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offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2002-07-26 05:58 [#00325220]
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what kind of aesthetics inspire u?

for me it would be mountains, deserts, sunsets, radar sites,
triangular objects, etc


 

offline SwitchFrontside on 2002-07-26 06:00 [#00325222]
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uummmmmmmmmmm i realy like snow snowflakes..... oh yeh i
love night...... the moon ,the clouds ,the trees, at night
everything...............

am i weird or what ?


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2002-07-26 06:01 [#00325224]
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no shame, man. share by all means!


 

offline Dozier from United States on 2002-07-26 06:48 [#00325264]
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I love a night sky, with a moon and stars, and maybe a few
clouds. Sunsets also get me pretty good. As dodeep blue
bodies of water, and clear rushing mountain streams. But the
night is my first love.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-26 06:51 [#00325269]
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lets see...

I love the stars. SO MUCH.
When I can afford it, im gonna buy a huge telescope to star
at the universe

Looking out on manhattan at night, when its all light up,
from my apartment is really surreal.

Concerts. They just seem so bad ass. All this equipment on
stage

The nude female body. Not to sound like a male pig, but
seriously, the nude female form is the most beautiful sight
on this earth.

Wedding rings. The idea of comitting your life to someone...
beautiful


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-26 06:52 [#00325272]
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and cats


 

offline SwitchFrontside on 2002-07-26 07:00 [#00325284]
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fuck i hate cats :)


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-07-26 07:31 [#00325305]
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moutains, stars, clouds, rivers, lakes, snow.


 

offline LeCoeur from the outer edge of the universe (United States) on 2002-07-26 08:24 [#00325358]
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hummmmmm

i could go on for days with this one, but here's a few of my
fav's

- the heavens (all that it encompasses)
- mountains
- water (ocean, lakes, rivers)
- SNOW (i wanna go to antartica!!)
- desert sunsets
- a beach with NO one on it!
- a kind jesture from a stranger =0)



 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-26 08:27 [#00325360]
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i forgot you live in the desert with the wonderful view of
the stars!

*frowns, as he looks out the window at the SMOG*


 

offline hedphelym from Montreal (Canada) on 2002-07-26 09:23 [#00325457]
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aesthetically, I'm into minimalism - clean lines,
cool/subdued colours (NOT reds, orange,etc), no pictures
hanging on walls...
I love the juxtaposition of concrete and manicured lawns.
If glass was in the mix, that would be chillin' too.
Rounded, organically flowing buildings/furniture are wicked,
and so are crazy sharp angles and asymetrical stuff.

In nature, I love to see: clouds, brilliantly coloured
sunsets, the heavens, tropical waters, lush foliage, the
nautilus form, rock formations, electric animals
(transparent jellyfish to fireflies), iceburgs, other
beautiful animals (bobcats to human males with nice
bonestructure), blah,blah,blah....




 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 10:18 [#00325515]
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^^ ditto, hed...

especially the electric animals...

plus Crystal structures...
Technical Drawing...
Obviously computer designed Buildings...
Skyscrapers...
Neon Tubes...

Power Stations...
Chemistry Sets...
Chaos..
Mathmatical structures...

Drug Space..

Decay & Aging next to the super-new...
Futurism...
Situationists...
Graffetti...
Digital Manipulation..

Emergent behavior & super-organisms (like Ants etc...)...

PS on the subject of Ants....did you know that they've
recently discovered the largest Ant colony in the
world...it's in Europe and is 7000km long...

Yep, 7000km!!...one colony stretching from Italy, thru
france, into Spain & Portugal...



 

offline Chri5py from my Solarbear (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 10:20 [#00325518]
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I think looking at the beach from the sea is inspiring.
Looking from really close to the waves, right along the
water.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-07-26 10:22 [#00325520]
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How does that ant colony work? Surely it must have more than
one queen? Otherwise how do ants get from the birthing
chamber to the extremities (most ants live for less than a
month)?

Have you read "kingdom of the ants" it's originally french
and loses a little in the translation, but it's still a
great book.


 

offline Resident Evil from heat some coffee, mmm, mmm (Australia) on 2002-07-26 10:23 [#00325522]
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Basically everything that's been said above.

Love the night.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-07-26 10:25 [#00325524]
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Oh yeah, aesthetics.

Up until recently I didn't like see through cases on
electronic devices. But recently I really like PCBs.

I also like chip schematics,
CAD drawings.
Blueprints.
Baroque and rocco design.
Gothic architecture
Neo-classical arcitecture.
Japanese minimalism.
Chinese calligraphy (so much nicer than japanese symbols
IMO).
Well cut suits.
The lines of butterfly swords.
Oscilloscope waves.
The design of the "Dark Eldar" minatures from the games
worshop game warhammer 40,000


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 10:27 [#00325530]
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yep, more than one queen...

It's not even a native european specis..I believe it's
originally from Brazil and came over on some ship...

yeah, think I might have read kingdom of the ants...but its
was ages & ages ago so can't remember much about it...is it
the one where some of the story is told from the point of
view of one of the ants?...

I'll try and find a link about this Ant colony...I read
about it in New Scientist but there's bound to be something
on the web...


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 10:31 [#00325534]
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Oscilloscope waves...yay!! that was part of the inspiration
behind my avatar...

Like when you get 2 sine waves modulating each other you get
a kinda looping osc display...take that a step further and
into 3 dimensions, add some jand spice and you get my
avatar...

Did some research into this sort of shape after creating a
few and found the technical name for em is "lissajous
figures"...


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 10:35 [#00325539]
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Info about those Ants...

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/superants.html...

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020415/020415-1.html...



 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 10:36 [#00325540]
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Giant invasion of Argentine ants conquers Europe"

"Billions of ants from Argentina have created the Earth's
biggest "super organism" in Europe, a network of
communicating worker ants spanning more than 3,700 miles.

The invading ants are in millions of nests in a supercolony
stretching from northern Italy, through the south of France
to the Atlantic coast of Spain, in what is thought to be the
largest co-operative unit of individual organisms.

Laurent Keller, professor of ecology at the University of
Lausanne in Switzerland, whose research is published today
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said
entomologists had never before recorded such a huge
supercolony of ants.

"A collection of colonies acting as one can be described as
a supercolony. It is very unusual because ants are usually
highly aggressive," Professor Keller said".

From The Independent...



 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-07-26 12:22 [#00325690]
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Clouds are pretty great. You can just look and, and it's so
VAST, Jesus... and planets are also overwhelmingly huge.

The other night, the moon was so full and enormous, I could
have reached out a grab it. It's so far, I can't believe
people were on it! Yowza!


 

offline regital from Baltimore (United States) on 2002-07-26 12:24 [#00325693]
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There is nothing more inspirational than driving late at
night with music on.


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 12:26 [#00325696]
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Death, decay, smoke clouds, big fuck off smoke clouds, smoke
clouds bigger than death, big as fuck, engulfing everything,
blocking out the sun, the world, you, me.

Death


 

offline flim-flam from In a cupboard, in the kitchen. (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 12:42 [#00325713]
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For me, it's the sight of burning corpses, bodies stacked
high nad buzzing with flies....the face of a child holding
the hand of it's dead mother after an earthquake....the
blood, drip-drip-dripping from a torn throat.....oh and
swans!!

Only kiddin.....For me, it's the ocean!!!
Guess it's coz I'm a pisces??
And watching a peice of paper windmilling in the air caught
on the air current....something about watching that makes me
think of ballet!!!


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-07-26 12:43 [#00325716]
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Hey, are you the dude from American Beauty?


 

offline flim-flam from In a cupboard, in the kitchen. (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 12:44 [#00325717]
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Wha? 8o/


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 12:49 [#00325723]
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American Beauty to one side, I do so agree about the sight
of things being swept away by the wind...

And flocking is kinda cool as well; like birds or even
better fish shoals...there's a cool CGI anim of flocking by
a guy called Craig Reynolds; he's from Brooklyn so he called
em BOIDS...

check it at http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ ...


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-07-26 12:49 [#00325724]
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Watching paper blow in the wind. Remember the bit in the
film where he's filming it? Though I think its a carrier bag
but the principle is the same.


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 12:52 [#00325727]
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http://www.codepuppies.com/~steve/aqua.html ...

CGI fish shoals...not as beautiful as the real thing
obviously; but amazing how such apparent complex behavior is
the end result of 3 basic rules...


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-26 12:53 [#00325729]
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best bit of the movie...


 


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