Top Design....Lowest common denominator

I was searching iTunes for free TV shows, and I cam across "Top Design." A new reality show that puts Architectural & Interior designers agents each other in a challenge to the death!!!! Well not quite to the death, but they do compete in challenges against each other testing there design skills and at the end of each episode there is a Simon Cowell clone that rips every one apart, and some one gets the boot.

It was interesting but nothing original. With everything being turned into a reality show lately it was just a mater of time until they turned to the Architectural design world. I will say that this show bring up my main issues with the design world. I have been working as a Architect for 8 and a half years now, and the thing that frustrates me the most is that people are so stuck up about design. You can totally see it in this show.

Sure there are some general guideline and rules about design and what looks good and what doesn't, but the rest is subjective. There are a lot of designers out there that are really full of themselves and think that they're ideas are just the best thing. Why can't we just see the good in other people work, even it it's not our preferences. To quote a wise man "Can't we all just get along?"

For about 2 years now I have lived with out cable. Yes it is possible in America to live without cable. Although recently I think I have been just fooling myself. I have been down loading a lot of iTunes TV shows lately. The three I watch the most are Hero's, Veronica Mars and One Punk Under God. All great shows. I would highly recommend One Punk Under God. Its about Jay Bakker, the son of Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker the creators of televangelism. The show is only six episodes long but it's great.

Jay talks a lot about loving people unconditionally. (By the way so did Jesus) He shows this through the church he started called Revolution. The attract the tattooed, the pierced, and other people that the Church has rejected. Watch a trailer here....

Towards the end Jim Bakker makes a powerfull comment. He says that Jay is doing what he really wanted to do with his life, he's living people unconditionally. Jim makes the point that because he has chosen to live in the main stream of Christianity (he has his own Christian TV show) that means that he can't live the radical life his son is living because he needs to look the part for his christian audience.