{ Thanks Tim }

{ screenshot from Naked Ambition An R-Rated Look at an X-Rated Industry, 2009 }

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{ screenshot from SubUrbia, 1996 }

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{ Mural at Sax, a new high-end restaurant in Washington D.C. }

{ Creating the Invisible Mannequin Look | Chris Brock }

{ It looks as if Ruby was a button collector and seamstress, and poor Mr. Kittner was her display model. | Thanks Tim! }

{ via Clayton Cubitt }

{ Juliana Santacruz Herrera, Knitted street interventions }

{ The Evolution of Lids| full story }

{ Thanks James }

{ Lots being sold in an online auction of the personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. }

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{ Christopher Wool, Untitled, 1992 }

{ The Final Edition | Thanks Glenn }

{ Kevin Cyr }

{ In 1993, a convicted murderer was executed. His body was given to science, segmented, and photographed for medical research. In 2011, we used photography to put it back together. | 12:31 | more | Thanks Tim }

Recently, scientists have begun to focus on how architecture and design can influence our moods, thoughts and health. They’ve discovered that everything—from the quality of a view to the height of a ceiling, from the wall color to the furniture—shapes how we think. (…)

In 2009, psychologists at the University of British Columbia studied how the color of a background—say, the shade of an interior wall—affects performance on a variety of mental tasks. They tested 600 subjects when surrounded by red, blue or neutral colors—in both real and virtual environments.

The differences were striking. Test-takers in the red environments, were much better at skills that required accuracy and attention to detail, such as catching spelling mistakes or keeping random numbers in short-term memory.

Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children’s toy. In fact, subjects in the blue environment generated twice as many “creative outputs” as subjects in the red one.

{ WSJ | Continue reading }

{ Alan Wolfson, Canal St. Cross Section, 2009-2010 }

related:

{ George Segal, Walk, Don’t Walk, 1976 }