Aesthetic

Working through this project I found myself turning to two completely disparate pools of knowledge to quench my thirst. The first and most obvious stop on my mental quest was always technology. I live and breath shiny new toys; I consider technology blogs my personal, ever expanding, empirically checkable, authoritative, divine, bibles by which I create my own sort of religion. Thus many of my posts contain analogies to technical oddities. I found that more often than not the fact that technology functions through functions (that is that they do not merely exist, but actually process and function in some scientific way) meant it would not work as simple emblems, but stood better as an analogy because the mechanism was more interesting than the host. 
Then I ran into a problem. How to create simply visualizable emblems from concepts such as symbolic links or code virtualization?
The answer was so simple it made me feel simple. Nature creates for us wonderful emblems in the form of creatures. Unlike technical jargon, animals are tangible symbols.
Finally I used personal anecdotes to fill any gaps. This led me to having half of my posts about tangible things (uniforms, endorphins, bees, bats, starfish) and half of the posts about intangible things (Sonic, frame rates, dot matrixes, links, virtualization). 
Isn’t this exactly the way that Elit works though? It took something that was at first tangible (the work [book]) and created a space for the work to exist intangibly. It essentially removed the soul from books and imbued it into the mechanical magnetic switches of 1’s and 0’s. 
To this end I propose the ying-yang symbol as my aesthetic.
A symbol that represents the juxtaposition and union of disjunct pieces is befitting my aesthetic as the memos themselves are poles. Also tangible things and intangible things are two halves of a whole (all that is possible). Finally ying and yang can stand for the natural emblems which contrast with the technological mechanisms but also relate to them through the similarity of the memo.

The Darkness and the Light