Comments on: The Real Good Experiment by Blu Dot

By: Per

Per — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:45:07 +0000

This is awesome! And the chair looks great!! Thank you Bobby for finding and posting these great videos!

By: chipotle

chipotle — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:34:49 +0000

If there’s something that I admire of New York is this general idea of aesthetics on everything, they have a highly evolved idea of design, wich I love. Besides that, like I said on another post of yours, there’s nothing more hotter than an english woman’s accent

By: Swift.

Swift. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:49:09 +0000

love it, love it, love it …… um, love it.

Very Wes Anderson esq with a twist.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:07:46 +0000

I’d like to believe that this is all as true as it would like to be, but I’m agreeing with Leyo. Mostly cause of the kid riffing on the guitar, which then blossoms into a fully studio-prepped audio track. You’re certainly right about the production there, Bobby.

But at the same time, not all of it has to be a set-up, people do just dump stuff and others make off with it. The older dude who took the red chair seemed genuine enough. In the last six months I’ve managed to re-home a bookshelf, a coffee table, a cd rack, an ornate pair of jewelry chests which double up as excellent stationary cupboards, and a very vintage canvas sports bag. If I came across a chair like this I’d lift it without second thought.

And Ben, if anyone should be championing dumpstering it’s those involved in the design industry. Given the obscene amount of waste generated by poorly designed products or, worse, deliberately throwaway bumpf, finding a new use for anything unwanted is commendable. Obviously Blu Dot were never going to chuck the chairs, but promoting a product with an idea is still promoting the idea.

Plus, it’s a pretty cool video, staged or no.

By: K

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:40:59 +0000

Love this! Funny, and creative. Functional. I hope the creators do this again. I will be on the hunt.

By: leyo

leyo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:31:38 +0000

Do you ever wonder of this type of marketing. That’s an amazing chair and if someone ever asked me why I took it, I would say ”It’s a blu dot flat pack classic !” But I have seen more and more of this type of viral marketing recently, web 2.0 is not immune to set up marketing. We have seen plenty of fake people, in fake towns and fake apartments be amazing spokesperson for products. Here in Montreal, Bixi, a great product, have done it:
http://communities.canada.com/shareit/blogs/technology/archive/2009/05/12/the-bixi-blog-bs-brouhaha-an-apex-of-fake-authenticity.

Coke have been guilty also
http://thezeromovementsucks.blogspot.com/

So even if this is not a case of large corp and is indeed a great product I can’t help but think how every bits and parts of the apartments have been curated, glasses, haircuts. It just looks a tad sugarcoated to my well trained eye…

By: Dea

Dea — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:28:35 +0000

What a fantastic video! I loved the audio, this is a great idea, thank you for sharing this with us.

By: Thomas Vanhuyse

Thomas Vanhuyse — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:08:30 +0000

Plus, it’s a beautiful chair!

By: Ben King

Ben King — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:22:24 +0000

Bobby,

If i discovered that my dumpstered kitchen table, lead letter drawer, bureau, and end table had hidden GPS tracking units and that I had been tracked down by a design company for promotional purposes… I’d shit myself and burn all my furniture. Since when did dumpstering become an advertising and design tool pimped out by cool-hunting design bloggers? Does this voice-over-mash-up of William Gibson’s PATTERN RECOGNITION + 1984 not strike you as a harrowing combination?

But I guess you dig the “Magic” of it.

-Ben