Created versus discovered aesthetics

[kajarainbow]

While looking at a particularly pretty screenshot for a computer game, I had the thought, "it's like they took the most aesthetic features out of nature and focused upon those". Then I wonder if this is why I don't tend to find real-world natural scenery as awe-inspiring as some people do. Maybe I just haven't mastered the art of extracting the most pretty parts of those?

Or is it that I tend to prefer artificial aesthetics in general? (I've noticed this somewhat, for example I like cities.) How much of the two factors overlap?

And yet I'm able to find aesthetics in things that are just accidents of entropy--particular cracks in paving, etc.

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

Ahh finally someone else appreciates that picture. ^.^

I've actually been where that shot was taken, but my graphics card isn't good enough to make it look that awesome. :P

The castle in the distance is actually occupied by invading orcs, and the tower with lights in the windows is the home of evil Morganth whose gnoll army is laying siege to the nearby human town of Lakeshire.

[holophote.livejournal.com]

Bah, real life is rounder and smoother. :)