#blobitecture

[starburst2000]

blobitecture

literally a building that looks like a bouncy castle. you seem bubbly and soft at first glance, but anyone who gets too close too quickly will get glass and broken bones. surround yourself with people who take their time and use the revolving door to keep your windows intact.

[twisted-bonez]

google blobitecture. youll love it i swear.

oh yeah babey! it’s blob time!!

[algrolo]

if you could make your own architecture strap on what would it be

What an absolutely cursed ask. Blobitecture, since that type of architecture would be least likely to tear up someones hole.

[poemsfor-her]

A GUIDE TO FINDING YOUR OWN STYLE: PART. I Y2K ୨୧ ׅ ۫ 𖹭

The Y2K Era became well-defined by 1997, replacing the Core '90s Era which had been known for its grittier aesthetics such as Grunge. The Spice Girls' single "Wannabe" was released in the U.S. and gained international popularity, leading to a new era in teen pop. Y2K fashion calls back to the biggest trends of the late 90s and early 2000s. It blends the pop culture of the millennium with bright colors and kitschy aesthetics to create an unapologetically maximalist look. One of the key fashion points of the y2k wave are: low raised jeans, crop tops, small handbags and mini skirts. POC POPULARIZED THE STYLE. The fashion icons of the y2k era were Destiny's child, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Christina Aguillera.

I. TYPES OF THE Y2K STYLE ୨୧ ׅ ۫ 𖹭

1. CYBERCORE

Y2K (also known as Kaybug or Cybercore) is an aesthetic that was prevalent in popular culture from roughly 1997 to 2004, succeeding the Memphis Design and Grunge eras and overlapping with the McBling, UrBling, Surf Crush, and 2K1 aesthetics. Named after the Year 2000 problem, it is characterized by a distinct aesthetic period, encapsulating fashion, hardware design, music, and furnishings shining with tech optimism—sometimes literally. Some of its aspects include tight leather pants, shiny clothing, silver eye shadow, spiky up-dos, Oakleys, gradients, translucence, and Blobitecture. Most Y2K aesthetics rely on the use of technology and slick futuristic looks, signaling the optimism for the 3rd Millennium or 21st Century. The Y2K Era ended around 2004 and was succeeded by the Frutiger Aero era. This style is full of mostly gray, blue, green and black colors. One artist that i think perfectly describes the cybercore concept are XG in their newest concept photos alongside with AESPA that can sometime miss the concept they mainly do.

2. MCBLING

The McBling aesthetic went into full swing around late 2004 with the release of the movie Mean Girls, the popularization of Myspace, the popularization of emo via Green Day's American Idiot, the phasing-out of 2K1, the iPod becoming a huge status symbol via Apple's silhouette ad campaign, the premieres of Laguna Beach and Lost, and Gwen Stefani starting her solo career, further hastening the end of the Y2K era. McBling was concurrent or overlapped with a number of other 2000s aesthetics, such as UrBling, Surf Crush, 2K7, and Frutiger Aero.This led into the ElectroPop 08/Hipster/Jersey Shore Era, which lasted from about 2008 to 2013. On social media in recent years, the McBling aesthetic has grown in popularity, albeit it is often lumped with or mistaken for the Y2K aesthetic. The colors of this style are: pink, white, silver and gold.

3. DARK Y2K

Instead of lighter and brighter colors, like pinks and pastels, the Dark Y2K aesthetic heavily revolves around colors like black, grey, deep blue, dark purple, and dark green. However, hot pinks are also seen in Dark Y2K fashion. The Dark Y2K visual focuses on freedom and youth, and rebelling. Visuals that are typically seen in the aesthetic are low-rise jeans and belts, with lipgloss and sometimes even glitter eyeshadow. Some of the styles worn could even be viewed as provocative.The 2003 film Thirteen can be seen as an influence to Dark Y2K fashion and visuals, with its main characters wearing cropped tops, low-rise jeans with a noticeable thong, and studded belts. The main characters are also seen rebelling and sneaking out, and getting tongue and bellybutton piercings.

II. MOVIES AND TV SHOWS TO WATCH

1. Y2K

— bratz: the movie

— fast and furious

— clueless

— any bratz content

2. CYBERCORE

— men in black

— the matrix

— charlie's angels

— x-men

— any superhero movie

3. MCBLING

— mean girls

— white chicks

— wild child

— the house bunny

— legally blonde

4. DARK Y2K

— twilight

— jennifers body

— skims

— thirteen

— girl, interrupted

III. SONGS TO LISTEN TO

1. Y2K

— devil - slayyyter

— gimme more - britney spears

— summertime - flo

— sugarcoat - natty

— attention - newjeans

— tokyo drift - teriyaki boyz

2. CYBERCORE

— stereo love - edward maya

— lovefool - the cardigans

— hello kitty - slayyyter

— any hyperpop song

3. MCBLING

— rumors - lindsay lohan

— faboulous - sharpay evans

— he said she said - ashley tisdale

— queencard - gidle

4. DARK Y2K

— all the things she said - t.A.T.u

— bang, bang, bang - soho dolls

— take me away - avril lavinge

— brutal - olivia rodrigo

— no celestial - le sserafim

— teen idle - marina and the diamonds

information provided by aesthethics.wiki

with love, 𝒯

[zmpl]

for the aesthetic game how do you feel about Y2k futurism? Also did you know if you put anti in front of the word fandom on the browser it gets rid of the ads?

“Named after the Year 2000 problem, Y2K Futurism is characterized by slick futuristic fashion, technology, and music, signaling the optimism for the 3rd Millennium or 21st Century. Some of its aspects include tight leather pants, shiny clothing, silver eye shadow, spiky up-dos, Oakleys, gradients, translucence, and Blobitecture.”

LIFE IT NEVER DIE WOMEN ARE MY FAVORITE GUY SEX I’M WANTING MORE TELL THE WORLD STOP THE WAR BOOM HEAR THE BASS GO ZOOM HAVE A BODY FEEL THE GROOVE CYBER SYSTEM OVERLOAD EVERYBODY MOVEMENT

10/10

[lectorel]

Our Local Hero eventually starts a pilot program for recruiting well-intentioned extremist villains like Lady Gothic. ("we don't even have gothic-era or gothic-style buildings in this city," she complains, the first time the news uses that name. "The closest thing to it is the colonial houses on second Street.")

It is A)wildly successful at its stated goals B)wildly unpopular for not pushing villains to redeem themselves and act properly heroic and C)a gigantic pain in the ass for everyone on the administrative side.

This includes Lady Gothic, who realized that less villains means less infrastructure damage. She and Our Local Hero go out to a shitty bar to get drunk and bitch about their current annoyances.

("I don't know if there are words small enough to explain to this kid that killing poachers only exacerbates the resources stress that leads to poaching in the first place. You kill the family breadwinner, and their kids take over, because they need to eat." Lady Gothic mimes beating her head against the bar. "Fucking hell, the kid really thinks you can really just 'kill the bad people', like that's an actual solution to anything."

Local Hero snickers, meanly. "I'm sorry, are you experiencing the mortification of seeing your younger self from the outside? Poor baby."

"I can still go back to blowing up blobitecture, you know."

"No you can't, because then you wouldn't be able to convince people to listen to your lectures on restoration and preservation." Local hero lifts a half full beer bottle in ironic salute. "Can't win hearts and minds when they're afraid of you blowing them up."

"Dammit, I hate when you have a point.")

Story Idea

Telekinetic supervillain who REALLY loves historical architecture. Living in a superhero universe where heroes keep crashing through stained glass windows and leveling entire streets. As well as the normal corruption causing building to be demolished or “restored” in extremely destructive ways.

Kinda has Poison Ivy vibes, without any of the femme fatale trappings - her entire focus is preserving historical valuable buildings, and she doesn’t really care if humans that get in the way die. But she also isn’t going out of her way to kill people.

And the leader of the local superhero team can see where she’s coming from. And decides that just throwing her in jail every time she acts up is a sign they’re failing in their duty to protect the city. Instead, he starts trying to gain her trust. He doesn’t care that much about buildings, but he works on lessening his team’s collateral damage. He promises the supervillain that he’ll try to pressure the city government if she brings problems to him rather than taking them into her own hands. Eventually, he convinces her that she can protect the city’s infrastructure better by being on his team than she can on her own.

She’s incredibly helpful! Shewill keep burning buildings from collapsing until everyone can get out and the fire is extinguished. She’ll hold skyscrapers up while supervillains reign destruction down around them. She’ll deconstruct traps and grumpily direct her teammates towards the hiding mastermind who set them up. And when the crisis is over, she’ll see what can be salvaged and rebuild if possible.

But she’s a PR nightmare.

Former Supervillain refuses to help people. She DOES NOT care. Your kid is trapped in the burning building? That is not her problem. Go bother someone else. Dude is holding a bunch of people hostage? It’s fine, he’s not causing any damage to the building he’s in.

People DO NOT like this attitude. People do not accept that she’s part of a team, and other heroes are capable of filling the “empathy” and “human rescuing” gaps.

And she’s high maintenance! The team frequently end up in situations where protecting lives is in conflict with protecting property. They take missions that mean very little to them, because they’re important to her. And the leader is constantly having to talk her out of rampages, pressuring the government to drop lucrative and unethical contracts, and making sure she’s sticking to the plan in the field. And she isn’t interested in interpersonal relationships or social niceties, so none of them are even doing this out of friendship!

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Sometimes, you help someone not because they’ll be grateful, but because it will make your community better. Sometimes, you help the local drug addict not because he’s likely to turn his life around, but because he smashes less windows when he has a warm, quiet space to stay. And sometimes, keeping that community benefit takes a long term commitment.

I want to see a superhero team turn a villain as harm prevention and then willingly bear the cost of keeping that villain from causing harm. Not because it’s rewarding (though there are rewards) but because it’s more effective than any other method. And I want the villain to go along with it because the heroes actually found a more efficient way for her to reach her goals.

And it being messy for everyone, but I want them to make it work. And it to be worth it, in the end.

[torontodesign]

catch the wave

[brokenhandsmedia]

If paradigm is what something is, and syntax is how it does it, then a lot of the problems with contemporary architecture come from the fact that these two things often have little to do with each other.

[1terabyte]

Future Systems' blobitecture design for the 2003 Selfridges Building department store

[shelmerdines]

that article about why literally all modern (meaning post 1950) architecture is supposedly bad (and all old architecture is inherently better and also. obviously totally culturally neutral) is just.....its so bad imagine knowing 0 things about architecture and still writing a thinkpiece that's multiple thousands of words long. yes i read the whole thing weeks ago yes im still mad

[zoppzoop]

blobitecture my beloved, simply because of the name

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

just learnt the word blobitecture and have resolved to become the leftist version of those alt right dudes who are extremely vocal abt hating brutalism but for buildings that look like playdoh instead

[architectureworksonline-blog]

Blobitecture - Architecture Blob

Blobitecture – Architecture Blob

La blobitecture, également appelée "architecture blob" ou "blobisme", fait référence à des bâtiments modernes de forme amorphe. "Blobitecture" est un terme inventé par l'écrivain du New York Times Magazine, William Safire, qui l'a utilisé pour décrire avec sardonie la montée soudaine d'immeubles de type amibe. Contrairement à son intention, les architectes ont heureusement adopté "blobitecture"…

[thearchiologist1-blog]

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[josephallenart]

#josephallenart "Blobitecture Pelagic Zone" December 2018 #acryliconpaper 12"x5.5" #abstractpainting

[torontodesign]

blobitecture