{"id":327302,"date":"2021-09-03T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=327302"},"modified":"2021-09-03T17:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T21:51:12","slug":"aesthetics-not-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/03\/aesthetics-not-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetics, Not Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world where you have the Tesla Model S Plaid going from 0-60mph in less than 2 seconds, the question \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the purpose of all these other cars out there?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Answer\u00e2\u20ac\u201d aesthetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Muscle car as an idea, ideal and aesthetic  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the loudest muscle car is slow compared to the Tesla Model S Plaid. Even Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1180\" height=\"1689\" data-attachment-id=\"327312\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/03\/aesthetics-not-performance\/528bf102-e602-4271-a789-4645e157ad66\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/528BF102-E602-4271-A789-4645E157AD66.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2388&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1668,2388\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/603D3698-8ADF-4201-AEBE-EDFD66BB525D.jpeg?resize=920%2C1317&amp;ssl=1 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why have a muscle car? The aesthetic and concept of masculinity and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153manliness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The joy of the loud engine, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/12\/is-leica-overrated\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"188033\">Leica<\/a> M <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/14\/why-rangefinders-are-overrated\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"306341\">rangefinder<\/a> camera? Not for the performance, but aesthetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>People buy things for the concept, ideas and aesthetic of it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world where you have the Tesla Model S Plaid going from 0-60mph in less than 2 seconds, the question \u00e2\u20ac\u201d What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the purpose of all these other cars out there? Answer\u00e2\u20ac\u201d aesthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1837.jpg?fit=1125%2C1679&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327302"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327322,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327302\/revisions\/327322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}