Rajapolah At least one person expressed astonishment that I was headed off to Miami for a week – “we mountain people,” she said, “don’t want anything to do with Miami.” I had a little taste of that in the airport on my way down. I was waiting on the security line, shoes and boarding pass in […]
Tag Archives: beauty
Land of Contrasts.
17-Dec-12Alexander McQueen and the Met.
13-Aug-11I had an interesting visit to the Met last Saturday. Hoping to take advantage of the 9 p.m. closing, I went with a friend around 8 – a bit late, admittedly, because we had lingered a bit on our way – only to find the line out the Great Hall and down almost all the […]
One of the impressive things about modern ugliness and inefficiency is that it has always gotten the approval of committees specifically designed to preserve the aesthetics and functionality of neighborhoods. But since committee-humanity is unable to make a subjective judgement – saying, “This plan is ugly and it should not be built” seems insufficiently objective […]
Simone Weil on Christmas.
25-Dec-09“Beauty is the experimental proof that incarnation is in fact possible.”
“Beauty is Perfection in Combination with Freedom.”
27-Aug-11http://smragan.com/2011/11/17/homemade-toshiba-tlp-671-video-projector-wall-mount/ I am continually impressed by Goethe’s genius – his capacity to productively see. “Beauty is perfection in combination with freedom” is put as no one else can put it, and the more you think about what keeps things and people which are formally perfect from possessing the elevating radiance which distinguishes true beauty, the more […]