Crazy Judges

I was wasting some time here at work, surfing the internet while I wait for the next asinine request to come down the pipe. I saw a story while I was browsing around about a “fog shower” that some kid in Brazil designed for a contest sponsored by Electrolux. Nothing too crazy; it’s a shower that makes a warm fog instead of a stream of water for you to wash off. It’s supposed to be “more environmentally friendly”, or some crap.

It was interesting enough for me to look at the Electrolux site http://www.videonewsmanager.com/electrolux/download.html to see what it was all about. Pretty blah for the most part… until I got to the section about the judges.



Holy crap. What a motley crew this lot is. They look like James Bond reject villains. Especially ol’ Matali Crasset. What’s with that haircut? Jason Bradbury isn’t too much better. Wasn’t he Le Chiffre in Casino Royal?



Oh, sorry Mads Mikkelsen. I’m sure people make that mistake all the time.

Have a good look at these folks. Can you imagine how exhausting it must be to be one of these people? To have to get up every morning and fix your hair that like? To have to find some haute couture fashion to wear everyday? To have to be stuck with a name like Henrik Otto for your whole life?

"Hello, this is Henrik. Are you available for our backgammon game this afternoon?"

Yech.

Even Celine Cousteau, arguably the most mainstream of the lot, has a crazy picture. Look at the lighting. She's not outside in front of a cloudy sky. That's a studio photo that they put that background behind. What's with that? In fact, she might be the wackiest of the bunch. A little bit "tries to hard" perhaps?

Anyway, moral of the story: designers are bizarre. Especially European designers.