The first season was my favorite, mainly because the second introduced a new character, Cozette (Jeanine Mason), whose grasping-at-the-air aesthetic pushed all of my wrong buttons.
At that time I loved the nostalgic melodies of Boards of Canada, the dusty drums of DJ Premier and J Dilla, the deconstructed hip hop aesthetic of Push Button Objects and Prefuse 73, the poly-rhythms of West African music, the jazz sensibilities of Herbie Hancock and the sound design and experimental genius of Aphex Twin and Autechre.
That was the aesthetic -- push boundaries, have fun.
Pugh is one of the few designers with the vision and defined aesthetic to push the fashion show to new realms.
Though working outside the studio system and seeming to offer an alternative aesthetic, Hammer pushes every button as knowingly as a Hollywood player: each piece of his script fits as if in a mosaic; the portentous, artificially moody images serve as mere illustrations; and he gets his immensely sympathetic cast of nonactors to emote like pros.
Even taking into account kitsch and camp, both of which are ubiquitous on the contemporary style landscape ("so bad it's good" quickly morphed into the fashion favourite of "ugly chic"), the Liberace aesthetic is pushing it.
(Rosenberg) Last Chance ★ 'Yuji Agematsu' (closes on Sunday) The found-object aesthetic is pushed to beautiful, ephemeral and mind-blowing extremes by an extensive display of tiny bits of trash, collected from the streets and gutters of New York over the past 25 years and carefully preserved in cardboard file boxes by this Japanese-born artist.
Through April 29 The found-object aesthetic is pushed to beautiful, ephemeral and mind-blowing extremes by Yuji Agematsu, who was born in Japan in 1956, moved to New York in 1980 and is having his first solo show in a commercial gallery in 20 years.
Now they've taken that same aesthetic and pushed it out to sea, creating three fascinating pieces that look like a cross between a Bioshock weapon and Captain Nemo's pacemaker.
But it is also this absence of aesthetic that pushes him to create and re-create his own.
The first event, in New York in June, featured indie bands like Interpol and exhibitions by emerging artists who use high tech to push aesthetic boundaries.
