The New Aesthetic is a rather old, and hearteningly traditional, story about a regional, generational cluster of creative people who are perceiving important stuff that other, older, and dumber people don’t get quite yet. It’s a typical avant-garde art movement that has arisen within a modern network society

Bruce Sterling - The New Aesthetic Essay

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/
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“Both Rod Stanley and I were working at Dazed and Confused (Rod now edits it) and we’d go to fashion shoots and we’d be talking about science stuff and you’d get everyone from the models to photographers chipping in, showing their interest,” says Hatherill who now devotes 99 per cent of his time to running the not-for-profit site. “So we thought: ‘Why not merge the two worlds and try to talk about science in a different way, a way everyone would find interesting?’ ” (via It’s hip to be E=mc²: Can the worlds of art and fashion help to make the lab cool? - Science - News - The Independent)

“Both Rod Stanley and I were working at Dazed and Confused (Rod now edits it) and we’d go to fashion shoots and we’d be talking about science stuff and you’d get everyone from the models to photographers chipping in, showing their interest,” says Hatherill who now devotes 99 per cent of his time to running the not-for-profit site. “So we thought: ‘Why not merge the two worlds and try to talk about science in a different way, a way everyone would find interesting?’ ” (via It’s hip to be E=mc²: Can the worlds of art and fashion help to make the lab cool? - Science - News - The Independent)

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For 20 years, fashion guru Paul Smith has been receiving all manner of weird and wonderful objects through the post, and he has no idea who is sending them.
(via It’s Nice That : PS Your Mystery Sender)

For 20 years, fashion guru Paul Smith has been receiving all manner of weird and wonderful objects through the post, and he has no idea who is sending them.

(via It’s Nice That : PS Your Mystery Sender)

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