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Wedding cake, Museum of Failure, Syd Mead

Hosted by Frances Anderton Dec. 05, 2017

We love a good success story, but we love an epic fail even more. DnA visits the Museum of Failure. We also talk to "visual futurist" Syd Mead and architect Craig Hodgetts about creating a "plausible reality."

Photo: Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure, poses with a Chinese sex doll at his exhibition in the A+D Museum in downtown LA. (Avishay Artsy)

From this Episode:

Cake as art

Baker Jack Phillips decorates a cake in his Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, September 21, 2017 Photo by Rick Wilking/Reuters Today the Supreme Court heard...

7 min, 49 sec

The Museum of Failure

Ford overhyped the Edsel when it was introduced in 1957. Customers thought it was ugly and overpriced, and the name became synonymous with corporate failure.

10 min, 6 sec

The Movie Art of Syd Mead

Syd Mead envisioned the Spinner flying police cars in Blade Runner, the Light Cycles in Tron and the U.S.S. Sulaco in Aliens. His fingerprints are also on the built...

9 min, 12 sec

Credits

Host:
Frances Anderton

Producers:
Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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