Word: aestheticizing
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The cover art for Neil Young’s new album “Prairie Wind” evokes the sorely-missed western aesthetic last heard on his 2000 record “Silver and Gold,” but most fully realized on Young’s folksier mid...
At first, the video appears to be the latter. In self-consciously amateurish animation (with the aesthetic of a hastily-assembled Flash project), brightly-colored creatures dance, birds flutter about, and flowers, rainbows, snowflakes, and polka-dots abound. There are even little animated penguins in funny hats, for God?...
The figures in the two frames face each other. One is a study of sullen little girl rendered in hasty brushstrokes. The other, a delicately sketched Renaissance noblewoman, is a copy of a drawing attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci. At first glance, these two works seem to have little in...
For Saichol, who personally designed the company logo, the staff uniforms, the coffee cups and every store, Banrie is the expression of an aesthetic and political vision. The national anthem plays regularly at stores, and Saichol buys coffee at premium prices to support domestic growers.
That isn't the only way to run a business. Look at Microsoft. Bill Gates focused on operating systems. He didn't worry about hardware. He gave Windows to anybody who could pony up a licensing fee, and he let them worry about hardware. Result? He devoured the market and...