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Just checking to see if this is live

Here we go! Harmony and Balance!!

Affective: The feeling of this? Smooth, bright, modern. Clean and simple yet comfortable and cool.
Cognitive perception: Like something of my dreams, with a room like this, with a space like this I feel like I could finally relax. Its design is just so damn futuristic, my only modification would be a plexiglass gloss on the white surfaces to add more smooth and bright reflections.
Phychomotor Response: The flow of lights on the ceiling may be distracting in the long run as would the black diagonal vectors that give off a convex shape where the stereo system and television would be, but I love the sterile,almost surgical room design.

The texture while reflective smoked gray on the floors is a flat white on the ceiling. Shadows are nowhere to be seen, perhaps dynamic shadows from ambient light are present but not a problem for me. The shapes are strong and defined, no wavy abstract shapes that would turn this room into yet another 60's a-go-go room. Color? Ha! We dont need color, any outside sources would provide the color, my guess is that the lights above could change color with a flip of a switch and thusly change the entire color of the room thanks to all the white furniture, walls and the reflective black floors. Growing up in tacky houses with bland wallpaper or muted burgundy & gold-brown walls can often call one to desire vivid colors and stark contrasts in their later years. Its nearly a dream room. I'd also like to note the comfortable looking fur rug. That couch? So cool, I mean physically; a hot day you walk,in lay down, its like your favorite cold pillow but couch sized. 

Position and Orientation of the room is perfect though I dont enjoy this diagonal shot all that much since it means the room may be smaller than it appears or perhaps the lens used for this picture was too distorted for interior shots. 


 

Visceral Responce

                                            Visceral Responce

This Xbox 360 when released was the bee's knees, the end all for a home entertainment system; HD, ipod player, games, camera docking, keyboard support etc. I bought it on day 1 of the release. It was a truely amazing console design.

It's subtle lines and shapes pushing in, the grated holes for ventilation  the smooth platinum embossing of the DVD tray. The light matted white almost stucko form which held just a slight amount of reflection, this thing was just so cool for its day. There were a few drawbacks however; it would break within 3 years almost guaranteed and every part of that console would degrade from a nice artic white to the "old telephone"dusty beige-yellow. I sent this thing back and forth to an official Xbox repair site in Kentucky, it was no longer the thing of beauty I saw before. I had a cringe reaction to the white ones as a ticking timebomb to the point of not even considering purchase of one at a pawn shop for one third of the price retail. My roommate currently has a white one that hasnt died yet, in the back of my head I still think to myself..."someday"...

   So what happened? Well, the designers were more concerned about form than function, they wanted a powerhouse of heat and processing, but in a tiny white plastic case with only tiny, tiny holes for ventilation.

This was the older Xbox, an exact opposite of the original 360`

                          Then came the redesign, called the slim, priced at 200$. After a full 2 years without videogames I finally ponied up the dough and bought this one. Smaller, black, touch activated and best of all a thundering powerhouse of durability. It was estimated that Microsoft's Xbox 360 division lost around 4-5 billion dollars behind the poor design of the original Xbox 360, no more of that. As you may notice these large black grates provide proper ventilation for the console which were missing in the older design which had terrible force (tiny holes will never ventilate better than large grates). They finally went back to their roots and just "did whats right". No more function trumping form.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bN_3w75zoE

In the video they explain the design as compared to the older xbox to the more smooth, white, concave and well, refined modern Xbox 360.

The realization was that similar products were white in Japan and sold better, most notably the newer Playstation 2 redesign and the Nintendo gaming consoles. The Japanese designs would have white/silver products sitting around the living room and then here sat a big bulky black American Xbox console.
Having not sold well, they decided to make the newer Xbox 360 White in hopes of finally acquiring that highly desired Japanese market.
After a few years they finally switched back to the tried and true black in the default slim model. I bought myself a black Xbox 360 last year and now.....

  Yep, right on back to this beauty, which almost make me want my newer xbox to die in able to justify buying this "iPhone Xbox". Sleek, glossy, modern. It does the exact same thing my console from 2005 could do, yet it looks prettier doing so.