Aesthetics

Improvisation: Vertical Videos Offer iPad Users a New Experience

Christoph A. Geiseler | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Aesthetics, New Media, India, Insights, Vertical Videos, Media Tips, Improvisation, Filmmaking Technique, Filmmaking, Ipad Video, Media News
Christoph A. Geiseler

Smartphones, tablets, and rotating monitors make it possible for users to watch videos in a vertical format that was never possible on conventional screens. Here are 10 tips for filmmakers who want to produce vertical videos.

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What Is The Meaning Of Art? A Master Of Arte Povera Gives The Answer

Simona Lodi | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Piero Gilardi, Social and Artistic Forms of Representation., Internet Freedom, Tech-Art, Cybernetics, Castle of Rivoli, Italy, Arte Povera, Open-Source, Freedom of Speech, Turin, Politics, Activism, Networks, Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Horizontal Democracy, Sixties, Participation, Performance, Arts News
Simona Lodi

Piero Gilardi anticipated later movements, in seeing the aesthetic value of shared space and collaboration -- a value underpinning the open-source, Internet-based nature of tech-art today.

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Is Love Really Blind? A New Survey Provides Answers

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Aging, Relationships, Lips, Gottman's Four Horsemen, Facial Appearance, Attraction, Skin, Marriage, Physical Attraction, Four Horsemen, Men Are From Mars - Women Are From Venus, Facial-Appearance, Aesthetics, Physical Features, Love, Eyes, Couples, Women News
Vivian Diller, Ph.D.

Couples need to work on their emotional connection, but paying attention to you physical appearance may ensure that a relationship not only gets off to a good start, but remains strong.

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Street Food and Urban Culture

Fabio Parasecoli | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Street Food, Aesthetics, Social Justice, Immigrants, Urban Policy, Culture, Advocacy, Street Vendors, New York Food Carts, Food Trucks, New York News
Fabio Parasecoli

Both gourmet food trucks and allegedly messy carts are constitutive elements of the NYC foodscape. Any attempt at deciding what category of vendor is better somehow goes against the very spirit of the city.

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An Oasis of Ideas at TED 2012

Max Lugavere | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Long Beach, Paul Gilding, Peter Diamandis, Palm Springs, Big Ideas, Chris Anderson, Aesthetics, Max Lugavere, Psychology, Ted, ted2012, Tedactive, Conferences, Tedtalks, tedtalks2012, Video, TED 2012, Culture News
Max Lugavere

Last year, we learned of the dangers of one's "filter bubble." At TED, there is no such danger: The talks are multi-sensory, cross-disciplinary, and always delivered with passion by someone at the top of their game. What's not to love?

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5 Religious Concepts That Atheists Can Use

Alain de Botton | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Religion, Atheist, Atheism, God, Ethics, Secularism, Religious Education, Secular, Aesthetics, Secular Humanism, Belief, Sacred Texts, Atheism vs Faith, Religion News
Alain de Botton

In a world beset by fundamentalists of believing and secular varieties, it must be possible to balance a rejection of religious faith with a selective reverence for religious rituals and concepts.

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The Zen of Pruning

Linda Buzzell | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Farming, Aesthetics, Sustainability, Ecopsychology, Gardening, Green Living, Pruning, Ecotherapy, Green News
Linda Buzzell

Where did we get the arrogant idea that we know better than the plant itself how to maximize its productivity and health?

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The Joy of Miniatures

Dylan Kendall | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Aesthetics, Art, Humor, Joy, Miniatures, Culture, Miniature Laptops, Mini Cars, Miniature Gifts, Miniature Horse, Miniature-Animals, Smallest Animals, World's Smallest Horse, UK Weird News, Culture News
Dylan Kendall

Like Alice's wonderland, the miniature fascinates us, entertains us and brings us joy. There is something inexplicably transcendent and amusing in that which is so tiny and yet so perfectly complete.

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Creating a Well-Packaged Nonprofit

Dylan Kendall | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Nonprofits, Creativity, Design, Aesthetics, Social Change, Charity, Impact News
Dylan Kendall

For the most part, the non-profit sector has neglected the value of aesthetics in reaching their consumers -- their clients, volunteers and donors.

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Home for Good? The Task Force Report's Missing Piece

Dylan Kendall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeless, Politics, Aesthetics, Los Angeles, Culture, Los-Angeles-Architecture, La Impact, Los Angeles News
Dylan Kendall

The difference between "housing" and "home" is more than semantic; it's the feeling that compels someone to forgo the freedom of the street and the habits of homelessness for a room that comes with rules and restrictions.

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Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Art, Nuremberg, Aesthetics, Manufacturing, Orchestra, Technology, Music, Industrial Age, China, Composers, Arts News
Rodney Punt

One hears the scraping of steel surfaces in the quartet's micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse.

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Why We Like What We Like

Darby Roach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Aesthetics, Neuroscience, Designer, Dopamine, Brain Chemistry, Design, Golden Ratio, Perception, Golden Section, Arts News
Darby Roach

Have you ever wondered why we find some people attractive, are drawn to a verdant landscape, enjoy looking at a great work of art or drool over a sleek sports car?

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Aesthetics and the City: Building Commuinity

Dylan Kendall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Community, Aesthetics, Education, Play, Diversity, Culture, Los Angeles News
Dylan Kendall

Only until we expand the threshold for aesthetic possibility in our cities will we see creative possibility in our minds and truly create social cohesion.

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The Noetic Value of Fiction

Eric Simpson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christian Fiction, Aesthetics, Writing, Fiction, Reality TV, Art, Storytelling, Pop Culture, Imagination, Compassion, Book Publishing, Religion News
Eric Simpson

Fiction has the capacity to indirectly provoke us to begin to see the presence of God in all things, and to understand the world of temporal matter as an epiphany of the eternal, spiritual realm.

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The Aesthetics of Play

Dylan Kendall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Creative Process, Aesthetics, Education, Play, Creative Community, Creative Economy, Arts News
Dylan Kendall

How many opportunities do we, as adults, have to play during each day? What would our world look like if we filled our lives with more joyful, play-rich aesthetic experiences?

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Making Education Beautiful

Jason Pugatch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aesthetics, Education, Young Storytellers Foundation, Arts Education, Impact News
Jason Pugatch

Focusing on test scores, academics and administrative oversight are very important, but there is something else equally as impactful in the way we educate our children: aesthetics.

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WATCH: 'Anatomy of Apple Design' Animation Celebrates Apple's Aesthetics

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Macbook, Video, Apple, Apple I, 3D Animation, Aesthetics, 3D Rendering, Ipad, Apple Design, Anatomy of Apple Design, Transparent House, Technology News

*See video below* Inspired by the Apple iPad's forthcoming release, San Francisco-based 3D design studio Transparent House has created an animated, 3...

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