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...everyone agrees with that point of view. "Using fancy fonts and small print may suggest that you're sophisticated, fancy and highbrow, but also pretentious and unapproachable," says Aaron Allen, founder and CEO of the Quantified Marketing Group, a restaurant design and marketing company based in Orlando, Florida. Allen says he recently boosted a barbecue restaurant's sales 17% recently just by making its menu typography more readable, not less...
...someone who does not own a television, I somehow manage to watch an alarming amount of it. Even worse, my bar seems to get lower as time goes on. There was a time when I confined myself to the highbrow scripted dramas, but following the endless eruption of new reality shows on MTV, VH1, and Bravo, I succumbed. Now my tastes have expanded to include shows like “The Real Housewives of Orange County” and “The Hills.” (I am happy to report that I am still holding out against watching...
...hole, diverting the river into a waterfall. Small Björk and the clay being drop down, flying through a tunnel of water into the hands of the river god. This whole video lasts almost eight minutes. I really wish I could make fun of this attempt at highbrow art, which combines both CG and puppeteering into a hodgepodge of crazy. But how can one find humor in something so truly bizarre, something so lacking in any kind of anchor to reality? So in the end, I think the only word that truly describes this deliciously awful music video...
...Thoreau; China has Jiang, wandering the huge grassy expanses and singing of primordial elements - blood, death, soil - to which the nation is no longer attuned. "The heat caused by Wolf Totem ... is a symptom of Chinese people's collective depletion of spiritual belief," wrote critic Zhang Hong in the highbrow Wenhui Readers' Weekly. "The book is like a stimulant injected into the decadent contemporary spirit that allows people to fantasize about becoming aggressive and successful." Fittingly, those are the very qualities demanded by the new society evolving from China's economic boom...
...view of the natural human deformitiesthat mar even the most beautifulspecimens. Paul Gauguin’s paintings ofTahitian women are seductive preciselybecause they leave details to the imagination.But will high defi nition really addanything to a poorly-lit money shot thatwas fi lmed using decrepit equipment?And what about highbrow cinema? Will“Casablanca”—a visually gorgeous moviethat was made without the benefi t ofmodern technology—be improved byBlu-ray technology?Michael Curtiz’s directing, IngridBergman’s vulnerability, Bogey’s worldwearyone-liners—these were...