Comments on: Self-Sustainable Chair: Dress inflates into a chair for your butt http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:55:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: tadphotohttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/comment-page-1/#comment-103149 tadphoto Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:58:40 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/#comment-103149 This is funny as art, but of course in a practical sense, utterly useless. So what is the intention? I'm giving the benefit of the doubt and saying art. But then, why is it on an eco-website? Moment of levity? Big bamboozle? Notion that a giant inflatable bag hanging off your ass is going to save the world? This is funny as art, but of course in a practical sense, utterly useless. So what is the intention? I’m giving the benefit of the doubt and saying art. But then, why is it on an eco-website? Moment of levity? Big bamboozle? Notion that a giant inflatable bag hanging off your ass is going to save the world?

]]> By: Steve N. Leehttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/comment-page-1/#comment-101204 Steve N. Lee Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:52:56 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/#comment-101204 "... it makes you wonder why no one has done it before?"Maybe not everyone dreams of walking around like their wearing a diaper that's just been removed from an incontinent elephant!That's my guess.Sorry, but I really get annoyed when garbage like this is given space on 'green' websites. What use could it ever possibly be? When you consider the time, effort, and money that has gone into the design and execution of things like this, you have to question where our pririties truly lie: saving the planet or having a laugh?This is such a waste and should not be given serious attention on a prestigious green website.Steve N. Lee author of eco-blog and suspense thriller 'What if...?' “… it makes you wonder why no one has done it before?”

Maybe not everyone dreams of walking around like their wearing a diaper that’s just been removed from an incontinent elephant!

That’s my guess.

Sorry, but I really get annoyed when garbage like this is given space on ‘green’ websites. What use could it ever possibly be? When you consider the time, effort, and money that has gone into the design and execution of things like this, you have to question where our pririties truly lie: saving the planet or having a laugh?

This is such a waste and should not be given serious attention on a prestigious green website.

Steve N. Lee
author of eco-blog
and suspense thriller ‘What if…?’

]]> By: echttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/comment-page-1/#comment-101185 ec Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:15:35 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/#comment-101185 ..... .....haha couldn't resist'does my bum look big in this?' …..
…..haha couldn’t resist

‘does my bum look big in this?’

]]> By: theokoboxhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/comment-page-1/#comment-101119 theokobox Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:24:22 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/#comment-101119 i love bizarre ideas, and this takes the cake- more art should be like this... i love bizarre ideas, and this takes the cake- more art should be like this…

]]> By: zydehttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/comment-page-1/#comment-101094 zyde Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:51:29 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/16/self-sustainable-chair-by-jooyoun-paek/#comment-101094 is interesting and all, but the deflates so fast, it seems like u cant even sit on it for more than 10secs, she needs to do something about that. And the walking is just uncomfortable. But it is a piece that really makes us think is interesting and all, but the deflates so fast, it seems like u cant even sit on it for more than 10secs, she needs to do something about that. And the walking is just uncomfortable. But it is a piece that really makes us think

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