Infographic: Cultured Colors
We’ve all experienced the question (and perhaps suffered some internal exasperation every time): “What’s you favorite color?” Ugh. There are so many hues. Rarely can I answer that dreaded question […]
We’ve all experienced the question (and perhaps suffered some internal exasperation every time): “What’s you favorite color?” Ugh. There are so many hues. Rarely can I answer that dreaded question […]
When any master holds twixt chin and hand a violin of mine, he will be glad that Stradivarius lived, made violins and made them of the best. – George Eliot […]
“Certainly she was losing consciousness of outer things. And as she lost consciousness of outer things … her mind kept throwing up from its depths, scenes, and names, and sayings, […]
Synesthesia: a concomitant sensation; especially: a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated. -Merium Webster Dictionary Fascinating, isn’t […]
Visual artists engage in a lifelong battle/love affair with color. In yet another neurobiological plot-twist, there are physical limitations to human vision which inhibits our ability to see some colors! […]
I am not a huge fan of photorealism. And I don’t particularly enjoy total abstraction (i.e. nonobjective or nonrepresentational art). For any of you who regularly read my blog posts, […]
Ah, yes. Another gem from the good folks at RSA Animate. Writer and psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist gave this lecture as part of the RSA’s free public events program. And don’t […]
Sleep makes all the difference in the world, particularly to an artist. Throughout the day, the brain is bombarded with sensory information, buffeted from one experience to another. The conscious […]
“What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.” -Gustav Mahler A nice little combo of science and trivia. Plus it looks nice…
There is something unsettling about those wax sculptures that look almost real. Something particularly irksome about those special effects in Evil Dead II. Something unpleasant about the characters in The […]