My current poetry project is poems that deal with subjects fitting into the above categories. Mata Hari's body never being collected and donated to medical school? Check. Evita's body being hidding away in a casket named Maria Maggi in Italy for years? Check. Poem about the relics of St. Therese going into space? Check. Female sideshow freaks? Check. Elvira as death incarnate? Check.
You (kinda) get the idea now of what I'm trying to write about--weird stuff that's happened to women's bodies, especially when that brushes up against pop culture. I can try to explain more if this admittedly vague criteria is still unclear.
Anyway, I'm looking for more topics to write about. Please throw out anything that might fit.
Thank you!
posted by mermaidcafe
on Jun 6, 2013 -
28 answers
My sister and I like matchy books: works by a single author or in a thematic series in new, nice, editions. Preferably hardcover, preferably freshly typeset, preferably authoritative and not decorative.
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posted by silby
on Dec 23, 2012 -
12 answers
Designers of all sorts (clothes, industrial, visual, graphic ones, etc) how do you make choices when it comes to aesthetics?
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posted by niak
on Sep 13, 2012 -
6 answers
Students of art, lovers of philosophy, can you recommend a book I can buy as a gift for a friend?
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posted by Chichibio
on Jul 25, 2012 -
17 answers
I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in the dark corners of the web?
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posted by 0bvious
on Apr 4, 2012 -
11 answers
Best practices for moving computer and printer into living area without it looking terrible?
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posted by Fairchild
on Sep 27, 2011 -
19 answers
There was a chess match once between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky where Fischer deliberately made a wrong move to confound and confuse Spassky. Does anyone the details of this story?
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posted by fantasticninety
on Mar 20, 2011 -
5 answers
I need a book on web design. Or maybe just design. I can program just fine, what I'm looking for is aesthetics. Why some things work and why others don't. Color choices, proper spacing etc.
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posted by GilloD
on Mar 4, 2011 -
12 answers
I realized recently that I prefer licorice when it's gone so stale it's almost rock-hard, and similarly I also would much rather eat dry, horribly overcooked turkey than a properly-cooked, moist bird. I think pristine new leather on bags or furniture looks ugly, and prefer it when it's battered and beaten up. I understand and appreciate the qualities that makes the "good" versions of these things good, but they just don't dovetail with my subjective experience. What are some other things that are
better when they're worse?
posted by hels
on Dec 5, 2010 -
102 answers
I have access to a large poster printer and want to fill my office with beautiful prints of Van Gogh's paintings. Please lend me your aesthetic guidance on how to make this awesome, not tacky or crowded.
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posted by Jacqueline
on Aug 26, 2010 -
12 answers
A friend of mine wants me to review his business' web site. I have, and it looks awful. Problem is, I'm not a web designer/graphic designer/etc. I wouldn't know where to start giving him feedback.
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posted by dfriedman
on Aug 11, 2010 -
24 answers
How do I get
this look when editing my photos? It seems to be characterized by high contrast in the midtones but muted contrast at the extremes, along with desaturated neutral colors but saturated vivid colors. I've tried and tried, but I can't seem to figure it out.
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posted by the jam
on Jun 5, 2010 -
24 answers
Top-notch dentist or prosthodontist in NYC to fix small chip on front tooth asap.
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posted by pearl228
on May 29, 2009 -
3 answers
Looking for articles/writings based around the premise that ethics are an extension of a larger sense of aesthetics.
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posted by Burhanistan
on Apr 14, 2009 -
13 answers
Help me find examples of literary criticism adopting the Jungian idea that all the characters are aspects of the same person.
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posted by leibniz
on Aug 29, 2008 -
22 answers
Why are sine waves considered "pure" tones? Why do we consider sinusoids the building blocks of periodic functions?
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posted by phrontist
on Jun 28, 2008 -
35 answers
I'm looking for a (UK based) knowledgable speaker on advertising and its relationship to the aesthetics based politics.
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posted by knapah
on Nov 2, 2007 -
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Hegel's "Aesthetics"-filter: I'm wondering what the German original is for the word "glance" in the English text? Blick? Flüchtiger Blick? Augenblick?" An English version of Hegel's Aesthetics can be searched
here, fwiw. Thanks.
posted by rumbles
on Feb 16, 2007 -
7 answers
Sir Lepel Griffin. Need help identifying and locating a source.
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posted by dios
on May 26, 2006 -
7 answers
Does anyone know the source for the following quote by George Santayana: "Americans love junk; it's not the junk that bothers me, it's the love"?
posted by jacknose
on Feb 27, 2006 -
5 answers
What is art? I mean, can someone explain to me how a couple rectangles thrown on a canvas is "art" and can sell for thousands of dollars? For that matter, that whole toilet scam just befuddles me - people actually fall for that and spend good money on it? Help me out here, what am I missing? Feel free to flame on this question. Let the debate begin.
posted by beth
on May 12, 2004 -
57 answers
