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Guard Rail
In this short film, Ty Marshal explores his neighborhood through an individual and creative approach to urban renewal.
Circumventing municipal red tape and prolonged permit application processes, Ty questions "What is Graffitti?" and "What is Community Activism?" with this simple and "do it yourself" project. In this short film, Ty Marshal explores his neighborhood through an individual and creative approach to urban renewal. ... more -
Beautiful art can act as painkiller, research shows
Looking at a beautiful work of art has long been said to have the power to heal emotional distress but the new research also claims it offers a distraction from physical pain.
The research carried out by the University of Bari in Italy suggests a pleasant environment helps patients overcome discomfort and pain.
A team headed by Professor Marina de Tommaso at the Neurophysiopathology Pain Unit asked a group of men and women to pick the 20 paintings they considered most ugly and most beautiful from a selection of 300 works. They were then asked to contemplate either the beautiful paintings, or the ugly painting, or a blank panel while the team zapped a short laser pulse at their hand, creating a sensation as if they had been pricked by a pin. The subjects rated the pain as being a third less intense while they were viewing the beautiful paintings, compared with when contemplating the ugly paintings or the blank panel. Electrodes measuring the brain's electrical activity also confirmed a reduced response to the pain when the subject looked at beautiful paintings.
While distractions, such as music, are known to reduce pain in hospital patients, Prof de Tommaso says this is the first result to show that beauty plays a part.
"Hospitals have been designed to be functional, but we think that their aesthetic aspects should be taken into account too," said the neurologist. "Beauty obviously offers a distraction that ugly paintings do not. But at least there is no suggestion that ugly surroundings make the pain worse. I think these results show that more research is needed into the how a beautiful environment can alleviate suffering." Looking at a beautiful work of art has long been said to have the power to heal emotional distress but the new research also claims it... more -
Acoustic Architecture
Acoustic Landscape Architecture Applied to Law, Criminality and Behavior Sciences
- Environmental Architecture 3D
I created this topic because in today's World there are many human healthy and scientific misconceptions in the area of transportation and acoustics resulting from decades of lobbying from Industry and Commerce in the USA and abroad, consequently helping to alienate the public and its education on the subject.
The goal here is to study this subject analyzing many spiritual, physical and psychological aspects of toxic energy created by humans mainly in the area of acoustics and the products that relate to it. It is an Artistic proposal and a Sciences Master Degree Theme.
Therefore here is the question:
- What is the reality and what is not when we deal with sound (noise) emissions and its traveling range perimeter path and how that negatively affects human life daily? Acoustic Landscape Architecture Applied to Law, Criminality and Behavior Sciences - Environmental Architecture 3D ... more -
Top Fashionista Digs
Kate van Saane might be an intern at Lonely Planet, but she is an expert at being a fashionista. Check out her top three locations to kick your style into top gear. Kate van Saane might be an intern at Lonely Planet, but she is an expert at being a fashionista. Check out her top three locations to ... more
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Stop. Motion. Strip.
Follow Me Around Is the story of a girl and her clothes that follows a young female (Acasia) and documents her view of fashion. Acasia is an esthetician and make-up artist from the SF Bay Area. This film was made by two students from Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, CA. Follow Me Around Is the story of a girl and her clothes that follows a young female (Acasia) and documents her view of fashion. Acasia... more
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Carioca Complex: Aesthetics
From the beach to the ghetto, to the office of one of Rio's most famous plastic surgeons, director Jeff Zimbalist (Favela Rising) explores Rio de Janeiro's obsession with aesthetics. From the beach to the ghetto, to the office of one of Rio's most famous plastic surgeons, director Jeff Zimbalist (Favela Rising)... more
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