Aesthetics | ” reflections on art, culture and nature ” | The study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.
Beauty is sometimes equated with Truth | Judgments of beauty and judgments of truth are both influenced by processing fluency, the ease with which information can be processed.
Aesthetic Ethics | A philosophical rationale for peace education | Understanding of behavior being fair
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” T. S. Eliot Celebrating The Vibration of Anthony Bourdain through random stuff I got inspired by along the way Anthony Bourdain details hashish in Morocco (Parts Unknown) […]
Making Time for Joy in Your Life THE PARADIGM OF JOY There’s this natural instinct we have as human beings. Regardless of our position, religion, color or kind, we all have a primal desire for immediate, and almost unwavering, JOY. Eventually, through the experience of events and circumstance, we learn that this desire just […]
GLAMOUR Awards, London ,June 2, 2015. Accepting the award for Trailblazer of the Year, Amy Schumer was at once bawdy, empowering and wonderfully unpretentious. The comedian and actress joked about her weight, beauty magazines and other winners of the night at the podium. She added before leaving the stage: “I feel like I’ve burned […]
Talk to your barber! Think back to your last haircut. How’d you feel about it when you walked out of the shop? Disappointed? While your disappointing haircut might have been due to poor barbering, it’s often the case that your poor communication with the barber was at least partly to blame. Barbers can’t read minds. (at […]
Ginger People The British comedian Catherine Tate (herself a redhead) appeared as a red-haired character in a running sketch of her series The Catherine Tate Show. The sketch saw fictional character Sandra Kemp, who was forced to seek solace in a refuge for ginger people because she had been ostracised from society. Hilarious comedy sketch […]
Whirling Energy everywhere. Indigo Purple Violet Lila Don’t you just love this color? Cousin Itt subtle relative sure does. Develop the Heart | Gangela
How true is that theory that facial symmetry is the main indicator of attractiveness in males and females? Fashion photographer Alex John Beck decided to test the symmetrical theory of attractiveness by photographing regular people and then making symmetrical versions of each person’s face, by using first the left and then the right side. Beck took a portrait […]
Comedy Central sketch in which Amy Schumer randomly stumbles upon a picnic attended by the holy trinity of Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Patricia Arquette. As it turns out, once Amy joins them, she finds out that they’re there to celebrate Julia’s “Last Fuckable Day” — or, as they each brilliantly explain to Schumer, that dreaded […]
What if you could use human hair as an alternative to diminishing natural materials? Studio Swine travel along the Hair Highway to explore the hair trade and its potential as a future resource. Hair Highway is a contemporary take on the ancient Silk Road which transported not only silk but also technologies, aesthetics and ideas […]
Know thy self How you Integrate How you Disintegrate When to Talk And When to Listen Develop the Heart | Gangela