The London Lounge

Something jolly for a Friday night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIYRUk6gk2g&list=PL3730E592C79C8119 NJS How nice. For something similarly brassy and more vernacular, try this: http://youtu.be/R08w1u822_M I don't know what the video is all about, though. And for wistfully imagined (or real) futur...

Current/magnetism This explains why, when I pursue my own interests and personal expression without concern for outcomes, armies of babes seem to come out of the woodwork, to my surprise and delight. When I try to reverse-engineer that magnetism and focus too deliberately on it, the she-wolves retr...

Best wishes, Rowly & co.

So you prefer Guercino to Poussin... The skull may be just too visual, but you could replace it with Hamlet's famous six-word line. He chose "to be" and I am also happy to be in Arcadia while it lasts. Happy I was born alive. Art, who is not absent from Poussin's composition, is there to remind us ...

Style is eminently phenomenological Agree!! That is why metaphor is the only way to suggest its nature. But metaphor, while offering a more direct access to the actual experience, at the same time departs more from the essence: it shows a facet, never the whole. The pointing finger! The best part o...

By the way, I guess the problem is that we look at photographs and declare, "He has style!" thereby reducing the equation to the visual appearance and nothing else.......maybe in real life the person is a big jerk

Well-rested and back for more punishment :) Bravo, Costi! Style is humanistic and interpersonal. I am searching for a better word to describe it... as a way, an Art of Living. We fixate on the clothes/aesthetic prong because it is the lowest-hanging fruit on the style cactus. The term has been erode...

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To be honest I feel much like pic 1 after 48 hours of continuous wakefulness. Doe-eyed and strange

Allow me to suggest a different, more jaundiced view. As I was colorizing that image, I had occasion to look at this man's eyes for a long time. Something kind of like what you are all hinting at stuck out at me: the forlorn, pretty vacuity. He has the vacant, helpless look of someone born with all ...

Arky, we should refuse to live in a world where we feel the need to apologize for being romantic, or where some form of idealism is cynically disregarded as "unrealistic" or dismissed as "unscientific": of course it is, that's why we feel it is true :) Thank you, I was moved by your comment. I regr...

Arky, yes - and welcome! - but didn't we get them mixed up? Hello, Costi, and thanks :D Yes, partway through replying I began to doubt myself as to whether I was even using the right terminology. It seemed like Rowly proposed a tentatively ambiguous conceit, then it metamorphosed into further categ...

Are there certain outfits that will be favoured by one type or the other? Rowly, I guess not - if we accept your premise (and Michael's). It's a matter of how , not of what . Of course, there are items the Alpha will never pick, but I think he can't explain why... Yes, yes, so let's try to trace th...