It all feels a bit anxious, does it not? I'm an anxiety cleaner, so I feel the vibe. "A photograph's ability (and limitations) to reassemble fragments of memory, a holiday, a face, a meal or to document the staged and straight image is something that SymmetryBreakfast both questions and embodies," he writes on the project's website. ![]() ![]() Started two years ago by Michael Zee in England, the blog began in a casual manner, as he likes to prepare a good breakfast for himself and his boyfriend. It's in the arrangement of it on a tabletop, on matching plates, carefully placed, with identical little side pots for sauce or cups of tea to create a perfect mirror image. On Tuesday last week, the offering was "homemade gorgonzola dolce and pear schiacciata with Ligurian olive oil, finished with a cup of Earl Grey tea containing prized bergamot oil from Calabria." It is all about the composition, but not just in the making of the breakfast. Other shots include artful arrangements of worn soles of shoes different kinds of old bottles tennis balls playing cards used plastic cutlery an assortment of small metal locks.Ī similar fastidiousness reigns over at SymmetryBreakfast, an Instagram account with more than 562,000 followers, which features a daily display of breakfast for two. There's a photograph of a watermelon slice with the seeds extracted and arranged below it like raindrops. Now, a collection of the blog posts, which were submitted by invitation on the site, has been published as a book. "I was spending a lot of time on Tumblr and I started seeing a lot of people posting photographs of things organized in an almost scientific way," the 29-year-old explains. That's the name of a Tumblr blog started by Austin Radcliffe in 2010 when he was a student at Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Ind. And we shouldn't discount the power of the pursuit of happiness – the postreligion ethos of our time that drives much of our behaviour, right down to how to organize your underwear drawer, where panties can spark joy when they're folded like origami.īut surely, there's something deep down at the bottom of this obsession.Ĭonsider Things Organized Neatly. There's also the reality of living in condo units of 300 square feet. You get rid of things in order to make room for new purchases. That could be seen as both a reaction to excessive consumer culture and an essential part of it. ness The grounds were a perfect balance between neatness and natural wildness.But ritualistic neatness is a logical extension of the lifestyle-simplification trend that's been around for a few decades with magazines such as Real Simple, the rise in popularity of decluttering experts and stores that specialize in storage and organization products.ly He folded his paper neatly and sipped his coffee At the door was a neatly dressed, dignified man.a girl in a neat grey flannel suit Everything was neat and tidy and gleamingly clean. She undressed and put her wet clothes in a neat pile in the corner. Neatness teriminin İngilizce Türkçe sözlükte anlamı biçimlilik açıklık düzenlilik yalınlık arranged clean simple clever not adulterated fundamental wonderful (Slang) neat Referring to pure alcohol that is undiluted neat neatly, tidily, cleanly neat free from clumsiness precisely or deftly executed "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek" "a clean throw" "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" neat showing care in execution "neat homework" "neat handwriting neat Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders clean cleanly tidy neat A neat place, thing, or person is tidy and smart, and has everything in the correct place.
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