aesthetics
"Do you surround yourself with things you really like or things you like only because they are absurd?"
"Listen to your own speech. Ask yourself: Do I communicate primarily through inside jokes and pop culture references?" What percentage of …
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aesthetics
It's the "Here our Voice" poster for Women's March on Washington.
That's what it says in the caption at Isthmus , and I can't "here" it, but I c it, and it looks just terrible: Elsewhere , I'm …
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Can you read an on-line magazine formatted like this?
The NYT's new "TMagazine" drove me up the wall. I just can't see it. I feel like it's constantly flying away from me with all …
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The hood ornament.
It seems unthinkable today. But in 1955, it said something. I've written about hood ornaments before. You should have seen the hood ornament on …
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Where would you rather be?
What would you rather look at ? And can we philosophize about it? A similar topic: Would you rather be beautiful or have a beautiful mate? IN THE COM…
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aesthetics
Why did Doris Lessing say "Oh, Christ" on hearing that she won the Nobel Prize?
I'm a little late with this clip — via Amba and Internet Ronin — but I want to say something about it, so here: Do you think she said "Oh,…
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2 art exhibitions in NY — one Japanese, one Chinese.
I saw 2 art exhibitions this weekend. One was the bright, poppy Takashi Murakami show at the Brooklyn Museum: This survey of Takashi Murakami, the a…
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"One in three breast cancer patients under 45 removed the healthy breast along with the breast affected by cancer in 2012..."
"... a sharp increase from the one in 10 younger women with breast cancer who had double mastectomies eight years earlier, a new study reports.&…
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The celibacy club at Harvard.
Does celibacy require a social club? Does a celibacy club deserve a lengthy NYT Magazine article? Don't be silly! It's a celibacy club at Har…
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What's the difference between living in a trailer...
... and this ? One answer: People in a trailer don't say: "It feels acutely more sheltering to be in a tiny house rather than a big one... L…
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"Despite all of these alluring architectural features, folks in Madison still moan, 'oh, the Humanities (Building)!' or call it a 'munitions plant from some bleak dystopian fiction.'"
"Brutalism often gets dismissed as the most hated or ugliest architectural style... To people coming of age during the height of the style's…
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The best reason for a woman to shave her head.
The best reason for a woman to shave her head is to prove that she is beautiful. Everything about your head -- including your face -- is so exposed -…
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For the annals of anorexia.
Keira Knightley. A great beauty has lost track of what beauty looks like, and that look on her face, which once would have seemed to reflect sly, kn…
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Rachel Maddow describes how she puts her show together as "a bad process."
"It’s impressive in one way," she says (to The New Yorker's Janet Malcolm) , about starting the workday "at around 12:30 p.m., whe…
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Am I the only one noticing how bad the lighting is for the Olympics broadcast?
Do you see the 4 shadows forming an X at the feet of each Beach Volleyball player? That's so annoying! It made me think for the first time about …
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aesthetics
aesthetics
Oh, no! From the air the Navy building looks like a swastika!
So... do you want to spend $600,000 to soften the edges with trees and stuff? The building has been around since the 60s, but no one noticed until th…
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"The Flower Show may come back someday, but it’s not where people are these days... Food is an easier sell."
Botanical gardens are turning away from flowers! Botanical gardens are experiencing an identity crisis, with chrysanthemum contests, horticultural l…
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