61. International 3D Awards Nominees film. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality creativity,Design aesthetics and Technical Excellence. Nominees. http://www.simplisticpictures.com/3Dawards.html

Nominees announced for the 1st annual International 3D Awards Friday May 2, 2003 Feature Film VFX Nominees - Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, DreamWorks, USA - Spider-Man, Sony Pictures Imageworks, USA - Stuart Little 2, Sony Pictures Imageworks, USA - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Chamber Sequence, Framestore CFC, UK - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Weta Digital, New Zealand Television VFX Nominees - Wild Weather for BBC One, The Moving Picture Company, UK - Dinotopia (mini-series), Framestore CFC, UK - The Giant Claw/Land of Giants, Framestore CFC, UK - The Future is Wild, 422 Ltd, UK Commercials Nominees - Levi's Stampede, The Mill, UK - Nintendo, La Maison, France - Levi's Odyssey, Framestore CFC, UK - X-Box Mosquito, Framestore CFC, UK - Carl and Ray: Kung Fu, Tippett Studio, USA - Murphy's Peanut, The Mill, UK Music Videos Nominees - Nature is Ancient (Bjork), Glassworks Post Productions Ltd., UK - Respire (Mickey 3D), AndrŽ Bessy, Jerome Combe, StŽphane Hamache, Amazing Studio, France - Miss Lucifer (Primal Scream), The Moving Picture Company, UK

62. ArchNet Calendar Title, Beyond aesthetics Philosophy creativity At The Limits of KnowledgeConference. Date, June 14, 2002 through June 15, 2002. Category, Conference. http://archnet.org/calendar/item.tcl?calendar_id=12183

63. Mail From Stockholm one of the judges at the ceremonial dinner and she told him that our project wasoff the scale in innovation, technology use, aesthetics and creativity (but we http://www.uv.es/~opera/new_site/bangemann/honoria_report/

Mail from Stockholm hello my dears, Knut and i are on tandem computers at a cybercafe high above Drottingatan which is lovely flag-draped walking street filled with Stockholmers walking and talking on cell phones. The per capita cell phone speak here is astronomical. I think it is because they are used to being snowed in most of the time that Stockholmers have developed a phone society far beyond other wired geographic parts. Also the city in general has a commitment to infrastructure and early techno-adoption and are marketing the whole city as a testbed for new technologies to Japan and the US. Sometimes someone looks like they are talking to you and sounds like they are talking to you but they are actually plugged into a hearing aid type phone with a tiny microphone hanging from their ear and an invisible phone tucked somewhere on their garb. We did not win the grand prize, the Harlem project did win because they got very high points on the social scale. Vicente sat next to one of the judges at the ceremonial dinner and she told him that our project was off the scale in innovation, technology use, aesthetics and creativity (but we got no points for our value to society - ah art) however the judge had voted for our project and encouraged us to engage in other competitions and continue to develop our fantastic opera. It was a much greater honor than I had expected to have reached the finalist category. We were in great company of grass roots activists' innovative websites from all over the world. I have a big thick book describing them all and they are

64. Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze And Neo-Aesthetics It is a question that takes on different aspects depending upon the field withinwhich it is asked in aesthetics, it invokes creativity; in philosophy http://www.art.man.ac.uk/SPANISH/staff/Writings/immanent.html

Jon Beasley-Murray Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester jon.beasley-murray@man.ac.uk This is a draft: please do not cite without author's permission Review A Review of 'Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics' Tate Modern, 21-22 September 2001 Yet in the course of the event, few speakers had much to say about aesthetics, and fewer still seemed prepared to outline what might be meant by a Deleuzian 'neo-aesthetics.' Though overall there were many good and substantial presentations, generally the few that did attempt to relate Deleuze's philosophy explicitly to aesthetic theory or practice were the least satisfying. While this failure to meet the conference aim may not damn altogether the project of elaborating a Deleuzian (neo-)aesthetics, it does show that such a project is still in the rearguard of Deleuzianism. Though one of Deleuze's over-riding philosophical aims was the attempt to go beyond dualisms of all kinds, the aesthetic criticism that imagines itself following Deleuze's footsteps is too often blighted by a proliferation of often remarkably Manichean dichotomies. These dichotomies (rhizome/arborescence, nomadism/State, and so on) are too easily applied rather mechanically to aesthetic material to produce a new set of judgements of taste serving to justify what are in the end fairly traditional (avant-gardist) conceptions of art. By contrast, within political philosophy, more sophisticated analyses have warned of the dangers of rhizomatic formations and the both suicidal and homicidal potential of the nomad.

65. Untitled Document aesthetics for Publicity. Artist Schelling s Creator. aesthetics for creativity.Creating Symbols. The Philosophical Genius. Critic Dewey s Educator. Managing Art. http://www.sup.org/html/book_pages/0804748136/Table of Contents.htm

Table of Contents for The Art Firm Preface Welcome to Dionysus Inc. Chapter 1 Play as Aesthetic Schwung Points of Departure—Aesthetic Theaters Operating Theater Lecturing Theater Festival Theater Schiller's Schwung Strategy Chapter 2 Players in Aesthetic Philosophy Audience: Kant's Public Third-Way Philosophy The Sublime and the Beautiful Aesthetics for Publicity Artist: Schelling's Creator Aesthetics for Creativity Creating Symbols The Philosophical Genius Critic: Dewey's Educator Managing Art Making Art Aesthetics for Democracy Technician: Nietzsche's Leader Aesthetics for Energy Schwung song Wagner Schwung dance Napoleon Chapter 3 Problems for Art Firms Gadamer's Art Firm The Duel Dilemma Totality—Imploding Art Work Banality—Exploding Art Work Chapter 4—Metaphysics—Marketing of Art Firms Schopenhauer's Business of Being Aesthetic Production—Embodying the Thing-in-Itself Aesthetic Consumption—Contemplating the Thing-in-Itself Chapter 5 Avant-Garde Enterprises Cases of Aesthetic Management Wagner's Bayreuth Brand Metaphysics of Value Kahnweiler's Symbolic Surplus Kandinsky's Rhetoric Surplus Genette's Immanent Object Chapter 6 Artistic Companies Cases of Aesthetic Management David's Festival Firm Stanislavski's Backstage Studio Diaghilev's Frontstage Ballet Metaphysics of Politics Discovering the State of Nature Designing Cultures for Nations Legendre's Mirror of Modernity Chapter 7 Art Corporations Metaphysics of Industry Culture for Workers Nature of Work Cases of Aesthetic Management Father Alf in Democratic Industry Mother Osten and Industrial Industry

66. RoBlog Dot Org: Aesthetics This is especially important in interfaces to support creativity, where almostevery action the user takes is exploratory. On Constrained Diets. aesthetics. http://loki.lokislabs.org/weblog/archives/categories/aesthetics.php

Rob roBlog dot org Topics aesthetics Home About Weblog Writings ... Resume About Quasi-philosophical ramblings on usability, software design and development, society, systems, and a host of other topics from the off kilter intellect of the hominid Rob Adams. More about Rob More about roBlog Syndication Summary Only RSS feed Full Content RSS feed or receive new posts via email: Categories All Topics aesthetics (19) announcements (18) charity (4) ... usability (84) Archives Archives Index Week of May 23, 2004 Week of May 16, 2004 Week of May 2, 2004 ... Week of Mar 23, 2003 NEC's Future Designs aesthetics design April 04, 2004, 02:26 PM Jodi sent me a link to some product concepts developed by designers at NEC . A couple of them are kind of similar to two of my IID projects from last semester; the "tag" device reminds me of my scheduling snake (look at the first picture on the page especially), and the flacon is vaguely similar to the "Keep in Touch" application I did with Elizabeth and Chun-Yi. Not that I'm claiming NEC are culling my weblog for ideas or anything, but it's sorta neat to see that the technology that will make designs like these possible is actually in the works, and that professional designers coming up with concepts that are similar to the ones we're coming up with here. I feel all designy.

67. Untitled Document Harold Osborne, The Concept of creativity in Art, BJA, 19, 3 (Summer 1979) 224231.{InPCI Full 6. Beardsley, Monroe C., aesthetics, a Short History, 275-279 http://www3.baylor.edu/~Elmer_Duncan/AestheticsSyl.htm

Philosophy and the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics!! Fall, 2004 Professor Elmer H. Duncan Philosophy 3322 Books to Buy: Carroll, Noel, Philosophy of Art, a Contemporary Introduction (London: Routledge, 1999). Carroll, Noel, ed., Theories of Art Today (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). A couple of other excellent resources you will want to order: A Modern Book of Esthetics (5th edition), Rader. Introduction to Aesthetics, An Analytic Approach , Dickie. In this course you will read and have a chance to discuss some of the best works ever written on the problems encountered in the philosophy of art. These writings have been selected from various sources. No single anthologyincluding the ones chosen for this courseis fully adequate. Your grade will be determined by your class participation, grades on three hour exams, and the final exam. and your grade on a 10-15 page (type-written double-spaced) paper, written on a subject of your own choosing. For a list of topics, see the subject index of the Twenty Year Cumulative Index to the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1941-1962).

68. SavageGaming - A Savage® Community Site - News, Files, Forums, And More As you all may recall, each map was to be judged in the categories of aesthetics,creativity, and Gameplay. Walhalla. Judge, aesthetics, creativity, Gameplay. http://www.savagegaming.com/mapContestResults.php

Home NEWS Current Archive GENERAL About SG About Savage Reviews Buy Savage CONTESTS Create a Savage World COMMUNITY Forums Chat SG Staff FEATURES Articles Guides Tutorials FAQ COMPETE Clans Ladders Tournaments Register User ... Rules FILES Official Mods Skins Maps ... Utilities USER Register Edit Profile FEEDBACK Webmaster Advertise Username: Password: Forgot your password? 2762 registered Savage gamers The results are finally here. Our judges (a panel comprised of avid Savage players as well as most of the staff at S2 Games) slaved over each of the finalist entries to decide who emerged the victor. As you all may recall, each map was to be judged in the categories of Aesthetics, Creativity, and Gameplay. The judges awarded each map a score between 1 to 10 in each of these categories. The result is that map's combined score. Below you will find the scores given by our judges to each map, as well as any comments from the judges. Scores/Comments Walhalla Judge Aesthetics Creativity Gameplay Judge #1 Judge #2 Judge #3 Judge #4 Judge #5 Judge's Comments Evenly balanced in all three categories, map is precocious but needs additional organization/work.

69. Washingtonpost.com: Science, Trying To Pick Our Brains About Art how the brain constructs our feelings should shed new light on aesthetics, too surveystyletests that are sometimes used to measure human creativity and found http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42296-2004Jan23?language=printer

70. Quasimeta this is merely a matter of precision. aesthetics doesn’t even come into play inthis case. are aesthetics and creativity inseperable? gah! composing the body. http://www.tobo.34sp.com/archives/week/2003_04_20.php

QUASIMETA archives by date HOME bearhunt ... artwork a comprehensive collection. the material in the Kid A section is, by far, my favourite portraits Giuseppe Arcimboldo paintings [via Speckled Paint (the 1500s!) the iceman Ananova: desperation Ananova: [library] porn collection very gay gay Elijah Wood is Very, Very Gay : [via Puce Blog Very, Very Gay Photos related entry: another one: is Luke Skywalker gay? (cropped thumbnail) the products of mental illness ? The Globe and Mail: mad about [creativity] [via Cup of Chicha nchicha are insightful. point 2, in particular, interests me. gah! composing the body article: [body dysmorphic disorder and the aesthetically inclined] (from June of 2002) what science has to say, overall, about the connection between BDD and visually artistic types: Daily Telegraph: [celebrity worship] [via Fark] related entry: pop culture celebrities versus religious ones H. Hoogerbrugge Nail(s) surreal animations (press the circle to navigate) a collection of earlier work: Modern Living individual creations: spin flow surreal flash fun super moving: [via shitfit flash anime i found most of these amusing, although the partially undressed figures, which are in the majority of the animations, did detract from them.

71. Evaluation Of The Exhibitions Is it clear? aesthetics and creativity What is the degree of creativityin the exhibition? Favorite aesthetics and creativity. In http://www.montshire.org/teams/teams1/evaluation/final_c.html

This website documents a four-year collaboration project funded by the NSF; the project ran from November 1996 through November 2000. For information about a current collaborative venture, also funded by the by the NSF, visit http://www.montshire.org/teams TEAMS Collaborative Airplay Montshire Museum of Science Amusement Park Science Discovery Center Museum Clothing: Science from Head to Toe The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Dirt Catawba Science Center Fun, 2, 3, 4: All About a Number of Things! Sciencenter Profiles of the Final TEAMS Exhibitions Evaluation Family Learning in Museums: a TEAMS Workshop Evaluation of the TEAMS Exhibits and Collaborative Executive Summary Introduction Exhibitions Exhibit Evaluation ... Summary and Recommendations for TEAMS 2 THE EVALUATION We conducted two phases of evaluation work around the exhibits. The first was formative, where we trained museum staff about prototyping and different techniques they could use as they put prototypes on the floor to gather data about visitors' experiences with the exhibits. These techniques included naturalistic observations, mediated interviews, and exit interviews. We also conducted two site visits to each institution, studying the prototypes after museum staff had worked with visitors and refined them; we conducted staff reviews and offered our critiques of the exhibits. In general, we tried to be consistent in our data gathering from one location to the next. However, there were some circumstances that influenced the amount of data we gathered at each location. For example, the three-day visit to Montshire took place during an unusually busy time, which probably influenced the overall usage times of the exhibition. In contrast, the weekend we visited the Catawba Science Center was unusually slow, so we were unable to gather as much tracking data as we would have liked. Similarly, when we visited Ann Arbor, a blizzard hit, limiting the number of visitors we were able to work with. All of these factors need to be kept in mind when interpreting usage data. We conducted an average of 20 trackings and an average of 15 exit interviews at each museum. We include in the appendix a set of tracking data for each museum.

72. Aesthetics And The Creative Process Quality Learning Home Quality Learning aesthetics and The Creative Process. Closeobservation of such teachers provide the clue to such creativity. http://www.leading-learning.co.nz/quality-learning/creative-process.html

Quality Learning Home Quality Learning Aesthetics and The Creative Process Whenever you visit a school you always notice those teachers whose classrooms stand out by the creative work on display. Either there is a group of very talented students or a talented teacher. The latter is usually the case. Imagine a whole school of such teachers! This is not as impossible as it sounds. Close observation of such teachers provide the clue to such creativity. Often individual teachers have personal talent in the arts and this gives them an insight to the challenges of true creativity. More often teachers have gained their insight by working with students, always with the idea that you never know what students can achieve if they have tasks that they enjoy and are given the appropriate help. This insight is available to all teachers who value creativity. Teachers with this creative insight have many common features. They believe in doing a few things well. They know it takes time, effort and skill to creative works of art. They also believe that the creative process is valuable for itself (providing an understanding of how 'messy' it is at times and the need to 'stick' at it) but when students 'surprise' themselves with what they have achieved there is the real joy of true learning to be felt. In earlier times, the 60s, it was believed that all students needed were motivation and freedom but this has been shown to be a myth. Today creative teachers know that real interactive help is need at all stages of the creative process from idea generation to realisation of the finished piece of art or performance.

73. Impurity Liberates Creativity Impurity Liberates creativity. Näkyvä(i)seksi. (The gender of beauty. Perspectiveson feminist aesthetics.) Edited by Pauline von Bonsdorff and Anita Seppä. http://www.frame-fund.fi/news/repub3.html

Impurity Liberates Creativity by Marke Europaeus These mutually complementary works create an overview, in particular, of current trends in feminist art research in Finland. In some of the writers contemplate the character of visual culture, along with the research done on it and its relationship with the mother sciences. It appears that some traditional areas of study still constitute the best soil for the creative, critical researcher into visual culture: the writers in these volumes are mostly art historians and aesthetics researchers, who are able to apply the vocabulary and theory of feminist research, literature, popular culture and philosophy in their articles. Deconstructing tradition does not mean proclaiming it has come to an end. But does the loose designation 'research on visual culture' tell us anything about new research interests? Anne Siirtola, Miniature Compositions, 1992, b/w photo, from PURO (transl. brook) –project. Photo by Anne Siirtola. There is little analysis of traditional works of 'high culture'. In contrast, there is a marked emphasis on contemporary art and a theoretical approach, and ultimately the concept of popular culture appears to be drained of meaning. It is gratifying that Finnish visual-culture research also investigates the culture of Finnish pictures; internationalness in research and in images of culture may in fact consign what is close at hand to oblivion. Kauneuden sukupuoli gives the background to the question surrounding the character of visual-culture research. The first part of the book analyses the genesis of aesthetics and the breach that feminist research in particular has made in the tradition created by

74. Queer Modernism The Cinematic Aesthetics Of Vincente Minnelli Minnelli s aesthetic, his frenzied vision of creativity in theater and life,is unequivocally spirited and gives way to an aesthetics of color so http://www.eiu.edu/~modernity/gerst--html

David Gerstner Queer Modernism: The Cinematic Aesthetics of Vincente Minnelli When producer Arthur Freed brought Vincente Minnelli to Hollywood in 1940 (and although Minnelli brought with him an illustrious theatrical costume and set design career from New York) Minnelli's name didn't ring any bells at MGM. In a memo to Eddie Mannix , Cedric Gibbons (Supervisory Art Director at MGM ) expressed his concerns over Minnelli's hiring. The letter is worth quoting in full as it sets the stage for the creative tensions that Minnelli would consistently encounter with Gibbons on the MGM backlot. On 2 April 1940 Gibbons wrote: For your information we have signed Vincent Manelli [sic], a New York stage designer. This was done through Arthur Freed. In speaking to Arthur on Saturday he told me about this man and said he was engaged as a dance director. I said, "Nothing Else?" And he said, "for ideas on dance numbers and musical settings, etc." I am afraid Eddie, that this will probably be another Harkrider-Hobe-Irwin [sic]-Oliver-Messel situation and if you remember you and I chatted at great length about this type of thing sometime agoand I want to reiterate that I absolutely refuse to work under any conditions with any man designing settings unless he is brought through to me as a member of my department. The man may be the world's greatest genius. If he is, by all means give him my job. I find it tough enough as it is to work with the most sympathetic assistants I can secure. I do not feel that any of my men should take orders from anyone other than myself in the matter of set design, whether it be for musical numbers or the interiors of submarines. Do you think we need further experience in these expensive experiments? Not just the man's salary, but what he actually costs us. I, for one, had thought we had learned our lesson. Gibby[

75. The Turkish Online Journal Of Educational Technology 0. 0. Table 3. Frequencies of the students’ perceptions as to how developed theyfeel about their senses of logic, design, aesthetics and creativity during and http://www.tojet.net/articles/328.htm

The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET April 2004 ISSN: 1303-6521 Volume 3, Issue 2, Article 8 THE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CYCLE IN VISUAL DESIGN Aysu ARSOY Abstract Experiential Learning Cycle has been applied to the Layout and Graphics Design in Computer Course provided by the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies to the students studying at the Public Relations and Advertising Department. It is hoped that by applying the Experiential Learning Cycle, the creativity and problem solving strategies of the students will be further improved. For the present study, the reactions of the students of the Layout and Graphics Design in Computer Course to adopting Experiential Learning Cycle have been explored. Keywords: Experiential Learning Cycle, Uses of Computer, Computer Graphics and Layout Design, Dewey, Lewin, Kolb, Schön, Reflection Parallel to the paradigm shifts in a variety of fields like Mathematics, and Physics. The twentieth century has observed the change in the concepts of knowledge and knowing.

76. Speakers International publications and presentations Järvinen, Aki, Quake goes the Environment.Game Archeologies and aesthetics . Digital creativity, July 2001. http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/ISI/Japani-Suomi/jarvinen.html

Back to the list of all speakers Mr. Aki Järvinen Aki Järvinen is working on a Ph.D. on computer and video game aesthetics, titled ”Games without Frontiers: The Aesthetics of Digital Games”. He has experience from both academic research and commercial game design. He has written several articles and columns on the cultural and artistic aspects of new media, especially games, and given papers in international conferences. From the start of 2003, he is researching an designing games for Veikkaus, the National Lottery Company of Finland. International publications and presentations: Järvinen, Aki, "Quake goes the Environment. Game Archeologies and Aesthetics". Digital Creativity, July 2001. "From Spatial Toys to Computer Games (and back)". International Game Cultures Conference. University of West England, Bristol 28.6.-1.7.2001. Järvinen, Aki, “Gran Stylissimo. The Audiovisual Elements and Styles in Computer and Video Games”. In F. Mäyrä (ed.) Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference Proceedings. Studies in Information Sciences 1. Tampere University Press, Tampere, Finland, 2002. Web sites: Personal site: www.akijarvinen.net

77. Schopenhauer, Philosophy And The Arts 2. Knowledge and tranquility Schopenhauer on the value of art Christopher Janaway3. Schopenhauer and the aesthetics of creativity Lucian Krukowski 4. Art as http://books.cambridge.org/0521473888.htm

Home > Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts Edited by Dale Jacquette Published January 1996 323 pages For price and ordering options, inspection copy requests, and reading lists please select: UK North America Contributors John E. Atwell, T. J. Diffey, Shehira Doss-Davezac, Lawrence Farrara, Cheryl Foster, Lydia Goehr, Paul Guyer, Christopher Janaway, Dale Jacquette, Lucian Krukowski, Nathan Rotenstreich, Mitchell Schwarzer, Julian Young Reviews ‘From Dale Jacquette’s lucid and expansive introductory essay through a distinguished list of contributions, we are shown the intricacies of Schopenhauer’s ideas on aesthetics and the arts as well as their problems, their extraordinary influence, and their ongoing significance.’ The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Open the book Table of contents (PDF 109Kb) Excerpt (PDF 755Kb) Index (PDF 468Kb)) Front matter (PDF 322Kb ... Main information page Related areas Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts Quick search Advanced search More Printer friendly version Email a colleague Cambridge University Press 2004.

78. Untitled Document Aesthetic Experience Authenticity in performance Authenticity works of art BeautyCensorship Chinese aesthetics creativity End of Art Thesis Environmental http://www.beloit.edu/~philorel/faculty/davidvessey/DVAestheticsS99.html

Philosophy 232 - Philosophy of Art Meets: 12:00-1:00 MWF, MI 208 D. Vessey 363-2146 (Office) 368-9612 (Home) Office Hours: 210 MI; MW 1-2; Th 1-3 in DKs and by appointment vesseyd@beloit.edu Required Texts: Neill and Ridley, Arguing about Art Neill and Ridley, The Philosophy of Art Additional Photocopied Materials 1. Tue, Jan. 19 Introduction 2. Wed, Jan. 20 Classic Ideas of Beauty and Art Reading: Jacques Maritain, "Beauty and Imitation" (Handout) 3. Fri, Jan. 22 The Artist Genius Reading: Immanual Kant, "Taste and Genius" (Handout) 4. Mon, Jan. 25 Discussion Fakes and Forgeries Reading: Arguing about Art , pp. 4-33 Position Paper #1 Due 5. Wed, Jan. 27 Art and the Philosophy of Art Reading: Arthur Danto "Works of Art and Mere Things" (Handout) 6. Fri, Jan. 29 Ontological Interpretation of Art Reading: Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of a Work of Art" (Handout) 7. Mon, Feb. 1 Discussion Colorizing Movies Reading: Arguing about Art , pp. 34-57 Position Paper #2 Due 8. Wed, Feb. 3 Formalism Reading: Clive Bell, "The Aesthetics Hypothesis"

79. SSLA Journal: Literature And Aesthetics Literature and aesthetics reflects the vigour and creativity of contemporary Australianscholarly and artistic practice, and contains articles of interest from http://www.ssla.soc.usyd.edu.au/journal/

join conference journal seminars ... Events Literature and Aesthetics Literature and Aesthetics , edited by Eugenio Benitez and William Christie, is the journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics . It contains fully refereed scholarly articles on the arts from a wide range of viewpoints, as well as poetry, black and white art, short stories and book reviews. Literature and Aesthetics reflects the vigour and creativity of contemporary Australian scholarly and artistic practice, and contains articles of interest from leading international scholars and researches in the arts and humanities. Literature and Aesthetics is generously supported by a grant from the Chancellor's Committee of the University of Sydney. All submissions to Literature and Aesthetics are now received electronically. If you wish to make a submission please send it to: rick.benitez@arts.usyd.edu.au You may additionally send hard copy of your article, short story, poetry, or art to: Literature and Aesthetics c/o Eugenio Benitez Department of Philosophy University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA For information on style see our style sheet.

80. Hermit's Thatch: April 2004 Archives Buddhist economics. Asceticism resolves forms of labor, consumption, interpersonalrelations, use of natural resources, aesthetics and creativity, and a http://www.hermitary.com/archives/2004_04.html

hermit's thatch diary of reflections by Meng-hu, resident of the Hermitary Main April 29, 2004 Gardenia The gardenia bush near the front door is filled with fragrant blossoms of an immaculate white. The passerby is invited to linger and enjoy the wonderful scent they exude. The Japanese poet Basho used to spend hours in morning-glory watching. There is always the temptation to cut some blossoms and bring them indoors. Another Japanese poet, Buson, wrote of the knife hesitating before cutting a flower. Like the morning-glory, gardenias last but a little while before browning and fading. The impermanence of the chrysanthemums prompted Basho to reflect sadly that the flower, too, was not his friend. Posted by Meng-hu at 08:50 AM April 28, 2004 Two squirrels Two pregnant squirrels chuck at one another across the trees from their perpendicular perches a hundred yards from one another. Their chief rivalry, however, is over the sunflower seeds in the bird feeders. They need not be concerned: there is enough for two and their upcoming families. One squirrel, impatient with the absence of seeds one morning, comes up to the window and perches at the sill, as if demanding attention. Another instance of impatience dooms a tall sunflower growing in the front of the house. One of the squirrels jumped at it, bringing it down with a snap, then gnawed off the fresh unpetalled bud and fled to his perch with a fresh meal. But who can begrudge the squirrel? The sunflower had grown from random seeds scattered by birds. It was never a human handiwork anyway.

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