What are your favorite novels from an aesthetic/writing style point of view?
What are your favorite novels from an aesthetic/writing style point of view? I'm aware of this thread, but it seems more specific than my question. (Perhaps not?)
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Looking for articles/writings based around the premise that ethics are an extension of a larger sense of aesthetics. My google-fu is not serving me well today. I'm looking for writings that explore the...
View ArticleQuick dental aesthetics-fix in NYC?
Top-notch dentist or prosthodontist in NYC to fix small chip on front tooth asap. In short, would you please recommend a top-notch dentist or prosthodontist (prosthodontist because I need to see one...
View ArticleI like 'em big when they're inside me
Help me find music that makes me feel small and insignificant. Here's one sample of exactly what I'm looking for. There's elements of shoegaze, post-rock, electronic, and experimental music up in that...
View ArticleWho marks up their art on purpose?
Is there an Asian practice of placing dots in the corner of paintings to show imperfection / humility? When I was in the 4th grade, an art teacher told me that it is common practice in some Asian...
View ArticleHow do I get this paradoxical look?
How do I get this look when editing my photos? It seems to be characterized by high contrast in the midtones but muted contrast at the extremes, along with desaturated neutral colors but saturated...
View ArticleHow do I give constructive feedback about something about which I know little?
A friend of mine wants me to review his business' web site. I have, and it looks awful. Problem is, I'm not a web designer/graphic designer/etc. I wouldn't know where to start giving him feedback. I...
View ArticleHelp make my office a Van Gogh shrine
I have access to a large poster printer and want to fill my office with beautiful prints of Van Gogh's paintings. Please lend me your aesthetic guidance on how to make this awesome, not tacky or...
View ArticleWhat things are better when they're worse?
I realized recently that I prefer licorice when it's gone so stale it's almost rock-hard, and similarly I also would much rather eat dry, horribly overcooked turkey than a properly-cooked, moist bird....
View ArticleI need a book on web design aesthetics not programming.
I need a book on web design. Or maybe just design. I can program just fine, what I'm looking for is aesthetics. Why some things work and why others don't. Color choices, proper spacing etc. I've been...
View ArticleFischer deliberately makes wrong chess move?
There was a chess match once between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky where Fischer deliberately made a wrong move to confound and confuse Spassky. Does anyone the details of this story? I once read an...
View ArticleOffice Space
Best practices for moving computer and printer into living area without it looking terrible? I have a three-bedroom house. Currently my two boys share a bedroom. We use the third bedroom as a "computer...
View ArticleWhat is the Folk Web?
I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What...
View ArticleLooking for a book recommendation that combines art and philosophy
Students of art, lovers of philosophy, can you recommend a book I can buy as a gift for a friend? I'm looking to buy a very good friend of mine a book for his upcoming birthday, but I'm having a hard...
View ArticleHow do make choices when it comes to aesthetics?
Designers of all sorts (clothes, industrial, visual, graphic ones, etc) how do you make choices when it comes to aesthetics? I know part of choices are made because of function (form follows function,...
View ArticlePoint us towards some sweet matchy books
My sister and I like matchy books: works by a single author or in a thematic series in new, nice, editions. Preferably hardcover, preferably freshly typeset, preferably authoritative and not...
View ArticleNeed Weird Topics in Female Embodiment / Sexuality / Celebrity / Saints
My current poetry project is poems that deal with subjects fitting into the above categories. Mata Hari's body never being collected and donated to medical school? Check. Evita's body being hidding...
View ArticleLooking for an in-text reference for a concept attributed to Kant
I'm looking for an in-text reference for a concept apparently put forward by Immanuel Kant. I would like to know where in his own writings this concept was actually addressed. So basically I'm writing...
View ArticleBooks on philosophy and beauty, art, narrative, or metaphor
I'm well-read but pretty uneducated when it comes to philosophy, aside from having a working knowledge of the Post-Structuralists. I'm looking for philosophical books (it doesn't matter it they're...
View ArticleHow Do I Take in Better Stuff?
How do I practice better taste - in my art, music, and other kinds of cultural consumption - without being a prude or curmudgeon or elitist? I've been thinking a lot lately about how to be more ......
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