Thanks for the article and your commentary. I've been noticing this too, especially the part about advertising trying to screw with our perceptions of beauty. Noticing a lot of folks with widely-spaced eyes (no offence to anybody meant, just noticing that it's a trend) of a startling degree/distance. Desensitizing for an alien reveal? Mostly kidding about that...
Very true, and true for some time now, and in commercial architecture perhaps especially. To see some of the modern structures against classic ones in some city is a startling illustration of the attack on truth and beauty.
A friend told me once what he loved about modern homes & buildings: “they’re so poorly made, and made with such cheap materials, they’ll collapse or need to be demolished in a pretty short timespan. So we don’t have to suffer them long.”
(Though, sadly, there’s no guarantee what replaces them would be any better)
Thanks for the article and your commentary. I've been noticing this too, especially the part about advertising trying to screw with our perceptions of beauty. Noticing a lot of folks with widely-spaced eyes (no offence to anybody meant, just noticing that it's a trend) of a startling degree/distance. Desensitizing for an alien reveal? Mostly kidding about that...
Very true, and true for some time now, and in commercial architecture perhaps especially. To see some of the modern structures against classic ones in some city is a startling illustration of the attack on truth and beauty.
A friend told me once what he loved about modern homes & buildings: “they’re so poorly made, and made with such cheap materials, they’ll collapse or need to be demolished in a pretty short timespan. So we don’t have to suffer them long.”
(Though, sadly, there’s no guarantee what replaces them would be any better)
"folks with widely-spaced eyes"
It's because wide eyes are on prey like sheep. Narrow eyes are on predators like wolves.
Mostly kidding.