Two incidences of beauty

[imomus]

In a world of sometimes unbearable ugliness, beauty becomes terribly important.



This is a picture of half-Russian, half-Japanese model Rina Ohta in the new edition of Fudge magazine.

And this is a beautiful song by Juana Molina (from her Domino album Son) called Malherido.

Comments

[mini-snape.livejournal.com]

Ugh. When I was 8 I campaigned (read: nagged and bothered) myself to death to try and get everyone to stop eating wild fish, because according to my own calculations I thought they'd very soon be extinct. But everyone just hated me for it so I stopped. Now I have a very sad feeling of 'I told you so.'

Time to go back to watching Sparks videos on YouTube, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

Halfies are a fine species.

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

Halfies are a fine species.

That's kind of an ugly sentence.

The song is beautiful.

[lil-octopie.livejournal.com]

a lot of problems that affect the wild fish population is caused by the diseases incurred by farmed fish (at least it is here in BC with the salmon.)

i think the whole world needs to just curtail consumption of *everything* in general :(

[lil-octopie.livejournal.com]

except art & music that is : )

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

damn straight!

[pewpewpew.livejournal.com]

a perfect looking woman!

[shanghaiagogo.livejournal.com]

(http://photobucket.com/)

She is one of my fav models!..like a gentle beauty that speaks no evil

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

make it a slide!

give up the fish

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

<< There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific stud >>

Why is it ugly when species go extinct? It's evolution. I am reminded of a story I read in 2004 in the Wall Street Journal. About a donkey species that was dying out, but the species was so fucking adorable, that all these volunteer middle aged US women were trying to keep it from going extinct. They tried to entice the male donkeys, who had no sex drive but were given donkey viagra, to mate with the females. Neither male nor female wanted to copulate.

But the American women kept insisting the species not die out!

I say if the breed stops wanting to have sex, it's time to let them go.

[(Anonymous)]

el scorcho

[(Anonymous)]

beauty is beneath the (sur)face. trust me.

Re: give up the fish

[rob-kun.livejournal.com]

What I don't understand is why we can't simply farm all these fish like we do with salmon? I'm sure there's a complicating factor, but with all our technological know-how isn't it possible?

Then we wouldn't have to fish from the seas... and I suppose everyone would be up in arms over the fishermen going out of business!

Re: give up the fish

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

I don't think the problem is that fish aren't having sex, it's that we're eating them quicker than they can reproduce. Once numbers drop below a certain level, it's hard to ever get back to original numbers. Of course, all of this - anything you can think of - is within nature, and therefore could be called evolution. But that's another way of saying nothing's ugly, and another way of relieving ourselves of moral responsibilities. Personally, I do find human greed and short-sightedness ugly. I think human values are, in the main, wrong, and that they have created an ugly world. Just as in the film The Mission, we create an ugly world, and then we say, "That's just the way the world is."

[mini-snape.livejournal.com]

This is true. But it's even harder to stop people from eating all fish than just one kind. He, I agree with you, though.

PS: you forgot to add sex.

Re: give up the fish

[imomus.livejournal.com]

We're not just talking about the natural cycle of extinction, we're talking about the possibility of all the wild species which live in the sea being wiped out, and within the lifetimes of people now living. When one species becomes so "successful" that it wipes out many of the others, it becomes very clear that this "success" itself is failure on a massive scale. We're failing the planet, and failing ourselves.

[(Anonymous)]

recognizing beauty needs time. if you can spend time on something or someone continuously, beauty will be revealed.

Re: give up the fish

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

"When one species becomes so 'successful' that it wipes out many of the others, it becomes very clear that this 'success' itself is failure on a massive scale."

I agree completely. The most pernicious political concept ever is that of continual expansion. Thngs have really come to a head for the human race. People have talked about utopias in one form or another, and failed to acheive them, for centuries, but now, if we don't fundamentally change our values, it looks like we're done for, unless science manages to manufacture the kind of brave new world that will allow us to sustain our selfish habits even longer. But personally, I think that Mary Shelley was prophetic, and one way or another, our rape/enslavement/manipulation of nature has created and will continue to create monsters that will come back to us.

Re: give up the fish

[(Anonymous)]

A cliche, I know, but humans really do exhibit all the hallmarks of cancer cells; formed among the rugae on the roof of the world's mouth; and the oceans are the nodes through which we are spreading and destroying tissue. We must by now be a T4.

R-White.

Re: give up the fish

[(Anonymous)]

I think it said in the paper that the fish would run out by 2050.

The way things are going, I doubt that humans have got that long.

Call me an old cynic, but it seems to me the green taxes proposed by the New Labour Junta is merely a fund-raising exercise for the upcoming invasion of Iran.

Re: give up the fish

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

Hello Anonymous.

This is what I generally think about it all, here (http://my.opera.com/quentinscrisp/blog/humans-off-earth-now).

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

I suspect the extreme fishing going on is because the new trend and rising popularity of omega-3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_3). But most people don't know it can be extracted from botanical sources aswell(Flax, Lingoberry, Sea Buckthorn, Shiso, etc). Quite a dumb trend really.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair point, although I understnad that omega-3 fatty acids are most effetive, anticoagulantly speaking, when taken in the form of fish oil. No?

[(Anonymous)]

Fair point, although I understand that omega-3 fatty acids are most effective, anticoagulantly speaking, when taken in the form of fish oil. No?

Re: give up the fish

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

<< We're not just talking about the natural cycle of extinction, we're talking about the possibility of all the wild species which live in the sea being wiped out >>

Oh, thanks for making this clear. Sorry I was being glib with my comparison.