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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Parker on April 26, 2013, 05:33:48 PM
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Very good interview of the Mclaren P1 designer, Frank Stephenson
http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/04/hyperdesign-in-extremis-frank-stephenson-and-the-p1/ (http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/04/hyperdesign-in-extremis-frank-stephenson-and-the-p1/)
Bodybuilding related due to this quote:
"“Beauty is subjective; there’s no formula and it’s hard to define what is and isn’t attractive, so when you’re trying to come up with a unique design language it’s pretty hard. It’s like when Picasso came out with cubism: he went away from what everyone thought was real beauty, traditional Monet and Rembrandts. He did something that blew everyone’s socks off because it was so different: it was a new approach that broke conventional appreciation of art and found a new style. That’s the holy grail of design: to grasp a design style that stands out on its own.”
We tend to describe certain physique as Beautiful (Bob Paris, Flex Wheeler) and some as brutal (Dorian, Ronnie, Bertil Fox), Classical (Lee Labrada, Shawn Ray, Phil Hill, Ed Corney) or freaky (Paul Dillett, Nasser, Markus Ruhl), but who is to say which one is truly "better"?
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but who is to say which one is truly "better"?
anyone. this guy fails to understand the difference between "objective" and "subjective", just like pretty much everyone else. in fact, there is no difference. the distinction is only helpful as shorthand.
when people say something is "objective" they really mean "no one is able to disagree about this". hence, the only things considered objective are those that are so simple and vary so little from one person's perspective to another that they appear identical, things like spatial measurements, logic statements (which are purely artificial anyway), and all kinds of numerical data. over time, more and more things have fallen into the realm of "objectivity" as we make conceptual advancements (in other words, new measures) and technologies to support them (e.g. scales, microscopes, computers, etc.).
but the fact of the matter is that there is no verifiable, transcendent "truth" to any of these so-called "objective" measurements... they are all verified subjectively in the end. just because everyone agrees something is the case, doesn't mean it is the case... but it does mean it's "objective". furthermore, there is no verification of any sensory stimulus by "the intellect". we can never know the nature of our sensations in non-human "objective" terms. to do so would require us to be "outside" our own consciousness, something which just isn't possible.
however, some day in the future, we may even have ways of measuring and understanding much more complex functions of human consciousness such that we can "objectively" rank beauty judgments. in the meantime, anyone is free to say whatever they believe is right, and those who can convince the most people to agree with them will win, and therefore "define beauty". this brute force method actually happens in science as well, even though most people wouldn't admit it, and the level of consensus required in such a rigorous atmosphere is basically 100%.
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^stop talkin' that crazy talk!
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McLaren is bad ass
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(http://www.germanexotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/mclaren-slr-engine.jpg)
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I don't like the front.
Looks like someone put Trekkie insignia shaped lights on a flat toad.
(http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/04/hyperdesign-in-extremis-frank-stephenson-and-the-p1/)
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(http://topismag.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mercedes-Benz-SLR-Mclaren-Engine.jpg)
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I don't like the front.
Looks like someone put Trekkie insignia shaped lights on a flat toad.
(http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/04/hyperdesign-in-extremis-frank-stephenson-and-the-p1/)
It looks like a tree frog from the front to me...
(http://vanishingspecies.pbworks.com/f/1305220260/pics_life_1.jpg)
(http://amazingcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Tree-Frog-photography-by-AngiNelson-9.jpg)
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Why do they don't make car doors that opens uo vertically standard? It would seem much more effecient in thight parking situations.
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Amother soulless supercar....designed the same....perform the same.....pitched to the same jerks who will never go above 70 in it. Another Euro yawn inducer, like every other car out of their God-forsaken shithole of a continent.
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The new Ferrari is better ;D