I've just done a posting for Samizdata which began as a posting for here, about the possible influence of kid's toys on later artistic tastes, Modern Art tastes in particular. But since I ended it by saying comments please, I thought I'd put it there rather than here, and the comments have already begun. If you are not a regular Samizdata reader, please make an exception for this posting, if only to enjoy the comments yourself. Samizdata comments can be very good, in my opinion. It cheers me greatly that the comments both here and at my Education Blog are starting to buzz along very nicely.
At Samizdata there's also a very cool looking picture of a spaceship, which reminds me of my posting here about airplane aesthetics. This creature, especially when it is carrying its baby, looks a whole lot more of a muddle than Concorde or the B2. And while you're there, I also did a couple of postings (here and here) about the aesthetics of the new Rolls Royce Phantom. Not nice was the verdict which I and the Samizdata commenters arrived at, although personally I have yet to set eyes on this vehicle.
Being as I am on the subject of culture on other blogs, I've just been to 2Blowhards to catch up there, and I found that Michael had given this blog a(nother) plug. Thanks Michael. 2Blowhards is the culture blogging mothership as far as I'm concerned, and one of the things that had me paralysed into silence in the only somewhat earlier days of this blog was the silly notion that I had to be as productive and informed and all round brilliant as those guys are. Not possible. I particularly like this piece about New York architecture, which reminds me, I need to write up my piece about the Meaningless Triangle". What's that? It's a Modern Movement Architecture effect, which is stupid, but which happens for big, big (and stupid stupid) reasons. Stay tuned.
In general, I realise that I'm not linking to cultural postings on other blogs as often as I might, and especially to cultural postings on other blogs which are not themselves specialist culture blogs which culturalists may accordingly have missed. But rather than correct that now, I'll finish this up before my deadline, and then see how I feel about doing more. I have a busy day tomorrow and it would make sense to do tomorrow's piece tonight, so to speak.
