{"id":355,"date":"2009-11-15T21:30:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T04:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2009-11-15T21:41:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T04:41:41","slug":"distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/15\/distortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Distortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you cannot eliminate an undesired distortion, you can amplify the distortion until it IS a desirable element.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t Beaudelaire talk about distortion in terms of beauty?<br \/>\n&#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity \u2013 that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nHe also said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pretty sure, given those two quotes, that Beaudelaire must not have been a modern American citizen.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nWhen working on an artwork, sometimes it&#8217;s just not possible to repair an imperfection without destroying the only valuable thing in the work.  In these cases don&#8217;t forget that you have the option to amplify the imperfection.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nIf you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you cannot eliminate an undesired distortion, you can amplify the distortion until it IS a desirable element. &#8211; Didn&#8217;t Beaudelaire talk about distortion in terms of beauty? &#8211; That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity \u2013 that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eIxq-5J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}