If I were a bear

torontodesign: ro ohno-anotherblogname: Creativity beyond the...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:24:13 -0400

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ohno-anotherblogname:

Creativity beyond the “Social Boundaries”.

Elevator design by Sagmeister & Walsh at the Toronto Design Exchange.

blackpooled: If media covered America the way we cover foreign cultures

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:53:51 -0400

blackpooled: If media covered America the way we cover foreign cultures:

jahanzebjz:

Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.

Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down…

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flannelanimal: Here’s a small illustration I did for this past...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:14:50 -0400

flannelanimal:

Here’s a small illustration I did for this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. It accompanied an article by Mark Leibovich, asking question of just when Hillary Clinton’s inevitable presidential campaign will begin.

afrormosia: A message from Traditional Canadians for the...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:26:05 -0400

afrormosia:

A message from Traditional Canadians for the Preservation of the Traditional Definition of All Things Traditional. [x]

Rick Mercer FTW.

afrormosia: Title Cyclists Keep Them CleanCollection Eckersley...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:13:54 -0400

afrormosia:

Title Cyclists Keep Them Clean
Collection Eckersley Archive: University of the Arts London
Designer Tom Eckersley
Date 1947
Description The poster slogan is in black [cyclists] and white. A secondary slogan, ‘MAKE SURE YOU ARE SEEN’ is in mint. The image is of the back of a bike, in black with white wheel guards and a red light, and cyclist [cut off at the waist] in black block silhouette. The edges of the cyclist and tyre have been dabbed and this gives the appearance of texture. A red circle is on the cyclists right thigh [depicting his front light]. The background colour is dark blue blending into mint at the footer. Printed by, Loxley Bros Ltd.
Ref TE/1/21/8
Measurements 75cm by 19.5cm.
Rights Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

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artgalleryofontario: Indian Harbour, N.S., 1951Joseph Sydney...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:20:01 -0400

artgalleryofontario:

Indian Harbour, N.S., 1951
Joseph Sydney Hallam, Canadian, 1899 - 1953
Oil on board
Overall: 30.5 x 40.6 cm
Gift from the Fund of the T. Eaton Co. Ltd. for Canadian Works of Art, 1952
© 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario

The best of Ralph Wiggum

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:17:23 -0400

The best of Ralph Wiggum

fyspringfield: Is this post going to become a big deal?

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:28:41 -0400

fyspringfield:

Is this post going to become a big deal?

cosmicdecember: Cheesiest, saddest moment of my childhood… the...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:22:30 -0400

cosmicdecember:

Cheesiest, saddest moment of my childhood… the day I knew Xena was going to die.

blackpooled: colchrishadfield: I’m used to rivers that know...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:14:00 -0400

blackpooled:

colchrishadfield:

I’m used to rivers that know what they’re doing.

river you are drunk

darknessproject:

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:43:54 -0400

darknessproject:

“Translucency & Isometry” by John Hejduk

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:03:00 -0400

“Translucency & Isometry” by John Hejduk

qinni: jd-gallery: Kazuo Oga (various watercolour works...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:56:54 -0400

qinni:

jd-gallery:

Kazuo Oga (various watercolour works c.1988)

Just. Wow.

Kazuo Oga is one of the most inconspicuously famous artists, which is inspirational in its own right by how humbling it is. You would think they were digital from an immediate approach, however upon closer inspection of the textures, lighting and layering it’s clear they’re perfectly hand crafter watercolour pieces.

His works, featured in the backgrounds of various Studio Ghibli films, are subtle enough to blend into the background of the films yet stand out alone as perfection of watercolour techniques and command of lighting.

Just considering there are scenes where the camera pans across his works for several long moments reflects the sublime quality of his work. And that he was able to develop enough artworks to supply several films with stunning backdrops is nothing short of breathtaking.

That’s a good word for it, “breathtaking”.

I’m like 90% sure they were gouache or poster-paint though; it’s pretty hard to get a thick and solid/opaque effect with watercolour. Also because using gouache/poster-paint is pretty old-school industry standard.

edit: oop, I researched and found out that apparently every single ghibli bg were all made with poster paint (*do a little i-was-right dance*). You can find out more here (someone in the comments even has a name for the products ghibli uses, so maybe you’ll be able to purchase it online somewhere.)

amnhnyc: A sperm whale’s head is actually an oversized nose...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:57:11 -0400

amnhnyc:

A sperm whale’s head is actually an oversized nose (which in mature males can make up a third of the animal’s body!). Sperm whales use their uniquely shaped nose to generate sound. Here’s how.

© AMNH/5W Infographics

troutcycle: Legend

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:50:33 -0400

troutcycle:

Legend

'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?'

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:56:28 -0400

'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?':

Revisiting the 1970s Milgram experiment on the New York subway.

Thirty years ago, they were wide-eyed, first-year graduate students, ordered by their iconoclastic professor, Dr. Stanley Milgram, to venture into the New York City subway to conduct an unusual experiment.

Their assignment: to board a crowded train and ask someone for a seat. Then do it again. And again.

“As a Bronxite, I knew, you don’t do this,” said Dr. Jacqueline Williams, now an assistant dean at Brooklyn College. Students jokingly asked their professor if he wanted to get them killed.

But Dr. Milgram was interested in exploring the web of unwritten rules that govern behavior underground, including the universally understood and seldom challenged first-come-first-served equity of subway seating. As it turned out, an astonishing percentage of riders - 68 percent when they were asked directly - got up willingly.

Quickly, however, the focus turned to the experimenters themselves. The seemingly simple assignment proved to be extremely difficult, even traumatic, for the students to carry out.

“It’s something you can’t really understand unless you’ve been there,” said Dr. David Carraher, 55, now a senior scientist at a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Mass.

Dr. Kathryn Krogh, 58, a clinical psychologist in Arlington, Va., was more blunt: “I was afraid I was going to throw up.”

More than three decades later, the memories are still surprisingly vivid, testimony perhaps to the trauma of their experience and an unintended postscript to a rare study on the delicate subway order.

Two weeks ago, a pair of reporters who set out to replicate the experiment struggled with similar inhibitions. The incredulous reactions they got from riders were the same as well. But they also stumbled upon convincing proof that New Yorkers have mellowed with time. The results were far from scientific, but, remarkably, 13 out of 15 people gave up their seats.

“Uh, O.K., ” said one man, holding hands with his girlfriend, before getting up. “I’ve never heard that one before.”

A construction worker sneered to a male reporter, “If you were a woman, then… .” He got up anyway.

Another woman, who sprang up from her seat, twice asked the reporter, who kept her eyes fixed on the ground, if she was O.K.

Dr. Milgram, who died in 1984 at age 51, got the idea for the experiment from a conversation with his mother-in-law, who complained to him one day that no one had offered her a seat on the subway. “It occurred to me: What would have happened had she asked for a seat?” he said in a 1974 interview in the magazine Psychology Today.

He suggested the experiment to one of his graduate student classes, but the students recoiled. Finally, one student, Ira Goodman, volunteered to try it with a partner. But instead of coming back after 20 trials as he had promised, he returned with only 14. When Dr. Milgram asked him what had happened, he said that it was just too difficult.

Dismissing his students’ fears, Dr. Milgram set out to try it himself. But when he approached his first seated passenger, he found himself frozen.

“The words seemed lodged in my trachea and would simply not emerge,” he said in the interview.

Retreating, he berated himself: ‘What kind of craven coward are you?”

A few unsuccessful tries later, he managed to choke out a request.

“Taking the man’s seat, I was overwhelmed by the need to behave in a way that would justify my request,” he said. “My head sank between my knees, and I could feel my face blanching. I was not role-playing. I actually felt as if I were going to perish.”

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