Bring Back What We Have Taken Away?
'Delirious' is such a proper word after I read 'Life of Congestion' and the relative parts in 'Delirious New York'.
The Molly yhe Moet Cow milks champagne, soda and whiskey; the horses from Steeplechase are driven by gravity; the Barrels of Love makes unfamiliar males and females get physical touch by passive force (but initiative motivation). At first I agree with the authors' opinion that part of the reason these crazy machines are made out is to create substitute for the lost nature and lost intimity which are taken away by metropolis.
Later the idea of Downtown Athletic Club and Radio City Music Hall changed my mind. The main elements, in the boxing-oyster illustration for the downtown club, shows gluttony (oyster),wrath (boxing), lust (the man on the right is totaly naked, but the guy on the left is in his pants and the man in the middle hides behind a table. From left to right infers from conventional in sex to anbiguous to open mind). The other programs in the same building also shows some clues, sloth (massage, sunbathing and Turkish bath on the 10th floor), pride (the Golfcourse. People create natural landscape on the artifical construction which occupied the space of the orginal nature. It means people are able do what nature can't do and also can do what nature does) and envy (the lower 15 floors of the building are accessible only to men. the monopoly from men will generate women's possessive). Don't froget, the building is close to wallstreet and the word "wallstreet" has been mentioned 3 times in the Downtown Athletic Club section. Personally, this can be seen as the orign of this building, wallstreet, a collection of greed.
Just like the athletic club which fullfill the rich's desire, Radio City Music Hall is a place for the masses. The imaginative and spectacular platform design; the simple but sensual action; the use of chemical gas to stimulate audiences. The whole idea is to make people happy efficiently.
People who live in metropolis become impetuous on the way to persuing happniess.
So what we have taken away and what we bring back during the development of the metropolis? What does nature mean to human before and after the metropolis has been built? What is the essential desire of human before and after the metropolis has been built?
Later the idea of Downtown Athletic Club and Radio City Music Hall changed my mind. The main elements, in the boxing-oyster illustration for the downtown club, shows gluttony (oyster),wrath (boxing), lust (the man on the right is totaly naked, but the guy on the left is in his pants and the man in the middle hides behind a table. From left to right infers from conventional in sex to anbiguous to open mind). The other programs in the same building also shows some clues, sloth (massage, sunbathing and Turkish bath on the 10th floor), pride (the Golfcourse. People create natural landscape on the artifical construction which occupied the space of the orginal nature. It means people are able do what nature can't do and also can do what nature does) and envy (the lower 15 floors of the building are accessible only to men. the monopoly from men will generate women's possessive). Don't froget, the building is close to wallstreet and the word "wallstreet" has been mentioned 3 times in the Downtown Athletic Club section. Personally, this can be seen as the orign of this building, wallstreet, a collection of greed.
Just like the athletic club which fullfill the rich's desire, Radio City Music Hall is a place for the masses. The imaginative and spectacular platform design; the simple but sensual action; the use of chemical gas to stimulate audiences. The whole idea is to make people happy efficiently.People who live in metropolis become impetuous on the way to persuing happniess.
So what we have taken away and what we bring back during the development of the metropolis? What does nature mean to human before and after the metropolis has been built? What is the essential desire of human before and after the metropolis has been built?
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