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Mastering Your Mugshot
May 24th, 2012 | Beauty | journalpulp | 2 Comments
Self-consciousness, as August Mclaughlin notes in a recent post, will almost invariably show through in your headshots. But there’s a way you can avoid it: Don’t try to hard. Use your imagination to drift away during the shoot. In particular, don’t think about the photos during the shoot. This may sound odd, but it helps [...]
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Stylists And Stylization
March 8th, 2012 | Art | journalpulp | 4 Comments
It’s been said that a true artist doesn’t ever lose sight of reality: she stylizes it. It’s been also noted that a good painting often looks more real than reality itself. The reason both of these things are true is that art — which includes literature — is selectivity. Selectivity is the process of choosing [...]
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What Is Beauty?
August 27th, 2011 | Aesthetics, Art, Beauty, Esthetics | journalpulp | 6 Comments
A reader writes: Dear Sir: What is beauty? Is it anything? – Lily Alderman Dear Lily: It is everything. Beauty is the esthetically pleasing, it is the lovely. Aristotle wrote: “Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry” (ahem, ahem). But beauty is symmetry. Beauty is congruence. It is the bah-bah in black sheep. Beauty [...]
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Why Are Stories Important?
July 20th, 2011 | Art, Literature, Storytelling | journalpulp | 6 Comments
Stories are important because human beings are conceptual. This among other things means that humans survive by use of their reasoning brains. Humans evolved neither the balls of bulls, nor the trunks of elephants, nor the claws of bears, nor the necks of giraffes, but the brains of Homo sapiens, with a capacity to think. [...]
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