Researchers in the UK have been investigating how hallucinations affect our minds, and what they’ve found will make for interesting reading if you’re wondering if you can always trust your eyes and ears (in short: probably not).
Perhaps the most significant conclusion from the report relates to how prior knowledge can influence our thoughts more than […]
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
Albert Einstein
From Review:
“Elder examines how artists such as Brakhage, Artaud, Schneemann, Cohen and others have tried to recognize and to convey primordial forms of experiences. He argues that the attempt to convey these primordial modes of awareness demands a different conception of artistic meaning…”
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Vision-Representations-Recent-Poetry/dp/0889202761
Yes, ok, many will find this heavy going but as someone […]
This Minimalist Paint Set Teaches Kids Color Theory
Nameless Paints identifies the colors in each tube using CMY bullets, not names.
Nameless Paints are a set of 10 paint tubes designed by Yusuke Imai and Ayami Moteki that replace more familiar color names (which can be a tad more ambiguous, see: “jazzbery jam!”) with visual depictions of […]
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”
Vincent Van Gogh
Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1891 – January 26, 1970) was the first recipient of a patent for the modern bra, an American patron of the arts, publisher, and the “literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris.”
She and her second husband, Harry Crosby, founded the Black Sun Press […]
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Social media certainly connects us to whoever is on the other end of the line, and so extends our social networks in amazing ways. But this can come at the expense of deeper personal relationships. When it feels like we’re up-to-date on our friends’ lives through Facebook or Instagram, we may become less likely to call […]
Deconstruction…
My stats tell me that this pic posted on my tumblr over two years ago was (again) the most reposted and liked of all my pics in the last twelve months.
http://tantriclens.tumblr.com/post/56859895886/posted-by-tantriclens-choices-of-a-female
Why does one image stand out over another? The subject? The straight […]
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