Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Coco Chanel and other interests

“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”

―Coco Chanel

Ph:©David Taggart Metamorphosis Ready to Fly CHILIE

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu ( 老子 )

#Photography by: ©Clifford Coffin Capri 1947

#Chimpanzees can communicate over long distances with loud calls called pant-hoots, or by drumming the buttresses of trees. #greatapefacts

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‏@nancywphoto Sad seeing 22' wide/215' tall "Big Tree" in WA died. But so cool they'll leave it standing as a #snag for #wildlife!

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Rolling shutter cameras capture a scene line by line, resulting in odd high speed artifacts.

Emotional ‘Shapes’ of Stories

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There Are 6 Basic Emotional ‘Shapes’ of Stories

By Drake Baer

In his autobiography, Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut recalled the theme of a master’s thesis that got rejected by the University of Chicago. It was his “prettiest contribution” to culture, he wrote, and he carried the abstract of it in his head. “The fundamental idea is that stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper,” he writes, with good and ill fortune on the y-axis, and the duration of the story on the x-axis. One shape is the man-in-a-hole, he noted in a 1985 lecture, in which he expanded on his theory. “Somebody gets into trouble,” he said, “and gets out of it again.” This need not require man nor hole, but that parallel emotional arc.

In that lecture 31 years ago, Vonnegut mused about why computers hadn’t yet analyzed those shapes, since they could already play chess. As of this month, analysts have made good on that speculation. For a study published in EPJ Data Science, a team lead by University of Vermont Ph.D. candidate Andrew J. Reagan took Vonnegut’s idea and, quantitatively, ran with it.

A full 85 percent of the books analyzed fell under one of six shapes. They are: ‘rags to riches,’ in which sentiment goes up; ‘riches to rags,’ where it goes down; ‘man in a hole,’ in which there’s a fall, then a rise; ‘Icarus’, where it’s a rise then a fall; ‘Cinderella,’ or rise-fall-rise; and ‘Oedipus,’ or fall-rise-fall. The below charts show what they look like:

To find these arcs, Reagan and his colleagues pulled out a representative subset of 1,327 stories from Project Gutenberg archive. With that corpus in place, the researchers analyzed the happiness levels of the words themselves, ratings that were found via crowdsourcing the hedonic value of individual words (“love,” “laughter,” and “happiness” are at the top).

“To generate the emotional arc for a book, we look at 10,000 word sections of the book and measure the average happiness of the words in each of these sections,” Reagan tells Science of Us. “As we move that window of 10,000 words through the book, we are able to see how the changes in language throughout the book contribute to the happiness at each point, and the resulting time series of happiness is the emotional arc.” It’s not the plot of a story, with its various twists and turns, but the way sentiment conveyed by the words themselves, and whether they rise or fall, signaling happy or sad endings to chapters and sections and books as a whole.

The authors used Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows as a case study. “While the plot of the book is nested and complicated, the emotional arc associated with each sub-narrative is clearly visible,” they write. When a story is good, the changes in emotionality pull the reader along, even if there’s only so many variations of rhythm in “happy parts” and “sad parts” that an author can throw at them. It’s only formulaic if the formula shows.

Source: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/11/stories-have-six-emotional-shapes.html

Take it from Vonnegut:

“The fundamental idea is that stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper.”

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/11/stories-have-six-emotional-shapes.html

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Hitler, the Tiger and Me

Documentary telling the story of Judith Kerr, creator of well-loved children's books.
From BBC's Imagine series.

Hitler, the Tiger and Me

https://youtu.be/LgKbGQMixUw

Sunday, November 20, 2016

woodblock prints

Suma Beach in Moonlight by Arai Yoshimune II A Long Spell of Rain by Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1930s #woodblock #print

Friday, November 18, 2016

Johnny Winter's awesome speed in 'Sound the Bell' 1987 Sweden in a tv st...

Link: https://youtu.be/d1E1EH6bXfA

INCREDIBLE CHEWING GUM TEKKERS FROM PAYET ��

Dimi
Payet shows off his silky juggling skills managing to get a few touches
on a piece of chewing gum before flicking it back into his own mouth!

Link: https://youtu.be/_qA4deyU46A

Year of the Monkey

Japanese Designer New Year’s Cards of 2016

The Lunar New Year arrives on February 8, ushering in the year of the Fire Monkey, according to the traditional Chinese zodiac. Spoon & Tamago has a collection of Japanese art created by contemporary designers to welcome the new year, with plenty of monkey imagery. Shown here is one of my favorites, from Studio Takeuma. There are many different styles, some cute, some funny, and all just plain cool. See the entire collection here. -via Everlasting Blort

Devil and Children

Shrine in Osaka

a fantastic sketch of a quiet shrine in Osaka by illustrator Sakki Jusuke.

Link: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2016/01/05/japanese-designer-new-years-cards-of-2016/

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante - Anna Fedorova

CBC Radio played the Mozart piece and it sounded like good music for the tightrope...

Elvira Madigan is a 1967 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg, based on the tragedy of the Danish tightrope dancer Hedvig Jensen
(born 1867), working under the stage name of Elvira Madigan at her
stepfather's travelling circus, who runs away with the Swedish nobleman lieutenant Sixten Sparre (born 1854).

The soundtrack features Géza Anda^[2] playing the Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C by Mozart,^[3] which is sometimes referred to as the "Elvira Madigan" Concerto; as well as Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Anda's Deutsche Grammophon LP of Concerto No. 21 was re-issued with a cover showing Pia Degermark in costume in a still from the film.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Madigan_(1967_film)

Watch: Elvira Madigan (1967) Full Movie Online - YouTube

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