estebanana -> RE: Tuner barrels with sealed ball bearing end, any good? (Sep. 8 2016 5:27:26)
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The thing about aesthetics, is most people don't know what it means, it's a problem. In the West in mechanical design aesthetics boils down to three things: German cars, Italian cars and English cars. Each type of car, which is the stand in for whatever design product you are looking at, has it's own set of parameters of aesthetic. Cross comparisons to down grade one or below the other two, or hold one car up as superior, are false aesthetic judgments. German cars are boxy, practical, precise, modular and often over built a ugly, but mechanically tenacious. Italian cars are sexy, one off by model, often garish or brash, impractical for daily use, powerful fast, and have the greatest potential to raise your social status. English cars are eccentric, have beautiful crooked teeth, are more complicated than need be, are both a mechanics dream and nightmare, and feature good leather and drive like finest hand made pair of John Lobb Shoes. Each design archetype is a complete self contained world of aesthetic value, cross comparisons between Jaguar and Ferrari is meaningless. Mercedes and MG, a non issue, all mechanical design aesthetic is self referential between establish brands and schools of design. Bauhaus design and American Regionalist painting, both movements from the early 1930s don't compete aesthetically, they coexist and are self referential in relation to one another. One does simply walk into Mordor, nor does one compare Milanese high heels to Lobb boots. You just don't, if you understand aesthetic value systems vis a vis professional application of using the product as a pre-made utilitarian component in the fabrication and function or your own work. You make choices based on function vs. value vs. customer interest. One has to put down the snob appeal of cross referencing BMW's to Alfa Romeos to Audi's. You're either German, English or Italian, period. Swedes and Spanish cars don't count- Swedish cars think they are Cessnas with wheels, Spanish cars only want to be driven by Picasso and are intolerant of being cars. The French are good at designing weather balloons and use them liberally in the suspension systems of Citroens. You guys are getting these lessons free, I'm not dong this for my health. I take credit cards and Paypal if anyone one to pony up and pay tuition for these valuable lessons in aesthetics.
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