{"id":97770,"date":"2016-05-05T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=97770"},"modified":"2016-05-05T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T14:15:44","slug":"the-pleasures-of-the-moth-hunter-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/the-pleasures-of-the-moth-hunter-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasures of the Moth Hunter, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97772\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vincent_van_gogh_-_emperor_moth_-_google_art_project.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97772\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97772\" class=\"wp-image-97772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vincent_van_gogh_-_emperor_moth_-_google_art_project.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vincent_van_gogh_-_emperor_moth_-_google_art_project.jpg 2481w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vincent_van_gogh_-_emperor_moth_-_google_art_project-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vincent_van_gogh_-_emperor_moth_-_google_art_project-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vincent_van_gogh_-_emperor_moth_-_google_art_project-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent van Gogh, <i>Emperor Moth<\/i> (detail), 1889.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Guess which living luminary has a new essay out? Hint one: it involves California, the seventies, and a certain inimitable brand of world weariness. Hint two: the author is an anagram of \u201cDad Join Ion.\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2016\/05\/26\/california-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\">I see now that the life I was raised to admire was infinitely romantic<\/a>,\u201d she writes. \u201cThe clothes chosen for me had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, the medieval. Muted greens and ivories. Dusty roses. (Other people wore powder blue, red, white, navy, forest green, and Black Watch plaid. I thought of them as \u2018conventional,\u2019 but I envied them secretly. I was doomed to unconventionality.) Our houses were also darker than other people\u2019s, and we favored, as a definite preference, copper and brass that had darkened and greened. We also let our silver darken carefully in all the engraved places, to \u2018bring out the pattern.\u2019 To this day I am disturbed by highly polished silver. It looks \u2018too new.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Remember that golden toilet I told you about a few weeks ago, the one that\u2019s being installed at the Guggenheim? Well\u2014there\u2019s no easy way to say this\u2014there\u2019s been a problem. And now the toilet is delayed indefinitely. I share in your outrage because I, like you, can\u2019t really \u201cproduce\u201d on any toilet without at least a little gold in it. But remember, it\u2019s not everyday that a foundry is called upon to cast a solid-gold throne. You can\u2019t rush quality. A spokeswoman said of the wait: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/04\/arts\/design\/flush-of-excitement-delayed-at-the-guggenheim.html\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s not days, but I can\u2019t be more specific than that right now<\/a> \u2026 The foundry encountered technical difficulties which they are working to resolve \u2026 To the museum\u2019s knowledge, this kind of casting process has never been done before.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in boundaries and demarcations: Give up. They don\u2019t exist. Felice Frankel, a science photographer, has used her images to seek edges, the point where one thing definitively becomes another. \u201cIf you really, really get down to things,\u201d she says, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/science-should-be-totally-beautiful\" target=\"_blank\">what looks like a clean separation from one place to another, when you investigate it microscopically or macroscopically, is not as perfect as it appears<\/a> \u2026 I believe strongly that we need to have a conversation; or part of the display, the depiction, has to be some sort of description about how the picture was made. We have to create standards, not only in the making of the pictures, but in understanding what the pictures are saying\u2014and to really be aware of image manipulation, for example. My concern is that all scientific images are clumped together in one big happy family of honest representations, and that\u2019s not necessarily the case.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Of the twentieth century\u2019s many extinctions, the moths\u2014sixty-two species of which have disappeared in the UK alone\u2014have perhaps not been properly mourned. Cue John Burnside: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/nature\/2016\/05\/s-no-moth-it-s-wisp-delight-wing\" target=\"_blank\">Many years ago, I was a volunteer moth-hunter. I wasn\u2019t a collector (I\u2019ve always been puzzled by the impulse to capture a live creature, gas it and then pin its motionless corpse to a board); I\u00a0was just another helping hand for a number of surveys aimed at estimating the variety and size of local populations<\/a> \u2026 Even the names are cause for delight. \u2018Garden tiger\u2019 and \u2018snout\u2019 are self-explanatory, but who came up with \u2018Brighton wainscot\u2019 for an exquisitely beautiful creature that looks like nothing so much as a tiny bride in her wedding gown, or \u2018Clifden nonpareil\u2019 for that astonishing specimen whose underwing\u2014a very dark blue, fringed with silvery white and streaked all the way across with a sky-blue stripe\u2014is actually a defense mechanism, startling any predator that might descend upon it with a riot of unexpected color?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If American popular culture from <em>Roseanne<\/em> to Beyonc\u00e9 has taught us one thing, it is this: don\u2019t be a Becky. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/298448\/history-becky-with-the-good-hair-beyonce-lemonade\/\" target=\"_blank\">The quintessential Becky character we know and loathe today was thrust into the mainstream cultural lexicon in 1992 when she appeared in Sir Mix-a-Lot\u2019s booty-shaking anthem, \u2018Baby Got Back.\u2019<\/a> In the song\u2019s intro, a white woman gossips to her friend about a black woman\u2019s behind. \u2018Oh my god, Becky, look at her butt. It is so big. She looks like one of those rap guy\u2019s girlfriends\u2019 \u2026 Throughout movies and television of the 1990s and 2000s, Becky is often characterized not only as promiscuous, but also as image-obsessed. She appears frequently as a pageant queen, a vapid shopaholic, or an irresponsible teenager \u2026 Over the last decade, some of the most detested characters on television have all had one thing in common: they are in high school, and their names are Becky.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess which living luminary has a new essay out? Hint one: it involves California, the seventies, and a certain inimitable brand of world weariness. Hint two: the author is an anagram of \u201cDad Join Ion.\u201d \u201cI see now that the life I was raised to admire was infinitely romantic,\u201d she writes. \u201cThe clothes chosen for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[22221,775,22220,22217,1362,22219,14143,100,7355,22218,22222],"class_list":["post-97770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-becky","tag-california","tag-extinction","tag-felice-frankel","tag-joan-didion","tag-moth-hunting","tag-moths","tag-photography","tag-science","tag-science-photography","tag-sir-mix-a-lot"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Want to Know True Beauty? 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