http://apmetalsmith.com Curious Metal Arts Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:18:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Aesthetic Philosophy November 18, 2008 Regarding my personal aesthetic philosophy I will begin with a clarifying and guiding statement that this shall be a short treatise on my process and system of perception and classification of sensations as beautiful. My semester long daily journal of beautiful experiences or “beauty log” will serve ... http://apmetalsmith.com/aesthetic-philosophy/ The title of this entry is a clever double meaning, and everyone loves a clever fucker. This is a rare day because I had two moments of beauty to comment on and in the interest of scientifically recording each one as a separate and isolated incident they earned each their ... http://apmetalsmith.com/down-payment/ I made my first ever spring catch today for a small box I have been working on. It is beautiful, and one of the most satisfying things I have done in a long time. Each time it snaps shut and re-opens my heart skips a beat and my mind is ... http://apmetalsmith.com/beautiful-mechanism/ I found a little beauty in the talkie-showie-box this evening. In a fit of recreation Crystle and I watched Alton Brown's new mini-series "feasting on waves" which was a spin-off from his series "feasting on asphalt." The premise of both series being finding good homemade food while on the go, ... http://apmetalsmith.com/food-beauty/ I felt the first chill of crisp winter air this morning and it was breathtakingly beautiful, literally. I love winter: death to everything; the only way to witness rebirth in the spring. Wonderful. http://apmetalsmith.com/crisp-winter/ Art almost made me puke today and I don't think it was because I was overwhelmed by beauty. SOFA was like a sensory overload phantasmagorical cluster-fuck. Glass makes me want to vomit now, it seemed like all there was to see in that over oxygenated event hall. Although I may ... http://apmetalsmith.com/sofa/ Citizens of the United States of America have spoken and the message is clear. This is a truly momentous occasion with Barack Obama a clear winner in our recent presidential election. I am elated and overwhelmed with joy. No longer will the grim specter of a John McCain/Sarah Palin presidency ... http://apmetalsmith.com/beautiful-election/ This has become a rarity and I can tell by my posting history that my mind is continuously and curiously drawn to the heavens. My favorite skeptic astronomer Dr. Philip Plaitt has posted one of the most breath-taking images I may have ever seen. I will show it to you ... http://apmetalsmith.com/process-astronomy-photography-beauty/ If you haven't been to Walt Disney World or the great wide north that is the UP of Michigan, you can't possibly understand what a small world is. Its people who look like menacing stiffly moving animatronic robots singing incomprehensibly of course. But it is also everyone you know knowing ... http://apmetalsmith.com/small-world/ Hot on the heels of yesterday's beautifully exciting conceptual development, I found today to be stifling, awkward and totally lacking in beauty. There is no beauty when I can't find time to make or design my own art. How can I have time to appreciate beauty when I just spent ... http://apmetalsmith.com/overwhelmed/