For those of you who checked my blog this morning and saw no post for Wednesday, and are confused to see a Wednesday post now that it's Thursday afternoon, do not fear. Your computer is not playing mind games with you, and your ISP is not caching websites and showing you the old version like AOL did back in the day. (does AOL still do that? I hate AOL.)
Blogger was just messed up last night, and it let me write a post, but wouldn't let me publish it. So I gave up, went to bed, and tried it again today and it worked fine.
Also, I watched Top Design last night, and it was a lot better than last week, but Erik's stupid pirate ship room shouldn't have won. It looked too over the top, like it was set design, not interior design. And I bet if that kid REALLY had to live in that room, he'd be sick of it in less than a month. After all, his fixation with Pirates of the Caribbean can only last so long. Or worse, he'd never get sick of it, and he'd end up being the kind of adult who has a super tacky theme house and ends up on one of those HGTV "check out these freaks!" specials.
I totally think John deserved to go home, because 1) even if he HAD finished his design it wouldn't have been that great, and 2) he DIDN'T finish his design. It wasn't even like, "yeah, I would've done this extra bit of blahblahblah but I ran out of time." It was, "yeah, if I had more money than everyone else was allotted, or more time than everyone else was allotted, I would've PUT IN A FRIGGING FLOOR."
One of my biggest pet peeves about art school was how sooo many kids thought the deadline either shouldn't apply to them, or that it was an "ish" sort of date. You know, like, "our pieces will be on display in the gallery from April 9th to the 15th, so make sure you have yours set up on the evening of the 8th(ish)." There were a few projects where almost half the class showed up ON the due date wanting more time.
Like, I can understand talking to the professor a few days in advance and asking for an extension if a large number of people aren't going to be done, or if maybe you personally have had some unusual circumstances that have resulted in your project being put on hold. Or maybe not feeling like your work was FINISHED, but at least having it pulled together enough to APPEAR complete to someone else. I think most of us fuss with little details right up until the end.
But a deadline is a deadline is a deadline, and if you can see that most everyone else is going to finish on time, and you haven't been homeless, in the hospital, or attending someone's funeral, you should probably get your shit together and well..."make it work." And John sure as HELL didn't do that. That room looked like a crap hole.
As for what I thought of the other designs (you wanted to hear about that, right?), I thought some of them were pretty cool. Here's what I have to say about each one (you can go to BRAVOtv's Rate The Room to see photos for reference if you want:
Andrea: Murphy bed good, vanilla color palette bad. A murphy bed in a kid's room is a great idea, because they can shove it out of the way when they're in there playing with their friends. It's like a bedroom, play room, and like...dance studio all in one. Good times. But the colors looked sooo boring. Initially I was going to say they were too mature, but I've kind of decided that they're just too boring. Even for a grownup. Blah. Even Martha Stewart would've had SOMETHING in that room that made a bold color statement. Maybe some kind of cool mural above the bed that was hidden away when the bed was up? I don't know - something.
Carisa: Stupid. Having all the furniture stuck together in one immobile clump is stupid, sharp edges right next to swinging ropes is stupid, a platform that kids would want to swing to and jump on (the desk) with no support underneath it is stupid. The faux plastic "jungle" plants on the headboard were tacky, and the red walls were somehow too loud and too plain at the same time.
Elizabeth: Colors: super cool. Perfect. Soccer theme: fun and adorable. Buckets: stupid as hell. SO pointless. Also, the carpet should've been wall-to-wall, because I bet if the kids tried to kick a ball around on that rug it would bunch up and slide around.
Felicia: I loved it. Sure it looks a little monkish, but whatevs - some people like that. If the kid plays chess, he's probably academic. He might like that the furniture looks like it belongs in a study. And I like brown; a lot of people do. And there's the checkered pattern on the wall, and the outline of the bike...maybe that's enough whimsy for him. I bet Brett would've LOVED this room. I kind of bet he'd still love this room...
Goil: I ♥ Goil. His room was the shit. True, the bed just mysteriously disappears into a wall that's apparently 6' thick, but other than that, I could only see minor flaws. The cubby was clearly for storage, so the judge who complained about it's inability to successfully hide someone was retarded. But that giant clear glass vase should've been a giant clear plastic chair, and the bell pepper? I don't know what that was about. It should've been some kind of cool looking toy.
Matt: Those lights felt like they belonged in a garage to me. And if she's a glamour girl, where the crap is her mirror? A canvas with the word "Meow" scratched on it does not a beauty queen make. He should've just gotten some of those little round vanity lights, put them around a great big mirror over her little vanity, painted the walls a REAL pink (instead of the "pink" color that he picked), and voila! Hollywood.
Michael: I reeeally didn't think this room deserved all the crap it got. If you replaced all the touches of pale pink with hot pink, and you covered that chair in a different color (maybe white, or spring green?) this room would be adorable.
Ryan: The only thing I hated about this room was the saw blade he had running around the perimeter of her bed. I think he meant it as a place for her cat to walk or something, but it was horrible. Even as an adult I'd hurt myself on that getting in and out of bed, but as a kid, she'd probably be waiving goodbye to scar-free calves in less than a week. That being said, I thought the rest of the room was super cool. She loves her cat; let her have the cat stuff. It's cute. Stop hatin' on cats. She would need a place for her paints and brushes by the canvas though. Or at the very least a little place for a jar of water or turpentine. Are kids allowed to use turpentine?
So anyway, there's my not-so-brief and not-so-humble critique. Not that I think I could've done better than any one of those people, given their budgets and time allotments. Even John. But if you had to be more talented than an artist to critique their work, most (if not all) art critics would be out of a job.
See ya later, geekerators!
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