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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:18:53 -0400

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:59:56 -0400

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nevver:

Lip service

"In the realm of psychology, there are three general theories that explain how humor works. According..."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:25:46 -0400

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In the realm of psychology, there are three general theories that explain how humor works. According to the most common explanation for humor—the tension release theory—we experience, for a brief period after hearing a joke or looking at a cartoon, a tension that counterbalances what we assume about the situation being described or illustrated against what the comedian or cartoonist intends to convey. The tension is released only when the joke or cartoon is understood.

The second most popular theory of humor, the incongruity resolution model, involves the solving of a paradox or incongruity in a playful context. This theory is based on the deep relationship that exists in the human brain between the laughable and the illogical. As a species, we place great value on logic. Even so, we will playfully accept a situation that is highly unlikely or even impossible … as long as the scenario depicted in the cartoon is coherent and logically consistent with its theme. Incongruity resolution usually takes a little longer than tension release and occurs in two stages. First, expectations about the meaning of a joke or cartoon are jarringly undermined by the punch line of the joke or the caption of the cartoon. This leads to a form of problem solving aimed at reconciling the discrepancy. When we solve the problem, the pieces fall into place and we experience the joy that accompanies insight. Failure to get the point of a joke or cartoon causes the same discomfort we feel when we cannot solve a problem.

Finally, the superiority theory emphasizes how mirth and laughter so often involve a focus on someone else’s mistakes, misfortune, or stupidity. … The superiority theory lends itself especially to an explanation of cruel and hostile humor: the situation depicted in the joke or cartoon could never happen to us, hence our amusement. In a word, we feel superior to the person suffering misfortune.

In practice, most humor incorporates aspects of all three of those theories.

”

- Richard Restak, author of The Playful Brain, on how humor works.

Also see Arthur Koestler’s bisociation theory of humor and the neuroscience of comedy.

(via explore-blog)

reginasworld: Please help me by sharing this! As some of you...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:00:50 -0400

reginasworld:

Please help me by sharing this!

As some of you know, I was 1/2 mile from the finish line when the explosion went off. I had no idea what was going on until I finally stopped and asked someone. Knowing that my family was at the finish line waiting for me, I started panicking, trying to call them. Diverted away from the finish line, I started walking down Mass Ave towards Symphony Hall still not knowing where my family was. Right before the intersection of Huntington, I was able to get in touch with Bryan and found out he was with my family and they were safe. I was just so happy to hear his voice that I sat down and started crying. Just couldn’t hold it back. At that moment, a couple walking by stopped. The woman took the space tent off her husband, who had finished the marathon, and wrapped it around me. She asked me if I was okay, if I knew where my family was. I reassured her I knew where they were and I would be ok. The man then asked me if I finished to which I nodded “no.” He then proceeded to take the medal off from around his neck and placed it around mine. He told me “you are a finisher in my eyes.” I was barely able to choke out a “thank you” between my tears.

Odds are I will never see this couple again, but I’m reaching out with the slim chance that I will be able to express to them just what this gesture meant to me. I was so in need of a familiar face at that point in time. This couple reassured me that even though such a terrible thing had happened, everything was going to be ok.

Laura Wellington

Needs to be shared.

doloresdepalabra: Ivan Prieto

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:24:10 -0400

doloresdepalabra:

Ivan Prieto

inkhead: articulated bone bracelets, steel, sterling silver,...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:23:54 -0500

inkhead:

articulated bone bracelets, steel, sterling silver, polymer, riveted, sculpted, patina, 2013

bone a day inkhead

myampgoesto11: OWEN LEONG

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:40:02 -0500

myampgoesto11:

OWEN LEONG

lawn-chairs: Simparch - Manufactured Home 199610’ x 32’ x...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:20:40 -0500

lawn-chairs:

Simparch - Manufactured Home

1996

10’ x 32’ x 8’
plastic sheathing, twigs, plastic twine, cable ties, plywood, cinder blocks, lights, video

skincube: “Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:58:10 -0500

skincube:

“Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.” ~Gunter Brus

nevver: Snake skin

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:42:41 -0500

nevver:

Snake skin

feel-ease: michiamocristina: An 87 Year Old College Student...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:08:42 -0500

feel-ease:

michiamocristina:

An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.
I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.

“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”

“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.We became instant friends. Every day for the
next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and
she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us. She was
introduced and stepped up to the podium.

As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell
you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day.

You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.
We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!There is a huge difference between growing
older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.

If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.
Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those
with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.”

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.

At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died
peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s
never too late to be all you can possibly be .When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS
OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give.

ugh i love people like this so much like one day i was waiting for the tram and this old man dressed up in a suit started telling me all about his life like how his first wife died while he was at work and his second wife left him for one of his friends and how he ran a stationary company and printed window envelopes for the government and the factory is still on chapel street across the road from a petrol station and he has twin grandchildren and he told me he thought i was a very intelligent and interesting young girl and that i’d achieve a lot in life then he got off the tram and said it was nice to meet me :*( old people are the greatest srsly

those shoes @_@

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:30:41 -0500

those shoes @_@

cosascool: Tin foil bust by Dominic Wilcox.

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:50:54 -0500

cosascool:

Tin foil bust by Dominic Wilcox.

anthropologyyy: Van Gogh’s self-portrait re-imagined as a...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:46:18 -0500

anthropologyyy:

Van Gogh’s self-portrait re-imagined as a photograph by Tadao Cern (Lithuanian photograph/artist; contemporary)

rcruzniemiec: Holocene David Spriggs The “Holocene Era” is the...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:00:56 -0500

rcruzniemiec:

Holocene David Spriggs

The “Holocene Era” is the geological epoch in which we currently live; it extends back to approximately 10,000 B.C. placing us currently in the year 12,012 H.E. Unlike any other period, it has seen intensive geological change through the emergence and then cultural/environmental development of the human race. David Spriggs’ sculptural installation of the same name (which translates roughly as “entirely recent”) portrays this epoch through a technical experiment in illusion, both architectural and ethereal.

sfmoma: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Frequency and Volume will only...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:47:02 -0500

sfmoma:

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Frequency and Volume will only be on view through Feb. 3. Don’t miss it!

via Steven Allen

Photo

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:46:35 -0500

doloresdepalabra: Artist Tasha Lewis, who you may remember...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:42:22 -0500

doloresdepalabra:

Artist Tasha Lewis, who you may remember from these blue butterfly swarms, is currently showing a “moving” body of work at The Harrison Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Using hidden magnets within her mixed media sculptures, she creates the illusion that a variety of animals and plants are bursting out of their containers or through the gallery’s walls. Called Moments of Thaw, the show highlights, according to the artist, “the apparent momentary loss of solidity that the glass container, wooden box or plaster wall has experienced which allowed nature to break through.”

“They are each breaking out of the bounds set by the world around them. While the process I use carries the weight of scientific classification, the sculptures I make are anything but sterile or inanimate.” [via MyModernMet]

lustik: Colorful Geometric Throw Pillow - Christina P

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:07:39 -0500

lustik:

Colorful Geometric Throw Pillow - Christina P

tiagoblack: Sia - Breathe Me (Mylo Remix)

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:25:56 -0500

tiagoblack:

Sia - Breathe Me (Mylo Remix)