MEMO

TO: Readers, Various Positions in the Organisation
FROM: Lisa Schamess, Director
RE: Elevating the Content of this Site

This morning, I direct your attention to Elevator Moods for a small unreality check before you move on into your productive day.

Please note that all the floors at the recommended site are odd, but the odd-numbered ones are generally the oddest and best. If you have time for only one before that 8:45 meeting, please choose Floor 3.

IMPORTANT: If you object to the music provided by Elevator Moods, I recommend that you drown it out with your choice of ambient music from Brian Eno, right here.

OPTIONAL: Some of you may prefer to overintellectualize your way out of your discomfort; in that case, please proceed to the Architectural Urbanism Design Collaborative wiki to read up on the post-Depression industrial-psychology rationale behind Muzak, a true daughter of Modernism in America if ever there was one.

Or simply do what I did, wandering aimfully through the astonishing storehouse of information assembled by the AUDC until you finally forgot what you came for, but leave happy anyway.

Because: The AUDC site includes much that is provocative, smart, beautifully designed, and highly objectionable.

(no, not that kind of objectionable: ethically and philosophically objectionable).

My kind of site.

This could be as good a time as any to mention the random phrase that came to me last night at dinner, which seemed to me eminently Googleable, if only because I have no idea what my subconscious meant by it but maybe the Googlebots will: "questionable archaeology."

Thank you for taking the time to read this memo. The time now is 11:45.

Thus passes another morning. I'm sorry, but you missed that meeting.

There will be others.

Remember, I'm watching Brazil today, possibly even as you read this.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

(I didn't? Don't say it anyway. We're all in this together).


[Elevator Moods site via stumble upon. natch.]

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