by Sam Brown

Wonderful images by BENEDETTA BONICHI:
To See In The Dark

Analysis done by an engineer intern working at facebook in 2010.

(Click for high resolution)

“I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature.”
[...]
“For several years I was almost mad … You know my picture, ‘The Scream?’ I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood … After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again.”

I wonder if he ever met Vigeland.

Orlagh O’Brien did some amazing emotion research in 2006 and 2007, called Emotionally Vague. He asked a sample of people different questions regarding emotions.

Q2: How do you feel these emotions in your body? Draw anything you wish.

This image was averaged over all participants of the study.

O’Brien also worked with colors (not unlike the color survey of information is beautiful) and words.

Highly recommendable.

(1) Why pirates save the environment
The pirate raids in the seas east of Africa have had a significant impact on the environment: international trawlers that were illegally fishing there for years have apparently been avoiding the shores, which led to a dramatic increase in fish stock. In Mogadishu (capital of Somalia), the growing supply has led to decreasing prices, thus people who live there can actually afford to eat fish for the first time in many years. So far, most of the fish was exported.
(Source: sz-online.de)

(2) Why there is beauty in architecture
I have not seen anything like that before … take yourself 12 minutes, relax, get a cup of tea and a blanket, and watch this. Please.
And after you realize that this is nearly 100% rendered (this is not filmed, it was created with a computer), I hope you’re as amazed as I am.

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I wish I could walk a mile in your shoes.
Right out into the ocean.

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Ich habe auf blog.justhuman.de vor ein paar Tagen einen kurzen Artikel über Kunst, Evolution und Wahrnehmung veröffentlicht mit dem Titel: Was will uns der Künstler damit sagen?

Vielleicht ist dieser Versuch einer Verknüpfung aus Kunst und Wissenschaft für den einen oder anderen ja interessant. Kommentare könnt ihr dort oder hier posten, ganz wie ihr wollt.