And so this idea of being able to go somewhere where you wouldn’t otherwise be able to go is amazing. You can imagine it snaking its way through these underground passageways, carrying your message. and there’s also something to be said about the journey of a tube canister. So in a sense they’re both alive and mechanical. ROMAN MARS is creator and host of 99 Invisible, the wildly popular podcast exploring architecture and design, for which he produced the most successful crowdfunding campaigns for a podcast in Kickstarter history.Fast Company named Mars one of the 100 Most Creative People in 2013 and he was a TED main stage speaker in 2015. So I think that we’re romantic as well and I think that’s part of the wonder today too. You could scent a handkerchief and send it to your loved one via pneumatic tube, and it would still smell like you. Roman Mars is the host and producer of 99 Invisible, the most innovative and beloved radio program about design, and how design impacts the world around us. but i also think that they felt pretty magical to people back then too, that they were electrical and breathing networks of communication. For us today, when we think of communication, all the 1’s and 0’s and digital things that we move don’t feel real tangible to us anymore. I also think they inspire wonder because they manifest communication. They’re reaching out through the city they have tendrils and tentacles and they breathe and they throw things up and they feel much much bigger than we are. I think they inspire wonder because they’re alive or it feels like they’re alive. I have a couple of theories about why pneumatic tubes are magic. What New Jersey college student wouldn’t want an occasional taste of these things, all evoked by this particular species of plant. The Spirit of Elsewhere….the Holy Land…Exoticism…Orientalism….Luxury and Leisure…. I recently heard the podcast episode “Palm Reading” on the fantastic podcast 99% Invisible regarding palm theft (which is apparently a thing….some live palms are worth up to 20K!) and also an analysis of what palms signify in our culture. (Each tree is made up of two sides, front and back.) I recreated the missing side using the returned half as reference, and all was well. Of course I took this as a misplaced sign of approval – pilfering is a complement whereas vandalism is the opposite.Īfter a campus-wide email (the digital equivalent of LOST/REWARD posters), one half of the sculpture was returned anonymously – It was left in a parking lot, propped against the car of an administrator. Before the cement was dry on the palm tree, someone had stolen it. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their. It was a fantastic setting for these sculptures and great opportunity, but one funny thing happened right after installation. 99 Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. My “ New Growth” Sculptures were installed recently at Drew University.
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