--
import processing.video.*;
// Size of each cell in the grid
int cellSize = 36;
// Number of columns and rows in our system
int cols, rows;
// Variable for capture device
Capture video;
void setup() {
size(630, 480, P3D);
//set up columns and rows
cols = width / cellSize;
rows = height / cellSize;
colorMode(RGB, 255, 255, 255, 100);
rectMode(CENTER);
// Uses the default video input, see the reference if this causes an error
video = new Capture(this, width, height, 15);
background(0);
}
void draw() {
if (video.available()) {
video.read();
video.loadPixels();
background(0, 0, 255);
// Begin loop for columns
for (int i = 0; i < cols;i++) {
// Begin loop for rows
for (int j = 0; j < rows;j++) {
// Where are we, pixel-wise?
int x = i * cellSize;
int y = j * cellSize;
int loc = (video.width - x - 1) + y*video.width; // Reversing x to mirror
the image
// Each rect is colored white with a size determined by brightness
color c = video.pixels[loc];
float sz = (brightness(c) / 255.0) * cellSize;
fill(255);
noStroke();
rect(x + cellSize/2, y + cellSize/2, sz, sz);
}
}
}
}
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Right Along These Lines
David Rokeby
Very Nervous System
Camille Utterback
Text Rain
Scott Sona Snibbe
Concentration
Tamar Frank
Light Installtions
Georg Hartung
Projections
Ross Ashton
Enchanted Parks
Federico Muelas
Field of Waves
Miwa Matreyek
Dreaming of Lucid Living
Very Nervous System
Camille Utterback
Text Rain
Scott Sona Snibbe
Concentration
Tamar Frank
Light Installtions
Georg Hartung
Projections
Ross Ashton
Enchanted Parks
Federico Muelas
Field of Waves
Miwa Matreyek
Dreaming of Lucid Living
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
A New Approach: Processing
Critical Question.
What is the interaction between the body and certain sounds? How does stimulating the senses allow people to experience art in real space? I plan to use a large projection of who ever is standing in front the camera, and processing to detect movement across the screen. As the body moves the screen will play certain sounds based on the pixel their moving through. Various sounds include a woman's moans, heartbeats, giggling, and breathing. It is basically a huge pixel piano that detects body movements and plays a sound based on the location of the body. This piece demonstrates the relationship between space and body, sound and interaction, and is an expression of personal touch and intimate movements.
What is the interaction between the body and certain sounds? How does stimulating the senses allow people to experience art in real space? I plan to use a large projection of who ever is standing in front the camera, and processing to detect movement across the screen. As the body moves the screen will play certain sounds based on the pixel their moving through. Various sounds include a woman's moans, heartbeats, giggling, and breathing. It is basically a huge pixel piano that detects body movements and plays a sound based on the location of the body. This piece demonstrates the relationship between space and body, sound and interaction, and is an expression of personal touch and intimate movements.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Women talk less when being "checked out"?
Saguy's study is one of the first to provide evidence of the social harms of sexual objectification - the act of treating people as "de-personalised objects of desire instead of as individuals with complex personalities". It targets women more often than men. It's apparent in magazine covers showing a woman in a sexually enticing pose, in inappropriate comments about a colleague's appearance, and in unsolicited looks at body parts. These looks were what Saguy focused on.
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/01/how_sexual_objectification_silences_women_-_the_male_glance.php
Gaze and Advertising
http://www.springerlink.com/content/f7pthn2p59e12bat/
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the model offered by Thomas Rochon is used to examine how ideas, activism, and changing American values have influenced advertiser practices as they relate to sexualized images of men in mainstream media. Previous research has highlighted the importance of economic shifts on advertiser practices, ignoring the importance of cultural factors, such as the influence of the gay liberation movement on representations of masculinity in the post 1960s era. Second, a quantitative analysis of sexualized depictions of masculinity is presented. These data suggest that men in contemporary advertisements increasingly display the visual cues of objectification. After positioning these sexualized images in a larger social, political, and economic context, the implications of male objectification is discussed.
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the model offered by Thomas Rochon is used to examine how ideas, activism, and changing American values have influenced advertiser practices as they relate to sexualized images of men in mainstream media. Previous research has highlighted the importance of economic shifts on advertiser practices, ignoring the importance of cultural factors, such as the influence of the gay liberation movement on representations of masculinity in the post 1960s era. Second, a quantitative analysis of sexualized depictions of masculinity is presented. These data suggest that men in contemporary advertisements increasingly display the visual cues of objectification. After positioning these sexualized images in a larger social, political, and economic context, the implications of male objectification is discussed.
A good Idea
Its a good idea to focus on literature, or film, or a specific genre of painting to narrow down.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/t3517p00714332h5/
Over the past 30 years, the literature on how women are depicted in advertising has been strongly influenced by studies conducted in the U.S. and Europe and may not fully describe the ways in which women are depicted in advertising across cultures. In this study we analyzed advertisements collected from women's fashion and beauty magazines in Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States to compare the ways in which Western and Asian models were portrayed in print advertisements. We found that although demure dress was used most often for both races, Western models were shown more frequently than Asian models in seductive dress. Western models were also posed more often than Asian models as the Seductive beauty type. Product categories also differed. Asian models were used more frequently in advertisements for hair and skin beauty products, whereas Western models dominated the clothing category. The findings suggest that Western models are used more than Asian models in advertisements which are
body
oriented, and that Western models are used in advertisements in Asia when the underlying marketing strategy is that sex sells.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/t3517p00714332h5/
Over the past 30 years, the literature on how women are depicted in advertising has been strongly influenced by studies conducted in the U.S. and Europe and may not fully describe the ways in which women are depicted in advertising across cultures. In this study we analyzed advertisements collected from women's fashion and beauty magazines in Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States to compare the ways in which Western and Asian models were portrayed in print advertisements. We found that although demure dress was used most often for both races, Western models were shown more frequently than Asian models in seductive dress. Western models were also posed more often than Asian models as the Seductive beauty type. Product categories also differed. Asian models were used more frequently in advertisements for hair and skin beauty products, whereas Western models dominated the clothing category. The findings suggest that Western models are used more than Asian models in advertisements which are
body oriented, and that Western models are used in advertisements in Asia when the underlying marketing strategy is that sex sells.
Gaze Research
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6856/abs/413589a0.html
Faces are visual objects in our environment that provide strong social cues1, with the eyes assuming particular importance2, 3. Here we show that the perceived attractiveness of an unfamiliar face increases brain activity in the ventral striatum of the viewer when meeting the person's eye, and decreases activity when eye gaze is directed away. Depending on the direction of gaze, attractiveness can thus activate dopaminergic regions that are strongly linked to reward prediction4, indicating that central reward systems may be engaged during the initiation of social interactions.
Comic Book Babes
This might be the specific area to research
http://www.vigadget.com/2010/07/18/top-10-hottest-comic-book-babes.html
http://www.vigadget.com/2010/07/18/top-10-hottest-comic-book-babes.html
Most Beautiful People huh?
What makes them the most beautiful?
http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/most-beautiful-and-most-sexual-people-2010-04052010.html
http://funzu.com/index.php/crazy-pics/most-beautiful-and-most-sexual-people-2010-04052010.html
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Reminder: Research Theories of Personality Traits
Rogers and Maslow
Environment enforces abilities
Book: "Flow" Psychology of Optimal Experiences
Environment enforces abilities
Book: "Flow" Psychology of Optimal Experiences
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
You Lookin At Me?
Twenty volunteers looked at faces with exaggerated or reduced male or female features. The faces had been digitally morphed to look either more or less masculine or feminine.
As the faces flashed on a computer screen, the volunteer was supposed to hit a key as quickly as possible to indicate whether the face was looking at or away from him or her.
Both women and men reacted more quickly when the face had exaggerated sexual characteristics.
"Women were quickest to classify gaze direction when they were looking at hunky, masculine-looking guys. Guys were quicker when they were looking at pretty, feminine women," Jones said.
As the faces flashed on a computer screen, the volunteer was supposed to hit a key as quickly as possible to indicate whether the face was looking at or away from him or her.
Both women and men reacted more quickly when the face had exaggerated sexual characteristics.
"Women were quickest to classify gaze direction when they were looking at hunky, masculine-looking guys. Guys were quicker when they were looking at pretty, feminine women," Jones said.
Brain and Cognition
I believe this can be argued till the death. A good thing to try and prove positive or negative.
"There are two reflexive attention systems: one that is mediated subcortically and triggered by abrupt onsets; and one that is mediated cortically and triggered by perceived gaze direction. Moreover, our findings add to a growing body of evidence that reflexive shifts of attention in response to gaze direction are cortically mediated."
(Chris Kelland Friesena,*, Chris Mooreb, Alan Kingstonec)
"There are two reflexive attention systems: one that is mediated subcortically and triggered by abrupt onsets; and one that is mediated cortically and triggered by perceived gaze direction. Moreover, our findings add to a growing body of evidence that reflexive shifts of attention in response to gaze direction are cortically mediated."
(Chris Kelland Friesena,*, Chris Mooreb, Alan Kingstonec)
Men and the Female form
"According to the study men take the same pleasure out of looking at an attractive female form as they do from having a curry or making money whereas women do not take any significant reward from looking at pictures of men."
Direct Gaze
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080813095722.htm
"The results of the research, which measured the function of the brain’s frontal lobes by means of electroencephalography (EEG), indicate that during the observation of a direct gaze the left frontal lobe of the test subjects was more active than the right frontal lobe. During the observation of an averted gaze the situation was opposite. The left-dominated activation asymmetry is linked to an approach and the right-dominated to avoidance. This was the first time it was shown through physiological measurements that another person’s gaze direction affects brain systems that are involved in the regulation of fundamental human motivational reactions."
"The results of the research, which measured the function of the brain’s frontal lobes by means of electroencephalography (EEG), indicate that during the observation of a direct gaze the left frontal lobe of the test subjects was more active than the right frontal lobe. During the observation of an averted gaze the situation was opposite. The left-dominated activation asymmetry is linked to an approach and the right-dominated to avoidance. This was the first time it was shown through physiological measurements that another person’s gaze direction affects brain systems that are involved in the regulation of fundamental human motivational reactions."
Gaze and Beauty
http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/12457
"The findings show that human preferences may be more fundamentally tied to "feedback" between the very act of gazing and the internal, cognitive prototype of attractiveness than was formerly assumed. Earlier work by other researchers has relied on the "attractiveness template," which assumes that an individual's ideal conception of beauty has somehow been imprinted on his or her brain due to early exposures to other people's faces, such as the mother."
"The second experiment is "gaze manipulation," in which the faces are not shown simultaneously, but in sequences of varying duration on the two sides of the computer screen. In other words, one face was shown for a longer time (900 milliseconds) than the other face (300 milliseconds), and as a control, the faces were also shown to other subjects in the center of the screen in an alternating sequence."
"The findings show that human preferences may be more fundamentally tied to "feedback" between the very act of gazing and the internal, cognitive prototype of attractiveness than was formerly assumed. Earlier work by other researchers has relied on the "attractiveness template," which assumes that an individual's ideal conception of beauty has somehow been imprinted on his or her brain due to early exposures to other people's faces, such as the mother."
"The second experiment is "gaze manipulation," in which the faces are not shown simultaneously, but in sequences of varying duration on the two sides of the computer screen. In other words, one face was shown for a longer time (900 milliseconds) than the other face (300 milliseconds), and as a control, the faces were also shown to other subjects in the center of the screen in an alternating sequence."
Monday, September 27, 2010
Artists are Different
http://www.helium.com/items/1407392-what-makes-an-artist-different-from-the-average-person
An artist also asks the questions, " What is this and more importantly, why is this? What would happen if I changed just this one little thing?"
An artist also asks the questions, " What is this and more importantly, why is this? What would happen if I changed just this one little thing?"
Eye tracking camera
http://painting.about.com/b/2007/03/18/artists-do-see-the-world-differently.htm
The researchers "argue that it comes down to training: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces."
The researchers "argue that it comes down to training: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces."
PSY View
http://www.sntp.net/psychology_definition.htm
There is constant activity within each of our "invisible worlds". We are each in some way constantly analyzing problems, entertaining thoughts of tomorrow's occurrences, recalling yesterday's failures, wallowing in the sadness of a loss, concentrating on the creation of a musical composition, or day-dreaming. There are ever changing feelings and emotions about everything we experience, and an endless parade of judgments and commentary about what we see. Actually, for many of us, we have too much mind. It goes on and on and never seems to stop. It is a constant source of images, memories and ideas intruding themselves upon our awareness. Most of us can't control any of this and simply accept as inevitable this continual parade of images and ideas appearing across the landscape of our mind.
There is constant activity within each of our "invisible worlds". We are each in some way constantly analyzing problems, entertaining thoughts of tomorrow's occurrences, recalling yesterday's failures, wallowing in the sadness of a loss, concentrating on the creation of a musical composition, or day-dreaming. There are ever changing feelings and emotions about everything we experience, and an endless parade of judgments and commentary about what we see. Actually, for many of us, we have too much mind. It goes on and on and never seems to stop. It is a constant source of images, memories and ideas intruding themselves upon our awareness. Most of us can't control any of this and simply accept as inevitable this continual parade of images and ideas appearing across the landscape of our mind.
Physics POV
http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/spirituality-consciousness-awareness/19399-where-do-souls-come-then.html
Would that then suggest that there's a finite amount of energy in our universe that's simply in a constant state of transition? That we are simply the current incarnation of some form of energy and that the universe itself is alive and we are all part of it?
Would that then suggest that there's a finite amount of energy in our universe that's simply in a constant state of transition? That we are simply the current incarnation of some form of energy and that the universe itself is alive and we are all part of it?
Soul
http://www.psychicbutsane.com/the-universe-and-you/where-are-you-from
In fact, your soul is not really separate from you. It is you.
In fact, your soul is not really separate from you. It is you.
Soul into Being?
http://askville.amazon.com/soul/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=3770160
you now have an identity that is separate from your mother. The soul probably "grows" along with your ability to exercise free will over the years.
you now have an identity that is separate from your mother. The soul probably "grows" along with your ability to exercise free will over the years.
Inherited a soul?
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1993/9306fea3.asp
WTF?!? Um... no...
If God creates the soul, he creates it in either a fallen or an unfallen state.
WTF?!? Um... no...
If God creates the soul, he creates it in either a fallen or an unfallen state.
Artists Look Different
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/03/artists_look_different.php
We are not born "knowing", everything we know is learned.
"Vogt and Magnussen argue that it comes down to training: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces."
We are not born "knowing", everything we know is learned.
"Vogt and Magnussen argue that it comes down to training: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces."
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Mastering the World of Psychology
1. Parietal Lobes: The lobes that contain the somatosensory cortex (where touch, pressure, temperature, and pain register) and other areas responsible for body awareness and spatial orientation.
2. The Right Hemisphere: The hemisphere that controls the left side of the body and in most people, is specialized for visual-spatial perception.
2. The Right Hemisphere: The hemisphere that controls the left side of the body and in most people, is specialized for visual-spatial perception.
An Introduction to Brain and Behavior 9-10
1. Humanistic Psychology: focuses on the uniqueness of human beings and their capacity for choice, growwth, and psychological health.
2. Rene Descartes and Dualism: (1596-1650) Treatise on Man.
- He saw the mind and body as seperate but interconnected. "The mind and body must be joined and united to constitute people."
3. Dualism: philosophical position that behavior is controlled by two entities, the mind and the body.
2. Rene Descartes and Dualism: (1596-1650) Treatise on Man.
- He saw the mind and body as seperate but interconnected. "The mind and body must be joined and united to constitute people."
3. Dualism: philosophical position that behavior is controlled by two entities, the mind and the body.
A Natural History of the Senses
"The Painters Eye" p. 267-270
1. Merleau-Ponty describes, "If the painter is to express the world, the arrangement of his colors must carry with it this invisible whole, or else his picture will only hint at things and will not give them the insurpassable plentitude which is for us the definition of the real."
2. Merleau-Ponty," Because he was not omnipotent, because he was not God and wanted nevertheless to portray the world, to change it completely into a spectacle, to make visible how the world touches us."
3. According to Patrick Trevor-Roper, there is a myopic personality that artists, mathematicians and bookish people tend to share. They have "an interior life" differnt from others.
1. Merleau-Ponty describes, "If the painter is to express the world, the arrangement of his colors must carry with it this invisible whole, or else his picture will only hint at things and will not give them the insurpassable plentitude which is for us the definition of the real."
2. Merleau-Ponty," Because he was not omnipotent, because he was not God and wanted nevertheless to portray the world, to change it completely into a spectacle, to make visible how the world touches us."
3. According to Patrick Trevor-Roper, there is a myopic personality that artists, mathematicians and bookish people tend to share. They have "an interior life" differnt from others.
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