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19 4 / 2012

Studio.

studio: a place where an art is practiced. art studio. dance studio. yoga studio.

how did 1-room apartments become labelled “studios”?

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28 3 / 2012

Why People Remember Negative Experiences More than Positive Ones

“Negative emotions generally involve more thinking, and the information is processed more thoroughly than positive ones, he said. Thus, we tend to ruminate more about unpleasant events — and use stronger words to describe them — than happy ones.”

quite true. i personally find myself trying to work through negative experiences more thoroughly than i do positive ones. negative usually comes with conflict, and conflict i want to resolve. positive is something to which i smile and move on.

“Bad emotions, bad parents and bad feedback have more impact than good ones. Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones. ”So Professor Baumeister and his colleagues note, losing money, being abandoned by friends and receiving criticism will have a greater impact than winning money, making friends or receiving praise.”

this actually explains a lot too - why i can never really recall very many details of a good experience, but i have a surplus of adjectives to tell you about the bad ones.

“And Professor Nass offered another interesting point: we tend to see people who say negative things as smarter than those who are positive. Thus, we are more likely to give greater weight to critical reviews.”

word. perhaps idealism is too naive to be credible or viewed as intelligent.

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23 2 / 2012

Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker

Quel intéressant. Surprises in songs can induce physical goosebumps and release dopamine in our central nervous system.

“An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. “This generates tension in the listener,” said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. “When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.”

“… emotionally intense music releases dopamine in the pleasure and reward centers of the brain, similar to the effects of food, sex and drugs. This makes us feel good and motivates us to repeat the behavior.”

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12 2 / 2012

A project

I think I want to start a project. A photo for every day of the year, starting asap.

A few observations:

-I don’t smile at people or greet them any more. I miss being friendly. In warding off gross strangers and unwanted attention, I’m projecting negativity to everyone, including myself.
-I don’t get excited about anything real anymore. I look forward to plans with friends, but not about ideas, art projects, concepts. I don’t feel randomly inspired anymore.

Some pitfalls I see from this project:
-getting too lazy to take and post a photo every day
-not every day is going to have a good photo
-what if I run out of material/content, and it slowly lulls into the same picture shot from different angles?

I am hoping that this project will:
-inspire me to see life through a lens I used to have, where the sight of big city lights was exciting and brimming with promise of opportunities and excitement, rather than just fatigue and disdain for the noise and crowd
-let me appreciate the things I have in my life. The experiences I have with my friends or by myself. The everyday may be mundane [by definition], but it also makes up our lives.
-chronicle my year and allow me to reflect more.
-encourage me to do more photography. make it part of my routine, so I don’t fall off again
-enforce some creativity into my routine

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” - Socrates