It's hideous.
Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
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Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
#92If you want to get a feel of what brutalist architecture is like up close, go to the Barbican in london if you can.
Its quite surreal. Very much in-your-face concrete exposure. Yet, to walk and experience it with your eyes is a study of contrasts: a giant, comparitively modern, greenhouse, has a glass roof open to the sky and yet many floors have no light or windows at all. And in the outdoor spaces, like the fountain/canal running through the complex the concrete will sort of be in the background and lets you focus on everything else: the water, the swans and the people around.
Juxtapose that to low hanging exposed concrete roofs and walls in closed passages could make one feel constrained/claustrophobic/yearning for light.
Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
#93I don't like it, from a pure brutalistic view point this obviously doesn't make any sense, it isn't practical and it doesn't make any effort to create a shape that is esthetically pleasing. The urban decay is even more outrageous, the whole appeal of urban decay is that it is "real", it's the thinking about all of people that went through the same structure throughout the years. Of cause it doesn't mean you can't mak…
> this obviously doesn't make any sense
That's debatable, but it's a moot point; it's pastiche, so it doesn't have the same goals or motivations as the original.
Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never mind placing it, bringing it to the place where it should be, er, placed might also be a challenge. Unless you can drive a forklift into your office...
I took it to the office on a little trolley thing
how much does it weigh? it looks like maybe 20-30lbs
Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
#95Related: Anyone know where to get that kind of keyboard in the photo? Specifically, where the number pad and arrow keys are on the left? I've been looking and looking, but the best I can find is using a narrow keyboard with a separate number-pad only keyboard on the left. I'm in the US. (It's better for your right shoulder to keep the mouse closer to your body like in the picture.)
keychron does make one: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q12-max-qmk-via-w... found this one as well, don't know the brand: https://www.bloodyusa.com/product.php?pid=11&id=166
+1 for Keychron. I have a Q5 Pro with brown switches (which is almost identical to that Q12 model) and it's one of the best keyboards I've owned.
Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never mind placing it, bringing it to the place where it should be, er, placed might also be a challenge. Unless you can drive a forklift into your office...
I took it to the office on a little trolley thing
I didn't mean the laptop stand, I meant the concrete desk one of the parent comments suggested...
Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
#97go visit any major “third world” country city … probably see those everywhere.
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#98I don't like it, from a pure brutalistic view point this obviously doesn't make any sense, it isn't practical and it doesn't make any effort to create a shape that is esthetically pleasing. The urban decay is even more outrageous, the whole appeal of urban decay is that it is "real", it's the thinking about all of people that went through the same structure throughout the years. Of cause it doesn't mean you can't mak…
> this obviously doesn't make any sense That's debatable, but it's a moot point; it's pastiche, so it doesn't have the same goals or motivations as the original. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastiche
Exactly. This is more like the pre-ripped jeans version of brutalism.
Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
#99Related: Anyone know where to get that kind of keyboard in the photo? Specifically, where the number pad and arrow keys are on the left? I've been looking and looking, but the best I can find is using a narrow keyboard with a separate number-pad only keyboard on the left. I'm in the US. (It's better for your right shoulder to keep the mouse closer to your body like in the picture.)
yeah that keyboard is definitely different than what I'm accustomed to. My son pointed out that shift-2 is not '@' but '"'.
Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
#100This man poured concrete around a power strip, chemically aged copper with ammonia, rusted rebar with peroxide, faked a damaged cable for vibes, and vibrated out the air bubbles with a dildo. This is the most unhinged and delightful Show HN I've ever seen.
It's an honour just to be nominated <3