{"id":30764,"date":"2011-12-21T16:49:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T00:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=30764"},"modified":"2013-04-02T03:58:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:58:42","slug":"the-architect-and-the-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/30764","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The architect and the painter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Eames_IBMpavillion.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Watch the definitive documentary on the husband-wife design icons&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new biography on Charles and Ray Eames is airing on PBS this week. Powerful and unflinching, more than just chairs. Playful optimism, powerful clients, amazing budgets, odd obsessions. Narrated by James Franco, titles feature the incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/15790\">Eames fonts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch it online <a href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2178281391\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/ibm\/history\/exhibits\/vintage\/vintage_4506VV2085.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Pavilion<\/a> at the 1964 Worlds Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Below, Eames&#8217; complete short film <em>The Information Machine.<\/em> Commissioned in 1958 by IBM, it was designed to get a fearful population to trust this perceived-dangerous, unknown mechanical variable: <em>Computers!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djT-HNnWX8w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"'The architect and the painter'\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/30764\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Watch the definitive documentary on the husband-wife design icons&#8217; A new biography on Charles and Ray Eames is airing on PBS this week. Powerful and unflinching, more than just chairs. Playful optimism, powerful clients, amazing budgets, odd obsessions. Narrated by James Franco, titles feature the incredible Eames fonts. Watch it online here. Above, the IBM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54,49],"tags":[26,121,126,58],"class_list":["post-30764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history","category-education","tag-cinema","tag-design","tag-education","tag-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30764"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32017,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions\/32017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}