I left the following note at the latest Google Maps mashup. Ready to join, until I took a look at the setup. Am I alone in this? (And do I care?)
Now, what are you going to do about those big ugly placemarkers when more people sign up, and why does everyone who fucks with Google maps, including Google, have this strange bent for big ugly placemarkers?
Just wondering,
Zo
It really is a wider problem, as my picking on poor Platial (now defunct) suggests. Though this newcomer really does take the Big Ugly Markers cake. Somehow hideous—which is to say, that which ignores aesthetics to a near-violent extent—has gotten loosed on the internet…and perhaps Google is to blame. I haven’t decided yet. I mean, those unreadable blinking-marquee Home Pages from the mid-90s—and they’re all still around, don’t kid yourself—were a whole different breed. They had aesthetics—just very, very bad aesthetics.
It’s the clinically bad, the bereft of artistic thought, that gets my goat, and you know what, I have this sneaking suspicion the trail does leads back to, you got it, Sergey & Larry.
Hey, guys, love your work!
I don’t want you going design crazy or anything, but there is this small matter of yin to all this yang: You cannot have just function! Yes, even if you are Sergey and Larry!
You’re still computer wonks, which is why I am explaining this so nicely.
This is how it goes: Form and Function. See? Just Function, why that’s just half a thing. You want the other half. That would be: Form.
No prob. Anytime I can help. And really, thanks for the blog.
