In Better Living, Part One, we talked about easy portable audio solutions which you can place in your home. In this encounter, we look at room treatment and aesthetic decorative effect which will help make listening to audio pleasurable.
You'll likely notice when you go to your symphony hall, that while the music is playing, that you enjoy looking at the walls, the ceiling, the over-all decoration, much more than the performers, or their instruments.
If their is ceiling art, you will notice, unless you are the Pope, likely how poorly done it is. Sometimes the simplest effects are those that mimic nature, without being too artistically expressive or trying to hard to be directly representative: this is the realm of design.
To us, it is also the realm of true art.
It's said in artificially intelligence circles that the closer you get to perfecting the image of the robot, the more uncanny it becomes, and thus the more critical you will be of it.
In Apple's latest watch demonstration (the post-Jobs Keystone Keynote), the most popular watch face was an animated Mickey, which illustrates this point. He's a bit like Keystone Sam. Ok, we mean Steamboat Wille, but you get the idea.
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