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Christian Rutherford
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@LUrbaniste @Aesthetic_City My favourite cityscape is one containing an accretion of architectural styles from across the ages. Design should be able to feed on its past, but what I'm against is the counterfeit, the dishonest, the kitsch. Buildings pretending to be what they're not: Poundbury-ism. 2/2
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@LUrbaniste @Aesthetic_City My point about Bauhaus is that it emerged at a very apposite time. I love architecture from all eras, including our own. I'm a fan of architectural variety, from highly ornamental to severely austere, the proviso being that design should express and respond to its own era. 1/2
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This is what access points to underground parking and metro lines could look like
If we tried
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@portraitinflesh I certainly don't disagree with that, but had he become PM in 1992, we almost certainly wouldn't have got Blair five years later.
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@Impitoyable Well, OK. But Kinnock was still the man who saved Labour from the far left. We all owe him a lot.
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Kinnock is worth a dozen of you, sad little anonymous heckler.
Sunday Sport@thesundaysport
Lose two elections and fall into the sea?
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@LUrbaniste @Aesthetic_City If a cornice protects a building from the rain, it's not excluded from basic Modernist principles, by virtue of being functional. If it's *merely* ornamental, then it is.
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@Impitoyable @Aesthetic_City Define “freeing” when the taboo against ornament of any kind is now so great that buildings lack even basic cornices to protect them from staining from the rain?
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@Alixxa01 I clearly said *not all* Art Nouveau is dreadful. I revere Hector Guimard for example.
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I find Art Nouveau a lot more appealing
The Aesthetic City@Aesthetic_City
Is there anything that beats the beauty and utility of the Haussmannian block?
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@6xW_a The eighties ended on 31 December 1989, so it's only 36 years ago at this point.
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@portraitinflesh The reaction from certain quarters is no different to the lunatics who boycotted Life of Brian, but they probably wouldn't admit it.
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I haven't seen it yet, but it's already clear that Nolan's Odyssey is not just good, but one of the most significant cinematic events of recent times. As ever, the pinched, hateful worldview of right-wing zealots cuts them off from the very Western culture they claim to champion.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ debuts with an A on CinemaScore. • A rare score for R-rated films. Read our review: bit.ly/OdysseyDF
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@portraitinflesh That's certainly true, but how can the poor man live with himself after debasing himself like that?
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This is abject from Infantino, but the horrible truth is, figures like him have little choice but to grossly flatter Trump, because he can and will use his office to wreak revenge. The most powerful human being alive is a gangster.
Sky Sports News@SkySportsNews
"The greatest human, social and cultural event that mankind has witnessed" 👀 FIFA President Gianni Infantino has praised the 2026 World Cup and thanked Donald Trump for his contribution to the tournament 💬
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@frasermatthew Some of those are bucket hats and others boonie hats, but I suppose the bob covers both versions.
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The French us the English word "bob" for these hats.
Le20h-France Télévisions@le20hfrancetele
Le bob, star de l'été, est partout : dans les festivals, sur les plages… mais aussi au bord des routes du Tour de France. Accessoire de mode incontournable aujourd'hui, il cache pourtant une histoire. Alors, est-il né en France ou aux États-Unis ? #JT20H
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@Todd_Spence @Walahute That's not how films are made, chum.
Everything was planned, as usual, and there's no reason to suppose otherwise.
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@Walahute It's likely the eight or so Boys with speaking roles in front knew it would be *one* of them, rather than the non-speaking role Boys in the back, correct.
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During the scene in HOOK when Peter Pan chooses a successor before he leaves Neverland, none of the Lost Boys actors actually knew who Robin Williams would give his sword too, a secret kept strictly between Spielberg and Williams, so when Pan hands the sword over to Thud Butt, his reaction and everyone else's was genuine shock and awe.
Dante Basco who played Rufio confirmed on twitter stating, "When they shot this scene, none of the Lost Boys knew who Peter was going to give the sword to!". Really cool.
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@Todd_Spence One of the weirdest social media phenomena is accounts that post movie trivia being obsessed with pretending scenes are improvised.
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@LUrbaniste @Aesthetic_City The laws of architecture changed in 1919 when the Bauhaus opened, freeing design from trinkets and furbelows.
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@Impitoyable @Aesthetic_City As everyone knows, the laws of physics changed in 1911, rendering it impossible to ever build anything attractive again.
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@portraitinflesh I simply don't understand this point of view. I've been going to the cinema alone all my life. It's an activity that requires very little planning when you have a few hours to yourself. I assume this person wouldn't consider it humiliating to go to an art exhibition by oneself.
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Nonsense. Nobody has ever seen you sitting alone in a cinema and thought, "I bet they're a tragic loser with no friends." What they were actually thinking was: nothing, because, in real life, people don't pay any attention to total strangers. Grasping that can be very liberating.
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@VladDavidzon The solution is to read Freud as literature instead of clinical theory.
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We go through a Freud revival and this argument every twenty years or so
SamuelGoldman@SWGoldman
Different objection: has the status of any modern intellectual/literary figure declined more sharply than Freud’s? Consisted one of the greats in the mid 20th C, now of almost solely historical interest.
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The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was not just the occasion of the creation of the Eiffel Tower, it promised massive developments in the new metro system. Here is Albert Robida three years beforehand imagining Paris's beautification as a result.
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@Impitoyable @Aesthetic_City Congratulations, this is the philosophy that resulted in the most hideous buildings and landmarks ever conceived. Something beautiful is beautiful in any time period, and there's no reason why we can't build it in any time period. "Oh it's an old style" fuck off
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@bdavisrice @Radhiqe @Aesthetic_City If you mean Modernist architecture, it *is* a style of the past, roughly 1920-1980.
If you mean contemporary architecture, you're talking about an incredibly varied field that can't be reduced to three adjectives.
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@Impitoyable @Radhiqe @Aesthetic_City Progress for progress’ sake isn’t always the best choice.
Modern architecture is horrible, bland and banal. The styles of the past as you say give people a sense of wonder and inspiration. They are beautiful and absolutely should be replicated.
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