The languages of the world are a beautiful thing. Although most objects have direct translations into all different languages, many ideas and concepts are

Houses With A Story - Yoshida Seiji Art Works Book Review

You are our precious son #Razor

shh neuvi otter is working his 9-5 #wip #wriolette

Have you ever woken up one day, and wondered where all the sun, warmth and possible of your childhood have gone? While you’re sipping your morning coffee, full of melancholy and perhaps dejection, you are pondering about our society, seemingly driven by nihilism, isolation and a growing pleasure in destruction. And you’re wondering: how did it happen? How did you lose the innocence, the dreams and the magic you could swear were true when you were a child? You’re asking yourself how all adults could have lost sight of the beauty and positive strength inside of them, and now either turning their back on nature, or, even worst, trying to destroy it, in order to fuel their everlasting anger against their own void. You’re sad, and you’re bitter too. But, there is still a dab

nuances of using a work briefcase as a weapon #Kaveh #GenshinImpact

A just-opened exhibition in Berlin explores a lesser-seen side of Wojnarowicz’s work, along with photographs and films of him by his fellow artists

Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

I think I'm going to have to buy my laundry room a large "Rosie the Riveter" poster. It's come a long way, baby! Since Day One of moving in, I knew that there was a (pun-intended)

With the implementation of the Common Core Standards, you may be teaching Shakespeare for the first time. Here are some exciting ideas for making it fun!

The Revolution was a turbulent time, for perfumers, who lost their most affluent customers, often to the guillotine. But they had a new champion, in Napoleon Bonaparte – who just loved Eau de Cologne, and used it extravagantly throughout his life. He had a standing order with his perfumer, Chardin, to deliver 50 bottles a month....

For all the animal lovers, furry fans, and artists. Why do we continue to watch cartoons into old age? A lot of it has to do with the adorable appearances of the animal characters. Everyone has their favorites so there is bound to be disagreement with some of my choices. Please feel free to add your own in the comments (links to photos or video clips would be good too).

There was a great disturbance in the Force this week as George Lucas announced he's locating his new art museum in Chicago instead of San Francisco. But Lucas's art isn't all Millennium Falcon models: There are some seriously fascinating pieces in his collection, all themed around the concept of storytelling.

A Peacock Themed Regency Dress and Open Robe features a DIY costume made for under $10. It was worn to the D/FW Costumers Guild Picnic.

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Divine comedy text in Italian and German. Full color illustrations. White vellum spine with gilt lettering and decoration and having gilt coat of arms of the cities of Florence, Verona and Ravenna on decorated paper front Vol. I: 428 pages. Vol. II: 444 pages. Vol. III: 443 pages.

Learn the fundamentals of putting pen to paper — er, keystroke to blank doc — with these writerly tricks.

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Born in Satara, India, Pramod Kurlekar earned a General Diploma in Art from Kalavishwa Mahavidyalaya, Sangli, Maharashtra, in 2000. Participated in two year residential programme in fine arts under the guidance of Shri. Vasudeo Kamat, with a scholarship from Poorna Pradnya Institute of Fine Arts. Shri Admar Mutt Education Council, Bangalore.

The degree to which readers of a book or viewers of a film become engaged with the story presented has proven to be a key variable of interest for researchers of fiction. Narrative engagement is also known as transportation, based on a metaphor by Richard Gerrig (1993) who argued that highly involved readers are transported into the world of a narrative and experience thoughts and feelings consistent with this fictional world. Melanie Green and Tim Brock published a highly influential paper in 2000 that described how readers who were more transported by a story are more likely to be persuaded to adopt the beliefs espoused within it (Green & Brock, 2000). Now, a recent meta-analysis has aggregated all of the research on transportation published since this seminal paper, investigating the robustness and reliability of this phenomenon. The authors, Tom van Laer and his colleagues, were specifically interested in what storytellers can do to increase transportation by story consumers and what individual characteristics of consumers predict higher levels of engagement (van Laer et al., 2014). By averaging the results of 76 different papers (reporting 132 separate effects based on over 21,000 participants), van Laer and his colleagues discovered that a number of variables reliably increased transportation in story consumers. These included things under the control of the writer, such as the presence of characters that were easily identifiable, a plot that evokes rich mental imagery, and the inclusion of story events that seem both possible and plausible. Aspects of the story consumer were also important, with familiarity with the story genre, how much attention the consumers directed toward the story, how easily transported people are generally, higher education, and being female all found to be related to higher levels of transportation. This paper proposes an extended theoretical model of transportation and also investigates the consequences of transportation, all of which are described in detail in the original paper (available here). By aggregating across a large number of published empirical studies, this report greatly increases our confidence in the power of narrative fiction to both engage and change us. van Laer, T., de Ruyter, K., Visconti, L. M., & Wetzels, M. (2014). The extended transportation-imagery model : A meta-analysis of the antecedents and consequences of consumers’ narrative transportation. Journal of Consumer Research, 40, 797-817. Gerrig, R. J. (1993). Experiencing narrative worlds. New Haven: Yale University Press. Green, M.C., & Brock, T.C. (2000). The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 701-721.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do. I’m a big fan of the work of Dan Harmon, writer …

Finally! The Taxonomy of my Music is complete! While I’m working on my Digital Art assignments I enjoy watching my favorite TV shows. I bring this up to help you get a sense for how long it t…

I finally wrote my first DodgerFox fanfic! An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works Post-canon events, Jack gets out of the prison and his story with Belle…

In 1922, Gainsborough's The Blue Boy masterpiece was sold by his descendant to railway tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington, for $728,000, then the highest price ever paid for a painting.