For our dinner and a movie we made sushi and watched the movie “Control Room”. Portrayed as an Iraqi perspective on the media coverage of the War on Iraq, “Control Room” is a documentary that attempts to rectify the tainted image painted by the Bush administration of the News station Al Jazeera. One point made during the movie, which I found to be extremely interesting and depressing was a comment made by the CEO of Al Jazeera that the wars today are often fought and won through the media. He went on to say that today a good general is measured by their ability to control and manipulate the media to their advantage. I could relate this to how architecture is often solely judged on images from the media, such as magazines etc. we are an image happy culture but I think us in the design world are image gluttons. And not only image gluttons but like the CEO of AL Jazeera suggested about a good general, we are image manipulator specialists. We have the abilities to render a design completely fallaciously, and like the “good general” we create these false images to win bids, competitions and clients. I realize that our ‘lies’ do not directly affect peoples lives in regards to life and death but they are still ‘lies’ and I think they should have no place in design, just as they should have no place on the battlefield.