Developer’s Vista

Last year I had an interesting chance to closely watch, help and appear (obviously filling some empty corners here and there) in Lisa Virtue’s short film CUBEd. But for me, it was a unique experience.

The movie story reminds me of my 20 years of office CUBation and makes me pay some attention to my other sides in life; beside programming I always liked painting and playing music the least to mention.

However, as my situation is different from Waters in the movie since I love and enjoy my job, I may share with her and many others the hostility towards the walls of something called “cubicle” — for those who enjoy sun and fresh air in their day jobs, “cubicle” is a small compartment used as a workplace for people who use their fingers and, sometimes, their minds in there jobs. Of course I’m kidding with this last one. But to give you a better idea the plural cubicles is only similar a honeybee hive.

I made a little search about the cubicle and found lots of complains and only few fans. The only two advantages of this system might be flexibility and cost. I also found the inventor, according to resources, of this system; his name is Bob Propst and he came up with this idea in 1964 to replace the open system that was common at the time, an interesting article about this story could be found here.

Here are a couple of shots from the short film “CUBEd”: