urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:maeisgreat mae maeisgreat@yahoo.com mae 2009-07-07T07:20:53Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:maeisgreat:106962 2009-07-07T07:20:53Z 2009-07-07T07:20:53Z <div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3686756088/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2523/3686756088_b74e46ebd9.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3686756088/"></a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/maeisgreat/">maeisgreat</a>.</span></div><p></p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:maeisgreat:104601 2009-04-22T03:07:36Z 2009-04-22T03:08:41Z <div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3464654316/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3632/3464654316_dabbb8d208.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3464654316/"></a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/maeisgreat/">maeisgreat</a>.</span></div><p></p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:maeisgreat:103514 2009-04-17T02:57:03Z 2009-04-17T02:57:03Z <div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3448414441/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3448414441_b2f57cacf2.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3448414441/">spring has sprung</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/maeisgreat/">maeisgreat</a>.</span></div><p></p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:maeisgreat:101486 2009-04-03T03:32:34Z 2009-04-03T03:32:34Z <div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3408587602/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/3408587602_9e53e01da8.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3408587602/">april fooled!</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/maeisgreat/">maeisgreat</a>.</span></div><p></p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:maeisgreat:100827 2009-03-30T05:04:19Z 2009-03-30T05:04:19Z <div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3393075955/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3559/3393075955_85707eb2cf.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maeisgreat/3393075955/">can you explain it?</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/maeisgreat/">maeisgreat</a>.</span></div><p></p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:maeisgreat:100208 2009-03-27T02:12:22Z 2009-03-27T04:07:26Z the trapeze swinger by iron & wine <div>pieces from the preface to the novel <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em> by Oscar Wilde:&nbsp;</div><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><br />the artist is the creator of beautiful things. to reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. the critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.<br /><br /><strong><em>the highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.</em></strong> those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. this is a fault.<br /><br />those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. for these there is hope.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />from the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. from the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. all art is at once surface and symbol.<br /><br />those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. those who read the symbol do so at their peril. <strong><em>it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.<br /></em></strong><br /><br />we can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. the only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. <br /><strong><em><br />all art is quite useless.</em></strong></div>