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über-cool birdhouse

I love this birdhouse!

I was brows­ing the web to see what was out there in the way of bird­house designs that might be com­pat­i­ble with a home that doesn’t aspire to look like it was built in the 14th cen­tury. A few screens into the results, out popped this design by Den­nis Clasen that’s being mer­chan­dised by Man­u­fak­tum in Switzer­land [ cat­a­log page ]. Appar­ently the designed debuted at the 2008 Design Bien­nale in Saint Ettiene, France.

A bird­house mas­querad­ing as a closed-circuit TV cam­era: Yeah, it’s fun and funny. But to me it seems to be a bit of social com­men­tary, some­thing about our lives these days that are sub­ject to con­tin­u­ous sur­veil­lance and how peo­ple seem to be will­ing to give up their lib­er­ties in the name of some­thing they per­ceive as security.

Or maybe I’m over-interpreting and it’s just a funny lit­tle birdhouse?

January 10 2010 | Categories: art • gardening | Tags: birdhouses • surveillance | 7 Comments »