well really just one apple.
or the apple to put it even plainer.
those techies over at mac seem to really know what they’re doin’.
they actually use pleasing sights and sounds to sell their products.
i mean how often do you get a company that can actually advertise to the right sort of crowd?
first they put out the feist ad:
an optical delight.
then they went for css:
music to my ears is an understatement.
oh what magical creations will they give us next?
Filed under: art
Besides a few touch ups I think I’m done.
Detail:
eh?
Filed under: america, literature, tid bits | Tags: america, books, borat, kurt vonnegut, literature, quote, robert pinsky
Having just watched Borat for the first time I couldn’t help but feel the usual disgust, shock and awe at just how deranged we Americans truly are.
However – and I use this with the utmost emphasis – after starting to read Timequake
by the late, great, Kurt Vonnegut I came across a quote by the poet, Robert Pinsky:
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been for you, the best and worst of Western Civilization, if you cared to pay attention: music, finance, government, architecture, law and sculpture and painting, history and medicine and athletics and every sort of science and books, books, books and teachers and role models.
“People so smart you can’t believe it and people so dumb you can’t believe it. People so nice you can’t believe it and people so mean you can’t believe it.”
Of course he was only referring to Indianapolis during this speech. I on the other hand like to think of it as an ode to the whole US of A.
God bless the unbelievably good parts of America.
The beauty of art has nothing to do with what you create but how you create it.
Or so my new theory goes.
Simplistic? Yes.
I like simplicity.
Filed under: art, literature | Tags: "The Picture of Dorian Gray", art, books, literature
“It is a malady.”
“Love?”
“An illusion.”
“Religion?”
“The fashionable substitute for belief.”
A bit of a passage from ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, written by none other than the man, the myth, the legend, Oscar Wilde.
Books such as this always seem to get me thinking. This tends to set me off on another one of my desperate attempts to pull myself together. I daresay it’s quite the mess. This time, I like to believe, is different. Well I think so anyway.
Though many of the philosophies and ideologies are that of a jest or cynical remark there is no doubt that they question many of mans emotions and creativities that are but taken for granted. When they speak of art in the book they speak of it as it should be, as a beauty. It is not supposed to be anything practical. It is supposed to be an indulgence of an emotion that is superior to sin.
The question this book has left me with is this:
Is conscience truly cowardice? For to scratch the itch and quench the thirst one is at times left to commit acts that are anything but honorable. Yet to live fear and yield not to such things, experience and understanding will continue to lay just out of reach.
It is all rather tedious isn’t it?
Monday around the 14th hundred hour I took a little trip downtown and no, this does not have anything to do with a holding cell. Instead this has everything to do with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection
Socal was the first exhibit I walked. I must say whatever those hippies were on, well it must have been something worth taking. The light manipulation and crude objects used to portray stimulating images of both ones emotions and mind. Truly spectacular.
I also viewed the permanent collection which was just brilliant to say the least.
Art such as this makes my mind race, only without a finish line in sight.
Filed under: los angeles, music | Tags: bands, gigs, los angeles, music, partys
and so LA’s bright lights have dimmed.
It seems my mind and time have teamed up to once again portray a visage that is all to familiar to the manipulative mind. LA is indeed a sneaky girl, I just never thought I’d be in her clutch. Yet here I am, all to vulnerable? Ah perhaps it is so; so it goes.
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Thee makeout party
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They put on a fine show in that small confined space they so boldly tagged as the stage. Excellent music, lovely boys and a singer with remarkable hair. What more to say?
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The red hearts
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Well they played prior to thee makeout party and cupcakes were gorged upon among the crowd. Their exuberant amount of energy was adapted by all making for a fantastic show.
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Yum yum
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Really a city through the eyes of a vagabond is only as wondrous as it’s inhabitants devise it to be.
ARS (not arse) has had their researchers breed carrots of different pigmentation including almost all the colors of the rainbow. I was wondering if it came in blue… More importantly though, carrots are excellent for your health.
I approve.
