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Ice Cube <3 The Eames

David Pescovitz at 12:09 pm Fri, Jan 20, 2012

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Ice Cube shares his appreciation for Charles and Ray Eames. "Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames" (via Gabe Adiv's Pinterest)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • Uncle Duke

    Super!

  • grimc

    What does traffic on the 10 qualify as?

  • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

    Wow…..so did not see that coming. Who knew? Thanks.

    • http://twitter.com/GideonTJones Gideon Jones

      I know!  He’s just so clean and articulate.

      • Antinous / Moderator

        I know! He’s just so clean and articulate.

        And all that with no vaseline!

        • noah django

          I see what you did there.  Jerry Heller smiles upon you.

      • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

        Just so we’re all on the same page here, in NO way did I mean that as anything even remotely resembling a dis at Cube.

        • Antinous / Moderator

          I live in Southern California. It’s always a surprise when anyone is articulate. Unless they’re describing the effects of Botox. Then they become positively poetic.

          • zarray

            I was going to say ‘hella’ but that’s a NorCal thing innit?

          • Antinous / Moderator

            I thought that it was a South Park thing.

    • zarray

      He was an architecture student before breaking into the rap game and the subsequent corny family movies.

  • http://twitter.com/james4765 Jim Nelson

    Scratch any tough-guy rapper and find an artist. Awesome.

  • Jonathan Badger

    Perhaps he can do a rap based on the Eames’ “Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond” — besides their fame in furniture design, they also had a strong interest in science and math — producing the “powers of ten” movie you may have seen in school as well as the “Mathematica” exhibit once at Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry and now at Boston’s Museum of Science.

  • RJ

    I appreciate that Cube took a moment to explain why he has any authority on the matter. I doubt most people know about anything he did before N.W.A.

    The Eames’ architectural ideas are timeless. I’d love to live in something similar.

  • frogmarch

    “It’s like they don’t know… don’t show… or don’t care about what’s going on with the application of Aalto-inspired moulding techniques to appropriate combinations of structural materials in the ‘hood.”

    [pours out 40 for Lil' Chuck and Ray-Ray, crosses street, vanishes]

  • jerryeast

    I always chuckle when I see or hear about ICE CUBE, who was a member of the allegedly notorious and revolutionary Comption-based N.W.A. “back in the day” – and then to see him now as the fluffy, cutesy, safe star of lightweight meaningless Disney-esque movies. I guess that’s what’s called a dichotomy or horribly ironic

    • themac

      Or a really successful business plan.

      • jerryeast

        So, you’re saying NWA was a business plan? – I would heartily agree, sir!

    • Mona Morgan

      …or growing up or getting rich or changing your world view or having a family or…

    • noah django

      I’ll just leave this here:

    • Mujokan

      I don’t think NWA ever wrote a track attacking family movies. That’s kind of what you write when it’s your mom and dad oppressing you, rather than the police.

  • liquidsky

    Would never have seen this intersection.
    Excellent. Made my week….

  • matt grupa

    Now we can safely say that Mid-Century Modern has officially jumped the shark.

    • freshacconci

      Why?

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Obviously Ice Cube is the Henry Winkler of the 90s.

  • Pandarzan

    That was enlightening to say the least. He should do put out a series of videos honoring the form & art of LA.
    That said…Arrgh! I loathe the use of <3 to represent "love"/"heart", especially on a science based (although quite hip) website. 

  • Susan Carley Oliver

    Wow. I love how he speaks about architecture.  His language makes me *get* it. I learned more about the Eames (Eameses?) in two minutes than I have in this whole century.  I would love to see him do a series, but this is such a perfect little gem – written, directed, portrayed – that I don’t want anything to mar its place in the pantheon of perfect videos.

  • phreakincool

    Bang!  Ice Cube just blew my mind.

  • ssiess

    I’m heading down to LA this summer and I’m wondering about the “Watchtowers” he referred to. What and where are they?

    • ikegently

      Watts Towers.  In Watts. 

      • Mujokan

        As referenced in the Bob Dylan song “All Along The Watts Towers”.

  • Cowicide

    Inspiring.  Thanks for posting this, David.

  • alissa mower clough

    I’ve been rendered speechless with his charm!

  • jeannine

    You can see the living room of the Eames House right now at LACMA:

    http://framework.latimes.com/2011/09/25/time-lapse-video-charles-and-ray-eames-living-room-packed-up-moved-to-lacma/

  • http://twitter.com/nonofyrpenguins NoneofYourPenguins

    How come no one made note of Ice Cube’s critique of Architectural excess, when it comes to materials.  In a sense, the Eames’ material and construction choices, within their design concept (material choice guiding design or vice versa?), is  similar to Ikea hacking.  Which is to say that off-the-shelf options are no real limitation to creativity.  Ice Cube’s highest praise was for creative resourcefulness.  Think about the origins of Rap.  Of course he digs it.

  • Mladen Kalinic

    So wish this dude could make albums like The Predator again. Not the single dimensional stuff he makes now, clearly not the honest output of someone with such multidimensional personality