Fashion, Design, Art, Novelty

In my mind, design is the consciously planned portion of both fashion and art. Novelty

I am unsatisfied with this line of thought. What was clear to me has vanished in fog.

An aesthetic experience is often considered to be one of beauty. I disagree. It is one of power.
still not quite right. beauty is only a part of it. sunsets, thunderstorms, mountains, clouds,
none are created by people.

Say when and where.

The movie industry has lost its' minds.
Description of movie production.
Management methods.
Fashion and design.
Innovation and risk.
When the established model no longer "fits" the public mind, that model is a formula for disaster.
learn or die.

The Obamas are well advised.

If it is physically and legally possible I will be where and when requested.

This is an outline. I will expand it at my leisure.

crystal clarity.

Perhaps allotropic.

The question comes down to what an individual person or more at personality perceives as good, true, beautiful or right.

Everything sold can be considered as a product. I am not at all sure that I like that thought.
Products are subject to optimisation.

confused.

A self defense shooting in Harlem by a licensed gun owner.
Two dead armed robbers. two wounded and arrested robbers.
"I wish I didn't have to do this." is about the sanest reaction imaginable.

I have never had a conceptual problem with killing people. I will not do it at an other's whim. It is a very effective cease and desist order.

I do have a problem with the death penalty. Torture is unlawful, even psychological torture. The dead do not suffer. Only the living suffer. If we want to kill people for their acts, call it an editorial policy. Do it swiftly and without appeal.

random thought (n)

Motor fuel has been on my mind.
Bio-fuel has dropped from the news for the moment. The world is in trouble and the Arabs want to sell gas.

When bio-fuel was in the news it was ethanol and fryer oil. Not good policy. Ethanol is food or food derived. Used fryer oil is rather limited as fuel for the truck fleet. Both receive big support from the agribusiness lobby.

Methanol is simple, easy, toxic and can be made from any carbon feedstock. There is no constituency for it

I looked up manufacture. It is catalytic processing of water gas. Electrically heated carbon is treated with steam. the resulting hydrogen and carbon monoxide are reacted in the presence of a copper catalyst. Methanol. Tough on fuel injectors but no worse than ethanol. High compression returns. The energy density is not great but what we want is miles per buck.

Ah! maybe . . . still thinking . . .

a question:
Is the aesthetic experience identical to "Quality" as examined in "Zen and the Art" ( Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig)?
It very well may be. If it is not this project grows without bound. If it is, the project is still enormous. Pirsig leaves quality experiential and otherwise undefined. The "We know it when when we find it." definition is a very slippery thing.
It is also very real.
If I consider it as a statistical space it appears to have multiple maxima. Most of the aesthetic fights I have encountered have been between believers in different peaks.

Competing orthodoxies

examples

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It did come out of a browser window.

better portrait

round lake again

still here

Work has overfilled my time and attention.
Complexity: a composition of differences. Complication: a composition of similarities.

There is no purity in any real design.

The objects of a design are a solution to the problem utilizing maximum visual differences and minimising visual similarities.

This is one of those statements worthy of Redmond, Washington.