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[Tuesday Afternoon]

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[seabeyond]

1. true. more valued. more appreciated. more cared for. ok. lol

oh oh

more freeing, freedom

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. yeah ...

in art it gives the eye room to rest... as in negative space vs. positive space ...

[seabeyond]

3. true that. or allow energy to gracefully flow without knocking up and off and ricochetting about.

or god forbid, getting stuck....

edit... i was thinking room as in a space, room, lol. i like my space

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. space. elbow room. personal space. giving other people room to breathe.

wide open spaces. love it.

[seabeyond]

6. i have driven all over the country. so much of what we are comfortable with is where we grew up.

i was the west. when getting to the south and east i could not breath. i love mountains and tries. but especially in south the trees too dense. the humidity closing me in. the rain felt like it was pressing me down. i felt so confined.

when driving back home, once we got past dallas, i felt so free with the openness again. it was so profound. good insight. i need the openness in the land.

yet those raised in the other environment, i imagine there is a comfort in the closed feeling also. a stroking or something. they do not perceive as contained, but something else.

[seabeyond]

5. OMG... lol, you are the best. look at me. do i not look so good now. the best.

i am ME again.

that was so easy.

thank you

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. you are beautiful. take strength in it.

[defacto7]

8. That is...

until death. Although there are those who would like us to believe that death is more. So at that point more would be more... or would it still be that less is more?

No... at death less is less.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. less is less and more is more and that is how Rococo period came to be born!

Rococo (/rəˈkoʊkoʊ/ or /roʊkəˈkoʊ/), less commonly roccoco, also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music and theatre. The Rococo developed in the early part of the 18th century in Paris, France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry and strict regulations of the Baroque, especially that of the Palace of Versailles.[1] In such a way, Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture. Rococo art and architecture in such a way was ornate and made strong usage of creamy, pastel-like colours, asymmetrical designs, curves and gold. Unlike the more politically focused Baroque, the Rococo had more playful and often witty artistic themes. With regards to interior decoration, Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings. The Rococo additionally played an important role in theatre. In the book The Rococo, it is written that there was no other culture which "has produced a wittier, more elegant, and teasing dialogue full of elusive and camouflaging language and gestures, refined feelings and subtle criticism" than Rococo theatre, especially that of France

more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo

[ZombieHorde]

10. Is this about my waistline?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. more or less. yes!

[ZombieHorde]

12. Ha! nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. moraless -

[rrneck]

14. Yes.

I'm not a big fan of the Bible. I find it boring. But if I were stranded on a desert island with only a bible to read, I might well glean a great deal of pleasure from it. Certainly a lot of people have learned a lot from it, especially if that was the only thing they ever read and likely how they learned to read in the first place. It's about all the same human stuff that any other work of fiction might describe.

"Less is more" is usually applied to less "stuff". Generally it assumes a greater investment in fewer things and implies greater quality of life because of that investment. But the concept of "less is more" can be used to justify grinding poverty, which is to say a never ending investment in the profit of others, which doesn't offer more of anything except more poverty.

I kind of like to attach the relationship of the concept of "less is more" to the concept of "elegance". At a formal occasion, elegant means "beautifully simple". All the women are wearing some variation of black dress and white pearls, and the men are in white ties and tails. In science, elegance might be generally described as the simplest explanation for the largest number of phenomena. In a way, that sorts well with gatherings of people. All of these personalities come together and tacitly agree to not look too different as both a courtesy to others and a de-emphasis on appearance in favor of substance.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. a de-emphasis on appearance in favor of substance.

weird ... weddings and military ... come to mind.

[rrneck]

16. They're both about devotion...

till death do you part.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. ouch.

yeah.

[ismnotwasm]

18. Heh

In art, depending on what your bag is, less is more, a line missing, but implying fullness or skillfully repeating colors.

In Japanese aesthetics, mindfulness and simplicity are a calming beauty. And I think here 'less is more, is more of less' can be experienced both philosophically and in surroundings. It takes a surprising amount of skill--skill I don't have but admire greatly,

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

19. I kind of thought...

...that Michael Moore should have a son and name him Les. Les Moore.

[rrneck]

20. ...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

21. the big ones:

To be or not to be. - Shakespeare

To do is to be. - Nietzsche

To be is to do. - Sartre

Do be do be do. - Sinatra.

[ismnotwasm]

22. LOL!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

23. There are those...

...who've saddled their children. "Rumor" Willis, Bill Lear's daughter Shanda...