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May 18, 2019 | 2 Comments |
Color psychology is the study of how color affects human behavior. It’s a long-standing, field used in art, design, marketing, sports, medicine, and much more.
Despite its long history and widespread use, there’s a lot more to discover about how color affects people scientifically. Here’s are a few facts that have been scientifically proven.
We see certain colors more quickly than others.
Warm colors are stimulating and cool colors are calming.
A red room feels 10 degrees warmer, while a blue room feels 10 degrees cooler.
Colors can enhance the effectiveness of placebos.
The presence of green speeds healing.
Athletes perform better in certain colors and get penalized more in others.
Clearly, the responses to color are at once physical, psychological, and social, so identifying the strongest contributor(s) to a response(s) is no easy matter. The more social the response, the more likely it is to vary between individuals. Socially, color psychology has many layers – universal, cultural, regional, communal, individual. And then there’s time. Age (as well as gender) can also influence how a person perceives and interacts with color. An era or a moment can become important factors too. It’s complicated but it’s fascinating!
Color affects body, mind, and emotions. Color can be used by physicians to promote physical and psychological health, by businesses to brand identities and influence purchasing decisions, by political movements to propagate values and ideas, and by artists to communicate aesthetics and emotions. Color is a powerful communication tool that can be used to influence perception, mood, and action.
Considering the psychological dimensions of color consciously will give you a greater awareness of the phenomenon of color and improve your ability to communicate with it. Remember, there are shared responses to color and you have your own individual responses to color. Being able to tell the difference can be insightful. This mindfulness is something every visual artist will benefit from.
How will you use color?
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Category: Color - Psychology Tags: body, Color, color psychology, emotion, mind, time
January 2, 2019 | 1 Comment |
The new year is a wonderful time to look at great photographs!
Dozens of media outlets collect their best of the best.
You’ll find links to the best of the best below.
Enjoy!
Pulitzer Prize Winners In Photography 2018
Time Top 100 Photos Of 2018
NY Times The Year In Pictures 2018
Magnum Pictures of the Year 2018
International Photography Awards 2018
World Press Photo 2018
The Guardian Best Photographs 2018
The Atlantic Top New Photos Of 2018
Reuters Pictures Of The Year 2018
The Atlantic Top 25 News Photos Of 2018
Bloomberg The Year In Pictures 2018
NY Times Best Travel Photographs 2018
CNN Best Travel Photos 2018
National Geographic Best Photos Of 2018
Sony World Photography Awards 2018
Lens Culture’s Favorite Photographs Of 2018
My Modern Met Top Photographs From Around The World 2018
Huff Po iPhone Photography Awards 2018
Drone Awards 2018
Audubon Photography Awards 2018
Nikon Small World Photography Winners 2018
The Guardian’s Astronomy Photographer Of The Year Shortlist 2018
Sports Illustrated’s Best Photos of 2018
Car and Driver’s Hottest Car Photos of 2018
Berify’s 11 Famous Portrait Photographers Of 2018
My Modern MET 20 Best Architecture Photos 2018
Best Photography Books Of 2018 – Part 1
Best Photography Books Of 2018 – Part 2
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Category: Photography Tags: 2018, atlantic, Audubon, best, bloomberg, car and driver, cnn, collection, lens culture, Magazine - Huffington Post, magnum, my modern met, national geographic, nature, new york times, nikon, Photography, pulitzer, reuters, science, sony, sports illustrated, the guardian, time, world press
January 4, 2018 | Leave a Comment |
You’ll find links to the best of those below.
Time’s Best Photographs Of 2017
New York Times The Year In Photographs 2017
The World Press Photo Contest Winners 2017
CNN’s The World’s Best Travel Photos 2017
Bloomberg’s 100 Best Photographs Of 2017
Reuter’s Pictures Of The Year 2017
Reuter’s Best Business Photographs Of 2017
Visual Culture’s Most Powerful Moments of Journalism 2017
Sports Illustrated’s Best Photos Of 2017
National Geographic’s Best Photographs Of 2017
The Guardian’s Best Of Wildlife Photography Awards 2017
Audubon’s Photography Awards 2017
CBS Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2017
Nature’s Best Science Images Of 2017
Space’s Most Amazing Space Photographs Of 2017
Popular Science’s Best Picture’s Of The Solar Eclipse 2017
The Huffington Post’s Best iPhone Photographs Of 2017
My Modern Met’s Best Photographs Of 2017
Lens Culture’s 75 Experts Name the Top Photo Books of 2017
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Category: Photography Tags: 2017, Audubon, best, bloomberg, cnn, collection, Magazine - Huffington Post, met, national geographic, nature, new york times, Photography, reuters, science, sports illustrated, the guardian, time, world press
April 22, 2017 | Leave a Comment |
To celebrate Earth Day, Time highlights 3 ways to make a difference everyday.
Speak Up, Eat Less Red Meat, Stop Home Leaks. (Read it here.)
Find more ideas with my Green Actions.
Support these environmental organizations.
Category: Environment - Video Tags: aerial, earth day, Environment - Causes, Environment - Green Actions, time, time lapse, Video
August 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment |
Interesting statistics – visualized in a fun way.
Great question at the end.
Category: Video Tags: time, time management
May 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment |
See and learn more about these awesome timelapse videos here.
“Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. Of all the cosmic bodies studied in the long history of astronomy and space travel, the one that got the least attention was the one that ought to matter most to us—Earth.
That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Surveillance spacecraft had done that before, of course, but they paid attention only to military or tactical sites. Landsat was a notable exception, built not for spycraft but for public monitoring of how the human species was altering the surface of the planet. Two generations, eight satellites and millions of pictures later, the space agency, along with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has accumulated a stunning catalog of images that, when riffled through and stitched together, create a high-definition slide show of our rapidly changing Earth. TIME is proud to host the public unveiling of these images from orbit, which for the first time date all the way back to 1984.
It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. With the help of massive amounts of computer muscle, they have scrubbed away cloud cover, filled in missing pixels, digitally stitched puzzle-piece pictures together, until the growing, thriving, sometimes dying planet is revealed in all its dynamic churn. The images are striking not just because of their vast sweep of geography and time but also because of their staggering detail. Consider: a standard TV image uses about one-third of a million pixels per frame, while a high-definition image uses 2 million. The Landsat images, by contrast, weigh in at 1.8 trillion pixels per frame, the equivalent of 900,000 high-def TVs assembled into a single mosaic.
These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. It takes a certain amount of courage to look at the videos, but once you start, it’s impossible to look away.”
Category: Video Tags: Google, time, timelapse
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