I never made it past the second line of the article, when I was struck down (I'm talking thunder-and-lightning struck down) with this bemusement: what of our modern-day squandering? I don't mean in riches, I'm not alluding here to the way in which we frivolously spend our money (those of us who have money to spend) or our nation's plundering, the fall of the economy, the oil disaster, or any other such grave matters. No my line of inquiry is on a much lighter note. I feel that the nation is pre-occupied with the overlap. A rose is a rose is a rose, but when is a mouse not a rose? And why can't the mouse be treated with the same dignity as a rose, or any other such aesthetically pleasing thing? When is a mouse no longer a mouse? Let me explain:
This evening I was sitting down to read an article in the paper: "Beyond Plaid" with the line How jcrew.com is helping preppy go Euro written pretty in pink under hoof. I did not make it past the first paragraph of the article when I was blown away by the picture on top, a shot of three computer mice (Erm... does a computer mouse become computer mice in plural?) outfitted all in plaid, colorful plaid of vertical and horizontal stripe. A plaid shirt on a computer mouse? Doesn't that seem just wrong to you? I guessed that article was about how the popular fashion house of JCrew was now styling computer mouse's (mice??!) in their signature plaid, though I could be really wrong, well no matter.... The point is the association in my mind with plaid was once only dealing with shirt designs, and now it's gone beyond that: to the design of a practical, every-day object like a computer mouse gone retro. What is it with this silly squandering?! The point I make further is: my association with mice was once as I'd always known them to be as a child, those fast-running rodents in the dark, on the subway tracks underground, or running around at night behind the pantry. Not longer after did my association with the mouse change, as came the advent of the 'computer-mouse' the little point-and-click device we use to access various data and stuffs on our computers. Now that association has taken a turn for the worst! The rodent mouse is almost beyond recognition, as it now has associations with a major clothing company... and, computers. None of these things belong! So in due part to the overlap, our association of what a mouse is, is becoming so radicalized that I fear one day we might not be able to tell the difference between the three 'mousey' things of which I speak.
What do you make of it? How we treat practical objects in our time? Styling them as we would have people styled? Should this type of treatment be reserved, for say aesthetically pleasing objects of value? Like a chandelier or a vintage wooden book-case...
And what do you make of this squandering? Hopefully there are some of you out there who share my sentiments. A mouse should not suffer such indignities because it does not bloom or color in Spring, methinks.
This evening I was sitting down to read an article in the paper: "Beyond Plaid" with the line How jcrew.com is helping preppy go Euro written pretty in pink under hoof. I did not make it past the first paragraph of the article when I was blown away by the picture on top, a shot of three computer mice (Erm... does a computer mouse become computer mice in plural?) outfitted all in plaid, colorful plaid of vertical and horizontal stripe. A plaid shirt on a computer mouse? Doesn't that seem just wrong to you? I guessed that article was about how the popular fashion house of JCrew was now styling computer mouse's (mice??!) in their signature plaid, though I could be really wrong, well no matter.... The point is the association in my mind with plaid was once only dealing with shirt designs, and now it's gone beyond that: to the design of a practical, every-day object like a computer mouse gone retro. What is it with this silly squandering?! The point I make further is: my association with mice was once as I'd always known them to be as a child, those fast-running rodents in the dark, on the subway tracks underground, or running around at night behind the pantry. Not longer after did my association with the mouse change, as came the advent of the 'computer-mouse' the little point-and-click device we use to access various data and stuffs on our computers. Now that association has taken a turn for the worst! The rodent mouse is almost beyond recognition, as it now has associations with a major clothing company... and, computers. None of these things belong! So in due part to the overlap, our association of what a mouse is, is becoming so radicalized that I fear one day we might not be able to tell the difference between the three 'mousey' things of which I speak.
What do you make of it? How we treat practical objects in our time? Styling them as we would have people styled? Should this type of treatment be reserved, for say aesthetically pleasing objects of value? Like a chandelier or a vintage wooden book-case...
And what do you make of this squandering? Hopefully there are some of you out there who share my sentiments. A mouse should not suffer such indignities because it does not bloom or color in Spring, methinks.
) has a purpose in being aesthetically pleasing to the eye, it makes up part of your home and who you are, which surely a plaid mouse does not.
