Category Archives: beauty
Arsenal
olya lernor
Delia Ephron
To me, having it all — if one wants to define it at all — is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up. Like an eclipse.
Having it all might be a fleeting moment — drinking a cup of coffee on a Sunday morning when the light is especially bright. It might also be a few undisturbed hours with a novel I’m in love with … It’s when all your senses are engaged. It’s when you feel at peace with someone you love. And that isn’t often. Loving someone and being at peace with him (or her) are two different things. Having it all are moments in life when you suspend judgment. It’s when I attain that elusive thing called peace of mind.
Not particularly American, unquantifiable, unidentifiable, different for everyone, but you know it when you have it.
Which is why I love bakeries. Peace descends the second I enter, the second I smell the intoxicating aroma of fresh bread, see apricot cookies with scalloped edges, chocolate dreams, cinnamon and raisin concoctions, flights of a baker’s imagination, and I know I am the luckiest person in the world. At that moment, in spite of statistical proof that this is not possible, I have it all. And not only that, I can have more.
Jamin Halberstadt, Gillian Rhodes
It’s not just average faces that are attractive: computer-manipulated averageness makes birds, fish, and automobiles attractive.
Face Research
Thomas R. Alley, Michael R. Cunningham
Averaged faces are attractive, but very attractive faces are not average.
和樂
仁和寺
Venus
清少納言
春は、あけぼの。やうやう白くなりゆく山ぎは 少し明りて紫だちたる雲の細くたなびきたる。
夏は、夜。月の頃はさらなり。闇もなほ。螢の多く飛び違ひたる。また、ただ一つ二つなど、ほのかにうち光りて行くもをかし。雨など降るもをかし。
秋は、夕暮。夕日のさして、山の端(は)いと近うなりたるに、烏の寝どころへ行くとて、三つ四つ、二つ三つなど、飛び急ぐさへあはれなり。まいて雁などの連ねたるがいと小さく見ゆるは、いとをかし。日入り果てて、風の音、虫の音など、はたいふべきにあらず。
冬は、つとめて。雪の降りたるはいふべきにもあらず。霜のいと白きも、またさらでも、いと寒きに、火など急ぎ熾して、炭もて渡るも、いとつきづきし。昼になりて、ぬるくゆるびもていけば、火桶の火も、白き灰がちになりて、わろし。
デイリースポーツ
Evol
NASA
Audrey Hepburn
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
Issey Miyake
Alaska
高倉健
tumblr.
I love the word mamihlapinatapai….the meaning is quite beautiful, it means .. that moment or feeling where two people both want to initiate something, but neither wants to be the one to start it. it could be two tribal leaders both wanting to make peace, but neither wanting to be the one to begin it. or it could be two people wanting to approach each other, but neither quite brave enough to make the first move. (Life In A Day)
辻邦生
Pristine
pris·tine
/ˈprisˌtēn/
Adjective
In its original condition; unspoiled.
Clean and fresh as if new; spotless.
Latvia
斎藤成也
先月、国立民族学博物館(民博)に研究会で訪れたときに、最近はポリタンクがアフリカ文化を紹介する部分で展示されていると耳にしました。そこで、見に行きました。ありました。みにくかった。ただのポリタンク。そりゃ現地の人にとっては、水を汲みに行く道具として重要でしょう。でも、現代文明から見れば、どこかのぱっとしない工場で生産されたモノにすぎません。それを堂々と博物館で展示している人々の気分が理解できませんでした。
たしかに、民博の初代館長、梅棹忠夫さんは、展示物をガラクタと表現しました。でもそれは彼一流のてらいだったのではないでしょうか。博物館に来る人は、民俗資料であっても、それなりに美しいものを求めているのではないでしょうか?事実、このポリタンクをのぞけば、ギターですら美しかったです。
IKEA
The STRANDMON wingback chair is a gorgeous piece that is the modern version of the MK armchair IKEA first released in 1951. And, it’s available in two colours: Svanby grey or Vellinge blue.
Back then, the chair was selling for 207 Swedish kronor, or about $30. In today’s prices, that’d be about $440.
You can really loosen up and relax in comfort because the high back on this chair provides extra support for your neck.
優恵
Daniel Reetz
DiY Book Scanner (http://www.diybookscanner.org/)
Caren Firouz
今上天皇
やはり、強制になるということではないことが望ましいですね。
柳宗元
夫美不自美,因人而彰。蘭亭也。不遭右軍、則清湍脩竹、蕪沒於空山矣。是亭也、闢介閩嶺、佳境罕到、不書所作、使盛跡鬱堙、是貽林澗之媿、故志之。
叶朗
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Diese Farben, welche wir billig obenan setzen, weil sie dem Subjekt, weil sie dem Auge, teils völlig, teils größtens zugehören, diese Farben, welche das Fundament der ganzen Lehre machen und uns die chromatische Harmonie, worüber so viel gestritten wird, offenbaren, wurden bisher als außerwesentlich, zufällig, als Täuschung und Gebrechen betrachtet. Die Erscheinungen derselben sind von frühern Zeiten her bekannt, aber weil man ihre Flüchtigkeit nicht haschen konnte, so verbannte man sie in das Reich der schädlichen Gespenster und bezeichnete sie in diesem Sinne gar verschiedentlich.
Plutarch
For the beauty of Cleopatra, as we are told, was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her; but converse with her had an irresistible charm, and her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which was somehow diffused about her behaviour towards others, had something stimulating about it. There was sweetness also in the tones of her voice; and her tongue, like an instrument of many strings, she could readily turn to whatever language she pleased …
Φρύνη
Οργανώνοντας μια θρησκευτική τελετή προς τιμήν ενός θρακικού θεού, κατηγορήθηκε από έναν παλαιό εραστή της ότι προσπαθούσε να εισάγει στην Αθήνα μια ξένη θεότητα και μέσω αυτής να διαφθείρει τις νεαρές Αθηναίες. Στο δικαστήριο ανέλαβε την υπεράσπισή της ο ρήτορας Υπερείδης, ο οποίος επίσης διατηρούσε σχέσεις μαζί της. Σύμφωνα με την αφήγηση του Αθηναίου, όταν πια η υπόθεση φαινόταν χαμένη για τη Φρύνη, ο Υπερείδης τραβηξε με ορμή τα ενδύματα της κοπέλας, αποκαλύπτοντας το γυμνό της σώμα στο δικαστικό σώμα. Τα μέλη του εντυπωσιάστηκαν τόσο – σύμφωνα με μια εκδοχή η φυσική ομορφιά θεωρούταν σημάδι της εύνοιας των θεών την εποχή εκείνη – που την αθώωσαν πανηγυρικά. Ωστόσο ο ρήτορας εκδιώχτηκε από τον Άρειο Πάγο.