Beauty is different in the New Now. Or I am different in the New Now, don't know which. But in this time of deep austerity, of questioning what's important and finding what matters, beauty is not just the single dimensional kind of pretty it once was. It involves the 5 senses. Now, it involves a 6th. The new 6th sense is how we bring beauty alive from our computer screen when we don't have the options we once had to go out and seek it. Not only is it possible, it is dynamic, and very real. And free.
You read my daily blog, The Daily Now. Everyday I go looking for something that inspires. It's research, beauty research. The presiding principle for The Daily Now is that beauty lives in the eye of the beholder. That may worry you, for what I find gorgeous may not even rate for you. All I ask of you is to come and visit, and see for yourself. Some days you'll look, say Hmmm (in that I-guess-I-get-it, kind of mystified, whatever sort of way) and you leave me and get on with your day. But I'll wager you go on with something different having visited. I do the research, you make your choice about how it effects you.
Roasted Radicchio with Blackberry Vinaigrette, Eating is Art
Beauty changes us, in a second. The newsstand is lined with magazines advertising the 1001 best gifts of 2009. Rarely do the gifts themselves merit such hyperbole, you may not even pick up the issue (on that "beholder of beauty" premise), but without fail, these glossy pages deliver on color and creativity, they're styled to delight.
It's that - it's the color, pattern and texture. I go even further in my beauty combination. It's music and voice. It's taste and temptation. That's beauty. Beauty itself is a performing art. Here's a list of my current 6th sense source for beauty, where the 5 real senses mingle. (Whether you buy it or not is your choice. It's free.)
BEAUTY IN TASTES
The Jewels of New York
101 Cookbooks
BEAUTY IN STYLE
The Errant Aesthete
Three Beautiful Things
BEAUTY IN THE REAL THING
Laura McPhee, Photographer
BEAUTY IN HUMOR
The Pursuit of Happiness, History and Illustrations by Maira Kalman
BEAUTY IN ART
Emerging art every day at Artist-a-day
Art and prose at the Blue Lantern
BEAUTY IN THE GOING
BEAUTY IN SOUND
WFUV, Fordham University's unique radio station
and finally,
BEAUTY IN FLOWERS AND CUPCAKES
Bart Boehlert's Beautiful Things
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