In the place of the steel-and-coal men who made the Ruhrgebiet, or Ruhr Valley, an industrial legend, meet hard-driving Josef Brewing, 37.
The Darrow myth is a "nice, clean, well-structured example of the Eureka School of American industrial legend," the New Yorker's Calvin Trillin wrote in 1978.
The pair are, surely, the only group in the world to be obsessed with industrial legends Coil while still enjoying sponsorship from an Italian furniture company.
Wells's aversion to familiarity has also ensured a degree of unpredictability, as with last year's surprise collaboration with industrial legends Einstürzende Neubauten.
Recently, the front man for the post-punk-cum-proto-industrial legends allegedly posted a statement on the band's Facebook page indicating that their upcoming UK tour with fellow post-rock magnates The Cult and The Mission was cancelled, specifically calling out Ian Astbury & Co. as money-grubbing hacks.
The industrial design legend Donald Norman talks about how humans project a series of expectations onto objects, and how designers need to understand these in order to make successful products.
But when you spend an hour on a Sunday contemplating life's purpose with industrial music legend, occultist, and "pandrogenous" artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, the process becomes a privilege.
Up the east coast of the island, in a long, low industrial building, the legend "water fall in paint booth" is written above a panel of knobs and switches.
April 19 2013 April 19: The British industrial post-punk legends Killing Joke have been hoarsely predicting Armageddon since the late seventies, but personnel changes have left many a surly record-store clerk lamenting that the band's best days ended back in 1982, when half of the group moved to Iceland to wait for the destruction of the earth.
Though Loewy is an acknowledged legend of industrial design, and helped shape today's pervasive consumer culture with its endless novelty of new-looking — but substantially similar — goods and services, the show feels short on objects.
