedia, answers.com, and bbc.com

6.12.2009

London, England

"Days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer, before you know it, you life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours. "

Cocktail (1988)

6.11.2009

Santos, Brazil

"This is important to us, we've all played since we were kids...to stop and come back is complicated. You have to keep playing, playing, playing."

www.thesoccerproject.com

3.09.2009

Tel Aviv, Israel

"you owe the companies nothing. less than nothing. you especially don't owe them any courtesy. they owe you. they have rearranged the world to put themselves in front of you. they never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs." Banksy