Flat panel TV is an ancient console set from Flatland
Wilkerson's M21 Flat-Panel TV looks like a two-dimensional version of the huge console TV I grew up watching in my grandparents' basement rec-room. All it needs is one of those ancient Zenith acoustic remotes that used a bunch of buttons poised over miniature tuning forks, which emitted inaudible sounds that caused the channel to change (you could mute the TV by sneezing and turn it off by jingling your keys!). No price yet, but I'm guessing not cheap. What shall we call this 1950s-meets-today design aesthetic? Beaverpunk? Link
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It's a gag, right? Same item, third posting. I don't get it.
Lol. "Beaverpunk" just makes me think of punk pr0n...
A friend of mine had one of those acoustic remotes, and it wasn't silent. It had two buttons, On/Off and Channel Up. Maybe it was an early model. When you pressed one of the buttons, it would activate a little hammer that would strike a piece of metal, making a distinct ding. In fact, if you had it too near the doorbell, sometimes if someone came to the door, it would shut off the TV when they rang the bell. And don't even think of practicing your glockenspiel while watching the Brady Bunch.
you guys really love this one ... posted twice already over on BBG .. don;t you guys read your own website ???
so, it's not steampunk, it's... vacuumtube punk? pleasantvillepunk?
I like beaverpunk. It's subliminally filthy.
Errr, actually...why does it need to have "punk" in it? There's nothing punk about this. Neoretro?
Swellpunk
I agree with Usonia, but I think there [i]is[/i] room as well for a mid-century retrofuturist aesthetic based on less cleanly-designed implementations of cathode rays and vacuum tubes. I think [i]tubepunk[/i] captures this perfectly.
Terry Gilliam's [i]Brazil[/i] is probably the best existing prototype of this.
Cory used the term "atompunk" in the past. Fits.
omg I love it.
Can we just call it cool and not give it a hipster DB name?
I'd prefer to think of it as "FutuRustic."
I read somewhere that the price is $3,600 and limited to only 100 pieces. I think it might come in two sizes?
..."Atompunk" needs to refer to the Cold War culture being retro-redone for today - i.e., someone remaking Duck and Cover in Flash or CGI(*), or designing a tweak on the classic Fallout Shelter sign - while TVs and furniture styling of today's electronics would be best and more aproposly called "Suburbiapunk" or "Suburbapunk". "Beaverpunk" sounds like the predecessor to the Suicide Bimbos :-P
(*)Why this hasn't happened yet escapes me. After all, someone's redone the classic "Ask Mr. Owl" Tootsie Pop commercial in CGI!
I've be using the term "formica punk" for these types of things after seeing it here:
http://pyrtch-c3h8.lvjrnl.cm/182193.html
"Fuck steampunk, we're working on Formica-Punk. What if the fifties really HAD been the future"
In honor of one of the iconic design ideas of the Fifties, I think it should be called "Finpunk"
(for those too young, nearly every "cool" car in the latter half of the fifties had huge fins. See the Stephen King novel/movie "Christine" for an example)
Full details of the M21 were posted here:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/shelving-storage/wilkerson-furniture-at-dwell-on-design-053216
The M21 Flat Console is selling for $3,600. Since it is a brand new offering, we are currently selling the initial 100 units as a Limited Edition. All pieces will be signed and numbered by the designer. We offer free delivery in the Los Angeles area and a full range of shipping options if you are somewhere else.
We will offer the M21 Flat Console in two standard sizes – 42” and 50” and those configurations will fit a wide range of screens available in the market. We will have a list of suggested TV models for the standard-size models. At this time, every order is made-to-order, so we will fine tune the inner configurations for customers with existing TVs or who have TVs they intend to use. We will customize the size and shape of the M21 Flat Console as well, which may or may not incur an extra charge depending on the circumstance.
#7 is right. In these recombinations, the word "punk" has been drained of all its meaning. This TV is certainly not punk in any sense that I can understand.
Even "cyberpunk" was a somewhat dodgy term, right from the start. I saw William Gibson speak at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan last week, and he said that as soon as they labeled him with it, he ran away from it, and warned other writers to run as well.
Veneerpunk? After the plasticy wood-veneer?
You mean like this old gem from
my grandparents' house?
http://thefez.net/images/zenithremote.jpg
The bottom reads: SPACE COMMAND REMOTE CONTROL
The sound brings me right back to that living room. As I recall, you would preset three volumes on the television, and as you clicked the volume button, it would cycle through them. Turning the TV off was part of that cycle...great stuff.
Any takers for "Valvepunk"? So-called after the thermionic valve, of course, which powered much of technology's best offerings during that period of history...
HowdyDoodypunk
http://www.dougquick.com/nbc_howdydoody_testpatt.JPG
My podcasting partner and I were trying to come up with a "punk" name for classic 1950's styling. On our Podcast we also debated whether or not it was even possible to engineer our own meme (like Steampunk).
My name idea was TAIL-FIN PUNK (think Cadillac).
His idea was SPUTNIK PUNK.
Ricardus...