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#tradition! #balloons #mylar #gpoy #gym (at Gold’s Gym)

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:16:18 -0500

#tradition! #balloons #mylar #gpoy #gym (at Gold’s Gym)

martinekenblog: Hey JudeIllustrated lyrics by Stefano...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:59:35 -0500

Hey Jude
Illustrated lyrics by Stefano Agabio

Illustrated lyrics of Hey Jude by The Beatles.
Experimenting with typography and Pantone markers.
Printed on 300gsm paper, 17 x 12 cm.

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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:31:07 -0500

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Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:00:23 -0500

I went to Jared

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:00:19 -0500

I went to Jared

cavetocanvas: Do Ho Suh, Karma, 2003

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:00:23 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Do Ho Suh, Karma, 2003

inspirezme: Australian born, UK based designer-maker Jay Watson...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:00:33 -0500

inspirezme:

Australian born, UK based designer-maker Jay Watson has created furnishings that will leave you with a long lasting impression. This wonderfully sleek table, as beautiful as it is in its pure form, has a special touch. Using Thermochromism the science that changes the colours of properties due to change in heat (Thanks Wikipedia), Jay has encompassed both beautiful design with remarkable lasting impressions and created this project titled ‘Linger a little longer’.

Jay Watson explains on his website the thoughts behind the project:

‘Making entertaining that bit more fun (while also commenting on how ‘precious’ we can become about the functionality of furniture, or how oblivious we can be to every effect we have on our environment) the thermochromic finish of the table and benches responds to the heat of any plate, mug or serving dish – or body part – placed on it, to leave an ephemeral ‘watermark.’

[View full article at Inspirez]

myedol: Villa Midgård by DAPstockholm

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:00:23 -0500

myedol:

Villa Midgård by DAPstockholm

God save this queen #espresso #coffee this $10 drink was free. ...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:20:40 -0500

God save this queen #espresso #coffee this $10 drink was free. (at Starbucks)

vouge-oasis: xx

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:58:48 -0500

vouge-oasis:

xx

explodingcyberinevitable: Light After Death: Mihoko Ogaki’s...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:00:32 -0500

explodingcyberinevitable:

Light After Death: Mihoko Ogaki’s ‘Milky Way’ Figures Project Stars from Within

In her ongoing series of figurative sculptures titled Milky Ways, artist Mihoko Ogaki explores ideas of life, death, and rebirth. The dead or dying human forms are constructed from Fibre-reinforced plastic and embedded with bright LEDs that when lit project fields of light resembling stars in the surrounding space. You can see many more installation views over on her website. (via mori yu gallery)

#GPOY

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:00:27 -0500

#GPOY

neuromorphogenesis: The Power of Touch Touch is the first sense...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:00:11 -0500

neuromorphogenesis:

The Power of Touch

Touch is the first sense we acquire and the secret weapon in many a successful relationship. Here’s how to regain fluency in your first language.

You’re in a crowded subway car on a Tuesday morning, or perhaps on a city bus. Still-sleepy commuters, lulled by vibrations, remain hushed, yet silently broadcast their thoughts.
A toddler in his stroller looks warily at his fellow passengers, brows stitched with concern. He turns to Mom for reassurance, reaching out a small hand. She quietly takes it, squeezes, and releases. He relaxes, smiles, turns away—then back to Mom. She takes his hand again: squeeze and release.

A twenty-something in a skirt and blazer sits stiffly, a leather-bound portfolio on her lap. She repeatedly pushes a few blonde wisps off her face, then touches her neck, her subconscious movements both revealing and relieving her anxiety about her 9 a.m. interview.

A couple propped against a pole shares messages of affection; she rubs his arms with her hands, he nuzzles his face in her hair.

A middle-aged woman, squished into a corner, assuredly bumps the young man beside her with some elbow and hip. The message is clear; he instantly adjusts to make room.

Probing our ability to communicate nonverbally is hardly a new psychological tack; researchers have long documented the complex emotions and desires that our posture, motions, and expressions reveal. Yet until recently, the idea that people can impart and interpret emotional content via another nonverbal modality—touch—seemed iffy, even to researchers, such as DePauw University psychologist Matthew Hertenstein, who study it. In 2009, he demonstrated that we have an innate ability to decode emotions via touch alone. In a series of studies, Hertenstein had volunteers attempt to communicate a list of emotions to a blindfolded stranger solely through touch. Many participants were apprehensive about the experiment. “This is a touch-phobic society,” he says. “We’re not used to touching strangers, or even our friends, necessarily.”

But touch they did—it was, after all, for science. The results suggest that for all our caution about touching, we come equipped with an ability to send and receive emotional signals solely by doing so. Participants communicated eight distinct emotions—anger, fear, disgust, love, gratitude, sympathy, happiness, and sadness—with accuracy rates as high as 78 percent. “I was surprised,” Hertenstein admits. “I thought the accuracy would be at chance level,” about 25 percent.

Previous studies by Hertenstein and others have produced similar findings abroad, including in Spain (where people were better at comminicating via touch than in America) and the U.K. Research has also been conducted in Pakistan and Turkey. “Everywhere we’ve studied this, people seem able to do it,” he says.

Indeed, we appear to be wired to interpret the touch of our fellow humans. A study providing evidence of this ability was published in 2012 by a team who used fMRI scans to measure brain activation in people being touched. The subjects, all heterosexual males, were shown a video of a man or a woman who was purportedly touching them on the leg. Unsurprisingly, subjects rated the experience of male touch as less pleasant. Brain scans revealed that a part of the brain called the primary somatosensory cortex responded more sharply to a woman’s touch than to a man’s. But here’s the twist: The videos were fake. It was always a woman touching the subjects.

The results were startling, because the primary somatosensory cortex had been thought to encode only basic qualities of touch, such as smoothness or pressure. That its activity varied depending on whom subjects believed was touching them suggests that the emotional and social components of touch are all but inseparable from physical sensations. “When you’re being touched by another person, your brain isn’t set up to give you the objective qualities of that touch,” says study coauthor Michael Spezio, a psychologist at Scripps College. “The entire experience is affected by your social evaluation of the person touching you.”

If touch is a language, it seems we instinctively know how to use it. But apparently it’s a skill we take for granted. When asked about it, the subjects in Hertenstein’s studies consistently underestimated their ability to communicate via touch—even while their actions suggested that touch may in fact be more versatile than voice, facial expression, and other modalities for expressing emotion.

“With the face and voice, in general we can identify just one or two positive signals that are not confused with each other,” says Hertenstein. For example, joy is the only positive emotion that has been reliably decoded in studies of the face. Meanwhile, his research shows that touch can communicate multiple positive emotions: joy, love, gratitude, and sympathy. Scientists used to believe touching was simply a means of enhancing messages signaled through speech or body language, “but it seems instead that touch is a much more nuanced, sophisticated, and precise way to communicate emotions,” Hertenstein says.

It may also increase the speed of communication: “If you’re close enough to touch, it’s often the easiest way to signal something,” says Laura Guerrero, coauthor of Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, who researches nonverbal and emotional communication at Arizona State University. This immediacy is particularly noteworthy when it comes to bonding. “We feel more connected to someone if they touch us,” Guerrero notes.

And I’m not a sex-offender

Size ratio! [a-ok handsign]

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:00:07 -0500

Size ratio! [a-ok handsign]

Omgawd #need

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:00:28 -0500

Omgawd #need

Gimme!

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:28:54 -0500

Gimme!

mensfashionworld: Janice Fronimakis by Greg Swales for IDOL...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:13:13 -0500

mensfashionworld:

Janice Fronimakis by Greg Swales for IDOL Magazine

UNF

designed-for-life: Photo by: Filippo Bamberghi

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:12:37 -0500

designed-for-life:

Photo by: Filippo Bamberghi

Marry me.

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:00:33 -0500

Marry me.

enochliew: Housing Tower at Kripalu Center by Peter Rose +...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:00:27 -0500

enochliew:

Housing Tower at Kripalu Center by Peter Rose + Partners

The cypress-clad tower is a compact, 80-room residential dormitory that connects to an existing building at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.