When ideas become to complicated, and the pursuit of perfection is misconstructed as a need for excess. When there is so much involved that individual compnents cannot be discerned. When it is hard to break the rules of excess, then new rules need to be established. It descends back to the beginning where the construction of things visual or aura are to uncomplicated to not be beautiful.
But this is done in the knowledge that we can only become simple to a point and then there is nowhere else to go. There are definite natural things which cannot be broken down into lesser components. Even if the goal of acheiving beauty from simplicity is aesthetically less exciting it may force the mind to acknowledge the simple components that make the complicated beautiful.

Say What??

Jim

Precisely what I was thinking. But it could just be because my brain is friend already from this weekend.

So you can quote the liner notes to The White Stripes’ De Stijl , give or take a few spelling errors. Essentially saying that true beauty is the result of its simple components, albeit in a rather wordy and elaborate way. Yes there is beauty in simplicity, and in magic "keep it simple stupid" has long been respected. What ever inspires you, go for it.

Heck Yeah... White Stripes are awesome.

I knew what he was talking about when I was Hi.......

Oh, "keep it simple, stupid". How ironic.

Jim

Loki (I'm assuming it's you from MagicHat), "Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice."

Toaster of doom is refering to a claptrap. And I find it ironc that the message contradicts itself, lol.

That's a good point. But it's provacative, it causes you to think more than just "keep it simple"

ToD, yeah, it's me.

De Stijl
When ideas become too complicated, and the pursuit of perfection is misconstructed as a need for excess. When there is so much involved that individual components cannot be discerned. When it is hard to break the rules of excess, then new rules need to be established. It descends back to the beginning where the construciton of things viusal or aural is too uncomplicated to not be beautiful. But this is done in the knowledge that we can only become simple to a point and then there is nowhere else to go. There are definite natural things which cannot be broken down into lesser components. Even if the goal of achieving beauty from simplicity is aesthetically less exciting it may force the mind to acknowledge teh simple components that make the complicated beautiful.

-Jack White




So you can copy and paste...Wassup with dat..????????????

I know a poem about a curious monkey I can add to this discussion. It is quite relevant as I didn't really care after reading the third word of the first post.

However that monkey was quite curious.

LOL Josh! bring on the monkey!!!

-Matt

Be aware you're not allowed to spank the monkey on this website.

Jim

LOL Jim!

I'm still trying to figure out what this is about!

Mark.

It's about six lines, Mark. Or approximately 141 words.

Glad to be of assistance.

Thanks Airship! I was confused.

Mark.

I counted 130 words (Still less tedious than reading them, no offense to the guy who posted them, well maybe just a little)

I'm just trying to share something with you that I feel could make you think about your magic.