The ~Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ~ thread - General thread for aesthetic trends including but not limited to fashion, art, and home design.

[AbyssStarer]

I found this MV recently when going through some 90's music, it's so Y2K it could be parodying Y2K.
The giant fuzzy cowboy hat, lol. I do not miss the fake colored fur.

 

[Anonitolia]

I found this MV recently when going through some 90's music, it's so Y2K it could be parodying Y2K.
The giant fuzzy cowboy hat, lol. I do not miss the fake colored fur.

>released on December 13th, 2000
well color me surprised
I honestly expected it to be from 1999
Those two years were fucking weird, man
Like their own little zeitgeist from what I can tell
A brief hint of what the world could've been without 9/11, before terrorism snuffed it all away and we got Blink 182 and war defining the decade instead

 

[NoReturn]

A brief hint of what the world could've been without 9/11, before terrorism snuffed it all away and we got Blink 182 and war defining the decade instead

This is so accurate it hurts.

 

[Anonitolia]

Apologies for the double-post, but I so badly miss when water looked great in games that it's not even funny. So many gorgeous games set on tropical islands with lots and lots of water purely so that new consoles could flex their brand-new 3D graphics. Even if the rest of the game looked like mid-poly dogshit, the water would always look great. Glorious

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These really aren't the best examples (since most of the graphics look good even outside of the water), and I couldn't think of too many off the top of my head, but I distinctly remember water being a thing and a shortcut to showing off that your game had good graphics until like 2006 or something. Then people started caring less and less until we reached modern day, where most water is just a flat blue color with maybe a few gradients here and there.

follow-up to emphasize what I mean further (moves start at 0:23)

I apologize for the dogshit quality; this is the only video I could find showing all of them off (and it still forgot Surf)
but like
LOOK AT THAT FUCKING AQUA RING
THE WATER PULSE
GOD DAMN MAN THAT'S GOOD SHIT
and then you look at the pokemon themselves and see the Stadium models and the illusion is broken, but

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

I'm unsure what this aesthetic is called.

 

[Chuck 'n Geck]

and war defining the decade instead

Make that three decades.

Honestly makes me wonder how the Y2K stylings would've developed if they leaned a bit heavier into the current hatred+consoomerism+sensory overload bullshit, instead of sweeping those three under the rug and going full McBling.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

i'm going full midlife (at 20) crisis and living my scene fantasies because i was too young and not autonomous to when it was big. crackle nail polish is still sold. god help me.

Spoiler

i am not laying a FINGER on my beautiful long hair though, that's what wigs are for of which i have many

 

[lightswitchdoll]

i'm going full midlife (at 20) crisis and living my scene fantasies because i was too young and not autonomous to when it was big. crackle nail polish is still sold. god help me.

Spoiler

i am not laying a FINGER on my beautiful long hair though, that's what wigs are for of which i have many

Crackle nail polish?? Back in my day we chipped our nails all by ourselves

Tbh I seem to be having a midlife crisis as well (am actually middle aged) but I've gone all 90s. Trying very hard to not give myself ginger spice hair. God help us indeed.

 

[Shidoen]

I like these stained glass and cubism art a lot. We need more paintings and picture frames like these.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

Crackle nail polish?? Back in my day we chipped our nails all by ourselves

Tbh I seem to be having a midlife crisis as well (am actually middle aged) but I've gone all 90s. Trying very hard to not give myself ginger spice hair. God help us indeed.

you don't GET IT mom you put it ON TOP of normal nail polish!!! ughhhhhhhhhhh

 

[سلیمان عثمان]

Artwork from the Sword & Sorcery sub genre of fantasy has an aesthetic that I really loathed when I was younger but with time I have grown some what fond of it. It is so puerile that it is kind of charming with its world of ridiculously muscled men and women in their undies bashing one another over the head and screaming oaths of eternal vengeance. It used to be one of the most, if not the most, popular fantasy sub genre and was a staple of pulp magazines and comic books but seems to have largely been displaced by high fantasy and edgy boy 'realistic' fantasy.

Better known examples: Conan the Barbarian, John Carter of Mars, Tarnsmen (not transmen, dood) of Gor, Jirel of Joiry, Battlepug and Yor the Hunter From the Future (Henga, El Cazador). Some of these might be seen as falling more in to the science fiction category but older fantasy stories tended to be quite comfortable throwing in aliens, robots, lasers guns and space ships when they felt like it.

One last interesting aside: Iraqi novelist Saddam Hussein was a fan and had a collection of paintings in this style.

Spoiler: A selection of underwear warriors - fair warning, excessive partial nudity

 

[Shidoen]

Can’t go wrong with some good Conan

 

[Lidl Drip]

 

[Shidoen]

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Wows I wis I could hug to my familyes

 

[Camo Fox]

I think frutiger aero is better than Y2k in every way

 

[Adam Jensen]

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I wish my life was like those traditional idealizations of Evrope.

But I'm not white.

 

[Shidoen]

I wish my life was like those traditional idealizations of Evrope.

But I'm not white.

Your country should build hotels that replicate white

 

[Blatant hypocrite]

The design of older Windows operating systems, before they changed into that terrible minimalist look of today. I miss them greatly.
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Fuck, Windows 7 is old now, where did all the time go. Yes I know I'm replying to a year old post.

I liked the thing they added in Vista where the Alt+Tab put all your windows in a 3D display. Surely not the most important feature, but it blew my mind the first time I saw it.

Sadly they scrapped it in Windows 8 to make everything look as flat as possible

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

I think frutiger aero is better than Y2k in every way

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(i made this )

 

[Vril-Dame vom Aldebaran]

Sadly they scrapped it in Windows 8 to make everything look as flat as possible

Everything is flat now, I hate it so much. Windows XP to 7 looked so funky, with nice gradients and 3D effects on everything. It looked a lot more "futuristic" than modern flat design.

It's not even just operating systems, it's every computer program, including games!! Interfaces become flatter and flatter, fuck skeumorphism I guess??
The same mindset bleeds over into other areas of design, like book publisher logos becoming more and more minimalist. I hate it so much.

Look at how they turned Oxford University Press logo from a cool Latin book into a stylized sphincter:

I despise minimalism so much.